Preparing for a Move of God

Apologies for being late. We had no idea that they

closed the M three at junction four.

Some of you know that.

Well, we found ourselves kind of oh, they're going to

shut the junction at number four. No, they wouldn't do

that on a Sunday morning. And we found ourselves in

a queue of traffic and rang Dave as soon as

we possibly could to let him know that we might

be a little late. And so we've been sitting in

traffic for about an hour and a quarter hour and

twenty minutes. What should have taken us ten or fifteen

minutes took us an hour and fifteen minutes. But great

to be with you here in Eggham, running mead for

you don't know how glad we were to see the sign.

We had to come up on the A thirty. So

we're coming through all these places and I said, oh,

bag Shot when we hit bag Shot, because there was

a big snarl up at bag Shot because of all

the extra traffic. And then I said, oh, it's soon,

it's soon, and then no, no, not yet, not yet, soon.

Soon soon.

We came down the hill and I said I recognized this,

and came to the little roundabout and we were here,

so it's really good to be with you and in

this place. Last time we came, you just moved here.

I think first or second week that you were in

Setu am I on.

Things.

I can't move about too much. Where's the Oh you're there?

Oh okay, so you can follow me?

Yeah?

Good and yeah to all those watching, listening, hearing on

camera externally, bless you. Thanks for joining us. Yeah, and

we were just commenting that two years ago when we

came here, I spoke on the River of God and

somebody from Peru, I think it was somebody listening anyway

on the external camera sent a word to Dave that

we were going to come to a bend in the

river and there was a change of It was a

sign that there was a change of direction coming. And

the last two years we've been on a journey of redirection.

We've come to the bend of the river and it's

going to result in us moving from where we are

in Southampton up to the Essex coast, up to Frinton

Wharton area on the North Essex coast, which is very

much our routes. We've had a real time of redirection

from the Lord and he's spoken to us so clearly

prophetically that it's extraordinary. And when we first got that word,

we laughed, we thought, yeah, come on, not now we're

in our mid seventies, and yes it is. We're on

the move and seeking to follow the Lord where he's

sending us.

So what have I got on my heart today?

Well, I just believe that we are getting ready for

a serious move of the Holy Spirit. I believe God

is visiting our nation already, and we're beginning to see

the signs of life and growth. We're beginning to see salvation.

We're beginning to see people calling on the name of

the Lord. The Bible Society, who are a very conservative

organization and very into facts and integrity and honesty, they

commissioned a survey to be done by you gov. And

you gov are a secular poll organization who do all

the stuff on the general elections and things like that,

and are recognized and known to be an authentic company.

And they were commissioned to investigate what's happening in people

visiting church in the UK. They did a survey in

nineteen not nineteen nineteen, twenty nineteen, I'm really not that old.

They did a survey in twenty nineteen and last year

twenty fourteen twenty twenty four, they did another survey, so

all right, I'll get in the flow as I come

back to Earth after traveling, and they came up with

the most remarkable statistics, and the Bible Society produced a

document of the findings and they've headed it up as

a quiet revival, that there is a revival going on.

There is a move of the Spirit happening in our day,

in our generation, in our nation. Church attendance between twenty

nineteen and twenty twenty four went up from six percent

to thirteen percent. That is significant growth. That's more than

double the number of people going to church now that

were in twenty nineteen. That's before COVID. There are extraordinary

statistics concerning young men, young men between the ages of

eighteen and twenty four. In nineteen, there were four percent

of eighteen to twenty four's attending church. There are now

sixteen percent of eighteen to twenty four young men attending church.

The statistics are astounding. Numbers of people are turning to Christ,

particularly younger people, particularly students and people who are would

be termed as young adults. There is also a very

significant move going on amongst the eleven to sixteen year olds,

But they didn't do a survey on that. If they had,

I think it would have been even more surprising, because

we are hearing and seeing of extraordinary salvations and experiencing

it in our own situation. Young men and young women

having encounters with Jesus that changing their lives. I had

my sister in law visit for the week, so my

wife and her sister ganged up on me and I

went through a most awful time of persecution. But my

sister in law goes to an evangelical church that has

been getting smaller and smaller for the last number of years.

