Last Saturday I met up with Dave Kinsella from Waterford, Joe O’Reilly from Dublin and we went to the capital city to preach the word to bring life to the dead.
Upon arriving we went to North Earl St., across from the historical GPO. There were truly multitudes of people. Some were going about their business, many were clearly walking in fear and many were openly buying & selling narcotics in the streets of our capital city.
Spending some time initially in prayer we started off with some tract distribution and one-to-one conversations. Shortly after we started ministering a group of six Islamic preachers came and set up a table in the street, seeking to harvest those white fields for evil. They proceeded to try and engage us in argument but some additional Christian evangelists had shown up, Claire and three Spanish missionaries were about to spread the gospel too. The Islamic preachers got very angry when Claire was gently pointing out to them that there can only be one ultimate truth and that logically all other systems are then untrue. Up to that point they had been trying to be gently persuasive and using compromised theology such as “we worship the same god” in order to try and lull us in to their way of thinking. Of course we don’t worship the same God since our God is the God of Adam, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Shortly after Desmond Smyth and his wife from “Jeremiah Cry Ministries” showed up and started preaching across the street. We spread out and commenced preaching on the other side of the street, beside the GPO in order to make sure we got maximum coverage of the people. Many stopped, one asked how to be saved in sincerity. Thousands heard the word of God and the message of salvation. While we were there we met what was to be an answer to prayer; two brothers from a gospel hall in the north of Ireland were out distributing calendars and tracts also. They offered me some Romanian & Russian literature. This turned out to be an answer to prayer as I brought some to the fellowship on Sunday and in conversation found that one of the ladies had been praying for how to reach her supervisor in work, the supervisor is Romanian. She now had a calendar and gospel of John in Romanian. Thanks be to God for His timely provision.
All in all, it was an encouraging time with over 12 Christians on the street, some of us went to the Kylmore café after the preaching to warm our hands on mugs of coffee and a great time of fellowship was had. We discussed the increasing hostility of the Gardai towards the street preaching and Desmond told us that the exotic dancers kept calling the police when the preached on Thursday nights telling them that the preaching was “offensive” to them and demanding them to be silenced. We discussed the importance of understanding the law today and how much freedom we truly have, it is OK to “appeal to Caesar” when the law is being used unlawfully against you by the state.
I was perturbed, slightly, by the open preaching and hostility when probed of the Islamic preachers. Only one other person on the streets (not a preacher) had the gumption to tackle them on the anti-western, anti-freedom nature of their message. Time is truly short, the enemy is pushing hard and raising up many labourers for his evil harvest into false religions and into perversions of the world.
Please pray for the Lord to raise up true labourers for His harvest and be ready to listen if He tells you that you are one of them.
May God shake Ireland with the Gospel.