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Testimonies of Times Sharing the Extreme Love of JesusPakuranga Night Market, 28th April 2012After a great day of training at Outside the Walls we went to the Pakuranga Night Markets again to put legs on what they had learnt. Because we are not weekly stallholders we usually have to set up our stall wherever we can and each time we ring to see if there is a space available there is always a little nervousness that it will be at full capacity, but even though it has been growing there always seems to be a space. When we arrived this week we were asked to set up at the end of the food strip. This was a large stall so was great for training purposes and even better when they offered us this spot as a permanent position! God's extreme love for people has the power to amaze us every time and we saw one guy receive such a vast improvement from a muscle/tendon injury that he walked out without his crutches, another was healed of an arm injury and his back was accidentally healed as well!
We saw a couple of ladies set free from obstacles that had prevented them from fully moving into their destiny and watched as God tangibly manifested His presence on one in particular as she discovered how much God loved her and cared deeply about the physical abuse she had endured and how He was beginning to reveal Himself to her through visions. A young girl came back to the stall again, this time with her Mum. She was a believer and Mum was not. Her Mum was telling us how this beautiful young girl had been such a strength in their family while they had been going through a particularly hard time and this precious girl began to recognise how God was showing Himself through her to her family even though she was only 15. A Mum, her daughter and the daughter's new baby came in and shared their incredibly touching story of the many difficult times they had recently been through from losing a job to the Australian floods, and were deeply impacted by all the spiritual insight that the team shared with them. Being able to express the love of God is truly both awesome and addictive and the stunned mullet look that appears on a person's face as they are encouraged and transformed by having an encounter with the One who is Love never fails to thrill our spirits. It is such a privilege for the XP Revelations Team to be able to give Destiny Words, Spiritual Insight, Healing, Dream Interpretations and Encouraging Words to a world that is desperate for the authentic love of God! Pakuranga Night Market, 31st March 2012Our Papa loves to display His extravagant love through His children to a lost and hurting world. We saw this dramatic display over and over again on Saturday evening when around 50 people came through the stall, each truly hungry to know that they had a hope and a future and each person leaving experiencing His love one way or another.
So many folk have heard about God/Jesus/Holy Spirit and have a limited understanding in their minds of who He is, but very few had encountered the manifest presence of the Living God. Through Spiritual Insights, Destiny Words, Dream Interpretations, Spiritual Encounters, Name Readings, Spiritual Cleansings they got to truly experience God's love in our little stall on Saturday Night. One local lady was dramatically healed from disc degeneration and a problem with her hip – this lovely woman spent a very long time telling us her story as we quietly listened and was completely stunned when we prayed a simple prayer and her pain instantly left completely. She could not speak and was crying in astonished joy and gratitude. Another young teenager absolutely blown away as a team member showed her how God had told him prior to coming out her name written on a piece of paper and that God wanted her to know how much He loved her. We were all in tears as she shared that both her parents were battling cancer and that her Dad was a believer – till that point she wasn't! This was a night when we had quite a few small groups of people through and we love to see the looks of amazement on their faces when they hear very clear Words of Knowledge for their friends and family and truly get to understand that God does know them. The walls come down very rapidly which makes it so easy then to go much deeper with someone in the first few minutes of conversation than you can sometimes go in a lifetime with others. Papa enjoyed displaying how very much He loves all people and cares about all their circumstances and how much He loves to move through a few willing folk with a desire to share His Extreme Love! If you are interested in learning how to go 'Outside The Walls' and how easy and exciting it is to share His love to those that are more than ready to receive it, please feel free to contact Andrew or Erin on 09 8168705 regarding free training that will be held on Saturday April 28th April at Springs of Life Church, 126 Pt Chevalier Road, Pt Chevalier, Auckland (Formerly known as Pt Chev Baptist) from 10am.
