David Hathaway

Exceedingly abundantly ABOVE ALL THAT WE CAN ASK!!! Paul is saying that through Christ, God will do MORE than we can ask. Or even think! Jesus will give us, not only what we’re asking for, but He will fulfil our wildest dreams! Too many of us are restrictive in our prayer. I don’t think we understand the willingness of God through Christ to do SO MUCH for us – if only we would ask!!! 

Prayer is more than just ‘fellowship with the Lord’. We are encouraged to ASK for our needs. The Apostle Paul says, 'God is able to give you ABOVE what you can ask'. Too many Christians are afraid to ask, I don’t know why. I have no hesitation in asking. If there is something I need, I know the Scripture, so I ask! And the Lord answers me! Now if what I am asking for isn’t right, then I don’t get it… But if it’s right and pleasing to the Lord – and God is a far better judge than we are if it’s right or wrong – He provides it! 

Too many of us are restrictive in our prayer. I don’t think we understand the willingness of God through Christ to do SO MUCH for us – if only we would ask!!! In Ephesians 3, having looked at the extent of the love of Christ, Paul is now looking beyond the love of God to the fact that Christ is ABLE to do exceedingly abundantly more… Exceedingly abundantly above… That’s EXPANSIVE! So descriptive… Exceedingly abundantly ABOVE ALL THAT WE CAN ASK!!! Paul is saying that through Christ, God will do MORE than we can ask. Or even think! Jesus will give us, not only what we’re asking for, but He will fulfil our wildest dreams! 

Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him, and He will help you! I want to encourage you that as you surrender your life to the Lord, and as you hear God’s Voice and obey what He says, God will not only watch over you and protect you, but the things which the devil is trying to do to harm you, God will turn to His Glory.

The love of God is simply beyond description, indescribable, too vast to comprehend. And yet, read with me Ephesians 3:18-21, Paul wants you ‘to be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height, and to know, the love of Christ which passes all knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the Power that works in us, to Him be Glory in the Church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end.’ World without end is a very interesting statement, as we are living in a time when the end of the age (not the world) is coming, when Jesus will soon return.

“We ought to obey God rather than men!” When I came out of the communist prison, a lovely Christian lady accosted me to my face, saying, “Wilson should not have got you out of that prison. You broke the law. You knew you were breaking the law, taking Bibles into the communist countries. But you did it, so you should have stayed in prison!” That was just a few weeks after my release. It wasn’t very easy for me to hear! But I quoted Acts 5:29 to her, that we should obey God rather than men. 

‘Those who trust in God will never be ashamed!’ I want to remind you. Whatever the circumstances, whatever the difficulties we may be going through, we shall never be ashamed of our faith and our trust in God, and in His Power and in what He is going to do…  

If you commit your life to the Lord, and if you are hearing God’s Voice, and doing what He says, God will not only watch over you and protect you, but the things the devil is trying to do to harm you, He will turn ultimately to His Glory. There is no question, my time in prison was foreknown by God and transformed my life. When I was arrested, I was an unknown Bible smuggler – because you couldn’t talk about it, even the passengers on my tour bus didn’t know we had 2 tonnes of Bibles hidden in a secret compartment where their luggage was supposed to be... But when I came out, it was to a blaze of publicity, because Harold Wilson used the publicity for his election campaign! And three days later my denomination asked me to speak to 10,000 people in the Royal Albert Hall in London at their Easter Convention. And after that, for two years I travelled the world telling my story and winning thousands to Christ – because everybody wanted to know why the British Prime Minister got me out of prison. I wouldn’t be doi

Don’t be discouraged. I want you to get that Vision of what God can do! Get into your ‘watchtower’ and pray until God answers you and shows you His Power and His Glory! O Father, open people’s eyes, let them get into that place in the ‘watchtower’ where You answer them when they cry to You, “How long are You silent?” O God, be not silent, but show Your Power and Your Glory! In Jesus’ Name. Amen. 

"Fear not, be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do GREAT THINGS!" This is the vision God is giving me. How strong can I be on this point? And how strong can the Lord be? Because He says to you, “Fear not, because I will do GREAT THINGS!”

I believe that what we are about to see is an even GREATER revelation of God's Power on earth than anything in the past. God’s Power doesn’t diminish just because there’s sin and wickedness in the world. God doesn’t change! God still loves the sinner. He still wants to redeem the earth. That’s why, in the near future, Jesus Christ is coming back – to fulfil every Promise, every Vision!

