Written by Emma Freeman This is Natalie Blessed Favour. She’s part of an intercession group, who regularly pray for Israel and prayed for our team. They honoured us by buying us dinner. We shared testimonies, danced and prayed together. The first thing you notice when you meet her is the joy and life she exudes. She knows deep rejection, physical suffering and poverty, yet far from feeling sorry for herself, she punctuates the suffering in her story with spontaneous praise and acknowledgement of the goodness of God towards her. In 1965 she became sick with cancer of the uterus. She had 5 unsuccessful operations in an attempt to deal with it. At one point she spent a month and a half in hospital as they drained the discharge from her abdomen. She could go for two weeks without eating, so they fed her via a tube and hydrated her intravenously. She told me “my relatives got tired of me because they said ‘she has not died, but she does not live, so she is useless to us’ but I thank God for the nurses and the doctors because God used them to take care of me.” For 29 years Blessed Favour suffered with the cancer. Despite her condition, she cared for orphans and widows. She would collect food for them and buy rotten meat with the little money they had. “I was in hell when I was alive and I was rotten when I was alive....and on top of that I was very poor. I used to collect food from the dusty bin. I would pick it and wash it and boil it with salt water to eat it...the pain was terrible and I feared being around people because the flies would come around me because of the discharge...But I thank God that someone preached the gospel to me” “The doctors had failed, my people had given up...Then they preach to me. I hate balokole (born again Christians) I don’t like them. They say ‘try Jesus, you will not remain the same, you will become a new person.” However, she decided to give Him a try and went to church that Sunday. At the church they called for people who wanted to surrender their lives to Jesus, so she went forward. She felt something ‘dressing her up’ with power. The pain stopped instantly as did the flow of discharge, which she could also feel. She said she waited a week, then a month, then a year passed without pain or discharge. Its now its been 23 years, the cancer has not returned and she is about to celebrate her 70th birthday healthy and full of life. Before she was saved, her name was Akelo, which means ‘devil has bought’. Now she is known as Natalie Blessed Favour. She loves telling people about what Jesus has done for her and for us. She prays for the sick, who get healed and she now has many children despite the damage the cancer caused. We were privileged to meet & pray with one of the orphans who is now her daughter. “I had no son or daughter because the cancer had spoiled the productive system but I thank God for Isaiah 54!” “Sing, barren one, who has not given birth. burst into singing and shout, you who have not travailed. For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married one,” says Adonai. Isaiah 54:1
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Written by Virginia White We went to meet Julius Oyet, the amazing bishop of Life Line church in Kampala, with an amazing project God had downloaded to him.
The city were so impressed with his work for righteousness and for the support of truth in high places, they gave him 8 acres of prime city location. He is building with other business colleagues a ‘KINGDOM CITY.’ All facilities for the good of the people and run on Christian principles. Massive auditoriums, sports facilities, art projects… we were blown away! A 30 year project providing work for many, and for the furtherance of the Kingdom, with Israel firmly in the foundations! They have already begun! http://lifelineministries.net/ Written by Emma Freeman We highly value our intercessors and take time ourselves to intercede before going away on an assignment. Each one of us who were traveling had obstacles to overcome, but God enables us and He’s worth pushing through for.
Here’s a few of our battles and what our Lord did... One of our team members faced a barrage of negative thoughts challenging him not to go. ‘Who am I? I wont fit in with the girls, I’ll be in the way... it would be better if I didn’t go...they don’t need a man, it’ll be nicer for them to be just the ladies...’ It got to the point where he felt crushed. He contacted a few intercessor friends to ask them to pray and fought by standing on the word of God. He overcame and we thank God he did! For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful through God for the tearing down of strongholds. We are tearing down false arguments and every high-minded thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. We are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Messiah 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 TLV Another team member couldn’t get a GP appointment for anti malarial tablets 3 weeks prior to travel. Due to suffering with migraines, over the counter tablets needed a prescription. After exhausting most options, the GP still refused to help. 5 days until our flight, the options appeared to be trying Boots and lying if asked about health, requesting someone else to buy extra tablets (illegal), or going to Uganda (high risk malaria country) with out medical protection... Deciding it was a test, the team member chose to ask God what to do and trust Him for protection and an answer. Feeling it dishonours God in the situation to lie, or break the law, they felt to go back to Asda for help knowing they couldn’t issue anything. They recommended a chemist called ‘Cohens’ (Jewish surname meaning ‘priest of God’) - how very apt to be sent there after choosing to turn to the High Priest (Yeshua) instead of turning to panic, lying, or breaking the law! They issued tablets without a problem! He is good, He provided! Do not be anxious about anything—but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the shalom of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Messiah Yeshua. Philippians 4:6-7 TLV The day before flying, this member also had a severe migraine and it looked like they might be unable to travel, but they got better literally in just enough time to leave the house on time (without breakfast)! One of our team was being unfairly pressed at work to the point of causing chest pains. Various other things happened to other members of the team that would be too long to mention, however our God is for us, so who can be against us? Our last obstacle prior to traveling was also the first miracle of our trip! One of our team had been advised by their GP that they were up to date with all the relevant jabs, however, there was no record of them having had yellow fever vaccination. Due to a recent outbreak, it is currently compulsory to have proof of yellow fever vaccination to enter the country. There are only a few pharmacies that carry the vaccine, but we were miles away and only had a short time until the flight. We prayed! Then we called every pharmacy we could find! Most were too far away, or didn’t have free appointments within our 30 minute window...PRAISE God, we found a chemist that had the vaccine and were willing to wait 5-10 minutes to fit us in! We arrived just in time for our taxi to take us to the airport! We also had no problem entering Uganda (the vaccination takes 10 days to become fully effective, so the timing might have been a problem). Thank you Lord for getting all of us there safely! In all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us! Romans 8:37 Written by Christine I met a lovely young man at one of our events called David. David is totally blind and partially deaf and was in the audience when I first saw him. I have been prompted by God enable people with disabilities to fully interact with the worship (if they wish to). I noticed David up in his seat doing his thing so I asked him if he wanted to join the dancers dancing round the auditorium and he jumped at the chance. David has written an explanation of his experience on the night which for me is extremely encouraging I hope it is to you too.
