Day 41 - Prophecy

Wow... today was very interesting and amazing. After a couple hour teaching on tongues and prophecy, Phil Tate from a Vineyard church in Christchurch started ministering to us by telling us that someone in the room had problems with their hand. Two people did and he/we prayed for them... and he began speaking out things that God was bringing to his mind about them. For one of our guys God brought to Phil's mind the prayer that Moses prayed about God's presence going before them and after the prayer our guy said that he happens to pray that prayer every morning. WOAH!

Then Phil had the impression that someone had pain in their heels and my cousin Aaron stood up. Phil prayed for his heels (Aaron later said his heels started vibrating on the inside during that - I'll ask him tomorrow how they feel) and then he began to prophesy amazing things about Aaron and this his feet will 'swiftly' take him to many nations to powerfully preach the gospel. He said that he saw missions all over him.

Phil prayed for about half of our group individually this way and tomorrow he will pray for the rest of us - including Joy and I. I will report about that tomorrow.

Then at 3:00 we met with Steiger's treasurer for a little over an hour and she looked over our finances and gave us some advice. It was a very good conversation and very motivating. We have a lot of work to do.

After Joy and I went to the beach and talked for a while about what she said. Then I opened my daily devotional book (NT Wright's Luke for Everyone) and it was on Luke 16 which is about the parable of the shrewd manager and other teachings on money!! Funny how God does that - I love it!

After these two events I had that tender, peaceful internal feeling you get when God does a major work in you. Talking about money and being in the midst of the Holy Spirit ministering will do that to you.

Then tonight we had Luke over and ate dinner with him and our housemates Noah and Wendy. It was wonderful!