Over 3000 attended the final night of services in Israel, 26 November 2011. David again preached Jesus, Yeshua, their Jewish Messiah - who was born in Bethlehem, grew up in Nazareth, died in Jerusalem - in their country for them: "God sent His Son to Israel, not to make you proud, but because of the tragedy of your past, to love and forgive you, to heal you, to give you a hope and a future."

They literally poured forward to pray the prayer of repentance. Many were healed. Two gave outstanding testimonies of how they were healed in the April meetings we held in Tel Aviv 6 months ago. A mother brought her young son, healed of a genetic disease, confirmed by medical tests! And a woman, healed of a large tumour on her right eye - it completely vanished!

Afterwards our tour guide, a born-again Messianic Jew, said to us: "Christians come in their thousands and millions to 'support' Israel - they hold meetings, I take their tour groups, but even the greatest 'evangelists' do not reach one Israeli. The realisation has 'hit' me! Thank you for bringing Jesus to our people!"

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It is 50 years since David first went to Israel. In May 1961, after eleven years as a full-time pastor and evangelist in Britain, David's ministry to Russia and Europe began as a result of organising the first ever overland expedition by road to Jerusalem, travelling behind the Iron Curtain through Arab countries and into Israel. This trip marked a major milestone in David's life.

David says: All I know is that my experience with God is step by step. Every step, however difficult, however impossible, is another miracle towards experiencing the power of God in my life!

COME HOME!

THE TEMPLE WAS DAVID'S CONSUMING PASSION! The main purpose of the church is not celebration, but evangelism. The reason God saved us was not for our comfort - we are called to work and serve God! To glorify Him! King David began his life as a great warrior. But in the last part of his life, he had a consuming passion to glorify God. From the time that David began the vision of the Temple in his heart - and God gave him every detail - the very purpose of the Temple was to be a demonstration to the world of the power and the glory of God! But God also ordained that the Temple sacrifices would be the way to bring God's forgiveness to the ordinary people.

Three thousand years ago the Temple was the very presence of God on earth, the evidence of God to the world - today we are the Temple of the Holy Spirit, God lives in us, and we are the demonstration of the glory and power of God on earth.

GOD'S HEART OF COMPASSION 'We ought to lay down our lives for those who are our brothers in Christ. But if anyone has this world's goods [resources for sustaining life] and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart of compassion against him, how can the love of God live and remain in him? Little children, let us not love [merely] in theory or in speech, but in deed and in truth [in practice and in sincerity].' 1 John 3:16-18 Amp.

In February David was invited to hold church evangelism in Slovyansk and Kramatorsk, East Ukraine. These are pioneer churches with a vision to reach the drug addict, the alcoholic, the homeless, destitute children and the very poor - the outcasts of society for whom Jesus died!