Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
elder, crashed down and began to breathe heavily and twitch,
as if he’d been connected to the mains! Others fell and lay on
the floor laughing, weeping or looking quietly beatified. I surveyed
the scene amazed, amused, and annoyed at my calmness.
I’d read lots about revivals, mystics and pentecostals.
Raptures, visions and crisis experiences were marvellous in
my eyes — but they never happened to me. Oh well.
Linda went down with her hands clasped gracefully like a
praying madonna. She lay there all night. About one in the
morning someone threw a quilt over her.
The word “covenant” was burned into my heart,’ she said.
‘Something happened inside, and I’ve never really been the same.’
The Birmingham campaign followed a few days later and
Linda was there as an evangelist. One night she saw lights in
the darkness of her room and sensed the angels. She wrote:
‘In the mornings the team prayed for the anointing before
going out. We were getting bold and God touched people when
we prayed with them. One or two even landed on the pavement,
and some of our own evangelists had to be carried back
to the bus!’
‘What will happen at the leaders’ meeting?’ we
thought. When it came, Noel spoke from Scripture about falling
and trembling under the power of God. He expected a
time of weeping away past sins, and emotional hurts, but soon
the King’s Room at Cornhill was in an uproar. Laughter was
everywhere — great guffaws and belly laughs! One brother
swayed on his feet groaning and bellowing as Noel tried to
minister. He gave up! Respected elders were rolling on the
floor clutching their stomachs. Others were in varying degrees
of consciousness.
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