Friday, January 23, 2009
DELAY .. DELAY
The blog has not been update in a while, no ISP service at home. We will probably not consistently update this for another month or so.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The Outpouring Begins
Watchnight 2008
During our watchnight 2008 service it was clearly evident that there was a move of the Holy Spirit that was different from our customary Watchnight agenda. We began a prayer of worship about fifteen minutes before the 10pm start time and there was a sense of the presence of God that was tangible.
As we moved into the 10 o'clock hour and we were ready to start the formal agenda, nothing went the way we planned. There was at first a healing flow of the spirit resulting and a woman who was at the church for the first time, received her healing.
Woman's Healing
She was bent over and walked with a cane. As she sat in the congregation, I heard this question as I looked at her, "Why Do You Walk With that Cane?" I asked it aloud and she explained ... so we prayed for her as she sat in her seat then I began to walk away when the Holy Spirit said to me, "that is not faith, have her get up and walk with you!" I did so and noticed the obvious bending forward as if she was suffering from signs of osteoporosis. We walked around the pulpit a few times and then we laid hands on her and there was an immediate straightening of her back as if someone had place her in some kind of device straightened her, it was uncanny to see it as it occurred. There was also an extremely powerful presence of the Holy Spirit present upon her as she herself began to worship.
The Prophetic Flow
Then we entered a vein of the Prophetic anointing, one after the other, the Holy Spirit ministered to the people in specific terms for life and business for 2009.
Young Men In Prayer
One of our teen Prayers, Chris, mentioned to me how he has been compelled to pray during the services for the last couple of weeks and he was joined by another teen doing the same thing. They have been providing their supply to the work of the ministry as we have been engaging this new phase of God's flow in Christ Alive. One teen, who is also on the young men's prayer team has been interpreting the prayers that we pray in the Spirit over those that have come to the altar. It is remarkable to hear and to see the move of God in the lives of these young men who have been joining me in prayer.
Sunday's Report
A young man came to my office this morning just before I left for our Service and gave me an amazing report of what occurred with him the previous Sunday. We had planned the final message of the Series, "THE GIFT," which would be a transition message to the "Living A Visionary Life" to begin in January.
During Praise and Worship, one of our worship leaders began to flow in a vein of the anointing that she had before and there was an outpouring of the Spirit that occurred and several individuals were slain in Spirit at their seats. The manifestation resulted in a tangible healing anointing released into the room.
I called up those that had physical ailments and we prayed for them, some were slain in the Spirit, others were not. But the reports were remarkable.
Wayne, the young who came to me this Sunday, told the story of a long time athletic injury to his knee area that has caused pronounced pain for the last 4+ years. He had been to several Orthopaedists and said they could not find the source of the pain but it was plaguing him and he had resolved that he had to live with it for the rest of his life. He also told me that he wore a brace every dayand that the pain had started to spread across his lower body.
On Sunday, morning as he was ministered to, he said a warmth came over his body and went down to his feet. As it did so, there was a snap and click in his knee and the pain immediately went away. He has been pain free since then.
The Lord is showing us just the cream on the pie, let's press in and experience even more.
More Healings
There were several other healings that were noted during the last months of 2008, deaf ears opening along with depression being lifted are just a couple that I will mention.
The Season of the Outpouring has started and we must contend for the power of God to be released in our midst...
Financial Miracles
I cannot get into the details because of confidentiality but we have seen some major financial miracles occur in our church family ... God is interested in doing great things in our lives. We are destined to do great exploits in every aspect of our lives as we press into his grace.
Blessings,
Pastor Watson
During our watchnight 2008 service it was clearly evident that there was a move of the Holy Spirit that was different from our customary Watchnight agenda. We began a prayer of worship about fifteen minutes before the 10pm start time and there was a sense of the presence of God that was tangible.
As we moved into the 10 o'clock hour and we were ready to start the formal agenda, nothing went the way we planned. There was at first a healing flow of the spirit resulting and a woman who was at the church for the first time, received her healing.
Woman's Healing
She was bent over and walked with a cane. As she sat in the congregation, I heard this question as I looked at her, "Why Do You Walk With that Cane?" I asked it aloud and she explained ... so we prayed for her as she sat in her seat then I began to walk away when the Holy Spirit said to me, "that is not faith, have her get up and walk with you!" I did so and noticed the obvious bending forward as if she was suffering from signs of osteoporosis. We walked around the pulpit a few times and then we laid hands on her and there was an immediate straightening of her back as if someone had place her in some kind of device straightened her, it was uncanny to see it as it occurred. There was also an extremely powerful presence of the Holy Spirit present upon her as she herself began to worship.
