We are excited to be hearing news of spiritual revival breaking out in the USA. So far there have been reports from FL, GA, and NC. God is on the move!

As usual, when God decides to do something He seems to enjoy picking unlikely people and situations to work through. It is almost as if He says, "You want the move of the Spirit? Okay. But if you REALLY want that you will have to take it from those I chose to use."

More than once I have turned up my nose at God's choices only to humble myself so that I can receive what is being offered. But then, who really wants to be so proud you miss what God is doing?

We are hearing of healings and miracles and that is wonderful. But to me, two of the greatest testimonies are that there is an outpouring of hope and an anointing which is instantly changing people so dramatically that they do not even seem like the same people.

There has been such a condition of hopelessness on the people of God in these last few years. We have been worn down with the battle and our faith has been so attacked on so many levels. It is wonderful to hear people saying that they went to some of these meetings and came away totally refreshed and with new hope that God really is going to do exactly what He says in His Word.

And as a pastor, there is no better news than to hear that people who seem to have been virtually untouched by teaching and the Word of God for years, suddenly have become doers and not hearers only. What could be more wonderful than suddenly being able to deal with problems that have gone on for years, even when we try and try to deal with them in ourselves?

Yet as exciting as these reports are, I find myself crying out to God for such a revival to come to my own heart, my own community, my own church! It isn't enough to just hear about others experiencing these things. We need revival ourselves! And when I consider the other nations we travel to for missionary work, I can tell you there isn't a nation in the world that does not need to experience the kinds of manifestations that are being testified to.

And so we will continue to cry out to God for His wonderful presence and power and ability to change the unchangeable. Surely God will hear our cry and come down! Rev Mary