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THE MINISTRY OF<br />
EVANGELIST ANDREW MURRAY<br />
MINISTRY MAGAZINE - EDITION 1 - JAN <strong>2016</strong><br />
TESTIMONIES | TEACHING ARTICLES | UK MINISTRY | INTERNATIONAL MINISTRY<br />
WWW.generationbuilders.org
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS<br />
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<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> Ministries would like to say thank you to all those who<br />
partner with us. Without you we would not be able to fulfil the mandate<br />
God has given us and see his hand at work throughout the uK and around the<br />
world...so THANK YOU!<br />
Why do we need partners?<br />
<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> Ministries has been called to reach the nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ, stir a<br />
hunger for God’s presence within the Church and train and equip the next generation of soul winners. All of<br />
this costs finance and we can not operate without the generosity of our partners. Please be assured that a<br />
gift to this ministry helps fund the great harvest of souls that is being reaped in these last days.<br />
where does my finance go?<br />
Any finance that this ministry receives goes towards fulfilling our mandate to reach the nations with the<br />
gospel. That means helping us facilitate gospel crusades, overseas missions and helping us travel the UK<br />
and USA. The financial support of our partners also helps us to reach people in places we can not physically<br />
get to through ministry resources and products. The support of partners also helps us to equip and raise up<br />
the next generation of Christian leaders through our ministry school.<br />
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One More Night With The Frogs<br />
In the book of Exodus, Egypt was plagued by frogs. When Moses told Pharaoh he<br />
had the honour of setting the time when the plague ended, he said “tomorrow”.<br />
Why didn’t he say “today?” Why did he live one more night with the frogs? In this<br />
powerful message, we look at why you don’t need to live one more night with the<br />
things tormenting you! You can receive breakthrough today!<br />
It’s Not Over ‘Till The Barren Woman Sings<br />
God’s plan for His Church is that we bear much fruit. But sometimes in our lives<br />
and churches we can go through times of barrenness. In the Bible there were seven<br />
barren woman who God made fruitful. Looking at each of these women, we look at<br />
how God turns our barrenness into fruitfulness.<br />
Seeing Jesus<br />
This powerful message will help us to have a fresh revelation of the Jesus who is<br />
crucified, resurrected and glorified. We have had amazing testimonies of people who<br />
have played this message to unsaved loved ones and saw them come to Christ. A<br />
great evangelistic tool as well as a faith booster for all.<br />
God’s Timing<br />
God’s timing can often seem mysterious. Sometimes it appears as though He is too<br />
late. Sometimes it can appear He is too early. But Jesus always comes on time. Be<br />
encouraged to know that all our times, years and seasons are in His hands.<br />
THE UPPER ROOM<br />
In the Bible, incredible supernatural things took place in upper rooms. It was in<br />
an upper room that the dead were raised. It was an upper room that Jesus had<br />
communion with his disciples. It was in an upper room that one of God’s enemies<br />
was killed. It was in an upper room that the Holy Spirit was poured out. This message<br />
asks the question: do you have an upper room in your life?<br />
HE GOES BEFORE YOU<br />
The book of Exodus tells us that God went ahead of His people in a cloud by day and<br />
a pillar of fire by night. Throughout the scriptures God is always pictured as going<br />
ahead of those who belong to Him. Be encouraged today, that wherever you are<br />
going, He has already been there. If you are about to enter into a new season, then<br />
this message is for you!
Welcome<br />
Dear Friend,<br />
Thank you so much for taking the time to read this magazine<br />
and for your interest in this ministry. Your support and prayers<br />
mean the world to us. The name <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> is taken<br />
from two scriptures. In 1 Corinthians 3, Paul writes: “Each one<br />
should build with care. For no one can lay any foundation other<br />
than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.” In Psalm 24, the<br />
Psalmist declares: “Such is the generation of those who seek Him,<br />
who seek your face, God of Jacob” These two scriptures sum up<br />
the heart of this ministry. Firstly, we are unashamedly a Christ<br />
centered ministry. Our hearts burn with a passion for Him and we<br />
desire to proclaim the wonderful message of His gospel wherever<br />
the Father sends us. Secondly, it was an encounter with the Holy<br />
Spirit that changed our lives, and so we desire to stir the Church<br />
back to a place where it really seeks God’s face and encounters His<br />
glorious manifest presence.<br />
With every breath we seek to see the lost saved, the broken<br />
restored, the captives set free, the sick healed and the hungry and<br />
thirsty filled.<br />
As we travel the world preaching the gospel of Christ, we would<br />
love it if you would support us in prayer. Please read in the pages<br />
of this magazine the wonderful things that God has been doing.<br />
We would love to hear from you if you have a testimony, prayer<br />
request or would like us to minister at your church.<br />
Many blessings<br />
Andrew, Laura and Judah Murray<br />
In this<br />
magazine:<br />
Read our...<br />
Testimonies from our 2015 UK Ministry<br />
The Lame Walk. The Lost are<br />
Saved. God’s Fire Falls .<br />
Argentina 2015 Report<br />
The Key of David<br />
Teaching Article by Andrew Murray<br />
Also including:<br />
USA Ministry 2015<br />
Mexico Report<br />
Azzato Ministries UK Tour<br />
Albania Report<br />
<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> School of<br />
Ministry and our work with<br />
Revive Church<br />
AND MORE...<br />
Andrew Murray is a fiery and passionate preacher of God’s Word, with a burning desire<br />
to lift up Jesus Christ and see Him save, heal and deliver. In his meetings many people<br />
have been blessed and encouraged as he preaches a message of faith and hope and also<br />
stirred and challenged to seek God’s presence and give their all to Him. Along with<br />
the preaching of the gospel, Andrew’s ministry is often accompanied with healings and<br />
miracles and times of encountering the Holy Spirit.<br />
Andrew has been in full time Christian ministry since the age of 18, based at a Church<br />
in Barnsley in the North of England. In 2007 Andrew had a powerful encounter with the<br />
Holy Spirit which led to him starting “<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong>” ministries and beginning to<br />
travel as an evangelist. God has led him to minister throughout the UK and he has led<br />
teams on missions to Argentina, USA and various parts of Africa and Europe.<br />
Andrew is married to Laura, they have one son, Judah. They are currently based out of<br />
Revive Church, A multi-site church in East Yorkshire, led by Jarrod Cooper.<br />
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2015 UK MINISTRY<br />
Hollybush Christian Fellowship: Thirsk<br />
New Life Church: Ripon<br />
New Life Church: Wakefield<br />
New Life Ministries: Bradford<br />
