David Hathaway

To know Christ and the Power of His Resurrection (Part 2)

I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection! This is the joy of my life. It’s knowing Jesus, not just knowing about Him, but knowing Jesus personally, as the Son of God. And the verse goes on to say, to know the power of the resurrection. We believe, not just in an afterlife, but the resurrection of the dead, simply because Jesus Himself rose from the dead. He is described in the Bible as the first fruits. In other words, God demonstrated that there is life after death by raising Jesus. Jesus Christ, Son of God, was crucified on a cross, but on the third day, He arose! For that reason on my wife’s grave I had inscribed, ‘In my flesh I shall see God’. We will see God in the flesh. I will see my loved ones again, but when I do, we will be together in the Kingdom! As the Scripture promises, ‘We who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.’ 1 Thessalonians 4. 
The Apostle Paul wrote, in Philippians 3, ‘that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith.’ The righteousness that we have, is only through Christ. When I look back over my life, it is not what I have done, but who Christ is that makes me righteous. Christ is in me, He is everything. I give my life for Christ. My righteousness is in Him. Nothing I’ve done or achieved is worth anything, I forsake it all, for the privilege of knowing, and being found in Christ. 

To know Christ and the Power of His Resurrection (Part 1)

The Lord is our Rock, our Stability; He is our healer, and our provider. "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord!" This is what the Apostle Paul writes in Philippians 3:1. Jesus is the only One, the only Person in whom, and in which, we can rejoice. Paul adds, "To write the same things to you, rejoice, is not grievous for me, but safe for you." 
“I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him!” This life is nothing; length of life is nothing (I’m 90!) – because I will live forever with Christ! Our sole focus should be on hearing the Lord say, "Well done, My good and faithful servant." - The whole of my life has been focused on fulfilling the plans and purposes of God.

Prayer is a conversation with God (Bonus)

Prayer is a conversation with God. I'm fascinated by reading the conversation between God and Moses in Exodus 3. There was a dialogue between the two of them. So often we assume that to hear from God we need a prophet or some ‘Holy’ person, but this was not the pattern revealed here in the Scripture. Exodus 33 reveals the wonderful nature of the relationship between them, ‘the Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend.’ – That is what I desire in my own life, that God would speak to me as His friend; and that is the relationship I want you to have with the Lord – friendship. 

God wants to reveal His Power in your life (Part 3)

Jesus came to solve problems. He came to set people free. And he looked at the blind man, in John 9, spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” Jesus told him, “Wash in the Pool.” So, the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
In the midst of your trouble. Even in your sin. In your pain, and your suffering. Jesus is the only one in the whole world who take that problem and use it to bring the solution. This man could’ve laughed at Jesus. How is someone supposed to see with mud on their eyes? Yet the man did as Jesus said. His testimony became, 'once I was blind, but now I can see.'
Isn’t that the testimony of all of us? Jesus has redeemed our lives. We may not have been physically blind, but we were spiritually blind, and God restored our sight.

God wants to reveal His Power in your life (Part 2)

God wants to use you to reveal His Power on earth. We are in a battle against the devil. Fighting against sin and sickness. And we win by the Power of Jesus Name! We need a restoration of the miraculous into the church, because without the miraculous, the church loses the very evidence of the Power of God. Jesus didn’t just come to tell us to live a good life, but to challenge us to do the works of God. Jesus said in John 9:4, 'As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming when no one can work.' We are all limited by time. Even Jesus was conscious of this. He knew His ministry was restricted to three years - He knew His night was coming. This is why the psalmist prayed, teach us to number our days.

God wants to reveal His Power in your life (Part 1)

God wants to reveal His Power in your life. In John 9, Jesus heals a blind man. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" When we face problems, we all asked the question, 'Why?' Why did this accident happen? Why do I have problems in my life? Why am I sick? It is so easy to ask the question 'why did it happen to me.' Jesus was very straight with the disciples, '"Neither this man nor his parents sinned," said Jesus, "but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him."' Jesus is not so concerned with the causes of the problem, as He is with providing the solution. His response is very simple. He says, I bring light, and healing to the world. And that is the message of Jesus Christ to you today.

Display Your Power, O God! (Bonus)

'Display Your Power, O God, as You have in the past!' Throughout the Old Testament we read such incredible miracles, yet why are they not happening today? I want to see something of the magnitude of the miracles we read about in the Old Testament displayed today. And I am going to seek God until I see incredible, unbelievable miracles happening today, as a demonstration that God is alive in Power. And I believe God can do more today than He’s ever done in the past.

A conversation with God (Part 3)

God still works miracles today. He reveals Himself through the wonders He performs. In my own life, God has used miracles to confirm His will. In 1964, I was dramatically healed of throat cancer, but this was to confirm God’s instruction to leave the pastorate and evangelise communist Europe. Then aged 70, God healed me of lung cancer, again in confirmation of the calling on my life. When we read Exodus 3&4, God used miracles to demonstrate His Will to Moses, and His intention to free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt. Psalm 103 says, ‘He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel.’ I believe, God still today, demonstrates who He is by miracles, signs and wonders.

