PREFACE

"Manifestation Of The Spirit" is an attempt to put into a more permanent form, a teaching I was privileged to give at "His Peoples Church", meeting at London University, pastored by Wolfgang and Alison Eckleben from South Africa. Their home church in Cape Town runs into thousands. My link with the pioneer Pastors, Paul and Jenny Daniel, goes back to before they commenced their successful work among university students in Cape Town, which grew into the large, vibrant "His Peoples Church". They have planted churches in other universities in Africa and Europe. The anointed couple sent to London are typical of the team God is raising up and sending forth with passion expressed in their motto: "His Commission is Our Mission."

The teaching contained in this book was taught under the title "Ignorant or Informed". Though there is joy and ready openness to the times of refreshing sweeping churches in England, Argentina, Africa, America and Canada, the happenings are not new. Rather, they are reminiscent of the happenings in the tarrying or waiting meetings of the 1930s-40s. The wise Pastor then majored on the worship, the preaching of the Word and evangelism in their main services. Other times were given to "waiting" meetings.

The Lord is moving by His Spirit. It is true that there are also copies of real personal experiences, and counterfeits of the genuine. There needs to be in operation, discernment of Spirits and responsible teaching of the Scriptures. We need to weigh carefully what we see and hear, by the Word. I believe that an informed people can become inflamed people. Previously in the Charismatic Renewal, the Holy Spirit gift of tongues was received sedately and quietly with little or no exuberance. Now, praise God, they are drinking at Joel's Place (Acts 2:16 ), and experiencing drunkenness in the Spirit. Perhaps they can imagine the early Pentecostals saying "We told you so."

It is my prayer and desire that "Manifestation Of The Spirit" may be used to instruct, inform and inspire.

David Griffiths