There is a camel on the beach, and a man who wants me to pay 500 shillings to ride it. But I'd rather just watch him stand there and try to control the hulking thing. He is now trying to turn it around but it thinks he wants it to sit down. I was supposed to be doing ministry right now at an HIM conference being held nearby, but they weren't ready to start yet, and so we're here waiting, not sure what will happen next, but beaching it while we can.
Just got to bless five guys who were giving me a tour of the coral life .. Thom and I were exploring the beach and met up with these guys. They all wanted financial blessings and blessings for their families. I just prayed the Father's heart over them and God totally rocked them—they asked us to come tomorrow and pray for their families in the village.
Then we went to the conference .. some preaching .. then the first thing we were supposed to do was pray for the children, but we ended up praying for the adults too somehow. This prayer session was one of the most profound ones for me, because I was praying for a woman and the pain started moving around and increasing in intensity. I told her that was ok and we kept praying, binding the spirit of infirmity and telling the pain to go. It went, and then I saw the beauty of this moment as I empowered her to heal others and explained to her about spirits of infirmity and what had just happened, ending with something like "we are complicated people, but God loves us anyway, and wants to make us whole!"
Later we split up into groups .. I felt I was supposed to go with the men's group .. Justin, Ivan, Joel, and I. Justin anxious before it was time to begin, not sure what we had to say or what would happen next, some awkwardness, but then Pastor Mark comes and shares about unity and love in the church .. then after that one of us was supposed to speak .. but the atmosphere seemed so stagnant, as far as words were concerned, so I stood up and gave a word for one guy—I saw him as Zacchaeus, and God saw his searching and was going to visit him!! Then I spoke on the categories of healing and prayed through each level. Then by that time the flow had started, and Justin stood up and gave a profound and personal word related to fathering and love, and as he told his story I noticed the men really getting into it!
Then we headed home, relaxing on the beach a bit in the evening.
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