I think they are between ten and twelve people, maybe

fifteen on a good day, mainly older people. Nothing happened

for years and years. They do a lot of stuff,

but you know, they worked really hard, but it seemed

very little. One of the lady's sons had an encounter

with God at university, came back from university just a

couple of weeks ago, turned up on their Sunday morning

gathering with eight of his friends. Eight Suddenly, eighteen to

twenty four year olds turn up in this small evangel

little church. And these young men are full of questions

and open to God, and three of them, in the

first visit committed their life to Christ. So there is

this thing happening around us, not very far from here.

The other side of London, in East London, one of

the HTB churches in Hackney called together a night of

prayer for young people and seven am at seven pm

till seven am on a on a Friday night, two

thousand young people gathered together in Saint Luke's in Hackney,

and during that evening there was an outpouring of the

Holy Spirit, the likes of which we read in Acts

chapter two, and young people were impacted by a powerful

manifestation of the Holy Spirit. Numbers of young people weeping,

falling on their faces, surrendering their lives to Christ, being

filled with the Holy Spirit, God working and moving powerfully

in their lives. Why am I telling you this well,

because they're all signs of what God is doing. A

mate of mine planted a church in Milton Keynes in

nineteen eighty six. I was there at the beginning of

this church plant and I want to tell you that

there were not any more people in that first those

first gatherings in Milton Keene, Keynes, than there are here

in this place this morning. A few weeks ago they

held a baptismal service and for the first time as

a church, they broke through the thousand mark. Nineteen eighty six,

small group of people twoy twenty five broke through the

thousand mark. They had five services, They went to five services,

and they baptized forty people on one Sunday, forty people.

Another friend of mine leaves a church in Cambridge. Just

a few weeks ago they baptized thirty five.

Guy called Steve Campbell.

They baptized thirty five on one Sunday morning. These statistics

are not just kind of unusual. They are very significant

and they're a sign of what God is doing for

us in our nation. We're living in days when God

is moving. Things are happening that are really significant. We

had a baptismal service just a few weeks ago and

we baptized a young woman. Well she's young to me,

she's probably what mid to late thirties. Her background has

been awful. She's from a dysfunctional background. She ended up

in an abusive relationship. The guy left, she was left

with a child, a son and eventually couldn't cope. Turned

to drink first, then to drugs, the usual kind of pattern.

Found herselves in an absolute mess, and tried to take

her own life. So she was sectioned and the child

was taken from her and placed into care.

In hospital. She cried out to God.

Somewhere in her past she'd heard the gospel, and she

cried out to God, said, Jesus saved me, so at

the end of herself, she's tried to take her own life.

She came out of the hospital and met rather extraordinarily,

but God has a way of putting people together a

couple from our church, an older couple, and they took

her on and began to work with her and help

her and encourage her, and she made a full blown

commitment to follow Jesus. She was delivered and set free

from drugs and from drink, and she stood up and

gave her testimony as she was baptized just a few

weeks ago, and then she said, please pray for me.

I'm going to court to try and get my son back.

And since that happened a few weeks ago, they've given

her a sun back.

Because this woman has been so restored.

Hey, we're living in days when God is doing extraordinary things.

Why do I tell you all that?

Because I want to encourage you. You know, I really do.

By the way, if you didn't know, and I'm sure

you do. I've written a number of books, and this

is the first book I wrote. If you look at

the front of this book, it says it was written

in two thousand and seventeen. And I wrote this in

two thousand and seventeen. And I had a series of

dreams in twoenty and fourteen, that's eleven years ago, and

all of them are about a move of the Holy Spirit.

But I want to read one particular dream to you

that I had eleven years ago. First of all, to

underline the fact that God is speaking and that what

we're experiencing now has not just come out of the

bluers as you're experiencing yourself. You've got this clear prophetic word.

And to encourage you that God does speak today in

the ways that is always speak spoken, and he spoke

through dreams right in the book of Genesis, and he

still is now in these lives days. So I had

this dream concerning a church i'd been involved with on

the South coast. So I'm in this dream. I'm watching

this dream. I was with the church in the usual

Sunday morning meeting when someone I heard a voice, suggested

that the Lord wanted us to take his presence out

onto the street. We concurred, and in the next scene,

we were gathered in a circle worshiping on the pavement

in the same way as if we were in the

church building. There was a very real sense of the

presence of God as we sang and praised together. I

noticed five or six young people break into the circle

and moved towards Several of the young people in the church.

