Sunday, Jan 6, 2013—Jesus, no distractions

Richmond, B.C.
After church
With friends at Tapioca Express

L is with us

She has pain in her neck from a recent skiing accident, and would like prayer.

Her head snapped forward and her neck got hurt, but miraculously she’s ok, she has a lot of pain around her neck though, some problems with mobility.  W and I (both of us on the healing team) sit on either side of L and began to pray.

As we pray, the pain begins to leave, and demonic spirits begin to manifest themselves in her mind.  She sees a spirit that had been waiting by her and causing a lot of the accidents in the past—this spirit comes closer and stares at her right in her face, it was there when she had her most recent accident too—it is the spirit of death.

We invite the Holy Spirit to come and fill the place, bind and cast out this spirit, and continue to worship and invite the Holy Spirit, contending for an open heaven around us and the entire restaurant.

As we are praying I share what I am seeing, L is entering into heaven, I see a door, I see her going through it, I see her meeting the Father.  Later she says that everything I spoke was happened right before I said it.

By her estimate she is 80% healed by this time.

W and I continue to pray, and by this time the spirit of death has fled.  L sees two angels with their wings spread over her.  I see W and I with our arms around her.

We are up to 90%, 95%, now 100% healing!

We have a group hug and I gave L a hand slap.  I think we were finished but in that hand slap L sees little spirits shooting out of her.  So I keep slapping her hand, kind of playfully, but excited God seems to still be doing something.  Every time I slap her hand it seems like more of God’s glory comes in, and more of the little spirits fly out.  But then she says .. “uh oh.”

There is a big spirit, she says, really huge, and she doesn’t know what to do.  What is it she wonders … So we begin to pray again, just inviting the Holy Spirit to come and fill her and the Father to walk beside her.  But instead of the Father walking with her she feels alone and confused, wondering what this spirit is and feeling like a little girl lost in the woods.  The way she described the spirit seems really serious to me so I text H for advice as we continue to pray.

Texts with H:

—Hey H! Can you stand in prayer as we’re praying for L … she’s had a dramatic healing so far .. many spirits have left her including a spirit of death that’s been plaguing her for three years … she was taken up into the throne room but she says there is a huge spirit still in her … what would you recommend?

—No need to go any further … just pray for peace .. can you explain a bit more in detail?  It’s very vague and hard for me to put together, can you explain how this all started?

—She wanted prayer for her neck …

—How did she manifest, did she have control of who she was?

—Ok it’s not manifest like taking control

—Ok good

—But it seems like every time we invite the Holy Spirit more stuff comes to the surface

—Does she know what this huge spirit is?

—No, but it’s big .. and she saw “shame” and “control”

—Ic … just bind them up, hard to say what to do next, sounds like God is moving though so it’s great news!

—Ok big one is bound, Holy Spirit working

—Is neck issue resolved?

—Yep, that’s long gone

—Ok great, no need for any more deliverance

—Got it, thanks .. really appreciate it …

First testimony from L, from my notebook:

Daddy’s awesome!  Daddy loves me, daddy cherishes me!  I went up into heaven and into a mysterious room.  He said “it’s yours.”  This room was really dark, I sensed that it was something more than healing, I had full access to the room … I don’t care about that too much but I saw Daddy and I was happy, but the love that came down was the best, I was just like a sponge filled with love.  Now my mind is completely clear and I feel perfect, like the accident never happened.   Something changed, something shifted in my life, and it has something to do with ungodly beliefs, lies that were cast out, delivered.   Daddy was showing me grace even though I wasn’t good … self-inflicted pain, “but I’m still going to pour out my blessing on you and even give you so much more, this is just the beginning” and now I have access to more rooms, now I’m seeing myself holding a bunch of keys to all these rooms in heaven, the first was a white door, the colors of the keys match the colors of the doors, I need to sort them out and explore these different rooms, and there are different colors of horses in heaven, they all belong to me [she said the horses represented resources available to her], open to different parts of heaven I can bring down to earth, full access, full authority, physically all the pain has disappeared, it was weird, like the pain flew out, I could see the spirits of pain like pssw pssw, a bunch of them, spirits flying out, and I received divine healing [healing we didn’t pray for] in the butt as well!  But there was a giant spirit … 

Second testimony from L, transcribed from an iphone recording:

So what happened was I thought that I was dealing with a spirit, because the spirit was really big, so I asked daddy, show me, what is this spirit?  If there’s something unclean, if there’s anything in my life that’s not of you, I want to get rid of it, I want to be radically clean and obedient, I don’t want anything to hold me back, but if there is a spirit that is stuck in me, yank it out, I don’t care, I’m not embarrassed, whatever it takes, I’m doing it.

