For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1.16, KJV)
All my life I've desired to see the greatness of our God. I want to explore His greatness and discover more of His Power. The older I become, the more I understand who God is. For 16 years I was a pastor, but at heart I was an evangelist. Even when I was at school I was evangelising; I led my teacher to Christ, and two of the boys in my class became preachers.
I remember 1961 when I went to that Conference in Jerusalem. Israel at the time was just 13 years old. The Pentecostal people around the world had decided that on the Day of Pentecost they would hold a conference in Jerusalem for the first time in nearly 2000 years, believing that the Holy Spirit would come down again! It was impossible for me to go. I was a young evangelist, married with two young children, I’d spent all my money on evangelism, I wasn’t getting a salary at that time. How could I pay for the air ticket and the hotel? I couldn’t! But by faith – and when I look back now, I realise that what I was doing was by faith that God would fulfil His promise – I went! I didn’t go to Jerusalem for sightseeing, not even to be part of a conference. I went to Jerusalem to receive a new anointing and Fire from the Holy Spirit. And although I saw no actual change in my life afterwards, everything did change, my life took a different turn. Looking back, I can see that what I did was by faith. Because of that one action of going overland, behind the Iron Curtain, not thinking of the danger, the trouble, the difficulty – but by faith that I would receive a promise, similar to Abraham and all these others in Hebrews 11 – I see that all of my ministry from 1961 till now – all of it, all of my work in the Soviet Union and so on – came as the fulfilment of the faith for which I had to risk my life, my family, my everything.
I want to show you how YOU can enter into the reality, until YOU can command mountains to move! We need men and women on Fire with the Power of God, with the faith to believe that we serve a God of miracles!
I HAVE to see – I declare I WILL see – bigger miracles tomorrow than anything I have ever seen in the past! Why? Because we’re facing a world that looks at the Church as a failed entity, a religion without power. And sadly that is a reflection on God, if we have no power it must be because our God has no power… Because few people read the Bible and even fewer believe it, you and I are the only practical evidence of the Truth and Power of our God.