Our Pentecostal Movement- Fiji and Beyond

20/08/2026

THE MAN WHO GAVE UP EVERYTHING FOR THE GOSPEL, AND DIED ALONE IN A FOREIGN LAND AT 31

He could have had any life he wanted. Instead, he chose to burn out for God, and burn out is exactly what happened.

Henry Martyn was born in Cornwall, England, in 1781. He was not simply intelligent, he was one of the finest minds Cambridge had seen in years. He graduated Senior Wrangler, the top mathematics student in his entire class at St John's College, and won the university's top prize in classics the same year. Doors were open to him everywhere. A brilliant legal career, a comfortable post at Cambridge, a respected name in England, all of it was his for the taking.

Then he heard a sermon.

Charles Simeon, a Cambridge clergyman, spoke of the impact one missionary, William Carey, was having in India. Not long after, Martyn read the journal of David Brainerd, a young missionary who had died young after years of hardship among Native American communities in the American colonies. Something in Martyn broke open. He walked away from the law career waiting for him and set his heart on the mission field instead. He wrote the words that would define the rest of his short life: "Let me burn out for God."

There was a cost he didn't talk about often. Before he left England, Martyn had fallen in love with a woman named Lydia Grenfell. He asked her to marry him and follow him to India. She said no, unwilling to leave England. He sailed anyway, carrying that grief with him for the rest of his life, still writing to her, still hoping, until the day he died.

He arrived in India in 1806 as a chaplain, and immediately gave himself to work most men would have called impossible. He preached constantly, four services some Sundays, one for European soldiers, one for Hindu villagers, one at the hospital, one in his own room for the men in the barracks. Alongside all of that, he began the work that would define his legacy: translating the entire New Testament into Urdu, then into Persian, then into Judaeo-Persic, along with the Psalms and the Book of Common Prayer, languages spoken by millions who had never held Scripture in their own tongue.

He rarely rested. Colleagues worried about him. His body, never strong to begin with, began to fail under the heat, the workload, and a persistent cough he could not shake. He pressed on anyway, certain the work mattered more than his own survival.

By 1810, doctors and friends could see what he refused to see in himself: tuberculosis was taking hold. Rather than slow down, Martyn made a decision that still unsettles readers today. He sailed for Persia, determined to refine his translation with local scholars and personally carry a copy to the Shah. He arrived in Shiraz, the first English clergyman ever to set foot there, and spent months in exhausting theological debate with Muslim scholars twice his age, defending the gospel line by line while his body grew weaker by the week.

He finished the Persian New Testament. He had it delivered into the hands of the Shah himself, who was told by his own advisor that it was an excellent translation, worthy to be read to him from beginning to end. It was, by any measure, an extraordinary triumph.

Henry Martyn never lived to hear that praise.

Too weak to travel by any comfort, he set out on a 1,300-mile journey toward Constantinople on the back of a mule, hoping simply to make it home to England to recover. He never arrived. On October 16, 1812, in the small Armenian city of Tokat, far from his homeland, far from Lydia, far from anyone who had known him as a boy in Cornwall, Henry Martyn died alone. He was 31 years old. The Armenian church that took him in was so moved by the life he had poured out that they buried him with the honors normally reserved for one of their own bishops.

His gravestone, written in English, Armenian, Persian, and Turkish, records only his name, his birth, and his death. Nothing more. He never returned to marry Lydia. He never saw his translations printed and bound. He never knew that his Bible would go on to reach millions across South Asia and the Middle East for the next two centuries.

He had six years on the mission field. He burned through all of them, and then he was gone.

This is where his story leaves us with something to wrestle with, not just admire. Martyn's devotion was real, and God used it in ways that outlived him by centuries. But his body was not a machine to be spent without limit, it was, as Scripture says, a temple of the Holy Spirit, entrusted to him to steward, not simply to burn. Zeal without rest is still zeal, but it is not always wisdom. The same God who called him to the work also designed his body to need sleep, food, and care, and honoring that design is not a lack of faith, it is part of faithful obedience.

