Hey everyone!
Greetings from India! Bethany and I are on the homestretch of our time here in Chennai (the southeast coast) with only 2 weeks left!! It has been a wild ride to say the least!
Before arriving here, Bethany had a dream: She was walking and she saw a line drawn on the ground and on the other side of the line was the word "INDIA" written in big letters. It was all dark and creepy looking. As soon as she stepped across the line, she was attacked by a giant rat which represented the demonic realm. But she fought it off and just began walking in the Spirit. Then she saw a person sitting in a chair, sick with a fever. This person's eyes were bright blue (the color blue usually represents revelation) indicating that they were "seeing" a revelation of Jesus! She put her hand on the person and said "In Jesus' name, be healed" and instantly the fever left!
Sooooo....check it out. I have been reading this book "When Heaven Invades Earth" by Bill Johnson, the pastor of Bethel Church in Reading, California. It has been rocking my world! But long story short, I have been stirred to a place of crazy faith, believing God for miracles, healings, signs and wonders - BIG TIME!!
So, we arrive in Chennai and our whole team is under massive spiritual attack! People are getting sick, struggling with homesickness, and we start having issues with our team unity etc etc. Well, we persevere through it, thankfully. Part 1 of the dream fulfilled. Then we meet our next door neighbors, a family of three, who are a muslims. We start becoming friends with the father, Nazier. He is super friendly and he invites us into his house. He tells us that of all the foreigners that have stayed in the building (YWAM teams) we are the first ones to come into his home, ever! We are so honored!
We start praying for him every day and asking God for an opportunity to share with him and his wife. After a few days of hanging out, opportunities don't seem to be coming. But then the Lord starts speaking to me "Demonstrate who I am, show him the Kingdom". So I am like "well, he's not sick or anything, what can we do?"
Well, we don't see him for the next day or so, and we come to find out that he's been really sick, just laying in bed! Weird? We finally see him laying on the couch, sleeping with the door to his apartment open. Bethany and I both feel like the God is saying "go pray for him". So we walk in (uninvited) and wake him up and ask how he's doing. He is dripping with sweat and he tells us that he has a fever! Sound familiar? Plus, he is wearing a bright blue shirt! Interesting. So we pray for him and his fever breaks and by the end of the day he is feeling totally better!
It gets better. I see him the next day and ask him how he's doing. He tells me his sickness is gone but he's been suffering from pain in his elbows and joints. He asks us if we can pray for him now! Of course, we do and God heals his elbows! Then he says he's been having bad back pain -- we pray and God heals that!! So after all this we are blown away! Then last night he comes to us and tells us "I am praying to Jesus now, because there is POWER!" We are speechless. He doesn't know much yet but he knows that Jesus heals!! Praise God!! Now that is the Gospel of the Kingdom!
"For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power." – 1 Corinthians 4:20
Well, here are a few photos from our time here in India so far!
Greetings from India! Bethany and I are on the homestretch of our time here in Chennai (the southeast coast) with only 2 weeks left!! It has been a wild ride to say the least!
Before arriving here, Bethany had a dream: She was walking and she saw a line drawn on the ground and on the other side of the line was the word "INDIA" written in big letters. It was all dark and creepy looking. As soon as she stepped across the line, she was attacked by a giant rat which represented the demonic realm. But she fought it off and just began walking in the Spirit. Then she saw a person sitting in a chair, sick with a fever. This person's eyes were bright blue (the color blue usually represents revelation) indicating that they were "seeing" a revelation of Jesus! She put her hand on the person and said "In Jesus' name, be healed" and instantly the fever left!
Sooooo....check it out. I have been reading this book "When Heaven Invades Earth" by Bill Johnson, the pastor of Bethel Church in Reading, California. It has been rocking my world! But long story short, I have been stirred to a place of crazy faith, believing God for miracles, healings, signs and wonders - BIG TIME!!
So, we arrive in Chennai and our whole team is under massive spiritual attack! People are getting sick, struggling with homesickness, and we start having issues with our team unity etc etc. Well, we persevere through it, thankfully. Part 1 of the dream fulfilled. Then we meet our next door neighbors, a family of three, who are a muslims. We start becoming friends with the father, Nazier. He is super friendly and he invites us into his house. He tells us that of all the foreigners that have stayed in the building (YWAM teams) we are the first ones to come into his home, ever! We are so honored!
We start praying for him every day and asking God for an opportunity to share with him and his wife. After a few days of hanging out, opportunities don't seem to be coming. But then the Lord starts speaking to me "Demonstrate who I am, show him the Kingdom". So I am like "well, he's not sick or anything, what can we do?"
Well, we don't see him for the next day or so, and we come to find out that he's been really sick, just laying in bed! Weird? We finally see him laying on the couch, sleeping with the door to his apartment open. Bethany and I both feel like the God is saying "go pray for him". So we walk in (uninvited) and wake him up and ask how he's doing. He is dripping with sweat and he tells us that he has a fever! Sound familiar? Plus, he is wearing a bright blue shirt! Interesting. So we pray for him and his fever breaks and by the end of the day he is feeling totally better!
It gets better. I see him the next day and ask him how he's doing. He tells me his sickness is gone but he's been suffering from pain in his elbows and joints. He asks us if we can pray for him now! Of course, we do and God heals his elbows! Then he says he's been having bad back pain -- we pray and God heals that!! So after all this we are blown away! Then last night he comes to us and tells us "I am praying to Jesus now, because there is POWER!" We are speechless. He doesn't know much yet but he knows that Jesus heals!! Praise God!! Now that is the Gospel of the Kingdom!
"For the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power." – 1 Corinthians 4:20
Well, here are a few photos from our time here in India so far!
Our main blog that we've been updating more consistently with more pictures is
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4 comments:
Awesome guys!
AWESOME. It is the Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. Love the way He's working and praying for MORE!
I want to say "unbelievable" but it is SO TRUE and BELIEVABLE!!! Amazing!!! Thank you Jesus for revealing yourself to that man, for keeping Bethany and Luke so near to your heart and accurately hearing your voice.
Can't contain my awe of God in all that is happening. Standing Firm with you friends!!!
What a beautiful story! We love your updates and pray for you daily. The Lord is moving and changing hearts through you.
Love you guys,
Sonia and Dennis
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