St Patrick's Day, 17th March 2012 at Pakuranga Night MarketWell the evening did start off somewhat intersting! We had to move our gazebo to four different places, saving the best till last and drawing a little attention to ourselves carrying our half built gazebo over other stalls to its final resting place for the evening. It sounds a little like a death, but this was the beginning of an incredible evening bringing nothing but life, hope and encouragement to all those that stopped by our stall. St Patrick was able to understand and hear God even as a child and moved We were down a couple of amazing team members tonight, and this made things somewhat hectic – apologies to those that couldn't wait as we were busy with others. All in all we had over 30 through the stall. Each person left changed and knowing that God cared about them, even down to the littlest details and all left delighted in the fact that they could hear from God for themselves. First up was a family of four with Mum being the instigator and Dad coming in with their daughters. Mum was going through life a little reluctantly and feeling pulled in all directions, and was encouraged that things would settle down. Dad kept things a little close to his chest as a team member saw that there had been something new coming into his life due to the fact that he was a man of integrity, was able to lead and motivate others, and therefore people felt secure coming to him as he was trustworthy and that his superiors had recognised this. The team member felt that God was saying that there would be a time of balance coming between family and work. After receiving all of this and then some, Dad said he had just been offered a job as GM for his company and that he was negotiating having more time off to spend with his family to get that work/family balance corrected. One hopeful and encouraged family left somewhat happy! Words of knowledge and Destiny can change people's outlook on life! Promotions must have been on the table that night as another lady was also just offered one and amazed that God was able to let our team member know this. We saw a couple of people receive improvements connected with pain in their bodies. One, a Christian lady for her neck and shoulders and another the stall owner next door who was a Hindu and had all over body pain and wanted prayer for their business. This was their first time at the market and they were so thankful for the encouragement we gave them. We had a group of 7 young ladies come in and all had Name Readings, Words of Knowledge and encouraging Words of Destiny. Another lady came in and was deeply moved as she experienced God's love and peace in a spiritual encounter, prayer, words of knowledge, destiny and spiritual insight. This lady was incredibly excited at the fact that God does speak and can and would give her guidance. A young man struggling with nightmares and a traumatic event was so relieved that God could protect him and learnt how to deal with these nightmares and that he could expect to receive dreams that would bring hope for his future. 2 young ladies – one had just moved up to Auckland that night, another was struggling to move forward from difficult experiences, both so touched that God knew all about their circumstances and was in the business of bringing freedom and removing fear to one and exciting opportunities to the other. So many more stories – where there were ones encouraged by Dream Interpretations, Spiritual Insight, Words of Destiny and Knowledge, Healing, Spiritual Encounters and Cleansing. Yay God!!! Pakuranga Night Market 25th Feb 2012Our first night at the Pakuranga Night Market saw around 50+ people through the XP Revelations Gazebo. This place is cooking…. literally. There are so many food stalls from many different nations and this appears to be the main attraction for the heavy foot traffic. Speaking with a mother and son, the son asked for some Spiritual Art and our team member attempted to draw him a transformer, encouraging him that this is what God saw him as. He may seem ordinary but he had a hunger for the supern Another couple of team members prayed for a couple where the lady had part of her face numb. It increasingly improved until she had complete feeling in this side of her face and she was overjoyed! A couple of Christian ladies came in, a mother and daughter who were greatly impacted by words of knowledge and destiny words. These beautiful women of God left strengthened and encouraged. We saw healing in a lady's thumb, where that morning she had very little movement and a lot of pain, to see a huge improvement and a lot less pain. A lovely couple came in with their little baby girl and were encouraged by words of knowledge, destiny words, dream interpretations and the lady was instantly healed from chronic back pain. We met some delightful young ladies and a young guy, all from Christchurch, two of whom had moved up with their parents 3 weeks earlier, and the young guy was visiting with them. These precious young ones were greatly affected by all that had been happening in Christchurch and received words of destiny, name readings, tattoo readings, spiritual cleansing/deliverance and were so overwhelmed with the love of God and that He actually cared enough to be interested in every detail of their lives, and were blown away by the many words of knowledge given by the team. The young lady that had nightmares came One of the team encountered a group of around 7 young big guys that were asking about what was written on our menu board. After the first one received a word the others were really keen to have their own words of destiny as well, so our team member spent quite some time encouraging each young man. The market closes at around midnight, and one of the team was speaking to one of the pack down guys right at the end who was incredibly overwhelmed by the words of knowledge and words of destiny he received. There were a few expletives We had many people asking us if we would be back next week – and at this point we are hoping to make it a fortnightly/monthly event as folk of all different ages and nationalities are so hungry to experience the love of God and discover hope for their future. We had such an amazing time simply loving people and seeing God touch them where they were at. Yay God!
