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Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Daughter of destiny

I ordered this book "Daughter of destiny" by Jamie Buckingham online about 4 months ago, and finally it arrived yesterday.

It's a book about the life of Kathryn Kuhlman.

Gosh, if people are upset about Benny Hinn, they should really look at the life of Kathryn as there are heaps more you can pick her on.

But nevertheless, she's a woman that had found the key and gained access to the supernatural. And this is why I'm interested about her.

I'm not interested in getting involved in conversations about Benny Hinn or Hillsong at the moment(maybe someday I will when I'm in the mood and have plenty of time), I think I've read enough at Phil's blog before. I'm more interested and occupied by this book and my baby.

Gota go, baby's crying again....

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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Benny Hinn meeting

So I went to the Benny Hinn meetings yesterday.
I was planning to go on Friday night, but the last minute I decided not to go. Just as well, as it started to rain quite heavily from 9pm and if I went Both me and baby would have been soaking wet having to walk 20 minutes or so to the carpark.

But yesterday morning was a bright beautiful morning. It was still quite a long walk from P3 with my baby. But after I got in, it was all good.

IT WAS GOLD !!!! I loved it to bits.

My good friend mille got on the stage and she was healed of several problems she's had for years. She was crying on the stage.

The teaching was brilliant. Gosh it was a good feed, I haven't had such good teaching for years maybe.

Let me try to remember some points(I didn't bring notebook as my hands were occupied with baby):
The Holy Spirit is with me, in me and upon me. But there's big difference.
With me is before I got saved, to help me getting saved; In me is when I was born again; but on me is for a season, for a reason.
The presence and the power of the Spirit are two concepts. We often get mixed up.
When we worship, the presence comes. But too often we just enjoy the presence, have a good time and leave. The power is hiding in the midst of the presence. The anointed preachers knows how to find the key to unlock and tap into His power and release His gifts, like healing,deliverance,etc. Often in a meeting there comes a moment, often only 10 seconds or so, the longest lasting not more than 1 minute, when that's a moment for the preacher to respond quickly, to surrender and catch the chance. If he misses that moment, he misses it all and nothing happens in the meeting. But if he catches and responds, the power manifests. And that happens every time in his crusades.
There also comes with moments of wrestling. Like Elisha following Elijah, and he was fired 3 times, but he was determined to not to give up. Sometimes the Holy Spirit would want to leave and lift, but the preacher needs to be like Jacob, wrestle and ask Him to stay and bless.
But the foundation is the word. You need to know the Word well to be able to release His power.
Then there's this lifetime calling. When God calls you, you have a choice, either to respond and follow, and drop everything your doing, or to "say goodbye to the family, bury the dead, finishing off the business,etc". If you don't respond, you'll miss your chance. But if you do respond, it'll be heaven to you, and you'll have nothing to lose.

He used a lot of examples and demonstrations to make these vivid and easy to understand.

The whole time this old Chinese saying sticks with my mind...."The spiciest ginger is the older ones." Unlike Hillsong, everything's flash, young, fresh and modern, Benny Hinn worshippers are older, a little bald and grey, a bit old fashioned, but the anointing and sense of presence was so strong. This actually speaks a whole LOT to me.

I couldn't wait to go back at night time. This time I didn't bring my baby. And Millie saved me a very front seat close to the stage. She didn't leave after the morning service and waited the whole time there. There were football and basket ball games at Telstra Stadium so the traffic was shocking. But the meeting was wonderful, there were so many people getting saved....after four long songs people were still coming, they filled up the front section, then the sides, then just about every walking space up the stairs.... it was awesome. Then the healing part began, but my phone showed this SMS from Peter....Bode wants his mom!!! So very reluctantly I left.

It wasn't easy for me to have a baby with me in the meeting for more than 3 hours, but I so enjoyed it. I cried a few times. And don't mention Millie....she's wild with joy.

As seen by Susan @ 1:30 PM

Monday, June 19, 2006

Prophetic school and children

So we're starting another round of prophetic schools with the Colleys.
We're having a day school mostly for the ladies and a more advanced night school, both on Fridays starting July 28.
The night school will be held at our house and the day school is just round the corner of our house(3 min walk).
If your interested and in the area just let me know and I'll send you the brochures.

I'm so excited about these schools, I can hardly wait.

