Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
fice was taken over by the farm cat as he went off round the
country visiting Christian leaders. The day of communication
had arrived.
Another spin-off from the March was the birth of our music
group. The songs we learned opened us up to other Christian
music and we caught up on the praise songs of recent years.
Praise took us back into liberty. At the Easter Jesus Army
Festival we leapt, danced, stood on chairs, waved scarves and
sang ‘Jesus is Risen!’ We shocked even ourselves as we threw
off our inhibitions. But worse was to follow!
Reinhard Bonnke was partly to blame. In July Noel, with
others, called in on the Eurofire Conference at Birmingham
and there people were ‘falling under the power’. Noel was
impressed but still a little sceptical.
‘Well, God likes this, even if I don’t,’ he thought. The Spirit
urged him to ‘go for it’ so he wasted no time and introduced
it at the young leaders’ meeting the next day. Two days after
that was the beginning of our annual church week. Seven
newly-baptised members lined up to make their covenant
pledge and receive the right hand of fellowship.
‘Right! If brethren could stand behind them,’ said Noel (as
if it was always done like this!). As he moved along the row
laying hands on each of them, they went down like nine-pins!
‘Anybody who wants prayer for the anointing, just come to
the front,’ Noel offered.
‘Bill “Truthful”, come and give me a hand!’
From then on, all heaven was let loose. It was chaos! There
were people on the floor everywhere, heaped up on the platform,
or sprawled all over the auditorium. The musicians tried
to strike up some worship songs, but it had gone beyond that.
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