Cambodia Trip Report 12th - 24th Jan 2012As is often the case when you go on a missions trip, God did so much in our hearts as we served and ministered to the Cambodian people we met. We ministered in many places - the AID's and TB wards of a local health clinic, the slums, villages, garbage dump and the home for children rescued from the sex trade. In every place we saw healings and people come to know Jesus. At the garbage dump they had never heard of Jesus before and by the end of our working there almost half would have accepted the Lord. Here are a few testimonies ... At the rubbish dump
The trip to the garbage dump was probably the highlight of our trip. A whole village of people lives and works there amongst the piles of stinking and burning garbage, trying to eke out a living and feed their families (sometimes with that garbage). We were able to share God's outrageously wonderful love with them - the result of which was about half the village accepting Jesus. The XP team that is now permanently in Poi Pet will continue to go into the dump to help and disciple them, which will be great. We took with us rice and other food, kids clothes, toiletries and even some toys with us. I got to give rice to a family and As we gave clothes out to the kids I watched as a little girl stood there holding a pair of red shorts she had just been given. As we watched her she brought them up to her nose and smelled them. She did this a few times and all we could guess is that they smelt clean and nice to her. Her own clothes were filthy and smelt of the smoke of the rubbish dump, which swirled around us all. Seeing the team members play games with the kids there and them all laughing together was precious. These kids work as hard as their parents usually and if the family earns $2 a day they are luc We have since heard that the team went back the following week and those that got saved or healed the week before gave testimonies of what God had done, which resulted in even more of the village being saved. That is so cool!
These are kids that have been abused in some way, yet seeing them playing and laughing with the team who were strangers to them showed how much healing Jesus had done in their lives. It was wonderful to see Johnny - the young boy Patricia and Shirley rescued from being sold. He is still very shy and spends a lot of time on his own but is making good progress. The team got to play, sing and minister to the kids on a couple of occasions. The kids also loved the gifts the team had brought with them and had great fun jumping rope and crashing their toy cars together, like any kids anywhere. At a village safe house A safe house is a house We saw the "school on a mat" that the safe house runs in progress and the kids we ministered to were hungry both to learn the basics of reading and writing and hear about Jesus. We sang and danced with them and presented the gospel using drama and colouring in pictures. Many of the kids prayed to receive Jesus and also got healed of various things - usually having trouble breathing or sore tummies or sore teeth etc. To us these are things that we have medical help so available to treat - they have none. There is no hospital in Poi Pet and doctors are too expensive, but Jesus loves to heal and he did! It was wonderful to see the kids faces light up as their pain disappeared. AIDS/TB hospice In the TB ward - I (Lyn) got to share with two men and pray for them both. One came to know the Lord and his delight in doing so was very evident. I don't know if he was healed - I couldn't tell on the spot, so I am continuing the pray in that regard. TB is highly contagious and so these people are often separated from their families and can be treated a bit like lepers. Yet as we shared with them they came to know that God saw them, loved them and wanted them to know that by sending us. The XP team got to go a couple of times to both the AID's and TB wards and saw some amazing salvations and healings in those visits. Villages In the villages, slums In one village as we shared, one of the team saw in a nearby field a bomb disposal team searching for land mines. There are still many hidden there and so much land is still unsafe and unusable because of that. This nation is still recovering from the horrible genocide that happened there. The majority of the population is under thirty and in that war they killed the teachers, intellectuals, government officials, journalists and many who were the trainers and influencers for the next generation. As a result schools, government and all aspects of society have been affected and the infrastructure of the nation crumbled and is only now being rebuilt. A part of this two-week outreach was a group of about forty business men and leaders who came for three days to look at ways they could invest in Poi Pet. God has given them some wonderful ideas and initiatives that will help that city considerably as they get implemented. I love how God is We had a team of awesome translators working with us who came down from Pnom Phen to do so. They were all Christians except one and he saw God do so much during that time that amazed him. He is very close to coming to Jesus but is weighing up the cost at the moment; please pray for him. XP is doing a wonderful work in Cambodia with building safe-houses, schools, businesses, as well as ministering practically and spiritually to the people of the Poi Pet area. Please do pray for the team that is now living there permanently. Grey Lynn Park Festival - 19th Nov 2011
This was XP's 1st year at Grey Lynn Park Festival, but the fifth for some of the team members and the day started off pretty soggy, but the sun came out and thankfully stayed from around 8am right through till after 6pm when we closed up.
