Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Psalm 27

Session 2 - July 27, Monday, 12:00 noon, Elkton, SD

 At noon, I was immediately brought to Psalm 27:4-5, "One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me: he shall set me up upon a rock."

This is where the Lord had me dwell for a while. I was led to put up a cloth world map that I have of the whole world and another map of the United States and as I was viewing these two maps, the Lord had me pray that all of his people would desire the dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of their lives. He also had me pray that we should all desire his beauty; that we would see what true beauty was, a beauty that was viewed from very deep inside and in tremendous depth. I asked the Lord to put a desire in all of his people to inquire in his temple, that everyone would desire that. Then the Lord brought me to the fact that he would hide us in the secret of this tabernacle and that he would set me upon a rock.

From there, I went to the scripture song, "Give to the Lord, the glory due his name---...." and then I was led into a new song of singing how grateful I am to the Lord for everything he's done for me. I quoted in song the John 14:13-15 which talks about "no greater love has anyone than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend" and then I went into the song "Crucified, etc....... I parked there for a long time of thanking the Lord for everything he had done for me, even though unworthy, he yet died for us. "I am grateful to you Lord!"

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US Location

Session 6:00 a.m. Monday Aug 28, 2008 Elkton, SD USA
Greetings! It has been a while since I gave a report on what has been happening in my worship sets so I am going to use summary at the beginning of this blog to let you know about what has transpired since being in the United States. I had an occasion to be playing at Carmel Christian Center in Plain City Ohio. Someone wanted to have prayer and I was asked to pray with them if the Lord laid it on my heart. He did. So I sat down at the keyboard and the Lord gave me a piece of music that was a beautiful warfare against a spirit of fear, fear of people, fear of changes, fear of stepping out, fear of going the wrong way, fear of not seeing what I should see. I have not previously ever had warfare against this type of fear. Then the Lord gave me a simple beautiful piece of music that was an impartation of the love of God.

On another occasion at Carmel Christian Center, I was asked to play at the end of the service, after another person who was playing the music wanted to get in line and get prayer. When I went up to the keyboard, I matched her key and style of music and you could hardly tell that there was a change in musicians, so as not to disrupt the flow of the Holy Spirit. Then the Lord worked me into another simple song that was absolutely beautiful to my ears (and the ears of a few others). It was also a prophetic piece that was prophesying to this musician in line and impartation of everything that the Lord has given me so that her playing would increase in skill and depth (and other musicians in the service).

This morning I was excited to play again as I had not really played to any extent since I left Israel at the end of June. The Lord put on my heart to play "Jesus I Love You" and as I was playing this with my eyes closed, someone appeared next to me by the door and when I turned to look and see who it was, there was no one there. That happened numerous times so then I realized it was Jesus and/or one of his transcribing angels. Then while I was still playing with my eyes closed, all of a sudden, there was a big bright light in the same area and I saw in the spirit that numerous angels were entering through the doorway. There is a small space available in this room where I was playing so I'm sure the space was very packed. I went to Psalm 117 and sang in Hebrew in the song Hallelu et Adonai..... A song for the nations and I stayed there a long time just worship the Lord, "Hallelu, Hallelujah, Hallelu, Hallelujah! Hallelu, Hallelujah, Hallelujah!"

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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Run for Joy!

Session Notes, Saturday, April 26, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Hong Kong, Children's Worship
Today we finished something we started last week. We put "glitter glory" all over at least 25 different types of vehicles that we see on the roads or in the skies around Hong Kong and they dried all week. We added a 16-seater-bus to the fray and put some glitter on it quickly and then we got on our ephods and I told them that they were going to process these vehicles into the house of God, into eternity, where we were going to repent and pray. So each child took three or four vehicles and got all lined up out in the hallway while Sally played "We March to the Beat of the Heart of God" on the piano and we sang along as we marched into the house of God in eternity and placed all of the vehicles on a table in the center of the room. Every laid hands on their vehicles. The Lord put on my heart to have the children repent on behalf of all of the drivers of all of the different types of vehicles, and they repeated the prayer in Chinese after my Chinese interpretor and repented to the Lord for those who broke traffic laws of any types, we repented on behalf of all of the people who wasted gas and electricity in the vehicles for using them for ungodly purposes, and we repented on behalf of all of the drivers of all of the different types of vehicles for being the cause of accidents because of carelessness and thoughtlessness while they were driving.

