Day 17 Tuesday 24th April

Up at 5.30am this morning and the team met up at the ferry terminal for the boat to Harris. It was windy and wet but the crossing was fairly smooth. We had nothing really planned for today – just a few loose ideas but before long the day began to be planned out for us. We had breakfast in Harris Hotel in Tarbert and afterwards met and prayed with a local doctor - I had prayed with him and his other partner in the practice the last time I was in Tarbert. By this time we had had a phone call from a guy I last met on a previous trip and he met us and prayed with us for two villages on the way up to Stornoway. He also provided lunch for us – Thanks, Mark. By this time we had arranged to meet with folks to pray in Stornoway. How important is God’s timing? The original plan was that we would have been in Stornoway yesterday but had to be re-arranged because of ferry timetable changes and we arrived as most of the Highlands and Islands Church of Scotland ministers arrived for a three day special consultation conference – so we were able to pray for them as they were gathering. We had a wonderful time of prayer outside the hotel for a real move of God that would affect not only their own parishes but the whole of Scotland. We then moved on and prayed at the stone circles on our way up to Arnol and Barvas – real revival hot spots between 1949 and 1952. The team met and had a praise and prayer time in a house in Arnol while Kate and I went to visit an old lady (84) who was saved during the revival. For me this was a life changing moment as I listened to her trying to describe what it was like to live in a community under the presence of a holy God – my heart just yearned and ached to experience this once again in our nation. I knelt and prayed with her just as Duncan Campbell had done 57 years ago in exactly the same room – these were awesome moments. This dear lady described her testimony as if it was yesterday – she was a real carrier of the presence and glory of God. Oh how I cried out to God to be such a carrier. We then came back to the Hotel for evening dinner then had an amazing time of prayer where the Holy Spirit just came and touched us with His Holy Presence.
And so to bed ZZZzzz – we have another very early rise tomorrow – we have to be on the quay for the ferry to the mainland by 6.30am. Tomorrow is another very long day as we have a lunch time rally in Aviemore then an evening rally on the Isle of Skye.
Every Blessing, Bert