Have been quiet on my blog this last week... it has been very busy getting ready for Christmas...
Spent yesterday afternoon with about 50 from Maidenhead Congregation of River Church, 35+ of them dressed as Santa .. giving out balloons and hot chocolate as well as "Y Christmas" ... it was a very happy time. Dave J gave a word of knowledge to a Hari Krishna who was giving out books on the same High Street, it opened an opportunity to pray for him...
Anyway... wanted to announce ASAP three healing meeting for Feb 2010, with Che Ahn.. I was with Che last month in Seattle and saw some great stuff happen. The meetings will be in Slough, Tottenham and Greenwich on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of Feb... please note dates... more info and publicity in the New Year.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Report from my last week
So back today from a three week trip... covered 4 countries.... most of the trip was about my own developments but with bits of ministry along the way... in the last 3 weeks there where 4 people healed and various words of knowledge and prophetic words.
This last Saturday was particularly fun... just a small group, but all the prophetic words seemed to hit the mark.. here is an extract from a text sent to the hosts Stephen and Mara... names etc hidden..
"Thank you so much for your love today... To experience the wisdom and accuracy of Christen's word for me today has been confirmation that I can no longer deny God's path I am destined to follow. I can no longer hide behind the barbs and defenses...."
In addition I gave a word of knowledge for shoulder pain, two people responded ... in both cases the pain left there and then, in one case the condition was a serious long term issue that would need to be verified ...
I love seeing Jesus change people, whether in body, soul or spirit... it's all good
This last Saturday was particularly fun... just a small group, but all the prophetic words seemed to hit the mark.. here is an extract from a text sent to the hosts Stephen and Mara... names etc hidden..
"Thank you so much for your love today... To experience the wisdom and accuracy of Christen's word for me today has been confirmation that I can no longer deny God's path I am destined to follow. I can no longer hide behind the barbs and defenses...."
In addition I gave a word of knowledge for shoulder pain, two people responded ... in both cases the pain left there and then, in one case the condition was a serious long term issue that would need to be verified ...
I love seeing Jesus change people, whether in body, soul or spirit... it's all good
Friday, December 4, 2009
Faith stretching in Australia or "Stephen tries to kill me!"
OK see the photo's below.. I was claiming verses like 2 Sam 22:4 - "He makes my feet like a hinds feet and sets me on high places"....
... and rejecting ones like 2 Sam 1:19 " Your glory Israel is slain on high places... how the mighty have fallen"
Any other verse suggestions happily received...
... and rejecting ones like 2 Sam 1:19 " Your glory Israel is slain on high places... how the mighty have fallen"
Any other verse suggestions happily received...
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Report from last night
Last night Che Ahn spoke here in Bothell, near Seattle... It was the most powerful healing meeting I have been in since Lakeland, although I can't tell you too many testimonies as I was praying for people in it all. But one that stood out was for a Korean lady who was healed of either breast or thyroid, (sorry I was only half listening as I prayed for people) But she had fealt something and the swellings had now shrunk and gone.. Che prayed for her again and she was bouncing off the floor in the Spirit.
I prayed for people with other cancers, an older man with lung cancer, but can't say what happened or not and a couple where the wife had breast cancer.. I had a word about an attack on her womanhood and the need to release the person who had, her husband said "that's your Mom!", I said it had fealt like a woman who had been the person, but she wasn't so sure as she had tried releasing her mum a year before.. but as she talked it was obvious there was a very controlling situation from her mother, she said herself that she probably had all sorts of soul ties with her mother. We prayed to cut these off and commanded the cancer to leave... there was no obvious sign ... but the couple have my email to update me...
Then I prayed for husband who had a degenerative eye condition, I asked about other cases in his family and his mother had had it ... as I prayed I found myself praying to cut off the effects of incest in the family line... the husband agreed and told me after that this was definitely in the parents generation and probably further back than that... His eyes did not immediately improve...
For both I recommended they found somewhere to more comprehensively clear out the effects of their pasts..
This morning I had the opportunity to pray for another man with back issues from a car accident and foot issues from a hunting accident. Again he couldn't test there and then as both came and went in different situations, but I had felt the Spirit as I prayed so I will update on all of these cases as and when I hear back from people.
I prayed for people with other cancers, an older man with lung cancer, but can't say what happened or not and a couple where the wife had breast cancer.. I had a word about an attack on her womanhood and the need to release the person who had, her husband said "that's your Mom!", I said it had fealt like a woman who had been the person, but she wasn't so sure as she had tried releasing her mum a year before.. but as she talked it was obvious there was a very controlling situation from her mother, she said herself that she probably had all sorts of soul ties with her mother. We prayed to cut these off and commanded the cancer to leave... there was no obvious sign ... but the couple have my email to update me...
Then I prayed for husband who had a degenerative eye condition, I asked about other cases in his family and his mother had had it ... as I prayed I found myself praying to cut off the effects of incest in the family line... the husband agreed and told me after that this was definitely in the parents generation and probably further back than that... His eyes did not immediately improve...
For both I recommended they found somewhere to more comprehensively clear out the effects of their pasts..
This morning I had the opportunity to pray for another man with back issues from a car accident and foot issues from a hunting accident. Again he couldn't test there and then as both came and went in different situations, but I had felt the Spirit as I prayed so I will update on all of these cases as and when I hear back from people.
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Fused vertabrae and more healed
Well I haven't updated for a while as I've been very busy getting input at TACF from their Restoring the Foundations Ministry.. Hopefully everyone that knows me will find I'm a far better person for it on my return...
I'm in Seattle at the moment, and am doing a bit of output at the moment... praying for impartation for people this morning with Che Ahn and this evening praying for a guy with multiple ailments.
Bill Johnson spoke and then released us to body ministry. The guy I talked to was called Bill, he was originally from Moldova. When I asked what was wrong he had a list of things migraines, pain in his wrist from a break a few weeks ago, back pain and varicose vein pain... after the first bought of prayer he had an improvement in the wrist and in the vein pain, but it was disappointing that when Bill asked at this stage from the front who had recieved a healing it didn't feel good enough for him to wave.
