Just a week back, I had the privilege of speaking at Chroma Church in their two morning services. I spoke on Caleb, a real hero of mine. The man that cried out ‘give me this mountain’ and at the age of 85 took that mountain. You can find the talk here, at the one hour and seven-minute mark:
I love Caleb. In fact his story is the story behind the name
for this blog. It was nearly 20 years ago that I spoke on ‘Mountain Climbing
for Beginners’ at KingsGate Church Peterborough; it’s Caleb’s story.
We are seeing many mountains being taken in Leicester right
now, in this time of revival. I speak of some in the talk. Over 100 new Christian
believers in the last two to three months, meaning a necessary revamp to our
New Life and Next Steps courses- but what a great problem to have!
I mention the fact that others visiting are seeing what God
is doing and reflecting on it being revival. We had a leader of a church
movement visit. He had been particularly involved in the Toronto Blessing
revival in the early 1990s. His comment was it was the same as Toronto, except
more mature. We’ll take that!
A lady has joined us who was part of the revival in
Pensacola in the mid-1990s. Her comment? ‘This is the first time I have witnessed
something that feels the same as the Pensacola revival.’ We’ll take that too!
Just this morning I saw that lady at our first service with gold dust all over
her hands – a reflection of the Holy Spirit at work in the meeting.
We had some friends, Barry and Chris, visit recently. They had
read the blog and travelled up from the south of England to join with the
revival. They were keen to hear prophetically from God -and they both did.
Barry had been a teacher, now retired. He had felt for a while that God was
telling him to pick up his pen again in the context of writing and teaching.
The thing is, he had a specific fountain pen that he used when he was at school
and he has continued to use this to this day, rather than working on a laptop.
So imagine his surprise and delight when Rachel, one of our ministry team, came
up to him and said ‘I see you holding an old fashioned fountain pen. God is
calling you to write again.’ Wow.
Chris’s comment as they arrived back home after spending a
few days at Chroma was, ‘it is strange to be back, and yet not back- we both
feel as though we have been to a different place….difficult to explain, a
different planet sounds too extreme, but catches a bit of the “otherness” we
feel.’
The revival continues. Join us if you can, at our Presence and Promise Conference.
