A man called Jay said that when he arrived at the meeting, the tendonitis in his arm was so bad he couldn’t even hold a coffee cup without it hurting. When he was healed, he lifted a chair up from the base by one leg and waived it around! He said: “I was very skeptical about this healing stuff, and I’m really shocked to discover that it’s real.” It was such an authentic healing testimony. We then had two more through the mic before I preached on John 3:16.

The message was well received by the 240 people present, the highest Sunday attendance in the 10 years that the church has existed.

Six people responded to the first appeal for salvation and one to the second. I later discovered some of the very moving stories of those responding for the very first time, including some relatives of church members who had been prayed for for many years.

So there was a real buzz afterwards, especially as the leaders were thrilled to see the downstairs of their ‘new’ building entirely full.

King’s Church, Edinburgh purchased an old Church of Scotland building last year. And great credit to the denomination for selling to a church and not to a developer who offered more! It was built during the Victorian glory years when D L Moody preached to thousands in the city and the 400 or so empty wooden seats upstairs in the gallery, were a reminder of a time when Scots packed Scottish churches to listen to sermons.

I had the weird experience once again of seeing my photo on a poster as we drove past the church yesterday. I’d flown in on Friday night, and I enjoyed partnering with my great friends Lex Loizides from Cape Town and Steve Hurd from Huddersfield in our “Front Edge II” conference. Listening to Lex was compelling from start to finish, and I spoke on healing, and did a seminar on handling the objection: “But you can’t trust the Bible.”

We also held healing guest services in Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen as well as a Saturday night evangelistic meal in Perth. No news from them as of yet, I’m on the plane home at present.

I will never forget as a boy hearing Jimmy Greaves refer to Scotland v Iceland as a “local derby”

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