Wednesday, 21. February 2007 21:30
From the 15th to the 19th of April 2007 our seminary closed its doors, cause the pipework of our heating system needed to be renewed and they didn’t want us to sit in ice cold rooms for our studies. During this time I was invited to visit some friends of mine. They are a familie of 6 - the two parents, three Boys and one girl. I could have stayed in my own appartment, but I wanted to spend time with these very close friends. They live in a small village with about 60 inhabitants and only a few other houses stand besides their house. All around this area you’ll find a lot of fields and meadows, horses and a lot of cats. 4 of these cats belong to this family. I have the honour to be the godfather of their oldest son. He is someone I am very proud in. His going forward with God gives me a lot of joy. His daily life does also have his heights and depths, but I can cleary see how God gives him strength during the depths and that he grows in wisdom. God is definitly guiding him.
I brought some material with me to take some time to learn for a test I had to write in systematic theology. But anyway, I was really looking forward to enjoy my weekend. Thursday and Friday I took some time to arrive and to relax. B. was cooking some tasty meals and we just spend time together as family and friends. From time to time I spend time alone with God in my room.
On a few evenings I opened SkypeCast with topics like “Is God weird?” or “God’s weird children…” or “Destiny Words”. I also participated in a few existing SkypeCast about similar topics. I had some really good talks and discussion, but I got a little frustrated during my 6th SkypeCast, when I came to the conclusion, that many people circle around a few topics when it comes to talk about Jesus. Many tried to focus our discussion on topics like evolution or creation or even the crusades of the Middle Ages. (Why do some people always ask the same questions?)
On saturday morning B. celebrated her birthday with a brunch in the soup kitchen of our church. All the regular guests (the poor of the city where the church is located) where invited and also all staff members. The room was solemnly decorated and many of our regular guest where positivly shocked when they came in. I had a few very good talks and felt really comfortable among these people.
As soon as we came back home we took a noon break and I made a plan with U. to meet again sometime in the later afternoon to ask God to show us people we could pray and collect prophetic words for. U. is moving in the prophetic a far longer time then me and I somehow had the feeling that this time would be wonderful for both of us and that God somehow will share the power behind prophetic gift of my friend with me. So as we met we asked God to show us names of some people and wrote them down. Then we went from name to name and asked God to give us a word, an impression or a picture about / for this person. That was sooooo awesome, guys! Wow, I’m still amazed. And as I thought before, I soon discovered that God was really sharing some of the power and ability U. has in prophetic realm with me. I got so encouraged and empowered. No, U. is not missing a thing now, the opposite is true, he grew in his gift during that time, cause whoever is ready to share or give something, will receive more from God. Words for the people we prayed for where flowing like a river and we wrot them down. That had nothing to do with the occult practice of “automatic writing”. I was able to start and stop typing whenever I wanted to. I tell you guys, it was so glorious, such an awesome time! So many impression at one time, God really impressed me during that afternoon. And I was moved even more by the simplicity with which God was moving among us. Nothing about this time of collecting prophetic words for people seemed to be difficult. I was soooo easy! Among many other words U. had a word for a friend of mine, who is living far away from where I live now and I didn’t tell U. any detail about this fellow. But he saw this young man right before his eyes and described him and told me words of destiny about his life. After he finished telling me these words, I showed him a picture of F. my friend and U. almost fell from his chair and with amazed eyes he said: “That is him! That is the guy I saw in my vision! That is exactly him, wow!”
Sunday morning we went to church and during the service God sovereignly moved among us and changed the program. After the sermon the preacher called out to ask God to forgive us where we went away from our first love and where we wanted to hold areas of our life under our own control instead of God’s. During this time of confession and prayer we really felt God moving among us. After the sermon we would normally close the service and go to the coffeebar to spend some time in good fellowship. But this sunday everything was different. This time of prayer lasted for a long time and when it came to an end God challenged me to go forward and share a word with the church. He told me to ask them: “Church, what was going on during the last few minutes? Are we willing to let God do things like that in our services on a regular bases? Is He allowed to take over our services and to shake the nice schedules we had planned for it?” A strong word and it was not easy for me to deliver it, believe me. But the church received it in a good way. Well, I don’t know if they really got the point here, but I hope so.
During sunday afternoon my friend U. and I had our second prophetic meeting and we went on from where we had finished the day before. In Monday I went back to my appartment and I was tired, refreshed and strenghened at the same time. During this week I felt the amazing effect from what God did during this weekend. I feel like God has placed me on a greater territory and has entrusted me more things then before. At the same time He continues to call me into more intimacy with Him.
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