Northern Lights Church: Halifax<br />
New Beginnings Church: Halifax<br />
Selby Fellowship: Selby<br />
Revive Church: Goole<br />
Revive Church: Driffield<br />
Revive Church: Hull<br />
Threshold Church: Hull<br />
Royston Bethel Community Church: Barnsley<br />
Life Church: Doncaster<br />
Father’s House: Rotherham<br />
City Life: Sheffield<br />
The Hub: Stocksbridge<br />
The Hub: Penistone<br />
New Life Church: Chesterfield<br />
Fresh Fire Church: Manchester<br />
Fresh Fire Church: Oldham<br />
International Church: Mansfield<br />
Buxton Community Church: Buxton<br />
Uttoxeter Pentecostal Church: Uttoxeter<br />
One Event: Lincoln<br />
Arise: Northampton<br />
Revealed Word: Northampton<br />
Salem Church: Northampton<br />
King’s Church: Cambridge<br />
Kings Lynn Christian Fellowship: Kings Lynn<br />
Radical Church: Norwich<br />
Ayslebury Community Church: Ayslebury<br />
Revival Christian Centre: Enfield<br />
Guiding Light Assembly: Boreham Wood<br />
New Anointing Centre: Aldershot<br />
Elim Pentecostal Church: Wimbledon
UK Testimonies<br />
from 2015<br />
Our passion is to see God move throughout the UK and as we have travelled around the country this year we have preached a<br />
Christ centered message and seen God demonstrate His awesome power!<br />
We have seen many people respond to salvation; lots of people healed and set free; people impacted by words of prophecy;<br />
hundreds encountering the Holy Spirit. We give God all the glory for the doors He has opened and for all He has done this year.<br />
One of the highlights of the year was taking two sessions in the Holy Spirit Stream<br />
at One Event, Lincoln. On the first day Andrew spoke on “The Holy Spirit and The<br />
Believers Authority” which was well received. The second day we had a double, two<br />
and half hour session and the venue was packed with hundreds of hungry people<br />
gathering together. As Andrew spoke on “The Fire Of God”, God’s Spirit swept<br />
through the place with many being touched and being overwhelmed by the power<br />
of God and some testifying of healing.<br />
Earlier in the year we had seen God move mightily in two youth events; one<br />
in Boreham Wood, the other “Arise” in Northampton. In both events, we met<br />
teenagers hungry for God’s presence. The event in Boreham Wood was memorable<br />
as it was held in a public library. During the ministry time as Andrew prayed for people, visitors to the library stared through the<br />
glass doors, curious as to what was going on. Praise God, some of these teenagers ended up walking into the venue and meeting<br />
Jesus for themselves!<br />
We always enjoy our visits to Norfolk to minister with our friends Paul Randerson in Kings Lynn and Matt Richards in Norwich.<br />
When Andrew had visited this area in 2014 he had ministered to a lady in a wheelchair who had had fibromyalgia for twenty<br />
years. As he had prayed, the women had felt God’s power come upon her and she had walked around the building. Over a year<br />
later, it was great to hear that this woman had handed in her disability badge and was even well enough to go horse riding!<br />
Totally healed by the power of God! Our visit to Kings Lynn this year was memorable, as we had the joy of leading a Jewish lady<br />
to Christ. In tears she accepted and received Jesus as her Messiah.<br />
At a church in Northampton, Andrew was prompted to call out of the congregation<br />
a young man and prophesy over him that the call of God was upon his life and not<br />
to give up on following Jesus. The young man broke down in tears and afterwards<br />
shared a powerful testimony. He explained how he had been so discouraged that he<br />
was on the verge of giving up on God. In fact, he had told God on his way to church<br />
that night that unless God spoke directly to him in the service he would never set<br />
foot in a church building again! Well, God did speak to him and he was radically<br />
changed by the power of God!<br />
There are so many more stories we would love to share but we don’t have space<br />
in this magazine. Of course, the vast majority of what happens in peoples lives we<br />
never hear about. But we are convinced God is doing great things around the UK.<br />
Please continue to pray for all our ministry around the country and please visit the<br />
website to see if we are in a church near you. We would love to see you at an event<br />
soon!
THE LAME WALK.<br />
THE LOST ARE SAVED.<br />
GOD’S FIRE FALLS.<br />
Argentina 2015 Report by Andrew Murray<br />
In March,<br />
<strong>Generation</strong><br />
<strong>Builders</strong> went<br />
to Argentina<br />
for the second<br />
time.<br />
Our first weekend<br />
was spent<br />
ministering at<br />
Agape to the Nations, a church that is experiencing phenomenal<br />
growth led by Pastor Carlos Sanchez.<br />
On the Friday night there were a few hundred people present and I<br />
ministered on “The Wave Of God’s Goodness”. We had a great start<br />
with many first time decisions for Christ, deliverance and people<br />
weeping as they received prophetic words.<br />
I must have prayed for hundreds of people and went away very<br />
encouraged by all God did.<br />
On the Saturday afternoon I taught on evangelism to a small group<br />
of around fifty or sixty people. All of them responded to the altar call<br />
wanting to be used by God as soul winners. Paul Bendele (Missionary<br />
Ventures) shared on his heart for mission, and ten people came up at<br />
the end wanting to be used as missionaries in the future. Although<br />
this was the smallest meeting<br />
of the weekend, the potential<br />
impact could be huge!<br />
Saturday night I preached on<br />
“Seeing Jesus” and we saw at<br />
least sixty people respond to<br />
the gospel. It was wonderful<br />
to see so many coming to the<br />
altar. That night we saw an<br />
amazing miracle as I prayed for<br />
an eight year old girl, blind in one eye from birth. Within moments,<br />
her sight was totally restored. In floods of tears her testimony was<br />
simply “Jesus has healed me forever!”<br />
On Sunday I preached to hundreds of people in three back to back<br />
services. In the Sunday morning, we again saw around sixty decisions<br />
for Christ and another wonderful miracle as a woman who had had<br />
pain in her back, legs and kidneys for over ten years was healed. The<br />
pain in her body had been so bad that at times she had been unable<br />
to work. As we prayed, she felt fire all over her body and before long<br />
she was testifying that she was now pain free!<br />
The final service at Agape was to a bumper crowd of over seven<br />
hundred people. I spoke on “Bartimeus” and nearly the whole church<br />
ran to the altar for an encounter with Jesus! It was an incredible<br />
sight! We saw loads of first time decisions and the fire of God fell in<br />
what was a mighty move of God.<br />
After our time at Agape we were able to support several smaller<br />
ministries in Cordoba, which is the second largest city in the country.<br />
On Monday we met a dear couple who have a wonderful ministry to<br />
street children. Thanks to the kindness of our partners we were able<br />
to bless them financially. The next day, we met with their church and<br />
another smaller church for a midweek meeting. Both congregations<br />
have gone through tough times in recent years and speaking on “You<br />
Are The God Who Sees Me” we saw the presence of God move in a<br />
wonderful way. The Holy Spirit manifested in such a strong way and<br />