LESSONS FROM HIS LIFE:
• Brilliance and comfort mean nothing next to a life surrendered to God's call
• Sacrifice is real, and it is right to count the cost honestly, including what it costs those we love
• A body pushed past its limits cannot finish the race it was meant to run
• Caring for your health while you serve is not compromise, it is stewardship of what God gave you
• A short life fully surrendered can still outlive its own century

"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own." — 1 Corinthians 6:19

Are you pouring yourself out for God in a way that honors the body He gave you to do it in?

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16/08/2026

THE REVIVALIST WHO DISAPPEARED.

At 26, his name was known across Wales. By 28, he had vanished from public life entirely, and never returned to the pulpit again.

Evan Roberts was born in Loughor, Wales, in 1878. He went to work in the coal mines at age 12 alongside his father. At 13, he gave his life to Christ. For years he lived an ordinary life, working underground by day and praying late into the night, asking God for revival in his nation.

In September 1904, Roberts attended a meeting where evangelist Seth Joshua prayed a simple prayer: "O God, bend us." Roberts fell to his knees and prayed the same words for himself. Something broke open in him that day.

Weeks later, Roberts stood before his home church and laid out four conditions for revival: confess all known sin, remove anything doubtful from your life, obey the Holy Spirit instantly, and confess Christ publicly. Twelve people committed their lives to Christ that night. It was the beginning.

Over the following nine months, the revival Roberts carried spread across Wales like fire. An estimated 100,000 people came to Christ. Pubs emptied. Courts had fewer cases to hear. Meetings had no set order, no musical instruments, sometimes no sermon at all, just prayer, confession, and the weight of God's presence filling a room. News of it spread overseas, and the Welsh Revival became a spark for revivals in other nations.

But Roberts rarely slept or ate during those months. He carried the weight of it in his own body. By 1906, he had suffered a complete nervous breakdown. He withdrew from public ministry entirely and lived quietly in England, and later South Wales, devoting the rest of his life to prayer rather than preaching. He died in 1951, largely out of public view.

He lit one of the most significant revivals in modern church history, then spent the next 45 years in obscurity.

LESSONS FROM HIS LIFE:
• A willingness to be "bent" by God can carry more weight than talent or position
• Sustainable ministry protects the vessel, not just the harvest
• A quiet ending doesn't erase what God did through a life
• Revival is costly, and those who carry it need protecting too

"Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." — Zechariah 4:6

If you carry a burden for revival, are you also tending to your own soul?

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16/08/2026

THE MAN WHO PRAYED HIMSELF TO DEATH.

A doctor examined his chest and froze. His heart had physically moved, pushed out of place on the left side to a spot on the right. The doctor had never seen anything like it in his career. He asked one question: "What have you been doing with yourself?"

The answer was prayer. Whole nights of it.

John Nelson Hyde was born in Illinois in 1865, the son of a Presbyterian minister who had prayed for years that God would raise up more missionaries. Hyde left for India in 1892, one of only a handful of missionaries in a territory of nearly a million people who had never heard the gospel.

He was not a gifted speaker. He was slow of speech, hard of hearing, and by his own admission, unremarkable in the pulpit. But something shifted in him on the ship over, after reading a letter from a friend who wrote that he would pray until John was filled with the Holy Spirit. Hyde was offended at first. Then he wasn't.

He began praying through the night, every night, carrying the names of missionaries and unreached villages before God until dawn. If a day passed without new converts, Hyde said the weight of it sat on his chest so heavily he could not eat or sleep until he had prayed it through. He once asked God for one soul saved per day. Then two. Then four. Each time, the number came true.

He became known across India as "Praying Hyde." People who prayed alongside him said they felt they had entered the presence of God simply by being in the room. He rarely spoke about prayer. He simply prayed, sometimes lying face down on the floor for hours, groaning, weeping, wrestling in silence for people who never knew his name.

In 1904 and 1905, revival broke out at the Sialkot Convention in Punjab. Missionaries who were there said the hidden force behind it wasn't the preaching. It was Hyde, who had spent thirty days and nights in prayer before the convention even began.

By 1911, his body had given out. Doctors found his heart displaced and dangerously enlarged. He was sent home to America for treatment, and there, doctors discovered a malignant brain tumor as well. He did not survive the surgery. He died in February 1912, at just 47 years old.