They called them out by name, so they obviously knew them,

and they asked what was going on. They said, this

is there's something really significant happening here that was making

an impression on them. One of them was a young man,

interestingly dressed and displaying some metal piercings and one or

two tattoos on his body. I felt constrained to address him.

Feeling inspired with a sense of prophetic inspiration, I moved

towards him and said, God loves you, is interested in

your life. He knows all about you and your struggles

and circumstances.

At this, the.

Young man's eyes filled with tears, and he asked me

how I knew that. I continued to encourage him with

prophetic encouragements that God was interested in breaking into his

life and revealing himself to this young man. I invited

him to commit his life to the Lord Jesus, to

which he has sented enthusiastically. This is a dream I'm

seeing all this. I invited one of the young people

of the church who knew the young man, to lead

him in a prayer of repentance. I turned away and

had a conversation with the Lord. It went something like this, Lord,

what's going on. I've done this stuff for years, knocking

on doors, stopping people on the streets, and have seen

so little in terms of response. Yet this young man

opened up so easily and willingly. I felt the Lord say,

it's a new season. I felt the Lord say, it's

a new season. And the difference is my presence. I

realized again that the purpose of the anointing is for

the lost and broken. It's a new season. That's what

God said to me ten years ago. Young people or

would turn to the Lord open up to God suddenly

and easily, and after all these years of working hard

and struggling and striving to get any kind of breakthrough,

that we were living in days or we would see

days when there would be a new season. That was

twenty and seventeen. I wrote that here we are twenty

twenty five.

That's what's happening. People coming to the Lord.

And of course all of that takes me back to

Acts chapter two. All of that takes me back to

the initial outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the birth

of the church, and that we are in the process

of expecting and believing for a new, fresh, sudden and

wonderful invasion of Holy Spirit, life and activity. I like

the word invasion. Yeah, God invading our communities, God invading

our societies, God invading our homes, God invading our lives.

One of the other statistics from that report is that

Bible sales since ninete. Since you say I'm living in

the past, I'm a really old Codia. You know, since

twenty twenty, twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four, Bible sales

went up eighty seven percent.

Eighty seven percent.

You see, without us doing anything, people are reading the Bible.

The world we live in the chaos of COVID and

the emptiness that elect the anxiety and fear. People were

hoping to find it in politics, or in business or

in whatever, but.

It ain't there.

In fact, the only place they're going to find it

is in Jesus. And of course the day that we're

living in is a day when people are empty. There's

a vacuum, and I believe as people cry out to God,

we're going to see a new move of the Holy Spirit.

And here in Acts chapter two, what time do you

normally finish, by the way our past?

Is that?

All right?

Half past? Yeah? Everybody, be all right till our past?

Yeah, okay, all right, I'll finished by hard past, promise,

all right, okay. On the day of Peddicost, the Holy

Spirit's poured out and there's this wonderful move of the

Holy Spirit. And I've read it so much without to

learn it. I know the scripture. You know. They were

all together in one place, and suddenly there was a

sound from heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and

it filled the place where they were sitting, and there

appeared on their heads flames of fire, and they were

all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak

with other tongues as the Spirit gave them the ability.

So they had this powerfully encounter with the Holy Spirit,

the results of which meant that they went out into

the marketplace, well out into the temple courts anyway, and

they were speaking in languages they'd never learned. These were

ignorant fishermen. Peter was a fisherman. I guess he'd left

school at eleven or twelve or something and started fishing

at thirteen. When he became a man. He'd never had

a lesson in French or Spanish, law or Telugu are

any other language. And here they are speaking in at

least fourteen languages. There are fourteen nations mentioned there, people

from Africa, people from Asia, people from Europe. And they

look in at one another and going, we're hearing them

speak in our own languages, the wonderful works of God.

It says they were astonished, They were amazed. And then

he says they were astonished again because this was so extraordinary,

this supernatural release of God's word in.

Their own languages.

And Peter gets up and preaches, and he tells them

about Jesus. He tells them what Jesus has done.

Are? They cry out.