God gave us prophetic words for many people, with many being in<br />
tears, broken and prostrate before God.<br />
The following night, we ministered in another needy church and<br />
again God’s fire fell. It was great to see many children respond to the<br />
gospel in this meeting.<br />
Also, during this time it was good to fellowship with many Assemblies<br />
of God pastors<br />
at their regional<br />
meeting.<br />
Leaving Cordoba,<br />
went to the town of<br />
Chancani.<br />
We first visited<br />
Chancani in 2012.<br />
It is an incredibly<br />
small, needy place,<br />
isolated from the<br />
rest of the province.<br />
To give you an idea<br />
of how remote it is, we travelled for over an hour on the main road<br />
there and only passed one other car the whole time!<br />
In 2012 God told me that He was sending me to that village to reach<br />
one person with the gospel. That person was Barbara, and what a joy<br />
three years later to see that her life has been totally transformed! She<br />
is full of joy and has a real hunger for God, It was wonderful that she<br />
was able to give testimony in the meeting about what God had done<br />
for her.<br />
On this trip, however, we saw God touch more than just one person!<br />
The first night was fairly quiet, we gathered in the town square<br />
and just began to preach. We had a decent response with about<br />
seventeen responding to the gospel. What was amazing though<br />
was to see so many people from the town watching and listening<br />
from across the road. As I led people in the sinner’s prayer I wasn’t<br />
prepared for what happened next. As we laid hands on people,<br />
they began to fall under the power of God! This created quite a<br />
commotion and suddenly those who had been watching, rushed over<br />
to see what was happening. The following day the town was full of<br />
rumours of visitors with “magic powers” who had come to visit!<br />
That evening we had a bumper crowd of over two hundred people<br />
with around seventy responding to the gospel. Over the two nights
that means there were around one hundred decisions. For a town<br />
with a population of around five hundred that’s a pretty big deal!<br />
Following the preaching of the gospel, the fire of God fell on those<br />
who had responded. We saw a boy healed who had bad eyesight<br />
and several other healings too. One of those healed was a lady<br />
with terrible back pain. As I prayed she fell face down on the<br />
floor. She had a top on that exposed her back, and I watched in<br />
amazement as I saw the bones in her back moving back into place.<br />
She got up totally pain free. Glory to God!<br />
We then travelled back to Cordoba for a<br />
second weekend of ministry in the city. On<br />
the Saturday night we ministered at a youth<br />
service where I preached on the Holy Spirit.<br />
Every single young person responded and<br />
we were able to release several prophetic<br />
words over people. The presence of God was<br />
so strong in that meeting with many young<br />
people crying and broken before God. After<br />
the ministry time there was a wonderful holy<br />
hush as young people carried on praying for<br />
one another long after I had officially finished<br />
ministering.<br />
On Sunday morning we were honoured to minister for David Saint<br />
at his church in Cordoba. The glory of God turned up in a mighty<br />
way and nearly everyone in the church wanted prayer. There<br />
was one wonderful moment where a couple in the church who<br />
had been going through marital difficulties were reconciled and<br />
movingly embraced one another following a prophetic word from<br />
one of the team.<br />
On Sunday evening we visited an amazing church in Carlos Paz. This<br />
place was packed and the people were so hungry for God. The fire<br />
of God fell in that place and it was an incredible time of encounter.<br />
Many people were touched with the joy of the Lord, while even<br />
some of our own team were totally undone in the presence of God.<br />
Again, leaving Cordoba we spent two days ministering in the town<br />
of Mina Clavero. The first night was quite a tough night and I had to<br />
really preach through what I felt was a strong religious barrier (it is<br />
a very strong Roman Catholic area). Praise God that we saw around<br />
fifty salvations that night and the next night the heavens were<br />
opened and we enjoyed a wonderful move of the Holy Spirit with<br />
more salvations plus healings, prophecy and people being touched<br />
by God. It was especially wonderful to see the three sons of our<br />
host pastor all being powerfully touched as they re-dedicated their<br />
lives to Christ.<br />
Whilst in Mina Clavero we had the opportunity to share the gospel<br />
on secular radio and also met the mayor who attended near the<br />
end of the second service. This Roman<br />
Catholic walked in just as the fire was falling<br />
during the altar call! Afterwards he said he<br />
had never seen anything like it, except on<br />
TV! After the service we got the chance to<br />
share a few words with the local pastors and<br />
pray for them, another great move of God’s<br />
Spirit.<br />
Our biggest meetings were reserved for near<br />
the end of the trip as we spent three nights<br />
doing back to back outdoor crusades in the<br />
city of Villa Dolores.<br />
The first two nights we had around six<br />
hundred people in attendance.<br />
On the first night I preached on “God’s<br />
Judgement”, a hard hitting message on sin, hell and repentance.<br />
Around two hundred came to the altar with many weeping and<br />
repenting under the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I refused to pray<br />
for the sick that night as I made it clear that salvation was the<br />
greatest need and the greatest miracle. It was a great joy to have<br />
a young boy come up to me at the end and say “when I grow up I<br />
want to preach the gospel!”<br />
The second night we again saw well over a hundred people respond<br />
to the gospel as I preached on “The Blood Of Christ”. We saw many<br />
children powerfully touched.<br />
God gave us great favour in Villa Dolores, opening up the doors to<br />
meet the mayor and pray with him and also minister on the radio. With<br />
the evening meetings being outdoor we were also able to minister to<br />
people who hadn’t actually come to the meeting. The second meeting<br />
was held on a couple of basketball courts surrounded by children’s<br />
play activities. We heard the testimony of one man who<br />
had taken his children there to play, stopping what he was<br />
doing and listening as the gospel was being preached. He<br />
said he had never heard anything like it before!<br />
This was the night we saw another outstanding miracle as<br />
we prayed for an eighteen year old girl who had been born<br />
with a severe spinal condition that left her unable to walk<br />
without leg braces. As I laid hands on her she fell under<br />
the power of God. As I then placed my hands on her legs I<br />
heard bones cracking<br />
and moving back into<br />
place. Within a few<br />
moments she had<br />
taken the leg braces<br />
off and was walking unaided for the<br />
first time in her life!<br />
That night, two young girls who<br />
had been victims of sexual abuse<br />
responded to words of knowledge<br />
from two of our team members<br />
and were both powerfully touched.<br />
We believe God set them free from<br />
the trauma they had gone through.<br />
On the last night, we had our largest crowd of around two thousand<br />
