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This is a special thank you to those of you who prayed especially for my visit to Russia last week. I have just returned from Chita – the far side of Siberia – 7 hours’ flying time beyond Moscow! What a wonderful reception for the five days of ministry in the church building: over 100 new people repented in the first two days, and then I ministered to almost 1000 pastors and leaders from the whole region of Siberia. Chita is where our ministry in Siberia began 20 years ago and we heard so many testimonies of people saved and miraculously healed during that time of ministry – many of the converts now are the evangelists and pastors – they told us that as a result of that awesome ministry 20 years ago there are more churches in that region than any other part of Russia! The church is still under the leadership of the same pastor and his wife. The church continues to grow and to send out missionaries to China, Iran, Israel and the rest of Russia. The meetings were very powerful and you can see and hear the whole series by clicking here.

Thank you for your continuing support. Income is going up slowly, but our ministry has expanded to become incredibly large. No other ministry has this opportunity to reach the thousands of Jews in Israel and expand now across Europe to hold historically, the largest evangelistic missions ever in Europe. We expect attendances of 100,000-150,000 in Poland in September! Financially it is totally impossible – we are still short of £400,000 for Israel which starts on Thursday 6 June, in just a few days time! We have paid virtually nothing for Poland in September and nothing for Israel in October!

Many people tell me that my vision is too big and we should only evangelise within our budget – my answer is simple. I believe the Bible which says that nothing is too hard for God! – In Jeremiah 33:3 God says, ‘Call unto Me and I will answer you.’ I want to live by faith, not my small faith, but faith in a big God. In Chita I preached on Mark 11:22-24, ‘If anyone does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will happen, it will be done for him…Whatever you ask for in prayer believe that you have received it and it will be yours!’ Either I believe this or I don’t, faith is only real faith when it is tested to the extreme!

The reading for this morning, 22 May, by C H Spurgeon, is from Psalm 107:7, ‘He led them forth by the right way.’ He adds, ‘The believer asks why is it so, I looked for light but darkness came, for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my Mountain stands firm, I shall not be moved! These trials are for the testing and strengthening of our faith.’

I believe that through your strong prayer support over the next days God will answer. Please pray that my faith will not weaken or fail – like you I am only human. In the communist prison, all those years ago, my faith did momentarily fail while waiting for the miracle of my release, and I had a heart attack. But as you know, God did work an incredible miracle!

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Upcoming 2013: 

6, 7, 8 June 2013: Israel

13-14 July 2013: International Gospel Outreach, near Conwy. Click here for details.

30-31 July 2013: Vietnamese Summer Camp, Germany. (David will speak in English with Vietnamese translation.)

6, 7, 8 September 2013: Katowice, Poland

14 September 2013: 'Echad One New Man' Conference on the theme: 'Watchmen Arise, and Sound the Trumpet of God' Hitchin, Hertfordshire

27 September 2013: 7.30pm, Hollybush Christian Centre, near Thirsk. Click here for details.

3, 4, 5 October 2013: Israel

3 November 2013: Family Life Church, Norwich. Click here for details.

25-26 December 2013: Vilnius, Lithuania

In that sea, logically Peter was drowning, he was going to die. Only Peter, only one man stepped out of the boat - yet for one man Jesus worked an incredible miracle, He came across the water, through the darkness of the night, came into Peter's life and delivered him and rescued him! In the darkest moment in your life, in the moment of your fear, your sickness, your crisis, you will find Jesus who loves you. God gave His Son just for you - not for the world - but for you, to rescue you, deliver you, heal you. That's why when you are in crisis, God is the closest. Not in your prosperity, not when you are on top of the world, but in the crisis, in the pain, that's when Jesus is the closest to you. I thank God for my 10 months in prison - when I was tortured, when they were starving me of food, when they did every kind of bad thing - in the darkness of my prison, that's when I found Jesus in a new way, the reality and evidence of who He is. When 50 years ago I had throat cancer, 10 years ago I had lung cancer - it was in the darkness of my despair that I found the real Jesus.

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Join David for a series of webcasts from Chita, Siberia, 15-19 May. All the services will be broadcast live on our website; they will also be available to view on-demand.

LIVE webcast from Chita, Siberia: 15-19 May 2013. To watch click here

• 15 May: 5.00am (EDT, USA), 10.00am (UK), 11.00am (Germany), 12.00pm (Ukraine)
• 16 May: 5.00am (EDT, USA), 10.00am (UK), 11.00am (Germany), 12.00pm (Ukraine)
• 17 May: 5.00am (EDT, USA), 10.00am (UK), 11.00am (Germany), 12.00pm (Ukraine)
• 18 May: 4.30am (EDT, USA), 09.30am (UK), 10.30am (Germany), 11.30am (Ukraine)
• 19 May:
  • First Service: 20.30 (EDT, USA), 01.30am (UK), 02.30am (Germany), 03.30am (Ukraine)
  • Second Service: 23.30 (EDT, USA), 04.30am, (UK), 05.30 (Germany), 06.30am (Ukraine)

Reports on the services will be available on our facebook and twitter feeds.

Missed a service? Click here to watch the on-demand webcasts from Russia (31 March) & Israel (21, 22, 23 March).

David says: ‘Through my 60 years of ministry, I want to pass onto you not just what I preach, but what I have experienced. It’s something very strong – it’s a dynamic life, a revolutionary power through the finished work of salvation in Jesus Christ on the cross. In Acts 3, after Jesus had risen from the dead and had appeared to His disciples, after He had ascended into Heaven and sent the Holy Spirit on them, Peter and John went up to the Temple to pray. Outside the gate they saw a man born lame. He wanted money. Peter said to him, “I have no money, but what I have, I give you!” In the same way, I have had a lifetime’s experience with God – I want to share this with you.’

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In Jeremiah 32:42 God says, “Thus says the Lord, like as I brought all this great evil on this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them!” Jeremiah was locked up in a prison! – He wasn’t sitting in a prosperous church, he wasn’t watching a tele-evangelist, he wasn’t living in luxury in your city, he was in prison! – And in Jeremiah 33:3, God continues, “Call unto Me and I will answer you – if you want a miracle in your life, call and I will show you great and mighty things you don’t know!” Are you in a ‘prison’? Begin to pray! Call out to God, “Oh God, give me power with You today, show me the power You are going to put in my life, show me what You are going to bless me with, answer my prayers! Oh God I am reading Your Word, and because of Your Word, I will call and You must answer!” When I was reading this, I was believing God would heal me of lung cancer, and God says in v6, “I will bring you health and healing, I will cure them and I will reveal to them the abundance of peace and prosperity.” God didn’t just say He would heal my cancer, He said He would give me healing from my sickness, and then that He would give me health, that He would prevent further sickness! If you have a relationship with God, He will not only heal you, but He will prevent sickness. That is why I am so healthy today, why I’m able to do more than some of you! Don’t you want to know this kind of covenant God? He promises not just health and healing, but prosperity! Yes, I believe God is going to work a miracle for us – even in the middle of a financial crisis, God is going to bless. I don’t have time to tell you of all my financial difficulties – and of all the miracles God has worked to solve them! Why did God heal my cancer? Why has God solved my financial problems? Why do I do all the things you can’t do? Because I have learnt to prevail in prayer and live by the covenanted Word of God! God says in Jeremiah 33:20-21, “If you can break My covenant with the day and the night, then, and only then, can My covenant with you be broken!” – You’ve got to know the Word of God, you’ve got to know you are a child of God, you’ve got to know your relationship with God! Then God will say to you, “I cannot break My covenant with you any more than you can break My covenant with the day and the night!” Do you understand the power of God?!