Prophetic Vision, Winter 2014 #74

David Hathaway No 74 Winter 2014

I want to teach you about miracles – we can ALL see miracles happen! In my ministry I see more healing miracles than perhaps anyone today. It’s normal in my meetings to see one third of the people attending healed – sometimes that may be three or four thousand people healed in one meeting. Some miracles are big, some are small. In Israel, it is a miracle that unbelievers come to Christ in my meetings in their hundreds and thousands – something which has not happened since the days of Jesus and the Apostles. The first time I went to the Russian-speaking Holocaust survivors in Israel, they said they would only come to my meetings on one condition: that if my Jesus was the Jewish Messiah, He would work miracles and heal them! They only came on the understanding that miracles would happen. And the miracles happened every time! The people listen to what I say because of the miracles – which happen because I am a son of God, heir to the promises given to Jesus, and live by the power of God. Every one of us who believes in Jesus is a new born person, born into direct relationship with God through Jesus Christ! Many of you have children. I have 3 daughters, 5 grandchildren – and 3 great grandchildren! One of my daughters is a grandmother! It is a wonderful miracle when a child is born. But little babies begin to grow – and they grow, and grow…! It’s the same for us as God’s children, we don’t remain as little babies, or as little children running all over the house! When I look at children, I see them running around, playing games, kicking a football... But in a few years, they will be going to work – they have to buy their food, they have to live! They have to grow up and take adult responsibility! You cannot remain as a baby!

Some Christians see Jesus as a baby or a dead man on a cross – but that’s wrong. Jesus is not a baby nor is He dead!! Jesus was like you, He was born as a baby, became a man when He was 12, and for 18 years Jesus, the Son of God, worked as a carpenter. He was not the evangelist from His early days, He was a working man! Only when He was 30 years old did He become the evangelist and was only an evangelist for 3 years! Now this is what I am saying, spiritually – YOU MUST GROW! You don’t remain a baby, you cannot be a Christian ‘child’, running all about the place. Paul said, you cannot live for ever on ‘milk’, you need to progress to the ‘strong meat’ of the ‘Word’. You have to accept responsibility, grow into maturity. You have to work! You are called to work for God! I work, not for myself, for Him! Every one of us – if you are a businessman, a mother, a teacher, whoever you are – you work for Jesus! It’s not just the pastor – he’s not the only worker! You

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are the workers, you are the people of God! You were born into a new life. People without Jesus live in a different world. But when you come to Jesus, you come into a new life! A friend of mine has a daughter 17 years old, but mentally she is only 2. When she was born – a wonderful baby – you expect her to grow... My friend’s daughter, in her body is a young woman now, but in her mind she is still a baby.

What a tragedy! But some Christians are like this, they’ve been a Christian for 17 years, but in their minds, they’re a baby! I want to show you how you can grow! What does the Bible say?

Acts 2:22 says: ‘Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by Him in the midst of you, as you know!’ When they were talking about Jesus 2000 years ago, they did not describe Him as a great prophet – He was; they did not describe Him as a good man – He was. How did they describe Him? As a MAN, born in Bethlehem, growing up in an ORDINARY town, Nazareth... But what made Jesus different?

Different from you, me, others? It was the MIRACLES! The evidence of God to the disciples, to the Jew, to the unbeliever is – the MIRACLES! In the town where I live, we have thousands of Moslems, and at least 4 times as many mosques as we have churches. Some of our old church buildings have become mosques! Moslems are trained to talk to us. They say, yes, they believe in Jesus. They do! He’s in their Koran. But what do they say about Him? They say He was the son of Miriam (Mary), the grandson of Imran (Amram), the father of Miriam, Aaron and Moses! And they say He was a prophet. Elijah was a prophet. Moses was a prophet. Daniel was a prophet. They say Mohammed was a prophet. But they don’t see Jesus as the Son of God. They are very strong on this. They say Allah has no need of a son. And they say He did not die on the cross for our sin, but that He was taken down and replaced by another man! But to you and me, Jesus is the Son of God. Why? Because of the miracles! That’s what convinced people! The Jews 2000 years ago said of Him, ‘No man can do the miracles You do unless God were with him!’ – John 3:2. And the confirmation that He is still alive is that He works miracles – through us today!

Yet God deliberately sent Jesus to be born with nothing more than we have! Stripped of everything, He was born as a man, just like us! – Philippians 2:6-8. But approved of God by the miracles! How was He able to do what He did?

And if He did, then how can we?

