Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSNEW GENERATIONThe vision of main community houses as radical discipleshipcentres was intensified. Struggling businesses too were receivingsome emergency input both spiritually and practicallyfrom a team led by Mike ‘Rockfast’. Zealous ‘young Davids’like Jason, Phil and Nathan, responded wholeheartedly andwith sights set on a new golden age of community, pushedthings along, engaging any cynical Sauls, proud Goliaths orworldly Philistines they met on the way.God’s word to us was to ‘cleanse the house of the Lord’. Inspirit Noel saw an angel pouring out bowls of judgement andblessing on the church. The following months revealed theoutworking of this as some scenes dwindled and others blossomed.As the Jesus Army steamed on into 1995 the growingcry was ‘Lord, revive our church households’ — from the rootsup!Towards the end of 1994 things had begun to hot up in London.The year had been OK, but not stunning, and they werea little weary with all the stress and pain of church building.Community families were struggling there too.‘There must be more’ was a popular song and a commonsentiment. Steve asked God for a new spirit of prophecy inthe group. They had experienced a renewed soaking in theHoly Spirit with ecstatic worship, laughter, people under thetable and the like. But Steve was hungry for more. He wantedthe complete Acts 2 power package: dreams, visions andprophecy — plus a startlingly new community.As leaders we could motivate, push and preach the apostolicmessage. And we did. But the power of revival was personalencounters with the Lord Jesus and a prophetically awak-390