His last words were, "Bol! Yisu Masih ki jai!", Shout the victory of Jesus Christ.

He never led a famous crusade. He rarely preached to large crowds. He simply prayed until his body could not carry the weight of it anymore, and somewhere in India, revival came anyway.

LESSONS FROM HIS LIFE:
• The most powerful ministry is sometimes the one nobody sees
• Physical weakness never disqualified him from spiritual power
• Prayer is not preparation for the work, it is the work
• A life poured out fully leaves no regrets, even when it's short

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." — James 5:16

Would you be willing to carry a burden nobody else could see?

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30/06/2026

29/05/2026

CHANGE YOUR LANGUAGE. - David Yongi Cho
One morning I was eating breakfast with one of Korea’s leading neurosurgeons, who was telling me about various medical findings on the operation of the brain. He asked, “Dr.
Cho, did you know that the speech center in the brain rules over all the nerves? You ministers really have power, because according to our recent findings in neurology, the speech
center in the brain has total dominion over all the other nerves.”
Then I laughed, saying, “I’ve known that for a long time.”
“How did you know that?” he asked. “In the world of neurology these are new findings.”
I replied that I had learned it from Dr. James.
“Who is this Dr. James?” he asked.
“He was one of the famous doctors in biblical times, nearly two thousand years ago,” I replied. “And in his book, chapter three, the first few verses, Dr. James clearly defines the activity
and importance of the tongue and the speech center.”
The neurosurgeon was completely amazed. “Does the Bible really teach about this?”
“Yes,” I answered. “The tongue is the least member of our body, but can bridle the whole body.”
Then this neurosurgeon began to expound their findings.
He said that the speech nerve center had such power over all of the body that simply speaking can give one control over his body, to manipulate it in the way he wishes. He said, “If
someone keeps on saying, ‘I’m going to become weak,’ then right away, all the nerves receive that message, and they say,
‘Oh, let’s prepare to become weak, for we’ve received instructions from our central communication that we should become weak.’ They then in natural sequence adjust their
physical attitudes to weakness.
“If someone says, ‘Well, I have no ability. I can’t do this job,’ then right away all the nerves begin to declare the same thing. ‘Yes,’ they respond, ‘we received instruction from the central nervous system saying that we have no abilities, to give up striving to develop any capacity for capability. We must prepare ourselves to be part of an incapable person.’
“If someone keeps saying, ‘I’m very old. I’m so very old,and am tired and can’t do anything,’ then right away, thespeech central control responds, giving out orders to that
effect. The nerves respond, ‘Yes, we are old. We are ready for the grave. Let’s be ready to disintegrate.’ If someone keeps saying that he is old, then that person is soon going to die.”
That neurosurgeon continued saying, “That man should never retire. Once a man retires, he keeps repeating to himself, ‘I am retired,’ and all the nerves start responding and become less active, and ready for a quick death.”That conversation carried much meaning for me, and made an impact on my life, for I could see that one important usage of the spoken word is the creation of a successful personal life.

People easily adapt to speaking in a negative way. “Boy, am I poor. I’ve even no money to give the Lord.” When an opportunity does come for a job with a good salary, the nervous system responds, “I am not able to be rich because I
haven’t received that reverse instruction from my nerve center yet. I am supposed to be poor, so I can’t accept this job. I can’t afford to have the money.” Like attracts like, and since you act
as if you were a poor person, you attract poverty; this attraction, if it remains consistent, will allow you to permanently dwell in poverty.

Exactly as the Bible said nearly 2,000 years ago, it is so today. Medical science has just recently discovered this principle. This one neurosurgeon said that people should keep
saying to themselves, “I am young. I am able. I can do the work of a young person no matter what my chronological age is.”
The nerves of that person will then come alive and thus receive power and strength from the nerve center.
The Bible says clearly that whosoever controls the tongue, controls the whole body. What you speak, you are going to get. If you keep on saying that you are poor, then all of your system conditions itself to attract poverty, and you will feel at home in poverty;you would rather be poor. But if you keep on saying that you are able, that you can achieve success, then all of your body would be bridled to success. You would be ready to meet any challenge, ready to conquer it. This is the reason you should never speak in a negative way.
Before you can be changed, you must change your language. If you do not change your language, you cannot change yourself. If you want to see your children changed, you must first teach them to use the proper language. If you want to see rebellious and irresponsible youth changed into responsible adult you must teach them this new language.