people. Again, there were many hundreds of people responding to<br />
salvation and also a call for prodigals to return home. We prayed<br />
specifically for children and later pastors that were in attendance and<br />
the Holy Spirit touched both sets of people. Tears fell as we ministered<br />
to those responding to the gospel for the first time. What a mighty<br />
three days we had!<br />
On our last Sunday morning in Argentina, I preached at Bethel church, a<br />
Messianic congregation led by Omar Francia, who had been overseeing<br />
all the meetings in Mina Clavero and Villa Dolores. I preached on<br />
mission and evangelism and it was awesome to see nearly the entire<br />
church responding to being committed to fulfil the Great Commission<br />
in their area.<br />
At the end of the meeting a young girl who was blind in one eye asked<br />
for prayed. I prayed for a few minutes but nothing happened. I prayed<br />
again and again she was still unable to see. I told<br />
her to keep trusting God and then turned away. As<br />
I did, the girl broke down sobbing in her mother’s<br />
arms. I felt such compassion towards her and<br />
refused to believe that it was God’s will for her<br />
to remain this way. I grabbed her and asked her<br />
straight “do you believe Jesus can heal you?” In a<br />
flash she responded “yes” “Then go and lay hands<br />
on your own eye and come back and tell me what<br />
happens”. She came back a few minutes later with<br />
a huge smile “I can see!” This is Jesus!<br />
While I was preaching here, Scott Bottger<br />
(Heritage Fellowship, Kentucky) was preaching in<br />
another church with the rest of the team. I spoke<br />
to the host pastor afterwards and he was very<br />
happy with what God had done in the meeting.<br />
God’s fire had fallen in a mighty way!<br />
Sunday evening was our last official meeting before the team went<br />
home. We ministered at a packed church in a place called Mirlo. This<br />
church is very open to the Holy Spirit and so we ended the trip with a<br />
real outpouring of the Holy Spirit!
The Key Of David<br />
By Andrew Murray<br />
“I am the Living One; I was dead, and now look, I am alive for ever<br />
and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades.”<br />
(Revelation 1v8)<br />
In Revelation chapter 5, the apostle John has a<br />
vision of a scroll that is sealed with seven seals. As<br />
heaven asks who is worthy to break open the seals,<br />
John is devastated to learn that there is no one in<br />
heaven, earth or under the earth worthy enough to<br />
break open the seals. Suddenly, a triumphant cry<br />
comes from one of the elders “‘Do not weep! See,<br />
the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David,<br />
has triumphed. He is able to open the scroll and<br />
its seven seals.” (Revelation 5v5) The elder was of<br />
course referring to Jesus Christ, the One who was<br />
worthy and able to break open the seals.<br />
Many believers today are desperate for a breakthrough. Many<br />
times it seems breakthrough is an impossibility. However, there<br />
is no need to weep and despair. Jesus Christ is still worthy and<br />
He is still able to bring breakthrough into the most hopeless of<br />
situations.<br />
A few years ago I was ministering in<br />
a prison in Kenya. It was a slightly<br />
daunting place with guards who had<br />
machine guns and prisoners wearing<br />
black and white stripped uniforms. I<br />
shared a few words before my pastor<br />
preached the gospel and several of the<br />
men gave their lives to Jesus. At the<br />
end of the message the Kenyan pastor,<br />
who had arranged the visit, announced that we were to go and lay<br />
hands on the men who had responded. A little reluctantly I moved<br />
among these criminals and started to pray for each one. When I<br />
got to one man, I paused.<br />
The Holy Spirit had given me a word for him. “Sir”, I said, “God has<br />
brought you to this prison because He wanted to meet with you<br />
here but very soon you will be released from this prison and when<br />
you are on the outside you will serve God”. As I gave the word a<br />
few people around me began to laugh.<br />
Afterwards they told me what was so funny. The man was in<br />
prison for murder. He was under a life sentence. “In our country<br />
life means life. This man will never be released. He will die in this<br />
prison”<br />
A few weeks later I received an email from the pastor in Kenya.<br />
It seemed that there had been a problem in that prison with<br />
over-crowding. The government had never done this before in<br />
history but they had written a list of prisoners who were in that<br />
jail for minor offences. They had pardoned them to make room for<br />
more serious felons. For some reason, that no one could explain, that<br />
man’s name had got on the list! His sentence had been cancelled and<br />
he walked through the doors a free man! He contacted the pastor to let<br />
him know what had happened and dedicated his life to serve God!<br />
Friend we truly serve a God of breakthrough! A God who makes a way<br />
where there seems to be no way! A God who still holds the keys of<br />
victory to every battle that we face and a God who holds the keys to<br />
any and every situation!<br />
The Keys of the Kingdom<br />
Not only does Jesus<br />
have the keys - He has<br />
given the keys to His<br />
Church!<br />
As encouraging as this is to know, it is also important to understand<br />
that Jesus is not the only one who has the keys. In Matthew 16v19,<br />
Jesus speaks directly to Peter, however He is also speaking prophetically<br />
to all who would become members of the Church, that was built on<br />
the rock. Jesus promises us “I will give you the keys of the kingdom<br />
of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and<br />
whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”<br />
Not only does Jesus have the keys – He has<br />
given the keys to His Church! When I married<br />
my wife, she moved into the apartment that<br />
I owned. The first thing that I did after we got<br />
married was to give her a copy of the keys. What<br />
kind of husband would I be if I said I was the<br />
only one who could have keys? As the Bride of<br />
Christ, Jesus has given us a copy of the keys to<br />
His Kingdom! He has said of His Church “we (me<br />
and the Father) will come to them and make our<br />
home with them. (John 14v23). As He makes His home in us, He gives<br />
us a copy of the keys to His Kingdom.<br />
The Kingdom of God is God’s realm. It contains His presence and<br />
His “stuff”. The Kingdom is a place of joy, abundance, peace, grace,<br />
forgiveness, mercy, healing, strength, righteousness, wisdom and so<br />
much more. Whoever has the keys has the access and the right to<br />
obtain all that God is and all that God has.<br />
Prayer and the Church<br />
Jesus has said that His Church should be a place of prayer: ‘It is written,’<br />
he said to them, ‘“My house will be called a house of prayer,” (Matthew<br />
21v13)<br />
As the army of God, we must use the weapon of prayer in order to see<br />
God’s Kingdom advance. It is only through prayer that we will see the<br />
victory. You cannot win a spiritual battle with carnal weapons.<br />
When we pray however, we must see that the Church has already been<br />
given the keys to the Kingdom. Perhaps, you have found yourself in the
unfortunate position of being locked outside, having lost your<br />
