Thank you for your much-needed prayers. I am just back from Kyiv, Ukraine, and before that, with just 2 days in the office in between, I was in Kazakhstan.

We arrived in Kyiv late on the night of 3 July. An air raid alarm was in place. As we went to bed after midnight the biggest Russian air assault yet – Kyiv the main target – rained down on us: 539 Shahed drones, 1 Kinzhal missile, 6 ballistic missiles, 4 cruise missiles. Our house shook. Kyiv woke to smoke and debris. I was glad I was there to experience with the people of Ukraine what it is like when Putin tries to bring down hell on an innocent nation.

I pray you will have a spiritually blessed – and happy – New Year! So, this coming year will be very significant – we will see major changes – increasing political and financial unrest – specific prophecies fulfilled. And stop worrying about climate change and global warming – Jesus alone has the answer; the God who created order out of a flood has promised that under His control ‘the lion will lie down with the lamb’ and the world will be a paradise, no fear and no war! Come quickly, Lord Jesus!

These experiences demonstrate how clearly God speaks to me and leads me. He did it again this summer when I met Him on the mountain. Of several questions and requests, by the time I came down, He had answered two, of which the most critical is a clear programme for the coming years, containing a clear command and power to fulfil it. This has been the pattern of my whole life – He instructs me what to do – I explain that it is impossible – He ‘pushes me off the mountain’ – and the miracle always follows!

As I write this I have recently returned from my week of prayer on the mountains in Switzerland. I felt a burden as I left and asked some of you to pray especially for our staff, not just in Dewsbury, but in all the countries where we are working. Our staff who live in Kyiv are under constant air-raid sirens, yet continue to produce all our TV programmes from our office. Vadim, as many will know, is a chaplain in the military and regularly travels to the front line with Bibles, general aid, life-saving equipment and generators. Some of our other staff are also in difficulty. Misha and his whole family are refugees from their home in Moscow and now live in Central Asia