Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
At our leaders meeting we sang ‘For the glory of the Lord
we advance united’ with a new determination. But it was a
chastened people who were entering the 90s. Building the
church and bringing the gospel was nothing if not heartbreak.
We felt, deep down, that an amazing spiritual revolution would
sweep Britain. But, as our songs reminded us, this meant ‘sowing
in tears’, and ‘bleeding with Jesus’.
A new wave of prophetic leadership emerged. Steve ‘Capable’
said goodbye to his sheep (woolly variety) at Plough Farm
to rebuild the damaged household in London. Pete Valiant
left Shalom farmhouse to take the helm at Cornhill. He arrived
like Nehemiah; sat, listened and grieved. Then he rolled
up his sleeves and got down to work. God gave Pete one word
for Cornhill: ‘Behold I make all things new.’
Huw, an Oxford man and old friend of mine, came to the
fore combining school-teaching with magazine editing,
church-planting and writing the occasional hymn. Huw oozed
warmth and friendship and was a brilliant advert for celibacy.
He wanted to see its cutting edge sharpened. ‘Go for it
if you dare!’ he wrote in Jesus Lifestyle:
The spirit of the world has invaded the church in this whole
area. But God is raising up a band of spiritually undiluted men
and women whose sacrificial offering and prophetic sharpness
will be the strength of the future. 106
Huw, Pete and Steve (and a married Rufus) were a part of
God’s move to establish the church in the new anointing.
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