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Today for my birthday I spent most of the day in prayer and worship at the Callanques, hungering for the manifest Presence of God.

It was such a rich time of just abiding in Daddy's love, the gentle whisper of His voice that leads to Spirit-given boldness in prayer, though I didn't touch that much intercession yesterday. There are times when I feel like I've reached my capacity in prayer and worship, and I feel like I reached that to a large extent yesterday, though of course my hunger typically returns in a few hours or the next day. Daddy affirmed me so much in His intricate love in how He formed me in Mom's stomach, knitted together piece by piece 26 years ago, and I came into this world, and every day I will ever live has been written in His book. His right hand holds me fast. I feel and was feeling so valued and cherished by Daddy, but yet also wanting to be valued by other people near to me...

I've continued to watch and experience Father quiet me in His love, just as He promised me just after arriving here in Marseille a couple weeks ago now. Jack Frost's book has continued to be a source of intimacy fuel with Father, and this quote struck me yesterday:

"Many ministries are built, countries evangelized, and souls won to the Kingdom of God because of Christians trying to outdo one another for God's approval, to impress other people, or to feel better about themselves. Lacking a true understanding of God's nature and character, they spend their lives aggressively striving for that elusive sense of love and acceptance, when all the while, Father is reaching out to them, longing to have the intimacy and fellowship with them which Jesus has already provided." (Jack Frost pg. 62).

Man he is so right. I find so often that urge in myself to need to prove myself as a successful "missionary" which is a bunch of rubbish actually. Father I ask that You root out every trace of feeling as if I need to prove or earn love by "doing" ministry. I ask for greater and deeper revelation of Your love that surpasses understanding.

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This is the account of the creative miracle of healing that happened in the son of an Algerian baker named Mohammed, the father of Sonya and Nadjette who just came to know the Lord last Saturday 3/17/2007 after Meredith and Alli shared the gospel with them. We were invited over to their house after that, and we took a couple hours sharing the gospel with Mohammed.

Meredith shared her testimony about her father and how he was in severe depression and bipolar, and how Jesus brought supernatural healing to him, and in the process, the Lord also healed Meredith's heart, and He also brought healing to the shame in her family. Mohammed had told us the story of how, when he was 11 years old, his parents weren't able to take proper care of him, so they took him to the Catholic nuns, and they took care for him and nursed him, and he was exposed in a sense to some form of Jesus. He said that accepted Jesus into his heart when he was 11 years old. He also mentioned several times that everything he owned was given to him by Jesus, and that it wasn't his own doing that he received it. He acknowledged the provision of the Lord in his life.

Kevin then began to share bit by bit the entire gospel with Mohammed, beginning with creation from Adam and Eve, and he also went into the temporary provision of the Lord in the Old Covenant through the sacrificial system of offerings that would bring temporary reconciliation between God and man. This was key in leading up to why it was necessary for the Messiah to come and enact the perfect sacrifice and permanent reconciliation. It was especially important in communicating that Jesus was in fact the only human who ever lived a sinless life because he was born of a virgin, he was God, unique...God spoke and called him His Son from heaven. He did many miracles, including raising people from the dead. Kevin also explained how Jesus died, was raised, and then ascended to heaven and is with Father.

Mohammed interrupted numerous times while we were sharing and disagreed with the fact that Jesus actually died, but that the Muslims actually believe that Jesus didn't die, but that His spirit in some sense departed from His body, etc. Christine also spend a considerable amount of time inviting Mohammed to simply believing in Jesus by faith and that the next step of following Jesus is baptism. Mohammed's image and perception of baptism was infant baptism which is usually not necessarily a sign of faith but a ritual.

Mohammed kept telling us how he was a good man, and that he had never done anything wrong, and that he will be judged when he dies according to what he did as good. He believed that if his good works outweighed his evil works, then the Lord would receive him into paradise. Kevin replied by explaining that his hope when he goes to the judgment of God is not that his good works will outweigh the bad ones, but that his relationship with Jesus will be all that counts.