As we were praying for the transportation issues in Hong Kong, I saw a picture of us running around this little "altar of vehicles" shouting "JOY! JOY! JOY!" So I told this to the children and we did it. Then we kept running and started shouting "YAYSUE! (Jesus) YAYSUE! (Jesus) YAYSUE! (Jesus). As this was finished, we ended with a prayer and I was prompted by the Holy Spirit to give the little vehicles they prayed for and were to take them home and remember to pray for the transportation issues---that the Glory of God would be in, around, under and on top of all of these vehicles wherever they went.

One little prophetic boy came up to me and said the Lord told him this week that I was going to allow the children to take these vehicles home and I did not even think of it or decide it until the end of the meeting today! I thanked him for being sensitive to the Holy Spirit and encouraging me that way! He had this big smile on his face.

We didn't have time to lay hands on the Israel map so I told all of the children to extend their hands to the map and on the count of yut, yee, som, holler, "BLESS ISRAEL!" and they did and it was thunderous.

We continue to learn the actions to the song called "Our Hearts" and the children seem to love to sing the song.

We spent quite a bit of time today talking about testimonies of people who have been transported from place to place bodily. One person in California was told by the Lord to go to the airport because he was to catch a flight to go to an assignment by the Lord for a ministry opportunity. So the person went to the airport and the Lord told him, after he had been waiting in the ticket line for a while (without any money) and said to the man, "Go to the toilet." The man thought this was strange but then he thought, "Maybe there will be someone in the bathroom who was going to give him some money. It did not happen at all the way he thought. So the man went to the toilet and thought, "Surely someone will be in the bathroom with money for me for a ticket!?" And so he walked in. There was no one there with money for him, in fact, there was no one in there. So the man walked out of the bathroom and found himself in the country of Russia! - the mouths of the children opened and they were dumbfounded! I told them that that is what the Lord wants to do today! It didn't happen today, but we are getting there!

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Double Decker Busses

Session Notes, Saturday, April 19, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Hong Kong, Children's Worship

The typhoon warnings were out today in Hong Kong. They were up to level 3 which means it is very windy and rainy, effects of the hurricane. I guess when it gets to level 8, they shut down all public transportation and people try to stay at home and battan down the hatches because it's going to be bad. That means that the hurricane is heading right for Hong Kong. But that didn't happen. About two weeks ago, when I was doing some of my sets, the Lord led me into some new song about angels up and down the streets of Hong Kong, and all around, and in the busses, in the cars, in the trains and on the planes, bringing glory and causing people to be saved because of the power of God. Angels on top of busses, on top of cars, on top of trains, on the planes, in the water on the boats and ferries, in the taxis, all over. I believe that day there was a flood of angelic activity in Hong Kong because of what the Holy Spirit had me pray that day. You might remember when I had the children paint rocks and glue glitter on them and write scripture on the rocks as a reminder of who God is and his glory.One of the children, the day we did the rocks, had brought a little toy truck and when it was all done, he was over in the corner putting glue on top of his truck and putting blue glitter on his truck to match the color of the truck. We laughed about it at the time and calling it a "glory truck."  In a set this week, I was referring back to that time when that little boy did that to his truck and the Lord quickened my heart just then that I needed to pray for the transportation in Hong Kong. So after deliberating about it for about a day, I went ahead and believed God that it was Him who wanted us to do this thing.

So this Saturday, I brought little toy trucks, taxis, double decker busses, trains, helicopters, airplanes, airliners, President Bush's Airforce One jetliner, construction trucks, hauling trucks, personal vehicles, police cars, army tanks and trucks, and the project was for the children to glue glitter on the tops or all over these vehicles to glorify them in the eyes of the Lord so that everyone who rode in them would come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and savior. That the glory of the Lord would be known in all of these places. As the children were busily gluing and glittering, I was reciting scriptures and prayers.