And then as I was saying that, I just saw a vision, and this time around I was in the same place [walking through the woods], but I was not alone any more, I became like a little girl, with ponytails, like I was a kid, I was very little, probably about five or six, and I was wearing my favorite dress as a kid … it was white and red and it has like a strawberry in the middle, and that was the dress that I really wanted from my dad when I was a kid ... so I was wearing it and Father in heaven was holding my hand and it was on the same path, it was really dark and he was holding my hand, and we were just walking, and then the next thing I knew I went up to heaven with daddy … 

And then in heaven I saw this range of clothes and dresses, and I was looking through them but I couldn’t find something that I liked … I just couldn’t find it, there was like a huge wardrobe in heaven there were all these dresses in front of me but nothing caught my eye, but finally I knew what I was looking for, I was looking for a specific dress.

And then, out of the blue, I wasn’t a little kid anymore, I was all grown up, and I saw myself, and the next thing I knew I was clothed with a gold dress, it was all gold and it was beautiful, and I was like hmm, gold is not even my favorite color but it looks so good on me, the design, the fitting, everything was perfect, and my face was just glowing, and my hair was tied up, everything about me was done up, when I saw myself I was like … I look perfect!

I was like hmm, I actually look good!  I wasn’t even wearing any make-up or anything but my skin was perfect, and I realized this was exactly what I was looking for.

And then the next thing I knew I was in a wedding ceremony, I was still in heaven, and all the dresses and everything was gone, and here I am walking down the aisle and then I saw the groom just staring at me, like he has never seen anything more beautiful, and I could feel it, all eyes were one me, and then the next thing I knew I just couldn’t take my eyes off the groom, but the intensity he looked at me was like you are perfect, and I felt perfect, I felt whole, he was staring at me with an intensity to the point where was I was almost feeling a bit embarrassed, but when I looked at him I thought he is more perfect than me, like flawless

and then next thing I knew as I was walking slowing to him, the dress began to change from gold to white, it was almost like a wedding dress, but it was the most most beautiful wedding dress I had ever seen and it fit me to a T, but I saw the transformation as I was walking closer and closer to him, and with every step I took the dress became whiter and whiter and pure, love that is so pure, like nothing that we’ve got on earth, and I felt so loved, so pure, pure love, so pure,and then as I walked to the front of the aisle, the dress I was wearing was just pure white, and with little flower patterns and stuff, little laces, and some gold sparkles, everything was just perfect, and then I saw you guys and you guys were just sitting there, and then you started playing the song [some of the others in the group were playing worship music as we prayed], and it was just at the right time when the song started playing and you were singing and cheering me on, and I thought I have never felt such love .. 

the groom was looking at me, you guys were cheering me on, that I have been made perfect … and then I asked daddy—so random—like, what’s that spirit? I still want to get it out, and daddy was like that was a distraction, you’re perfect, there is nothing that is unclean in you, there’s no spirit that does not belong, it was in you, you are clean and you’re perfect, you’re pure ... and then I’m like ok, I’m getting married here, I’m perfect, who’s this groom, who are you …? [long pause, her mouth hangs open for 30 seconds ..]

he is Jesus! I am the bride of Christ, I was made perfect, every step that I took closer to him I became more perfect, it was nothing that I have done, all I did was walk down the aisle, and even the dresses were all prepared for me, he handpicked all the dresses, he basically prepared everything for me, and then he said you are my bride, my chosen one, you are perfect, you are beautiful, and then the next thing I knew you guys were singing and I was like yeah yeah it is done, it’s complete, it’s finished, I was just overwhelmed with love from you guys and Jesus my groom, my lover, that prepared the entire wedding procession and you guys with me, and I was like, "Can I just stay here?"

