David Hathaway

The Name of Jesus is higher, greater, than any person. He has all power, all authority. People can choose now to commit their lives to Jesus as Lord or be forced to acknowledge Him at the judgment seat of Christ. The power we as believers have in the Gospel, is the power in the Name of Jesus.  When we pray for the sick and they are healed, it is because of the power and authority in the Name of Je...

There is no life without hardship, pain, and conflict. But we do not need to be frightened or terrified. One person with God is always in a majority. Our lives are in God’s Hands. We’re not weak, we’re not defeated. If God is with us, we are always on the victory side. Paul commands in Philippians 1:28, “In nothing be terrified by your adversaries!” I have had to learn this over the years. However...

Christ should be magnified in our lives; He must be glorified in our speech, and also, in the very circumstances in which we find ourselves. When you are in hardship, sickness and distress, our prayer should be that Christ be magnified. I echo that very strongly. When I was in prison in 1972-3, I was praying, seeking that God would work a miracle through my release so great, He would be glorified...

All things work together for our good. I want to pick up on Philippians 1:12, because here Paul says, “I want you to understand that the things which have happened to me – Paul is in prison – have happened in order to further the Gospel of Christ, so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in the palace and in all other places.” What a statement! Paul is declaring here that all the things that have h...

The Holy Spirit lives in us enabling us to be more like Christ. In Philippians 1:6, the Apostle Paul writes, 'And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue His work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.' God's work for us began when Christ died on the cross. His work within us began when we first believed in Him. Now the Holy Spirit lives...

If you want power with God, it begins with your faith, your confidence, your trust, in God's ability to do what He says. Hebrews 11 describes the phenomenal power of faith which made these people in the Old Testament so strong, that they were able to overcome EVERYTHING! They saw something more than this life. Like Moses, who chose to suffer for God rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin.  They co...

‘Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen’. Faith is confidence and trust. It is the assurance that what we believe will actually happen. One Bible translation states, 'Faith comprehends as fact, what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.' In Hebrews 11:3 we read, ‘Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that things...

I truly believe God’s timing is perfect. For some years I have been saying that the next mission field is Central Asia – now God is confirming it. Our work in Ukraine continues despite – and because of – the war.

Faith is confidence, and confidence is trust. The Apostle Paul taught in Hebrews 10 v35, 'Do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.' You have faith in someone, when you have confidence in them. You trust a person, because you have faith in them. The challenge to all of us is, don't throw away your confidence. Or to put it another way, do not throw away your faith. Faith is a g...

‘The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.’ (James 5:16.) Powerful prayer works! The original Greek of the Bible often uses a special word for power: dunamis – it signifies miraculous, wonder-working power. From it we get the words dynamo (which generates power), and dynamite (the explosive). If you want prayer to work, to change your circumstances, then it must generate power....

Mark 11 is so revolutionary, so powerful, it changed my understanding of prayer. Jesus saw a fig tree full of leaves and He came hoping to find some figs, but he found none. So what did Jesus do? Jesus said, “Let no man ever eat fruit from you again!” And the disciples heard what He said. Next morning, this is verse 20, as they came from Bethany to the Mount of Olives, they saw the fig tree was de...

Prayer is essential for every believer. It is how we build our relationship with the Lord. In Luke 11, when Jesus had finished praying, one of His disciples came to Him saying, "Lord, teach us how to pray!" All my life I have been seeking to understand the power of prayer, and especially, prayer that gets an answer. When I was in prison for Bible smuggling in 1972, I reached a point of such desper...

God has laid down a pattern for your life! In 1 Chronicles 28, it was in David’s heart to build the Temple, but God said it was for his son Solomon to build. I am intrigued by verse 19 where David says, ‘“All this,” David said, “I have in writing as a result of the Lord’s hand on me, and he enabled me to understand all the details of the plan.” For me, as I look back over 70 years of ministry, I c...

God has chosen you to be His child. He has become your Father. This is the relationship God ordained for Solomon in 1 Chronicles 28. In verse 9, King David admonishes: “And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he wi...

What is in your heart? Are you longing to see the Glory of God? Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness will be satisfied. In 1 & 2 Chronicles the original desire to build the House of God was in the heart of King David. He had a passion and a desire. The Israelites had travelled with the Ark of the Covenant through the wilderness. As the Ark moved so they moved. The Ark went before them int...

When we are seeking and following God, the source of our supply will never dry up. What I need, what I lack, will not stop the supply of the Anointing Oil of the Holy Spirit and the Bread of the Word of God in my life. The Word of God and the Anointing of the Holy Spirit will never fail me, even in a time of drought. There is never a time when God cannot speak to us, or use us, or work miracles th...

God works miracles, signs and wonders. And my prayer is that God would reveal Himself to you through the miraculous. - "Father I pray that everyone reading this will see the truth of Your Word and Power. O God speak to us through signs and wonders. In Jesus Name, Amen."

God will not fail you! We’ve had Covid and the difficult consequences following worldwide lockdowns. Now war in Ukraine. The whole world has changed. Historically the world does go through periodic political, financial, spiritual upheavals. And it never goes back to how it was before. I draw comfort from the story of Elijah. Not just when he called down fire from heaven – but the sheer number of p...

The main theme of the preaching of Jesus was the Kingdom of God. Resurrection. This is why Jesus was prepared to suffer and die on the cross. He knew there was life beyond death. He knew that He would rise from the dead. He knew that He would receive eternal life. For those of you who are struggling, in pain, or are facing death, this is only a gateway into eternity. Look forward to the resurrecti...

We are living in troubled times. I am convinced, by faith, that the Ukrainians will win the war and drive out the Russian army and that the next month will see incredible changes. I can also see that there is a threat of a 3rd World War and the release of a radioactive nuclear cloud worse than Chernobyl. Remember that the Ukrainian word Chernobyl means wormwood: this is the name of the star in Rev...

God uses 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!

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...

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 surp...

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...

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 wh...