From Luke 3:4-6 it says, (New Living Translation) "In the words of Isaiah the prophet, John was a 'voice shouting from the barren wilderness, ‘Prepare a road for the Lord to travel on! Widen the pathway before him! Level the mountains! Fill up the valleys! Straighten the curves! Smooth out the ruts! And then all mankind shall see the Savior sent from God.’ So as the children were gluing, I declared "Lord, prepare a road for all of the vehicles of the Lord to travel on! Widen the pathway before them! Level the mountains! Fill up the valleys! Straighten the curves! Smooth out the ruts!"

Then one of the mother's said to me, "How do you spell Israel?" I told her and she wrote with glue on the top of the car "Israel." Then I found myself quoting the scripture from Isaiah 35:9 which says, "No lion will lurk along its course, nor will there be any other dangers; only the redeemed will travel there. These, the ransomed of the Lord will go home along that road to Zion, singing the songs of everlasting joy. For them all sorrow and all sighing will be gone forever; only joy and gladness will be there." I began to pray, "Level the mountains, Lord! Smooth out the ruts! Make a straight path for all of these vehicles to take the ferry to China and drive all the way to Israel! Allow the redeemed of the Lord to travel in safety, let them go along the road, singing the songs of everlasting joy; let them travel in safety.

 Then I found myself quoting another scripture out of Nehemiah 2:7 which said, "If it please the king, give me letters to the governors west of the Euphrates River instructing them to let me travel through their countries on my way to Judah; also a letter to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber for the beams and for the gates of the fortress near the Temple, and for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” I began to ask the Lord to give us letters from principalities and powers all along the highway all the way to Jerusalem so that those who travel with these vehicles with have safe passage through all countries where they have to travel in order to drive to Israel!!!   "What?" I thought? What are you praying? Well, we wil leave this in the hands of the Lord to see what He does about that.

The little boy who is so prophetic, when he saw all of these vehicles on the table, ready to be "glitterized," he pulled out of his pocket a double decker bus. I said to him, "Why did you bring that?" He said, "I just wanted to play with it later!" I too had put a double decker bus out as one of the vehicles to be "glorified" with the glory of the Lord in all of this. So the fact that this little prophetic boy brought the double decker bus was a confirmation to me that we were on the right path, that we indeed needed to pray for all of the vehicles on the streets of Hong Kong.

We are not yet finished with this project. I thought we needed to let the glitter and glue dry this week. Next week we will do step two of this project.  Stay tuned!.........


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Thursday, April 10, 2008

The Sound of Light

Session Notes, Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 12:00 noon Hong Kong
This past week, the Lord has had me in the scriptures in 1 John 1:5-10, "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and don't do the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us." The Lord gave me an amazing new song to go with this that will probably be one of the songs that I'll sing for a while. So today at noon, I was continuing to dwell there in these scriptures and the Lord gave me also Psalm 119:105, "The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." In the new song I was exhorting all of us to desire to walk in the light, to expose the darkness and then I felt like there was a wind of the Holy Spirit that blew into the place and in the spirit I saw a trapdoor open up from above. Actually, the trap door swung down and the Lord gave me sounds on the keyboard that were very high and I was playing all three keyboards at the same time. The Holy Spirit in me was saying, "The Lord opened a new door today and he opened our ears to hear the sound of light. It is coming through the door that he opened in the ceiling and the sound of light is falling down all around us and all over us. Open your hearts and receive this sound, it's the sound of light. When this sound/light hits your body the Lord will begin to expose the darkness in your life. Expect to have the darkness exposed in your life in every area. Do you desire light? Do you desire for the dark places to be exposed? Then receive, receive, receive. You may become uncomfortable because the Lord will begin moving things within you. Some of you may even feel physically ill, some will want to get up and leave."  So what happened when this sound began is that suddenly, about three or four different people all of a sudden had to get up and go out of the room. Now, I don't know what they were doing and then other people were coming in and out the one person was slamming the door to the room where the worship room is, very very hard and  then finally this guy just went out of the room. Other people, probably about  20 different people went in and out of that door when usually one or two people a set will leave the room. So I felt like we were in a very turbulent place for in the Spirit I stayed here about 45 minutes. A couple of people said they had some kind of headache or stomach ache after it was over so I believe there was some type of deliverance going on. When I went back to my set again the following morning, I felt like that door was still open in the worship room. And I felt like playing bride music, like a wedding march.
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Saturday, March 22, 2008

