Fire in our hearts - Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTS
NEW GENERATION
able things followed as others began to wake up at 5.55 and
get words from Isaiah!
As the new year began Steve was inundated with words,
dreams and pictures. He would be in his office and the phone
would ring: ‘Steve, I had a dream...’
One morning two sisters ran down excitedly from Spreading
Flame. They’d just had a vision of lots of young men carrying
batons and running up and down the stairs of Battlecentre
and out onto the streets.
One scripture impressed itself on Steve — Isaiah 55.5: ‘Nations
that do not know you will hasten to you, because of the
Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel.’ Isaiah 55.5? 5.55am?
He smiled at the coincidence. Now, when he awoke, Steve
claimed the promise of ‘nations coming to Zion’. He’d set his
heart on a multiracial church. One prophecy said: ‘When it
rains, black umbrellas come out.’ In the midst of blessing
black people would come. That year three black churches in
London joined the Multiply Network.
One day Steve suddenly declared; ‘Zion’s sons will arrive
through the front door, the back door and even up through
the floor!’ Very unlikely! But when men came to work on the
foundations, Steve bumped into a dusty workman climbing
out of the cellar! Marian, a Romanian communist, stayed for
dinner, found Jesus and moved in.
God told them to expect refugees. One black brother and
his sister escaped from war-torn Africa both assuming the
other was dead. Miraculously they met at Victoria Station.
Both joined the Acton congregation.
Another word was about Spanish-speakers. That summer
they found Jose, a Spaniard and heroin addict, in Leicester
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