Honour

Today, after church meeting, a few of us met with some of the First Nations and Metis to honour them and to interceed for some things that are happening in the nation with them at this time. We prayed and honoured them and spoke into their lives. I was heavy in my spirit about the part that we have played in dishonouring them over the years. One of the ladies that was there is the cousin of the Lt Governor of BC. She is a real neat lady that I have gotten to know over the years.
God is restoring her "voice" and I believe that she has something to say. Don't know what it is yet, but I spoke the Ruth/Naomi thing over her. It was good, and I come away with feeling that it is only the beginning. We're not finished yet! God is good !

A Hmmm moment

On Wednesday at early morning prayer I ended up getting about the memorial stones and prayed it out that we would not forget what God has done . Didn't think too much about it until I got an e-mail from David D and it talks about the memorial stones from the Winnipeg gathering. I guess I just realize that God is speaking about them and that I need to listen to my part. (maybe just praying out that part WAS my part)
Like I said, A hmmmmm moment

The Adventure

These last 2 weeks we have been meeting, praying and fasting at 6:30 - 7:30 a.m. on Tues, Wed and Thurs. The leadership had felt that it was time to do this. At first, just the leaders were going to and then they felt that the whole church was to do this. (or as many as were able and desired to)

The meetings have been awesome, but it was Thursday morning that was over the top !
I came in and there was a strange man there. He looked like he was dressed as a clown and was very strange. My discerner went into overtime and I would have had a hard time pressing in if the Lord had not, on the way to the church, reminded me of what happened on Tues night prayer. ( Tues night was ridiclous ! It started for me as I was driving out and the neighbour to my left stopped me and said that there was an accident blocking the road and that I should turn around and go home. That it would take hours to clean up. I said, no, I will try to make it as I had a meeting to go to. As I drove to where the accident was I realized that in order to drive through I would have to drive thru lots of glass. I decided that I needed to do that. (the accident was my neighbour to the right) On the way to the church there was other ambulances and stuff on the way. I got to the church and they are doing renovations. Hammering and sawing etc (lots of noise) The youth were talking in the meeting room loudly with someone and there was all sorts of distractions....I could not for the life of me decide on a cd to play and I was feeling so agitated.....then began to laugh! The enemy was trying to distract us from praying and worshipping the Lord!
Then I remembered that on Tues morning as I was driving to the church for prayer, that the wind began to blow hard, and as I was crossing the Mission bridge, the Lord dropped a word into my spirit. He said " Get ready for another course correction. But, do not look to the clouds...look to where the wind is blowing" I shared with Mike B the word and he got me to share with everyone later. I realized that when all the distractions were happening, that I was looking at the clouds and not to where the wind was blowing. When I realized that, I started to laugh) So, God spoke to me that there were going to be distractions at that prayer meeting. When I clued in, I just pushed into worship (like we did on Tues night) and I forgot all about the distractions!!! Good thing, as the Lord had some things that He wanted from us !!!!
(btw..the man left during the worship) Bert was worshipping and then there came a time that he said that if anyone got anything to sing it. A few did and then someone began to sing about " We're going on an adventure, it's gonna be a wild ride! ." and we sang that for quite a long time. Then I remembered and shared what Bill Johnson had said in one of his books about getting to the edge of the map and would we stay there at the edge , or keep going by faith... I said that we were in a vehicle with God and we were excited like little kids, and we didn't really know where we were going but our Daddy was taking us somewhere and it would be good. Then Brian said, ya when we are on this adventure we ask our Daddy " Are we there yet??" We all started to laugh and the joy overtook us and there was lots of celebration and laughter and joy...all in a one hour meeting!!!
So, we're goin on an adventure, we're goin on an adventure, it's gonna be a wild ride, it's gonna be a wild ride. We don't really know where we are going, but it's gonna be good with Dad ! We may ask Him, are we there yet, we may differ along the way, but our Daddy has the best plans, so we all join as one and say....YES Dad, wherever you want to take us, wherever we may go. It's all because You love us , so with You we will go !!!

The Feast

I was reading the bible about 2 weeks ago and a scripture jumped out at me. It was Luke 14:13. It said: WHEN you give a feast (banquet) invite the poor, the crippled, the lame,the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the reserrection of the righteous.It started to work on me and I thought that the Lord was trying to say something to me about this and have been meditating on this since then.

Today I went to Rena's to worship the Lord and wait on Him for an answer to some things that we believe that the Lord is showing us. This is what I saw when we were worshipping:

I saw the church's parking lot and in it was a feast happening. In the center of the parking lot was a long table with white tablecloth and many chairs there with the table set and decorated. We were serving those that came to eat. They were the lost and the broken, the hurting and the sick. We were serving them and it was not hot dogs...There was a huge banner on the side of the church that said "The Feast" and there was a worship band there playing. There was 4 tents set up at the side. One said "Free Hugs" one said "Free words of encouragement" one said " Free spiritual reading " and then last one " Free Healings" .

When I shared it with Rena she got the scripture in Isa 58 about the true fasting. We also got Matt 25:34, Matt 22, Luke 14:8 and Matt 10:42.

I had also, after getting about the Feast, gotten some more about the Embrace and also some things about what Rena and I had gotten together about. What we feel the Lord leading us into I got that it would eventually bring in the money for more Feasts. I had felt the Lord saying that there would be more in other places. Like streams in the desert.

The cool thing is that the talents would be used and multiplied. Those that like to serve, would serve. Those who like to cook would cook. Those that were prophetic would prophesy. Those that love to pray for healing would pray for healing, etc....

It would be held in June (maybe) and then the Embrace on Oct 23-24 (got the date during worship too)

I felt that this first Feast would have to be embraced by the church and them bear the cost, and then the Lord would give us the way to self-sustain it.

This feels very big in the spirit and impossible. Bill Johnson said that the presence of the Lord brings you into the realm of the impossible. It felt like that today! Bring on the impossible Lord!

Generations

Last night was going to be just another prayer meeting with the Lord's presence. ( as if it would be a "just") Then I got a call from the youth leader and everything changed. He felt that the Lord was calling him to gather the youth for prayer and he felt that the two groups needed to come together last night at some time.
When I got to the church Kevin was there and said that we should just start together and so when my peeps got there we joined with the youth. We worshipped to Rick Pino.
Then at some point the youth felt that they had to honor us that were older by washing our feet. They got the stuff and started to wash our feet. It was awesome and after they were done I felt that they had washed off the shame from us for the mistakes that we had made raising our children. Vicki felt that we were to pray for the youth and anoint them. We all prayed for them releasing them in the spirit and honouring and encouraging them, giving them prophetic words. It was an amazing time!
We called out for them to catch on fire and that we were one with them and we would stand behind them and push them forward into their destinys. After we were done we felt to pray for the leadership as one generation and to bless them. The last thing we prayed about was Todd. We all blessed him and asked that the Lord bless him.
I don't know what this all did last night in the spirit, but it was good !! AND , it was God. He worked it all out. The worship leader had felt all night that he was to come to prayer, but had never come before. He came and it was sooo God !! All the pieces came together last night. One generation.....those that seek His face.....