I (Adam) really felt like that we needed to invite Mohammed to believe in Jesus personally and. At that point, Alli and Meredith and Christine went to talk to Sonya and Nadjette about the Lord, etc. I was attempting to share my testimony of coming to know Jesus with Mohammed...constantly being interrupted. Finally I knew that there were evil spirits attempting to distract Mohammed from hearing the gospel, and I just began commanding these spirits to leave in the name of Jesus.

Rasheed (Mohammed's son) came into the room to tell on their sisters for taking the Jesus film from Alli and Meredith...he wanted his dad to not allow them to take it. Rasheed said that this film is not good for Arabs to have, and that is why he went to tell his dad about it. Then Mohammed started talking about his son Rasheed and how he is not strong, and he was weaker than all the other guys his age. He began telling us how Rasheed was hit by a car last year (2006) and his foot was broken, more than fractured, but it sounded like his foot was broken in half.

Kevin and I asked Mohammed if we could pray for Rasheed's foot and lay hands on it because the power of Jesus will heal him. The doctors put him in a full leg cast to try to correct the bone and reset it, and they managed to somewhat fix it, but there was still lots of pain. Mohammed was very open for us to pray over him. They were supposed to go to the doctor on Thursday (3/29/07) to scan the foot to see how the bone was correcting itself. If it wasn't back to normal, they were going to put in a metal plate and reoperate.

Kevin and I laid hands on his foot, began to pray, inviting the Holy Spirit's manifest presence to touch his foot to bring healing. Kevin had a picture of the woman who had the issue of blood who went up to Jesus and reached to touch Jesus to receive power for healing. Power went forth from Jesus. We were inviting the power of the Jesus to be tangibly present and loosed and released and bring recreating of bones, ligaments, etc. Taking authority over any evil spirits of infirmity, and the the indestructible life being released from us into his foot.

We both began to feel the tangible anointing of the Spirit, and Kevin felt swelling begin to decrease. He also felt movement of bones and ligaments in the front of Rasheed's shin where Kevin's hand was placed. I also felt the anointing in my hand. We stopped praying, and I asked him if he felt anything change in his foot, change of pain, presence of God, etc. Rasheed would hardly say anything...he was almost silent. Then Mohammed spoke up and asked him what was going on in his foot, pain, etc.

At one point, Kevin spoke in faith saying that God has healed your foot, and that when you go back to the hospital, there will be full healing in the foot. The power of Jesus has touched you. Kevin had me ask Rasheed if the swelling went down, and Mohammed was telling him to explain what was happening in his foot. He didn't say much.

Mohammed told Rasheed to put his shoe back on and try walking. We then found out that at age 7, Rasheed couldn't walk at all, but had to drag his foot along the ground, so this wasn't the first injury to his foot. He was able to walk, etc., but then he finally told us that he still had pain in his heel...possibly a nerve, pinching pain.

We asked if we can pray again, and he let us...he took his shoe back off, etc. Laid hands back on his heel and Kevin felt the same movement of bones and ligaments and such in his foot. I also kept feeling the anointing. We took authority over pain and commanded it to leave, etc. We asked the Lord to make this a testimony to the family of Jesus' power. I asked him again if anything had happened and if he had felt anything...this time he said that before we prayed he had pain, but now he didn't! He was so childlike in his faith and very matter of fact, and I remember that Rasheed began to be filled with joy and radiate with joy...

From before we prayed the second time, Mohammed began telling Rasheed about the power of Jesus in healing, and the same man that we had been painstakingly sharing the entire counsel of God with is now testifying and attempting to convince his son to believe in Him. This explains that Rasheed's reservation about the Lord was due largely to what his father would say (I believe). Rasheed was also raised in Algeria of course. Very Muslim...he just came over to France recently. I remember Rasheed asking us, "Is this for real? Is it true?" Not just about the healing that Jesus did, but the fact that Jesus is real. Wow.

