Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
their sins. The elders knelt in the middle and the children
prayed over them... I feel different now and the joy of my
salvation is returning.’ She put down her diary and continued
praying — in her sleep!
‘That night,’ wrote another, ‘the Spirit kept rising within
me. Tears came to my eyes and I got up to tell someone what
was happening. Such gratitude was in my heart.’
Amazed, Mike surveyed his new household and wept for
joy. ‘Everything was topsy-turvy,’ he wrote. ‘Sisters carried
the anointing and leaders were humbled. The issues of blessing
and judgement became so real. Everything was transparent
— it was marvellous! As we knelt, praying and weeping,
and singing and rejoicing, I wished it would never end.’
There were similar stories in other houses. We virtually forgot
evangelism, and people prayed in the morning, at work,
after lunch, and at night — they prayed any time, any place.
We duplicated accounts of past revival movements and circulated
them around the houses. We saw a pattern in revivals,
as hunger for God, repentance and brokenness were followed
by the cleansing blood and the power of the Spirit.
An old revival song was popular at this time:
Now the cleansing blood has reached me.
Glory Glory to the Lamb!
We saw the power of the blood as never before. Revival
was blood and fire! Holy Fire was the title of a book by Colin
Urquhart, 80 whose community at The Hyde had also experienced
God’s awesome holiness. Fire was our watchword too.
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