Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSNEW GENERATIONened spirit. ‘Your sons and daughters will prophesy, youryoung men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams’(Acts 2:17). That, in a nutshell, was our need.Steve spoke about restoring God’s house, quoting Ezra andHaggai. There was a marked prophetic anointing and a realsense that the Lord was coming through: ‘You expected much,but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blewaway. Why? Because of my house which remains a ruin, whileeach of you is busy with his own house’ (Hag 1:9).As Steve pressed the word home it sliced into self-motivation.Power was at the altar of sacrifice. Whilst in full flow hesuddenly stopped: ‘I’ve just seen an angel on his way with agolden bowl of oil and a scroll.’ Then he began to prophesy.The response was dramatic. People were weeping and repentingall over the room. Some were freed from demonic oppression.Others just cried out for their first love. A hymnthey often passionately sung was this:Jerusalem, ablaze with light;The gold, the glory in the night!Gaze on her till your spirit’s flameLeaps upward, kindled at the name;Zion! Where Jesus reigns.The message of Haggai was poignant: ‘Who of you is left whosaw this house in its former glory? How does it look to younow?’ (Hag 2:3). Some tended to look back at ‘the good olddays’. There, in a hazy mist, before techno-colour, communications,Jesus Army, or even evangelism, lay the quiet greenfields, the noble hymns and exquisite brotherhood we had391