Later when we were waiting for the bus, Kevin and I were talking to Rasheed again, and he told him that he can pray to Jesus just like we do, and the Lord will listen to him just like He listens to us. He doesn't need a book to pray, but can pray from his heart. He asked us if it's really true that he can hear the voice of God? Is it true that the Lord can actually speak to me? It was astounding by his childlike faith. Yes of course he can hear the Lord. Rasheed told us that he was so happy...his whole life he had dealt with leg injuries/pains, and now he can walk fine with no pain! There was a creative miracle of the power of God in his foot.

Rasheed's heart was vastly more open to us after this miracle. 2 hours of going seemingly nowhere in sharing the gospel with Mohammed was far outweighed by a 15 minute Holy Spirit creative miracle.

There was a threshold of when the Lord's power broke forth and crushed the opposition that the enemy built up to a climax in our conversation. Yay God.

UPDATE 3/30/2007: I called Mohammed last night to find out what the doctors said in regards to the check up on Rasheed's foot, and they verified that his foot has been completely healed! Hallelujah and glory to God!

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Matthew 10:7-8, “ ‘As you go, proclaim this message: “The Kingdom of heaven has come near.” Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.’ ”

This commission from Jesus has grabbed the very core of my heart and won’t let go. I’m astounded regularly now how radical Jesus is and how He thrusts His disciples out to do the impossible. He models it, then sends them out to do it. He raised the dead, then sent them out to do the same. He healed the sick, then sent them out to do the same. He cast out demons, then sent them out to do the same. Proclamation of the gospel in the world MUST be accompanied by miracles, signs, and wonders. It is normal Christian life—the power of the Spirit.

In the past month of my life, I’ve faced at least two major crises that have really threatened to knock me off course, but by the power of the Holy Spirit, thank Jesus that I have come out of both of these crises victorious. As y’all know, I spent 3 ½ months back in the USA in an unprecedented season of intimacy in prayer before the Lord, some of the best fellowship and deepening of communion with the Holy Spirit that I’ve ever experienced in my life. It has dug in me a far deeper hunger for God than I’ve ever had before. A craving that I usually can’t find words to describe. During this time back in the USA, this place of intimacy with Jesus produced a far greater sensitivity to the Holy Spirit’s voice, experiencing His tangible presence regularly, and a deep hunger to see Jesus return soon. Along with that has come by default an increase of seeing the miraculous happen through my life in healing of others, prophetic words over strangers, etc. It’s a privilege to see fruit being born through my life as a result of abiding in Father’s presence.

My aunt Pat’s death was a shocking blow to both me and my whole family, and none of us completely understand it fully. Tyler, myself, Mom, Dad, and some of y’all stood with me to see Pat raised from the dead as I believe that this was an illegal move from the enemy that robbed her of her life. I’ve never contended in prayer harder in my life. We went in and laid hands on Pat twice in the funeral home…the Lord gave me Hosea 13:14 which speaks of the destruction of death and the victory of God over death. Though Pat wasn’t raised from the dead, I am convinced that Jesus’ command to raise the dead is for all of us to walk in by the power of the Holy Spirit. I’m so glad I was able to be home with my family during the grieving of losing Pat…it was definitely the Lord’s provision. Quite a few people heard the gospel proclaimed at Pat’s funeral, and I was convicted of how often I am complacent in sharing the Good News of Jesus with people around me! It was a wake up call for us to make the most of every opportunity that we are given.

The other major crisis I faced in the past month was coming back to France. It was so tempting to not leave home and just stay comfortable in the place of prayer in intimacy with Jesus day in and day out. It would have been much easier. And plus with Pat’s death it was especially raw having to leave my family on the heels of such a family tragedy. I felt like not only was I leaving the people I love, but I felt like I was leaving my Lover Jesus back in America. I arrived in France in the peace of the Spirit, but then it felt like all hell broke loose because I all of a sudden didn’t have a place to seek the Lord in. The thought of “doing” ministry seemed so foreign and undesirable. I didn’t really want to go share the gospel with people…I just wanted to pray and worship and soak in the Spirit’s presence.