In Mark 16, after the resurrection – Jesus had

died on the cross, He came back alive, and now eating a meal with His disciples – this is what He says, in verse 15, “Go into all the world, preach the Gospel – but begin in ‘your’ Jerusalem!” Today I preach to thousands, but I started in the street, as a boy near my home church. Only this year, a man came up to me who remembered me from almost 70 years ago, because of the Gospel I had preached in the open air! And in verse 16,17, Jesus said, “He that believes and is baptised will be saved… and these signs will follow those that believe…” – Jesus is saying, when you believe, something changes!

Whatever your age, 10 or 30 or 70, when you come to Jesus – and BELIEVE – you CHANGE!!! Jesus said, “THESE SIGNS WILL FOLLOW THOSE WHO BELIEVE!!! – In My Name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them,” – and more than that – “you will lay your hands on the sick, and the sick will be healed!”

You CAN work miracles, you CAN heal the sick – but you need the faith to believe it!!! In Matthew 17, Jesus had taken 3 of His disciples up a high mountain and He was transfigured – but then, they had to come down! It’s easier for us to believe for miracles on the top of some ‘spiritual mountain’, than in the valley of our ordinary lives, but you have to come down! When Jesus and the 3 disciples came down, the father of a boy came to Jesus. He was angry, “My son is sick. I brought him to Your disciples – they’ve lived with You Jesus for more than a year – but they could not heal him!!” Jesus immediately healed the boy, and then He said to His disciples, “How long am I going to be with you?! You HAVE to have the same power I have when I’m gone!” Now that’s a fact. Jesus is not physically here. His Spirit is here, His power is here. But WE have got to see the miracles NOW! The disciples asked, “What is wrong with us? You taught us how to heal the sick, but we can’t do it!” We need to ask that same question today! Why don’t you heal the sick? – Jesus said, “BECAUSE OF YOUR UNBELIEF!” If you want the gift of the Holy Spirit to work miracles, to heal the sick, you NEED a gift of faith to believe that

God will do it! It takes a tremendous amount of faith to believe that God will do what He says!

says, if you give everything, you are giving nothing, it is only ‘reasonable’ – it’s expected!

When Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the Gospel,” He commissioned you and sent you out! The reason we are saved is to bring people into the Kingdom of God, and that these in turn will go out and become the evangelists and the pastors! God wants to prepare you and equip you for the work of the ministry. If you send out an army, they need the equipment to fight! It’s the same with us. You cannot go, unless you are equipped!

The very first thing is to KNOW you are delivered, born again, that you have the power to work miracles like Jesus did. Then we need the faith to make it work; we NEED the gifts of the Holy Spirit – 1 Cor 12. There are different gifts, but faith is one of the gifts that God will give to equip you. For 70 years, since I was baptised in the Holy Spirit, I have asked for the gift of faith.

But I still don’t claim ‘I have faith’. My faith is only the life I live today – not yesterday, not tomorrow – NOW!

What does God want, expect from you? God is not asking, God demands that you give your life back to Him, not dead, but as a living sacrifice. For seventy years I have given my life, but that’s nothing. Jesus gave His life, and He expects me to give Him mine! If I really want to give God something, I have to give Him more, and more, and more, and more. I can never give God enough. If I lived the lives of 100 men, and if I give God every one of those 100 lives, I cannot repay God. I owe Him – I’m in debt! I’m ‘over my head in debt’! If I give God everything, I cannot repay the debt. So I must give Him everything!

Do you want the gifts of faith and miracles? But are you willing to pay the price of that gift and will you finish the job God has called you to do?

Jesus said in John 15:16, “You did not choose Me, I chose you and called you, that you WILL bring forth fruit, and that fruit WILL remain!” I want to challenge you, Jesus still says this to you NOW! I know, because God called me.

I believe God called me from my birth.

Then when I was 15, nearly 70 years ago, God called me to give Him everything. Seventy years ago I gave Him everything. God did not call me as an evangelist or pastor, no. God said one thing, “David, I want EVERYTHING! Your feet, your hands, your mind, your mouth, your heart, your family, your children, your house, your money, everything.” And the Bible tells me that when I give God everything, that’s just the beginning. In Romans 12:1 – Paul says: ‘I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.’ Do you work for a salary? Do you get paid to do a job? The person who employs you expects you to do that work! He pays you to do it! You are only doing what is ‘reasonable service!’ Jesus

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It was a tremendous blessing to see the change and the joy in their lives! I

speak about Christ with so much passion – Jesus is my life! I love Him! As a boy I used to ask my father, “What happens to those who have never heard the Gospel? Because after death it is either Heaven or hell!” My father would reply, “Son, if you don’t tell them, nobody will.” The power of God to heal the sick was so great, that even before I got up to speak in the first meeting in the tent, one man, a first aider on duty at the event, was spontaneously healed during the worship. His arm was broken and in a cast – he couldn’t move his hand at all. He was so convinced that God had touched him, he cut off the plaster and showed everyone what God had done! The final healing of these three days was a man with bone cancer for six years, scarcely able to sit, stand or walk without help – he RAN to the front! He said, “I felt I was operated on by the Holy Spirit! Also my heart, weakened by years of chemo, is healed!”

