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I have felt the need to set down something of the background to this collection of "words" that my wife, Evelyn, has received from the Lord since January 1974. We have so much for which to be profoundly thankful, and our experience of God has significantly been part of our shared life together.
Since our marriage in 1950, when I was still an architectural student, we have been able to work together in Christian service. As we have not had a family of our own, we were able to give ourselves for over 30 years to youth work, and in various aspects of leadership within our church, and in a wide association with other churches.
We have found this very fulfilling, finding great encouragement and support from one another, particularly when the way has been hard and costly.
Ours has been a lifetime experience of endeavouring to be open to all that God has for us, whilst remaining in our local church which had traditional "Brethren" roots.
As many will realise, there is much in such a background for which to thank God. Throughout these years we have valued the enrichment of working with Christians from other denominations, and reading widely in books and periodicals of what God has done, and is doing, in renewal and revival.
Early in the 1950's we had a holiday in Lynton in North Devon, where a pastor wrote a leaflet calling on Lynton and Lynmouth to repent and turn to the Lord, having had a prophecy of imminent disaster brought by floods and boulders.
This in fact happened the following year. Many lives were lost, and buildings were swept away, when the River Lyn, following a dreadful storm, cut a new course to the sea, carrying enormous boulders in its flood water, We realised the significance of God speaking through a man, whom many at the time thought crazy
ISBN: 8190363719
