David Hathaway

This is the God of Israel: your God, a God of power, love, and deliverance. We can release His power into our lives. In Deuteronomy – the fifth book of Moses – Scripture promises that when you face trouble, tribulation, and distress, you can reach Him right where you are. Even amidst anguish, fear, concentration camps, or the horrors of war, the promise stands: if you call upon Him and seek Him with all your heart and soul, you will find Him.

The God of Israel is supreme over all the earth, possessing absolute power and authority. He loves you deeply and will defend you against your enemies. Even when it requires the miraculous, and even when hope appears lost, God will always deliver Israel.

Do not fear the future. The scriptures of Jewish history bear witness to an unbroken chain of wonders:

The Deliverance from Egypt: In Deuteronomy 4, Moses reminded the people – when they were terrified and facing grave danger – that the greatest sign ever displayed on earth was God redeeming Israel out of Egypt, bringing them through, and granting them this land.

The Greater Gathering: In Jeremiah 16, the prophet looked ahead to an even greater miracle that would surpass the Exodus: God regathering the Jewish people scattered across the earth and returning them to their homeland from the "land of the north" – Russia. God declared He would work an even greater deliverance there than in Egypt of old.

Throughout Scripture, your God stands apart from every other god and nation. He is a God who hears and answers prayer. He will answer your cry, perform your miracle, and deliver you.

'I worship You' & 'Sheltered in the Rock' used by kind permission of Vinesong.

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Do you want the key to promotion? In today’s episode, based on James chapter 4, we are instructed: “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.”

David Hathaway:

The Scripture makes this crystal clear. The Lord promises that when we seek Him with all our heart, we will find Him.

James urges us: “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.”

Too often, people try to promote and elevate themselves. There is a familiar proverb: “Pride goes before a fall.” When people are consumed with pride and lift themselves up, things inevitably collapse; the higher they climb in self-exaltation, the harder they fall. But for believers, the path is entirely the opposite: humble yourselves under God's hand, and He will lift you up.

Moving to verse 11, James adds: “Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it.” When you sit in judgment over others, you abandon obedience to the law and set yourself up as its judge. Yet verse 12 reminds us: “There is only one Lawgiver and Judge.” Ultimately, each of us must stand before God’s judgment seat when His Son returns.

In today’s episode, based on James chapter 4, we are instructed to resist the devil and draw near to God.

“Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to live in us envies intensely?”

That is profound – the Holy Spirit within us, the very Spirit of Christ, jealously desires our devotion. This is strong language because God does not accept divided loyalty. We are faced with a definitive choice: we either choose God, or we choose the world.

Verse 6 reassures us that “He gives us more grace.” That is why verse 7 instructs us so clearly: “Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Many people spend endless time overcomplicating spiritual warfare, but Scripture keeps it simple: resist the devil and take your stand against him. The enemy retreats when you stand firm in God.

Then verse 8 continues: “Come near to God and He will come near to you.” The choice is yours. Draw near to Him, just as the Lord promises: “If you seek Me, you will find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.”

As a teenager, I knew an authentic baptism of the Spirit had to produce fruit and evidence. Among the nine gifts of the Spirit – the vocal, the intellectual, and the practical – I did not want to settle merely for vocal gifts. I sought the practical, asking God specifically for the gift of faith. 

God granted that request, and for decades my ministry was defined by living and walking by faith. We planted churches, led evangelistic crusades, and witnessed miraculous healings. Yet, an inner conviction remained: God still has more. 

That clarity finally came through the prophecy of Joel 2: 

"The Lord will be jealous for His people... I will send you corn and wine, and you will be satisfied... Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice, for the Lord will do great things... He has given you the former rain moderately, and He will cause to come down for you the rain – the former rain and the latter rain... and the floors shall be full... And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh."

God is not finished. Beyond the initial outpouring lies the promise of the "latter rain" – a complete restoration and a greater demonstration of His glory across the nations. 

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In James 4, we are cautioned that if our goal in life is to pursue the world, we cannot be a friend of God. The Holy Spirit empowers us to remain faithful to Him.

In verse 4, James addresses something striking: “You adulterous people!”

What does he mean here? He is not referring merely to marital infidelity or earthly relationships between men and women. He hits the nail on the head when he declares: “Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God?”

As Christians, we cannot love both. Scripture reminds us that we cannot serve both God and mammon. James likens compromise with the world to spiritual adultery against God. He asks: “Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”

This is strong, uncompromising language. James warns us that divided loyalty is impossible – you cannot be devoted to both God and the world. As verse 5 asks: “Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to live in us envies intensely?”

