>> Hi, I'm Duncan Smith,
and together with my wife, Kate,
we're the presidents of Catch the Fire World,
the ministry that was birthed
out of the Toronto revival.
And John and Carol laid hands on us last year
and commissioned us to lead this global ministry
of about one hundred and fifty churches
now all around the world.
And you know, one of our favorite things
is to minister among some of the most
unreached people groups in the world.
And you know, some of these people
they haven't ever heard about Jesus.
And one of our favorite places to minister
is in Niger or Niger Republic.
And one day, not too long ago,
I had an email from a dear friend of ours
by the name of Roland Baker from Iris
Ministries in Mozambique.
And he emailed me in the January
to say, Duncan,
are you aware that some of the tribal people
that you've been working with in Niger
and visiting them and preaching the gospel
and bringing them out of their former religion
into a glorious relationship with Jesus?
Are you aware that they are about to suffer
what could be a terribly catastrophic drought?
Well, I hadn't heard about that,
but I investigated the news and sure enough,
it was right.
And so we arranged to be able to go
as soon as we could,
which was in the March of that year.
We had raised enough money to be able
to take thirty thousand pounds in English pounds,
which was about fifty thousand dollars
to those people to purchase food because
there's no way we could just lead them to Jesus
and then abandon them in their crisis
that they were in.
Well, we had raised that money
at a leadership summit that we were involved
in myself and Kate and John and Carol.
And it ended on a Friday,
and I was leaving on the Saturday
from London Heathrow to go to Niger that day.
And the people that were our hosts
had received the offering.
The fifty thousand US dollars
received the offering
and they were putting it in the bank.
Well, when I got to Niger,
we realized that we were going to have to wait
till Monday morning
to actually receive the cash from the bank.
Well, to our complete upset, we realized,
Oh no, the banks are closed in the UK
on that Monday,
so now it is going to have to be Tuesday morning.
Well, I was about to have a fit
because it turned out that on that Monday
that we could have driven
to the place in the far bush
that we knew was the closest market
that these tribal people would be able to reach
and probably were going to be there Tuesday morning.
We had no way of contacting them.
They didn't even necessarily know
that we were in the country
and we knew that they were
on the brink of starvation.
I was just so upset in my spirit
that the next day was the earliest
that we could get that money.
Nine o'clock with the banks opening.
But then of course, Tuesday came
and you know how banks can be.
It took time for that money to be processed.
And by the time we could actually receive the cash
being such a large amount of cash,
it was now two o'clock in the afternoon
and I knew that that market would be over,
probably by four o'clock at the absolute latest,
which would have been fine,
except for the fact that it was a five hour
drive in high ratio, four wheel drive for us
to get to that market town in the bush.
Well, it was 2:30
as we rolled out of the main large city,
heading on our five hour drive.
And I was just so full of righteous indignation
and the Holy Spirit and the faith of Jesus
that he brought us so far.
And in the back of the SUV,
Land Cruiser that we were driving in
was the whole of the team of the Indigenous Apostles
and prophets and our guides.
There was packed into that vehicle about,
I don't know, nine to 11 of us.
And we're pulling out of that town
with a five hour drive at 2:30 in the afternoon,
and I was just so furious
I banged my fist on the dashboard.
I said, Boom in the name of Jesus,
we shall reach Arjani,
which is the bush market town
at four o'clock in Jesus name.
Well, everybody looked a bit astonished
and I was driving and they were thinking,
there's just no way that we're going to necessarily
be able to get there in an hour and a half.
That's impossible. But hey, good job.
Duncan's got faith for that.
But I could tell that everybody was like,
it's a hopeless case, it's a five hour drive.
Well, not long after we'd set out,
we turned off the paved road
and now we're in high ratio four wheel drive in
sometimes deep sand.
Driving at that point should have taken four
to four and a half hours.
Suddenly, at exactly four o'clock,
our main apostle started
yelling at the top of his voice ga Ajani
ga Ajaniga, ga Ajani, which meant there's Ajani.
There's Ajani. There's Ajani the town.
And to our complete amazement,
coming through the the thorn bushes,
there was the town
that should have taken five hours.
We all suddenly realized
we had been supernaturally transported,
not just an individual,
but all of us in the vehicle
and our entire vehicle.
The Lord had transported us supernaturally
and we arrived.
And just as we pulled in, someone said,
Well, this is a miracle that we were all
screaming, of course, with joy.
And someone said, This is a miracle we've arrived,
but how are we going to meet the chief
of the tribal people that are nomads?
We don't even know if he's going to be here.
And I found myself saying affectionately
to them well guys, do you really think
that Jesus would have done such an amazing miracle?
And now we would have missed him?
There's no way we've missed him,
and there's no way we've missed the traders.
Come on, let's go.
We parked under the bush trees
and we walked in to this market town.
As we rounded the very first corner on foot,
we walked right into this chief who just burst
into spontaneous, spontaneous tears.
Our dear friend, a chief of about 70 people,
and he said,
I was just riding on my camel at two o'clock
this morning to come to the town
and I was saying, Lord,
if there's any way that you could send Duncan and
the man that we were working with from Norway,
that it's his ministry we're working with.
Please send them to this market town to help us.
I don't know how you can do it, but do it.
And he just was weeping.
He could barely, barely get over that,
there we were. And we walked together
and we were able to buy enough food
for 70 of his family, plus many others.
And you know, the amazing thing.
Two years later, we heard that those bags of millet
that we bought that are so nutritious a superfood
we were able to buy. Scores of bags.
The amazing thing was that those bags
never ran out in those two years.
In fact, they had so much in those bags,
even though they took them out every day.
They had so much left they were able to plan
for the following year's harvest.
It saw them all through the drought.
And, you know,
I just want to take this time right now.
The reason I'm sharing this story
is because I want you to know
that the Lord Jesus
has amazing supernatural miracles
that he wants to do in your life,
not just healing the sick, which he wants to do,
not just providing for you which he wants to do,
but amazing supernatural miracles in the spirit
where you too could
be transported like that for his glory.
Don't try it as you, the initiator.
You know that's witchcraft.
But when Jesus is the initiator,
that is the kingdom of heaven
working through you and for you.
And so, Father, right now, I pray for every person
listening to this supernatural testimony,
and I'm asking you that you would repeat
those testimonies in their lives
that you would do whatever you desire to do
to glorify your son,
Jesus and to be such a blessing
to your sons and daughters
and to show the world that Jesus Christ is Lord.
I ask you to do it in the power
of the Holy Spirit in Jesus name.
Amen.
God bless each one of you and go for it with God.