from getting back on the streets to getting MY FIRE BACK!!

Wednesday 9 September 2009
I am at home – have not hit the streets in ages!! Decide to go out – hear God say legs and arms, ha ha...see absolutely no bummed legs or arms but continue missioning.

Come across a group of cleaning staff and really just feel, well I’m just gonna jump out there and offer prayer...and lead them to tell me about their aches and pains...wow man, this stuff is fun!!

Ended up praying for better jobs and one of the lady’s was healed – bad back if I remember correctly.

TESTIMONY TIME (personal stuff)
So I was in east London from 8 Sep to 13 Sep. Wow...I spent less than zero time in the word. This year has just been so busy and there are times when my walk has been supernaturally easy and it’s like I’m being carried, but then there are those times that I am just like whatever – this trip home was one of them.

Spent no time in the word...fell in various areas but testimony of God’s grace – I was able to just get back up – but its the whole yo-yo vibe – fall, repent, fall, repent...until you fall so hard you just grab the word and don’t stop reading till temptation goes back to...well...hell!!

I got an opportunity on the Friday to bless a jobless man with baby food. I had fifty rand in my hand to go buy snacks and stuff when this guy, Jonathan comes up t me and explains how he and his wife are struggling to find employment and they have a 3 month old...I was listening and all and then he spoke up about the baby food and how it cost R49.95 – I though what...never given a ‘beggar’ that much before, but hey I got this fifty and it cant be a coincidence. So we mission down to Spar and we chatting and stuff – oh yeah, by this time I had forgotten about snacks, I mean really...I havnt seen a gym in over a month...ha ha.

So as we walking I am asking him about life and he keeps asking me to organise him a job – I respond I have nothing, cause I just would not know now...wow, typing this though I feel guilty, I mean I could make a plan. So anyway he casually mentions how he has not eaten in 3 days...WHAT!!??!! I feel my Spirit say cool, baby food and buy the family some supplies...spent R80 on a stranger that day...but is he really a stranger? Looking at the world through God’s eyes we will start seeing things like they should be...there’s scripture in early new testament speaking of how God provides all we need – clothes, food etc and in James about if you have the means to bless a brother you cant just tune ‘okay bless you...by’!! This was pretty cool...learnt some lekka lessons and all honour to JESUS!!

Sunday in church – morning service – awesome!! Russian couple, wife is preaching...ever experienced Holy Spirit filled fire driven Russians...WOW!!? During worship get a word of knowledge God wants to set people free whom have suffered strokes...release the word...and s i l e n c e !! Ha ha...Lord!! Ah well...after the service two people respond...amen!! Such a lesson in pride...massive lesson...its about obedience and risk.

Then get a second word about someone in a red jacket needing prayer...dont find the person till...

Monday 14 September 2009
Back in Port Elizabeth driving past the airport...Spirit says red jacket in the airport...GO!!
Okay cool, so mission into the airport and true as bob...there he is. Only one red jacket in the whole place and so was able to pray a blessing over this dude, Ross from Namibia going back to Rhodes, Grahamstown – student @ varsity...cool!!

Thursday 17 September 2009
Just visiting a friend at his apartment and we walk out of his building, there’s a woman – mid fifty’s I suppose waiting by the door to be let in when I feel moved by the Spirit we have to offer her prayer.

So we back up and start speaking to her, we ask if she needs prayer and she responds saying her daughter’s leg is badly hurt. We lay hands on her and pray.

Monday 22 September 2009 – as we are walking out of my friend’s flat again, the supervisor stops us and asks if we are the gentlemen whom prayed for the lady...I got a bit nervous...we said yes, he said well...THERE HAS BEEN DRASTIC CHANGE...wow Jesus...never in a blue moon was I ever expecting to hear a report back on this prayer...I just have faith her leg is healed cause my Jesus don’t leave you half healed!!

Friday 18 – Sunday 20 September 2009 (will add more about this later)
Joshua Generation Church, Cape Town – visiting here in Port Elizabeth at Oxygen Life Church. Andrew Selley is a legend!!

FIRE FELL!! I got a fresh impartation...and thats the vibe...WOW!!

www.joshgen.co.za
www.oxygenlife.co.za

Monday 21 September 2009
Friend comes over for coffee, we have some muffin tart...yes...finish laughing...its a muffin in a tart format...it was wow.

After finishing about ¾ of it, I feel the urge to hit the streets quick quick – hear the Spirit speak of 6 slices, cut up the tart and go not too far from home and talk about Jesus a lil and the word I got about 6...ha ha, we had 6 guys there...till Jacqueline appeared from nowhere...she started beating her husband up...uhm...awkward...five minutes later she came back and asked for prayer...her ankle was healed, she had been in an accident. Also saw a knee healed...praise Jesus!!

That night...hit Sasol in Summerstrand – release the glory and saw another ankle healed and just prayed a blessing over some people.

