BY DAVID AIKMAN
PICTURED: The first version of the Increase App.
Eleven years ago, Dave Harvey was a humble follower of Jesus working as a teacher in the New South Wales School for the Scripture Union in Australia.

The Lord began to speak to him personally, 14 times over 18 months: God “wants you to go.”

God wanted him to go to America, but he was quite comfortable where he was and reluctant to go. But he and his wife decided that he had to obey what The Lord told him.

They decided that they would go. The next day, a real estate agent came to the front door and asked him if he wanted to sell his house. Of course, he did.

A few days later, his family,
consisting of his wife
and his three blonde-haired boys
ages 9, 11, and 13, were enrolled at the
Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry

at Bill Johnson’s Bethel Church
in Redding, California.

MIRACULOUS TESTIMONIES ABOUND 

The first message Bill preached to the assembled students was this: “don’t focus on what God has not done but focus on what you wanted Him to do and what He probably will do.”

At the time, Dave was leading a small group of 35 people and one week he asked them to draw a smiley face and place it on the ground in front of them.

Then he went around and spoke to this collection of painted artifacts and said the following, “Holy Spirit, let us all pray for the results. We want to see what we earnestly wish for.”

Dave asked the group to throw “God loves me” paintings into a pile in the center of the room. Then he stood over them and said, “God does not condemn you or judge you in any way. He loves you and He wants to bless you and bless the world from you.”

A group of girls heard this and started crying for each other. 

When their testimonies started flowing, some of the girls talked about some of their problems and issues.
The Lord began to do some healing, and soon there were children with autistic issues who were being healed. They converted to Jesus.

Photo by Adrianna Geo
From his experience at Bethel, Dave became convinced of the power of testimonies and that the testimonies were real. He’d also heard many miraculous stories by hanging around the church.

He decided what he wanted to do was multiply the prayers, testimonies, and the stories with a new app.

THE INCREASE APP
The app would relay testimonies all over the world, include a map of the world, and illustrate via points of light the miraculous answers to prayers.

He decided to call the map Increase.

The original Increase app design
This was a Scriptural word taken from Isaiah 9:7. In the King James version, it reads, “Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end.”

So, Increase became the name of the app and it can be downloaded on almost every smartphone in the world.

Today, Dave is a pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, but his ministry is worldwide in persuading people to be really outspoken about what the Holy Spirit is doing in various Christian communities.

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