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Be encouraged, God is at work! I am experiencing it in my life even more as I get older! There is always opposition, but significantly, I have always found that, if Satan attacks, it means that something big is about to happen! We need your support both in prayer and with finance more this year than ever. We are all living in a difficult time economically, but the seed which you sow will reap an even larger harvest in eternity because God Himself will reward you!
We have started this year at full speed. I left for Ukraine on Tuesday January 3rd. The only way is to fly to Poland, then go by car across the Polish and Ukrainian borders, then into Lviv. The first day was spent being shown how, for hundreds of years, Ukraine has had an independent identity from Russia, and has every reason to fight to be free from Russian intervention and control. In this New Year we are expecting to do more than in previous years – which means we need your support more than ever! To fulfil all that God has put in my heart this year, we will need your prayer support – and almost double our financial income.
As I was preparing my Christmas TV broadcast, I saw something different! We are all so familiar with the Christmas prophecy, Isaiah 9:6, ‘Unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given...’ But Solomon in 2 Chron. 6:18, at the dedication of the new temple asks, ‘But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You…!’ Yet Jesus did come, Emmanuel, ‘God with us’ and now today even more so because Christ dwells not just with us but in us after we are ‘born again’. Our bodies should be the Temple of the Holy Spirit today!
The whole world is in crisis. Only prayer-based evangelism can save Britain and the world. Time is short – we need real urgent prayer. As I write I’m about to leave for ministry in Georgia where I will be from November 14th to 21st for three days’ evangelism in the National Indoor Basketball Stadium, TV interviews and ministry in a supporting church.
We have only just received news that our beloved Queen has died. God has blessed us as a nation more than any other nation in the world by giving us a godly Christian Queen who both lived and testified to her faith for 70 years and was a rock in a troubled land despite many personal troubles. What an incredible miracle!
Thank you for your support both in prayer and giving during this challenging time. I praise God for you, without whom our evangelism would not be possible! We are living through a very difficult period, and I am deeply conscious of the many problems facing us all. My heart and my prayers are with you. Let us keep on praying in Faith that God will answer – prayer changes things – and changes us. Paul reminds us to pray without ceasing. To me prayer is part of my daily conversation with the Lord.
As fulfilment of God’s strategic plan in the vision which He gave me for Europe many years ago, the main mission is ahead of me – the best is yet to come! This year I will be back in Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Poland, and organising our national ‘Days of Prayer’ for Ukraine – and evangelising! I know that many of you are experiencing difficulties, firstly Covid and delays receiving medical care, now the cost of living, and the disruption to transport – so many things. We, like you, are compelled to depend on Scripture for help in time of trouble.
By the time you read this I shall have been in Ukraine for the National Day of Prayer on June 11th and 12th which is being held in Lviv, with live uplinks to churches all over Ukraine, followed by my visit to Kyiv itself, returning on 16th June. The situation in the war is very serious with thousands dying, both soldiers and civilians. God began calling me five years ago to Central Asia, which is now a powerful mission field. That is why I will be in Armenia now, and in November will hold a massive Evangelism in next-door Georgia, so big, it is planned for me to meet with the President of Georgia and the Orthodox Patriarch very soon in order to secure their support for this event to be accepted nationwide!
Thank you for the financial aid to support Ukraine: this money is going to Kyiv, also Poland and Germany, where more than 4 million refugees are being fed, clothed, and given a place to live. As I write I have had a Zoom conference with the leading Bishops in Ukraine – the first interconfessional event since the war started. I have promised our support until total victory, both spiritually and with the aid which you are sending.
Thank you for your fantastic response to our appeal for help for Ukraine. Our staff and their families are safe in Kyiv and our office is undamaged! Even Sergiy, our TV Director, whose family live in Mariupol, have survived the siege and are now on their difficult way to safety. Vadim, our Official Representative in Ukraine, is very active in organising and supplying humanitarian aid. He is working with the church leaders in Kyiv, using the team he set up to organise our National Days of Prayer for Ukraine. They are saddened and horrified as they minister to the survivors of the terrible atrocities in the small towns and villages which were occupied by the Russians north of Kyiv.
Our hope is in Christ! Only He can bring peace to Ukraine. We need to pray effectively and powerfully. I am praying that Ukraine will not be defeated, that Kyiv will not be captured and victory over Russia will show the Power of Prayer in that nation. Just as we remember the 7 National Days of Prayer in Britain – and the fact that on every occasion there was a decisive victory in the war against Hitler, Dunkirk being the most memorable, it was because of prayer – now it’s Ukraine’s time to prove the effectiveness of prayer to deliver a nation.
We are entering the most troubling time since the end of the Cold War. But it is significant that when, in 1988, I prophesied the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain, I also prophesied that this would be a short window before a new ‘curtain’ would fall – spiritual, political, and military! This is now being fulfilled and is why I evangelised so massively and effectively in the last 30 years and more.
I want to pray for you that you would experience God’s peace this Christmas. I am very aware that Christmas is hard for those who are lonely, bereaved, the sick, and for those who are separated from their families for whatever reason. I rejoice that my youngest daughter works with me in the ministry, but I also have a daughter who lives in Australia, and because of Covid restrictions, she has been unable to fly back to the UK, so I have not seen her in a long time. I am also concerned for the sick, that they would receive a healing touch from Jesus.
God has given me a clear mandate and the authority for what He has called me to do, but all of this has to be in God’s perfect timing! The workload is increasing, the evangelism is growing larger, the attacks are becoming stronger, the need for wisdom, strength and finance are at an all-time high! Thank God, as Scripture correctly says, ‘my strength is being renewed like the eagle’! As with Moses, my eye is not dimmed nor my strength diminished, and miraculously God’s arm is not ‘shortened’! Keep praying, giving and encouraging – the end is not yet – but Jesus is coming, probably sooner than any of us expect!
Praise the Lord – despite everything I am back evangelising! The Lord promised an ‘Open door that no man can shut’ more than 30 years ago! God doesn’t change, neither do His Promises! In confirmation, what a busy Autumn I have had! Our God who created Heaven and Earth is not limited, even when we are! August in Poland was followed quickly by September in Ukraine, then October in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan – my feet hardly touched my home base! All the more complicated because of all the Covid tests I’ve had to take in order just to travel! From 30 September to 11 October, by Divine Appointment, I was in Central Asia – evangelising!
We are living in strange, unusual times. Covid has not gone away and the outcome of the financial cost both to the economy and the NHS is impossible to calculate. The Biblical signs of the ending of the age and the return of Jesus as Messiah to Israel are clear to me. This year alone, climate change and extreme weather, storms, floods, earthquakes, wars and insurgencies in several countries, mass migration of many millions, and political uncertainty not only here in the UK, but with elections in France and Germany, as well as political change in Israel…
…All that I know is that time is short, and the harvest fields are white – it is now time for the reaper more than for the sower. The Bible speaks of a time when the reaper will overtake the sower – that’s why I am praying desperately that God will take the limits off our finances – NOW!
I know from past experience, that with God, nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible. God’s Power cannot be limited by man or devil. It is part of the call of God on my life to make the Name of Jesus known in Europe and Israel. Jesus is coming back to rule this world and, just as John the Baptist came as forerunner preparing the way for Jesus, so we must be like him and make the Name of Jesus known everywhere, so that when He comes, ‘every knee shall bow’ and the world will declare Him as Lord and Master!
What we need desperately at this time are men and women of strong Christian Faith and a strong vision of God’s Power to take advantage of some of the outcomes of the Covid Pandemic, and launch an evangelism which will meet the longings and desperation of the people, bringing healing and restoration in desperate times.
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