Can you say "instant housechurch meeting"

As we continue on in Colonial village it's amazing what God's doing. Saturday after a little rejection and one woman angrily declaring "I already know the Lord", and shutting her door on us. A woman directed us to knock on the last door on the left.

A young man answered and came outside, he had recently been baptized and we encouraged him to take over his neighborhood. A couple of guys we had preached to the week before lived right upstairs, he said he's been inviting them out to church.

The Father came outside and after telling him what we were about he invited us in. For about the next 30 minutes he poured out his heart to us and we got to encourage him about the kingdom.

His wife came home a few minutes later and pretty soon we were all sharing about the things of God. We had some words for her and prayed for her healing, she had real bad congestion in her chest. After prayer she tested it and said the rattling in her lungs wasn't there anymore, Thank you Jesus! At one point the Father said " I really like you guys".

Next thing you know we were all in a circle holding hands and worshiping the Lord, it was like a family of complete strangers getting a fresh dose of the joy of the Lord together, pretty cool.

We tried to leave but everyone kept getting stirred up with more revelation about the things of God and we all ended up sitting back down on the couch. Eventually we did leave after exchanging numbers and promising to return for another meeting.

On our way to the car we noticed a man in a wheelchair in the parking lot. As we approached him we asked if he needed prayer. He didn't hesitate and said "yes pray for me". He went on to explain in 07 an aorta burst in his heart and with some other complications it left him paralysed from the chest down.

We explained that it was God's will to heal him and he readily agreed, We prayed four or five times and had him test it each time. First he said the nausea he was experiencing was totally gone and then he began to say he felt a tingling in his spine all the way down to his tailbone. He was also able to twist his lower back some. Awesome Jesus!

Were going back today to have a house church meeting and see more of his healing come. He was very excited about us coming, he hasn't been able to get out to church anywhere. He told us tomorrow he's gonna walk to the door to let us in, he is full of faith and said he was going in to testify to his daughter about what's happening. Come on Jesus!

The pressing in of the gospel

For the past few outreaches we've been in a new neighborhood called Colonial Village, we have much favor there right now so we've been hitting it pretty hard. Our midweek outreaches have been met with much warfare, just trying to get there has been a real challenge. I think I know why, God's been showing up in a powerful way.

Tuesday we followed up on Tammy, she can still hear out of the ear God opened praise God! At one of our next stops a little boy answered the door we asked to speak to his parents and after waiting for about five minutes the mother said "come in".

The first word we got was that somebody was having trouble with their foot. This got her attention and she let us pray for her. As we were praying the husband came in. We introduced ourselves and they warmly received us. They were believers and had heavy accents I believe they were from Africa Ekong and Latasha are their names.

As we encouraged them with prophetic words and the gospel the husband kept thanking us for stopping by. One of us got the number 33, I thought it might be his age but he was 38. No one had the interpretation for the number until Ekong spoke up and said "oh I know what it means, 33 is my favorite number I use it for everything". Wow pretty good word "God's got your number" this really encouraged them, after some more prophetic words and encouragement we exchanged numbers, They want us to come back sometime soon.

After preaching to some more of their neighbors we went to a different Apt. complex a few buildings down, as we were knocking on a door it opened to reveal our other team Terry and Renee leading a woman to the lord, she also had pain in her hip, when they finished praying the pain was gone. Thank you Lord!

We spent the next 30 minutes preaching to a neighbor named Desi he was wide open and didn't want us to leave, eventually he had his whole family hanging out with us as we preached about the kingdom.

Mike and and Seth were around back preaching and praying with some young men who were also wide open.

I believe we need to take advantage of the favor and openness, who knows how long it will last.

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"Oh my God, I can hear" Deaf ear opened after 39 yrs

We invaded a new neighborhood Sat. with the gospel of the kingdom. Judging from the amount of watchtower tracts we found on doorsteps the enemies been quite busy there.

I have to admit, finding these new neighborhoods is quite addicting, we never know what's gonna happen.

We got totally rejected at our first stop, but at the next home we got to minister to a women who warmly received us. We encouraged her and prayed for some family members pressing needs. She invited us to come back soon.

Our next stop was a man sitting out on his porch smoking a cigarette. As we shared about the kingdom of God he was obviously not very interested, he said he used to have faith but God didn't come through for him.

