David Hathaway

Ministry of Fire and Power! Part 2

One of the devil’s strongest, most powerful weapons against us is, not stopping us, but distracting us – until we divert our energy and attention to something that God never intended. It can occur in our families, in business, in so many spheres... I had to become aware of this danger, very much so in the early years of my ministry. Proverbs 4 urges, 'Look straight ahead, and fix your eyes on what lies before you. Mark out a straight path for your feet; stay on the safe path. Don’t get sidetracked; keep your feet from following evil.'

Ministry of Fire and Power! Part 1

We are living in perilous times and we need the Power of the Holy Spirit to infill us and empower us.  Jesus said to his disciples, "YOU will receive Power!" This is the message to us all today, YOU WILL receive POWER after the Holy Spirit has come upon you! BUT there must be EVIDENCE. Amongst Pentecostals, it is generally agreed that scripturally, the initial evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is speaking with tongues – but I also believe that integral to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is the working of miracles. 

Get a vision and fulfil it! Part 4

We need a clear vision of ourselves, of our own powerlessness... But a vision of Christ and His Glory and His Power which enables us! And a clear vision of the world where we have to go! Vision is when God gives you a clear vision of what He and you can do together – and you have to go out and do it! Somebody has to get out there and fulfil the vision, fulfil the prophecy. This is the challenge of Proverbs 29:18, where there is no vision, the people will die! If we don’t have a vision, that threefold vision, the people out there will die! 

Get a vision and fulfil it! Part 3

We need a vision of Jesus! A vision of His Power, His Glory – of who He really is. If only we could glimpse His unlimited Power, His tremendous Glory, we would fall on our knees in wonder and awe before Him. But we also need a vision of our own selves: the Apostle Paul taught that before taking communion we should ‘examine ourselves’. When you examine yourself and see what you are capable of through Christ, and have a vision of what we can do, not alone, but with God – you’ll declare with the Apostle Paul, ‘I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!’

Get a vision and fulfil it! Part 2

There is a connection between a vision and prophecy, but there is also a crucial difference. Vision is something you receive, but not every vision is necessarily from God – people can have some very strange visions... In a God-given vision, you see something, almost like a picture. Whereas prophecy is an anointing, a gift from the Holy Spirit, foretelling what will happen in the future, SPEAKING out what God is revealing…

Get a vision and fulfil it! Part 1

‘Where there is no vision the people perish’ (Proverbs 29.18). We talk a lot about revival – but I want to show you from Proverbs 29:18 that, without a clear vision, we won’t see revival. Revival begins from God as a manifestation of the Holy Spirit – but it usually comes because of someone’s vision in prayer. 

Revive us again, Part 3

We need to see the reviving of the Power and the manifestation of God in the Church! And we need to see the same evidences that were present in the early Church: the speaking in tongues and the miracles of healing that followed the apostles after they had received the Holy Spirit. 

Revive us again, Part 2

Some Christian groups are reluctant to recognise Pentecost and its importance to us today. The significant sign of the arrival of the Holy Spirit was and is speaking in tongues – and a very strong move of evangelism. 

Revive us again, Part 1

What we need to see at this present time is a revival or spiritual awakening in the Church. I’ve been searching my Bible for the word ‘revival’ – in the King James Version it appears only seven times, and is the English translation of at least three different words in the original Scripture, depending on the context. Our English word ‘revival’ comes from the French, meaning to live again, to bring back to life, to revive something! You can revive things that look to be dead. You can revive plants, you can revive people that have collapsed. You can revive things that appear dead, but not yet totally dead…

Have Faith in God, Part 4

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”! ‘Effectual fervent’ means this is very powerful prayer. The Greek word used for powerful is ‘dunamis’. We use this word in English for a dynamo (to generate electricity, to generate power, to run your home, your car); and for dynamite (a very unusual explosive which doesn’t waste its energy on the open air, but pushes the wall down, breaks open the rock face). So when we’re talking about prayer, your prayer must not be wasted on the air, but like dynamite, it must be dynamic enough to move the mountain out of the way! 

Have faith in God, Part 3

Faith, like everything else in our Christian experience, must mature and it must grow - and it comes from building a strong relationship with Jesus. Receiving miracles is not dependent alone on ‘faith’, but also on our relationship with Jesus! So when the disciples ask, “Why couldn’t we do it?” – the answer is, “Because of your unbelief. Truly I say to you, if you have got faith as small as a mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, remove from here to there, and it shall remove.” And the last bit is so often neglected, where Jesus says, “NOTHING – this is some Power – NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE TO YOU!” I’m challenging you in your faith, come to the realisation that Jesus ACTUALLY SAID, that IF we fulfil the conditions, IF we act in faith, IF we believe, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE for us. It’s not just moving mountains, not just healing the sick – this applies in EVERY ASPECT OF YOUR LIFE! 

Have Faith in God, Part 2

Jesus says, if you will SPEAK to the mountain and COMMAND it to move, that mountain WILL MOVE! But it will ONLY do so if you DON’T DOUBT! Too many people think they are speaking in faith – but they are NOT! It has to be an absolute certainty. On many occasions when I have seen phenomenal, absolutely incredible miracles, it has been when there was not a shred of doubt – the Holy Spirit was so STRONG in me that I KNEW that what I said would happen! So there is this condition that you must have NO doubt, but you have to BELIEVE that the things that you say will happen.

Have faith in God, Part 1

“Have faith IN GOD!” THIS is the crux of our faith. Our faith is not in people, it’s not in the preacher or the evangelist. Our faith has to be directly IN GOD! We have to emphasise this when we talk about faith. Too many people look to me, and think I’m some healer… No! God is the Healer. I explain this in every evangelistic meeting before I pray for the sick, “I am NOT a healing evangelist! Jesus is the Healer, He’s the One you have to ask!” And I teach them how to call on Him for their healing.

We are the Glory of God on earth

ALL the earth will see the Glory of God – in us who have believed – WE are to be the Glory of God! We are the witness, we are the evidence! Come on! You and I have to cross that Jordan, you and I must not look at the difficulties, we must go in faith. Look, the problems exist, I don’t deny the problems, God doesn’t deny the problems. But as Joshua and Caleb believed, it doesn’t matter how big the problem, how great the armies are – they have no power over you – God will always give the victory! Come on, rise up in the Name of the Lord!

Be strong and courageous, Pt 2

God is calling us to trust Him. This is a strong challenge to us as believers: How long will it be before we respond and do what He says?!!! Yes, God knows, faith does not come easily, because in Numbers 14.11, He says to Moses, ‘“How long before they will believe in Me, for all the signs which I have shown among them?”’ In other words, God is saying, “Look, I’ve given so many proofs and demonstrations of My faithfulness and My Power, how much more do I have to do?!!!” God is always demonstrating His Power, always calling us to trust Him – and He never, ever fails!

Be strong and courageous, Pt 1

I want to reveal faith to you in a unique way. Some of the greatest illustrations of faith are not in the New Testament, but in the Old. I want to look at the book of Numbers, Chapters 13 and 14. To me, the story of the 12 spies sent to spy out the Promised Land is a tremendous challenge. The children of Israel were still in the wilderness, and it had taken them a long time to get to border of the Promised Land. Now the command of the Lord to Moses is to pick twelve representatives from each of the twelve tribes, and to send them to see for themselves what the future was. I find this very interesting, because they were actually sent out to see the future!