Lesson learned
As some of you might know, we did Healing on the Streets in Slough High Street on Saturday. What an amazing day! It exceeded all our expectations. I think we had about 35 people from at least 4 different churches turn up for the 'training', which was really just a discussion about healing. After a short lunch break, we hit the streets.
It was actually such a crazy setup. We basically walked down to the High Street (like I said, a group of about 35 people), set up a big flag that reads 'healing', knelt down together in prayer and started handing out flyers asking people to come and receive prayer for healing. It was just amazing how much peace we experienced. You would think that we'd be super nervous, but it was so natural. And I realised again that the Kingdom of God is within us, which means that it exists wherever children of God are - and where the Kingdom is, there the fruit (peace, joy, love, etc) and gifts (healing!) of the Spirit are.
We must have prayed for about 25 people, a few of which experienced something miraculous. One guy, who couldn't speak any english, managed to explain to one of our guys that he has arthritis or something in his elbow. After they prayed for him, he jumped up and started hugging and kissing people! You can't fake that kind of excitement!
The lesson we learnt, however, only came the next day, during our Sunday service. We had such a heavy service, like we've never experienced in Slough. Many of our people were feeling burdened and just plain down. We did our best to counter the 'atmosphere' and eventually felt some release, but it wasn't easy. It became very clear to us, that when you stick your head out of the parapet, you attract fire. We've probably always known it to be so, but I've never felt it like we did on Sunday.
So, the lesson learnt is that we should never underestimate the willingness of our enemy to retaliate, which means that we should be super serious about prayer, both before and after something like this... In fact, we should be super serious about continous prayer. Not only is it the place where we are covered and receive from our Father, but it's also the place where we discern things ahead of time and helps us be prepared.
Wow! 'nough said. Otherwise we are well. Suzanne is looking beautiful with her tummy becoming really big now. More photo's to be put up soon.
Peace to you
It was actually such a crazy setup. We basically walked down to the High Street (like I said, a group of about 35 people), set up a big flag that reads 'healing', knelt down together in prayer and started handing out flyers asking people to come and receive prayer for healing. It was just amazing how much peace we experienced. You would think that we'd be super nervous, but it was so natural. And I realised again that the Kingdom of God is within us, which means that it exists wherever children of God are - and where the Kingdom is, there the fruit (peace, joy, love, etc) and gifts (healing!) of the Spirit are.
We must have prayed for about 25 people, a few of which experienced something miraculous. One guy, who couldn't speak any english, managed to explain to one of our guys that he has arthritis or something in his elbow. After they prayed for him, he jumped up and started hugging and kissing people! You can't fake that kind of excitement!
The lesson we learnt, however, only came the next day, during our Sunday service. We had such a heavy service, like we've never experienced in Slough. Many of our people were feeling burdened and just plain down. We did our best to counter the 'atmosphere' and eventually felt some release, but it wasn't easy. It became very clear to us, that when you stick your head out of the parapet, you attract fire. We've probably always known it to be so, but I've never felt it like we did on Sunday.
So, the lesson learnt is that we should never underestimate the willingness of our enemy to retaliate, which means that we should be super serious about prayer, both before and after something like this... In fact, we should be super serious about continous prayer. Not only is it the place where we are covered and receive from our Father, but it's also the place where we discern things ahead of time and helps us be prepared.
Wow! 'nough said. Otherwise we are well. Suzanne is looking beautiful with her tummy becoming really big now. More photo's to be put up soon.
Peace to you
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