In Korea we have a habit of making frequent use of words having to do with dying. Common expressions are:
“Oh, it’s so warm I could die;” “Oh, I’ve eaten so much I could suffocate to death;” “Oh, I’m so happy I could die;” and “Oh, I’m scared to death.” Koreans repeatedly use these
negative words. That is the reason that throughout Korea’s five thousand year history we have been constantly dying, constantly at war. My generation has never seen total peace in our country. I was born during World War II, grew up during the Korean War, and now still live in a country on the brink of war.

Where can we learn this new language? From the best language book of all, the Bible. Read the Bible From Genesis to Revelation. Acquire the Bible’s language, speak the word of faith, and feed your nervous system with a vocabulary of constructive, progressive, productive and victorious words.
Speak those words;keep repeating them, so that they will have control of your whole body. Then you will become victorious, for you will be completely conditioned to meet your
environment and circumstances, and achieve success. This is the first important reason to use the spoken word: to create the power to have a successful personal life.

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25/05/2026

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24/05/2026

"KEVAKA KEITOU MATE, IA ME KEITOU MATE! IA KEVAKA KEITOU BULA, IA ME KEITOU BULA GA! IA KEITOU SA NA LAKO GA" - (Rev Amenio Baledrokadroka)

Ena nodra gole vakadaukaulotu ki New Britain(Papua New Guinea). Na vanua rerevaki ni a se kaukauwa kina na cakacaka ni Tevoro ena veikanikani, kei na so na mate lelevu me vaka na Malaria e yaco tu ena gauna oya. E cabe mai na Lotu Wesele e Viti kei Rotuma ena 1835. Oti e 40 na yabaki sa qai kau lotu tale ko Viti.

Ko ira eso nai Talatala era Kaulotu. Ko ira era a bola na mua ni veiqaravi vakadaukaulotu.

Yabaki 1875

Rev Amenio Baledrokadroka kei Lavenia Tupou
Rev Ratu Livai Volavola
Rev Ilimotama Ravono
Rev Peni Luvu
Rev Mijieli Vakaloloma
Rev Pauliasi Bunoa kei Seini
Rev Timoci Lase
Rev Peni Caumia

Yabaki 1876

Rev Sailasa Naucukidi kei Mere
Rev Peni Raiwalui
Rev Sosiceni Raguru kei Josiceni
Rev Sioni Ratunikula
Rev Juliasi Tunaka
Rev Anasa Raikabo
Rev Isoa Wainisikeci
Rev Timoci Baravi
Rev Aminiasi

Yabaki 1877

Rev Livai Nabaro kei Lavenia
Rev Jeremaia Tilatabu
Rev Timoci
Rev Inia Qalo

Yabaki 1878

Rev Kameli
Rev Josateki
Rev Sitiveni Kuli
Rev Sanapalati Saratini
Rev Manasa
Rev Aporosa Ulutu
Rev Samuela Uluikadavu
Rev Sitiveni Drua

Yabaki 1879

Rev Mesake Naqele
Rev Eroni

Yabaki 1880

Rev Watisoni
Rev Nimilote
Rev Samuela Tuinabua
Rev Jonetani
Rev Kitione Masi
Rev Manasa
Rev Sitiveni Dinau
Rev Aporosa Ulutu

Yabaki 1881

Rev Rusiate
Rev Aisea Sanibalolo
Rev Jo
Rev Pauliasi Voca
Rev Setoki Qase
Rev Ilaisa kei Sovia
Rev Kolinio

Yabaki 1883

Rev Sunia
Rev Akuila
Rev Samisoni
Rev Kitioni and Wife
Rev Tomasi Biu kei Ilisapeci
Rev Sefanaia
Rev Rusiate
Rev Sailasa Nairininacagi

Yabaki 1884

Rev Manasa Masuradia
Rev Sailasa Navunicagi
Rev Savenaca Jiuta
Rev Saimoni kei na Marama na Watina
Rev Are Naqaulevu
Rev Vilikesa Ralesi

