Bringing the Lord to a Lord

I attended a book launch last night at the Hilton hotel in Euston. I don't live the 'high life' in a worldly sense - this was a first for me - so I was very interested to see how things would go.

I was there by association rather than merit, as my wife works for the author's son. The book itself seems interesting, and I was happy to receive a signed copy prior to the event. It is called The Economics of Killing by Vijay Mehta, and it links globalization with the pursuit of military conflict, indicting the West as an entity fuelled by neo-colonialist ambition. But, I am not a literary critic, so I was purely there by invitation and to observe all the goings on to fuel my reserves of information as a minister.

I was interested to see Lord Frank Judd present, taking time out of his busy schedule to stamp his approval. I was waiting in the lobby as he entered, and was completely oblivious to the hunched-over old man that trundled in with suitcase in tow. He had to leave early to catch a train back to his home in the North, and I thought I might take the opportunity to share Christ with him. I gave him some time to reach the exit and then sprang out of my seat, hot in pursuit of an interesting witness.

I caught him on the stairs and offered help to carry his suitcase down, asking if I could walk with him. As we walked he turned to me and said "...and who are you?" I mentioned my tenuous connection, and then asked him if when he passed away he thought Heaven would be his home. He seemed shocked by the proposition and asked me to repeat myself; I repeated again, did he think he would make Heaven? He told me that he was hard of hearing, and asked me to write to him at the House of Lords with whatever I was proposing. I asked him if the letter would reach him and he assured me it would. He said that I had better get back to the event as that is what I had come for, and since he was rushing for a train I thought it best not to harass him any further but to take him up on his offer.

Amazing how he had heard everything I had said - up until I challenged him on eternity. It was as if he simply couldn't hear what I was saying. I have witnessed that when deaf ears are prayed for. Everything can be heard except 'the blood of Jesus' - it is as if there is some spiritual force shutting the person off to the words that have the power to deliver them - and by the Bible's description of spirits of infirmity, we know that to be true.

I will be writing that letter to Lord Judd today, praying over it and sending it post-haste. It will be as clear as day and no train to catch or selective hearing will stop him from enjoying the full blessing of the Good News.

Powerful Healing Testimony (Holy Ghost Appointments Part 2)

As I mentioned in a previous post, on Monday I was led of God to an elderly man suffering from prostate problems.


I called this dear gentleman up yesterday on the number he gave me, and he testified to me that for the first time in two years he was able to be out the whole day without needing the toilet constantly! He said he did not know if it was God or something physical, but I said "Mr Rahman, that was a miracle!" He invited me around for breakfast the next morning.

This morning I had breakfast with Mr Rahman, and got to hear his life story and answer his questions regarding religion and Christ. He questioned how Christianity continues on from Judaism and I explained the prophecies concerning the Messiah and the promise that in Abraham all the nations of the world would be blessed. When he said he didn't know which really was God, out of the world religions, I mentioned the fact that in Mark 16 it says that the Lord worked with the Apostles, confirming the word with signs following and that his healing was confirmation of the reality of Christ.

I had to leave, but I promised Mr Rahman I would return and left my contact details if he wanted to ask any more questions or know how to receive salvation in Jesus. I felt that seeds were sown which will be reaped later and I will be praying for him earnestly until my next visit by the grace of God.

What a joy to be walking in the footsteps of great men of God such as Smith Wigglesworth and laying a hold of the power we have to see the sick healed and a witness for Christ established!

Putin in Power Points to Prophecy

The world is well aware that a tearful Vladimir Putin recently announced that he had won the Russian presidential election 'to the glory of Russia', but what the world is not aware of is what this means to biblical prophecy and the timeline of last days events.

Ezekiel chapter 38-39 gives us a picture of an attack against Israel that has never happened. This was given to the prophet as a vision of a last days war that would lead to God pouring out His delivering power, and it is thus conjectured that this could lead to a last days revival as the miracle of God's deliverance is plainly manifest to the nations.

A chief player in this scenario is referred to as Gog of Magog. Magog has historically been identified as referring to Russia, and the fact that Gog is named as the chief prince of Meshech (Moscow) and Tubal (Tobolsk) lends weight to this. The Gog is a tsar-like figure that leads a confederate of nations, including Iran, Turkey and the North African nations against Israel. Vladimir Putin has emerged as such a figure, with accusations of vote rigging adding to his dictator-in-the-making credentials.