We estimate that over 160+ people came through the XP Revelations gazebo hoping to find encouragement and hope for their future with Spiritual Readings, Dream Interpretations, Spiritual Encounters, Spiritual Cleansing, Spiritual Art, Healing, and Words of Destiny. Following are just a small sample of some of the day's interactions with the spiritually hungry people we came across. One team member, when speaking with a girl, had a picture of a girl dancing and shared it with her, to discover that she was studying dance at Unitech and this broke down the walls and created an opportunity to speak further words of encouragement and destiny over her life. When she was asked what she would like from the Menu Board, one lady said "Mmmm, it all sou Three Japanese students came in (all of them spoke very little English) and it was a little difficult communicating with them. The team spoke over the girls and then finally the man, and he said he was concerned that he was getting older (in his 30's) and hadn't found a wife! So as one team member began to speak with him she saw God's heart for this gentle man and said that he had a beautiful spirit and was very generous, just something simple, and he began to tear up and told her with gestures, "You spoke to my heart." God's love transcends any language barriers! A lady was spoken to by some of the team who was a journalist and published author in the non-fiction field, but wanted to branch out into fiction. Instead of giving her a Spiritual Reading or Word of Destiny they became Dream Consultants – but of the business kind! This beautiful, intelligent, mature woman was blessed and encouraged by Three others came for Dream Interpretations and Words of Destiny – one had an interesting dream where two spaceships crashed in outer space and one fell to the earth where the animals started eating themselves and the humans did too – one man that was helping take all the bodies away morphed into an alien. One team member felt that this was talking about two different spiritual points of view colliding and having an affect in the natural which was unhealthy. After encouraging Words of Destiny for the girls, one was very touched and began to cry – all of them left really encouraged! One couple came because they were having difficulties – the lady mainly, but a team member initially felt that God wanted to encourage the guy that he had an amazing strength and quiet wisdom about him and that he was a good father and a good man. She also told him that in the New Zealand psyche it wasn't okay for a man to show his emotions, but felt that God was saying to him that it was okay to admit when things were a bit challenging and it was even okay to cry. She told them that they would find strength as they communicated with each other. This spoke volumes and they were incredibly touched. Two other team members spoke to an Indian couple and their daughter. He had been out of work for a year after a failed business venture, and even though he was highly qualified and skilled, due to his age he was having difficulty finding either a job or the courage to start another business. Both team members felt that it was time for him to look outside of the box and were able to encourage him. One asked if he had something wrong with his liver or kidneys. He had been very ill and had an operation on his kidneys and was in a lot of pain. They prayed for him and clearly felt the heat on his kidneys and he felt the pain diminish instantly. This family were delightful and hugely encouraged. The team knew that the Holy Spirit would touch people in some way through them and found that most people were more than happy to be prayed for. 99% had really positive reactions and feedback and we could tangibly see that everyone encountered God's love and presence in some form or another on XP Revelations first, but definitely not last, outing at Grey Lynn Park Festival. Watch this space for Part Two!
What does Extreme Love look like?Since the Extreme Love team has been going out regularly over this last year one of the most valuable things that we have learnt is how important it is to simply make ourselves available. When we do, God always sets up divine appointments! On our last outreach the weather was a little dodgy, but the sun shone for most of the time and of course the people came out in droves, swimming in the sea and in the iconic Mission Bay fountain. Again we met folk from around the globe and around the country, visiting because of the Rugby World Cup, and we are always amazed at the many different nationalities that we come across that fall in love with our beautiful country and choose to stay. One of those was a Dad that Rob spoke with, out enjoying the sun with his family, blowing bubbles for his little boy to chase down in the glorious sunshine; they spent the good part of an hour discussing spiritual things. Another was a young man that we met from India who had been in the country for 9 months. R.J. picked out the Lucky Dip Card 'Visionary' and we prophetically called him into his destiny, sensing that there was much more for him than working locally in a fairly casual position, and he was thrilled to share that he had big dreams prior to coming to New Zealand and had specifically trained for those. Two young nur While we were talking with them, three young girls came over to the sign and one of them told Andrew and Rob that she had been instantly healed of a leg injury when someone prayed for her while she was out one day, and she was a little unsure of what had happened and was somewhat freaked out by this experience. When Denise and I came on the scene, we found out that it had been a 'drive by' healing at The Warehouse and that God was out to get her attention. The other young woman received a Word of Knowledge that was particularly amusing to the other two, which then made it easy to speak Words of Destiny over their lives. Dad was waiting so they had to rush off. Taking photos for visitors from England, Malaysia and Japan opened up conversations that hopefully left them with great impressions and memories of their time in our beautiful country. What does Extreme Love look like? It looks like you and me!