The Prophetic Flow
Then we entered a vein of the Prophetic anointing, one after the other, the Holy Spirit ministered to the people in specific terms for life and business for 2009.
Young Men In Prayer
One of our teen Prayers, Chris, mentioned to me how he has been compelled to pray during the services for the last couple of weeks and he was joined by another teen doing the same thing. They have been providing their supply to the work of the ministry as we have been engaging this new phase of God's flow in Christ Alive. One teen, who is also on the young men's prayer team has been interpreting the prayers that we pray in the Spirit over those that have come to the altar. It is remarkable to hear and to see the move of God in the lives of these young men who have been joining me in prayer.
Sunday's Report
A young man came to my office this morning just before I left for our Service and gave me an amazing report of what occurred with him the previous Sunday. We had planned the final message of the Series, "THE GIFT," which would be a transition message to the "Living A Visionary Life" to begin in January.
During Praise and Worship, one of our worship leaders began to flow in a vein of the anointing that she had before and there was an outpouring of the Spirit that occurred and several individuals were slain in Spirit at their seats. The manifestation resulted in a tangible healing anointing released into the room.
I called up those that had physical ailments and we prayed for them, some were slain in the Spirit, others were not. But the reports were remarkable.
Wayne, the young who came to me this Sunday, told the story of a long time athletic injury to his knee area that has caused pronounced pain for the last 4+ years. He had been to several Orthopaedists and said they could not find the source of the pain but it was plaguing him and he had resolved that he had to live with it for the rest of his life. He also told me that he wore a brace every dayand that the pain had started to spread across his lower body.
On Sunday, morning as he was ministered to, he said a warmth came over his body and went down to his feet. As it did so, there was a snap and click in his knee and the pain immediately went away. He has been pain free since then.
The Lord is showing us just the cream on the pie, let's press in and experience even more.
More Healings
There were several other healings that were noted during the last months of 2008, deaf ears opening along with depression being lifted are just a couple that I will mention.
The Season of the Outpouring has started and we must contend for the power of God to be released in our midst...
Financial Miracles
I cannot get into the details because of confidentiality but we have seen some major financial miracles occur in our church family ... God is interested in doing great things in our lives. We are destined to do great exploits in every aspect of our lives as we press into his grace.
Blessings,
Pastor Watson
Revival Posts January 2009
This month we begin a series of prayer events seeking God for a revival in our land. This is a time for us reflect on the various outpourings and awakenings that have occurred across the globe over the past hundred years or so. The first that we will look into is the Welsh Revival, you can read about this at http://books.google.com/books?id=Ks0CAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=welsh+revival#PPR9,M1.
Our prayer for this year and as long as the Lord leads us to continue has the following scriptural basis:
Habakkuk 3:2
(KJV) O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make [yourself] known; ...
Psalm 85:6
(AMP) Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
These two scriptures will be the theme for our prayer session and we invite you to join us...
"Almost eight years while still living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I had a vision of Caribbean that has stayed with me. I was taken in the spirit above the Caribbean, as I looked across the area there was a great explosion that began in what seemed like one geographic location and spread across the entire region. The explosion reminded me of what I had seen as the atomic blast in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. It came up in the form of mushroom like cloud and the blast immediately expanded to across the Caribbean."
We have had other prophetic releases of God's purpose to have an awakening in our region and others Like William J. Seymour and Charles Parham who over a hundred years ago prophesied that our day would see the greatest awakening the earth has ever known. It has not yet come to pass and like Daniel, we have reviewed the writings and set our face to seek the Lord.
Pray for us that God will indeed move to meet us at our place of petition.
Pastor Watson
Our prayer for this year and as long as the Lord leads us to continue has the following scriptural basis:
Habakkuk 3:2
(KJV) O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make [yourself] known; ...
Psalm 85:6
(AMP) Will You not revive us again, that Your people may rejoice in You?
These two scriptures will be the theme for our prayer session and we invite you to join us...
"Almost eight years while still living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I had a vision of Caribbean that has stayed with me. I was taken in the spirit above the Caribbean, as I looked across the area there was a great explosion that began in what seemed like one geographic location and spread across the entire region. The explosion reminded me of what I had seen as the atomic blast in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan. It came up in the form of mushroom like cloud and the blast immediately expanded to across the Caribbean."
We have had other prophetic releases of God's purpose to have an awakening in our region and others Like William J. Seymour and Charles Parham who over a hundred years ago prophesied that our day would see the greatest awakening the earth has ever known. It has not yet come to pass and like Daniel, we have reviewed the writings and set our face to seek the Lord.