He doesn't have to say, right, would you all like

to bow your heads and close your eyes? And maybe

somebody here would like to give their lives to Jesus.

Perhaps you'd like to raise your heads. No, while he's

still speaking, it said, they cry out to him, and

they say, what should we do?

In response to this? The Holy Spirit has touched their

lives so powerfully. What should we do? They say?

And Peter says in Acts two thirty eight and thirty nine,

he says, repent and be baptized, and you shall receive

the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is to you,

your children, and to every future generation everyone whom the

Lord our God will call.

You realize what that means, do you?

It means that that word from Peter is relevant for

us here today, that here in twenty twenty five in

Egham is this Egham or running meed.

Puno? All right? In both Eggerman and running me.

This scripture is relevant for every individual that Peter wants

us all to experience what he experienced. What happened to

him in Acts two is available and open for every

single one whom the Lord our God shall call. Has

God called any of you as he called you to salvation,

put your hand up. If he's called you to salvation,

all right, then he's called you.

So this is for you.

God wants you to know a powerful personal encounter with

the Holy Spirit, because this is so important for us

at this time. We can't build the church, we can't

see the purposes of God fulfilled, even the prophetic words fulfilled,

if we personally are not filled with the Holy Spirit.

I find it fascinating the way Jesus spoke to the

disciples at the end of Matthew's Gospel Matthew twenty eight nineteen,

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in

the name of the Father and the Son and the

Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I've

taught you. Mark's Gospel, Go and preach the gospel. Go

into all the world and preach the gospel. John's Gospel,

John twenty twenty one. As the Father sent me, so

I send you. Luke's Gospel, Chapter twenty four, verse forty nine. Wait,

pardon wait. In the King James version, he says, tarry

ye ha. That's a good old English word, isn't it. Tarry,

I'll just tarry a while, Yeah, tarry, ye, Wait, don't go,

he says, go, go, go. But then in Luke he says,

don't go. But because the same go who wrote Luke

wrote Acts. Luke wrote Acts, and in the first chapter

of Acts. We understand why the weight was included at

the end of Luke twenty four because in Acts one,

verse eight, Jesus said to them, ha, you shall receive

power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you,

that you may be witnesses unto me. In other words,

don't go why until you receive it says power from

on high, until you are filled with the Holy Spirit.

And if we're going to make the most of this day,

if we're going to see what is it the words

a harvest of a tsunami of souls, that we need

to be people who are ready, people who are filled

with the Holy Spirit, people who have opened their lives

up to God. People who have said, God, come take

hold of my life, fill me with your spirit. People

who are listening for the voice of God. People who

understand the gifts of the Holy Spirit. People who know

that they're ready to be used by God and willing

and available for God.

To take hold of them.

Because that connection, that joining together of a spirit filled

people and the purposes of God and the prophetic word

is absolutely essential.

You know.

In this, in this uh out pouring of the Spirit

in Acts two, there is this wonderful sense of inclusiveness

and h and a wonderful sense of an openness. As

God speaks through the Peter, you know, he says, this

is that which is spoken of by the prophet Joel,

that God says in the Last Days. And Peter quotes

what Joel said in chapter two of his of his

prophetic book in the Old Testament. And he spoke there

quite openly about about what was going to happen, ha,

And he spoke about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

He spoke about the fact that all the barriers would

be down, that everybody would include be included. I love

this because it was fresh and new and dynamic.

He said.

In the Last Days, God says, I'll pour forth of

my spirit on all mankind, and your sons and your

daughters will prophesy. This was revolutionary. Daughters had never been

included before. Suddenly, in this outpouring of the spirit, the

gender barrier disappears. Ladies, young ladies, old ladies, and everything

in between.

Ha. God has included all of us.

He doesn't just say young men women either, not just daughters.

Later on it says, and on my servants, both men

and women, I will pour out of my spirit and

they will prophesy. Ladies, have you prophesied yet? Have you

moved in the prophetics?

Oh?

No, that we'll leave that to Dave and the elders

and one or two others. You to prophesy, You to

speak to people the word of the Lord. You to

just as I did in that dream, go up to

that young man and just open his life up with

a simple word of knowledge, and his eyes filled with

tears and he surrenders his life to Jesus.

Huh.

God's doing that all over the country, all over the place.