Daddy broke through my fears and held me. He has brought measures of victory and now I’m here in Marseille (got here on March 15th) until April 5th, and I’m thankful to have the short stint of time back in France to come alongside of Alli, Ken, Kevin/Angie, and Meredith who have been here since January on their CPx outreach…encouraging them, colaboring with them, helping them in translation, worshipping with them, and blessing them. They’ve had great favor from the Lord with relationships here, and there’s a lot of testimonies of what Jesus has done.

I’ve been privileged to witness 2 creative miracles in the past week and a half. For the sake of space, if you want to read about them, see the blog entries. But I’ll summarize briefly. The first miracle happened on the plane from Charlotte to Washington, DC. A lady named Janice was in a car accident, they rolled her to the plane in a motorized wheelchair because of her injuries. By the time we got to Washington, she was fully healed of Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in her left arm, a brand new right knee, neck/shoulders healed, and a lump of some sort disappeared, and ringing in her right ear healed! Wow. To read the rest, click on the blog entry “Healed on the Plane” dated March 15, 2007.

The other one just happened today. Alli, Meredith, Kevin, and I were at an Algerian friend of theirs’ house (Mohammed and his daughters Sonya and Nadjette). His daughters just came to know Jesus last week by the way when Alli and Meredith shared the Lord with them! Yay come on God. We were sharing the gospel with Mohammed, and found out that his son Rasheed was hit by a car last year and it broke his foot bone completely. The doctors reset it with a full leg cast, but it wasn’t completely fixed. We asked him if we could pray for him, and he said yes. As we prayed Kevin and I both felt the tangible presence of the Spirit on Rasheed’s foot. Kevin felt the bones physically realigning and supernaturally setting correctly by the power of God! By the time we finished, he had no more pain. Yay. Needless to say, our long drawn out conversation with Mohammed trying to convince him to believe in Jesus were way less effective than just a simple miracle of healing.

Thanks for praying for me during this period of my life where I feel like a nomad. The spiritual warfare I went through last week was the hardest I’ve had it since being in Nigeria last year. But thank the Holy Spirit for prompting and leading you to intercede on my behalf. Thank you so so very much.

I will be returning to Côte d’Ivoire on April 5th, on a one-way plane ticket! I so look forward to being reunited with my African family there…especially Maria, Abel, Ablam, and Taleh. The house is ready and livable, and please pray for Maria, Abel, and several others who will go into the north of Côte d’Ivoire from March 29-April 3 to do a crusade of evangelism and healing before about 30,000 people. Come Holy Spirit pour out Your power and presence.

For those who have emailed me lately and haven’t heard back, sorry about the delay. I’ve done very little computing and emailing lately. I’ll do my best to get back with you as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience.

I love and appreciate you and your support so much. Those of you who loved me and my family during Pat’s death…thanks a ton. You really realize how much people love you when tragedy strikes. The peace and joy of the Holy Spirit has been very real to us with her death, though it still remains a mystery.

Love so much,
Adam

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Two nights ago, I was enthralled by the peace of the Holy Spirit and the awesomeness of the heavenly visitation that Freddy Hayler had of heaven, and just entering into silent fellowship with the Holy Spirit as I listened to this absolutely other-than experience that he had, it makes me yearn more and more for a heavenly encounter with God.

I yearn so much Father to encounter You in an unusual and dramatic way. We are more changed in encounters than anything else I think, and I am just so hungry for more manifest Presence and encounter, though I thank You for the abundance that You've already given Daddy. You are so abundant and generous, and I worship You with all my heart. I rest in Your divine, soothing love that comforts my heart even now as I miss the ones I love.

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I got on the plane going from Charlotte to Washington, DC on my way to Paris then to Marseille. I was seated at the very back of the plane (it was a small regional jet) and the seat beside of me was empty. I thought it was going to remain empty, and at the last minute a lady came struggling in, sweating bullets, doing the best she could to sit down.