He became increasingly agitated and began to manifest as we tried to help him in his self-pity and bitterness. He began to say "I've had about enough of this, get out of here". My wife said something like "hey we didn't just come here we were sent here by God. I thought that was pretty good but I guess he didn't appreciate it to much. Well, we moved on to another building to not cast our pearls before swine.

At the next home a women answered the door, As we shared with her she began to tell us of some of her health problems. Panic attacks, chronic back pain, and an addiction to pain killers.

As we shared about some of the miracles we had seen she said "I'm also completely deaf in my left ear".

We shared how it was God's will to heal her because there's no pain in heaven. The first time we prayed nothing happened, we asked to pray again and as she was testing it she said "oh my God I can hear". We continued to pray and test it, she'd been deaf in that ear for 39 Yrs. Wow!

We were all amazed at what had just happened. We then pray for her back and rebuked fear and panic attacks. We asked her to do something she couldn't do before. She bent over and touched her toes and said all the pain was gone.

With tears in her eyes she thanked us for coming by and we all thanked Jesus for what he was doing. You could feel a fresh tangible joy all over us. She wants us to come back and have a house church meeting she's a christian and has been faithfully witnessing to her family.

Our next stop we came across a couple of young guys in their twenties. We preached to them for about twenty minutes it was definatley a divine appointment as we planted some seed from heaven. We left excited and thankful for what God had done and can't wait to go back again.

ARE WE A THREAT TO THE SYSTEM?

We recently cracked open two new neighborhoods literally right in our own backyard. One of them "Stonehenge" feels like it's going to crack wide open. There was a good mix of responses ranging from being warmly received to one woman declaring, "I'm wicken"and slamming the door in our face to another man in the neighborhood saying very coldly "I get mine on Sundays".

I think maybe the reason we don't see much persecution in this country is probably because we haven't been much of a threat to the system so far. Well guess what, things are changing" I believe the more we reject the temporary comfort of disobedience and embrace the comfort of His advancing kingdom the better equipped we'll be to face what's ahead for this world.

A passive compromised lifestyle will lead us right into the trap of the last days deception and falling away the bible warns of. Pretty scary times were living in, thank God His kingdom can't be shaken.

As we continued on our outreach we met a woman named Trina, she had pain in her shoulder and many other health problems. We encouraged her with the good news of the kingdom and joined hands to pray with her commanding pain to go and releasing the kingdom.

Her eyes welled up with tears as we felt the glory touch and deliver her. When we finished she testified of no pain in her shoulder thank you Jesus! You could tangibly feel depression go and joy come.

Afterward a man and woman named Glenda and Marcus came up and said "hey we heard that your praying for people can you pray with us". They had some pressing needs that we lifted up to the lord. We all got fired up sharing with one another Marcus lit up with encouragement as we preached and prophesied over them.

Terry gave them a word about God speaking to them through license plates. They were amazed because they had just seen a plate that said "overflow" and it had really got their attention ,pretty cool.

We sowed some more good seed before we left making some new friends, we'll definitely be back! It was interesting to see the range of peoples reaction in this neighborhood from total openness to rejection. God may we always by your grace be a threat to this worlds system, keep us, fill us, send us in Jesus name!!!

We are the light of the world!

Piedmont Park is one of the darkest neighborhoods were in right now. The way the enemy has gripped this neighborhood is truly disturbing. Young men and women with so much potential are deceived, bound and blinded by the darkness in alarming numbers.

If we are the light of the world and if their are thousands of believers in this city how can conditions like this exist? Maybe we to have become deceived, bound and blinded.

As we approached this neighborhood in the early evening a few police cars were just leaving, people were out on the street in numbers and obviously something was going on.

As we started to talk to people they looked at us like "what are you doing here" and some even said "this isn't a good time." Well I believe we were right on time. The enemy had drawn all these people out of their homes to see a fight, and now they were going to see and hear about the kingdom of God.

We got to minister to at least twenty people as we made our way around, and what the enemy meant for evil God was using for good.

One thing I've noticed is even our very presence in a neighborhood changes the atmosphere and even the behavior of the people. Many times people are convicted and try to hide their sin or apologize for what their doing as we love on them with the gospel.

The neighborhood is a circle of about 50 buildings and as we approached the end their was a group of about 15 people getting out of control. We kind of nudged our way into the middle of them and just declared that "Jesus is King and His kingdoms on the earth". 

