The River of Life

Revival in the North-East of England

Andrew Chapman — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:32:05 +0000

Hallelujah. Dawn is breaking over the North-East of England as revivalists converge on the city of Newcastle in its darkest hour. A crescendo of angelic voices cry ‘Holy, holy, holy to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords’ as we await the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ the Son of God into His church to assume His rightful place as Master of the house and Ruler of His people.

In the natural what is happening is that Ken Gott, who is God’s apostolic leader for the North-East of England, arrived back yesterday from the revival meetings in Lakeland, Florida, where the Spirit of the Lord is being poured out in a wonderful way and there is a visitation of the Lord in signs and wonders and miracles and raising of the dead. Fervent prayer is needed for Todd Bentley who is a mighty man of God if rather immature in his sometimes embarrassing vanity with respect to his ministry and possibly vulnerable to deception by dark angels masquerading as angels of light. With depressing predictability the self-appointed watchdogs of the internet have launched into the attack like dogs on a wounded prey and will slow the move by hemming him in with accusations and vilification that only the holiest saint would be able to endure without flinching in the battle.

Meanwhile the leader of the Argentinian revival in the 1990s, Claudio Freidzon, assumes his mantle as fire carrier, arriving in Newcastle upon Tyne today to minister in the church which Ken Gott leads, and we may be sure that the Lord will use him in power to release the apostolic anointing that is needed to break through the religious spirit that dominates and controls the pentecostal and other Spirit-filled churches in the area. Oh that the Lord would raise up men of grace and power and much Christian love, men like John Wesley who preached on the Newcastle quayside and Smith Wigglesworth and others who breathed the Spirit of freedom and holiness in the birth of the English pentecostal movement in Sunderland. Pray for us that we will lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus laid hold of us.

Turmoil in Pakistan

Andrew Chapman — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 23:58:28 +0000

I appeal to all Christians to pray for Pakistan in this hour of grief and turmoil and great danger. The possession of nuclear weapons makes it a target for a takeover by Islamic fundamentalists who seek to destroy Israel and the danger is real and imminent if there is no truce between the warring parties and no cessation of hostilities between sects and clans. Buttho represented a message of goodwill and peace and her loss brings a bleakness and hopelessness which will result in violence if God does not pour out His grace and mercy upon the nation. Pray for the message of the gospel to be proclaimed in power and with authority in Jesus Name. Amen.

The River of Life

Andrew Chapman — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 23:50:29 +0000

The 46th psalm speaks to our condition in the 21st century. We are very dry in the church and need revival like never before, but there is little prayer and little faith left for God to move again in power in our land.

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Almost persuaded

Andrew Chapman — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:45:53 +0000

The apostle Paul tells King Agrippa (Acts 26) of his conversion and of his ministry to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the king declares himself ‘almost persuaded’ to become a Christian. However sound our arguments and powerful our testimony it is only God who can save. This is a matter of God’s election for sure but also of our choice and of the prayers of the saints, who are commanded to pray for all men - for God desires all men to be saved.

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God is love

Andrew Chapman — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:33:19 +0000

The Pope said that ‘the final word’ on the biblical concept of God is that the logos is God. But he failed to remind his hearers that the logos became flesh and dwelt among us. God is love and He manifested His love among us by sending Jesus Christ into the world, to lay down His life that we might live.

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The glory of the gospel

Andrew Chapman — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:23:22 +0000

God is not abstract nor a concept created by our minds. God is love, He emptied Himself and took the form of a servant, He revealed Himself as a man the LORD Jesus Christ. We love Him and give Him honour and glory because He first loved us. The Greeks knew nothing of this until Paul answered the call of the man from Macedonia who pleaded ‘help us’.

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Faith and reason

Andrew Chapman — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:49:44 +0000

In his address to the University of Regensburg, the Pope defended the reasonableness of the Christian faith and said that to act unreasonably is contrary to God’s nature. His core text was John 1 v 1

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Why apologise?

Andrew Chapman — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:17:07 +0000

In his speech of 12 September at the University of Regensburg, the Pope drew attention to the iniquity of spreading faith in God through violence. This is what he said:

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Holy is the Lord

Andrew Chapman — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 00:45:49 +0000

This weblog is dedicated to the honour and glory of God and the Lord Jesus Christ. He is able to make it more than I can achieve by my efforts, and my prayer is that by His Spirit He will bring forth prayer and supplication and repentance and worship and divine utterance and healing and prophecy and exhortation and fellowship in His Spirit. The gospel of Jesus Christ must be preached to the ends of the earth and then the end will come. (more…)