keys! You hammer on the door, trying to get someone’s attention,<br />
hoping someone will answer. How foolish would it be to do that<br />
if you already had the keys! You could open up the door and walk<br />
straight in.<br />
Many believers treat prayer like they are beggars, shivering in<br />
the cold, hammering away, trying to get God’s attention. When<br />
we realise that Jesus has already given us the keys and we have<br />
access to an open door it changes the way we approach prayer.<br />
When I started working at Bethel church in Barnsley in 2001<br />
one of the first things they gave me was a copy of the keys.<br />
That meant I had access to the church any time day or night. If<br />
I wanted to, I could enter the church at 3.00 am. If the police<br />
stopped me I could show them that I had the keys and they knew<br />
I had a legal right of entry. When I left that church in 2014, I had<br />
to hand my keys back. Now I am restricted to accessing that<br />
building only when it is open to the public. It doesn’t matter that<br />
I was there 13 years. It doesn’t matter that I know the pastor. I<br />
don’t have the keys, so if I enter without permission I am a thief.<br />
The church will never pray correctly and never be victorious,<br />
praying like it doesn’t deserve to pray. But when we understand<br />
that we have the keys to God’s Kingdom and can access His<br />
throne room any time, day or night, we have discovered a<br />
powerful truth!<br />
The Master Key<br />
A number of years ago I was ministering in the nation of Zambia.<br />
On the last day we were flying home and<br />
needed to leave the hotel very early in<br />
the morning. I contacted reception the<br />
night before and asked them to give me<br />
an early morning wake up call. The next<br />
morning I woke up suddenly and looking<br />
at my watch, I realised they had forgotten<br />
to call me! I had only a few minutes to get<br />
downstairs. Quickly dressing I grabbed my<br />
bags and went to the door handle. Disaster struck as I pulled it,<br />
the handle fell off in my hand with the door still locked! I began<br />
to shout, but it would do no good as even if my friends heard me,<br />
they only had keys for their doors.<br />
Eventually I got someone’s attention and a porter came with<br />
something very special. He had a master key to the hotel. It was<br />
the key that opened up every door! He quickly used that key to<br />
let me out.<br />
Notice that Jesus, spoke about the “keys” to the Kingdom, plural.<br />
There are many keys in the Kingdom. But hidden in the Word of<br />
God, is a master key. This is a key that opens up any and every<br />
door and it is a key that God longs for His Church to discover.<br />
This key is called the key of David. Jesus spoke about this key in<br />
Revelation 3v7: “These are the words of him who is holy and<br />
true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can<br />
shut, and what he shuts no one can open.”<br />
See that whatever He opens remains open. This shows us that<br />
not only is the Key of David a master key that opens every door,<br />
but also it brings permanent breakthrough. Many times in life<br />
we see the same old problems reoccurring. But the key of David<br />
enables a permant breakthrough. Things open and shift and<br />
remain that way. Not only does the key of David open things,<br />
it also shuts the door. We need to shut the door to sickness,<br />
negativity, unbelief, bad habits, doubt, fear and so many other<br />
things, in our lives. The believer that has the key of David is able<br />
to do this.<br />
What is the key of David?<br />
The key of David<br />
enables permanent<br />
breakthrough<br />
I believe that in naming this master key after King David, the Holy Spirit<br />
is pointing us to the life of David. There are two distinguishing marks of<br />
the life of David. Number one – He was a worshipper. Number two – He<br />
was a pursuer of God’s presence.<br />
This is also where our victory lies. In being a believer that puts on the<br />
garments of praise and boldly and passionately lifts up the name of<br />
Jesus; we are given the keys of victory. And when like David we say<br />
“My heart says of you, seek His face; your face Lord I will seek” (Psalm<br />
63v1), we find the master key that gives us access to keys to Kingdom<br />
breakthrough.<br />
Several months ago I lost the spare key to my car and couldn’t find<br />
it anywhere. That car was being sold and the new owner insisted on<br />
having the spare key. Faced with the prospect of knocking loads of<br />
money from the agreed price I was in a panic and looked all over the<br />
house and couldn’t find it anywhere. I went to bed that evening and<br />
prayed saying “Lord, you know where that key is, you need to tell me”.<br />
As soon as I woke up, the Lord told me where it was, in a very very<br />
obscure place, but I picked it up straight away. The lesson - I worried<br />
and stressed and couldn’t find that key, but as soon as I prayed, the key<br />
was there. Easy.<br />
Here is what God said: “Many of my people are faced with closed<br />
doors, they are hammering on the door trying to get it to open and<br />
are begging for the keys. Others once knew what it was to live with the<br />
open door but now all doors have closed and there is a panic that the<br />
keys seem to have been lost.<br />
There are keys that open up doors to finance,<br />
ministry opportunities, family being saved,<br />
marriages being restored. There are keys<br />
to abundance, joy, peace and deliverance.<br />
For church leaders there are keys to new<br />
buildings, keys to your city and community.<br />
For evangelists there are keys to nations,<br />
regions and miracles. As long as you stress,<br />
panic, strategies and try to find the key to your breakthrough in your<br />
own strength, the way will remain hidden. But in my presence, keys are<br />
found. The key to your breakthrough, the key to your open door.<br />
For the Lord says “I am the One who holds the key of David, what I<br />
open no one can shut and what I shut no one can open”. The name<br />
David means “Beloved”. As you walk in the reality of being the Beloved<br />
of God, as you embrace your identity as His Bride, as you rest, enjoy<br />
and abide in His presence, and live in the simplicity of being a lover of<br />
Jesus, it is in that place that keys are found. Christ still gives the keys to<br />
the kingdom to His Church, but not the Church that walks in the flesh,<br />
but the Church that walks in the Spirit.<br />
I see in the Spirit, keys, lost keys, abandoned keys, keys long forgotten,<br />
but keys ready to be found and put into locks that will open with<br />
ease to those who have the keys. There is a door of blessing, a door<br />
of breakthrough, a door of destiny and Christ has the keys. The Lord<br />
urges His people to go back to His presence, back to the place of prayer<br />
and fasting, back to the intimacy of worship, become His beloved and<br />
find and pick up the keys He intends for you to have.”<br />
Heaven on earth<br />
In Psalm 62, David says “I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld<br />
your power and your glory.” Have you ever stopped to think that under<br />
the Old covenant David wasn’t actually allowed access into the glory of<br />
God? Only the High Priest could access God’s glory and he only once a<br />
year.<br />
Yet because David was a worshipper and a pursuer of God’s presence,<br />
he found the keys to a dispensation that would only come later, after<br />
the death of Jesus.