Pray for us that God will indeed move to meet us at our place of petition.
Pastor Watson
Saturday, January 3, 2009
An Unusual Dream - January 3, 2009
Oral Roberts
I was at a place where it seems that there was a meeting with Oral Roberts. At one point the meeting was over and Brother Roberts begain to walk back to his office. He was ushered into a nice reception area and dissapeared into his office.
It one point I was walking with him and either either spoke directly to me or touched me.
I go to the same door but someone stoped me and took me through another, before he let me in he checked to see if I had any weapons and the allow me into the building. I took the same, "elevator" that Brother Roberts was to have taken (I gather) and began to move through the air. I had never seen an elevator like that, it was for only one person and moved throught the air with apparently no cables or connections.
I could see the terrain as I moved and then it came to a stop.
The Healing
I walked for a minute and then entered what seemed to be a nursing home. The first room had a nurse and it seemed like several patients but I realized there were two.
I walked up to the first man who was suffering from what seemed like a breathing problem and laid my hand on his chest and said that rise in the name of Jesus and he was instantly healed. Then I went to the other man who had a similar issue and was not convinced that God could heal him.
I prayed and he was instantly healed but still didn't really believe. Somehow I fastforwarded to see or understand that he went to his Doctor who confirmed that he was healed. I think he then believed but I had moved on.
The Airline Flight
I was with a group of people that I do not remember, we went out to eat at a restaurant and then we went to take an Air Jamaica flight. When we go there a lot of people were already there. Some people, a small group took too long to come up to the reception are and so they were told there would be an extra charge to take them to the airport, the early arrivals were free.
When they got to the place to be checked was a row of seats with the the last set of about 12 people who were to be boarded. This new group came up and almost got to be checked before the seated group, as I stood aside, I either said it, thought it and and it was commuicated that it was not right for them to be put ahead of the others... I then think they were placed in the appropriate order.
Eating Place
The place we ate was a unusual environment, at first we could not find a seat for the group of about 4-6. I made a place available and sat comfortable in a corner when a man, the manager or supervisor of the restaurant came up and asked if I didn't know that that was his home. I said no, and moved away from the area and asked him if that was ok. I think he said yes but it ended the scene.
I noticed the meal was pizza, the biggest slices of pizza I had ever seen. I don't recall actually eating but did notice that there were several people in the area seated at tables. Some leaving and some coming in.
I was at a place where it seems that there was a meeting with Oral Roberts. At one point the meeting was over and Brother Roberts begain to walk back to his office. He was ushered into a nice reception area and dissapeared into his office.
It one point I was walking with him and either either spoke directly to me or touched me.
I go to the same door but someone stoped me and took me through another, before he let me in he checked to see if I had any weapons and the allow me into the building. I took the same, "elevator" that Brother Roberts was to have taken (I gather) and began to move through the air. I had never seen an elevator like that, it was for only one person and moved throught the air with apparently no cables or connections.
I could see the terrain as I moved and then it came to a stop.
The Healing
I walked for a minute and then entered what seemed to be a nursing home. The first room had a nurse and it seemed like several patients but I realized there were two.
I walked up to the first man who was suffering from what seemed like a breathing problem and laid my hand on his chest and said that rise in the name of Jesus and he was instantly healed. Then I went to the other man who had a similar issue and was not convinced that God could heal him.
I prayed and he was instantly healed but still didn't really believe. Somehow I fastforwarded to see or understand that he went to his Doctor who confirmed that he was healed. I think he then believed but I had moved on.
The Airline Flight
I was with a group of people that I do not remember, we went out to eat at a restaurant and then we went to take an Air Jamaica flight. When we go there a lot of people were already there. Some people, a small group took too long to come up to the reception are and so they were told there would be an extra charge to take them to the airport, the early arrivals were free.
When they got to the place to be checked was a row of seats with the the last set of about 12 people who were to be boarded. This new group came up and almost got to be checked before the seated group, as I stood aside, I either said it, thought it and and it was commuicated that it was not right for them to be put ahead of the others... I then think they were placed in the appropriate order.
Eating Place
The place we ate was a unusual environment, at first we could not find a seat for the group of about 4-6. I made a place available and sat comfortable in a corner when a man, the manager or supervisor of the restaurant came up and asked if I didn't know that that was his home. I said no, and moved away from the area and asked him if that was ok. I think he said yes but it ended the scene.
I noticed the meal was pizza, the biggest slices of pizza I had ever seen. I don't recall actually eating but did notice that there were several people in the area seated at tables. Some leaving and some coming in.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
A Word in Season
The Global Prayer Alert Network Summary for December 29, 2008 has been a refreshing for us; I know that you don’t all subscribe to the newsletter so I’m including an excerpt of a Word that came from the Lord in the session in Minneapolis on the 29th.
