Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
Church Planters and Elisha Leadership Training. No rest for
the righteous!
Share Our Bread was our 1986 outreach slogan, taken from
Isaiah. This was what God required of us: ‘to share your bread
with the hungry’ and to ‘bring the homeless poor into your
house’ (Is 58:7, RSV). There would soon be room for 250 new
people in our houses, our businesses prospered and resources
had grown. Everything was the Lord’s and we wanted to share
it with others.
We set targets for 50 church-households, with 250 leaders,
250 servant groups, 250 celibates, 250 new members, 250
new residents. 250 was the number! There were now 250 on
the Prayer Watch, too. The work was expanding and we all
wanted to hear from the front line and give prayer support.
Evangelists sent in their reports to Jesus Happenings, a
monthly news-sheet. They were getting bolder in following
their spiritual intuitions. John Wimber’s book Power Evangelism
88 had inspired us and we expected ‘power confrontations’
of the supernatural.
Jesus Happenings reported that in Leicester a broken wrist
was visibly healed, and in Tunstall they prayed with a woman,
rebuking demonic powers. Shrieking and shaking followed
and evil spirits were cast out. They left a New Testament and
soon she was born again and healed of a ten-year back complaint.
Jesus Happenings also told how a Christian in Loughborough
asked our young evangelists to pray with a friend with
leukaemia. That week she saw her consultant.
‘What pain killers are you taking?’ he asked.
‘None,’ she said. ‘There is no pain.’
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