At St. John’s we prayed for pretty much everyone who came.  Some for healing, some for freedom from fear, most for an impartation of the revival anointing that God seems to be releasing.  There does seem to be power touching people.  Many people felt the tangible presence of God and are saying they are different.  A new boldness is coming over us.

We have seen two healings happen in worship, when noone was praying for anyone.  One woman, who has suffered from knee pain for 15 years.  A gymnastic injury and consequent treatment has meant that she has had to get used to daily pain.  No longer!  It left in the worship and she has been pain free now for four days.  One woman said that her sight appeared to have improved whilst we were worshipping.  She had bad short sightedness and could not see sharply more than a few feet in front of her.  She thought I will check again when I wake up in the morning.  No doubt, it is vastly improved and she can see sharply without her glasses.

We also prayed for a woman with joint pain.  It left ten minutes after praying.  At the same time we prayed for a skin condition which had flared up badly that day.  the next day it was gone! We are praying that this skin condition will not return again.

On Thursday night in our church home group, we prayed for a relative of someone in the group.  She is dying from cancer and may not have lived the night out.  We interceded boldly for life for about 20 mins, and then sent a text to her career, asking her to speak life over her mum.  She had never done anything like this before.  She sent a text back ten minutes later saying she did it, and felt a powerful presence of God as she did it.  We were asking God to bring this woman back from death so that she could hear clearly that God loved her and have a chance to respond.

I could go on… myself and Kathryn prayed for one of the checkout attendants in Asda.  I asked the people behind me if they would mind waiting whilst we prayed.  She had very bad eyesight and had forgotten her glasses.  We prayed using the  name of Jesus.  She said that she could now read the ‘Optician’ sign in the distance, which she could not do before.

So much is happening and we plan to go onto the streets of Hinckley and Nuneaton next week and offer to pray for people.  What seems to have happened to us is both a new boldness and a new faith that God will do something when we pray.

We’re pressing in for more!

Oh, and the vicar of the church we spoke in last week, we prayed for him.  His text back to me three days later, was saying ‘What did you pray over me?!  I don’t know what it was, but it was powerful!  Things are happening when I pray for people with far more effect than before.’

Lord, we want your presence more.  Thank you Todd Bentley for leading the way for us ALL to rise up in the authority we have in Christ.

The worship went on for over two hours, and I don’t know exactly how long, because I got ‘lost’ in it!  After about an hour I was really feeling tired, and then I felt a huge wave of God’s presence over me and I was crying and hearing God.  His presence is so tangible here.  I am also aware that I am being ‘given’ something.  Or in the words of many here, something is being ‘imparted’ to me.  There is something in my being that I want to give away!  The other day we went to TGI Fridays to get lunch and people were praying for their waiter.  We ended up praying for our waiter.  Yesterday morning someone was praying for a woman’s legs at breakfast.  There’s a boldness that comes over people here to pray God onto people.

Interestingly, in the worship, I felt that the deeper glory that was coming tonight was going to be an increase of this anointing going to the nations.  Not long after that we went into a corporate prayer/worship/intercession time contending for the nations.  Kathryn and I also felt that there was a contest tonight, with the sense that this may well get more costly for some people from now on. Todd then got up and spoke about the personal cost of this revival for him.

Todd’s message showed what God has done in this man to enable him to front what is a move of God beyond a man.  How God has broken him and brought a deeper humility into his life.  When he says (and he did several times) that this is not about him or his ministry being built you can sense the integrity.  The integrity needed for God to be able to put so much on one man’s shoulders.  It would be so hard for me to capture what he said, a very personal story from his recent last years.  Watch it on god.tv.

Again, healings broke out, again too many to mention.  I absolutely love it when God heals someone before anyone can get near them!  Todd called out a specific word of knowledge for a woman with a neck problem that had been operated on and it had not solved it, but made it worse.  He pointed in the direction of the back, and we saw a woman in red coming up.  By the time she had got to the stage she was healed!

We’re coming home today, and I believe I have a new fire in my belly!