We Fall Down At The Feet of Jesus

Session Notes, Saturday, March 22, 2008, 3:00 p.m., Hong Kong
Last week, we made crowns. Before we made the crowns we recited numerous scriptures (about 14 different scriptures) that talked about types of crowns and how they were received by Jesus. So we made the crowns last week, and this week they were still laid on the window-sill in the worship room and they were all dried, so we put velcro on the backs of the finished crowns and everyone got their crown and put it on. We had already been listening quietly in our worship room, to the song entitled "We Fall Down" and part of the song cries "Holy, holy, holy is the Lamb!" just like what the four living creatures were doing at the throne. So we put the cross at the front of the room, and streamed various colored river banners from the cross and everyone was quietly sitting on the floor in front of the cross while listening to the song and then we recited more of the crown scriptures and I asked the children to make sure they heard what the crowns were all about. I asked some questions, 1) What were the 24 elders doing at the throne? 2) What did they do with their crowns? 3) What does it mean to "cast down your crown?" 4) What color were their crowns? 5) What did they say to Jesus at the throne?  etc. Then we recited about 10 different scriptures. Then we put the song on and everybody lined up in the back of the room. Then I demonstrated and went first, as the song was playing, I walked slowly up to the cross, took the crown off my head, and laid it at the foot of the cross, and then they were instructed to do what the 24 elders were doing. They were on their face before the Lord, kneeling before his throne. So this is what we did for about 10 minutes. Everybody one by one brought their crowns and laid them at the foot of the cross and then just got on their knees and put their faces to the floor and worshiped while the song "We Fall Down" was playing in the background.
The next project for the day was to pray for Israel. Before the class, I drew a map of Israel on a flat bedsheet and put the major cities in Israel on the map in approximate locations. Then around the outside of the country, I put which seas and countries were bordering Israel. Then on the rest of the outside of the map on the sheet, I drew what looked like bricks to depict the western wall or the "wailing wall" in Jerusalem. So when we taped the map up to the wall, it looked like the wailing wall with the map of Israel right in the middle of it. The children and mothers and all the helpers, gathered around the map and each child prayed whatever the Lord put on their heart to pray for the nation of Israel. I had also described what the significance of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem is. Then we declared some scriptures out of Isaiah 60 and 52 about the nation of Israel.

The next project was to learn the movements to a new song called "Our Heart." It is a song that talks about getting all of the nations of the world to worship the Lord and a song of intercession to those ends. The children caught on to the actions very quickly. We decided who was going to represent various nations because as we do the song, we intercede for whatever nation we wear that costume for.
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Crowns Incorruptible

Session Notes, Saturday, March 15, 2008, 3:00 p.m. Hong Kong
All week during my worship sets I was getting things about thrones and crowns so I did a study on crowns and came up with a multitude of scriptures that talk about crowns. The Lord gave me music that had a symphonic sound, pipe organ sound, and piano sound, and it caused me to put some music into a new CD which I entitled "Crown Incorruptible." When I studied on crowns I discovered there are crowns of righteousness, anointing oil, holiness unto the Lord, glory, glory and honor, golden crowns, and more. The most impressive place the Lord took me was to the throne where the four living creatures are continually worshiping before the Lord saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy!" And the 24 elders are seated at the throne and they take off their crowns which are golden crowns and cast them down before the feet of Jesus and worship him and tell him that he is worthy to be worshiped, honored, and all power belongs to him, and he is the creator of it all. This is the point where the Lord gave me the huge symphonic-type sound with pipe organ and strings along with keyboards.

