Preach the word!

Hallelujah! Much is happening in the 6 days since my last entry. My last entry was after the emphatic response at the school to the gospel. We have had open air crusades during the rest of the evenings in Juba and I have enjoyed preaching the word in a direct and emphatic style and the response of the people is wholeheartedly enthusiastic. We see miracles of healing every night and on the final night we gave people the chance to give testimony to God's healing power. {I filmed some of these testimonies} On the final night we prated for the power of the Holy Spirit to come down and empower us for the work ahead as people are filled with a fresh enthusiasm for preaching and spreading the gospel. They sang and celebrated long after dark on the final night and nobody wanted to go home. It was an awesome and joyful atmosphere............On Saturday I started in Bungoma, Western Kenya where I had the chance to share a message in the church I am working with. The two services on Sunday were absolutely brilliant. Such a response to the word of God from congregants and pastors. There is a genuine sense of people being changed. Numerous people testified of being able to forgive after being bound for a long time. A number of pastors and leaders attended the seminars this last weekend and they have been taken up with a fresh zeal and vision for the whole gospel message and to take it to everyone who will listen. There is a strong sense that something has changed in peoples lives and that they have encountered God......The vision I had before I came to Western Kenya was that fires of the Holy Spirit would be lit in peoples lives that would spread like a wildfire as these men went back to their rural churches. We've heard testimony after testimony on Sunday of people who have been given fresh revelation, fresh conviction of the gospel, new clarity of purpose and the full gospel message and the fire has been lit..........Today I started a three day visit to Kimantuni where we had back to back services which were received in like fashion. The church is hungry and there were numerous testimonies as well as 3 miraculous healings. One woman had suffered from lower limb pain for 4 months which made it difficult to walk sometimes. As we prayed in the name of Jesus that pain began to go. A local man who runs a motorbike taxi service was involved in an accident just yesterday and came to church with pain across his shoulders and a scar across his face.{He was knocked unconcious by the accident} He experienced God's healing touch. People put simple faith in God's power to heal and set people free here. We prayed for a couple that were victims of a demonic attack. Someone used witchcraft to assault a woman and her arm was left paralysed. She and her husband prayed last night and she was healed and we prayed for them both today to break the work of the enemy........There is a wonderful atmosphere of celebration and the sense that God has caused a significant shift in the church in just one day. The faith of people is sky high and for the next two days we will have a service then an open air crusade........God is truly awesome. In this generation of churches that look for the best communication tecniques and programmes to get results it is the straight anointed preaching of the whole gospel to believing hearts that sees results. It worked 2000 years ago and it still works today. We aim to start something here that will spread like wildfire through this region. Pray that a Holy Spirit revival would sweep this area. The fire has already been kindled. Amen!