He has stated in interviews that the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century and his intent to form a confederation he calls the EU - the Eastern Union. This is little more than a rehashed plan to resurrect the USSR under the auspices of modern pan-European politics. With a six year reign ahead of him, it is a high possibility that the events leading to the fulfilment of Ezekiel 38/39 are about to kick off, and you can bet a newly 'liberated' Libya, a diplomatically-severed Turkey and a nuclear Iran are not going to be far from the action.

If you aren't right with God now is really the time to be as you begin to witness a world-wide crisis that the West will do little more than stand back and throw verbal condemnation at.

A Day of Holy Ghost Appointments

Tomorrow is my birthday, but I felt like it was today. God just gifted me a wonderful day with not just one, but two Holy Ghost appointments.

First I was at a train station several miles from where I live and fellowship, when I saw a lady struggling to carry a buggy down the stairs with a small child. I asked if she needed help, and she gladly received it. As I was carrying it down the stairs for her I noticed her speaking Swahili on the phone. It is not a usual language to hear in London, so I asked where she was from in Swahili and she replied Tanzania. That is when a sense of recognition hit both of us - she asked if I went to church in Walthamstow and I said yes.

It turned out this was a lady I knew that visits the UK rarely, who is the sister of a lady who used to attend our church. I met her once, but she returned to Tanzania shortly before her sister also returned to live there. We both knew this was much more than a coincidence, since God has called me to preach the gospel over in that beautiful land. She asked me when me and my wife would be coming, and by the grace of God that will be within the next few years.

The second event happened just after I had left a coffee shop where I was reading Apostle of Faith (Smith Wigglesworth's biography). Stirred by one of the best reads outside of the Word of God, I said "Lord, give me a sick person". Now that is a fair enough prayer, but I was in the middle of the richest place in the country at the time, Hampstead. Woe unto the rich because nothing kills faith like being able to depend on your own resources. Yet immediately to my left was an elderly Asian man unsteady on his feet. I asked him if there was any pain in his body, but he said he had none and even had all his own teeth! For 82 he did look quite well, but then he said that he was suffering from problems with his prostate.

Cancer was a possibility and as tears began to roll he said that he just wanted to be like a normal person. I asked if he believed in Jesus and he said he did, so as he put his hand out I took it and started to pray for that dear old gentleman. Mr Rahman gave me his number and I promised to give him a call to see how he was doing. I went off down the road lifting my hands in praise to the Lord that had given my such grace this day.

As an addition, I walked up onto the Heath to find a place to pray and eat my lunch. After praying I saw out the corner of the eye some little dogs walking towards me. Now me and my wife find little dogs very amusing with their personality, expressions and looks, so when one of the little fellows got his lead caught around the bench I was sitting on and ended up at my feet looking up at me, with almost a smile on his face, I had to laugh.

I felt the victory that he seemed to have as I patted him on the head! What a fantastic day in the Lord!

Collecting Rocks and other Incredibly Brilliant Abilities of Consciousness

Sorry, I have to mock a bit on this one. I was reminded recently of a story that every evolutionist under the sun jumped on with glee when it first came to the media's attention.

Santino is a fairly ordinary chimp. He likes to swing around and gibber, and he smells like a sweaty hog in a mire, but he also has a brilliant ability that puts him on par with, well, chimps. Santino, who is a 31 year old banana lover housed at Furuvik zoo in Sweden, likes to collect rocks so that when those gawking tourists come to bang on the glass and laugh at him he can throw them in self-defence against the appalling affronts of those pesky humans.

Rock throwing is a typical behaviour of apes, but the geniuses at the journal Current Biology noticed that Santino collects the rocks before the visitors arrive. They lauded this example of Einstein-level monkey brilliance with these words: "These observations convincingly show that our fellow apes do consider the future in a complex way...It implies that they have a highly developed consciousness, including the lifelike mental simulations of potential events."

