HOTS in San Jeronimo

It's been a tough but rewarding couple of days.

After a look round yesterday we headed to San Jeronimo to teach on the Kingdom in the afternoon, followed by HOTS training at a joint service in the evening. There were some random moments and it did feel like a bit of a battle. People seemed to get healed during the demonstration though - in particular a young girl with kidney pain which went completely.

This morning it was over to the town square - market day. Waiting in the rain for people to arrive (Peru time) it was my time to get bicycles in the stomach (Peruvian for gip). The night before it was Pete. I prayed for him and commanded the gip to go and it did there and then. Not quite so good a result this time around, but people began to arrive, the rain stopped and the concrete was dry when the time came for us to kneel.

La Presencia descended and by the time we came up there was a queue. WE spent a lot of time training, coaching and interrupting people's long religious prayers. But their HEART! And they got it. And when I told them how great they were their faces lit up.

By home time (we were there 3 hours) we had seen many healings. Sometimes it is hard to make out what has happened - they want to please and so will often say that they have been healed when they haven't (we suspect) but there are some obvious milagros which we witnessed and these people - a team of about 8 and all from the embryonic Vineyard up there - really taking hold of the commission to heal and loving it. Interestingly the other churches at the meeting last night weren't represented and I'm not too worried about that.

I spent a lot of time coaching the pastor of the church about growth and developing things, as well as HOTS and how to continue and lead the ministry. I got a bit sunburned in the process - the torrential rain we woke up to had gone. As I write it is back with a vengeance, so God was at work with the weather too - another sign of the Kingdom...

We left them still at it. I don't know what time they stopped but the ministry had been well and truly born and the team had caught the vision and run with it. There were four people on the chairs getting prayer as we left, with a further two waiting for prayer.

Pete has perked up a bit and I am absolutely shattered. That's why we work as a team. He said last night that this is what the apostles must have done - go from village to village preaching the Kigndom with signs - and wouldn't it be good to do this full time? Nutter.