She sat down beside of me, and I immediately asked her if she was OK, because it seemed like she was out of breath from catching the flight in time. She said she was OK. Her name is Janice Dale, and she's from Buffalo. Then she went right into to talking about how she was in a really bad car accident 3 1/2 years ago and she has major back problems. The doctors could not do surgery because she didn't have enough cushioning around her spine to do it.

Of course the thing that I wanted to do was invited the Holy Spirit come to heal her. I had been just soaking in the Lord's presence from since before she got to the seat...just enjoying the Presence! This is absolutely amazing. So I asked her if she would be open to me praying for her and inviting the Lord to come and heal her. She was extremely open, and so I asked Janice if I could lay my hand on her shoulder and back. She was so open.

I began to invite the presence of the Holy Spirit, and Janice said she was feeling tingling (in her hands, and then later she told me that it was in her right knee too). Faith was rising in my heart and I could tell in her heart too like crazy. Then the Holy Spirit touched my left hand and the Lord told me she had Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in her hand. I asked her if something was wrong in her left hand, and she said yes it was indeed Carpel Tunnel Syndrome...all a result of the accident she had. Janice said she started feeling heat in her back. Then we stopped praying for a while, and I asked her what was going on in her body.

She started crying telling me that every day for the past 3 1/2 years since her accident, she has had to be resigned to disability because she couldn't work and use her hands and she couldn't walk without a cane because her right knee was messed up really bad, as was her neck. Janice all of a sudden felt this cool air flow over her right knee, and as if fluid was being pulled away from the middle of it. I was just sharing out of a plethora of words the Lord was giving me for Janice...compassion, and building faith in her to know that sometimes miracles of healing happen instantaneously, and sometimes they are progressive.

(I forgot to mention that Janice went to a psychic in January, and he had told her that she was going to have a miracle by February 28th, but then it would be postponed 2 weeks. They also told her that she would meet somebody who would bring healing to her. We talked about psychic stuff briefly, and she felt like it was OK to consult them, but I told her that she can wait on the Holy Spirit and ask HIM to speak to her, and He will. And that we need to ask Him instead of psychics. But I didn't want to push that because the flow of the Lord's presence was so natural, and I didn't believe it was time for me to impose upon her about the rights and wrongs of psychics. They also told her there would be the number 7 in her life, and her flight numbers were 7177 and 7111. Her boarding time was 5:43...and I told her about how Jesus tells me He loves me through the number 43. In fact the pilot just announced that it is 43 degrees in Paris. It's crazy how accurate the 2nd heaven revelation was that she got.  All the more reason for us to hunger for even better revelation from the 3rd heaven).

Janice tried to bend her knee out of curiosity of what was happening when that cool air hit it. For almost 4 years, she has not been able to bend it hardly at all, and she has walked with a cane. The whole reason that she was going from Charlotte back to Buffalo was to go to the doctor tomorrow to get more pain medication. She started rejoicing right there on the plane, and I was just drinking in the Spirit and rejoicing with her, O my gosh I was so excited! The flow of the Presence of the Spirit was so natural and unhindered. Then as we were talking, the pain in her neck started dissipating too! The Lord did creative healing miracles in her knee, left arm, and neck! Then we got to Washington, landed, and Janice was so excited to get up out of her seat to see how her knee would do. Her knee continued to feel better and better...my gosh this is the first of many surprises that the Lord has for me that He prophesied about through Mom and Hanmarie.

Janice was crying and rejoicing and clapping and when we landed, she got out of her seat and didn't use her cane! A mobile wheelchair had brought her to the gate to board the plane in Charlotte, but she walked off the stairs frontwards with no cane, and she has not done that in 4 years! She was ecstatic. She said she couldn't wait to call her sister and tell her what happened. Janice said not only did she have no more pain, but she had no limp either! She walked perfectly on the hard concrete, which usually would make her knee extremely painful, to the point that it would burn. She told me she had written a letter to both the Lord and her lawyer saying that she wanted a miracle from Him. In the car accident, she was hit on the driver side, but all the pain and injuries were on her left side of her body. She also said that she was skeptical at first that she would be healed when I prayed, but it was a progressive healing that came into her body, and now she was talking with such confidence about the healing of God! Oh my gosh this is probably the most significant healing I've been used by the Lord to do yet.