And I was like you know what, maybe I should just stay here … I don’t want to go anywhere else, and I don’t need anything, all I want is to lock eyes with him, just lock eyes with him for the rest of my life and I’ll be content, I don’t have to do anything for him to love me more, all I have to do is take a step closer and closer to him, and he has prepared the perfect dress, shoes, and hair ... 

oh! and then I saw the ring, and the gemstone was pink, and I was like that’s the gemstone that I want, and Jesus, my groom, was like "I knew you’d like it," and then he asked, "Will you be my bride?" and I said "Yes yes yes yes yes!" I just kept saying "yes", I didn’t know what else to say, everything was just so perfect—I got married in heaven!

And there were like blue birds flying and then the angels were playing music, songs, its almost like you guys were like the angels that were making things happen … I was—I am—perfect, there are no other spirits, just the spirit of God, in me.  And I'm pure, and God loves me, he is my lover, the lover of my soul, my husband, who has chosen me to be his bride.

And then I'm like "I want to stay here," and Jesus was like, "Do you want to bring this down on earth?" and he asked me and I was like "I do, I want to bring this down on earth, I want to share this with everyone, I don’t want this to just be for myself, I want to share it with everyone else." ... family ... family .... the perfect family of heaven to bring down ... family that is from heaven to earth .... to have a taste of what it is like to be the bride of Christ, to to bring down the most perfect family from heaven to earth.

Love by the wall, "hot chocolate have I none ..."

Nightshift tonight
Miranda, Andrew, and Brit are here.
Starting off
So much joy in our group I can't stop laughing
Hanging out with skatepark guys for a bit, Ethan, Braden
Past the old Nightshift building, up the street, on our way to the Front Room
Wall people, lined up just like a few weeks ago
Miranda is praying for a woman in a fold up chair ...
Just got out of the hospital, suffering from asthma, in a lot of pain, doctors couldn't help her.
Kelly.
—Would you like to pray too?
—Do you mind if he prays?
—No.
What does she mean?  With all the pain in that answer ... can she really not mind?
She wants prayer.
Asthma go, lungs clear, release, love of the Father for Kelly.
Suddenly her grip tightens around mine.
—How are you feeling?
—Everything feels good, peace, calm, rest
Lots of love here, I see God sitting in a folding chair beside her
—I can breathe now.
—How much more needs to be healed?
—There's still pain, but I can breathe now.
—Would you like more prayer?
—Yes, but I have to go to the bathroom, can you wait two minutes?
Miranda and I: Of course.  Good conversation with Bill and others around about what God's been doing in lives here.
She's back, more prayer, pain go, prayer in silence for a while, a picture of an anchor keeps coming back to me
—That's who God is to you during this time, you can trust in him, he will hold you tightly no matter what is thrown at you
After prayer
—The pain is gone
Long good bye
—Unfortunately I will still be here next week
—Well, then we'll just have to see you again I guess ...
Smiles
It's after 9 already.  Past the Front Room, on our way back.
As we turn the corner to head back to the Nightshift building, a woman with a cast on her wrist ..
"Jackie"?
We offer her hot chocolate, but I'm all out .. suddenly a thought comes to mind, and I say it ..
—I don't have any hot chocolate, but what I have I'll give to you!
—What's that?
—Your hand ... healing for your hand
—I broke my wrist punching someone the other day
—Can I pray for it right now?
She's ok with it.
—Bones knit together, pain go ...
After a bit ...
—How does it feel?
—Haha well there was no pain to begin with, sorry
—Is there any other indications, any other way you could test it to see if it were healed?
—Well, I can't move my fingers at all, I ... Oh wow ... hey look at that, I can move them now ... I couldn't do that before
—Aha there you go!
Fellowship, prayer, and fun back at the Nightshift building
—During Katie's pregnancy, we got prayer from the deliverance ministry ...
—And they delivered it?? Ha!
Beautiful night ... as always

Fun on Friday night

July 20, 2012.  Richmond, B.C.

"Tonight .. we are young.  So let's set the world on fire, we can burn brighter than the sun."

I'm guessing by now most of you either know this song, or have at least heard it somewhere before.  But look at the lyrics again for a second—this time with the eyes of a child who believes a loving, all-powerful God is just waiting to do amazing things through them.

Could these be words to a worship song?  Sung in response to who God is and what he's doing through us?  Normally we don't sing songs like this in Sunday services, but recently we sang just these lyrics during worship in my church in Richmond.  So now everyone in our church knows them, from the oldest down to the youngest.  This is a story about some of the youngest, and how these lyrics are true for them.