So we prayed again... this time I laid hands on his back, but it was not in the place where the pain was so he showed me and I prayed again, no change, so I bound any spirit of infirmity and released healing again. I asked him to test it for the third time and this time he was visibly surprised as there was no pain. Then we prayed again for his arm and almost all the pain went, we prayed again and he was then shaking it hard saying "I couldn't do this earlier it is healed".
Then Bill asked, by word of knowledge, if anyone had been healed from fused discs, Bill responded enthusiastically and said he had the x-rays to prove it but now he was moving freely... and his arm was healed and no pain in his legs...
Can't say what happened re the migraines as he didn't have one to test... but he kept coming and thanking me during the rest of the ministry... which is always nice even though I am not able to heal people at all, the presence of Jesus was there in the room all we did together was grab hold of it for his healing.
I'm in Seattle at the moment, and am doing a bit of output at the moment... praying for impartation for people this morning with Che Ahn and this evening praying for a guy with multiple ailments.
Bill Johnson spoke and then released us to body ministry. The guy I talked to was called Bill, he was originally from Moldova. When I asked what was wrong he had a list of things migraines, pain in his wrist from a break a few weeks ago, back pain and varicose vein pain... after the first bought of prayer he had an improvement in the wrist and in the vein pain, but it was disappointing that when Bill asked at this stage from the front who had recieved a healing it didn't feel good enough for him to wave.
So we prayed again... this time I laid hands on his back, but it was not in the place where the pain was so he showed me and I prayed again, no change, so I bound any spirit of infirmity and released healing again. I asked him to test it for the third time and this time he was visibly surprised as there was no pain. Then we prayed again for his arm and almost all the pain went, we prayed again and he was then shaking it hard saying "I couldn't do this earlier it is healed".
Then Bill asked, by word of knowledge, if anyone had been healed from fused discs, Bill responded enthusiastically and said he had the x-rays to prove it but now he was moving freely... and his arm was healed and no pain in his legs...
Can't say what happened re the migraines as he didn't have one to test... but he kept coming and thanking me during the rest of the ministry... which is always nice even though I am not able to heal people at all, the presence of Jesus was there in the room all we did together was grab hold of it for his healing.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Fwd: Brozefs
An email update to the blog...
I love stories from my buddy Myles... This one is of the supernatural return of lost property... you have to work hard on Myles' unique Maidenhead street patois ... also before you are offended by Myles' comment about a "cheeky Indian" please note Myles is of Indian extraction too.. so here's the story in Myles own inimitable style...
I love stories from my buddy Myles... This one is of the supernatural return of lost property... you have to work hard on Myles' unique Maidenhead street patois ... also before you are offended by Myles' comment about a "cheeky Indian" please note Myles is of Indian extraction too.. so here's the story in Myles own inimitable style...
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Myles Dhillon
Date: 2009/11/13
Subject: Brozefs
To:
Dope story, ill be as brief as possible without loosing the gnarleyness of how gnarley God is.
So i called one of Becs friends yesterday to see if she wanted to meet me at a market i was gonna go to - this was the first time i will have met or spoke to her and on the phone she told me she wasnt really up for going anywhere as she has lost her bag or rather she had her front door open and she thinks some cheeky indian came in an nicked it. Maybe the rubbish dude. Sucks hey.
So i was like hey that sucks ..... and shared a few stories with her about stuff id heard from bethel, like "I want my keys" and "I want my breifcase" ask someone if you dont know about these. Then i just took authority over her bag and claimed that everything was made in the Glory, so everything can go in and out of the Glory realm so i asked if God would disolve it into the Glory from wherever it was and 'pop' it back into reality. Like take it into the spirutal realm and then transport it and bring it back, i dunno what i prayed really but thats what i was thinking anyway.
So she calls me like 6 hours later and tells me that after we spoke she looked for her bag for like 2 hours with her house mate. Tis a big bag, i saw it today and her flat is small with not much stuff. She went into her room and put her computer on her bed and started listening to a sermon she lay down on her bed and basically when the talk had finished she lay and hung out with god for a bit and fell asleep, woke up. Bear in mind no one is in her house now and the front door is definatly locked since she is now parra about being robbed, she closed her laptop so it was flat and behind her laptop was her bag - just chillin there. It poped back. Pretty jokes huh? Daddy reallys cares about the little things.
Jokes!
From: Myles Dhillon
Date: 2009/11/13
Subject: Brozefs
To:
Dope story, ill be as brief as possible without loosing the gnarleyness of how gnarley God is.
So i called one of Becs friends yesterday to see if she wanted to meet me at a market i was gonna go to - this was the first time i will have met or spoke to her and on the phone she told me she wasnt really up for going anywhere as she has lost her bag or rather she had her front door open and she thinks some cheeky indian came in an nicked it. Maybe the rubbish dude. Sucks hey.
So i was like hey that sucks ..... and shared a few stories with her about stuff id heard from bethel, like "I want my keys" and "I want my breifcase" ask someone if you dont know about these. Then i just took authority over her bag and claimed that everything was made in the Glory, so everything can go in and out of the Glory realm so i asked if God would disolve it into the Glory from wherever it was and 'pop' it back into reality. Like take it into the spirutal realm and then transport it and bring it back, i dunno what i prayed really but thats what i was thinking anyway.
So she calls me like 6 hours later and tells me that after we spoke she looked for her bag for like 2 hours with her house mate. Tis a big bag, i saw it today and her flat is small with not much stuff. She went into her room and put her computer on her bed and started listening to a sermon she lay down on her bed and basically when the talk had finished she lay and hung out with god for a bit and fell asleep, woke up. Bear in mind no one is in her house now and the front door is definatly locked since she is now parra about being robbed, she closed her laptop so it was flat and behind her laptop was her bag - just chillin there. It poped back. Pretty jokes huh? Daddy reallys cares about the little things.
Jokes!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Testimonys From two missions trips
This morning at River Church Maidenhead we had reports back from two missions trip... Lesotho and Nepal... Lesotho was a report full of the impact of Jesus on the lives that went... stretching themselves in preaching, praying for the sick etc.
The Nepal trip had a smaller team you can see pictures at http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Articles/170646/River_Church/Church_life/Mission/Places/Nepal/Photos_from_Nepal.aspx . There where over 50 confirmed healing at one single event.. including the healing of a child that had been in a comma for several days reviving after being prayed for.