So Janice and I were getting off the plane in Washington DC, and when we got into the building, I felt the Holy Spirit touch my right ear. I asked Janice if she had problems in her right ear? Yes, she did...she had been hearing a constant ringing in her ears since the accident and it would be pain that would shoot up from her right knee all the way up to her right ear and it would give her migraines. I'm pretty sure the Lord touched her ear too. So much healing happened that I can't hardly remember it all! She kept testing her knee out to make sure that it was working, just to double check...it was completely healed!!!

We sat down and I had Janice record what happened in her healing...I recorded it. Janice told me about another healing that took place as she was talking...she had had a lump in her neck, on the right side. And she had started coughing on the plane all of a sudden as the Lord was healing her...I believe there were some evil spirits that she was delivered from. And she felt her neck, and the lump was gone!!! This is like 5 miracles all in one...her Carpel Tunnel Syndrome in her left arm/hand was healed, her right knee was healed (in fact it sounds like it was a creative miracle and that she actually received from the Lord a brand new knee! The lump was healed, and the pain left her neck and shoulders). Also, Janice told me that this was affirmation that I am following the Lord's right path because of this healing He did in her through me. Yay God.

I got to thinking myself about how this is yet another demonstration of the sovereign leading of the Lord in my own life, and all this is a big YES of His timing that I'm on my way back to France! Wow. As Janice was talking, she saw another lady walking by with a cane, and she said we need to pray for her! Her faith was sky-high, even higher than mine because she had just received this miraculous healing and knew it was for real. So that lady was in line to board her flight, and I tried to keep an eye on her to see where she was going just in case Janice and I could pray over her. Well about 5 minutes later, this lady came around and sat right beside of us! She had been bumped off her flight, and she was very upset, and started crying. They overbooked her flight, and the agent was telling her they would put her on the next one. She was very upset.

Janice and I introduced ourselves to her...her name is Elizabeth. Janice started telling Elizabeth a mile a minute with more confidence than I've ever seen...telling her that she just got healed supernaturally by the Lord when I prayed over her, and how she was in a car accident 4 years ago, and she has never walked without a cane...but that she got off this plane without using her cane! Janice asked Elizabeth if I could pray over her (meanwhile, I'm thinking that we BOTH need to pray, not just me). I should have just asked Janice to pray instead of me doing it...that way she would be equipped to do it again elsewhere.

But anyway, Elizabeth was upset and not really interested in us praying for her. She said she had her own faith. But eventually, I asked her a couple more times, and she gave me her hand, and I held it as I prayed over her. The Spirit started manifesting His presence in my hands...and I was just inviting Him to heal her...to come. I spoke healing into her arthritis that she has had for 20 years. We found out that she had also been in a car accident a year and a half ago, and that broke her neck. Then while we were praying, Elizabeth all of a sudden said that she has gout in her feet, and she wanted me to pray over that! This was a big deal for her, because at first she was opposed to us praying. It reminded me so much of how Jesus went to the man who had been lying paralyzed at the Pool of Bethesda for 38 years unable to walk. The man kept thinking of all the negative stuff...he had nobody to carry him to the pool...everybody else always got to the pool before him, etc. Elizabeth kept doing that kind of stuff, but the fact that she extended her foot to me so I'd pray over her gout...she was demonstrating faith. It was so precious to see. I noticed a heart change in Elizabeth as we prayed. Janice joined me in prayer too, though she didn't say anything.

