Brian Mark Weller

I wrote and recorded the song "Fan the Fire" in the late 1980s while thinking and praying about the need for revival. I had come to Jesus in 1975 during the Jesus movement, a true heaven-sent revival. Many in my generation were swept into God's Kingdom and embraced Jesus Christ wholeheartedly during that time.

We were about worship, reading and learning the Bible, witnessing to others, and doing what we thought Jesus would do if He were here. We certainly had our failings, and at times our zeal caused us to misrepresent the Lord, but our hearts were in the right place. Our goal was to "seek first the Kingdom of God, and His righteousness." (Matthew 6:33).

Jesus Christ came into our lives and changed everything through the power Holy Spirit! He freed us from drugs, alcohol, and occultic things and practices and changed our way of thinking. Our lives went from dark to light and our newfound friend, Lord, and Savior, Jesus Christ, was the one we wanted to please and live for wholeheartedly.

When I wrote Fan the Fire," it seemed some Jesus people's hearts were growing cold and were passing that on to the next generation. We needed God to move powerfully again, and having lived through the Jesus Movement, I knew what revival looked like and hoped to help spur it on again with this song. I sang "Fan the Fire" hundreds of times in hundreds of locations. Even now, 36 years later, the prayerful words of this song are still the prayer of my heart.