Looking back over more than 70 years of ministry, seeing the difficult times I’ve been through – God has never failed me! There have been ups and there have been downs in my life, but as the Bible says, "The Lord answered me!" Sometimes in our lives we need the patience to wait for the fulfilment of God’s Promises.

David has recently returned from Armenia where he was able to meet and teach senior pastors from Armenia and Georgia. This is critical as we are planning major evangelism in both countries. Both countries have recently experienced war, Armenia only two years ago. Both are desperate for God’s help and are open for evangelism. Thank you for continuing to support our humanitarian and spiritual relief efforts in Ukraine. Our staff are continuing to assist all those affected by the brutal Russian invasion.  To make a donation eurovision.org.uk/donation

Sometimes it appears God is not answering us. When I was in the prison, 1972-3, I prayed and I prayed. It seemed God didn’t answer. I remember the morning, alone in my cell when I said, “O Lord, I can’t pray anymore. The Heavens are like brass, shut up against me. You don’t answer me!” But in my desperation that day, God DID suddenly answer! Habakkuk begins in Chapter 1:2 saying, “O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear?!” - We all go through the despair of unanswered prayer, but God does hear, and He will answer you! 

We need to bring back into the Church a sense of sanctification, of consecration, in anticipation that God is going to answer and move… God will move within the Church, when the Church is obedient to His Word. The Israelites had to be obedient to the commands of God. Joshua was prophesying, sanctify yourselves, because when the priests stand in the water with the Ark, the water will dry up! God will do it, but there needs to come back into us as Christians a knowledge of what God can and will do.

David Hathaway's ministry in Ukraine continues to provide humanitarian and spiritual relief to the displaced, and those who have lived under Russian occupation. Daily we distribute bread, water, sanitary items, medicines and other basic supplies. In addition, our staff provide spiritual and emotional support to people broken-down by war and destruction. Weekly we broadcast the Gospel in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. And we distribute Bibles.   Even though the Russians have now left the Kyiv region, they left behind many exposed bombs, mines and grenades. But despite these dangers, we will not stop helping those in need.   Will you join us in supporting Ukraine? Many have already given generously,  and we are immensely grateful. But the need is great. And the longer the invasion continues, the worse the humanitarian crisis becomes. There is so much damage to infrastructure, but an even greater damage to people's souls.   To support our work in Ukraine visit: eurovision.org.uk/donation

“Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow God will do wonders among you.... Hereby you will know that the Lord God is among you and He will not fail to drive out before you all the inhabitants of the Land, behold the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord is passing over before you into Jordan.” (Joshua 3.) For Moses, the greatest miracle was the crossing of the Red Sea – (and the whole might of the Egyptian army was destroyed as the waters closed back over them) – now for Joshua, we have a very similar miracle, in that not just Jericho, but the Jordan stood between Israel and the whole Promised Land. I had always thought that it was Jericho that was the problem. But how do you get two million people, with all their sheep and cattle, and their little children, across this fast-flowing flooding river? But God worked the same miracle as He did for Moses and held up the water so that they crossed over on dry land!

I’m very moved by Joshua Chapter 1, where God is speaking to Joshua after the death of Moses, saying, “Now therefore, go over this Jordan with the people and enter the Land I have promised you, as I said to Moses… Be strong and of good courage. Do not be afraid. No man will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you or forsake you!” I take a lot of courage from this. Despite all the difficulties in life, and even though we make mistakes – I am very conscious of mistakes that I have made – yet God has always been with me and has never failed me.

There are times when we go through despair, as individuals and as nations. This was the experience of the prophet Habakkuk, and of Israel. Habakkuk begins in Chapter 1 verse 2, saying, "O Lord, how long shall I cry, and You will not hear?!" But we need to be patient as we wait for the fulfillment of God's promises.   

Jesus could do no mighty works because of their unbelief. Mark 6 reveals a very similar situation to the unbelief in Mark 9, only here, Jesus Himself could do no mighty work, save that He laid His Hands on a few sick folk and healed them, and He marvelled at their unbelief. I’m quite amazed, because in this case, it’s Jesus who could not do the mighty works – because the people in His hometown didn’t recognise who He REALLY was. They only recognised Him as being from Nazareth like them, a carpenter, whose whole family lived there. This is the challenge to me and to you, because even in the Church, even amongst godly people, God is sometimes limited in what He can do because of our unbelief. We’re too familiar with Jesus, too familiar with religion, too familiar with God – not realising who Jesus really is! We have to come back to this question, WHO JESUS REALLY IS! That He IS the Son of God, that He has ALL the Power of God, and ALL the Power of God is IN JESUS! We have to RECOGNISE this.