Ellie's getting quite prophetic in lots of small ways. For example, my husband never remembers his mom's birthdays. I don't know when's her birthday, either. But just the other day, Ellie suddenly out of the blue asked my husband, "I wonder when Nanna's birthday is and maybe you should give her a call." And that day was exactly nanna's birthday!
Then the other night before she went to sleep I said to her, let's play a praying game. Let's pray for some people, and see if you see any pictures(visions) in your mind. She's very fast, within seconds she'd seen something. And they're in line or similar to the visions I got.

I wonder if we could give children the prophetic training....hmmm....they seem so readily to be flowing in the spirit. The Bible says, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy... shall see visions.... I wonder if we have been stopping them from coming to the presence of God... should we create an environment for them to be prophetic and allow them to grow and to be nurtured in their giftings.

Children are full of imaginations. If we don't channel them well and give them the right place, they'll just be attracted to things like Harry Potter,etc. But what if we get proactive and really encourage them and guide them? Or are we afraid that we'll have some little prophets....hehe
Interesting hey.

As seen by Susan @ 11:59 PM

Monday, June 12, 2006

Dreams again

I've been fascinated about dreams lately.
I dream a lot. Just about every time I fall asleep I dream.
I'm starting to keep a dream journal, trying to write down everything I dream.
It's really a language, and it's got so much details to ponder about.
To make a parable about it, it's like a mom talks to her baby. The mom can talk all day long to a baby, someone might wonder why does a mom talks to a baby, he can't even understand. But moms talk to babies. The baby might not understand, as it's a language he hasn't learnt yet, but you never know, he might understand a little bits and pieces.
And that's what I find what dream is. It's a language that God uses to talk to us. He talks all the time, reveals things all the time.... and we might not understand(mostly we don't), but we might pick up little bits and pieces here and there.
It's a supernatural world, and so the enemy can use it as well.
The dream language is full of symbols and parables. And if we learn some tools to interpret them, it's truly a fascinating world.
I've had lots of visions. I usually have lots of visions. But I find dreams have more detail and are less contaminated by our own mind and thus can be more accurate. As when I have visions, it's easy for my mind to make up something and add or change to the original picture, but in dreams the scenes are all set, you just need to remember and then interpret them.

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

This one's a baby freak

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Thursday, June 08, 2006

Dad, Ellie and Bode

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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Jamie and Bode

Isn't she a good little sister!

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Friday, June 02, 2006

Dreams

Gosh, I've been such a bad blogger....I haven't blogged for such a long time.
I think you can guess who's been keeping me busy....
I've got a spunge in my life who soaks up all my spare free time....lol

Bode's been doing really well. Very fat, chubby looking and smiles a lot. He sleeps through most of the nights from two weeks old. I've been doing the attachment method with all my kids, which is bedsharing, breastfeeding on demand, babywearing... all that sort of things. All my kids grew up in our bed until 2 or 3 and we don't even have a cot or baby room. I'm wearing Bode in a baby sling right now as I'm typing. He's just fallen asleep. I've also been learning how to vacuum the house with the vacuum machine in one arm and a sleeping baby in another arm.

Unfortunately my camera's got some problem and is not working properly. So I can't update pictures for the moment(sorry Kerry)...

Other than running around chasing kids, which is always fun(deep breathe).... I went to a prophetic conference over the weekend at Port Macquarie.

Actually I didn't expect too much about the conference as I've been attending prophetic school for quite a while now. Peter's always been wanting to go up to Port Macquaire to show Bode to his parents so I thought this could be a chance to go. Most of the people from the prophetic school were busy prophesying to the individuals of the conference, but I couldn't do much there as I was holding the baby all the time. There was a session about dreams, which was quite amazing. It kind of opened up a whole realm of spirituality to me. I suddenly realised the power of dreams. I started to understand the language of dreams, and each morning after I woke up the dreams I just had started to make sense to me . It's so interesting. I just felt that God's talking to me and showing me strategies and plans in every detail of my dreams.
So....I've been going to bed early and waking up late busying dreaming.....lol
It was so fun.

I'm thinking of helping to run a round of prophetic school in the mornings for the ladies. Maybe have it at our house. I prefer mornings as night time there're too many kids to worry about. So if your interested and in the area you can just let me know.

As seen by Susan @ 9:18 AM