Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

By: Jim Cymbala, Dean Merrill

Narrated by: Dick Fredricks

MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD • A Classic of Spiritual Transformation and Church Revitalization.

What can the Holy Spirit do when believers get serious about prayer and the gospel?

For anyone seeking to live at the center of God's purposes, Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire points the way to new spiritual vitality in the church and in your own life.

God moves in life-changing ways—calling us back from spiritual dead ends, apathy, and lukewarm religion—when we set aside our own agendas, take him at his word, and listen for his voice.

Pastor Jim Cymbala knows this from personal experience.

Back in the early 1970s his own church, the Brooklyn Tabernacle, was a struggling congregation of twenty. Then they began to pray…to really pray. Then God began to move, and street-hardened lives by the hundreds were changed with the love of Christ. Today, the Brooklyn Tabernacle is nearly ten thousand strong.

In this twentieth anniversary edition, Cymbala updates the classic stories, including that of his own daughter. You’ll learn how the church has grown and how God helped his people through difficult changes, financial challenges, and dramatic encounters. Cymbala extends his own story outward in order to show how God continues to reshape the life stories of so many people who encounter Christ and the power of the gospel.

This is a message of hope and transformation that continues right into your own stories, shaping and changing you through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Also available in Spanish, Fuego vivo, viento fresco.

©2001 Jim Cymbala (P)2001 Zondervan

Critic reviews

1999, Christian Book Award Winner, ECPA

2000, Christian Book of the Year Winner, ECPA

2002, Gold Book Award Winner, ECPA

"A book that voices some of the oldest Christian wisdom with the vivid immediacy of telling tomorrow's news." (Booklist)

Good word

Great message filled with old school stories that are very much applicable today. Check it out.

True

The narration is fine. Though the narrator is not my favorite voice, he is experienced and competent. What is most important is that it tells the truth. It tells spectacular, wonderful truth.

A Testimony to the Power of Prayerful Ministry

Jim Cymbala shares part of the incredible and miraculous story of his unlikely call to ministry, its improbable success, and the rise of Brooklyn Tabernacle Church. From the outset he paints a picture of how our calling, our ministry, and our churches are 100% dependent on God. Story after story reinforce the amazing way God honors the fidelity of his people to rely upon Him in all that they do for Him. He calls the church to be a House of Prayer, and the story expounds on how Cymbala has fought for that to be the case in his own ministry, his family and at his church. He also takes the next step in boldly exhorting us and our churches to ground our ministries in prayer as well, living in dependency upon God. This title will encourage anybody, yet, for the Holy Spirit indwelled Christian, God, reveals much about who He is and what He's doing in this world through this work. Enjoy.

Incredible book!

Pastor Cymbala is such a great communicator. The book really made me get focused on what really is important.

Blessed me

This was a wonderful listen and it blessed me in that it revealed to me again the power of prayer.

Search no more!

For the person searching for understanding in the design of God for their life. When you feel like what you are reading and hearing from the Lord is different than what the American Church might put out there, this work has some great scriptural reference to help you understand the vision that Christ has for His church and that means you.

Excellent writing that provides great guidance on what the word of the Lord says about His desire for His people and just how much He loves us and wants to empower us through the Holy Spirit in our lives to touch all those around us for His glory.

Holy Spirit

Jim Cymbala has definitely been an inspiration to me. He is correct, we must become desperate for prayer that is led by Holy Spirit.

Without prayer no revival!

I appreciate the honesty, the experience, and the guidance about the true meaning of prayer and its benefits. Thank you for your time.

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

I enjoyed this book very much. I recommend it highly. It was well written.

Informative & Inspiring!

Found it difficult to pause, not wanting to have to wait to get back to it.