We were in Richmond Centre mall last night when this song began to play.  There were three kids with us: Kristen (12), Peter (11), and Nathan (?).  Lisa, Elsie, and I were leading.  We were on a treasure hunt—an ultimate treasure hunt, that is—if you haven't read Kevin Dedmon's book on the subject, basically we were following specific clues God had given us—our 'treasure map'—to find someone God wanted us to minister to—the 'treasure'!

Kristen and Peter both had treasure maps and Nathan was there to watch.  Up to this point we had been following a trail of location clues around, from a jewelry store to a popcorn stand, and finally to the cosmetics section of The Bay, which was the only place we could think of to connect with the word Peter got, "Dolce & Gabbana".
 
We had begun our hunt full of expectation and excitement, but at this point we had to admit we were beginning to doubt whether would ever find our treasure.  It would end soon.  We were only allowed 25 minutes, and then we had to report back to the rest of the group.

So, with not much time, we headed into The Bay, when "We Are Young" began to play.  "It's that song!" I heard Kristen say.  The three of us were walking quickly ahead of the group as Lisa gave me directions—turn right, then left, to get to the cosmetics section.  I had no idea whether anything was going to happen, but suddenly as the song began to play I felt the expectation build again.

"Are you ready?" I asked Kristen.
"Ready for what?"
"To burn brighter than the sun!"


But at first the scene looked much the same as before.  We weren't sure if God was highlighting anyone there, and we thought about our treasure maps once again—we were looking for a caucasian (a rare find in Richmond, actually, which is mainly Chinese), pink shirt, white shoes, a bit heavy-set ... suddenly I saw two women that had passed by us earlier.  At the time it seemed God was highlighting them, but they had moved past too quickly for us to talk to them, and we were still getting our bearings then.  But here they were again, in a totally different section of the mall.  I mentioned them to Kristen, and she agreed we should give it a try.

So Kristen, Peter, and I went over, and Elsie soon joined us as well.  I explained that we were on a treasure hunt, and I asked the shorter woman if her name was Wendy ... no ... ok, well there was only one other name on our list: Mary.  The taller woman's eyes lit up—"Mary is my name" she said.  Then suddenly all the pieces fit together, and we realized it was her: caucasian, pink shirt, white shoes—she was our treasure!  So we asked if she had any of the conditions on the sheet we were here to pray for, including knee or leg pain.  She said yes, that she had been struggling with arthritis and that it was very painful to walk, but right now she was having trouble with pain in her back.  So I told her we'd like to pray for her, asked if it was ok, and then told Kristen to go for it.


She did.  She prayed the Father's love over Mary and prayed for her back.  As she prayed, the power of God covered our little group so powerfully that the air around us seemed thick with it.  It was beautiful.  Kristen had asked Mary if it was ok to lay hands on her during prayer, and Mary said sure, but Kristen never actually did, she just called out the condition, commanding the back to be healed.  I have to say I didn't have quite that much faith at the time, so I put my hand on Mary's knee, because that was the word on our treasure map, but Kristen prayed right where she was.

After the prayer, Mary (who turned out to be Catholic), told us how blessed she felt to meet us and receive our prayers, and told us she would pray for us.  She said she was so encouraged to see children taking their faith seriously, and actually doing the stuff God was calling them to do.  And of course we were encouraged and emboldened as well—for Kristen and Peter, it was the first time they had seen, let alone done, anything like this—it's quite an act of courage to pray for a complete stranger!

Oh, before we said our goodbyes Kristen asked Mary how her back was feeling—yes, the pain was gone!

May 10, 2011—Testimony from Uganda

WORD FROM FRED BONYOKO IN UGANDA

Uganda as a country has a population estimated at 31 million which is growing at an annual growth rate of about 3.4% implying that by 2025, Uganda could be having a 40 million people. Out of the current population 80% live in the rural areas and only 20% live in the urban centers. Unfortunately, all the major churches and majority of the ministries operating in Uganda are concentrated in the urban centers reaching the 20% and very little effort is done to reach the rural population (villages). To make this situation even worse, some of the rural areas in Uganda have been badly hit by rebel insurgencies which closed the road for the gospel in Northern and North Eastern regions of the country. The ministries that exist in the rural areas are those that either had their beginnings in those villages or zealous untrained or un sent converts with very little covering if any. This scenario has accounted for many churches in the rural areas that have not made any impact and have continued to exist as a group of misfits and thus not transforming their communities.