Thank you Matt and James for all you work on the Lesotho trip. And to Colin, Rob, Peter, Alison, Emma and Mary who treked into the Himalayas with the love of Jesus.
The Nepal trip had a smaller team you can see pictures at http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Articles/170646/River_Church/Church_life/Mission/Places/Nepal/Photos_from_Nepal.aspx . There where over 50 confirmed healing at one single event.. including the healing of a child that had been in a comma for several days reviving after being prayed for.
Thank you Matt and James for all you work on the Lesotho trip. And to Colin, Rob, Peter, Alison, Emma and Mary who treked into the Himalayas with the love of Jesus.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Great testimony of God's provision
Just heard a nice story this morning...
I'll include text from the email, but amended to take out personal details...
So the story starts..
I'll include text from the email, but amended to take out personal details...
So the story starts..
"I heard you speak on finance a little while ago and it changed my thinking, I gave the cash I had with me on the day and when the time came to make my bank transfer, still overdrawn I really felt that it was something that I should do anyway, not with the expectation that if I gave I'd get anything back, but actually just because I wanted to ..... have to tell you that since then both of our cars have broken and we reached the point 2 weeks ago where we were talking about remortgaging the house !"
But finishes with the early release of thousands of pounds from an inheritance and the discovery that there was more than 3 times as much to come to them than they had known about ... so despite the early release of some funds there is still more left than they had originally thought was their in total...
What I most enjoyed in the story though was the description of how the individual concerned had recognised how they made their financial decisions based on fear and had deliberately chosen to live differently...
I thought I would include a link to the talk she mentions, (paste ..
http://riverresources.uk.endis.com/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=164434 into your browser...),
because I think it's an important one... people often fall into one of two categories... either they become religious in their approach to money or they operate out of fear... as I've learnt to operate in faith with regards to finance I have found an increase in my spiritual authority... so if you've not heard this talk I would recommend you do..
http://riverresources.uk.endis.com/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=164434 into your browser...),
because I think it's an important one... people often fall into one of two categories... either they become religious in their approach to money or they operate out of fear... as I've learnt to operate in faith with regards to finance I have found an increase in my spiritual authority... so if you've not heard this talk I would recommend you do..
Monday, November 2, 2009
Words of knowledge, salvations and more
This morning was our fortnightly meeting for anyone involved in leadership in River... we tell stories, worship and pray together...
First there where some great stories from the Youth who had been "treasure hunting"... this is an approach to evangelism where you look to get words from Jesus that lead you to a person to talk and pray for...
First there was a team of three that got the words.... "Texaco", "boilersuit" and "arthritis".... they knew there was a Texaco garage near the river so walked down to it... across the road there was a man in boilersuit fishing so they went over to talk to him, they asked about arthritis.. which the man confirmed he did have... so tey prayed for him... the man couldn't be sure as his arthritis was one that came and went... but thank you Jesus for our young people...
Then there was a guy met at a psychic bookstall... who talked to our team for ages and then gave his life to Jesus!
On a different night, one of the people on our Big Year ( see http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Groups/90393/River_Church/The_BIG_Year/The_BIG_Year.aspx ) took a friend to an meeting with a lady who works with Heidi Baker, the friend heard people speaking in tongues and wanted to know all about it... in short on that night he gave his life to Jesus, got filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues himself.
I'm noticing that arthritis keeps coming up at the moment, (as in the testimony above) also I am trying to arrange a date to go back and pray for the Sikh lady with arthritis, in Gibraltar I prayed for arthritis etc... Jesus I am looking for the breakthrough in authority with this disease that we currently see with bone and muscle pains... amen
First there where some great stories from the Youth who had been "treasure hunting"... this is an approach to evangelism where you look to get words from Jesus that lead you to a person to talk and pray for...
First there was a team of three that got the words.... "Texaco", "boilersuit" and "arthritis".... they knew there was a Texaco garage near the river so walked down to it... across the road there was a man in boilersuit fishing so they went over to talk to him, they asked about arthritis.. which the man confirmed he did have... so tey prayed for him... the man couldn't be sure as his arthritis was one that came and went... but thank you Jesus for our young people...
Then there was a guy met at a psychic bookstall... who talked to our team for ages and then gave his life to Jesus!
On a different night, one of the people on our Big Year ( see http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Groups/90393/River_Church/The_BIG_Year/The_BIG_Year.aspx ) took a friend to an meeting with a lady who works with Heidi Baker, the friend heard people speaking in tongues and wanted to know all about it... in short on that night he gave his life to Jesus, got filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues himself.
I'm noticing that arthritis keeps coming up at the moment, (as in the testimony above) also I am trying to arrange a date to go back and pray for the Sikh lady with arthritis, in Gibraltar I prayed for arthritis etc... Jesus I am looking for the breakthrough in authority with this disease that we currently see with bone and muscle pains... amen
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Relaxing in Gib
OK in case you where wondering if it was all work and no play from the previous posting... and just to offend a few religious spirits... I've included the following pictures of us relaxing after the meetings...
OK before I get to many complaints I didn't finish praying til about 12:30 and this was one of the best places to get a meal after 1 am...
OK before I get to many complaints I didn't finish praying til about 12:30 and this was one of the best places to get a meal after 1 am...
Great weekend in Gibraltar
Back from my ministry trip to Gibraltar. Over the weekend I took for meetings for a new church, Living Water Church. I thought the focus would be healings but the Holy Spirit took the meetings clearly in a prophetic direction with words of knowledge that helped people to freedom from long term issues.
So on the first night... I gave a general word and had 3 healing words, all three where in the room, but only two people who responded to the word re lower leg pains and issues got obviously healed on the night. we'll have to wait and see re the lady with tumors and there was also a deaf ear but I didn't get a chance to pray for this til Sunday morning.. there were a number of visitors from Spain... as there where only about 40 in the room I went into prophesying for everyone... there were some more physical manifestations as I prophesied and prayed for ailments... one lad of about 16... I prophesied that he hungerered and thirsted for righteousness and would be satisfied... he was agreeing as the translation was given, then the man with him explained that he had an unknown illness that took away his natural appetite... I bound a spirit of infirmity and he fell to the floor... unfortunately he was gone before i finished prophecying for everyone, so I don't know what happened to him.