Rugby World Cup vs Extreme Love TeamThe Extreme Love team hit the waterfront and Queens Wharf on RWC opening weekend thinking that there would be a lot of people out and about because of the Rugby World Cup. That there was, but everyone on the waterfront was rather focused on all things Rugby.......funny that, so we headed on up to Aotea Square where we thought we might find people a little more relaxed, with time to talk. On the way there we met Irene who was visiting from Rotorua and was happy to receive an Identity Bracelet with the word "Strength" on it and the accompanying Word of Destiny to go with it. I'm not sure if people were that much more relaxed at Aotea Square, as there was definitely a party atmosphere all through the streets of Auckland. There were many nationalities represented that we spoke to - French, Japanese, Middle Eastern and more. We also shared with some Vegans and teenagers doing Parkour! Parkour is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency using jumping, climbing and running and the young men were happy to give us a demonstration of this and then each receive encouraging Words of Destiny before they leaped off over the next obstacle. The French students were decked out in their red white and blue from The playing cards with one word/sentence encouragements disappeared quickly and called out destiny in all the above groups of people with the young Middle Eastern man receiving a similar word from two separate people that confirmed the destiny that was spoken over his life. The outcome of Rugby World Cup vs Extreme Love? Everybody won, many seeds were sown and we look forward to the next match which will be posted shortly.
Identity Theft Dealt To Out West - 14th August
A great new icebreaker was devised by accident for lucky dips, due to the fact that Denise had no blank paper. A pack of cards and a permanent marker provided great single word/sentence lucky dips. "Pick a card, any card", was the line used over and over today. How can they resist? They didn't! Teenagers and adults alike couldn't help themselves and many were encouraged by the Words of Destiny received from these cards. "Smile for the camera!" Teenage boys not only liked the balloon animals, they also liked the Identity Bracelets, and particularly the Encouraging Words that accompanied them. A Mum and Andrew and Rob approached a large table of teenagers and each one wanted a card and Identity Bracelet – especially the boys, and one young guy asked Rob to "Sit down and tell me about God", which he did with great pleasure. Lyn was looking after the bags at the table and continued to make up Identity Bracelets, having a young guy in mind that she met earlier, but as she couldn't leave the table with all the gear, she asked God to bring him past again, and of course He obliged her, and the young man was given a word of A 14 year old girl was so excited with her bracelet that she was happy to ignore the funny looks her Mum and sister were giving her, and told them to go on ahead as she was enjoying being encouraged and excited to find out about her destiny. Identity theft really was dealt to out west, and many were encouraged by the outrageously 'Extreme Love' of Jesus.
Aotea Square - 16th JulyThe Extreme Love Team hit Aotea Square this afternoon, after a week of endless rain, the sun was shining, and so the people were out on the streets enjoying the fine day.
We had a great time chatting to a family that had been in New Zealand for around 3 years from England. Mum and Dad moved over for the many benefits that New Zealand has to offer. The 3 littlies were rapt with the balloon animals, and Mum and Dad were very encouraged with the Lucky Dip Words. People find it quite overwhelming to comprehend that there are those willing to give up their weekends to go out and show encouragement and the love of Jesus to complete strangers. One very happy and blessed family continued their family outing. One of the break dancers that hang out at Aotea Square regularly had broken his toe, after prayer, was feeling much better, and an ex-Catholic man with rickets was greatly encouraged and blessed after prayer. Karen and Michael, teenagers in Year 11 at college, were drawn to the balloon animals. Karen felt that the mouse balloon matc The rain came down again in bucket loads, but not till we had shared many Words of Destiny, Dream Interpretations, Lucky Dip Encouraging Words and prayed and blessed several people.
