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God's Presence Increases In Narrabri Nsw
August 1, 2002
On Sunday 28th July, the Spirit of God moved in a different way. The pre-service prayer meeting was well attended with hungry people drawing on the Presence of God. It was a time of impartation, one young man was visibly touched by God as his hunger for God matched the outpouring from heaven.
The worship service was difficult at first, with resistance encountered trying to stop what God was wanting to do. Wayne challenged the resistance and encouraged everyone to focus on Jesus and worship Him. Eventually there was breakthrough and the Presence of God swept through. There was great honour for God evident amongst the congregation with people standing and worshipping with their hands raised.
Wayne opened the altar for anyone who wanted to do business with God. People responded, coming to the front and being touched by the Lord. Very soon afterward the Spirit of God started to pour out the oil of joy, starting with the music team. Jaimie, our drummer on the day, started laughing and then fell off the drum stool. Karen had seen that very thing happen in a vision the night before. By this time, the laughter had spread across the entire body of believers. In the worship and later during the laughter, God continued to heal peoples' physical bodies. One lady had a neck and shoulder injury healed, and another young man was healed of a stomach complaint.
The joy was such that a number of people started dancing at the back of the church. While the joy and dancing were in full swing, our landlord's secretary walked in the door to deliver the rent receipts. Instead of freaking out, she was pleasantly surprised that this was not like "normal" church and proceeded to dance with another lady who was "waltzing" alone. She was very taken with the happiness of the people and ended up staying in the meeting under the Presence of God.
Wayne brought some order into the meeting with communion and tithes and offerings being brought, again a great honouring of God was evident as people stood and raised their hands. Whenever the people stood and honoured God, waves of glory filled the room.
One recently saved man was asked to give a testimony of what God was doing in his life. He spoke about how God had his heart in His hands, and that He was shining His light on his heart, and what he saw there was darkness and "rottonness", but that God was also sowing a "rainbow of colour seeds" in his heart, and that since being baptised a couple of weeks ago he had struggled less with the flesh than before. This person is growing fast and is so hungry for God.
Wayne preached the Word and during that time the Spirit of God was dealing with peoples' hearts. At one stage a couple of people were knocked clean off their seats when the power of God struck them from behind. They spent quite a while on the floor.
Earlier in the week, a man who had been healed of Carpal-tunnel syndrome in his wrist at church the week before, had gone to work even though he had been given a week off work on compensation. He had also been told that he needed an operation for this very painful condition. The people at work found it very hard to believe that he didn't want the time off work, because he had been healed and no longer experienced pain.
All glory to God.
I will attempt to update these reports periodically.
Margaret O'Connor
Location: Narrabri, Australia
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