Several where surprised by connections in the prophecies and their lives... some of these where very personal so I will not post them here, but are a couple of examples would be a lady who's prophecy where all about her battle for hope in the face of dissappointment.. she was agreeing heartily when I felt I should ask her, her name... she said "Nadine" I asked her what it meant... she smiled and said "it means Hope"... another lady came forward I said I felt the word was for her husband as well and I asked if he was there... she said "no" ... then I just found myself saying "no he's at home looking after the children"... she said "yes"... I held up two fingers and said "children"... she said "yes" and I said "and the oldest is the girl" ... she said "wow you're good"... in reality it is Jesus who is good and I just tune in ... her word was all about strengthening the family for a purpose...
As I slept that night I felt the Spirit say I needed to address agreements with the devil the next night... not my usual message as I don't like to give the enemy too much time... There where no vistors Saturday so only about 25 people.. It felt like a battle while speaking... and I called people forward with an opportunity for confession to break agreements with the enemy.. then I would prophecy things about what they should be ...
About half present had confessions some very deep and painful... including.. hatred, murder in the heart, unforgiveness, occult incidents, deep hurts etc several people where experiencing very real deliverances without too much drama... before the meeting I had prayed to bind any demonic presences...
The fruit was felt the next morning ... when the worship really took off... but before that as people arrived Jesus gave me a really sensitive word... I was wondering how to give it without exposing the person when a lady who had had real breakthrough the night before came up as we spoke I knew I should ask her about the word... she looked shocked when I asked.. then as I prayed for her I got a name... I asked her if it meant anything... it was another family member who was the other victim in the incident I had asked her about... we prayed into the event and broke it's power in her Spirit...
These are samples, as said a lot of the words had very personal content so I am being vague in the examples I have given and a couple I wouldn't share at all... but overall it was a time that I had to be really confident in the gift of prophecy ... a coupe of times people confirmed words of knowledge about things that they didn't really want to let go of..
Thank you Jesus ... I know that the church has taken a big step forward... when I first felt Jesus say to go for breaking the bonds of the enemy he took me to some of Jesus healing stories that involved breaking the power of the demonic... one was the lady doubled up who Jesus refers to being bound by Satan for 18 years and another was the deaf mute after which he talks about the need to bind the strong man before plundering his goods. I thought at the time that this would be the breakthrough for some more healings ... but in the end the two parables did seem to sum up what happened in the next two days.
So on the first night... I gave a general word and had 3 healing words, all three where in the room, but only two people who responded to the word re lower leg pains and issues got obviously healed on the night. we'll have to wait and see re the lady with tumors and there was also a deaf ear but I didn't get a chance to pray for this til Sunday morning.. there were a number of visitors from Spain... as there where only about 40 in the room I went into prophesying for everyone... there were some more physical manifestations as I prophesied and prayed for ailments... one lad of about 16... I prophesied that he hungerered and thirsted for righteousness and would be satisfied... he was agreeing as the translation was given, then the man with him explained that he had an unknown illness that took away his natural appetite... I bound a spirit of infirmity and he fell to the floor... unfortunately he was gone before i finished prophecying for everyone, so I don't know what happened to him.
Several where surprised by connections in the prophecies and their lives... some of these where very personal so I will not post them here, but are a couple of examples would be a lady who's prophecy where all about her battle for hope in the face of dissappointment.. she was agreeing heartily when I felt I should ask her, her name... she said "Nadine" I asked her what it meant... she smiled and said "it means Hope"... another lady came forward I said I felt the word was for her husband as well and I asked if he was there... she said "no" ... then I just found myself saying "no he's at home looking after the children"... she said "yes"... I held up two fingers and said "children"... she said "yes" and I said "and the oldest is the girl" ... she said "wow you're good"... in reality it is Jesus who is good and I just tune in ... her word was all about strengthening the family for a purpose...
As I slept that night I felt the Spirit say I needed to address agreements with the devil the next night... not my usual message as I don't like to give the enemy too much time... There where no vistors Saturday so only about 25 people.. It felt like a battle while speaking... and I called people forward with an opportunity for confession to break agreements with the enemy.. then I would prophecy things about what they should be ...
About half present had confessions some very deep and painful... including.. hatred, murder in the heart, unforgiveness, occult incidents, deep hurts etc several people where experiencing very real deliverances without too much drama... before the meeting I had prayed to bind any demonic presences...
The fruit was felt the next morning ... when the worship really took off... but before that as people arrived Jesus gave me a really sensitive word... I was wondering how to give it without exposing the person when a lady who had had real breakthrough the night before came up as we spoke I knew I should ask her about the word... she looked shocked when I asked.. then as I prayed for her I got a name... I asked her if it meant anything... it was another family member who was the other victim in the incident I had asked her about... we prayed into the event and broke it's power in her Spirit...
These are samples, as said a lot of the words had very personal content so I am being vague in the examples I have given and a couple I wouldn't share at all... but overall it was a time that I had to be really confident in the gift of prophecy ... a coupe of times people confirmed words of knowledge about things that they didn't really want to let go of..
Thank you Jesus ... I know that the church has taken a big step forward... when I first felt Jesus say to go for breaking the bonds of the enemy he took me to some of Jesus healing stories that involved breaking the power of the demonic... one was the lady doubled up who Jesus refers to being bound by Satan for 18 years and another was the deaf mute after which he talks about the need to bind the strong man before plundering his goods. I thought at the time that this would be the breakthrough for some more healings ... but in the end the two parables did seem to sum up what happened in the next two days.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Levels of breakthrough
Today I dropped of "The Shack" to the lady with arthritis ... what has this novel got to do with healing?