Preparation began two years ago, with the participating churches giving themselves to constant street evangelism. I was introduced to a pastor’s wife, who through her tireless work day after day on the streets of her city, filled 9 buses, and this one church alone brought a total of 20 buses from that region! In these 2 years of preparation, I am told the local churches and street evangelists reached over 17,000 – on the streets – for Christ!

Over 600 buses were involved in the Saturday outreach in the park.

Unbelievers signed up to come to the festival with excitement, saying, “It’s a great idea to have such a day in the park, of course we want to come!” It was wonderful to watch the bus loads of people streaming into the arena. We our-

selves were caught up in the traffic jam!

addresses of all the participating churches.

And the next wonderful thing – these people went back as new converts together with the believers from the churches who had organised the buses to bring them – and therefore had all their names and addresses!

For this event I personally prepared an evangelistic brochure with the Gospel appeal, prayer of repentance and next steps for salvation, which was personally given to all the thousands who attended the evangelism in the venue; also 20,000 of my special follow-up booklets – ‘God is your Father’ and ‘Coming Home’ – were distributed. And a brochure was given to everyone with the names and

On the Sunday morning in the largest church in Katowice, the Senior Pastor asked me to come back to hold a ‘commissioning conference’ like I do for the Vietnamese – to send the people out as evangelists worldwide. They would call pastors and leaders together from all Poland and from the whole Polish Diaspora – this would be a further fulfilment of Hudson Taylor’s prophecy in 1889, that the last great revival would begin in Russia, then move into all Europe, and that this revival will not go out until Christ returns! To me one of the most important things about evangelism is not only to see people repent, but when they become evangelists!

But perhaps the greatest miracle of all during these 3 days in Katowice and Krakow was the fact that National and Regional TV broadcast the whole Festival – it reached all parts of Poland!

Friday night in the ‘Teatr Rozwyki’ and Sunday afternoon in the ‘Opera Krakowa’ were broadcast LIVE! For two

hours they broadcast the whole message, the call to repentance and showed the most important miracle healings, live on TV! In addition to the live broadcasts and re-broadcasts the whole 3 days of the evangelism were filmed by 5 major TV channels and 2 internet channels (covering Poland,

the Polish Diaspora worldwide, and Russian-speaking peoples worldwide), While only eternity will reveal the results, for the first time in history, the whole nation had the opportunity to hear – which exactly fulfils the challenge of Scripture. All had an opportunity to repent if they wanted.

I want to express my thanks to you for your tremendous prayers for what has been going on in my ministry and in Poland in particular – God answers prayer! Because of the prayer that has gone up, the mission that we held 5, 6, 7 September was far more successful than anything we could have anticipated or hoped for. We were looking for the impossible – and yet on one day alone in that massive park, the largest nature park in Europe, approximately 60-70,000 passed through under the sound of the Gospel! During the Festival we distributed all 100,000 of our specially printed evangelistic brochures – we ran out! The participating TV companies estimated that at any one time, 25-30,000 people were crowded in the venue (designed to hold up to 30,000 people at a time), and according to the TV crews, the attendance in the park changed about 3 times during the day.

It was not like a church or stadium

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meeting with a constant number of people – it was an outreach with constantly moving crowds – the Gospel message from the stage and broadcast on the 8 big screens all over the park via special outdoor speakers far beyond the tent: first pre-prepared short Gospel clips with the call to repentance and healing, then the two main live evangelistic meetings – the worship (by several of the most famous and popular Polish Christian Bands), my message, the call to repentance and ministry of healing – broadcast all across the park – and on this one day, in the tent, I was told thousands personally came to receive Christ. We could only see the response of the 20,000 in the tent, but all 60-70,000 in the park were able to hear the Gospel, and received the leaflets detailing the way of salvation.

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“In the difficult world in which we live now, we need to remind people of the TRUE Gospel. It’s a Gospel of love, of peace, and forgiveness. Where you have a religion that delights in killing people of other persuasions, this is not religion, it’s not faith. It is imperative that we, as believers in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, speak out boldly and clearly to the world. We are in a very critical time in world history. In Poland you need this real assurance that our God is a God of salvation. I want my visit to be a demonstration to you of God’s outreach, His love, His message to your nation, your government, your churches, your people. God loves you, and the reason I have come is because – I know God loves me!