HARD CORE TESTIMONY TIME
It is easy to become complacent, and when a friend comes up to you and says well Ryan, I see you losing your fire...its like you wanna choke!! But...when you spending enough time with Jesus (24/7)...its rather hard to become complacent!! FAITH + ACTIONS...this is what God is speaking to me these days...Rev 3:20 Here I am, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

Whats the significance of such a simple verse...Jesus wants in...let Him in!!

This is how I feel the Spirit lead me to break it down (like understanding...not hip hop)
1. Jesus announces Himself at our heart’s door & knocks – God always gives us a choice, hence why Jesus is not just like rushing in;
2. We need to hear and discern His voice – by living a righteous life and keeping our spiritual ears open and clean;
3. FAITH & ACTION = hear + open;
4. Then He will come in - a promise;
5. Then Jesus comes in and engages with us (eat with him) and he allows us-AS WE ARE-to engage with him (and he with me).

I was born again in May 2008 – baptised in the Spirit – July 2008 – baptised in water Sep 2008 – experienced the fire April 2009...and somehow I started to run dry till the Josh Gen weekend...God spoke to me about LOVE...loving others through Him & now I am making sure I spend decent amount of time in the word...God’s Word...our Sword!!

The Holy Spirit is fun, but we need the word in our walks as well!! Father, Spirit and Son live in absolute unity...the perfect relationship...how can we want to keep on separating them...are you nuts!!?? Ha ha  but seriously...Jesus loves you...and I love you cause Jesus loves you!!

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Heaven...WOW!!

So, visited a friends’ cell group tonight: Dirk Naude and Mandi-Rae Wood, by the way...they rock big time and Jesus thinks they pretty amazing and so do I!! There cell was intensely huge tonight (hmmm...Jesus had a plan) and a friend of ours, Robyn Harvey was at the cell – she was a first year at the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry ‘last year’.

Mandi had an awesome word and then Robyn was asked to ‘lead us to heaven’...wow...here is my account, as much as what I can now remember.

He had some awesome instrumental soaking music playing in the background and Robyn asked us to imagine a pink elephant...we did that and she encouraged us by saying yeah, pink elephants don’t exist, its our imagination...we have the mind of Christ...and anything we were to experience from hereon forward was from God, as we relaxed our bodies and concentrated completely on what our thoughts were showing us.

Robyn told us to go to a happy place; I have this grassy hill with a cross and that Jesus would meet me there...and He did, He came walking from the ocean that was surrounding me, all the places in my experience are nature intense and beautiful!!

Then Jesus took me off to an awesome jungle area, green and an awesome river, there he gave me a gift...it came in sort of a jewellery box...it was an amazing coin of some sorts, a precious coin – cant necessarily remember the significance now – something on the lines of, Jesus was giving me my dreams, giving me the power and authority to take hold of my dreams...

Then Jesus took me off the meet with the Holy Spirit...gotta just live the Spirit and his freeness...the Spirit took me off to a canyon, and then we rose up, flying towards this cliff, we entered this cave inside the cliff and started hovering above these canals in the cliff and I saw hundreds of sheep, at one point I thought I was in Noah’s arc, but then the sheep turned into people...but they weren’t too happy looking...next thing we were standing on top of the cliff and the Holy Spirit was telling me favourite memories he has of me – day I got saved, baptism, time I prayed for the sick people in the emergency room etc. and He gave me two gifts – first gift was a scarf, he danced around me, sort of teasing me with the scarf wrapping it around my neck – the scarf was many beautiful colours, each one representing a (spiritual) fruit. The second gift was a necklace, and he told me that as this necklace adds beauty to ones appearance, so if I ‘wear’ the Holy Spirit, my appearance would become absolutely beautiful!!

I then went off to visit Papa (Father God), He was so at peace, busy sculpting this beautiful wooden horse (was like a miniature rocking horse) for me – I remembered how Jesus was a carpenter and Papa told me of course, Jesus only did what He saw the Father doing, I asked Him what He was doing and He told me He was just busy running the universe – but in such a awesome way, not boastful at all. He gave me the horse and explained how I always dream of riding horses and assured me that when I come home one day I would be able to just ride horses for like forever.

He then kept tickling me on my stomach and I was laughing...he explained that, that’s how He created me...he made me ticklish and so hence He was tickling me and just having a blast!!

Then we went off to play some games, we played some rugby and hockey – I sucked at rugby, but had loads of fun with Papa and enjoyed the Hockey but got hurt and He just encouraged me and took me in His arms and I was all better.

I asked Papa to show me something about me and he showed a stage, I was preaching to a group of young people – a dream of mine, but never actually prayed about it because it’s just way big...God showed me that my possibilities are endless and He sees my full potential.

I asked Papa to give me a gift for someone and He gave me this awesome, beautiful diamond ring for this girl I study with...

Then we came back...

[Tried to remember all as best as possible, but might have left some stuff out.]