I decided it was time to have the children in my worship class to participate with the 24 elders so we made crowns. I cut out crown patterns from poster board, purchased a bunch of paints, paint brushes, glitter, glue, and metallic foil paper, beads and gems. After reading the scriptures and having the children recite the scriptures in English and Chinese, we all made crowns. Of course, there was glitter, glue, and paint everywhere, but they came up with some very special creations as they heard about what the crowns looked like according to the scriptures. We decided they were all too wet and the gems and glitter were still falling off, so for a week, we laid them on the window-sill in the worship center and they dried all week.

After we completed making the crowns, it was our day to pray for all of the countries on the continent of Africa. So this time, I drew an outline of Africa on a huge plastic table cloth with multi-colored marking pens. Each country on the continent was one of five different colors and I tried to make it so there were not the same color of countries next to each other. I believe there are about 35 countries, including islands around the continent of Africa. I had some scriptures from the Psalms where I substituted the name of Africa and the countries where it talked about "the nations" and each child took a turn with "Twister-type Intercession." The child was to put both hands and feet on four different countries, ones that I called out. So for example, the first child's turn was for the color of blue and he was to put his right foot on South Africa, left foot on Sudan, right hand on Madagascar, and left hand on Morocco. So as the child was stretched out in all directions on these "blue" countries while the rest of us proclaimed that all of these countries would serve the Lord! or all of these countries would repent and be saved! depending on which scripture they were given to recite as a group. Then that person got up and then the next person was to put all of his limbs on the red countries, so I would call out red countries for example, left hand on Egypt, right hand on Mauritias, right foot on Togo, and left foot on Swaziland! and the children were laughing because they were all stretched out all over this huge map of Africa, they were learning the countries, they were seeing where all of them were located, and they were interceding for the country all at the same time.
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Sunday, March 09, 2008

A New Twist To Prayer

Session Notes, Saturday, March 8, 2008, Children's Worship 3:00 p.m. Hong Kong
This week, the Lord put it on my heart to make a map of Africa which was very colorful and the size of the map was big enough so that the children could put both of their hands and their feet on four countries (one country for left hand, right hand, left foot, right foot) and then we proclaimed scriptures for those four countries. When I made up the map, I tried to make sure that none of the countries whose borders were touching each other had the same color so the map was very colorful with green, yellow, blue, red, and purple. And the size of the map was as big as a huge table cloth. We laid the map on the floor and first we proclaimed the scripture in English and then in Cantonese. As I spoke phrases in the English, they would repeat after me and then as my interpretor spoke in Cantonese, they repeated after her. Each student got about three turns to place their hands and their feet all over this map. For example, I would say to the first participant, "Put your right foot on South Africa; put your left foot on Sudan; put your right hand on Togo; put right left hand on Seychelles. And the child would be all over the map, twisting their body everywhere to try to reach all of the countries. Then as this child held this pose, we all proclaimed various scriptures. For example, all of the "green" countries, we proclaimed the "green" scripture. For all of the "blue" countries, we proclaimed the "blue" scriptures, etc.

Then we had set up two tables before the class and this week, I went to an aquarium store on the street in WanChai on Hong Kong Island and purchased smooth rocks that were used to put in big fish tanks. They were HEAVY so I had to take a suitcase with wheels on it to purchase the rocks. We washed all the rocks and then placed them on tables with a plastic table cloth and newspapers spread all over the floor and we had prepared scriptures or scripture words ahead of time in both English and Cantonese and each person was given a large paintbrush and a small paint brush and they were instructed to paint the rock however they wanted to and then put a word on the rock like "faith" or "trust God". I read the scripture out of Deuteronomy 27 which says, "...the Israelites set up a stone altar and plastered the rocks with plaster and wrote the law on the rocks so they could remember all of the words of the Law that Moses told them."  So that is what we were doing today. We were writing words to remember scripture. Instead of wearing our colored ephods during the class today, when they came into the class, they were dressed with a plastic garbage bag with a fresh hole cut into it so that the bag could be slipped over their head and then we cut holes for their arms to go through. So they had "plastic ephods" to do the work of the Lord today so they didn't get paint all over their clothes. Then they used the "ephods" to carry home their colorful rocks when they were completed at the end of the class.