“This is a Catholic country. A person is said to be a ‘saint’ when miracles happen, when you receive an answer to the prayer you made to that saint. Well, Jesus is a ‘SuperSaint’! Because in these meetings here in Poland, hundreds, thousands of people will be miraculously healed, not by me, but by the living Christ! To me this is the most powerful evidence of who Jesus is, that He is alive and has become the only true evidence of life after death! I have a message so powerful, it can change your nation, bless your people and bring a new unity. One of the last things Jesus said to His disciples before He died, is that one thing will convince the world of your faith – when we love one another! And there is no better way to come together in unity than in the preaching of the Gospel. This love is for everybody! Our Festival here in Poland is not for ‘religious Christians’, it is to unite the whole nation in the love of God.

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“In the Bible God says that you should call on Him ‘if you are sick, or in trouble, or in prison’ – we all get dark moments! It was in my darkest moments that God was most real to me. That’s the power of the Gospel I preach. I minister to sick people because I was sick, I minister to people in prison because I was in prison – my personal experience! And that’s why God had to send His Son, because how can a God remote from us in Heaven understand what it’s like for us?! That is why Jesus had to live with us. In one of my darkest moments, in the prison, I cried out to God, ‘You are in Heaven, You are surrounded by music, singing, everything’s wonderful. But I’m in a filthy stinking prison cell!’ God answered me, ‘That’s why I sent My Son. He was in a prison, He was beaten, tortured – and, like the Christians in Syria and Iraq today, He was crucified.’ Yes, we have our dark moments, but when the prisoners around me were in absolute despair, self-harming, cutting themselves to relieve the pain, I tried to be a light in a dark place and tell them about Jesus. And this is where, in the darkness, in the darkest hour, the message that I preach is at its most important.

“My ministry is not a work, a job that I do, it’s my life. I will never retire, I shall preach this Gospel as long as I have breath! My very active life at my age is a testimony to God’s healing power – I am very healthy, I do a lot of sport. But God has given me this strength so that I can do what I do – preach Christ! It’s my life!”

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“Jesus is the Son of God. He has power on earth! He’s not just in Heaven, He’s not thousands of miles away. Jesus is alive today, here, right now. He’s here in Poland, in Katowice, He’s here in this tent – and He wants to show His power! God sent His Son as His Ambassador to reveal His love to you. God’s love is so great, so strong – forgiveness, healing – you will never know what life is until you receive what Jesus can give you! – In one moment of time your life will change! Call on God, He will give you what you ask – peace, forgiveness, healing. I know, because God has

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healed me of cancer twice, rescued me from a communist prison. Every time I preach Christ, miracles happen.

Today I want to give you the free gift of God – peace, forgiveness, healing – but it’s the most expensive gift in the world! To give you this free gift, Jesus had to die on a cross – took your sin and sickness on Himself, took your punishment – so you can have peace, healing and forgiveness.

Then He came alive to prove there is life after death! I want you to call upon the Name of Jesus NOW!”

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Injured his back 2 week ago, “Tonight I am completely healed!”

Broken arm, unable to use hand – healed – cut off the plaster cast himself!

Bone cancer for 6 years, needed help even to move – ran to the front – “Holy Spirit operated me!”

Arrhythmia and heart pain – felt a ‘warmth and excitement’ – pain gone!

Pain in kidney and lower back – gone!

Pain in heart and back, so bad, couldn’t carry her shoulder bag – healed!

Serious back problem for 15 years – felt ‘current’ go through her body – healed!

Strong pain in arm for 1 month – gone!

Stomach pain and vomiting – all pain gone!

Deaf – now doesn’t need his hearing aids!

Deaf in left ear – “I can hear very well now!”

Inflammation in left leg, restricted movement – completely healed!

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David Hathaway to the Vietnamese in Germany – August 2014

I remember 20 years ago, going to Russia for 3 months at a time, it was so hard to communicate back home, or even within Russia itself – the telephones didn’t work, and the computers didn’t connect because there was no internet! To call England I had to book a call, pay for it, wait for 45 minutes in a line, and when it was my turn, either I couldn’t hear them or they couldn’t hear me. To book an onward flight from one airport to the next was impossible, because the computer in one city did not connect to the other. But today, it’s so easy to communicate. Even the children – I saw one boy, 3 years old, outside my hotel here with his tablet! When I walk down the street, I see the boys and the girls with their hand to their ear, they’re on their mobile phones, talking all the time. Or texting. I read a report that said that fifty percent of the young people in England, driving their cars, are either talking on the phone, sending text messages, or they’re on Facebook! Yes it’s against the law, but they’re doing it!

