Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
ened spirit. ‘Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your
young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams’
(Acts 2:17). That, in a nutshell, was our need.
Steve spoke about restoring God’s house, quoting Ezra and
Haggai. There was a marked prophetic anointing and a real
sense that the Lord was coming through: ‘You expected much,
but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew
away. Why? Because of my house which remains a ruin, while
each of you is busy with his own house’ (Hag 1:9).
As Steve pressed the word home it sliced into self-motivation.
Power was at the altar of sacrifice. Whilst in full flow he
suddenly stopped: ‘I’ve just seen an angel on his way with a
golden bowl of oil and a scroll.’ Then he began to prophesy.
The response was dramatic. People were weeping and repenting
all over the room. Some were freed from demonic oppression.
Others just cried out for their first love. A hymn
they often passionately sung was this:
Jerusalem, ablaze with light;
The gold, the glory in the night!
Gaze on her till your spirit’s flame
Leaps upward, kindled at the name;
Zion! Where Jesus reigns.
The message of Haggai was poignant: ‘Who of you is left who
saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you
now?’ (Hag 2:3). Some tended to look back at ‘the good old
days’. There, in a hazy mist, before techno-colour, communications,
Jesus Army, or even evangelism, lay the quiet green
fields, the noble hymns and exquisite brotherhood we had
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