Thursday, June 26, 2008

Evangelism and The Presence of the Lord


There’s nothing more beautiful than being in the presence of the Lord, and living an upright life before Him. For some reason, the Lord wanted me to spend time relaxing in His presence this week. So, I canceled all of my normal ministry activities Monday – Thursday of this week. Whatever the Lord wants is always worth making the priority and doing.

The Lord did wonderful things in Utimuile Village last Friday. All of us on the ministry team enjoyed seeing more people receive Jesus. I don’t know yet what the Lord is speaking by removing headaches, but the Holy Spirit has been removing them from people who ask for prayer. One lady that just received Jesus a few minutes before had a backache. Her back ache didn’t stop while we prayed for her, but we were all surprised at her faith when in boldness she said she believed she would get better. During this time, the Lord revealed more of Himself to me, even in the fact that shortly before the team departed, I was asked to teach the new believers on the Kingdom of God to help them understand the new life they have in Christ (our base leader Peter was tired after returning from a long journey).

Victor and I also had a wonderful time in Asumani village last week. We were walking to our regular spot in the village, when I saw the presence of the Lord in an area that many children were playing in. We hadn’t been there before, but decided to go. We were singing a praise song, but the Holy Spirit wanted us to worship. When we stopped and we began to worship (not at all concerned about children) the Lord did something marvelous. All the children who were playing ball and shouting suddenly stopped playing, ran to us and crowded around us. They starred and listened as we worshipped. They didn’t do this while we were singing the other songs. They ran to us as though we were their parents calling them. Even the older boys who usually never like to stay around when we minister, ran over and just stood there. The presence of the Lord increased. When we stopped worshiping, for some reason most of them left the area for home. It was weird, but definitely of the Lord! A few little ones stayed and accepted Jesus. One little girl looked like she was about 2 or 3 years old. She had a bold look in her eyes as she was literally the loudest one praying to receive Christ. Another little girl that I’d been eyeing in the village for some time was also there, and she received Jesus, too. We also were able to spend time teaching Chasi, a young girl from our church that accompanied us to evangelize, about the presence of the Lord, the releasing of the anointing, and the importance of always doing what the Holy Spirit wants us to do.

Pray for us! The Lord is doing marvelous things and we want to remain humble to receive the out pouring of the Holy Spirit and His fire that is coming into the Niassa Province of Mozambique.


Love,
Tyren and Tiffany Haynes

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