Communication?! Apparently half the population in England take their smart phone to bed! And they wake up in the night checking their phones, they want to get the latest text message, or tweet, or email, or Facebook update. And again first thing in the morning!

And the first thing people do now when they check into a hotel is ask for the internet connection! Communication!

But we have a more reliable communication with God! We need that same level of communication you have on your mobile phones – but with God! You’re so quick to talk to your friends, you’re always sending them a message, doing Facebook. How many of you use Facebook? Come on, admit it, and what are you doing – you’re communicating! And you send a picture, ‘this is me in a hotel, this is me eating breakfast, this is me in a conference’... it’s true! But what about your communication with God?! Have you told Him where you are?

Is He talking to you? Are you talking to Him? When was the last time you talked to God? – You speak more to your friends!!! But who is your best friend? Who? I want you to understand the power of communication with God. Do you know about Elijah? – He prayed to – that is he communicated with – God, and when he talked to Him, he asked God to stop the rain. And it didn’t rain – for three and a half years! And when did the rain start again? – Only when Elijah prayed! Have you ever called down rain or fire from heaven like he did? When is the last time you prayed like Elijah... and where is the fire?! But that is the power of communication in prayer. How did Jesus work miracles?

And what was the secret of the power in the life of Jesus? He would go up the mountain

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and pray to His Father, then He would come down the mountain – and miracles happened! You see, the miracles happened – not just because He was Jesus – but because of the relationship He had with His Father. If you had that relationship with God, that level of communication – you would see miracles, you would work miracles! In your life, in other people’s lives.

How can we work miracles? Have you received the Holy Spirit? If so, after you are baptised in the Holy Spirit, you receive gifts – 1 Corinthians 12. There are nine gifts, three vocal gifts: speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and prophecy. Three intellectual gifts: the word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, and discerning of spirits. And three practical gifts: gifts of healing, the working of miracles, and the gift of faith. Have you received the Holy Spirit? Then just as speaking in tongues is one of the gifts, so is healing the sick! Personally I love the practical gifts; all my life I’ve asked God for the gift of faith, to know God, to trust God. Faith is practical; you need this faith to work miracles, heal the sick, preach the Gospel. I need tremendous faith to do the work that I do, but I also have faith to believe God has called me, chosen me to be an evangelist, to preach the Gospel to all Europe, and in Israel.

If you want the gift of the Holy Spirit to work miracles, to heal the sick, you cannot buy it, you cannot earn it even by ‘holiness’, you have to take it by faith! Take it! But how? Read your Bible! Romans 10:17 says, ‘Faith comes by hearing!’ Open your ears! I TALK to you about faith because you CAN receive it – by HEARING! The more we talk about faith, the more we hear, the stronger our faith becomes. How do we hear? Romans 10 says we hear by the Word of God! No, not just reading the Word of God, HEARING! You all read your Bible (I hope), it’s the Word of God – but you have to ‘HEAR’ God speak to you from it! Do you ‘HEAR’ the Words God is speaking to you? You hear your mobile phone! Do you HEAR God? If you LISTEN to God – you WILL receive faith! Romans 10:8 says: ‘The Word of faith is near you, in your mouth and in your heart.’ – What is in your heart? – If your heart is open, the Word of faith is in your heart!!! But then to bring it into action you must confess it – with your mouth!

So we have to BELIEVE what God says! Faith is perhaps the hardest thing... Romans 8:26 says, when we don’t know what we should pray for, the Holy Spirit helps us in our weaknesses and makes intercession for us with sounds that cannot be uttered. Communication! When I had throat cancer, I refused to have any treatment, I prayed for 3 months, then I went

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back to the doctors and said, “I believe I’m healed!” The doctor examined me and said, “There is no God, you have no answer and your cancer has grown so big, we give you three days, and on Monday morning we will operate and remove your voice.” I went back home and the next day I fasted and I prayed: “The doctors say, ‘If there is a God, where is the evidence? He would have healed you!’

Oh God, if You don’t heal me, I’ll lose my voice!

Heal me!” I prayed all day. Nothing happened.

The next day, again I fasted, but this time, I changed my praying, no longer “Oh God heal me!” – but – “Oh God I believe You want me to go to Russia. Tomorrow morning they want to operate and I’ll lose my voice. If You want me to leave my church and my family and go to Russia, then heal my cancer! But if You want me to stay in England, don’t heal me and I’ll tell the doctors You couldn’t heal me! But oh God, I want You to work a miracle! And I want the answer now! Not tomorrow. Now!” In those days I had a ‘promise box’, filled with different Bible texts. I was so determined to get an answer, I took a verse out of the box, and this is what it said, ‘All things work together for good to those who love God.’ I said, “Oh God, that’s not the answer! I want a clear ‘Yes’ or ‘No’! Help me find the answer!”