As we began to pray and share with people, one woman pointed out a 13 year old boy very drunk and stumbling around. Very heartbreaking to see this culture being past on to the young kids. This women wanted prayer for deliverance from a spirit of addiction.

We  prayed and broke the spirits power. When we were done she tried to light up a cigarette, well, her lighter wouldn't work at all. You should have seen the look on her face as she said "I didn't mean cigarettes, just alcohol." Awesome Jesus!!! this really got her attention as we shared the reality of God's power.

As we were leaving it was almost dark and things were getting crazy again with people coming out of their homes. As we drove off 7 police cars and 1 ambulance came racing in. It felt as though the host of angels we brought in with us were leaving with us and the darkness was again taking dominion.

The light in us is more powerful then we think, if we continue to let it shine the kingdom of darkness doesn't stand a chance!

 Let us with cheerful courage boldly take the land!

Stirring the embers

I have much empathy for backsliders having been one for 8 years in one season of my life. One of my favorite things on outreach is when we meet one who's in that place of indecision and warfare, because we know what it's like. The joy is when we can help one come back to the Lord.

Tuesday night at Colony Place we approached six people hanging out on a porch. As we preach the gospel of the kingdom they slowly left one by one until only one was left, a backslider named teeyan. 

He had been away from the Lord for a while and had gone very far into sin. He was in that place of wanting to live for God but  feeling like he had gone to far into sin. We strongly encouraged him that if he had the desire, it's not to late. It's God who puts that desire in us.

It felt like we were rescuing a drowning person trying to convince him to grab the life line. After about 15 minutes he finally began to reach for it and respond to the Lord.

By the time we were about to leave we all joined hands in a circle and he was actually praying for us. As we all continued to pray you could sense the embers in his heart beginning to burn for the Lord again.

Lets continue to pray for him as he's about to face some more critical decisions in his life. Awesome Jesus!

On our way out we stopped to encourage and pray for some of our people. They shared with us what God's been doing in their lives this week thank you Lord!

God working with us!

On a recent outreach to Cleveland Homes God reminded us that He is working with us, it's not just us out there by ourselves but the Lord actually there helping us.

 About halfway through the outreach we spotted some young men drinking beer and smoking behind one of the apartment buildings. As we approached them it was obvious they didn't really want the light shining on them.

 One man named Jermaine responded that he knew what we were doing and that they were all set and didn't want to talk to us. 

(little did he know we weren't there to talk, but to preach and demonstrate the Kingdom of heaven.)

One of us asked him "what was going on with his shoulder?" He jumped up stunned, shaking his head and said "how did you know that?" After a little more preaching he let us pray for his shoulder. I'm not sure if he got healed he was so shaken he wouldn't really say if the pain was gone or not.

We ministered to the other men and assured them of God's love for them and encouraged them to repent. Amazing how one word of knowledge changes things. Thank you Jesus!

One simple word and........... wham!!!

We hit one of our favorite neighborhoods this week Piedmont Park. We've been calling it Piedmont Heaven lately because of the favor and presence we've had.

There were loads of people out on a Thursday night and the atmosphere was a little crazy feeling. Maybe it was the crazy guy on the motorcycle doing wheelies the whole length of the street contributing to the mood.

 First off we got to minister to a man named Dexter recently laid off and battling depression. We took authority over depression and prayed he'd find a job. He was greatly encouraged and kept saying he was so thankful we came by and that he felt changed. Amazing how what we think is simple low level ministry is actually very powerful in setting people free.

Well as we continued on we met some women gathered around a parked car. We simply asked the woman in the car if they needed prayer. She said "oh yes" as we started to pray one of us asked what was going on with her brother. 

All of a sudden Wham!!!!! something broke loose as they all gasped "how did you know?" The woman in the car started weeping and there was such a tangible anointing it just about messed us all up. It took us a few minutes to even say anything as the Spirit was so thick.

Keitha ended up getting delivered and giving her heart to the Lord as He powerfully loved on her! Awesome Jesus!!

People started lining up asking for ministry. We encouraged one woman about her gift of  intercession and leadership and after a few minutes she opened right up and wanted prayer for the whole neighborhood. As we prayed we realized it was the national day of prayer, fitting confirmation for this intercessor, God's so good.

The incredible shrinking cyst!