One student got the idea to glue glitter to the top of his toy truck. So he slipped the truck out of his backpack and put glitter on his "Glory Truck" - "Weng-you-for-tcheay"!!

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

Pray for Africa

Session Notes, Saturday, March 1, 2008, 3:00 p.m. Childrens Worship
Today, we brought Africa into God's House. We call it "God's House" as we step through some curtains which we call "Curtain of Time" - we step into Eternity, where the Lord answers our prayers. We did a procession today and this time we brought Hong Kong, Africa, and Israel into God's House and we placed them all in their own "room" in God's House. Each of the children got around the map we had for each, laid their hands on it, and then they were asked to pray first for Israel, then for Hong Kong, and then for the countries which they had selected from our sheets for the various countries of Africa. Sometimes the children cannot think what to pray, so I told them to "bless that country." Some of the children are working on hand-writing books of the bible. One child is working on Malachi. One of the mothers just finished the book of Obadiah. So when they get a book completed, they are awarded a book-marker certificate. When they get all 66 books written, then there is a greater reward at the end. One of the children came up to me and had memorized Psalm 121, which is one of the scriptures we have on our chart to memorize. I had him recite it for me and he will get a star on the chart for the completion of that. I will not list all of the prayers that were prayed for Africa today, but some of the prayers that were prayed for the country of Africa today were:

Sean - "Father, I pray that these countries would have your peace. Show them miracles." (Guinea, Burundi, Kenya, Central African Republic)
 
Sam - "Father, bless these countries with peace. Bless them that they will not go hungry." (Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Libya, Liberia)

Jessie - "Father, bless these countries. Give them peace. Let them know you." (Mali, Mauritania, Cape Verde)

Long Long - "God bless the people to have good health, peace, and happiness (Gabon, Ethiopia)

Ivan - "Father, help these countries that they experienced growth, that they have plenty of food and rest (Malawi)

Simeon - "Lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord" (Simeon is an infant - he had hold of the two countries that he was praying for and as we said 'lift the name of the Lord' his mother was lifting Simeon over her head each time - he was laughing - and all of the children started hollering the same thing - it was a very anointed time with Holy Spirit laughter) (his countries were Congo, Republic of Congo [Zaire])

We started to learn a new song because once the song is learned, we will learn actions to it about the nations. They will put on nations costumes. "Our hearts, our desire, is to see the nations worship...." When I introduced this song I said, "This is a new song, but not a new song, but new to us." The Holy Spirit swept in and I just about fell on the floor behind the keyboard. It was very powerful. And then joy swept through the place. We then did a procession, bringing all of these countries into God's House. Each child had either a country, a flag, or a banner of some type, along with the mothers, and we did a procession with them them into God's House and then all put our hands toward the middle of a circle and hollered out the name "JESUS!!!" and then gave the Lord a clap offering for about a minute. Then we sang the "Joy Song" exhuberantly with some of our youth leading the song as I played it on the keyboard. It was a very powerful time.

At the end of the time, all of the children were instructed to write down the names of their countries and to remember to pray for them this week.
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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Africa and the Curtain of Time