Well lots of illness are multi-layered and healing requires breakthrough at all layers... arthritis in particular has been shown to links to stress, trauma, anger and unforgiveness. I've seen arthritis healed a handful of times now, sometimes it has been straightforward, you pray and the pain goes... but other times you feel the prompting of the Spirit to release forgiveness to the person, or to ask them to release someone else in forgiveness ... this is much harder because easy forgiveness probably implies that there wasn't much to forgive, just offence taken by one party... when there has been real hurt, injustice and abuse forgiveness really does cost... and so breakthrough is struggle for the individual that needs to forgive
Look at the cross... we say that "to forgive is divine" and that is true... forgiveness connects us to God, but the cross tells us forgiveness is not trivial and even for God it is going to hurt to forgive so for the individual looking for healing through the release of forgiveness it may be a real process, not just a quick prayer...
in 1 John we are told that "we love because he first loved us"... this touches on a key... it is only the input of God into us that allows us to behave in God-like ways... my own personal testimony included someone I hated! I couldn't love them naturally... but I made a decision to tell Father that I knew he loved the person and so he could love them through me.... The relationship changed dramatically...
Anyway... my hope with "The Shack" is that the lady will encounter the love of Father and in this find the strength she needs to forgive too..
On a slightly different tack... I have been thinking today about why some healings are harder to release than others... this was true for Jesus too if you read the gospels carefully... you'll notice sometimes he has do more than other times... even praying twice etc... taking people away from the crowd sometimes and on other occasions just moving through the crowd...
On a personal level I know I see a lot of joint, back, neck, pain healing ... I tend to feel pretty confident in this area... but other things, while I've seen some incredible healings seem more sporadic... gradually I feel like I'm learning the different reasons, spiritual, physical, emotional etc that cause an illness to stick harder to one individual than another... I'm encouraged by the story of Jesus healing the epileptic boy his disciples could not heal... it tells me that it is not arbitrarily down to God whether he heals or not, but whether the wisdom and authority of the disciple is up to the particular situation in hand with it's unique mix of faith, history, spiritual agreement etc... i.e God is consistant and I want to grow...
Finally... because I see a lot of joint healing etc I often don't mention them.... but I thought I would include a "Thank you" note I received a while back as it reminds me that for the individual no healing is insignificant.....
"Hi Chris,
Just wanted to thank you for praying with me on Monday. The good news is that whilst I wasn't instantly healed on Monday, my recovery since then has been dramatic! As from then, my back is about 75% better and I absolutely know that isn't the normal speed of recovery for the amount of damage I had done.
The things that you prayed were so spot on and I know that the Lord fed my spirit in a deep way and prepared the way for what I'm experiencing now. I'm still getting prayer whenever I can (especially from the kids!) and I know beyond doubt that the Lord is going to complete this healing for me. Monday was very significant - thank you! He's an amazing God...."
Well lots of illness are multi-layered and healing requires breakthrough at all layers... arthritis in particular has been shown to links to stress, trauma, anger and unforgiveness. I've seen arthritis healed a handful of times now, sometimes it has been straightforward, you pray and the pain goes... but other times you feel the prompting of the Spirit to release forgiveness to the person, or to ask them to release someone else in forgiveness ... this is much harder because easy forgiveness probably implies that there wasn't much to forgive, just offence taken by one party... when there has been real hurt, injustice and abuse forgiveness really does cost... and so breakthrough is struggle for the individual that needs to forgive
Look at the cross... we say that "to forgive is divine" and that is true... forgiveness connects us to God, but the cross tells us forgiveness is not trivial and even for God it is going to hurt to forgive so for the individual looking for healing through the release of forgiveness it may be a real process, not just a quick prayer...
in 1 John we are told that "we love because he first loved us"... this touches on a key... it is only the input of God into us that allows us to behave in God-like ways... my own personal testimony included someone I hated! I couldn't love them naturally... but I made a decision to tell Father that I knew he loved the person and so he could love them through me.... The relationship changed dramatically...
Anyway... my hope with "The Shack" is that the lady will encounter the love of Father and in this find the strength she needs to forgive too..
On a slightly different tack... I have been thinking today about why some healings are harder to release than others... this was true for Jesus too if you read the gospels carefully... you'll notice sometimes he has do more than other times... even praying twice etc... taking people away from the crowd sometimes and on other occasions just moving through the crowd...
On a personal level I know I see a lot of joint, back, neck, pain healing ... I tend to feel pretty confident in this area... but other things, while I've seen some incredible healings seem more sporadic... gradually I feel like I'm learning the different reasons, spiritual, physical, emotional etc that cause an illness to stick harder to one individual than another... I'm encouraged by the story of Jesus healing the epileptic boy his disciples could not heal... it tells me that it is not arbitrarily down to God whether he heals or not, but whether the wisdom and authority of the disciple is up to the particular situation in hand with it's unique mix of faith, history, spiritual agreement etc... i.e God is consistant and I want to grow...
Finally... because I see a lot of joint healing etc I often don't mention them.... but I thought I would include a "Thank you" note I received a while back as it reminds me that for the individual no healing is insignificant.....
"Hi Chris,
Just wanted to thank you for praying with me on Monday. The good news is that whilst I wasn't instantly healed on Monday, my recovery since then has been dramatic! As from then, my back is about 75% better and I absolutely know that isn't the normal speed of recovery for the amount of damage I had done.
The things that you prayed were so spot on and I know that the Lord fed my spirit in a deep way and prepared the way for what I'm experiencing now. I'm still getting prayer whenever I can (especially from the kids!) and I know beyond doubt that the Lord is going to complete this healing for me. Monday was very significant - thank you! He's an amazing God...."
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Please pray for lady with arthritis
Yesterday I took two students from the Big Year, Flavia and Rosalia to pray for a Seikh lady with very bad arthritis. No instant breakthrough, but we talked about unforgiveness, shared some testimony and arranged for follow up prayer... please join us in praying... I hope to drop off a copy of "The Shack" later today and am looking for a good testimony or small tract on "Forgiveness".
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Testimony from River Church Slough this morning.
I was speaking this morning at Slough, I spoke on the victory of Jesus in us by his Holy Spirit and how this Spirit in us is itching to win victories through us etc... at the end I asked people to find someone they trusted and share an area they where looking to see victory in... which people did...
Aferwards as I was about to leave, John S told me he had asked Paul Lane to pray for his arthritis and he was now walking out pain free...
Thank you Jesus... I prayed for a stranger in London last weekend for arthritis and tomorrow I visit a lady in her home who is the sister of a friend of someone in River who needs healing from arthritis... so this testimony is a faith raiser..
Looking forward to more tonight at the Deeper meeting.