In the same way, although we are now in the Church age, there is<br />
another dispensation coming, it is called the dispensation of the<br />
Kingdom. In that age, there will be no more death, sickness, pain<br />
or injustice. In that age we will see Him face to face and be like<br />
Him.<br />
Some believers are content to live in defeat and bondage on earth,<br />
waiting for that future dispensation that is coming. However, if we<br />
as the Church will discover true Spirit and Truth worship and start<br />
to really hunger and thirst after God’s presence, then maybe will<br />
find the keys that enable us to access what is coming in the future,<br />
right now. Maybe that is what it means in Hebrews 6 when it talks<br />
of those “who have tasted the goodness of the Word of God and<br />
the powers of the coming age”<br />
When we have the key of David we can taste heaven now, we can<br />
taste resurrection power, healing, glory and justice now. This is<br />
what God longs to show His Church.<br />
river to carry us to the lost and broken we find ourselves in the midst of<br />
the enemy’s camp, but not as captives, but as victors. We have found<br />
the keys to the city God has promised us.<br />
In speaking of the religious leaders of his day Jesus said “Woe to you<br />
experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge.<br />
You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who<br />
were entering.” (Luke 11v52)<br />
You see religion always robs people of the keys to the Kingdom. A<br />
believer that doesn’t have an active prayer life doesn’t have the keys<br />
of victory that it needs. But as the army of God we must discover once<br />
again the old secret of the secret place. We must again go back to that<br />
secret place of prayer and that river of the Holy Spirit. A Church that<br />
responds to the Spirit’s call to pray, will find the keys to their city and<br />
whatever other breakthrough they need. Let us all resolve to be the<br />
Spirit filled, praying people that Jesus requires us to be.<br />
The Keys of Destiny<br />
The city of Jerusalem was David’s destiny and inheritance. The<br />
only problem was that between David and his inheritance was<br />
an enemy. The enemy mocked David saying “‘You will not get in<br />
here; even the blind and the lame can ward you off.’ They thought,<br />
‘David cannot get in here.” (2 Samuel 5v6).<br />
Like David we too have an inheritance. Psalm 2 says “Ask me and<br />
I will make the nations your inheritance” (v8). Our inheritance is<br />
that we will see His Kingdom come in our nations and His glory<br />
change our communities. But we too have an enemy that mocks<br />
us “Great Britain (substitute your nation) belongs to me”, says the<br />
enemy. “The Church is finished, a dwindling minority. Immorality<br />
has won, darkness has won. The Church has failed”.<br />
Yet, the Bible declares “Nevertheless, David captured the fortress<br />
of Zion – which is the City of David.” (v2 Samuel 5v7)<br />
I want to prophesy a “nevertheless” over your church, your<br />
community, your nation and your life today! It doesn’t matter how<br />
small or needy your church is…..NEVERTHELESS! It doesn’t matter<br />
what strongholds are over your community….NEVERTHELSS!<br />
It doesn’t matter how backslidden your nation appears…..<br />
NEVERTHELESS! It doesn’t matter what the doctor has said....<br />
NEVERTHLESS! It doesn’t matter how hopeless the situation<br />
appears....NEVERTHLESS! It doesn’t matter how far away that<br />
prodigal is away from God....NEVERTHLESS!<br />
You see underneath the city was a hidden shaft of water. It was a<br />
secret place that not even the enemy noticed. David and his men,<br />
got on their hands and knees and climbed up that water shaft.<br />
They came out a bit soggy, but they were right in the center of the<br />
enemies camp! They had found the key to the city!<br />
The key to taking cities is still the same today. There is a secret<br />
place, it is called the secret place of prayer. The enemy cannot<br />
see us in the secret place because in that place we “dwell in<br />
the shelter of the Most High and rest under the shadow of the<br />
Almighty” (Psalm 91). But God sees us in that secret place. He<br />
promises:<br />
“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray<br />
to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is<br />
done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6v6)<br />
In the secret place there is a hidden flow of water. It is called the<br />
river of the Holy Spirit. God is calling His Church to fight from<br />
their knees. Like David and his men, let us get on our hands and<br />
knees in a posture of prayer and worship and enter the river of<br />
His presence. As we become immersed in that river and allow the<br />
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Confidence in Prayer<br />
Prayer is one of those things that all<br />
Christians know they should do, but<br />
many struggle with. Most Christians<br />
desire to take their prayer life to another<br />
level. In this powerful teaching, Andrew<br />
Murray teaches on why we can pray with<br />
confidence and assurance. Let your faith<br />
soar, as we look at the relationship God<br />
has brought us into and how that effects<br />
our prayer life and our ability to access<br />
God’s throne room.<br />
Blood Covenant<br />
When Jesus shed His blood on the<br />
cross it was about much more than<br />
forgiveness and salvation. When Jesus<br />
shed His blood, He entered into a<br />
covenant with you. Using the life of<br />
Abraham as an example, Andrew Murray<br />
teaches on what a blood covenant is<br />
and what is the covenant that Christ<br />
has made with His Church. This is an<br />
inspiring message, that will inspire you<br />
to receive all that God has for you today.