God wants to fill you with the Holy Spirit and

for you to become a communicator of the divine will,

of the divine mind, of the prophetic word. And even

the old codgers are not left out. I think I'm

the oldest old boy here. There might be someone older

than me, but I think I'm merely the oldest.

If not.

And it talks about old men dreaming dreams.

Well, I did, and I do.

I had a dream this week that I believe was

significant as well. But God's still speaking to us through us.

And I'm believing God to fill me with His spirit

in a greater measure in this new season, that I

might be effective and fruitful, that I might prophesy, I

might communicate something of God through words and knowledge, through

words of wisdom, through being used by God in healing

and miracles and actions of faith. I believe God wants

to do that. So age is not a barrier, social class, education,

none of those things matter. As I mentioned, I love

the way Peter says this. He says, even on my

bond servants, both men and women, that was the lowest,

all right, So even on the lowest, least educated, least

capable people. Haha, God's going to pour out your spirit.

So it's no excuse you say, well, I'm dumb, I

never got any GCSEs, or I'm no good at anything.

It doesn't matter to who's.

Ha ha, Because God says I'll pour out my spirit

on all flesh, and it's inclusive men and women, old

and young.

Ha.

And race is not an issue either. I don't know

if you've read the list in Acts chapter two, but

fourteen different nations are mentioned, and they're from Asia.

Anyone from Asia here? No Asians?

Yeah yeah, Asians wonderful Yeah. And Africa oh yeah, well

as Africans were there on the dire pendic cast. And Europeans.

Any Europeans, Yeah, yeah, they were there on the diapendycast

as well. No Americans. Unfortunately it's the only place not mentioned.

They found it. Yeah. Ah. God includes.

Everybody from every nation, of every age, of both genders,

of all social classes. Of course, we need clever people

and we need ordinary people.

And God takes hold of both. I love it.

God takes hold of Peter, who was a fisherman and

probably didn't know his tables, and he takes hold of Paul,

who's educated in the best university in the land. And

he needs both, and he needs all, and he needs you,

and he needs me to.

Open our lives up to him.

Because that's the challenge, friends, that's the challenge today. That's

the challenge for me, that's the challenge for you. Because

the end of the day, what's it all for? Where's

it gone?

No? The next one? No, twenty one?

Yeah, miracles happening, extraordinary events next verse, and it shall

come to pass. Whoever calls on the name of the Lord,

shall we saved. What's it all for? Why is God moving?

Why is all this happening? What's this quiet revival? What's

going on? Well, what's this new season about? This new

season is about people coming into a relationship with Jesus.

This new season is about people who don't yet know

Jesus calling on the name of the Lord. This new

season is about people who've been closed up opening up

to the Lord, you know. And it is about seasons.

You know.

God puts seasons in place for reason, for purpose. You know,

when he created the world, he puts seasons in place.

And we can't do without any of them. We need

the winter and the spring, and the summer and the autumn,

and we need those seasons. And all of the seasons

work towards the harvest.

It's all for the harvest.

So even the winter, when things are tough and not

much is happening, there's a lot going on in preparation.

And in the spring when you see very little, there's

work going on. And in the in the summer, things

come to fullness and to harvest.

In the early.

Autumn, and then the process begins again. And I believe

we're coming in to a season of harvest. That's what

God showed me ten eleven years ago in that dream.

It's a new season. Yeah.

You know when Paul was talking to the young man

Timothy into Timothy four, and he's calling him to serve

God and into ministry. And he said to Timothy, preach

the word in season. That was good? Who said that?

Who said out of season? Well done? Yeah? In season?

Out of season we've been. We've been preaching out of season.

We've been because we're told to, because we need to go,

we need to share the gospel, and we've been doing that.

But it's been out of season. But we're coming into season. Friends,

And I say, I complain to the Lord in that dream.

It was very vivid to me. I'm saying, Lord, we

worked really hard for years, and you know we've had

these conversations. We've done all this outreach and evangelism. Who

haven't seen anything. And I just go up to this guy,

speak to him for two minutes. His eyes filled with tears,

and he wants to commit his life to you. And

he's like, God, what's going on I I've been waiting. No,

it's a new season. It's a harvest season. God wants

to give us a tsunami of souls. They had a

tsunami of souls at the end of Peter's preaching in

Acts two.