I was speaking this morning at Slough, I spoke on the victory of Jesus in us by his Holy Spirit and how this Spirit in us is itching to win victories through us etc... at the end I asked people to find someone they trusted and share an area they where looking to see victory in... which people did...
Aferwards as I was about to leave, John S told me he had asked Paul Lane to pray for his arthritis and he was now walking out pain free...
Thank you Jesus... I prayed for a stranger in London last weekend for arthritis and tomorrow I visit a lady in her home who is the sister of a friend of someone in River who needs healing from arthritis... so this testimony is a faith raiser..
Looking forward to more tonight at the Deeper meeting.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
A second test from my mobile
Just trying a second way of posting from my phone
Sent from my Nokia phone
Getting back into the habit
Well I've been very remiss in posting stories etc... I guess over the summer I just forgot... but I do want to keep the stories flowing... so a quick review of the last few weeks...
Was at Open Doors Baptist about three weeks ago... there where quite a few basic healings and prophetic words for people, but one stood out, I has a word of knowedge about a bad eye.. and so background on the causes... two ladies responded (there where about 45 people in the room).. At the end of the meeting one of the ladies came forward to testify first on the relevance of the prophetic words given to her and her daughter and then to say that her eye had been healed... she had been seeing a doctor because one eye's vision was "milky", but now it was totally clear... Amen
Then this week at our training school, I gave a word about pain under the ribs... there are 14 on the year and one, Flavia an 18 year old girl from Pakistan responded. I prayed for her and she said maybe it was a bit better, so I said we would pray again.. as I started to pray she blurted out "oh it's gone"... she was surprised she had had the pain for some weeks.
A different type of story... at our Deeper worship meeting, (http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Groups/75574/River_Church/Events/Revival_Meetings/Revival_Meetings.aspx) last month I had prayed for a lady whos sister has been unable to work because of illness... her insurance company has not been paying and stalling and mortgage debt etc was building up... we prayed for the situation and the Lady from River rang the next day on her sisters behalf, she talked to someone new who asked if they could take on the case for her, she agreed and later that day payments where released including backdated interest.... the lady from the insurers then explained that she had felt oddly touched during the initial phone call and felt she should do all she could... Thank you Jesus!
Anyway, have been asked to pray for an Indian lady with arthritis this Monday, I will take a couple of our students with me too... but if you see this before then please pray for her... we'll just call her Aj for now.
Was at Open Doors Baptist about three weeks ago... there where quite a few basic healings and prophetic words for people, but one stood out, I has a word of knowedge about a bad eye.. and so background on the causes... two ladies responded (there where about 45 people in the room).. At the end of the meeting one of the ladies came forward to testify first on the relevance of the prophetic words given to her and her daughter and then to say that her eye had been healed... she had been seeing a doctor because one eye's vision was "milky", but now it was totally clear... Amen
Then this week at our training school, I gave a word about pain under the ribs... there are 14 on the year and one, Flavia an 18 year old girl from Pakistan responded. I prayed for her and she said maybe it was a bit better, so I said we would pray again.. as I started to pray she blurted out "oh it's gone"... she was surprised she had had the pain for some weeks.
A different type of story... at our Deeper worship meeting, (http://www.riverchurch.org.uk/Groups/75574/River_Church/Events/Revival_Meetings/Revival_Meetings.aspx) last month I had prayed for a lady whos sister has been unable to work because of illness... her insurance company has not been paying and stalling and mortgage debt etc was building up... we prayed for the situation and the Lady from River rang the next day on her sisters behalf, she talked to someone new who asked if they could take on the case for her, she agreed and later that day payments where released including backdated interest.... the lady from the insurers then explained that she had felt oddly touched during the initial phone call and felt she should do all she could... Thank you Jesus!
Anyway, have been asked to pray for an Indian lady with arthritis this Monday, I will take a couple of our students with me too... but if you see this before then please pray for her... we'll just call her Aj for now.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Some stories from Myles
I thought everyone would enjoy these stories from Myles. Myles is Maidenhead's foremost Hip Hop artist and was in my Guys discipleship group before heading off to London to do a recording and business degree...
I'll let Myles tell the stories in his own words as they are so much better than mine!
Hey man.
Here are the two stories that are good from the last week or two.
I was at a hip hop gig, that i was doing a few tracks at. Before I went on stage I was hanging out with some mates, having a drink etc. We decided to sit down on the floor, it was a nice day and it was more of a festival so lots of people were sitting and listening to the artists currently on stage. When we sat, one of my friends friends started telling me he was going to stand cos he isnt able to sit very comfortably because of all these various problems he has with his back, i wasnt really listening to the problems because they were numerous and to be honest I didnt really care that much, sometimes i prefer to just hear vaguely what is going on cos it means i am less involved in the healing and its more Jesus. The most serious problem he had was that two lowest vertabre of his spine were fused together, i dont even know what that means but it sounds bad. I dunno how long he has been suffering, several years i think. He had stopped seeking medical attention cos ... dunno he just gave up.
So I prayed .... twice. To no avail. I asked him to check it out and do something that caused him pain - which still did infact caused him pain. Since he is not a chirstian and was on week 4 of the alpha course I didnt wanna freak him by going for round three of prayer so i just allowed it and asured him that his healing will come.
So the next evening I was at church in London, and I was suprised to see him walk into church half way through church, half way through the sermon. I raised an eyebrow to say wassup to him and thought 'cool he came to church' I was also thinking that he is gonna get freaked out cos it was pentacost sunday and it normally gets pretty hectic round this church on that particular sunday - it did. We had quite a long time where we were just waiting on Holy Spirit to turn up and move, about 10 mins of silence ... thats quite a long time. Then it became quite apparant that Spirit was moving.
I was busy praying for people, giving a few words etc I was on minstry team that night. All of a suddent the guy i prayed for yesterday, whom i had totally forgotton was even at church, came running up to me - totally hyped that "GOD IS INSIDE OF ME" all like "I can feel him in me ... and LOOK (bending over in a funny way backwards etc side to side)" he had been completly healed by Father during the worship / ministry time.
It was nice because I wasnt really involved at all. I like that. Its nice. Father knows my head is big enough already.