At the heart of every true vision lies the power of prayer. In 1 Kings 18, when the prophet Elijah stood on Mount Carmel and challenged the prophets of Baal, he prayed. The moment his prayer ended, fire fell from heaven and consumed the sacrifice. When he prayed, the fire came down.

We need that same compelling vision today. The calling God placed in my heart in my youth burns just as brightly now. The prophet Joel declared: “I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh.” God demonstrated this with Moses, Elijah, David, and Solomon, and He will demonstrate it again for those who carry His vision in prayer.

Before the return of the Lord, may we see His power move across the earth once more.

Lord God, place a divine vision in our hearts. Reveal Your greatness and power to this generation, just as You did in the days of David, Elijah, and Solomon. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

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Based on the Book of James, chapter 4, we are encouraged to ask God to supply our needs, but we need to ask with the right motive.

The reason you don't receive is because you don't ask God. You know, it – it's very interesting because in my life, I've always tended to take counsel from God and ask Him. I didn't ask my mother or my father – you may find that strange, but I didn't – and I didn't ask my brother. I'm just thinking at the moment, I can still see myself going into the shop, looking in the shop window, then going in the shop. And I certainly wasn't asking my mother, my father, my brother what I should get. Even in those days, I used to ask the Lord.

It's quite funny, really, when I think back. I'd say, "Lord, just show me which is the best that I should get." And the interesting thing was that whenever I submitted the choice to the Lord, I always seemed to end up with the best. This has been quite significant all my life, that if I'm desiring the best things, yes, God will supply them.

Because, verse 3: "When you ask, you don't receive because you're not asking God, but you don't receive because you ask with the wrong motives." Have you thought about this? There are two reasons why you don't get what you want: one, because you're not asking God; and secondly, because you're asking with the wrong motives – because you want something simply for your own pleasure. We look at things from a spiritual perspective, not just material.

Based on the Book of James, chapter 4, we are encouraged to ask God to supply our needs and not to be jealous of what others have.

There is a battle going on: good against evil. Do we do this, or do we do that? It's a battle that sometimes, in our choosing, in our choice, has to be fought on a regular basis. We have to choose.

James says that part of the battle is because we want something and we can't get it. You covet what somebody else has – and you know, covetousness is forbidden in the Scripture. It says don't covet anything that your neighbour's got, from his wife to his car. Don't covet. But he says here, "Don't kill because you cannot have what you want."

And then he goes on to the spiritual side, because what he's saying is: you quarrel and you fight, but you don't have what you want. And when I was studying this in preparation for speaking, I was quite intrigued and interested with the argument that James is using when he says in verse 3, when you ask, the reason you don't receive is because you don't ask God.

You know, it's very interesting because in my life, I've always tended to take counsel from God and ask Him. I didn't ask my mother or my father – you may find that strange, but I didn't – and I didn't ask my brother.

The cross is identification, not just that we identify with Jesus, but He identifies with us in our humanity. God sent His Son and allowed Him to suffer, to be rejected and despised. The Bible describes Him as a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Jesus was not born in a palace, but in a filthy animal stable. He never owned a house or received a salary or pension. God sent Jesus to reconcile us, to bring us back to Him, and so that we can understand that sometimes suffering leads us back to God.

Today the world is disintegrating into chaos, no peace anywhere, turmoil and unrest. The greatest message I can give you is that you are NOT alone or forgotten. When the angels announced the coming birth of Jesus, they called Him Immanuel, God with us. God is with you. The Son of God, Immanuel, is with you in every circumstance. For so many Jews, their names are recorded at Yad Vashem in memorial of those who suffered. But God wants to write our names in the Book of Life. Everyone whose name is written in that Book will never die, but live forever with Jesus in the Glory of God's Kingdom. 

'How great your love' used by kind permission of Vinesong.

For more information on the Ministry of David Hathaway https://www.eurovision.org.uk 

Based on the Book of James, chapter 4, we are told to submit ourselves to God and not to fight one another.

I've got a heading in my Bible which is, "Submit yourselves to God." And that really is the theme of this: submitting to the Lord – submission.

I don't think we fully understand the importance of submission. So often, if you're in a fight with two men, one does not want to submit to the other, but defeat that person. The most famous fight between God and man was with Jacob when he wrestled with God. And when it came to the morning, that neither side prevailed, and God actually had to touch Jacob's thigh and cripple him.

James starts off in the first verse by saying, "What causes fights and quarrels?" Yes, it's in families, it's in businesses, it's in the church – that's what James is inferring here. What is the origin of fighting and quarreling? And he says – and this is James's reasoning – "Don't they come from desires within you that are fighting?"

A lot of fighting is within ourselves. There is a battle going on: good against evil. Do we do this, or do we do that? We have to choose.