Communication! And God spoke to me, so clearly, “You chose a verse from Romans 8, begin reading at the beginning of that chapter!” So I began. ‘There is therefore now condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.’ – I was angry, “That’s not an answer!” I continued to read. Still no answer. And I came to verse 24 – ‘We are saved by hope, hope that is seen is not hope! What a man can see, why does he hope for it?’ What God is saying is this: faith HAS to provide an answer – Hebrews 11:1 – faith is EVIDENCE, faith is SUBSTANCE, faith is FACT, like the floor I stand on, it’s solid, it won’t let me down. I don’t ‘hope’ for it. I HAVE it! This is what God was saying: we are saved (from sin) by hope. If you see it, it’s not hope anymore, if you see something, why do you still hope for it? If you see the answer, that is not hope, hope is only hope when you don’t see the answer! So I’m still praying, “I want You to give me the answer now!” I read on, verse 25, ‘If we hope for that which we can’t see, we wait with patience for it.’ But I’m an impatient Englishman, I want the answer! – “Oh God, I’ve asked You a question, and if You want me to go to Russia, I’ve asked You to take away this cancer!” I came to the next verse, ‘The Spirit helps us in our weakness, for when we do not know what we should pray for, the Holy Spirit makes intercession and prays for us – and He that searches our hearts, knows the mind of the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit prays for the saints ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD!’

When I read those words, I jumped up, “Hallelujah, it’s according to the will of God! I’m healed and I go to Russia!” You see, communication is two ways. You pray, you talk to God. But how many times does God answer you? How many times have you talked to God today? – FAITH is when you receive the answer! At that moment, when I had the answer, my throat cancer was still there, but I KNEW, GOD HAD SAID, I WOULD be healed! It was the WILL of God! This happened 55 years ago. I went to the doctors the next morning – they couldn’t believe it, they said, “Somebody has cut your cancer out with a knife! It’s completely gone!” But how did I know? Because on Sunday night, God gave me the answer!

And although I could not see for myself, I BELIEVED GOD. There comes a time in your life when you have to BELIEVE God when you don’t yet see the answer! Don’t believe what men say, BELIEVE God, believe what He says!

This faith is FACT! FAITH becomes the EVIDENCE! My faith on Sunday night became fact on Monday morning!

Every time I pray, I expect God to give me the answer. Communication. BEFORE I was healed of the throat cancer, I HAD the answer! You can have power with God when you believe what He says! You will see miracles, nothing is impossible.

Go into the ‘regions beyond’ in prayer, in faith, in service. There’s no chair lift, no cable car up this mountain, there’s only one way – step by step – believing – and, if you start climbing, God Himself will reach down and help you. But remember the only thing we cannot know is God’s timing – but even that is always perfect!

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‘When all around me is sinking sand, on Christ the solid rock I stand!’ Everything that can be shaken is being shaken – to the core. But God’s Word works!

Do you have a promise that has not been fulfilled? Has every glimmer of hope been extinguished, are you weak and shaken by the absolute impossibility of what you see? – Don’t let go, it’s not a problem to God! If it ‘can’t happen’, that just makes you a candidate for a miracle! God’s Word works! Everything needed to fulfil your promise was contained within that promise the very first time the Lord made it known to you! The Word of God is not ‘like’ a seed – it IS a seed! Contained within every seed in nature is the life-giving DNA, written by God – the entire plan for the future of that seed! When I became pregnant with my children, the whole future of each child was already written! Psalm 139:1516 says, ‘When I was made in secret...you saw my unformed substance; all my parts, all my days were written in Your Book before one of them came to be’!

If God has spoken to you, given you the seed of His Word, receive it, keep it, DON’T LET IT GO! When the angel spoke to Mary, she believed it, received it, ‘Let it be to me according to Your Word.’ – Luke 1:38. And Elizabeth recorded of her, ‘Blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.’ – God will do it!

What is contained within the ‘DNA’ of the seed of the Word of God, what develops out of it, wow, no human eye can tell at the beginning! But it’s coming, it’s on its way! God tells the end from the beginning, from the moment of ‘conception’ – when the human eye cannot yet see it. It is SPIRIT, it is LIFE, and will become FACT!

Is it hard for you to hold on? Don’t abort the Word of God. Be like Mary, hold on to what God has said, keep it in your heart!