Andrew reports on our November trip to<br />
Mexico<br />
U<br />
<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> partnered with Revive Church for a week<br />
long mission trip to Uruapan in Mexico. Evangelist Andrew was<br />
joined by members of Revive Church plus campus pastor Jonathan<br />
Whitehouse as well as Pastor Rene Rocha from Heritage Fellowship<br />
in the USA.<br />
Our host was Pastor Salomon Valdez and our first service in Mexico<br />
was in his church: Uruapan Revival Center on a Wednesday night. I<br />
spoke on pursuing the anointing from the life of Elisha and we had<br />
a great time in God’s presence, with the Holy Spirit touching many<br />
people. It was especially amazing to see many young people and<br />
even unbelievers having encounters with God.<br />
On Wednesday and Thursday morning we held pastor’s conferences<br />
in a hotel suite that had been hired. These two mornings were the<br />
undoubted highlight of the trip as God did incredibly significant<br />
things. We had been told prior to arriving that historically there<br />
had been a lot of division among churches, with pastors very rarely<br />
coming together to meet or work with each other. It was in this<br />
backdrop of hostility that we were ministering. Over 100 leaders<br />
gathered from all kinds of denominations and backgrounds from<br />
very strict conservative type churches, to churches that were much<br />
more liberal. It would need a true outpouring from God to break<br />
through all these different groups.<br />
On the first day I spoke on “joy” sharing on how God’s joy is our<br />
strength and then prophesying over the city that they would<br />
rejoice as men rejoice at harvest time. As I invited people forward<br />
for prayer, there was a rush to the altar as the vast majority of the<br />
pastors were desperate for God to touch them. The fire of God<br />
began to fall on these leaders with many being refreshed, healed,<br />
set free and restored.<br />
The second day was described by Pastor Salomon as “historic” and<br />
later he said he felt like he was dreaming because of what God did.<br />
As I ministered, the altar was packed as pastors and leaders lay<br />
weeping in repentance and rededicating themselves to God’s service.<br />
Afterwards, in a powerful form of unity the leaders ministered to<br />
each other, but I encouraged them to pray for those who were from<br />
different denominations or church affiliations. God did an amazing<br />
work of healing in this city, bringing true unity and restoration. It was<br />
an honour to see God at work.<br />
The evening gospel crusades were done within the shadow of the<br />
“Day Of The Dead” festival which had taken place just days before.<br />
As the nation had come together to celebrate and worship death,<br />
we stood on the promise of God’s word that “The people walking<br />
in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the shadow of<br />
death a light has dawned.” (Isaiah 9)<br />
On the first evening around 700 people gathered, with around 100 of<br />
those responding to the gospel. There were many healing’s including<br />
a woman who had had pain in her knees for 5 years being instantly<br />
healed, people throwing away walking canes and demons being cast<br />
out.<br />
The second night was another incredible service with many<br />
salvations, impartations and encounters. One amazing testimony<br />
was that of a blind lady who was instantly healed during the ministry<br />
time. The woman was in total shock. She had been blind for over<br />
2 years because of diabetes. Remarkably the woman was from<br />
California, USA and was only in Mexico on holiday!<br />
On the Saturday we held a conference for youth and teenagers.<br />
Pastor Jonathan Whitehouse shared his testimony of deliverance<br />
from drug addiction and around 30 young people came forward to<br />
receive Christ as Saviour. Then another 200 or so young people came<br />
out wanting the power of God. The fire of God fell on these hungry<br />
youth and the meeting was extended as God’s presence was just<br />
touching lives.<br />
On the Sunday, the team split up, with the ladies from Revive church<br />
ministering in one church and Pastor Jonathan ministering in 3<br />
different churches. I spoke in 2 churches. The church I spoke at in<br />
the morning was led by Pastor David Rice, who translated in many<br />
of the services. His church were holding a “Bring a Friend Sunday”<br />
and many new people responded to the gospel. The altar was so full<br />
at the end of the message, that I couldn’t physically get to everyone<br />
to lay hands on them. We trusted that the presence of God would<br />
minister and it did.<br />
We had an incredible few days in Mexico with God moving in such<br />
power. Already we are planning to return later this year (<strong>2016</strong>) but<br />
this time doing a tour of the region, with a repeat of the format (day<br />
time Pastors meetings,<br />
evening gospel crusades)<br />
in several different cities.<br />
Please continue to join us<br />
in prayer as we contend<br />
for a great harvest of souls<br />
in these days.
USA MINISTRY<br />
America is a nation where God continues to bless us with good friends and open doors.<br />
It has been an honour to visit the States twice in 2015 and see God Do amazing things.<br />
In May Andrew spent two weeks ministering in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan.<br />
It was great to preach for our good friends Cleddie Keith, Roy Ellis, Shane Brunner,<br />
Trent Houchell, Billy Price, Josh Shulz, Ron Neal and Drew Neal. As well as ministering<br />
in churches, Andrew also shared the gospel in a prison and a school. In both places,<br />
souls came to Christ.<br />
In October, Andrew returned to the US but this time Laura and Judah came with him.<br />
We had a special time with our good friends Ron and Teri Neal at Creekside Ministries,<br />
Indiana, as Andrew taught in their School of Ministry and also at their annual Fall<br />
conference. We ministered in several other churches on this trip including Heritage<br />
Fellowship in Florence, led by Pastor Cleddie Keith and Solid Rock church in Ohio, led<br />
by Lawrence Bishop. Wherever we met, the power of God moved and hundreds were<br />
impacted by the Holy Spirit.<br />
AZZATO UK TOUR<br />
In November, Carmine<br />
and Jennifer Azzato<br />
from Creekside,<br />
Indiana visited<br />
the UK for a two<br />
week ministry tour<br />
arranged by<br />
<strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong>.<br />
Former Pro-Wrestler, Carmine, and Jennifer, an incredibly<br />
powerful worship leader, both have a strong evangelistic and<br />
prophetic ministry. During the two weeks we travelled all<br />
over the UK, ministering at Revive Church (East Yorkshire),<br />
Fresh Fire in Manchester, The Threshold church in Hull,<br />
New Beginning’s in Halifax, Radical Church in Norwich,<br />
Rock Church Walsall and Revival Christian Centre in Enfield.<br />
Andrew and Laura Murray ministered in each service. We<br />
had amazing services with so many testimonies of healings,<br />
salvations, breakthroughs and encounters with Jesus. We<br />
look forward to partnering with Azzato ministries again in<br />
the future.<br />
“ ‘Wow!’ is the word that comes to mind when we think<br />
about our two and half week tour through the UK! Firstly,<br />
The Murray’s who lead <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> and who are<br />
DEAR friends of ours, just rocked our socks off with their<br />
love, kindness and generosity. They are powerhouses and<br />
it’s an honour ANY time we get to partner with this family!<br />
Secondly, every city we went to, every person we met, we<br />
will never forget the faces, the churches, the communities.<br />
They impacted us with their hunger for more community,<br />
more presence and more JOY! It was just a blessing to us<br />
to be on the receiving side of the hunger. And with that<br />
hunger was flowing words of knowledge, people having<br />
their first encounters with Jesus, EVER, in the history of<br />
their lives. God was feeding His people and filling them<br />
with gladness. As we continue hearing stories of lives<br />
impacted by that tour we look more and more forward to<br />
returning to the beautiful United Kingdom to be a part of<br />
