Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
COMMUNICATE!
home and mused. The sign had only been up for half an hour
— funny. That evening there was a knock at the door.
‘Hello, I’m the lady from Number 11. I hear you’re looking
for a house and wondered if you would like to buy mine.’
Two houses in one day! Next to each other — and four doors
up from Battlecentre! Steve was stunned.
That was how we got ‘Spreading Flame’. Evidently God
wanted their community to stay together — as one big fire.
My diary captured the general excitement in Emanuel Avenue,
Acton:
They’re pretty wild down there — lots of praise and presence
and laughter. Steve says: ‘If revival is just round the corner it’s
time we went round the corner.’ At one mealtime someone had
a picture of a man carrying a flaming torch. Another saw a spark
setting the whole land alight. Fire is the image time and again.
That summer we held a marquee mission near Acton. A young
New Zealander with a backpack met us at Trafalgar Square.
She was soon unpacking it at Spreading Flame.
We had a word in one prayer meeting about someone crying
out to God on the Embankment. At about the same time a
young man was praying desperately for God to help him. Paul’s
girlfriend had left him, he’d hit the bottle, lost his job and
was now homeless on the Embankment. We brought him back
to the Marquee where he found Jesus and joined the team.
That year the London congregation gained 32 people, a colourful
mix originating from Trinidad, Tobago, Fiji, Zimbabwe,
Ireland, Cornwall and ‘Sarf’ London.
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