Outrageous Love out West - 18th JuneWow what a day!!!! The Extreme Love team hit the streets of West Auckland this afternoo -. West City Mall, to be precise. Alistair, a young father of two littlies playing in the indoor playground, initially had zero spiritual beliefs, but found out that God was very interested in his future, and that the new opportunity he had via an Engineering degree was important to God, too. The red sparkly hats, balloon animals and crowds of children surrounding us did stand out somewhat and we were encouraged kindly by security to move outside! Not a problem!!! Mark, the Pied Piper of Balloon Animals, led a few into t How many words can you get from a "Sausage Dog", "Poodle", "Mouse", "Giraffe", "Sword", "Teddy", "Elephant"? You would be amazed! Ha ha, so were we, as we prophesied over many in the courtyard. Teenagers were lining up, not just for the balloon animals, but simply to hear an encouraging word over their life. A little encouragement goes a very long way. "Dream Big", "No Limits" etc. I wonder where some of these young ones will end up. A 13 year old boy, encouraged by a Word of Knowledge that he was very bright at school, and to ignore his peers if they gave him a hard time about it, was very clearly destined to make his mark in the world. These young ones from 6 to 20 were lapping up the words spoken over their lives, like water in a dry and thirsty land. A 20 year old girl that had been wounded and had built up a hard exterior, but underneath was really like her "Teddy" Balloon animal, with a soft precious heart, received a hug from a Dad, showing her what Father God thinks of her - it was well received. It wasn't difficult to love these hungry young ones and encourage them into the amazing destinies that God has for them. It only took a couple of hours of our time and a willingness just to get out and be available. Come with us next time, and see how easy it is, and let God use you to speak life into their lives. Check this link for dates and times. We would love to have you - and so would they!
Mission Bay - 28th May
We have had a small team of XPers going out regularly, that is now beginning to increase, and we had a great bunch with us today at Mission Bay from Snells Beach, Titirangi, Henderson, Howick, Botany, Bucklands Beach, Ellerslie and Manurewa. A great cross-section from all different parts of Auckland and various churches. Where brothers and sisters dwell together in unity God commands a blessing. We were still setting up when we spied 3 young girls in pyjamas - at 1pm in the afternoon. They were doing the 40 hour famine via their school and they weren't Christians. Three Lucky Dips later these girls were excited by their Encouraging Words. When one girl was asked her name, she happened to mention that it had a negative meaning, I begged to differ and 3 Name Readings later these girls were really excited that God thinks that they are so important to Him, that He is even interested in their names, and they were happy for us to write down the meanings and the scripture references associated with them so that they could go One team member had a discussion with a lady about dreams, and then tagged another team member to help out. After prayer for her bad dreams the lady was ready to turn her life around for her and her baby son. His Name Reading hugely encouraged her for his destiny, and this lady was ready to check out a church, and is now waiting for someone from the team to contact her from the area she lives in….funny that we have someone from that area on the team……….watch this space to see more on her journey! Four young people were on a seat, soaking up the autumn sun. One young man who was fed up with his mundane life had 3 clues from a Treasure Hunt, and became aware that He actually has a spirit that needs feeding. After they had received 4 Lucky Dips and many prophetic and encouraging words, they were bouncing from one team member to another - four people who now know that Christians are somewhat different to what they thought, and are definitely not like Harold Camping!!! They now know that God is interested in them, and that he has one man's number thoroughly highlighted. There were 20+ lives touched today! Nobody needed healing, apparently – a healthy bunch at the beach today - but each person met Jesus through a group of people, many of whom had never prophesied over an unsaved person before. They saw that Wow, it IS EASY to share the Love of Jesus Christ on the streets, and people from all walks of life ARE spiritually hungry. Check this link for regular updates of where we will be sharing the extreme love of Jesus next, and come and join us, and see people's lives transformed, and maybe your own in the process. |
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in the supernatural naturally with miracles abounding which caused the people to respect, love and admire him. There seemed to be an overall theme for this evening and that was that people were truly amazed that they too could hear the voice of God for themselves and through the team.
