QUOTE (freedom @ Nov 12 2008, 11:16 PM)

Damo, PRAISE the LORD I'm glad that you are witnessing the POWER of PRAYER, when it is ANSWERED. The LORD will continue to move and bless those within your Church, as long as they remember to intercede and pray. One thing I believe the LORD is waiting on, is more people to take up the BANNER of PRAYER. Not just praying here and there, but really getting into the heart and seeking the LORD to move. Your community have witnessed this AWESOME POWER!
I know that one month doesn't seem like much, but what we have discovered, is one month of doing something, creates a new habit. For many of our members, it will be relearning to intercede for the Church. That is the first focus for us. I believe the LORD is moving in our Church, and preparing our hearts, for what HE WILLS for us. This is only the first of many such Revivals, to come. Most of the congregants are senior citizens, and most feel that there is little that they can do. But, what I am doing within the Women's Missions and soon, the Children's Church area's, will awaken a calling to prayer. Many churches today, are dying, because they have forgotten intercessory prayer. One woman asked, how I planned on getting children to come. I told her I am depending upon your prayers. She was floored, but this is the TRUTH. The Evangelist, told them tonight, that the Church will not grow, if they do not pray, according to the WORD. Over tha last several days, they have been shown several prayer warriors in the BIBLE, and given a one month, daily prayer focus with scriptures. The alter call, left few sitting in their seats. I believe the LORD is moving this Inner City Church, to reclaim our city. There are so many people that have never heard about JESUS, right here in our own neighborhood. This is the one thing, I mentioned to our Pastor, before joining this Church. I asked him, his vision, for the Church, and for the community. He answered, the LORD'S WILL be done. I have challenged this Church, to really get to the heart of CHRIST, and reach the community we live in. The LORD has given me several dreams and visions, of this happening, and I am standing in AWE of HIS POWER to move on HIS PEOPLE. "If we will humble ourselves and pray, and seek HIS FACE..."
high freedom
you are so right by saying this this is what the lord has done and placed on my heart today sadly the church is not as alive as it was back in pauls time or when jesus was walking the earth this is why ther is so much disagreement from with in freedom
i wish i could show you what the lord is doing in the philippines i am going to be again away from this forum i leave on the 1st of dec and wil not be back in australia until the 7th of jan 2009 this is where my old pastor got the courage to do what he did in christian out reach center in armidale new south wales
in the philippines freedom its not just the pastors and a few people and a few old ladys who come to the friday night prayer meetings the whole church turns up young people the kids who go to our sunday school with their mother and father and grand parents our prayer meetings are like our sunday morning services we also have saturday prayer meetings in the main church in Bacolod the members turn up at 6am and its the same with the other 4 sister churches planted with in Bacolod and bantan island were our new church is which is in la castelana which is a 2hr bus drive from Bacolod our members come to the 5am saturday morning prayer meeting and we finish at 7am freedom
when i landed in the philippines on the 28th of jan 2008 i stayed for only 3 weeks i could not believe what i saw unfold i told my fiancee who wil be my wife on the 18th of dec 2008 who is the head pastor when her main pastor goes back to amercia i told her in australia you wil only have say 5 people turn up to the prayer meetings i said australians only come to the sunday morning service when the pastor says come to the prayer meetings on the given day they have them the hands get put up but its only the older generation and sevral women who turn up my fiancee could not believe it she said this is how we are winning so many to the lord we pray every day threw the week and then on fridays and saturday mornings before the sunday morning service everyone gets involved
freedom i saw 5 to 19 yr olds male and females crying out before god asking god to use them to reach out the young people in la castelana i saw 19 to 45 yr olds doing the same i had 5 little ones pray over me freedom tears were flowing down my face to what i witnessed and it was not put on freedom like i have witnessed in australia when i told my pastor he said this is what is needed hear he talked to my fiancee via email she wrote to him encouraged him i gave him also emails she sent to me the book that got my pastor going was holy spirit i hunger for you by CLAUDIO FRITZEN This aog pastor had 8 old ladys coming to the prayer meetings and to the sunday service him and his wife and child lived in the church he was mexican he came very close to leaving he had a letter ready to hand over to the aog church and he stated his reasons why al his friends were pastoring big congregations and hear is this dear pastor who only has 8 old ladys turning up to the prayer meetings and to the sunday morning service freedom one night god shook him and threw god doing this this pastor took the gospel christ preached to the streets he talked to anyone who would listen he would hold healing services in the mal drug adicts junkies street kids sex workers stoped to listen to him he know has one of the bigest chruches and when revival broke threw pastors from al over the world came to his church just to be refreshed and hear this mighty man of god preach i have the book but its being read now in the philippines when one member finishes reading the book its passed on my old pastor preached from this book and from what my fiancee shared to him
the kids in la castelana give up their time to be with god and they dont flake it freedom i encouraged our young people in la castelana i said you have been a blessing to me i said this is what is needed in my country australia were our young people stop wasting there free time playing the x box coming on to on line forums hanging out with their mates and only turn up to the saturday youth group what we have pastors in the city i am living in are jealous freedom i said this can hapen but you need to get real and fal on your face and repent and cry out for mercy
i cant weight to be around our young people and the kids in our sunday school freedom our youth group in la castelana has grown from 20 to 50 the sunday school has grown from 15 kids to 100 kids freedom we have new familys also coming to the family service in la castelana
give it time freedom just keep doing what you are doing encourage the citizens who have been coming to these meetings tel them god can stil work threw them
the old church i left is going good freedom this is what hapens when you pray god responds and the enemy loses his grip my old pastor said the neighbours are now open to him they listen to him due to what we did and they do this every year freedom
i go over the long weekends back to the country town i was living in and i wil pray with the pastor and the men we book out a cabin leave our mobils phones in the car and turn them off and for 4 days we pray from friday to monday lunch time as our long weekends some of us come from all over the place and you have to be back for work on tuesday
you can share this if you want i would like to take a cam recorder and set up something hear freedom but with what i have seen in this forum its running on fear we have a lot of doubters so i dont want to set something up that is not going to be use full were it blesses some one
when thes young people and our sunday school kids get together and pray we dont tel them to shut up and say its only for the adults we let them do as they please our young people lead the sunday morning worship service freedom
i wil pray over you and your church and i wil share this with my fiancee when i land in manila on the 1st
be blessed and have a blessed day freedom god wil move freedom nothing is impossible with god we just have to die to the doubt and believe and be willing to try some thing new step out of our comfort zones die to some things we hold on to give up our time we waste watching tv to where we come with like minded souls and pray over our selves over our citys and over the pastors and members who belong to difrent denominations asking the lord to refresh them touch them and heal his people this is what is needed instead of arguing over pathetic subjects that get us no where
threw prayer is how we wil revive the church from its sleep and its threw prayer we wil win the lost over and its threw prayer god wil have reign in our citys country towns and our neighbour hoods were no longer pimps drug dealers or thugs are running our neighbour hoods we live in this happens when we say enough is enough

Damo