I grew up with George Jeffreys and was dedicated by him as a baby. I knew the miracles in his and in Smith Wigglesworth’s lives. But all my life, I have believed there is more Power available from God than anything yet seen on earth.
I grew up surrounded by what those who had received the Holy Spirit’s Power had achieved – the miracles – the thousands saved. Yet as I read the prophecies of Joel Chapter 2, I sensed there was an even greater Power available – which Joel calls the Latter Rain. But GREATER than the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the beginning of the 20th Century, which everyone assumed WAS the Latter Rain.
God has a plan and a time – for me, for you, and for the whole world we live in. God does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets. Amos 3:7. He is working to a prophetic timeline and so must we. My whole life has been closely linked to prophecy, not because I claim to be a ‘prophet’, but because when God gives me a vision, it is a prophetic path for my life. What He reveals to me in prophecy, I have to act on it – in order to fulfil it.
All my life I have heard a Voice behind me, saying, “This is the way, walk in it…” When I launched the first edition of Prophetic Vision magazine in Spring 1995, I wrote: ‘God has given me a vision of Russia and Europe, so clear, it’s like looking down on a map of the devil’s strategy, but I also see God’s strategy, what He wants to do. This puts an awesome responsibility on us to act.’ It’s only now, aged 93, looking back over 75 years of ministry, that I can see how precisely God has directed me.
I was a boy during World War II. When the war ended in 1945, Hitler and the evil of Nazism – most notably with the holocaust of six million Jews, the determined at- tempt to annihilate the entire Jewish population from the face of the European continent – had been defeated by the Western Allies on the one side, and by the com- munist Soviet Union on the other. But, aged 13, my interest wasn’t politics, I was seeking, fasting, praying to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Aged 14, I had received the Baptism of Fire after a year of prayer and fasting – but in my heart I believed that there was MORE. No one, not even the first disciples had ever seen the real Power I saw in parts of the Old Testament. I wanted to see how much Power the God of the Bible really had, the God who created the whole universe from nothing and formed man from dust. That’s why, in 1961, I risked my life to get to Jerusalem for the Conference on the Day of Pentecost which was to be held for the first time in 2000 years in the Upper Room in Jerusalem. I was simply believing that I could receive what Joel referred to in Chapter 2.
When I first received the Holy Spirit, I had asked for the Gift of Faith – now I wanted to see how far God could/would reveal His Power – if I stepped out in faith.
My adventure going to Jerusalem in 1961 was the start. Going where no man had gone before. The first in the world to make the unknown and dangerous overland crossing behind the Iron Curtain, through the communist countries and Arab nations on a war-footing with Israel, I received a medal from the Israeli Government when I arrived, and I was on TV when I got home!
Now, aged 93, I have not reached the limits of God’s Power HERE, ON EARTH! But the faith driving me is not in my head, it’s in my heart.