the MORE that God is pouring out on this great nation!”<br />
~ Carmine & Jennifer Azzato
Andrew reports on our July trip to<br />
ALBANIA<br />
During the summer, Andrew travelled with Sam<br />
Dent and Tanya Parker (from Revive Church Hull)<br />
to Albania for our first mission trip to this<br />
NATION. We connected with Pastor Barry Ogden,<br />
an American missionary who leads a church in<br />
Tirana, the capital city of Albania.<br />
I spoke several times at this church during the trip and<br />
afterwards Barry said “The recent ministry of Andrew<br />
Murray and the <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> team was a divine<br />
appointment, not only for our church, but for the nation<br />
of Albania! In the weeks leading up to the visit, God<br />
promised healing, salvation and deliverance... And He<br />
delivered! Brother Andrew moves in step with the Holy<br />
Spirit under a powerful anointing, and delivers the Word<br />
in a way that connects with the mature believer and<br />
the atheist sceptic alike. I know that lives were changed<br />
and seeds were planted for transformation in this<br />
once-atheistic land. Thank you Andrew and <strong>Generation</strong><br />
<strong>Builders</strong> for your obedience to Christ in coming to<br />
Albania!”<br />
During these meetings we saw many touched by the<br />
Holy Spirit, several salvations, people testifying of<br />
healing, prophetic words released and deliverance. It<br />
was also amazing to see our hotel receptionist, who<br />
had a Muslim background, come to the meeting and<br />
give her life to Jesus.<br />
As well as speaking in Tirana we ministered in serveral<br />
other churches in other parts of the country and also<br />
spoke in a prison where we got the chance to share the<br />
gospel with the inmates.<br />
and we truly had some powerful times together with people<br />
encountering God and testimonies of healing and salvation.<br />
AS OF JANUARY 2015, ANDREW AND LAURA HAVE MADE REVIVE<br />
CHURCH THEIR HOME CHURCH. REVIVE IS A MULTI-SITE CHURCH IN EAST<br />
YORKSHIRE LED BY JARROD COOPER. JARROD HAS BEEN A GOOD FRIEND<br />
AND SUPPORTER TO THIS MINISTRY FOR MANY YEARS.<br />
Once a month Andrew preaches in one of the churches<br />
various campus’, currently Hull, Goole and Driffield. Andrew is<br />
also a regular speaker at the mid-week Bible school.<br />
Throughout 2015, <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> ran bi-monthly<br />
revival services on a Saturday night in Revive’s Bridlington<br />
Avenue building. The heart behind these meetings was to<br />
see Christian’s from around the region, hungry for God’s<br />
presence, gather together to encounter Him. It was awesome<br />
to see believers from around Yorkshire and even further afield<br />
(some even travelling from London) attend these meetings<br />
In September, <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> ran it’s first conference<br />
“Glory In The Land” with Andrew and Jarrod both speaking.<br />
What an amazing time we had!<br />
This January (<strong>2016</strong>), <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong> is partnering with<br />
Revive Church to run a full time ministry school for young<br />
people aged 18-35. This will be an incredible course where<br />
students will be taught and discipled by Andrew, Jarrod and<br />
the Revive team as well as being busy serving in the local<br />
church and going on mission with <strong>Generation</strong> <strong>Builders</strong>.
MIRACLES, BOOKS &<br />
MAKING HISTORY<br />
BY ANDREW MURRAY<br />
“Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written<br />
down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room<br />
for the books that would be written.”<br />
(John 21v25 )<br />
One of my favourite verses in the Bible is John<br />
21v25 which says “Jesus did many other things as<br />
well. If every one of them were written down, I<br />
suppose that even the whole world would not have<br />
room for the books that would be written.”<br />
healing the sick, setting the captives free and loving the broken.<br />
As we minister the gospel in word and deed, each page of our<br />
book is filled with the mighty expolits we have done for Christ!<br />
As each member of the body of Christ becomes a history maker,<br />
then truely the whole world will be filled with the books of what<br />
Christ has done through His body.<br />
What an awesome scripture! Many miracles are recorded<br />
in the gospels, from the blind having their sight restored, to<br />
the lame walking, the lepers being cleansed and even the<br />
dead being raised! Then there are the accounts of other<br />
miracles such as walking on water, the feeding of the 5000<br />
and the calming of the storm. Then what about the times<br />
when Jesus ministered to whole crowds of people healing<br />
them all? And what about the lives of men like Zaccheus<br />
and the woman at the well who were never the same after<br />
an encounter with the Master? It<br />
would be true to say that Jesus’<br />
whole ministry was a continuous<br />
account of miracle after miracle,<br />
everything He said and did was<br />
miraculous!<br />
But still, what an incredible<br />
statement – that if everyone of<br />
Jesus’ miracles had been written<br />
down, the whole world would not be able to contain the<br />
books that would be written! As I was pondering this<br />
thought, the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said “you are one<br />
of those books!” Suddenly an awesome revelation dropped<br />
into my spirit. It says “Jesus DID many other things as well”.<br />
I believe we could just as easily say “Jesus is DOING many<br />
other things as well”. The book of Acts begins with Luke<br />
saying that he wrote about all that “Jesus BEGAN to do and<br />
teach”. The miracle ministry of Jesus has not ended but has<br />
continued for over 2000 years. Today Christ works through<br />
each and every Christian, as they do the works He did and<br />
even greater things.<br />
Everyone of our lives is a book. The apostle Paul said “you<br />
show that you are a letter from Christ” (2 Corinthians 3v3).<br />
Just as the 10 commandments were written by the finger<br />
of God, God wants to write on each page of our lives by<br />
His Spirit. “All the days ordained for me were written in<br />
your book” (Pslm 139). Each day we have an opportunity<br />
to continue the ministry of Jesus by preaching the gospel,<br />
I wonder when our<br />
book is opened how<br />
many pages will be<br />
blank?<br />
There are history books yet to be written, miracles still to be<br />
performed, revivals still to take place. On our own the book<br />
of our life may seem small and insignifacant, but we are part<br />
of God’s library, a library that the whole world can’t contain.<br />
From Wigglesworth to Finney, to some un-known prayer<br />
warrior somewhere, we are part of the ministry of Jesus that is<br />
continuing to be written.<br />
The Bible says that one day we will stand before Christ and the<br />
books will be opened. I wonder when our<br />
book is opened how many pages will be<br />
blank as we wasted days and opportunities<br />
to serve Jesus? I don’t know about you but<br />
I want my book to be filled! I want every<br />
page to tell of souls saved, bodies healed,<br />
prayers prayed and battles won! I don’t<br />
want one page to be empty!<br />
The book of Acts has not ended. Neither<br />
has the ministry of Jesus. Each one of us is a book and God<br />
wants to write on each page of our lives and tell of the history<br />
we have made. As the church continues to make history, the<br />
whole world will be filled with the books written about what<br />
Christ did: for three and half years in the flesh, and for 2000 plus<br />
years through His Spirit, working in men and women like me and<br />
you!<br />
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Water into wine<br />
Jesus’ first miracle was the turning of water into wine. The<br />
Bible tells us that it was through this miracle that He revealed<br />
His glory. Today Jesus still wants to reveal His glory, through our<br />
lives and churches. How? We look at this miracle and see how<br />
through a simple act of outpouring, Jesus releases His glory in<br />
and through us.
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