TESTIMONY OF FRED BONYOKO

It was in 2007 while in Kampala city when the Almighty God gave me the assignment to leave the city and reach the villages with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Humanly speaking this seemed to be an impossible task. Both I and my wife were working in Kampala city after we graduated from Makerere University. The Lord asked us to sow every asset we had in Kampala. The Lord spoke to us a number of times and each time His voice was so clear. We had several questions to ask the Lord and He answered them all and the 21st Aug, 2007, We chose to take the direction of the Lord for us. We left Kampala city Empty handed to a Village named Kapyani were we stayed in a one room grass thatched house, we begun to preach Christ Door to Door and on the 27th Aug, 2007 , the first church in that village was born by God.

Many people looked at I and my wife as people who were confused, bewitched and wasted. They always said how could we just leave well paying jobs in the city and end up in very remote villages in the names of preaching the gospel. Through several challenges we focused onto the Lord and the instructions the Lord gave us. God in His faithfulness always proved to the people that we were not what they thought by pouring the Holy Spirit to touch whoever, came in our meetings, followed by testimonies of healing, deliverance and breakthroughs in their lives.

Majority of the first converts in these villages were old people who could not help themselves and youth the majority of them had dropped out of school. The Lord continued to bring people who were in very had situations and each came expecting an answer from the Jesus we were talking about. Jesus remained Lord in all situations and to date we are slowly by His pace reaching to other villages. At this moment allow me request you to pray for us always so that the Lord fully empowers us to reach as many Villages as possible before He returns.

In 2008 the situation grew worse. I remember the time I fasted 3 days without eating and drinking asking God one thing to give me money to shave my head. The hair and beards had grown to a level that associated me more to terrorists. The time before I went to the room as you will read in the coming pages, we could not afford two meals a day. I told Joyce my wife that this situation is a special invitation from the Lord to seek His face at another level. We begun to seek the face of the Lord and for six months we ate one meal a day while praying that the God who sent us to the Villages would fully equip us with all the tools for His work to be effectively done and accomplished. Genesis chapter 40 became more real.

Through the six months, the Lord enabled us to purchase 50 Iron sheets by installment payment for that breakthrough. After one week of completing the payment, that Sunday morning I had just finished to pray, I heard a voice telling me “Fred you sow those 50 iron sheets to Chosen Ministries and to Christ’s Revival Gospel Team Ministries”. Immediately I replied in hesitation ”what do you mean"?. He asked me a question: Supposing you have 5kg of bean seeds and you want to get more seeds what don you do?. You plant the 5kgs in the soil, I replied. He further asked me another question: What if you have 5kg of maize seeds and you want to get more what do you do? I plant the 5kgs in the soil, I replied. At that point the person who spoke with me told me, the 50 iron sheets are a seed given the work I want to do in the villages and in that place. I was left with no option but to obey His voice.

After sowing the iron sheets to those ministries, the Christians who always stood with me financially abandoned me and even left the church saying now let your God help you. At this moment please allow me say “thank you Lord Jesus for your faithfulness in all situations”


WHILE IN A ROOM

In Aug 2008, I had many questions to ask the Lord and I determined in my heart to seek the face of the Lord until Jesus becomes more real to me than ever before. I was a child who had no father, mother as well as relatives because I did not have a spiritual father. I Shared with my wife and left for Kampala, rented a room for one month, locked up my self in the room and gave the keys to my wife and told her to come and open the room after 20 days. Within those days I ate no food nor took any drink. I was tired of being a spiritual orphan.

Among the many things (experiences) I had with the Lord, for a number of times the Lord brought a picture of a white man and in each time a voice told me “you are going to work with him and through him you will get a father”. It happened that way for seven times and on different days. The seventh time I asked the Lord how I will meet with that person. That night I had a dream when I was sending an email to that person. I woke up when the email address is still clear ,I got a pen and wrote it down. After coming out of the fast I went and wrote few sentences and sent to that email, to my amazement I received a reply from H.I.M Pasadena CA referring me to get in touch with Bishop Simon Karisa of Kenya.I had never gone to Kenya before but the Lord encouraged me to go. I took a step of faith to go to a country I had never gone before to meet a person I had never seen before. I met Bishop Simon Karisa of Kenya and the Lord used him to speak words of encouragement to me. I came back to Uganda refreshed and with more courage to face the enemy. In my heart I knew the journey has begun for me to meet face to face with the people God showed me while in the other room.

