Today we were much more awake to appreciate the Bethel-ness.
I woke at around 5.30am, for some reason, and had some glutenfree toast and chai tea for breakfast-yummy!
We got a lift at 8am from Barry and Sarah and went to the 8.30am service at Bethel. Bill Johnson spoke on 'Love is patient' and how that patience is not about us striving to be self controlled, but actually is about focussing and waiting on God. (Click the large writing below if you wanna watch the footage of it)
Bill Johnson - Feb 12th Day of Breakthrough
Joaquin Evans shared an amazing testimony of this woman who, last April, was given 5 weeks to live as she had cancer. She came to Bethel as she had made a deal with her father who said if she came to Bethel, he would help her fulfill her bucket list of things to do before she died. Recently at the Healing Rooms, Joaquin caught up with her father who shared more of what happened. She ended up getting prayed for and the pain left. Then when she went to the doctors, they found that her white blood cell count was 9.2, whereas a normal count is apparently around 6 to 8, and hers had previously been around 2. The doctor said it was the highest count he'd ever seen!
Barry prophesied over me, i remember him saying something about dancing. That was good. It seems he is even more aware of his identity in Christ, there is a strength and authority i see in him. It is exciting and good to see transformation in someone that i've seen pre-Bethel.
We stayed around for the 2nd service which was mainly a repeat of the first, and went into the overflow room in case Rita came. Afterwards, we got a free CD of Mario Murillo from a Visitors stand, and a man there saw 'John G Lake' over me, which was funny because i had just been thinking about him and had wanted to buy a book about his life but couldn't find one in England. So, i ended up buying one that was Bill Johnson recommended in the bookshop.
We had lunch at Hebrews coffee shop- i had an m&m cookie, an apple, a cheese bagel and i bought a blueberry muffin for later. We took lots of photos of outside the church and walked down the hill to make our way back to the house we're staying at. A lady offered us a lift (friendly Americans are amazing!) and we took it, but it turned out that the house really isn't that far after all. It helped us get our bearings and lay of the land though :)
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Back at the house we chilled out (much needed!) and then got a lift at around 4.45 to Bethel. Once we were there, we entered, and it was busy already. We nabbed some seats on the left side of the room that weren't saved (majority of the seats had scarves and coats and hats on them so that people could come back to them). We went into the overflow room where the pre-service prayer meeting was going on. I've not seen anything like it before. People were walking around in a whirlpool shape praying and asking God for His Holy Spirit to come. There was a little girl dancing ballet moves too. So sweet!
We went to go find our seats afterwards, and discovered that we were sat next to the parents of the lady who had been healed of cancer and had a high white blood cell count- it was cool to hear from them the reactions of the doctor, and they were lovely people too!
I went up to the front when worship/praise time started and it was quite packed. There was such a sense of freedom and peace and purpose. Brian and Jenn were leading, i was saying, it'd be nice to meet them!
(Click link for worship session that evening)
Worship Eve - 12th Feb
Bobby Conners came up and spoke, to be honest i can't remember if he had a point to his sermon/talk, but i jotted down some testimonies he shared, somewhere! Click on this link to watch it, though you may have to buy it to listen, not sure!
Bobby Conners- 12th Feb at Bethel Church
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At the end they had a couple of fire tunnels (people line up and make archways and you can walk through the archway of people and get prayed for by them).
Kinga and I asked around for some people to give us a lift, but to no avail. I prayed for God to provide for a lift and we waited at the door. I heard an english voice coming from this guy near us and I jumped into his conversation. Turns out he's from Essex and his name is David. He happens to know Barry and Sarah as his friend lives in their house. He was kind enough to give us a lift as it was pouring down with rain. We would have walked otherwise. :P He didn't know what TOWIE was- i think, good for him.
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