SATURDAY, 26 MARCH Another new day dawns across Central Africa and what can be better than to begin with God by reading His Word and in prayer. Continued with Exodus, John, Proverbs and finished Ephesians with a reminder of the battle we are in. Oswald Chambers then wrote on ‘VISION BY PERSONAL PURITY” – listen to his reminder to us:
“Purity is not innocence, it is much more. Purity is the outcome of sustained spiritual sympathy with God. We have to grow in purity. The life with God may be right and the inner purity remains unsullied, and yet every now and again the bloom on the outside may be sullied.” After time in prayer especially in interceding for the D.R.C. my hot water was brought so I could go and enjoy a shave, wash and do my dirty washing. For breakfast I enjoyed another roll, an apple and a cup of coffee …. So now I’ ready for another full day as I will be speaking at 2 graduating services and then moving on to LIKASI where I will sleep the next 2 nights. Wow …it rained last night so imagine what the roads will be like!!! but we have hired a Land-Rover for 2 days. It is 2 hours before we go to the graduation so I began my new book ‘A GOD SIZED VISION” by Collin Hansen and John Woodridge (my second pen finished). Tim Keller said of this book: “I am so glad that this book is appearing now, as a witness to how God has worked in the church in the past and what He can do in the future.” It is another book on REVIVAL and this is the purpose of the authors: “this book won’t make church committee meetings shorter, can’t guarantee
greater happiness, and doesn’t offer any ready-made revival formula. But by taking you back to days when God tore open the heavens and gave this world a glimpse of blissful eternity, it might stir you to offer prayers that move God.” ~~
It really looks great and like the other 3 books I have read, brings us back to God, to prayer, to the Bible as the only way. The book begins with Jonathan Edwards and the First Great Awakening (1730-1740). Edwards was the first to publicize revivals, he became their principal theorist and he was long revered at the greatest theologian of revivalism, the nation’s most influential theologian. He longed to see
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