Did you know that? Well?

I think three thousand in one blow is a pretty

good tsunami, don't you. Three thousand people make a commitment

to give their lives to Jesus, surrender to him in

response to these spirit filled men and women who share

the truth about Jesus, who speak in other tongues and

are used in the miraculous expression of God's word that

grabs people's attention. And I believe with their friends, and

I believe we need to be ready because I believe

God He's going to do that. You know, huh. I

play the piano badly. I don't know if you remember

Les Dawson. Some of you are some too young. Well,

I play the piano like Les Dawson. No, I'm a

little bit better than that, but I don't display my

powers publicly. But the kids brought me a piano about

five years ago, ten years ago for my birthday, which

was a real blessing. I haven't played for years, and

just began to play it. And I played through the

old hymn book. I love the old hymns, you know,

my childhood, my young adult, my first fifteen years in ministry,

the Redemption hymnal was my kind of I had my

Bible and my Black Bible and a Black Redemption HYMNOI,

you know, took it to every meeting and I played

through the hymns. And last Saturday morning, I sat down

and I got to the gospel section. There's some great

old gospel hymns written by people like Fanny Crosby and

others whatever, and I played this hymn just as I

am without one plea but that your blood was shed

for me, and that Thou bidst me come to thee

O Lamb of God, I come. And I played it

a few times and I began to sing it, and

the presence of God came on me, and God was

there with me as I sang O Lamb of God,

I Come. And for me it was a moment, a

moment of encounter, and I said to God, God, I want.

To be part of what you're doing right now. I

come so him.

We usually associate with Billy Graham and people coming and

giving their lives to Christ. But it was more than

that for me at that moment. It was about me saying, God,

I want to be filled with your spirit. God, I

want to know you in a deeper, more intimate way. Lord,

I commit my to you to your purposes. One of

the reasons we're moving is because God has called us

to go to be part of a network of churches

that are really open to God and seeing some really

good things happening. And we believe God wants us to

be part of that and add to the harvest that

they're seeing in that place. And because in our hearts

we long to see a move of the Holy Spirit. Cool,

I ain't got that long. I don't know how long.

I'm believe in at least ten years, but who knows

how long I might have, But I long to be

part of a move of the Spirit. In the nineteen

eighties we saw God move. I was part of a

church that grew from mid thirties to just under three

hundred in about four years. We saw God do some

wonderful things over in Essex in thorough God did some

extraordin things. There's people, number of people in ministry around

the country that God took hold of. At that time,

my wife led a women's ministry, saw something like forty

or fifty women come to Christ over a period of

eighteen months. I mean, we just saw God doing some

extraordinary things. We didn't pray for people to be filled

with the Holy Spirit. They came into the atmosphere of

His presence and they just encountered God. They got saved.

And we had a young girl from a really difficult,

dysfunctional background. She came in, sixteen year old. She got

saved on the Sunday. We had a prayer gathering on

a Tuesday. She said, can I come? I said, course

she can. So she came and she sat next to me.

In this prayer meeting. We're singing the first song, and

after the first song, we're singing praises to God and

singing in other tongues. And this sixteen year old kid

who's just been saved.

On the Sunday and away in tongues.

So after the canon, I said, when were you filled

with the spirit?

He said, oh, is that what happened?

She said, I was just worshiping Jesus and I love

him so much, and I just felt this language come,

and I just began to speak in languages I've never learned,

the praises of God, you know, been part of something

like that, but it didn't reach its full potential. In

the nineties, there was that move of the spirit that

was kind of associated with Toronto. Lots of really good

things happening and people encountering Jesus, and there were some

remarkable prophecies about this going out on the streets and whatever.

But it never did go out on the streets. You

know why, because we kept coming back and asking for more,

and so we just came back for more, and what

God meant to touch the nation and whatever turned into

a self indulgence seeking a personal blessing.

I really believe that. And here we are again. Here

we are again.

And the churches that are gonna reaper tsunami of souls

are those who come and say, Ho, Lamb of God,

I come. I give myself to you to be part

of what you're doing. That's my message this morning. I've

done so all right. Yeah, let's just praise, shall we?

Yeah, yeah,