A few months ago one of my co-workers was complaining of a very painful cyst on her wrist. Doctors said surgery was necessary and the mri alone was going to cost her $900.00 

I told her God could heal her and explained that it's not Gods will for her to be in pain. She let me lay hands on it and pray. We didn't see any change right away but I told her to continue to lay hands on it and pray, "God's kingdom would come and His will would be done".

She works at another plant and I don't see her that often. Well a few days ago I saw her and she told me the cyst was 95% gone. 

She said "I kept praying  like you said to do and it worked!" Wow ! now she has no pain and she'll need no surgery. Praise God it does work, awesome to see people experience His love and favor. This woman had no theology for healing all she did was exercise simple faith and obedience.  

94 yr old man gets saved!

Ahhh..... there's nothing like storming the gates of hell with the kindness of the Gospel, a sure cure for spiritual boredom.

 Monday we went to Colony place, this neighborhood is always buzzing with people and desperately needs the light of the kingdom.

The first house we stopped at we got to minister to two older men Angus and Robert. As we share about the kingdom they began to get stirred up. Just as God used Caleb well into his eighties, we encouraged them that God wasn't done with them yet. It was like a light was turned on as we encouraged them to influence there neighborhood with the Gospel.

Angus ran inside to write his number down for us. Hopefully we can have a house church meeting there soon. When he came out his 94 yr old stepfather came to the door, he's been blind in both eyes for many years. I prayed God would restore his sight and as I started to deal with him about his  soul  he wanted to get things right with the Lord. Talk about being on the edge of eternity!

Sometimes we assume older people are right with God when in reality they are not ready. Thank you  Lord for saving Johnny!

Our next stop was Edith's house we've prayed for her six or seven times over the past six months that  God would open her blind eye. Well this time after prayer she said she started to see some red light in that eye. Thank you Jesus!!! Were believing as we continue to contend, her eye will completely open.

 As we continued on we met some people hanging out on a porch. We began to preach to Kelly a young man 26, after about 10 minutes of preaching he began to open up and come under some conviction. We led him in a re dedication prayer and laid hands on him to receive the Holy Ghost. 

We've seen some progress in our new believers recently and were encouraged to see them respond. Lets pray God would fill them with boldness and the reality of His Spirit!!

Where the greater joy is!

This past outreach was awesome. We went to parkway plaza, always a fun fruitful place for outreach. We've sown seed there for many years and have much favor and dominion.

The first five people we ministered to were Christians and it was amazing to feel the unity as we all got stirred up about the kingdom and the times were living in.

We challenged one young man in his 20's named Elijah to come with us, he jumped right in as we went preaching the gospel to people.

Another group of christian ladies all from different churches joined us in prayer as they had some pressing needs. There is a tangible anointing that manifests whenever we meet real Christians on the street and begin to share the Lord with each other.

We met four men hanging out at a pick up truck. We shared the gospel with them for a while, two of them ended up giving their lives to the Lord. The other two weren't very open to the gospel. After we all prayed you could feel the joy of heaven start to come, and hope begin to rise in these two men Joe and John.

I was reminded of the time Jesus slammed the religious guys with the parable of the lost sheep and lost coin. He told them there was more joy in heaven over one sinner that repents than 99 who haven't strayed away. God give us some more of that greater joy!!

SURPRISE ATTACK!

On our last outreach the weather wasn't cooperating. The forecast was colder temperatures, showers heavy at times, basically a cold damp forecast. Most times this happens our first response is usually "We better stay in where it's safe and warm." This is usually followed up with a hearty "amen" from our flesh and the enemy nodding in agreement.

Well we decided we were going to surprise the enemy and do the opposite of what he thought we would do. We had a team of Five and decided to hit the bus station. Always a place ripe with precious people in greet need.

The women went to one side and Terry and I went to the other. We met one young man very open to the Gospel. After encouraging him for a while he started to open up and really think about his future without God. He had said he was a believer but then confessed he was not really a follower at all.

As we shared how the current events of our day are in line with the word of God, he began to become more concerned about his own life and future.We brought him to the edge of a decision and he said he would call us. I believe we planted some seeds that will continue to bear fruit. It always amazes me how God can bring total strangers to a level of sharing their inner heart in a few minutes.

