Fire in our hearts - The Jesus Army

FIRE IN OUR HEARTSNEW GENERATIONable things followed as others began to wake up at 5.55 andget words from Isaiah!As the new year began Steve was inundated with words,dreams and pictures. He would be in his office and the phonewould ring: ‘Steve, I had a dream...’One morning two sisters ran down excitedly from SpreadingFlame. They’d just had a vision of lots of young men carryingbatons and running up and down the stairs of Battlecentreand out onto the streets.One scripture impressed itself on Steve — Isaiah 55.5: ‘Nationsthat do not know you will hasten to you, because of theLord your God, the Holy One of Israel.’ Isaiah 55.5? 5.55am?He smiled at the coincidence. Now, when he awoke, Steveclaimed the promise of ‘nations coming to Zion’. He’d set hisheart on a multiracial church. One prophecy said: ‘When itrains, black umbrellas come out.’ In the midst of blessingblack people would come. That year three black churches inLondon joined the Multiply Network.One day Steve suddenly declared; ‘Zion’s sons will arrivethrough the front door, the back door and even up throughthe floor!’ Very unlikely! But when men came to work on thefoundations, Steve bumped into a dusty workman climbingout of the cellar! Marian, a Romanian communist, stayed fordinner, found Jesus and moved in.God told them to expect refugees. One black brother andhis sister escaped from war-torn Africa both assuming theother was dead. Miraculously they met at Victoria Station.Both joined the Acton congregation.Another word was about Spanish-speakers. That summerthey found Jose, a Spaniard and heroin addict, in Leicester393