The other day I saw an equally brilliant human relative bury food, using his highly developed consciousness to simulate the potential event of him being hungry again. He chose a tree to climb with his own sentient will, and then used incredible skill to dig a hole and bury his carefully chosen selection of food item. My wallet was glad that I didn't have to travel to Africa to witness this, but down the local park, Mr. Nuts the squirrel was providing the type of quality scientific observation that professional scientists need thousands in grant money to achieve.

Another brilliant near-relative of humans, and undoubtedly one that branched off very recently from our evolutionary lineage due to its incredible skill, manages to do this: "The _____ of Africa build apartment-house nests, in which 100 to 300 pairs have separate flask-shaped chambers entered by tubes at the bottom." Imagine travelling to darkest East Africa and witnessing this human ancestor, in the 'cradle of humanity', utilising its incredible fore-planning abilities and highly developed consciousness to select just the right materials to construct elaborate nests by the hundreds, differing very little from each other - I mean a chimp can just about pile grass and sticks on the ground to sleep!

Oh, sorry, my field workers tell me that it was actually the work of weaver birds and not a bipedal ape on his way to conducting the London Philharmonic. You just have to see the Darwinist paradigm that blinds such researchers as Current Biology to the wonders of creation. God gave the weaver bird an ability to skilfully weave that no ape will ever attain to, and it doesn't need consciousness to do it - God put the intelligence and ability in there. An ape can collect rocks and wait for its human targets to turn up, God also injected that intelligence into its being, but a chimp is no more 'conscious' than any other animal that conducts relatively complex activities. Also no ape can make vocalisations anything like human speech, but parrots can.

There are too many questions to ask and points to make for one article, but suffice to say that evolution theory is a hindrance to science and objective observation. If its a chimp doing something a bit above the average level then its a sign of them being like us, but if a bird or a squirrel does something displaying intelligence no one cares. Just fits too much into believing in a a transcendent, intelligent creator who gave order and design to the universe and all of his creatures.

Think About It

Those who argue for naturalistic origins and development of the universe we live in need to have a think.

If chance in its many expressions started and guided the formation of all that we see today - from binary star systems to obligate symbionts - then the universe would indeed contain no true thought or reason. We could subjectively assign appearances of thought or reason, but would have to concede that things can simply make themselves and guide their own development by surfing the algorithms of blind chance.

Did you get that? We use our thoughts and reasoning to say that no thought or reason went into the universe! People come up with intellectually neotanised theories like Darwinism through their ability to think and reason - albeit through a convoluted mess of contradiction and logical fallacies. The very autonomous abilities of our mind show that indeed thought and reason exists in the universe, and to get that you need a transcendent expresser; someone had to inject our consciousness into creation.

I don't know how much longer Darwinites and Dawkinsites can go on telling us why they think everything evolved, while neglecting to tell us the nuts and bolts of how it evolved. To do that you have to by-pass logic and the empiricism of mathematics and delve into the realms of mathematical impossibility and logical fallacies. As David Berlinski put it, there is a definite slide down the scale of intelligibility from mathematics, to mathematical physics, to evolutionary biology. If only people would think about why they can think...

Further reading: www.drdino.com, www.creationtoday.org, www.icr.org, www.answersingenesis.org.

Testimony from Kibera

Of the many breathtaking miracles of healing we witnessed in Kibera, one stands out in particular.

As I ministered on the final night of the crusade in the heart of Africa's largest slum we called for the sick to come forward. Seeing around 60 people respond to the call for salvation was enough, but then to have about 20 people also come up on stage to be prayed for was amazing. There was such a simple faith in God's power to heal and a reverence for a man of God that sees the bondages of sickness broken by the stripes of our smitten Lord.

A young lady of perhaps early twenties came up on stage who had partial hearing and oozing from her left ear for 13 years. That's a long time to be sick, but as the man at the pool of Bethesda and the man at the gate Beautiful, she was about to have her appointment with the great Physician. We laid on hands and prayed and that wonderful smile that comes over the face of someone touched of God appeared as she testified that her ear had opened!

I was sad to have to jump off the platform and go back to the baptist mission to collect our luggage and head to the airport. I could have had that every night easily; even as a spectator. By the grace of God me and my faithful wife will be heading to East Africa one day to see such miracles and salvation on a regular basis!