God’s promises are not worked out in the ordinary way, but according to His plan, His timing, His order. It may be impossible to you. But remember, the Angel said to Mary, ‘With God nothing is impossible.’ – Luke 1:37. God will do it!

I am stunned by this thought: the ABSOLUTE power of the Word of God!!! One reason you and I can’t see God is because He is the INVISIBLE source of everything that we can SEE! Out of NOTHING He creates SUBSTANCE! He is the UNSEEN power that created and framed the universe and holds it in place! The Gospel of John says: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God...and the Word became FLESH!’ – John 1:1&14. Every Word of God that you and I have believed is SPIRIT and LIFE, it was WITH God from the very beginning, and WAS God! – And will become FACT! In OUR lives!!!

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Eli Nacht, Advisor to the Knesset, speaking to Christians in Katowice, Poland

Shalom! I have a few words to say about Israel. It holds a very important place in Christianity, in Judaism, and in other religions. Poland is also a very special place – first of all for me, my grandfather was Polish. And Poland is a really special place for the whole Jewish community. In Poland there was the largest and most significant Jewish community in all Europe in the twentieth century. In the sixteenth century it was the biggest Jewish community in the whole world!

Unfortunately during World War II – which was started by the Nazi invasion of Poland on 1st September 1939 – they destroyed 90 percent of the Polish Jewish community – about 3 million Polish Jews. Katowice, where we are today for this Festival, is also very special. In 1884, 34 Jewish delegates gathered here in this city and set up an organisation which was the start of Zionism, which led to the establishment of the State of Israel!

Christianity and Judaism share the same values, the same Bible – and, if you remember, Jesus was also a Jew! We have had a military operation in Israel this summer and many Christians all around the world prayed for Jews and Israel. Now it may sound strange to you – but you don’t need to pray for me, I need to pray for you! I will tell you why. Christianity was born in the Middle East – Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem. Now there is a ‘holy war’ in the name of ‘God’ – against the people of God – Moslems, trying to clean up the Middle East from Christians! This

is not my opinion. This is fact. In 2010 in Egypt there were 4.1 million Christians, now there are only 93,000 of them. In Syria there were 1,750,000 Christians – today only about 450,000. Iraq – 1 million five hundred Christians in 2010 – 250,000 are left right now. They have been forced to convert to Islam, emigrate, or just been killed. In the Middle East in the beginning of the 20th century, 26 percent of the population was Christian; today it is less than 10 percent. The only place in the Middle East where there has been a growth of the Christian population in the last 60 years is – do you know – ISRAEL!!! In 1948 there were 34,000 Christians in Israel. Now there are 120,000! Israel is the only place in the Middle East where there is freedom of religion, with full civil and democratic rights.

I have to say something to you. First I want to thank David Hathaway for this Festival of Life in Poland and the opportunity for me to give you this message. Christian people believe in prayer, believe in God – so do I and the Jewish people. When I park my car, I ask God that no one will steal it from me. But I still lock my car with my key. Moreover I have also an alarm! If I want to supply my family with food, money, beautiful dresses for my wife – it’s not enough for me to pray, “Oh God, please supply it for me!” I need to go to work, whether I want to or not. I ask you as Christians, as people who support Israel, who understand that Israel is the main place in the Bible – it appears 1877 times – we

need to defend and secure Israel – for us, for our next generation.

Prayer is very good and most important. But we must also take action. We need to go to Israel, we need to speak with our friends, maybe be active in the social networks. If I was an alien from outer space and I was watching TV, reading newspapers, and seeing how many UN resolutions there are condemning Israel – I would think Israel is the biggest country on earth, the most evil country on earth – and the biggest numbers of killings, especially of Moslems, is going on in Israel. But the truth is, from 1948 until now, over 11 million Moslems have been killed in the Middle East, and over 90 percent of them – killed by Moslems! Zero point three percent (0.3%), is the total number killed in all the military wars, bombings, operations and the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis. How many of you knew all this?!

I ask you to pray for Israel. And I ask you to take some action – for Israel and for Christians in the Middle East.

They are being killed daily – and the International Community is silent.

From the Desk of David Horowitz: ‘First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.’ This statement is used by Islamists to describe the order in which they will commit murder. First the Jews, the Saturday people. And then the Christians, the Sunday people. The global conquest envisioned by radical Islam depends on their disappearance.

It is worth thinking about the all-out religious war being waged every day against Jews and Christians. It may be an invisible war because the mainstream media – suffering from excess concern about Muslim sensitivities and from editors’ and reporters’ anti-religious bias – has virtually blacked it out, but it is one of the most violent conflicts in our world nonetheless.