As we looked over at Renee and Cathy, they had four women lining up for prayer and ministry. One women with knee problems received healing after being led in a prayer of forgiveness with tears welling up in her eyes. God shook her with His compasion and healing and let us have the priveledge of being there. Awesome Jesus!

"The harvest truly is plentiful"

Yesterday on outreach we ventured into Piedmont Circle. I love doing outreach in great weather, people were out in numbers enjoying the day.

At one of our first stops a woman named Jackie invited us in to pray for her, she had much pain in her left leg. We began to share about the kingdom and how it was Gods desire to heal her.
Renee laid her hand on her leg as we prayed, and at first there was no change. After the second time we asked her to check for pain, she couldn't find any. You should have seen the surprised look on her face and the joy that came into the room.

Her adult daughter Tamika also wanted prayer and then we prayed for her other daughter. We had some good words for them and they want us to come back for a house church meeting sometime.

In the meantime Jackie had gone outside and shared with her neighbor that she had gotten healed. The neighbor who had previously said "I'm not interested" was now wide open for prayer. We prayed for her knees and encourgaged her. I'm not sure if she got healed, she had trouble making eye contact with us, I think she was under some conviction.

Our next stop was a group of six or seven people hanging out on a porch. As usual it felt like they would not be open, well as usual our feelings were wrong.They were wide open. We prayed for a few of them and ministered to one young man for about twenty minutes he poured out his heart as we shared the Gospel of the kingdom with him.
On our way to visit Ms. Roland we preached and prophesied to seven more people. One young man invited us to come to his apt. Thursday for a house church meeting.

I believe we need to continually feed on the reality "the harvest truly is plentiful." Not because we think it is or want it to be, but because Jesus said it is.

Jesus said it, lets believe it!

When Kingdoms Collide

On a recent outreach we went to follow up on a new believer named Keywan, we've been praying for him for a few weeks and wanted to stop by to encourage him. We knocked on his door and he invited us right in. He had some friends over and he introduced us to them and told them what we were about.

As we started to minister to the three of them all of a sudden a tangible intensity came into the room. The more we preached the more intense it got with questions, accusations, curiosity and truth like two Kingdoms colliding.

At one point all three of us were preaching at full volume and intensity to them and they were responding to us at full volume and intensity.

After about twenty minutes we asked if we could pray for them and demonstrate the kingdom. They agreed, and as we prayed one of us got a word for Tyson about having once followed the Lord wholeheartedly until something major happened in his life resulting in him losing faith.

His eyes got wide as he said "oh man that's crazy, something really did happen" turns out he had lost a younger brother years ago and he had been really angry at God.

This word seemed to really get his attention as he continued to share that he knew this was not a coincidence but a divine appointment. We began to really warn them of the eternal consequences of not being right with God. It was like we were pulling them from the fire. We assured them we would be back and that we would be praying faithfully for them.

As we left we were all a bit bewildered and stunned at the intensity of the visit. It felt like we had been conduits for the power of God and it felt awesome!!!

Charles Spurgeon

“We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy”.

Charles Spurgeon

"ouch!!"

Led by the Spirit--no more seizures

Many times in life we want crystal clear direction from the Lord. Well, how many know that's not usually how God does things. He calls us to walk in faith and obedience.

A few days ago we we're in one of our new neighborhoods and we began to share the Gospel with a guy out on the sidewalk. He had a surprised look on his face as he said "you guys talked with me a few weeks ago at a shopping center." We then began to recognize him and Renee remebered the lion logo on his Jacket.

Wow, we we're able to preach the kingdom to him and say "what are the odds we would bump into you again." He knew God was trying to get his attention. He was very convicted and we gave him our # again.

A few days later we we're in a new neighborhood banging on a few doors. No one was real receptive until this one home.

An older woman came to the door and invited us right in, she was thrilled to receive us. We ministered to her and prayed God would heal her arthritus. She began to say " I remember you now, you prayed for my niece months ago at a shopping center". Her niece had some health problems including frequent seizures. Renee and Terry prayed for her that day, it was at least six months ago.

Well, she said her neice "HADN'T HAD ONE SEIZURE SINCE THEY PRAYED FOR HER"!!!!Thank you Jesus!!



There have been a few more times where we have ministered to people and then coincidently ministered again across town to them. This really encourages me that God is leading us to accomplish His will as we are obedient and step out in faith.

"We walk by faith and not by sight" to accomplish His will not our own agenda.