In 2009 Bishop Simon Karisa invited me for a pastors conference in Mombasa. While in a conference the leader that day asked the US H.I.M Team to line up in front and asked the congregation to go and be prayed for.

I was seated among the behind seats as I stood up, I looked straight to the pulpit. My eyes met with that of Apostle Mark Tubbs, immediately a very bright ray from his eyes hit my eyes. The rays looked like a bundle of electricity wires and instantly my whole body was electrified. It seemed like I had stood on live electric wires being shocked by electricity and in a state unable to walk a way for about seven minutes. Amidst it all, the Lord brought the other photo that He showed me while in the room and placed it on the right side of Apostle Mark Tubbs. Indeed God deserves all the glory he was exactly the one. I heard a clear voice say to me “he is the one I showed you when you while you waited on me in the room and through him you will get a father”. Filled with great joy in my heart I so much wanted to share that testimony immediately but, the Holy Spirit reminded me the instructions He had given to me while in Uganda preparing to go for the Pastors conference in Mombasa.He told me “Do no speak to a muzungu” in that conference. I asked the Lord why? A Voice answered me and said the Holy Spirit will speak to them on your behalf. For three different times I wanted to share that testimony. The third time, the Holy Spirit told me “wait” you will share that testimony with Mark while you are with him in Uganda. Immediately after the conference I left for Uganda but, with a very big case on my heart to present to the Lord “Heavenly father open a door for H.I.M in Uganda”

The Holy Spirit opened my heart to understand clearly psalms 126 on the 29th of March, 2011 when the US H.I.M Team landed on Uganda soil. Allow me to say again “God is faithful”. The long awaited day came to pass on the 30th March, 2011; I was with Apostle Mark Tubbs in a Costa from Entebbe to Kapyani, allisa in Eastern region of Uganda. The Lord provided a platform for me to share the testimony with Apostle Mark. That day I again learnt the results of accepting to run the race before me at the pace of the Holy Spirit.


REPORT FROM FRED BONYOKO

Upon H.I.M visit to Uganda the following changes have occurred;


There is a very tremendous breakthrough in the spiritual atmosphere. People who had abandoned the Lord but, when you left people have continued to come not only on Sunday but even in our weekly prayer meetings to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and savor. This is a sign that you spoke to the spiritual atmosphere. The scriptures in Mathew Chapter 21 have become more real to us. To God be the Glory.


The Government begun to work on the road the next week when you left. A road that had been abandoned for six months with hips of stones in the middle of the road. A clear evidence that you spoke to the strongholds that were holding the Nation.


Many people are still cerebrating Jesus because of the miracles they received during the course of the HI.I.M conference in Uganda. Among others is Nammajja who was born deaf and at the age of 12, God broke the yoke of deafness during the H.I.M conference. We thank God for such Undeniable testimonies in the Country.


The strongholds of division that had held the pastors causing them no to embrace the concept that we are one body was broken. On Friday 6th May I invited 12 churches within the sub county for a Fire overnight and they all came. This was not the case before.


There is an increase in the Prophetic grace in the church I pastor ever since the H.I.M Team stepped on the church soil.


For six months we had experienced a drought season in the entire district. When H.I.M Team entered the district Heaven opened and released rain in abundance.

After the H.I.M team had left, I had the opportunity to meet the chairman local council 111 of the area who had attended one session of the H.I.M Conference, “He said though I am not born again but those peoples teachings are so dynamic and so helpful in our day to day life and he promised not to miss the second H.I.M conference.


2011 FOCUS

I am working towards completing the church, I kindly request you to put me in your prayers so that by the second H.I.M mission to Uganda you find when we have completed the church.


COMMUNICATION CHALLENGE

I would like to communicate frequently as possible but , I only access in ternate in pallisa and many times there is power problem. Please pray with me so that God helps me to overcome that challenge.


DEAR APOSTLE MARK TUBBS;

Once again I would like to appreciate Apostle Mark Tubbs for your love, compassion and support to me in the Ministry.


I appreciate you so much for coming with Pastor Steven Kim. The prayer he offered to me as my spiritual father really touched my heart.