A Word from the Lord came forth… "Seeds that are being sown now in these days, are preparing you for your future days. For My mercy is to be poured out in the days to come. Plans, My plans through you and in you will come right out of you. A boldness and a courage are coming your way. My plans, My will, My strength, and My joy will take you through. Those watching, and those observing will come through too. So, don't allow yourself to be shaken out of My will and My plan. It shall be fulfilled in its entirety." "Each and every day, seeds are being sown for future days, for the times to come, and for the outpouring of My spirit. Hold fast to My plan." "And so, in My book, I have written it plain and clearly for you, so you may go all the way through. You must follow and observe. It is not too late for the important date. Way out ahead, from this day forward, and in the years to come, my book and my word will be fulfilled in its entirety. But there is another book that is written inside of you, it is My will for you. It can be, it shall be, and it will be fulfilled, if you by faith will stick to it and NEVER give up!"
Our Concern and Focus
We must not give in to the attempts to take us away from God’s plan for us. It is our defined destiny to bring clarity and truth about the Word of God to a hurting people. Friends, stick to the call of God, declare your right to take back what the enemy has stolen in our Land, our families and our churches.
Our Enemies Attacks
This scripture is in the forefront of my mind today and it will continue to be key in our storming a new beach-head of prayer for Jamaica and this region. We are apt to want to defend ourselves and fight with physical weaponry which includes our mouths. But we must realize that that kind of fight depletes our spiritual supply … it relegates us to the natural sphere of warfare and then our success is based on our natural ability to engage the enemy.
“Fight the good fight of faith, … for the weapons of our warfare are not natural…” it is imperative that we apply God’s word to any engagement of the enemy, the scripture states:
Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified Bible) 17But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.
My Prayer For Today
Lord, protect from the words of evil men. Preserve us that we fulfill your purpose for this day and each day of the rest of our lives. We thank you that you are our justifier, you are our shield and defence we live in you and by you we exist. Breath upon us anew, a fresh breath of Holy Spirit. Give us the Holy boldness to engage ever uncomfortable circumstance with your Love and your Grace.
We are yours Lord, everything we have, everything we are and what we will become. Continue to mold us into the image of Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessings,
Pastor Winston …
A Word from the Lord came forth… "Seeds that are being sown now in these days, are preparing you for your future days. For My mercy is to be poured out in the days to come. Plans, My plans through you and in you will come right out of you. A boldness and a courage are coming your way. My plans, My will, My strength, and My joy will take you through. Those watching, and those observing will come through too. So, don't allow yourself to be shaken out of My will and My plan. It shall be fulfilled in its entirety." "Each and every day, seeds are being sown for future days, for the times to come, and for the outpouring of My spirit. Hold fast to My plan." "And so, in My book, I have written it plain and clearly for you, so you may go all the way through. You must follow and observe. It is not too late for the important date. Way out ahead, from this day forward, and in the years to come, my book and my word will be fulfilled in its entirety. But there is another book that is written inside of you, it is My will for you. It can be, it shall be, and it will be fulfilled, if you by faith will stick to it and NEVER give up!"
Our Concern and Focus
We must not give in to the attempts to take us away from God’s plan for us. It is our defined destiny to bring clarity and truth about the Word of God to a hurting people. Friends, stick to the call of God, declare your right to take back what the enemy has stolen in our Land, our families and our churches.
Our Enemies Attacks
This scripture is in the forefront of my mind today and it will continue to be key in our storming a new beach-head of prayer for Jamaica and this region. We are apt to want to defend ourselves and fight with physical weaponry which includes our mouths. But we must realize that that kind of fight depletes our spiritual supply … it relegates us to the natural sphere of warfare and then our success is based on our natural ability to engage the enemy.
“Fight the good fight of faith, … for the weapons of our warfare are not natural…” it is imperative that we apply God’s word to any engagement of the enemy, the scripture states:
Isaiah 54:17 (Amplified Bible) 17But no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall show to be in the wrong. This [peace, righteousness, security, triumph over opposition] is the heritage of the servants of the Lord [those in whom the ideal Servant of the Lord is reproduced]; this is the righteousness or the vindication which they obtain from Me [this is that which I impart to them as their justification], says the Lord.
My Prayer For Today
Lord, protect from the words of evil men. Preserve us that we fulfill your purpose for this day and each day of the rest of our lives. We thank you that you are our justifier, you are our shield and defence we live in you and by you we exist. Breath upon us anew, a fresh breath of Holy Spirit. Give us the Holy boldness to engage ever uncomfortable circumstance with your Love and your Grace.