A twitch in time

Well..... God has amazing days for us and yesterday was one for me ! It started very bland and turned amazing ! I got up wondering what I always do on Sunday morning...what CD was I going to play for preservice prayer.....hmmmm. I have given up trying to get a "theme" or whatever, for the prayer, I just get a CD and sometimes I don't even get that much! I dug through my CDs and found Misty Edwards' first CD (Eternity) and brought it as I had a niggling thought that I should play that one. (hadn't been in my cd player for a long long time!)
The prayer time started with just a few and then grew to all the chairs being full. At one point I found myself quoting Eze 37 for , oh, the millionth time ! Prophesying to the breath LIFE over GHC!! Then I got a weird pic. I saw Frankenstein and him being brought to life. I started to laugh as it was so weird and then I saw what the Lord wanted me to see. HE had brought together the parts of the body to form one body and then speaking life over it. He had put it together the right way, that there wasn't 6 legs and 3 eyes and 2 heads. I saw that God was speaking "TRANSFORMATION" over our body and that there was such substance and life in it, possiblities, destiny, change etc... That He was/had formed the new structure (wineskin?) and that He was preparing to pour in the new. The presence of the Lord was great .
When we were done I moved upstairs and while Rena , Marg and I were talking at the front door, laughter dropped on me and I was hit with it for 20 mins or so. I was very undignified and was on the floor at some point. Rena and Marg also started to laugh and I was just baked !! ( a good baked) At one point I tried to move toward my seat at the front but felt restrained and went back to the front door to "greet" the people with laughter? I even found myself yelling out the door to people walking past " Hey you ! Get in here !!" (Ya, like I would do that normally)When they started
worshipping I moved up to the front and then after a couple of songs the Lord dropped an explanation what He was doing in the spirit into my mind. The word I gave was that it was a day of celebration. That Abram was content to be just a father to a child, but the Lord said, no, impossible, I want to change your name so that you can become a father of many. Then Jacob, he had what he wanted, he got his birthright, even though he was a deceiver. He was probably happy with that, but the Lord said, no, impossible, I want to change your name so that you can become a great nation !! That there were some there that may not want or like the name change for the church, but that the Lord said, no it is impossible for you to stay GHC. He had prepared a new vessel for us ( Transformation Central) that He was going to pour into what this part of the body was destined for. It was time to celebrate the new name. ( what I did not know was that the name change was official that day)
As I was finishing the word I noticed at the back Charlie and Shirley Robinson coming into the church. The Lord reminded me that 6 mons to a year ago that I had been talking about Charlie to his intercessor Sky and had said to her that the Lord had shown me that he was like one of those oil pumps in the fields in Alberta pumping up the oil.That he would pump up the oil from the deep wells. She said to me, do you know what the name of the conferences that he was just going to start in Canada? I said no and she said they were called " Canadian oil" The Lord then showed me (and I told Sky) that when He sent Charlie back to the church to speak that He would pour out the oil on the church. So, there he was coming in the church (he had been there a few months prior but did not speak) That he would be a sign for the church. I didn't know whether he was coming to speak or not. After the worship he got up and was sharing what is happening with him and what he was seeing. I turned to Rena and said " Receive the impartation that he is bringing if nothing else " Then at some point Charlie said the same thing....just receive the impartation that are coming with my words.
I forgot, during worship, Shar Greter got up and sang a song about LIFE, LIFE,LIFE ,LIFE. Then Mike Bullett got up and spoke out Eze 37 about the dry bones and started to sing something. I forget what it was because as he was singing I was singing and hearing in my spirit in the same tune as they were singing....The foot bones connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bones connected to the shin bone etc. I probably should have gotten up and sang it but the chicken won ! ( I talked to Shar later and she said that I should have gotten up, but that the next time, maybe the chicken will not win LOL) It was like Frankenstein coming together (ok, I know that story is not a good one, but God was showing me a point He wanted to get across)
Right after I spoke the word, I got hit with an awful migraine that lasted all night.
I felt sick, but I got up and danced on the migraine and then sickness. Wasn't going to let the enemy have victory !!!! He couldn't take my joy away !
Charlie prayed for me afterwards and he laid his hands on both ears and said that the Lord was showing that I was going to hear in a greater way, that there would be a increase. He also spoke about an increase in intercession. And also something about
going to the street and seeing me on the street corners speaking or something. ( don't know about this one LOL)
So, this was my amazing day. God is good ! It started so ordinary !! The presence of God transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary !! :)