The other, was only on monday. I was at church again. We have a big conference all this week with about 1000 delagates from over 150 countries. So everyone who is on team helping in any way was sent this long email asking us to dress smartly and approptiately etc. So I wore a shirt and shoes and pulled my trousers up, not to offend the archbishiops etc .... whatever. The email was also saying about correct maner for prayer ministry, but i already know all about that non biblical teaching on men praying for men and women for women etc. What a load of poop ... but i understand the importance of it etc but when Spirit leads us you cant ignore it.
So i was walking around giving words to people and proohecying for a couple of peeps. A I saw a lady that Father had kind of highlighted to me earlier who put her hand up to respond to a word of knowledge that Sandy Millar had about a person with sharp pains in your neck, loss of sleep etc. So i asked her is she was healed and she said no. So i just went straight in and prayed for her, not thinking about the 'rules' and its kind of important that we follow the rules cos its and aloha trainging confernece so they want to model the right way to do things etc. So i was praying for her, quite a short prayer, releasing heaven etc. And when i finished I asked how it was and she rung her neck round very quickly looking up at me being like "its better its better" moving her head round and round very violently. Her english was bad so i didnt get the details but i saw her later cruising round telling people and giving me a huge thumbs up. She really experienced the Love of Father, I could tell. I was almost better than the actual healing, just seeing her minister to other people and the radience of joy all over her was obvious. I Love seeing Daddy Love people. He Loves loving his children.
Thats it man. Ive been crying all the way though most of the writing of this, it gets me so bad man. Especially talking about God loving people. its too much man. i want more. every day.
See u soon man. Ill be in contact to hang out sometime brother. Let me know if you are ministering in London anytime man. I feel like i have broken into a new level of something. Im so up for praying for sick people.
Myles
I'll let Myles tell the stories in his own words as they are so much better than mine!
Hey man.
Here are the two stories that are good from the last week or two.
I was at a hip hop gig, that i was doing a few tracks at. Before I went on stage I was hanging out with some mates, having a drink etc. We decided to sit down on the floor, it was a nice day and it was more of a festival so lots of people were sitting and listening to the artists currently on stage. When we sat, one of my friends friends started telling me he was going to stand cos he isnt able to sit very comfortably because of all these various problems he has with his back, i wasnt really listening to the problems because they were numerous and to be honest I didnt really care that much, sometimes i prefer to just hear vaguely what is going on cos it means i am less involved in the healing and its more Jesus. The most serious problem he had was that two lowest vertabre of his spine were fused together, i dont even know what that means but it sounds bad. I dunno how long he has been suffering, several years i think. He had stopped seeking medical attention cos ... dunno he just gave up.
So I prayed .... twice. To no avail. I asked him to check it out and do something that caused him pain - which still did infact caused him pain. Since he is not a chirstian and was on week 4 of the alpha course I didnt wanna freak him by going for round three of prayer so i just allowed it and asured him that his healing will come.
So the next evening I was at church in London, and I was suprised to see him walk into church half way through church, half way through the sermon. I raised an eyebrow to say wassup to him and thought 'cool he came to church' I was also thinking that he is gonna get freaked out cos it was pentacost sunday and it normally gets pretty hectic round this church on that particular sunday - it did. We had quite a long time where we were just waiting on Holy Spirit to turn up and move, about 10 mins of silence ... thats quite a long time. Then it became quite apparant that Spirit was moving.
I was busy praying for people, giving a few words etc I was on minstry team that night. All of a suddent the guy i prayed for yesterday, whom i had totally forgotton was even at church, came running up to me - totally hyped that "GOD IS INSIDE OF ME" all like "I can feel him in me ... and LOOK (bending over in a funny way backwards etc side to side)" he had been completly healed by Father during the worship / ministry time.
It was nice because I wasnt really involved at all. I like that. Its nice. Father knows my head is big enough already.
The other, was only on monday. I was at church again. We have a big conference all this week with about 1000 delagates from over 150 countries. So everyone who is on team helping in any way was sent this long email asking us to dress smartly and approptiately etc. So I wore a shirt and shoes and pulled my trousers up, not to offend the archbishiops etc .... whatever. The email was also saying about correct maner for prayer ministry, but i already know all about that non biblical teaching on men praying for men and women for women etc. What a load of poop ... but i understand the importance of it etc but when Spirit leads us you cant ignore it.
So i was walking around giving words to people and proohecying for a couple of peeps. A I saw a lady that Father had kind of highlighted to me earlier who put her hand up to respond to a word of knowledge that Sandy Millar had about a person with sharp pains in your neck, loss of sleep etc. So i asked her is she was healed and she said no. So i just went straight in and prayed for her, not thinking about the 'rules' and its kind of important that we follow the rules cos its and aloha trainging confernece so they want to model the right way to do things etc. So i was praying for her, quite a short prayer, releasing heaven etc. And when i finished I asked how it was and she rung her neck round very quickly looking up at me being like "its better its better" moving her head round and round very violently. Her english was bad so i didnt get the details but i saw her later cruising round telling people and giving me a huge thumbs up. She really experienced the Love of Father, I could tell. I was almost better than the actual healing, just seeing her minister to other people and the radience of joy all over her was obvious. I Love seeing Daddy Love people. He Loves loving his children.
Thats it man. Ive been crying all the way though most of the writing of this, it gets me so bad man. Especially talking about God loving people. its too much man. i want more. every day.
See u soon man. Ill be in contact to hang out sometime brother. Let me know if you are ministering in London anytime man. I feel like i have broken into a new level of something. Im so up for praying for sick people.
Myles
Something old, something new
Hi World...
First my something new... I was at a new Church Plant in Bromley on Saturday night with Andy Read ... it was a great time, while a small group this is a group hungry for the presence of Jesus. There was a great atmosphere of faith in worship and a freedom in the ministry. Some confirmed words of knowledge in the room. Please pray for this plant and Russell and Gerri who are leading it.
Also I thought I would mention a couple of healings from last month at the Marlow Congregation of River Church's weekend away...
First, Karen had had a lump and pain in her shin for months from a horse kick, the pain prevented her running. We prayed on the Saturday night and the lump and the pain dissappeared by the next morning.
Second, there was Beryl, who's leg got healed while I was preaching, months of pain and stiffness just went and she showed me afterwards how she had full free movement.
I am posting these stories not as proof for those that are sceptical but as a testimony of the love and care of Jesus even in the small things.