atural and this picture and word spoke volumes to him.
in with walls up and left with a spark in her eyes and all went with renewed hope for their future.
thrown in every few minutes, as he was trying to wrap his head around how much God loved him. The tattoo reading also encouraged him in regards to his family situation and his brother actually ran after us as we were taking the gear to the car.
explain (through the interpreter) why we were doing so. By the time I'd finished both, I (Lyn) and the woman were crying as the love of Jesus touched her both practically and emotionally. The garbage dump was probably the part of the trip that touched me the most. There was a whole village of people who lived and worked there trying to find something of value to sell in rubbish that had already been picked over many times before it even got to the dump. They looked for plastics and cloth and some were looking for old rice to either sell to the pig farmers or, as in the case of one person we talked to, to feed their own family. Our NZ dumps would be their equivalent of a gold mine, I reckon - the stuff we throw away would provide for and feed a family for days.
ky. Many of the mothers and children stopped work to talk to us while we were there and for them to give up that chance to earn in order to listen to us was so precious to us, as it was a huge thing for them to do. None of the people at the dump had heard of Jesus before but by the time we left almost half of them had accepted Jesus or been touched by his love in some way.
built by XP and the Cambodia Hope Organization where a family takes in three at risk kids and raises them as part of their own family. These couples are paid a small wage to do so and to also educate the village on how to keep their children safe. In one of the villages we saw how the village was being transformed by the safe house and its provision. The village was notably cleaner than those around it, it had three public toilets for the village to use, a water pump and a "school on a mat"' for the children who cannot afford to attend the public schools. Public schooling is generally free in Cambodia but the uniforms and supplies often cost too much for families to buy and if they can't buy them the kids can't go to school.
and garbage dump - we saw many give their hearts to the Lord and many were healed as well. The joy on their faces was wonderful to see as God touched them.
interested in prospering people in every way, not just spiritually. These initiatives will provide jobs and also help the city's infrastructure over time.
nds good but I would like a Word of Destiny for my future." So one of the team members told her that he saw her working with people in a social justice environment and helping people in general. She looked like a stunned mullet and they asked if she related to that. She was overwhelmed and said that she was studying in that area towards getting qualifications and this was her heart. She was thoroughly blessed!
God's insight into her situation.
ses in training, one Scottish and one Kiwi, picked out 'Pioneer' and 'Great Destiny' and Denise and I left them happily sitting in the sun refuelled with dreams of their future.
head to toe, ready for the game that night so the girl with the bright red glittery hair was more than happy to receive an identity bracelet encouraging her to 'Shine', it was the only black and white thing on her and she thought it was a great nod to the country hosting her.
Well the weather was wild today, so it put paid to plans of sitting in the sun outside West City Mall in Henderson. What a great excuse to go in the Mall, have coffee and make up some single word identity bracelets (surfie type) with black and white beads that are used to encourage people.
Refuelled, we were locked and loaded, armed and dangerous, ready to deal to the thief that has been on the loose stealing peoples' identities! 
5 year old daughter relaxing in the massage chairs were hugely blessed when Mum received an Identity Bracelet with 'Destiny' on it. Both were in remission with Leukaemia, and greatly appreciated the opportunity to hear that God understands all that they have been through and that He has a hope and a future for them and they were happy to receive prayer for the continued remission and complete healing from the cancer. 
knowledge that he is not to 'dumb down' the abilities that he has been given, which blows him away and gives him the courage to just be himself. 
hed her timid and shy nature, and was brought to tears when she picked out the Lucky Dip word "Inner Strength" discovering that through God's eyes she did have this and that meeting us today was certainly not co-incidental. She had never heard the gospel message before, and after having a Dream Interpretation, really discovered how much God loved her and was interested even in the smallest details of her life. Michael, already a Christian was greatly encouraged in his faith, and was really excited that his friend was hearing about God for the first time, and amazed at how God had set it up for us to speak just what she needed to hear today. 
he courtyard out front, where we proceeded to give countless Encouraging Words, Words of Knowledge, Words of Destiny, Lucky Dips and Name Readings to children, teenagers, and adults!!! 
irst breakthrough, after days of rain, thank you Lord! 
home and look them up in their Bibles.