Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
ON THE MARCH
‘A sense of awe descended on us,’ wrote one young leader.
‘I heard the words “Lord anoint this one...” then the floor
gave way, and I felt myself caught up into the heavenlies. I
lay there for hours, trembling and talking in tongues. Time
appeared unimportant as I bathed in God’s presence. Later
they dragged me into the minibus, got me home, and put me
to bed. I stayed there for hours but not asleep, and came to
about five in the morning with praises on my lips and peace
in my soul.’ 97
An evangelists’ gathering ended up the same way. Cornhill
Manor had never seen such days. One brother was delivered
of a spirit of rejection as he lay under the power of God. It
wasn’t long before his ‘mouth was filled with laughter, and
his tongue with singing’. Even I got a little ‘inebriated’! But
as Peter had said at Pentecost, ‘These men are not drunk, as
you suppose’ (Acts 2:15). They were filled with God.
Linda saw the room on fire! A flaming sword hurtled towards
her and she went over. Gripped by God, her senses
were paralysed. An awesome presence pervaded her soul and
she felt as if she were held in the very sanctuary of God.
‘I read St Teresa shortly afterwards,’ she told me casually
and I thought, “That’s it! That’s how I felt.”’
‘Man!’ I thought and realised the truth afresh: ‘In the last
days, God says, I will pout out my Spirit on all people. Your
sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see
visions, your old men will dream dreams’ (Acts 2:17). In the
Bible, ecstasies, trances and fallings under the power were
well-known and happened to men like Peter, John, and Paul. 98
There were later pioneers: mystics, Quakers, Methodists
and the like, but since the awakening at the turn of the twen-
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