I encouraged Elizabeth to just continue to invite the presence of the Holy Spirit to touch her, and the healing will continue happening. She said she knows...He's always with us. I also asked her if she felt anything happening in her body. She said that some of the tension left her shoulder/neck area! I had to leave then to go to another terminal to catch my Paris flight, but shared with Elizabeth of the Lord's compassion and love for her, and I could tell her heart was softened after being so upset about being bumped off her flight. She thanked me and was grateful that there are still people in this world who care. She was touched. I imagine that the Lord touched her more but she didn't share everything that happened.

Janice and I hugged each other, and she was still rejoicing! I worship You Lord so so so much! I worship You with all my heart! O God You used me to do this kind of miracle. Wow. You are incredible. This is one of many surprises that you have for me.

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Last night I had a Spirit-filled time with Bob and Trudy Porter, and listening to their stories of supernatural encounters with the Lord, open visions, angelic activity, redemption of God in major suffering, deliverance, and their stories of the power of God in their lives was amazing.

They are precious people and have become dear friends of Mom and Dad...it was so refreshing to be with people who walk in the power and reality of the Holy Spirit. There's so much religion in the Bible Belt...I hate it...but how lifegiving it is to be with people who actually believe God raises the dead and heals the sick. Bob's stories of how he was in prison for several counts of armed robbery, then met the Lord...it was incredible. He actually was raised from the dead sovereignly by the Lord! I shared some of my story of the Lord encountering me in high school and redeeming and saving my life, and other testimonies of the power of the Holy Spirit...and as we talked, the anointing of the Spirit came...and Bob haphazardly mentioned that he didn't have any sense of smell, from birth he has not been able to smell. I asked him if I could pray over him because I felt the tangible presence of the Holy Spirit and believed God for healing. Trudy and I laid hands on Bob, and believed God for a miracle. He didn't healed as far as I know, but that doesn't discourage me from plowing ahead, continuing to contend for healing.

After being with the Porter's, in response to all the prophetic revelation that the Lord has given over the past weeks and months, I went and bought a plane ticket to return to Côte d'Ivoire on April 5th. It was yet another huge risk of trusting the Lord in following Him wholeheartedly...I was still wavering wondering whether I should go forward with it or not...just wanting to make sure that I wasn't missing the Lord's best. It is so tempting to just stay in the USA and just continue soaking in the presence of the Holy Spirit and pursue intimacy with Jesus alone...and sometimes I wonder if that isn't the Lord's best for my life...just to keep on waiting on the Lord and digging deeper and deeper into the well of the Spirit before I jump back into the harvest.

But as I thought and contemplated all the prophetic words and the dreams and the leading of the Spirit in the past few months, I made the decision to go forward. I've asked repeatedly that the Holy Spirit block me sovereignly from returning to both France and Africa if it's not His best. Paul operated in a way that he assumed it WAS an open door unless the Lord blocked him, like He did in Asia that time. Anything that is not of faith is sin. It is so, so tempting to just continue to just "take in" and receive from the Lord and not pour out on others.

I have done yet another "first" in the Lord...lots of those happening lately. Just like I laid hands on Pat's body to raise her...that was a first...well, I bought a ONE WAY plane ticket for Côte d'Ivoire, another first. Wow Lord I am trusting You in this with all my heart. Meet me O God in this trust and straighten all my paths. Man I need You so much Lord. I am a pilgrim on this planet, but Your son who will never be removed from Your Spirit. I want more of Your tangible presence. In fact, I wanted to mention that in the past few days, the oil of the Spirit has increased again! I love You Holy Spirit. Keep coming. O Your presence is so sweet to my soul and body. I love to feel You. Your oil is just far more precious to me that a million dollars. Encounter me in new ways Holy Spirit. I keep asking for a visitation to heaven and open vision encounters with You Lord. I want to see You with my unveiled natural eyes, sitting on Your throne. Let me see You please. I don't want to wait until I die to see You. I want to see You now. Please let me see You. I yearn so much, and long beyond words to see You. I'm desperate to see You. O God let me see You. Like Isaiah and Ezekiel saw, let me see You King.

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