The Lord will not fail you! (Bonus)

The promise of God to us today is, even in the most difficult times and circumstances, the oil of the Holy Spirit, His anointing and power, will not fail us, until the time the Lord provides the final answer. Even in times of famine and crisis, the Lord will not fail you, He will provide.

A conversation with God (Part 2)

Moses is having a conversation with God. Troubled by God's instruction to go to Egypt, Moses asks, ‘What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?’ God then performs three signs to confirm His word. Sometimes God has to use these physical, demonstrative signs to convince us and to show others that He is God. 
Often, I find that people read the Old Testament and don’t realise its relevance to our lives today. Yes, we are New Testament believers – we are saved by grace through faith – but the God of the New Testament is also the God of the Old Testament. He is our God. In my ministry I have seen some incredible signs and wonders. In the 1990s God told me to evangelise Siberia. – Remember this was the period immediately after the collapse of Communism. I asked Him, “How can I do it? No one will listen, they will not believe me and in any case, how can I win the whole of Russia?” His answer was to show me Moses from Exodus 4:1 where Moses asks the same questions and God answers that it would be by the signs and miracles. And He did! We saw some incredible miracles during those years. 

A conversation with God (Part 1)

Prayer is a conversation with God. Talk to Him, ask God for what you need. And listen for His response. When I pray, I get the answer in the pages of the Bible. After all, it is God's Word to you and me. And sometimes, I sense a knowing in my spirit. In our daily lives we need to talk to each other. If there is no communication, there is no meaningful relationship. It is the same in our relationship with God. Religion has 'hijacked' prayer and turned it into a formula. People light candles, repeat set prayers, even read what someone else has said. That's not prayer. Prayer is simple; it's not just communion, but conversation with God.  

The Friend of God (Bonus)

Abraham was called the friend of God! Oh, that this might be said about us! “You see,” James says in 2v24, “by works a man’s faith is demonstrated, and not by faith alone.” Faith HAS to be followed by fact. “For,” v26 “as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is DEAD also.” The ‘works’ are the very spirit that give LIFE to the body of ‘faith’.

I will build My Church and the Gates of Hell will not prevail (August Newsletter)

Thank you for your support both in prayer and giving during this challenging time. I praise God for you, without whom our evangelism would not be possible! We are living through a very difficult period, and I am deeply conscious of the many problems facing us all. My heart and my prayers are with you. Let us keep on praying in Faith that God will answer – prayer changes things – and changes us. Paul reminds us to pray without ceasing. To me prayer is part of my daily conversation with the Lord.

Amazing Miracles in the Old Testament (Part 4)

Throughout the Old Testament we read such incredible miracles. In this series of episodes, David has been preaching on Elijah from 1 Kings 17-18. But Elijah didn't work these miracles. It wasn't Elijah who fed the widow woman or raised her son from the dead. And it certainly wasn't Elijah who caused fire to fall from heaven. God did these miracles. It's God's Hand, His power. Just as the Scripture teaches, 'Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you.' Whether in the Old or New Testaments, the miracles are done by God as evidence of His greatness and majesty. 

Amazing Miracles in the Old Testament (Part 3)

Do you want to see revival? All God needs is one man or woman who can pray like Elijah. We need to be more like Elijah. We have a prayer-answering God, but do we really believe Him? Do we believe the power of God? Well, if we do, then we must act. Faith is where your feet go, faith is what you do. But you can only be like that if you know God. Elijah called down fire from Heaven, and it consumed the sacrifice. If you today, are not Elijah, at least be the sacrifice on God’s altar!
In 1 Kings 18:36-37, Elijah asks God to 'let it be known, that Thou art God in Israel, that I have done all these things at Thy word, and that Thou hast turned their hearts back.' This marks Elijah as an intercessor, who had remarkable power with God, so much so, that literal fire fell from heaven, and consumed the sacrifice. Not only this, but by his dynamic faith and personal relationship with God, he brought about the conversion of a WHOLE nation in a day! If we can experience this relationship and power with God, then we also can turn the hearts of our nation and call down Holy Ghost Fire from God: this is the ability to work great miracles to confirm who our God is.

Jesus gives rest for your soul (Bonus)

Jesus says to you today, "Come to Me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Let Me teach you, and you will find rest for your souls." So many people have 'secret' problems, burdens you cannot share. They are too deep, too hurtful, you cannot open up. Talk to Jesus, He's listening. Whatever disturbs you, whatever the frustration, keep talking to Jesus. He will comfort and restore your soul. Jesus is your Good Shepherd, He knows and cares for you. God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” So we say with confidence, “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid."