Friday night me and a few friends had a prayer meeting at the training college. We all have a similar heart for mission, we all come from different corps, so we thought we'd get together, pray then go do some outreach.

We started off by praying. Then we realised that sarah and greg werent baptised in the Holy Spirit so we prayed for them. We started off with sarah and I read and prayed Acts 2 over her, she was then slain in the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit knocked her over!

Then we prayed for Greg. I prayed the Corinthians spiritual gifts passage over Him. Sarah who was just baptised in the Holy Spirit started seeing visions of the Holy Spirit swirling around Greg as we prayed for him, then she saw Jesus come and stand with us! Greg was then slain in the Holy Spirit!

Then we started praying for Pete, again I used Scripture! Sarah again had visions as we were praying for him, and again he was slain the Holy Spirit!Then we were talking, I asked Greg, 'were you speaking in tongues?" He said, "I wasnt saying anything" and then Jo said "Yeah, you were praying in tongues!"

Then we prayed for me. I was determined to stand as long as I could, but when Pete prayed a Booth Tucker quote or something about getting as many people saved in the smallest amount of time, I was slain in the Holy Spirit!

Then we prayed for Jo. I had my Bible opend to a passage, but then I asked her what she wanted prayer for, she answered power. And guess what the opening line of the passage I had was? Be strong in the Lord and His mighty power! So we prayed for her and she was slain in the Holy Spirit!

Then we prayed for Simon! We had to pray for breakthrough and of course it came! Again, Sarah and I had visions as we prayed for him!And all of a sudden Sarah put both her hands on Simon and he flew to the ground! Again slain in the Holy Spirit!

Then we went out on the streets. Helped some drunks get home and get looked after. Then we went to the hospital and prayed for some people in the emergency room!I know that as we went there I was feeling very faithless, but I still prayed and am getting more confident now. I look forward to the day when we're all on fire, full of faith and see miracles in the hospital and on the streets! Its going to happen, and it will happen soon!

Anyway, long post again... worth it though! Praise God! And if you havent been baptised in the Holy Spirit get some friends together pray for it and see God do something new in your life!

Heres something thats been bugging me and I know God HATES it too!

Everyone has seen the news aboute those terrible incidents with a bunch of school boys sexually assaulting and the police said last night raping a girl and catching it on video and selling dvds of it at school. (They did a bunch of other things too but not going into that just yet...) We see how companies are using sex to sell ALL their products, from cars to drinks, and not to mention sexualising girls toys and clothes. If you look up from the street on Bourke street infront of KFC you will see a massive billboard with a woman with her hand down her pants.

Is this harmless? I dont think so.

1 in 3 women have been sexually abused here in Australia. And that is only the ones that have been reported. Thousands more go unreported. How does this relate you say?

Women are treated like meat. Men see them and think they have to have 'that'. That is just a fact. Men are extremely lustful, undresing women with their eyes and to the least just "checking them out."

Jesus had something to say about this. "Anyone who looks at a woman lustfully (and this applies to women looking at women or men aswell) has already committed adultery with her in his heart!" Matthew 5:28

Our word is getting worse in this area. If you look at TV 10, 15 or 20 years ago the normal adds we have now would have been banned. How much worse will it be in another 10 years?

Sexualising men and women is now the norm and we are abusing the preciois gift of sex from God. It is sinful and we need to stand up as Christians. We need to show the world that we are all created in the image of God and that God loves us all. We need to highlight the precious worth of every individual. So, heres a challenge,

Men, tackle your problem with lust. Pray. Form lust support groups or get mentors and accountability partners to rid yourself of such sin. It is possible and God will help. Make a stand in the world by not perving on women, not talking about women as objects and be counter cultural and tell people that its not ok.

Women, dress modestly, you too can form groups and get mentors. Dont lead men into sin by making them lust after you. Dont buy the lie the world is giving you that you are a piece of meat. You are worth soooo much more than that! Dont let men use you, dont sell yourself or give yourself away. You are much more special than an object of lust.

Jesus didnt finish by just saying dont look lustfully, immediately after He said continued, "If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell." Matthew 5:29-30

Luke 17:1-4

1Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3So watch yourselves. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. 4If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."

wow

I have an un-real testimony! Its a little long, but its supernatural!!!

Lately Ive been thinking about the supernatural. Ive felt alot of demonic forces before but havent felt/recognised a good angelic presence before... So ive prayed a few times to God, "God i dont just wanna see and sense bad spirits, show me some good ones! Infact, if your going to show me anything at all, I want to see Jesus!"

Ive also been rading a book about prayer. One thing it encourages is for us to picture Jesus in our head and talk to it. The picture Ive been getting lately is when Jesus is talking to all the children.