Is it possible to send Pastor Steven Kim to come back here so that He runs some teachings concerning Fatherhood?


GOD BLESS YOU IS OUR PRAYER

YOURS SON

FRED BONYOKO

UGANDA

Tuesday, 12 April—Home again!

Attention spirit world: Attacks that come at this point are too late—the trip is already over!

Many missed and impossible connections in our flights, praying our way through, an airline booking agent almost in tears, finally crawling into my own bed at 2 am ... teaching tomorrow at 8 .. who knows what the morning will bring, but I'll definitely have a lot to talk about, that's for sure!!

Monday, 11 April—More orphan love ... Football dreams realized ... and Harold lends a hand

We split up again for the last day ... half went to the conclusion of the conference, and the other half (the group I was in) went to an HIM orphanage the had been started the year before. Although nothing could compare with the first orphanage we visited, this was still a very special meeting. Shortly after we arrived, the children marched out to sing and recite some of their lessons to us. After that we taught them some songs, Zana spoke for a bit, and then we prayed prophetically over each child. At first the children in my line all refused prayer (!!), but later they warmed up when one boy got his stomach healed ... a lot of good and powerful words regarding the children's giftings and personalities and what God saw in them.

We brought along a lot of sports stuff for the children, and despite the order we had seen in this group so far, we let them run wild for a bit with the equipment.

During one of our trips somewhere, I forget where exactly, I had seen a group of kids playing soccer (football), and saw myself connecting with some of the children here by joining them .. but I had forgotten about this until now, the last day, when we got to do it, Tyson and I were on opposing teams, several heads taller than the rest of the crowd .. but then the driver came over to our side and began to help with offense, so I had an easy job on defense, standing around in the shade and getting to know some of the boys on our team a bit more. But then it was goodbye.

And goodbye again, to all the HIM pastors and leaders, at a Chinese restaurant at a resort in town, and we were off to the airport.

A brief moment of drama as we're about to check in and Keum cannot find his passport! We rifled through his things and had pretty much given up, but I kept feeling around and noticed a plastic ziploc bag with clothes in it that had not been searched, and in a folded pair of pants in there I found it! ("And there was much rejoicing ..!"), but we joked that Keum (or, "Kumar") now owed me (or "Harold"), big time, and we should now be inseparable, and Kumar should never refuse any request of Harold for the rest of the trip ... looking back, though, I think I just got a Bounty bar out of it ... with coconut .. and I hate coconut .. anyway, oddly enough, some Dutch girls Carol and I had met at the Sun N Sand resort in Kenya appeared in Amsterdam, and we shared a few more laughs at the expense of English tourists, who had apparently discovered that success in synchronized swimming shares a direct correlation with the sobriety of the swimmer .. what an idea!

Well, on that note ..

THE END!!! ^-^

Sunday, 10 April—A key, some fruit, and a message from God ... God, the eye surgeon

Amy and I were in a group that went to the church Muwustufa, I got some cool words for the church—first one was connected with the name of our group (that is, Amy and I, haha!) which meant "fruit" .. on the way there I felt prompted to ask what the name of the area meant, and it turned out to be a wild fruit that is hard to pick but good to eat, or something like that, anyway it fed right into the word I had to share, another picture I got for this church was of a key turning, God was about to unlock something, reveal something new here .. seemed to be a bit more traditional church with a choir that everyone sat down for and LOTS of announcements.

Very hard to get a response from the congregation as we got in other places, but I preached on following Jesus and the prophetic, all in 30 min (!), because we thought we had a schedule to keep ... as the last bus we were everyone else's means of getting home.

No time for personal ministry but I preached on it, and I did a corporate healing prayer. It is hard to tell what happened next, though, because the response of the people seemed so minimal at the time .. I asked who had pain and who received healing, though, and the same hands stayed raised the whole time, so I was confused, but I guess that logically means everyone was sovereignly healed! I personally believe healing did break out in that church, but the congregation just didn't know how to celebrate it .. at the time, however, I was just confused.

Then back at the conference, Pastor Steve spoke, and called out a word of near-sightedness. I found myself alone praying for a whole throng of people with near-sightedness, and all of them got healed right away! The line grew longer as more were healed and told their friends! I was still there but had to stop when the rest of the group was getting into the van. Pumped, we tried it on ourselves in the van on the way home, but without any results .. that we could see (bad pun, sorry ..)!!