It's Saturday morning already and we have a new best friend - Joy Buckland from Juno, Alaska. Here she is in the meeting last night with Mo. She is really lovely and we have taken to each other - she has been a real blessing with Mo and has been telling her husband back home about us.
In some ways Thursday was just another typical day - if typical could EVER be the right description of what is happening at this conference. We have been to a few in our time (including Lakeland) but we have never been anywhere where there has been such a sustained sense of God's loving presence - from the moment you walk in the doors. The only other place that gave us that immediate sense of 'WOW God is here' was when we walked into the River Church Centre in Tonbridge, Kent, UK.
Here is a typical day for us:
6:30 get up and get ready
7:30 take the 10min walk to the church for breakfast and a catchup on emails and blogging on the free wi-fi! Then after finding a seat in the auditorium we spend an hour in the chapel 'soaking' - basically lying on the carpet while others pray with gentle backround worship music - IT'S WONDERFUL!
10:00 The start of the first session with worship - a lot of the worship has been what I would call 'free form' where the musicians and singers blend in a spontaineous time of amazing praise. The sense of God's presence is often so overwhelming that you just have to sit down or lie down - you also have to deal with the thoughts of 'when are they going to sing a proper song that we all know'. - They do sometimes - and that's good too.
The meal breaks are great for meeting new friends from all over the world!
The three speakers yesterday were Duncan Smith (ex Spurgeons) and full of fire - Carol Arnott who did a workshop on how to get into God's presence and see visions, so there was more time on the carpet focusing on God - then Joshua Mills spoke in the evening and I can hardly describe what happenned but it ended up with Joshua praying for each one of us and anointing us with oil. There were at least a thousand people and there were bodies all over the floor getting blessed by God.
Mo was definitely being touched and she has been very loving this morning but still no evidence yet of the breakthrough we are looking for.
SO MORE LORD!
Love - Terry & Mo
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