Anyway, I was lying in bed this morning and I started thinking about Jesus. I then started thinking about seeing Jesus. Then I closed my eyes and as I did that I felt as though Jesus was coming. Then, you know how you sometimes get those goose bump type of things when you feel Gods presence? Well, I felt that once, then more and more and it completely rushed all over my body. I then could not move at all!

I saw a vision of Jesus at the end of my bed. The presence was overwelming. I couldnt stay in this presence it felt like it was too much!My body felt as though I was shrivelling up into a ball, I was scared, so I quickly turned my head to get away from it.

After this I prayed a bit more. I turned onto my side and I felt a presence on my right. It wasnt God this time, but I started singing "Holy, Holy, Holy" and praising God. The presence was doing the same.. I had an angel next to my bed!

I prayed some more asking God what all this meant. He told me a few things.

• I had felt the presence of Jesus Christ. And it was strong. It was extremely HOLY! Gods presence is strong! He also reminded me though that He is always with me!


• I found out I felt scared because He is Holy and I am not. I still had sin. So I quickly repented of all my sin. This reminded me of Isaiah 6, Revelation 1 etc where people see God but at first theyre so scared because He's so holy!


• My dad told me next time that this happens, just be still and say "Here I am Lord, speak to me" Interesting thats the same as Isaiah!!! And interesting that last week someone shared Isaiah 6 with me because God told Him to do so...


• This experience also showed me how Gods presence and sin just dont go together! God HATES sin! He wants to be with us but unless we let Him deal with our sin His holiness just wont go with it! In fact, I wonder, and Im pretty sure that if a sinner comes fully into the presence of God he will be destroyed by Gods holiness. Thats why He gave us Jesus! Hallelujah!


• I then thought Id read from the Bible, and Ive been working through Luke, and guess which passage I was up to? It was the passage that I had been seeing in my prayer time! Luke 18:15-17









"People were also bringing their babies to Jesus to have him touch them.
When the disciples saw this, they rebuked them. But Jesus called the
children and said "Let the little Children come to me, and do not hinder
them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. I tell you the truth,
anyone whol will not recieve the kingdom of God like a little child will
never enter it!"

In the Bible we see that angels fight with swords... Do you think that now that we have better technology that angels have better weapons?

If youve watched Constantine you know what Im talking about...

Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

i gotta new blog! www.worldforgod.blogspot.com

im gonna keep this one going too. the other one is going to be about evangelism and stuff!

thought itd be better to have two different ones than posting too many all in a row...

Havent blogged for a bit! So heres something...

The other night, me saz, simon and tish prayed together at the training college thenlet God take us wherever He wanted. All we did was just pray and ask God "Where do you want us to go?" and once we were there we were like "what do you want us to do?"

It was really cool how God told all of us where to go. It was all the same place!!! God was sooo amongst it all!

We did some Spiritual warfare, prophecy, alot of praying and a bit of evangelism! It was great to see God using our personalities and gifts etc while we were in an intentional team! It worked really well!

We're not sure what we actually achieved but its a start of an exciting new ministry for us all! I know I have a strong sense that God is teaching us how to do that sort of thing and that over time as we develop our gifts God will glorify His name in SUPERNATURAL ways!

If you wanna know more call, leave a comment or email me! And pray for us coz we wana see people saved, healed, delivered etc!

I dont know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing...

David (Paul) Yonggi Cho came to Christ through The Salvation Army... He is the founder of the worlds largest church, Yoido Full Gospel Church! On February 20, 1993, the Yoido Full Gospel Church was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Largest Church (700,000 membership) in the world! (and that was years ago!) Today it is said there is over a million members! It has over 23,000 cell groups! Chek out more

Brian Houston is senior pastor and founder of Hillsong church, Australias largets church, He too has some Salvation Army background. His parents were ministers in The Salvation Army. Hillsong now has thosands of members, has heaps of music cds (one actually made it to number 1 in Australia!) and is again cell based... Check out more: Brian Houston, Hillsong

The Evans family also has some roots in The Salvation Army. Russel Evans is founder of Planetshakers church which rapidly growing in Melbourne. Again cell based. And his brother Andrew is senior pastor at Paradise community church in Adelaide. Another church with thousands of members, and again cell based. Check out more, Planetshakers, Paradise

Imagine what The Salvation Army would look like if we could have held onto and harnassed the potential of these guys! How many more are out there? How many more are leaving The Salvation Army? What will The Salvation Army do to prevent this from happening again and again?

OR

Do people think that The Salvation Armys mission is only to the poor and not the mainstream? (I dont think so, look at song 830, 'The world for God!') Thats another blog topic though...

Also, how cool are cell based churches... As one of my last blogs said, all the growing chuches in the world are cell based... Does anyone wanna or feel called to start one up with me in Lower Templestowe?hmmmm....