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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 />

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THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS<br />

HelpING to bring in the Harvest<br />

<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 />

how do i give?<br />

Would you please prayerfully consider parterning with us on a monthly basis<br />

or giving a one-off donation? If you feel led to support this ministry then<br />

please visit:<br />

Visit www.generationbuilders.org/missions/give<br />

There you can give one off donations both in the UK and the rest of Europe<br />

and also from the United States of America. You can also set up a direct debit<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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