Of course there are others that we still need to see breakthrough on for healing. So if you would I would ask you to pray for me as I have opportunity to pray for others, but also from time to time I will ask you to pray for a specific situation... At the moment I would ask you to pray for a teenager with ulcerative collitis... we really want to see him healed. I have another friend Andrew who was healed from a severe IBS and wheat intolerance a year and half ago, but this is a more extreme situation and as yet we haven't seen the breakthrough.
First my something new... I was at a new Church Plant in Bromley on Saturday night with Andy Read ... it was a great time, while a small group this is a group hungry for the presence of Jesus. There was a great atmosphere of faith in worship and a freedom in the ministry. Some confirmed words of knowledge in the room. Please pray for this plant and Russell and Gerri who are leading it.
Also I thought I would mention a couple of healings from last month at the Marlow Congregation of River Church's weekend away...
First, Karen had had a lump and pain in her shin for months from a horse kick, the pain prevented her running. We prayed on the Saturday night and the lump and the pain dissappeared by the next morning.
Second, there was Beryl, who's leg got healed while I was preaching, months of pain and stiffness just went and she showed me afterwards how she had full free movement.
I am posting these stories not as proof for those that are sceptical but as a testimony of the love and care of Jesus even in the small things.
Of course there are others that we still need to see breakthrough on for healing. So if you would I would ask you to pray for me as I have opportunity to pray for others, but also from time to time I will ask you to pray for a specific situation... At the moment I would ask you to pray for a teenager with ulcerative collitis... we really want to see him healed. I have another friend Andrew who was healed from a severe IBS and wheat intolerance a year and half ago, but this is a more extreme situation and as yet we haven't seen the breakthrough.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
FW: detached retina healed
I'm at a leaders meeting, just heard from Julian from Cornerstone church in Swansea.
A lady in a church in Bridge End was healed a couple of weeks ago from a detached retina she had suffered after a long haul flight, she described it as having a patch over her eye. After prayer for healing she could see normally.
-- I sent this from my 3 mobile --
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
First Post
Hi world,
I'm new to blogging... but I love story telling and so that's what this space will be all about. At some point I'll tell you my own story in detail, it will explain why I have the emphasis I do ... but in short... at age 15 I was given three months to live when I was diagnosed with an advanced non-hodgkins lymphoma... That was over 25 years ago... Jesus healed me! ... and I experienced God as Father in a way I had not done before. It changed everything about my life and expectations. So today I lead a church, here at River Church we pray for the sick a lot and see many people healed... not all ... but we are always pushing for more but enough to know Jesus is with us.
Every week there will be stories of the supernatural breaking into peoples lives from around the church, sometime the healing seem big and dramatic but often they seem small to everyone except the person who's body has just been released from a long term pain or limitation.
So here's my starter posting...
Stories I have heard this week... we just had a team come back from Albania, the trip was part of our training course, the Big Year. I will post a more full report as the team are writing one, but headlines where over 30 people where healed, the first was sitting next to one of the trainees (Simon) on the plane, This man had just had an operation to remove a number of fatty lumps, he was in a lot of pain and couldn't lift his arms, Simon and another trip member Dave prayed for him on the flight, he felt tingling all over his body and the pain went and full movement came back to his arms.
Another notable healing happened in a church in Elbasan. A man in his early thirties had a paralysed arm from a brain haemorage, Tom T had been teaching the children of the church how to pray for the sick so people where asked to stand and the children went over and prayed for them. This man stood and was prayed for and movement came back to his lifeless arm, he was able to lift it above his head...
I'll post more details shortly...
Closer to home ...
I just heard yesterday that a man with sever arthritis that I prayed for in Bridport a couple of weeks ago has experienced an 80% improvement... As I continue with my blog I hope to explore how to turn partial healings into full healings, plus to think about why sometimes we don't get the breakthrough they are looking for.
This Sunday I saw Vannessa, who I had prayed for the week before, she had been in sever pain from an old riding accident. The pain lifted as soon as we prayed, with just a small ache in one part of her back.
This is normal Christian life... it's great!
Sometimes I'll post prayer requests as well so please pray for folks and become part of their testimony...
I'm new to blogging... but I love story telling and so that's what this space will be all about. At some point I'll tell you my own story in detail, it will explain why I have the emphasis I do ... but in short... at age 15 I was given three months to live when I was diagnosed with an advanced non-hodgkins lymphoma... That was over 25 years ago... Jesus healed me! ... and I experienced God as Father in a way I had not done before. It changed everything about my life and expectations. So today I lead a church, here at River Church we pray for the sick a lot and see many people healed... not all ... but we are always pushing for more but enough to know Jesus is with us.
Every week there will be stories of the supernatural breaking into peoples lives from around the church, sometime the healing seem big and dramatic but often they seem small to everyone except the person who's body has just been released from a long term pain or limitation.
So here's my starter posting...
Stories I have heard this week... we just had a team come back from Albania, the trip was part of our training course, the Big Year. I will post a more full report as the team are writing one, but headlines where over 30 people where healed, the first was sitting next to one of the trainees (Simon) on the plane, This man had just had an operation to remove a number of fatty lumps, he was in a lot of pain and couldn't lift his arms, Simon and another trip member Dave prayed for him on the flight, he felt tingling all over his body and the pain went and full movement came back to his arms.
Another notable healing happened in a church in Elbasan. A man in his early thirties had a paralysed arm from a brain haemorage, Tom T had been teaching the children of the church how to pray for the sick so people where asked to stand and the children went over and prayed for them. This man stood and was prayed for and movement came back to his lifeless arm, he was able to lift it above his head...
I'll post more details shortly...
Closer to home ...
I just heard yesterday that a man with sever arthritis that I prayed for in Bridport a couple of weeks ago has experienced an 80% improvement... As I continue with my blog I hope to explore how to turn partial healings into full healings, plus to think about why sometimes we don't get the breakthrough they are looking for.
This Sunday I saw Vannessa, who I had prayed for the week before, she had been in sever pain from an old riding accident. The pain lifted as soon as we prayed, with just a small ache in one part of her back.
This is normal Christian life... it's great!
Sometimes I'll post prayer requests as well so please pray for folks and become part of their testimony...
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