After waking up early, jetlag still present, we hung out and sang worship songs in a Karaoke machine, fun times! We went out to the bank to change my travellers cheques and then we went to Barrys home group.
We ended up going to Downtown Redding (i got some italian chicken grilla sandwich and pb cookie for us coz we missed lunch). We sort of did treasure hunt stuff, but it fell a bit flat in that i didn't approach anyone, even though i felt we got some ideas of who to look out for and where. Felt a bit frustrated, but then felt real encouraged that Bethel treasure hunting is normal and that sometimes people strike out, but they keep going and are courageous. So i felt encouraged that this stuff can be done back home.
We got dropped back at Rita's and we hung out for a bit and then we went for our FIRST TIME to Bethel church.To be honest, we were both so tired and the worship had such an atmosphere of peace that i really had to fight to stay awake. Kevin Dedmon spoke and shared testimonies such as this...
-something happened somewhere (i can't remember the details seeing as i was nearly asleep) which sounded interesting: there was a meeting where someone had brought some leftover bacon from somewhere and said that it was 'happy hour with bacon!' Then someone (Kevin perhaps?) gave a word saying everyone who's ill or something...go over there and take some bacon and eat it and you'll be healed. And it happened. Loads of people after stepping out and eating that bacon got healed. How very weird. But then, spitting in a blind guys eye to heal him is weird, and getting a leper to wash in a polluted filthy river lots of times to get healed is also pretty weird. Jesus gave no formula, and He is the Truth and the Way.
-when a team of people were out in Haiti, a girl was preaching and telling people about how God comes with signs and wonders and heals people and is amazing and stuff. This really tall guy was listening and he was shouting her down saying "no, you are lying! this is not true! this is all lies!" and Kevin stepped in and asked the man "you've got a problem with your hip haven't you?". The man nodded. Kevin told him to walk towards him and as he walked his hip would come into alignment and be healed. The man walked towards him and was amazed as his hip came into alignment and was healed. This man had been persecuting a pastor in that place and afterwards apologised for how he treated him. He gave His life to Jesus.
-when Kevin was in NZ in Christchurch after the earthquake, he met this person (can't remember the details of how or where) and was asking him if he needed any medical assistance. the guy said no. Kevin asked if there was any illness of injury that he had prior to the earthquake but couldn't get to anywhere to get it checked out. The guy said no. Kevin then asked if he had any arthritis. The guy said no, oh wait i have in my pinky finger. So Kevin took this guys finger and commanded arthritis to go. The finger was loosened and the guy asked if Kevin could heal his back too?! This guy had a messed up back and i believe he had metal rods in there too. Kevin went to pray and touched his back. The guy ended up being able to move and touch his toes, bend over, all this stuff he couldn't do before. Kevin asked if he wanted to meet the person who healed him. Led him to ask "Come Holy Spirit" (this guy was not churched) and after saying those words starting laughing in joy as He encountered the prescence of God. Gave his life to Jesus. Amazing.
-On Sundial Bridge in Redding this week or last week, some people from Bethel approached these 2 girls, one of the girls was called Stephanie. They asked her if she had back pain. She said no. They asked if she had a leg shorter than the other. She said no, but my leg is crooked. Her leg was twisted from a break that healed wrong. They prayed, well, they declared alignment over that leg, and it started twitching alot and the leg straightened. After that, Stephanie gave her life to the LORD, as she had been agnostic before.
-Another time, a team were at a restaurant on a Treasure Hunt, and they had the place as a location and all kinds of things on their list that matched this lady working there. They showed her all these things they had and I believe she was agreeing they made sense to her but she said so what. She was quite unresponsive and closed to it. Then Kevin just simply said 'God thinks you're a good mom'. She burst into tears and was crying alot. The manager came out all guns blazing as he/she thought these people around this lady were to blame for the tears, I guess. Turns out this woman's daughter had attempted suicide recently and she was blaming herself for it. Oh, and I think this woman ended up giving her life to Jesus too.
We stayed around for a bit, missing the Fire Tunnel this time which I was a little bit bummed about, but i think i would have fallen asleep in it, i was that tired. We came home and went straight to bed. Snore!
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