Sunday, May 20, 2012
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Written by Lucy Longden   

We have been given a clear mandate to go into all the world and preach the gospel.

This year God has reminded us of this call … We connected with a group of local pastors in Danao where they arranged for a 3 day crusade schedule moving from place to place. We have seen God move so powerfully and we are passionate about taking the Good news out to the people of the Philippines. More and more and more. We have so much GOOD NEWS to share … so many testimonies of Gods awesome restoration and healing … God is alive today … the world NEEDS to know … they NEED to hear our testimonies our story of God invading and impacting our life. There is so much religion … so much suspicion … so much skepticism … so much disappointment and unbelief.
Its time … its time to blast through that … with the power and truth of the Gospel of Jesus. It is good news … His Kingdom come … His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Whoa !!!

We went to Danao ( a provincial area about 3 hours out of Cebu) and were scheduled by the local pastors to be situated right in the very heart of the witchcraft demonically oppressed area. So we were taken there and asked what our strategy would be. They were expecting a lot of binding and loosing and intensity but after visiting the area and seeing the oppression and heaviness that rested on the people we decided we would have a PARTY … a huge … celebration of Gods goodness and mercy. And that’s what we did. We had balloons … and ice cream … and lots of food … and clowns … face painting … joy … dancing … singing … we broke the spirit of intimidation, oppression … depression … heaviness by bringing in the JOY of the Lord … it was awesome and the praise reached an incredible level. The people were moved and many gave their hearts to the Lord. There was a young man that we were brought to that had been chained up in a cave for 7 years … naked and thrashing around … his name is Roland … we went into his cell that he lives in now … prayed for him … as we touched him with our hands on his back he began to sob. This cell he is in is really hard to describe … poo all over the floor. Only a small hole where he is to do his business. The bamboo bed doesn't even really fit in the room. There is only just enough room to stand up. And that is all that there is in there … the stench of sewrage is overwhelming … this young man is a creation of God … he was not created to be treated in this way. We dressed him … and loved on him … bringing him out to the crusade/party. We are going back there to see if we can bring him to Cebu and minister love and restoration to his life. Everyone was scared of him … such desperation and darkness … these are the very places we are meant to be taking the light, if we will not go there … WHO WILL ???
In the second area we were taken to a house where a boy had been a cripple for 3 years. Not able to sit or stand or walk. He is now 16 years old. The house was sooo small and dark and depressive. And the young man really didn't want to move or get up and walk. To cut a long story short by the time we left he was sitting in his chair eating some food we had taken … and picking up toys with his feet. We saw with our own eyes … the Holy Spirit moving this young mans feet. And what song do you think we were singing during this amazing display of Gods goodness ??? “we like to move it move it !!!” It’s a song from Madagascar the movie. There was so much joy in that room … we brought into that house of depression and sickness … the presence of God … and God always appears in a situation the opposite to what is there. If there is sadness … he is joy … if there is sickness he is healing … if there is captivity .. He is freedom. God is not affected by the depth of the problem … He is the solution to that … He is the GOOD NEWS … isn't God amazing? Isn’t He incredible. Don’t we have such GOOD NEWS to share with the world??Third day of the crusade … and let me tell you by this time we were exhausted …. Literally after 2 16 hour days we were struggling to be jolly … and this day we were to speak at a school. Hundreds of children were hungry to hear about the Lord. And we brought the joy and laughter there. It was so awesome. We wanted to lay hands on every single child but there were more than 450 to we created a fire tunnel. So that each child would pass through as we laid hands on them. It was awesome and many children were touched by God. Then after the official side of things we had an impromptu dance off … it was so cool to see the kids jump in and have a go and all my team be prepared to make fools of themselves … broke something in the atmosphere. We have been invited back to minister during the regional youth camp … we are expecting to see Gods joy and spirit move in a powerful way among this youth. The testimonies that our young people shared was inspiring … WHAT AWESOME GOOD NEWS WE HAVE TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD … !!! God is alive … God is powerful … Gods presence changes the atmosphere … miracles are real … they are to be expected … that’s faith … Faith can and does move mountains in our life … so awesome. So we have crusades each month booked up to the end of this year and 2 already booked for next year. We are the salt of the earth … we are the light of the world … we need to shine this light on a hill !!!
Next month we are traveling to Leyte … we have an unreached tribe that we will be ministering too … and taking the Good news too … cars can not reach this place … we will be hiking through the jungle to get to it … and be with the people. Please pray for us … as we bring the power of the Good news of the Gospel to this place.

Sending you all our love and passion … may we as the body of Christ … all stand up and take up the challenge to share the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS … the WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR IT … NOW !!!

 

 

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