| Let's get ready to rrrrrrrrrrumble!! (Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:12:12 AM EST) |
Hi There!
Well we've arrived safe and sound! Dennis is flying in from Mumbai in a few hours
They laughed when we booked Qatar Airlines - but it is a very impressive outfit!!
Head off on the 'sleeping' train tonight which is very civilised - apparently!!
Huge population here - 1.2 billion and will overtake China in four years... Consequently, it doesn't have a large percentage of AIDS victims but has the largest world AIDS population - 11 million. Staggering stats... |
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So we're off to rural India for a week, big crowds and everything has an interpreter. I'm teaching a two hour slot in the Spiritual Gifts seminars, as well as being Dennis' under-study...
Sense of God's favour in what we're about. Also a sense of His power to come.
Thanks for your prayers...
God is good,
Expecting Him to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine...
Thanks for your prayers
Andrew
| It's hot hot hot!!!!! (Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:12:12 AM EST) |
Hi Guys
Thanks for all your messages of support and prayers.
Back in 'civilisation' - someone here described India as a place of extreme
beauty and extreme filth...
The following events can not be adequately communicated by email, words,
pictures or video... you really have to have the whole package of being
here.
We've come in from the rural area to Guntor, a city of one million with open
sewers...
It's hot here, spiritually hot and physically hot. Temperatues are in the
forties, the word brutal comes to mind, but at least it's not May:
temperatures are 52C!!!
I said I felt we had the Lord's favour, but that has extended beyond the
spiritual, which I'll come to presently, to the physical - coping with the
heat, coping with the 'basics' and then there's the distinctly supernatural
physical stuff. Remember the issue we had regarding the all night train??
Well firstly, I slept all night, I mean like a log!! I was awake for about
five minutes whilst others only slept for five minutes. Secondly and more
importantly the train arrived ONE hour early. Our guide Joel was amazed!!
God is good.
Paul has not been well since Thursday, but is now recovering...
Spiritually hot, Oh God Oh God Oh God. He is truly awesome.
1907 decision cards over a three day Crusade!! Started with crowds of 2500
rising to 5000 on the last night. Joel, Paul and myself got to 'pre-preach'
on successive nights before Dennis gave the main message. Basically they get
double helpings - it's a tradition here!?
Incredible numbers of healings and some deliverance. Probably 75%+ and that
really is an underestimation. The concept of queing is foreign in Indian
culture, it's a scrum... So you really are praying for people in a heaving
mass of humanity. Moreover as you're praying for someone others may squeeze
in between!! And then there's the bizarre - the Indians are quite an
unemotional lot, although they do have the most beautiful smiles. So when
they're healed there's hardly a flicker, they just say they're healed and
off they go.
And then there's the miracles, their reactions even more bizarre because the
extreme nature of the
healings: deafness, paralysis, and a lady with growths on her arms that
simply disappeared over a period of ten minutes!! The exception was the 8
year old deaf and dumb boy - imagine the wonder and excitement of hearing
for the first time - big smiles and tears from the mother!!
So thanks for all the prayers and keep them coming!!
Andrew
| One thing is guaranteed... (Thu, 3 Mar 2005 7:53:29 AM EST) |
Hi Guys
Well we're into our third delivery of the 'Kingdom of God and Spiritual
Gifts package.
This one is the best thus far, no doubt helped by the easier conditions:
it's a little cooler, only 36C!! The worship is much more conducive to the
Holy Spirit moving, both in its quality and its heart. The work booklets
have been reprinted since our original receipt of them for the first two
venues. Something went horribly wrong in the printers and made them very
difficult to read!! The delivery is with no interpreter.
But more importantly the people are a little more open. At each of the
sessions there are practical ministry times, involving the delegates. In
every situation were we have asked for words of knowledge the respondents
have been prayed by other delegates. In every case at all our venues there
was an improvement in the condition and at least 80% were healed.
A guy today was even healed as he was waiting for Dennis to organise the
prayer teams!! He had responded to one of the earliest words of Knowledge
regarding arthritic hands. He felt his hands 'free up' and 'lighten' as soon
as he came forward and hand no pain by the time the prayer was about to
start!! Not quite the model, but if the Father's doing it, who cares!!
These 'clinics' powerfully demonstrate the simplicity and power behind
obeying the Spirit's leading. And confirm to all that one thing is
guaranteed...
If you don't step out of the boat, you'll never walk on the water!!
I have a sense that things are going to accelerate and build as we move
towards the weekend
Once again thank you for your messages of support and prayers.
Andrew
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