Only 14 days now until Healing On The Streets (HOTS)! I can hardly wait.

Sue and I walked into town last night to pray. (It was raining just before we left, but it cleared-up as we walked out the door. Afterward, within a few minutes of returning home, it started raining again. Now how cool is that?)

We walked down to the East Gate where HOTS is going to be and listened to Dad. There’s loads of artificial light down there at night in all kinds of weird and wonderful colours, and we really felt Dad saying that His light shining in the darkness will shine brighter than we have ever seen before – on the streets.

We didn’t feel to pray for the land on this occasion. It felt like we’ve spent the last year ploughing when we’ve prayer-walked the town, but now is the time for sowing. We felt to pray for people. Holy Spirit quickened this verse to us:

Heal the sick and say to them “the kingdom of God has come near to you” (Luke 10:9)

The kingdom of God is in us folks! When we step into the streets to heal people then we’re bringing the kingdom to them.

So we sat on a bench at the East Gate and we prayed for people. We prayed for increased encounters with our Father’s love for everyone involved in HOTS. We prayed for greater measures of His peace in all of us, the place from where the anointing flows. We sensed that the weariness and distraction that we’ve felt over the last few weeks has been directed at others too, and we broke it.

We thanked God for the people who are going to be healed. We asked Him to bring strong disciples in quickly, who would become caught-up in the reality of the kingdom and not weighed-down by religion. (I am also praying that we are faithful disciplers who do not cut short the harvest.) We prayed for the people passing by while we sat on our bench, expectant that soon we will be praying not for them, but with them.

We live in awesome times. Revival really is coming here. (But I suspect it will does not look like much of the church expects it to look!)