We are yours Lord, everything we have, everything we are and what we will become. Continue to mold us into the image of Christ Jesus our Lord.
Blessings,
Pastor Winston …
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Words and Names In Prayer November 2008
The word(name) ashenheim has come up recently, I don't know the significance except to pray in the Spirit.
Exhibiting the Love of God
I know how challenging it can be in our daily lives to develop and show the “love” of God for those that in our charge. I had little personal experience with the day to day responsibility of showing God’s love in my home since I lived alone and I never really had a significant demand placed on me on a personal basis. When Abde my youngest came to live with me, I thought that God had made a mistake, the difficulties and challenges were formidable. The call by the Spirit of the Lord to maintain my love and caring for him, despite his actions, was so apparent. I later related this experience to Hosea’s call and realized that this was a work of God in progress.
Coming to Jamaica dramatically changed this situation and over the last seven years the Spirit of God had been at work to demonstrate to me what it means to walk in daily love for those that are closest to me. Like Hosea, there has been a real life experience at work to demonstrate how God has loved me and loved you in spite of our faults and failings. It has been so aptly demonstrated with my youngest boy who just seems to not make the right decisions, always choosing to do what he should not and then my having to deal with the situations that arise with him.
Life and Authority
God has provided His direction to us, as I provide direction to my youngest boy, yet even though I provide direction he seems to conveniently follow his own. Getting into trouble with me and others and causing me to wonder if he really has subscribed to my authority in his life.
Some questions that arise in my mind follow as I have conversation with the Spirit of Christ:
Do I give up on him? Did God give up on me?
Do I continue to direct him? Did God stop leading me?
Do I keep loving him and having relationship with him? Did God ever stop loving me?
Should I be angry with him? Has God dealt with me in anger?
The list of these juxtapositions can go on indefinitely. But the sense that I get from the Lord is that we must learn and develop His attitude toward those around us and closest to us.
We know that they fail, we know that they misuse us, we know that they don’t listen to our instruction and follow them … but I wonder how we truly follow Christ in our own life and how many times we have been found wanting ourselves in our relationship with Him.
I found this Audio Book online that I have been taking the time to listen to, it was originally written by Andrew Murray in the late 1800’s but is so relevant to this issue. If you have access to the text that would be good but I am providing the link to the MP3 files for the audio. You can download the chapters individually or download the whole book at the bottom of the list as a zipped file that you will then unzip.
Please take the time over the next few days or weeks to use this in your devotional time and give me some feedback about your experience after hearing God’s heart through Brother Murray’s book.
Link: http://www.freechristianaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/AbsoluteSurrender/mp3/Surrendermp3.htm
Coming to Jamaica dramatically changed this situation and over the last seven years the Spirit of God had been at work to demonstrate to me what it means to walk in daily love for those that are closest to me. Like Hosea, there has been a real life experience at work to demonstrate how God has loved me and loved you in spite of our faults and failings. It has been so aptly demonstrated with my youngest boy who just seems to not make the right decisions, always choosing to do what he should not and then my having to deal with the situations that arise with him.
Life and Authority
God has provided His direction to us, as I provide direction to my youngest boy, yet even though I provide direction he seems to conveniently follow his own. Getting into trouble with me and others and causing me to wonder if he really has subscribed to my authority in his life.
Some questions that arise in my mind follow as I have conversation with the Spirit of Christ:
Do I give up on him? Did God give up on me?
Do I continue to direct him? Did God stop leading me?
Do I keep loving him and having relationship with him? Did God ever stop loving me?
Should I be angry with him? Has God dealt with me in anger?
The list of these juxtapositions can go on indefinitely. But the sense that I get from the Lord is that we must learn and develop His attitude toward those around us and closest to us.
We know that they fail, we know that they misuse us, we know that they don’t listen to our instruction and follow them … but I wonder how we truly follow Christ in our own life and how many times we have been found wanting ourselves in our relationship with Him.
I found this Audio Book online that I have been taking the time to listen to, it was originally written by Andrew Murray in the late 1800’s but is so relevant to this issue. If you have access to the text that would be good but I am providing the link to the MP3 files for the audio. You can download the chapters individually or download the whole book at the bottom of the list as a zipped file that you will then unzip.
Please take the time over the next few days or weeks to use this in your devotional time and give me some feedback about your experience after hearing God’s heart through Brother Murray’s book.
Link: http://www.freechristianaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/AbsoluteSurrender/mp3/Surrendermp3.htm
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