Yabaki 1885

Rev Rupeni Nagera
Rev Viliame Taufa
Rev Tevita Gonevoni
Rev Osea Qera
Rev Livai Rasala
Rev Kuliniasi Vuniqumu
Rev Eliaseri Rainima
Rev Josaia Leitukabai
Rev Jemesa Nasarova
Rev Joni Veikila
Rev Kapeniasi
Rev Inoke Veileqe

Yabaki 1888

Rev Isoa Talata
Rev Patemosi Lomalagi

Yabaki 1889

Rev Eparama Vuraliso
Rev Joeli Ravokai
Rev Apisai Domolailai
Rev Nacanieli Vunisa
Rev Josefata Dramilevu
Rev Josefa Bai
Rev Atunaisa Narova
Rev Elikena Kailawa
Rev Joni Lala

Yabaki 1890

Rev Jomulusi Tukuca kei Joana
Rev Poate Ratu
Rev Jope Narara
Rev Sepuloni Lesei
Rev Samisoni Leleca
Rev Samisoni Bola
Rev Peni
Rev Inosi kei Asinate (Bua)
Rev Josefa Tikau
Rev Niemai
Rev Pailato Silimiratu kei na Marama ni Papua
Rev Mosese
Rev Eroni Nawouwou

Yabaki 1891

Rev Temesi Baqatava
Rev Josefa Tikau

Yabaki 1892

Rev Ananaiasa kei Setifane
Rev Juta
Rev Jona Tuqiri
Rev Joni Lala

Yabaki 1894

Rev Joeli Vuadreu kei Joana
Rev Aseri
Rev Isimeli Ratabua

Yabaki 1895

Rev Timoci Druganalevu
Rev Josefata Kasanawaqa
Rev Kolinio Catakira
Rev Peni Raveni
Rev Samuela Naboutini
Rev Sakeasi Sauleqaraki
Rev Ananaiasa Masiradia
Rev Joeli Sadriu
Rev Akuila Koroimata kei Aliti
Rev Sitiveni Rateru
Rev Saimoni Ratu
Rev Setareki Tuicakau
Rev Filimoni Walesi
Rev Sainivalati Soani
Rev Eliesa Bari
Rev Laisiasa Matanisiga

Yabaki 1896

Rev Laisiasa Roko kei Vasiti
Rev Kolinio Qio
Rev Opetaia Muanivanua
Rev Anitonia
Rev Peni Rokodaku
Rev Esekaia Druma
Rev Isikeli Mulasi
Rev Aisake Rabuleva
Rev Emosi Verebasaga kei Ulamila

1897

Rev Lala
Rev Josefa Bai
Rev Simione Momoivalu kei Nanise (Bua)
Rev Jotama Namamaudre kei Jimaima (Ra)
Rev Josua Mateinaniu kei Serajeini (Bau)
Rev Kelepi Roqica kei Vasiti (Ovalau)
Rev Jemesa Naisausau kei Ulamila (Ovalau)
Rev Maikeli Tabua kei Meri (Bau)
Rev Aselai Vakayadra kei Jeni (Bua)
Rev Koliniasi Vunigumu (Naivuruvuru)

Yabaki 1899

Rev Semi Tabaiwalu kei Seiniana
Rev Erueli Jecoro Tavutu kei Litiana
Rev Solomoni Tavatava
Rev Akuila Koroi
Rev Ratu Isei Vueta
Rev Livinai B Vueti kei Lanieta ( Malevu, Naviti,Yasawa)
Rev Eneri Vuki
Rev Nafetalai Qaligarogaro
Rev Naparama
Rev Jemesa Ausi( Honson) kei Elina
Rev Tevita Vakaturuturu
Rev Petero Timitela kei Varanisese
Rev Josefa Ravuso kei Jotaisa
Rev Inosi Bola kei Pasemaca
Rev Joni Vanani
Rev Solomoni Kurukibulu
Rev Atunaisa Barua
Rev Erueli Tavutuwale kei Litiana
Rev Romulusi Tukuca

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24/05/2026

Interdenominational Combine Service - Sydney , Australia.

24/05/2026

Interdenominational Combine Meeting, Sydney , Australia.