Hello
to you all, we really hope you are well!
As always we really appreciate you taking the time to
read our updates. We’re focusing this update primarily on our Encounter
Evenings as this month marks their one year anniversary.
God spoke to us clearly about creating a space to gather
those who are hungry to encounter Him in a personal and real way. The only
space we have is our home, so in November of last year we chose a Saturday
evening and invited everyone we knew who we thought would embrace this time and
waited to see what God would do!
We didn’t really have any set expectations, we weren’t
sure who would actually turn up and we felt God say to have very little
programme or agenda, but to allow Him the space and time to move. We are very
thankful that every month has by far exceeded our expectation of what we
thought they would turn into!
Encounter Evenings are the highlight of our month, we absolutely
love hosting them and seeing where the Spirit leads. We have a real diversity
of people coming from a number of different churches from across the city, and
we always have new people coming every month who we don’t know, as our ‘regulars’
are always inviting other people to visit or join us. We mainly have young
Malawians (in their 20’s) but we also have some other missionaries regularly
join us and America, Canada, Zimbabwe, Australia and South Africa are regularly
represented. We also have a wide variety of ages, from the young Malawians up
to people in their 70’s. But, somehow this diversity of nationality, background
and age totally works and there is always a tangible sense of unity every month
and it brings us such pleasure to see strangers ministering to one another and
quickly becoming friends.
We start our time with an hour of worship and we always
see a freedom as people sing, dance, kneel, lie down, and worship however they
feel led. The tangible presence of God is always very evident right from the
beginning. We then use the other hour (although it usually goes on much
longer!) to see what Holy Spirit wants to do. Whilst each month is always
different there is always flowing of the spiritual gifts, physical healings, and
deliverance. We’ve had times where people have experienced significant inner
healing, powerful times of the Holy Spirit coming in power and everyone ending
up on the floor (in a good way) unable to stand or sit in the Presence.
Whilst we follow the leading of the Spirit and initially led
and modelled ministering and moving in the gifts, we have always encouraged everyone
to join in and know that Father wants to use them to minister through. We
always want to empower and raise up others, and so gradually over the last 6
months or so, we have taken a step back in leading the ministry time, and we
don’t even need to encourage others now, they just dive straight into prayer, prophesying,
etc to one another which we absolutely love!
Another great fruit
of the Encounter Evenings is we have had the opportunity to share about Sozos
and as a result most people who newly come to the Encounter Evenings then go on
to have Sozo sessions with us. We have had some absolutely beautiful times over
the last month or so in Sozos with these young Malawian men and women growing
in revelation and intimacy with Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit through the Sozo
ministry.
This is our last update of 2018 so we’d love to take this
opportunity to wish you an early but very Happy Christmas and New Year and we sincerely
thank all of you who have prayed for us, visited us or financially invested in
our ministry in 2018!
Financial Support: https://www.give.net/20189271
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