God saw my heart and heard my cry! After I had been in the Bible College only three months, a pastor of a church some distance away in Dorking, Surrey, had to leave his church to assist in a crusade. I was asked if I would be willing to take over until he returned, which should have been after three weeks. I was more than willing. But the pastor didn’t return – so now I was the only student in the college with a church to pastor! This meant that I was studying full time and pastoring the church on my own – all the time I was at College – going several times a week to the church which was 30 miles away! This was 60 years ago, I was just 18, and so on fire with the Holy Spirit, that people were getting saved and filled with the Power of the Holy Spirit until late every night! – In all his ministry my father never saw as many baptised in the Holy Spirit as I did in that church!
Soon the College summer vacation began. Only pastoring the church
was not enough, I wanted to do more. So I hired a tent and began to evangelise! The only people who would help me were a Russian ballerina and a Polish ex-SS Officer who had been converted after escaping from behind the Iron Curtain! So my connection with East Europe had already begun!
There are not many people alive today that have the experience of real revival in Britain that I have. I was born into revival. Unfortunately I have also seen the revival fire die out, here in Britain and elsewhere. Every time the revival fire dies out, it is for a reason – the people have stopped praying and the churches have stopped evangelising. For sixty four years, since I was baptised in the Holy Spirit, God’s FIRE has been burning in my soul – an unquenchable zeal – a passion for His power to be demonstrated in MY life.
I want to pass this fire on to YOU – if you will accept the challenge – pay the price – and obey God by faith!