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Jewish communities in the Arab World that just a half century ago numbered in the millions have all been driven to brink of extinction. Either hunted down or forced to flee their ancestral homes, these communities that had survived for thousands of years have vanished from history.

If not for the existence of Israel, the Jews who once lived there would have vanished too.

Meanwhile, Christian communities’ suffering in the Muslim world is worse than ever before. Scholars estimate that every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world. In 2009, the last year for which statistics are available, more than 165,000 Christians were killed because of their faith in Muslim countries.

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David Hathaway speaking in Poland to Christian Media ‘Baznica’ – 5 September 2014 At the start of this year, who imagined that within a few months Crimea would be torn from Ukraine and that there would be war on the borders of Europe? For all the years of the Cold War (the military stand-off between the Soviet Union and the West), Russia tried to make the West disarm, and of course the West refused. What Communist Russia could not achieve, Gorbachev’s ‘glasnost’ (openness) achieved. Today the West has disarmed! Was ‘glasnost’ a strategic plan by the Russians?

I love Russia, everyone knows my long connection in ministry. But Putin represents the old KGB. Russia is a proud nation, has a proud history – nothing to be ashamed of, famously Peter the Great was wide open to Europe. In history, Ukraine was part of Russia, at one time Kiev was the capital, not Moscow! But for many years Ukraine was divided, part in Poland, part in Russia, until Ukraine was united under the Soviet Union, and Stalin killed millions of Ukrainians, replacing them with Russians. When Ukraine earlier this year rejected an agreement with Russia in favour of the EU, Putin, who doesn’t accept the breakup of the Soviet Union (1989-91), reacted. He can’t accept the breakup of the Russian Empire. You see the tensions?

Historically Crimea was part of Russia, it was Russia’s naval outlet to the Mediterranean. It was gifted to Ukraine in 1954 under Khrushchev, at a time when no one could imagine that Ukraine would ever separate from Russia – it was a meaningless gift!

But look at the complex history of borders within Europe! Parts of Poland and Czechoslovakia belonged to Germany. Or look at the AustrianHungarian Empire. And Yugoslavia, and the start of World War I. Parts of France and Germany have constantly been in dispute. With the exception of Britain, all borders in Europe have been changed by war! What is happening in Ukraine is a repeat of European history.

But it is causing a serious division between individuals. I cannot accept military action when it should have

been resolved diplomatically, but now it’s out of control. The tragedy is at a personal level. People have had to leave their homes – some have gone to Russia, some to Ukraine, some have gone to Israel as refugees! People are being killed, homes and cities destroyed. There is now a spirit of anger which can take a long time to go away. What concerns me even more is that this anger is in the church.

Before, Russian and Ukrainian Christians worshipped together in the same church – now they’re against each other. Christians have made a terrible mistake; they have put national emotion and pride above their Christian faith. I have even heard that they are cursing each other on the social media! Whole Unions are dividing. With my many years’ ministry in Russia and Ukraine, I have friends on both sides!

Before all this happened one pastor from Donetsk came to London to visit me, for prayer. But now the pro-Russia separatists have taken his church building – built by themselves at great personal sacrifice – and during the trouble they were holding prayer meetings there, feeding the people.

Suddenly the soldiers came, took the keys, placed their guns inside! Another pastor and his sons have been killed; and other church buildings taken. I’m afraid for the churches where I have evangelised. They are my friends, we’ve worked together for 20 years.

and oil pipelines!

Today the whole world is influenced by the media. But the media is biased, one way or the other. Christians are not listening to God, they’re listening to the media. Russian churches are supporting Putin for fear of losing their churches, of being persecuted; and the Ukrainian churches feel they have been betrayed by their friends. It’s not discussion, it’s not social media forums that will resolve it. The answer is to get back to God. Like every other problem, the answer is in prayer. They have to ask God for the solution. My heart is to see both sides come together. Jesus had a straight answer – the only way is when Christians demonstrate their faith by loving one another.

Come together, pray together, and let God speak through the Holy Spirit until the ‘real’ Christians forgive each other and re-unite. After all, isn’t the strongest message of the Gospel forgiveness?

I don’t trust any ‘peace agreement’.

Remember the Winter Olympics in Sochi? Only after that did Russia take Crimea. As I speak here in Poland, the Formula One motor race is to be held for the first time ever in Russia, in October, in Sochi; I expected Putin to make some ‘peace agreement’ – and he did! We all remember the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936 which gave Hitler fame and credibility... The problem is not resolved… We don’t have any leadership in the West that can even talk to Putin. He’s laughing at us! When the EU proposed stronger sanctions, what did Putin say? – “In two weeks I can take Kiev!” At this moment Russia is the ‘strongest man’ in Europe – and she controls the gas

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