Session Notes, Saturday, February 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m. Children's Worship/Intercession/Prophetic
This week, I've been inputting my brother Bert's book into my computer and getting his new book ready to be published (can you believe it Bert?). I was re-inspired as I was reading through testimony after testimony about how the Lord has spoken so dramatically to Bert. I was especially reminded about his trip through what he called "The Curtain of Time" and I looked it up and found it in the scripture in Psalm 104:1-2 where it talks about the curtain of time. So I felt like the Lord wanted us to set up the "House of God" again in our session and with the children and we set up the 7 Spirits of God (being careful to explain in this multi-god culture that it was not 7 Gods, but 7 Spirits of God which demonstrate different aspects of who our One God is) and then I explained about 8 different names of God, being careful of the same in the explanation. Once we discussed the various names of God, for example, Jehovah Jireh (God our provider), Jehovah Tzidkenuh (God our righteousness), Jehovah Nissi (God is our banner); etc. Once we explained the names of God, we put on our ephods, assembled out in the hallway, the front person was selected who would carry the map of Africa into the house of God. But first, I had set up some River Banners hanging over water pipes in the ceiling to represent the "Curtain of Time" and the children had to enter "The House of God" through the "Curtain of Time" and step into eternity where God dwells and once we brought Africa into this eternal dwelling that the Lord would begin healing the nations of Africa. We laid the map in the middle of "The House of God" and walked around it seven times, waving banners, and then on the count of three, Yup! Yee! Somm! JESUS!!! and then we hollered at top of our lungs like they did in Jericho as a prophetic act that the walls of deception and defeat and robbery would come down. Then each of them received 2 of the countries of Africa that we had not prayed for yet and this is what the children prayed as they all knelt in a circle and laid their hands on the map of Africa:

Chi Ching prayed for Tanzania: Help the people, orphans are crying, unhappy, and helpless. Help them and let them help each other; She prayed for the country of Togo: Bless Togo, that the people trust in You, to know how precious You are and heal them.

Chi Fung prayed for Senegal: Peace to the people of Senegal. Get food t those who are hungery and water to those who thirst, clothes to those who are without clothes, for their needs; He prayed his other country for the Lord to bless the country with peace.

Sean prayed for the country of South Africa and Swaziland: Peace to these two countries, those who don't know Jesus, that they will know Jesus.

Sam prayed for Sierra Leone and Samolia: Almighty Father God, peace to Sierra leone and Samolia. Many people and animals do not have enough to eat. Father please give them what they ask, give them peace.

Matthias prayed for Mauritius: I hope that the people will be happy and know our God and will go to heaven; he prayed for Morocco - I hope that they will have wonderful days, not too painful, that they might know the Lord.

Ivan prayed for Sao Tome A Principe: Lord please protect the whole country to be blessed to worship the Lord and not worship idols; He prayed for Nigeria: Lord Jesus, that Nigeria, many people of the whole country will believe in Jesus and not fight over little things.

Timothy rpayed for Tunisia and Uganda (helped by Chi Ching): Lord bless Tunisia, that the people would believe in You. Bles Uganda, peace to them;

Teresa prayed for Kenya since getting a letter from a pastor there. Put these people on the hearts of intercesors of the world; intervene supernaturally to provide for food and cothing; provide for the windows and the orphans; clean up the water and I pray that things will start growing; that they will put their confidence and trust in the Lord; I prayed that pilots would fly in there with provisions for those in perial in this country.

After each of the children prayed, as a group, we proclaimed the following scriptures over all of the nations of Africa:

Psalm 9:20   We declare Lord that You will put them in fear, O Lord: that the nations may know themselves to be but men.

Psalm 33:12-17    Blessed is the nation (of Africa) whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance. The Lord looks from heaven, he beholds all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looks upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashions their hearts alike, he considers all their works. There is no king saved (in any of the countries of Africa) by the multitude of a people; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy - We pray that Africa would experience the Fear of the Lord to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul (and the soul of those in the countries of Africa) wait for the Lord: He is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us (and the countries of Africa), according as we hope in thee.

Psalm 66:7     He rules by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations (of Africa); let not the rebellious (of Africa) exalt themselves

Psalm 67:4     O let the nations (of Africa) be glad and sing for joy: for you shall judge the people (of Africa) righteously, and govern the nations of Africa.

Psalm 72:11   Yes, we declare, all kings (of Africa) shall fall down before you, Lord; all nations (of Africa) shall serve you.

Psalm 113:4    We declare that the Lord is high above all nations (of Africa), and his glory above the heavens.

Psalm 117:1      O Praise the Lord, all you nations (of Africa); praise him all you people (of Africa).

Proverbs 14:34     Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a shame to any people. We decree that the nations of Africa will exalt righteousness (Jesus); we and they will not be put to shame because of the practice of sin.

We finished by having the children write down the names of the nations that they prayed for and to remember to pray for them this week.

Praise the Lord!
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