Written by Emma Freeman Paul shared something he saw in the Spirit - old style weighing scales, like the ones sometimes used to symbolise pharmacies. On one side were the nations.
He heard the Lord say "I'm weighting the nations in the balance". "How do you weigh the nations?" he wondered. As Paul got closer, he could see on the other side were two discs with the inscriptions: "The blood of My Son" and "The blood of My first born". "How do you get to be a nation that bears Gods name?" he asked. "What did you do with the blood of Yeshuah? How did you treat the blood of Jesus? What did you do with the blood of My first born? How did you treat the Jewish people? Written by Emma Freeman Paul scrapped his set list saying He was going with what he felt the Spirit was saying - hurrah!
He talked about Plymouth being the place where God was bonding people together like ply wood. Ply wood is layered with the wood grain in different direction, which adds more strength than if they all were the same. Being a harbour port, it's also a mouth to receive the people needed to bring revival fire to the UK. Leanne Wilbur, brought a tongue, which Paul interpreted. It was Really encouraging. Unfortunately we can't remember most of it, but part of it was about going back to the place of strengthening, the place of rest where He would bring His provision for whatever it was we needed - finance, health, strength, power etc. This was an encouragement that He has and IS EVERYTHING we need. He's ready with the provision for the work, so GO! Written by Emma Freeman We felt it would be good to take our wings as a prophetic act and to silently pray over and hear what the Lord wanted to say about Stormont and Ireland. While listening for what was on the Lords heart for Ireland, I heard Him say He wanted to release joy. I felt Him say to do this prophetically by offering a 'drink offering' to Him of prosecco*! I also heard the song 'Joy' which sings 'We're choosing celebration, breaking into freedom... you're the joy, joy, joy, lighting my soul', which I thought was a great song to celebrate to as we did this. I then realised it's sung by the Rend Collective (who are Irish) - how apt! *A few of us thought it might be fun to bring prosecco along to drink with lunch but it was far more fun to offer it to the Lord while dancing joy and celebration of our Lord into the land! Written by Donna Taggart and taken from Donna Taggart Ministries: http://www.dtministries.co.uk/events/ Wow!!! God really did met with me! It turns out this Event fulfilled the Vision that I had seen back in June 2016, I saw someone in wheelchair under a Chuppah and then the vision widened and I could see where it was sitting and it was in The Great Hall in Stormont. and because I’ve never seen myself as being in a wheelchair I shared this with my daughter and said to her I only know of one person in a wheelchair but I haven’t seen her in years! My poor daughter looked at me in total exasperation with her two hands over her head and said Mum! mum! mum! do you not think for once God might be speaking to you! I was so shocked! I looked at her wee face and I could have cried, she has journeyed with me all her life through the asthma, eczema, and then the MS. So I understood why she was so exasperated. Then the next month in my ear I heard, so clearly Michelle Voice singing into the Holy of Holies and it was as though she was right there in the room with me! However, I still didn’t think He could be meaning ONLY ME but He was and I am now healed words cannot describe what I feel as I watch how our Amazing Heavenly Abba arranged that my whole family and friends to be in NI for this Event not knowing what would happen! God orchestrated this Divine Event and all my were all there with me as Virginia White and her awesome anointed Sh’ma Kingdom Dance Team took us all under the Blood, under the Chuppah and then into the Secret Place which was under a second and most beautiful golden chuppah were Messiah said to me ‘It is Done!’ Written by Virginia White Whilst we were in the desert of Israel, I heard the Lord say…. ‘You have to go backward to go forward!’….. What does that mean??? There is a ‘Liminal’ space often in our lives, a time in between, a liminality of being in a state of suspension. A transitional period or rite of passage where the person lacks social status. A threshold between two planes, a period of transition leading to new prospective. A liminal state! The time in between assignments, the times before a couple get married is a liminal state. Twilight is a liminal time, a wound is in a liminal state, hurting but not yet healed! We frequently find ourselves in this state, where the danger is that we become ‘frozen’ ’ and become permanently ‘ liminal’ and therefore unable to move forward or backward. The state between two trapezes s as you leave one, but haven’t caught the other yet… the scary zone where we dare not stay too long! So on Gozo, a small island off Malta, I had decided there couldn’t be any milk because there weren’t any cows! Desert rocky scrub and no fields except for a few cereal crops! No milk! One day walking out early in the morning mist, I heard a cow moo! Where are they then? Then my Lord spoke into my heart: ‘The fact that you don’t see something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist!’ So I am guilty of assuming a great deal that is not actual fact, because I can’t see it! The explanation was myopically simple…. They live in biers! It’s too hot to graze and the Gozoan’s wouldn’t waste their tiny space grazing animals, it is a tiny Island. The past morphs into pathways of memory, some good or bad, and we leave them there… what else can we do with them? So in this place of retreat, every morning I walked the same deserted road leading towards the sea, although all roads stopped far from the edge of the dramatic lime stone cliffs. There I heard the words, ‘ I will show you a lost memory’ so not being very retrospective I didn’t much relish having to delve into a ‘lost memory!’ Then came these words… a very deep root of ‘abandonment’ before your life time, your mother was not ‘safe’ neither was she able to deal with being ‘put aside’, not only in her parentage, but in her Jewishness, and here is the tie: ‘Stella my beloved may not fully understand – but you must! Your seeking and longing to help the broken and abandoned is from this root! The abandonment has followed you. Broken relationships, marriage, abandonment, your own son knowing the same abandonment, this thread so far unbroken is running through your family to take away this deeply felt truth. You have to receive yourself, if you want to receive deep revelation from God… you have to receive yourself without the lies that say, ‘you can’t… who do you think you are… you can’t hear, because you are not acceptable.’ God was saying ‘ you offer me your heart, let me break your heart with healing, so that this echo of abandonment rampaging through your mothers and sisters and sons lives. I am going to pour in my healing ,so that you can receive and accept yourself without this heavy weight clinging to your family, and know that you are anchored into a sure hope, that this chain is at last broken! I have selected this time for you to stand in the gap for your family. ’ ‘For the son of man has come to save that which was lost! ‘Matt 18 v 11 So I prayed the prayer… in your name Yeshua I break this chain. At that exact moment there was a huge boom!! They were blasting the rock in the next valley, but for me it was a confirmation of Gods power to break this dark power! Suspended in mid-air, unable to move on, our saviour has broken the chain! To receive and know HIS deep abiding love, you have to receive yourself, so that like a master trapeze artist, our Yeshua catches you, and you are safe! Yeshua is here, someone who is the destroyer of darkness, to ask Jesus to break the chains saves you pounds and dollars in therapy! ( as Howie often says) To know his very great love! To know we are not abandoned we are loved by one who knew ‘abandonment’ who is irresistibly drawn to our brokenness, and took all our ‘gunk’ upon Himself! So below is an altar in the desert….. with all the stones of my Sh’ma ‘ dancing’ family. I needed to share with Rosie the tears and power of the desert moments, so we prayed over all of you, and placed a stone on the altar, for those even to come in the future. We danced ‘Who Am I’ and a victory dance! We are not abandoned, we are ‘sought out’ by a loving God. We pray that you the ‘living’ stones….will know this deeply. Gen 49 ‘ Blessings from above, and blessings of the deep!’ Hosea 2 v 14 ‘ I will allure her, will bring her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her. I will give her her vineyards from there, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope; she shall sing there, as in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.’ Written by Emma Freeman We had rich time of just enjoying our Lord's presence & loving Him with Howard Morgan at Wirral Christian Center... God was unblocking wells, filling us afresh and commissioning us with the Lion's seal of authority...
Some words from the day: There are two types of time: Kairos - the right or opportune moment (the 'supreme moment') i.e. the quality of time and Chronos - which is a linear measurement of time and where we get our word 'chronological' from. When kairos time intersects chronos time, you have a significant moment. An event where heaven meets earth and moments we often treasure as we encounter the Lord and His Kingdom. Something that can keep us from a kairos/chronos collision is our brain. If we choose to rationalise and diminish a karios moment with unbelief, we disengage from it's power and what God is doing. However, faith can 'activate' a kairos/chronos collision. If we simply come to a meeting and choose to believe it is significant purely because we are in the presence of our Lord, we align ourselves for a kairos/chorons collision. Equally, we can come to the same meeting and unbelieve our way to disconnecting ourselves from the kairos/chronos convergence. They had a prophetic paddle with the word 'kairos' written on it. A word was brought about sailing - the 'attitude' is the direction the boat travels. The attitude of the ship needs to be in the right direction to effectively catch the wind. We need to have the right attitude of who we are. We all have strengths and weaknesses, be aware of your weaknesses, but be at peace with them. You don't need to fight and put all your energy into turning your weaknesses into strengths, just be at peace with them because God chooses to demonstrate His power through our weaknesses. 2 Corinthians 12:9-11 |
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