Financial Miracle $1200 in 60 minutes!!!

As school is almost over, Taff and I began talking about our plans to get new visas without going back to Australia over the holidays. After applying for second year, we now had to work out travelling to Canada and purchasing some more visas for 2010/2011.

Anyways, Taff (the best wife ever!) had been at home all day working out visa applications etc and had reminded me that we needed to come up with $1200 pretty well straight away to pay for them!

I said "Baby, God has not let us down in the past. Let's just pray and leave it in his hands, He will look after us!"

So we joined hands at the table and prayed briefly, thanking God for his amazing generosity in the past, and asking him for the $1200 for our visas.

Anyway... within 60minutes there was a knock on the door. When we opened the door, there was someone standing holding a cheque for $1200 exactly!!!! It all happened so fast that I was dumbfounded!

We were both blown away by God's goodness and the persons obedience!!! God does provide for all your needs! You can trust Him for sure!

Pub Ministry Miracle!

I was at church just two nights ago, and a mate came looking for me and asked me if I wanted to go out on Friday night strikes (a weekly evening outreach ministry of Bethel into the community) I was soo honored and excited to go, so I asked my Revival Group Pastor and she said "sure go for it!"

So I joined the Pub ministry team (who didn't go out until 10pm) and we ended up at a local drinking spot that was absolutely packed full of people! (The guys on our team who were more experienced had never seen it this busy ever!)

As we entered, the music was pumping really loudly and the smell of tobacco, alcohol and weed was in the air! We were all a bit intimidated by the atmosphere and thought "how do we do supernatural ministry here?" But then we switched on. I thought to myself "well God, I'm here, I am just going to give it my best shot and go with the first thing you give me!"

Just then I noticed two men walking past me and I felt God say "The little guy has a sore foot"

So I approached the men, who were now standing at the front of the pub and said "Hey guys! My name is Dave!" After some small talk, I then proceeded to tell them "...this might sound weird, but God sometimes gives me clues for people who he wants to heal. I was wondering if either of you guys have a sore foot?" They both looked at each other and then me and replied "Nope". So I proceeded to tell them the testimony of the woman from Trader Joes whose knee was instantly healed. Then something happened.

The little guy (whose name was Billy) said "are you from Bethel?" I replied "Yes" with a smile. He then said "I do have a sore foot, its my right big toe, I have had surgery and I have lost feeling in it."

I was pumped! "Cool as!" I said excitedly "I think Jesus wants to heal you tonight! Can I pray for you?" He said "Sure" with a hesitant look.

So I knelt down and placed my hand on his shoe and prayed that Jesus would bring feeling back and restore the toe to normal. While I prayed I was amazed at this guys faith as he wiggled his toe up and down during the prayer! After I prayed he said "it feels like something is happening... it feels alot better!" So I prayed again and he said "It feels heaps better! thankyou!"

Then I asked God for a word of knowledge and then I asked "Are you good with your hands? Are you a carpenter?" To which he began to tell me that he actually was a carpenter, but because of the American recession he had lost work and was now dealing drugs, just so he could buy food for his 3 yr old boy! He said "I hate doing it! But I don't know what else to do"

So I prayed for him again and released a financial blessing over him. I am planning to meet him in the park this week, and hopefully take my 3 yr old Zeke to scooter ride with Billy and his 3 yr old! Please pray that he gets saved!!!

More Miracles! Back Healed!

Taff and I had our friend Brad come over, who is one of the guitarists at church. He was complaining of a really sore back that night and seemed to be in a lot of pain. To be honest I was feeling a bit flat and tired, as we had been coming under some attack since being back from Mozambique. I thought "I still shouldn't let my feelings or circumstances dictate whether or not I pray..." Just then, Taff piped up and said "Hey we should pray for you before you go!"

So we put our hands on his back, and commanded all pain to leave and heaven to come.

Straight away, Brad said "Geeze, its feeling a whole lot better, and I dont normally have anything happen when people pray for me! Its feeling pretty good!"

We were both amazed too! and said "Thats cool as!"

Taff spoke to Brad in the morning and he said that he'd had a pain free night, and that his back was completely better in the morning!!!" Praise God!

Miracles Breaking Out Since Coming Back!

Shopping Trip & Woman's Knee Healed!

It was Thursday (about 1 week after mission trip) and I was on my way home.

I called Taff and asked her if she wanted me to get anything from the supermarket. She said "can you grab some milk?".

So I headed to our store called 'Trader Joes', and on the way I felt to ask God "Who do you want me to minister to God?" He said "There will be a woman with a green bag, and a sore left knee.". It was fairly clear, so I thought "lets go for it!"

But then when I entered the shop, I switched into shopping mode, and completely forgot about what he'd told me to do!

It was only after I'd exited the shopping centre with my bottle of milk, that there right in front of me, was the biggest green bag I'd ever seen! and it had a lovely lady attached to it! :)

She was enrolling to vote, so I waited kind of awkwardly for her to finish, then as she got up to go into the store, I raced up to her and said "...excuse me...this might sound kind of weird, but God sometimes gives me clues that relate to people because he wants to heal them..." She smiled at me and said "yes". Then I said "well, when I was in the car God told me, that I would meet a woman with a green bag, who would have sore knees... do you have sore knees?" She said "Sore what?" Then I replied "Sore knees" with a smile. She said "Yes I do" and I replied "Would it be your left knee by any chance?" And she said "Why yes it is!". "Cool" I said "I think Jesus wants to heal you today!"

So I asked her if I could pray for her then and there, and she said "Sure". So I took her out of the way of traffic and prayed for her knee to be healed. After I'd prayed, I asked her how it felt. I said "Can you test it out?" So she did, and to her surprise (and partially mine) she said "All pain is gone! I had a really bad cramping pain in it, and its gone! Thankyou soo much!"

I walked away, so full of joy and so excited about what Jesus just did because I asked him a simple question and had a go!

Divine Business Opportunity

Before going to Mozambique, I prayed I felt to pray for extra finances, so that we could establish some long term influence in the region. Just before the trip, God had blessed us with $4000 extra money for the trip!

This meant we could purchase Tracey Evans a new guitar for her worship outreaches, a camera, so she could begin to take photos of her ministry and raise awareness, and also some money for some bibles for the pastors and leaders who were getting saved.

I had an idea before I left that just stayed with me, about investing into helping a Mozambique local to start a business, with the goal of them paying it forward and helping someone else achieve their dream.

So I prayed and said “God if you want us to invest in a local business person, give me a divine appointment.”

Sure enough, the divine appointment came 5 days before the end of our trip. Shiela (our new interpreter from Zimbabwe) and I were talking at a market when she began to tell me about a business idea that she had. Her idea was to start the first Mozambique Peanut Butter factory! Because no one in the whole of Mozambique makes peanut butter! They have to get it imported from South Africa.

When I told Tracey Evans of the idea, she said “That’s the best idea that I’ve heard in ages! We could farm the peanuts for her and employ the prisoners who get saved from the prison ministry!” She also said that Shiela seemed to be a suitable candidate because she was well educated and had business experience.

I was soo excited! So we left some money and a prophetic word with Tracey for Shiela. Tracey will take Sheila for a drive to South Africa to purchase the machine that makes peanut butter!

Please pray for God’s favor on Shiela and Tracey. Pray that they get a great deal on a peanut butter machine, and also that they get a good connection with jars! Pray also that the business succeeds to a point where Shiela can sow into another Africans life and help them achieve their dream!

To confirm this whole business idea, on our trip, I bumped into a Zimbabwe evangelist (who appeared from no-where) while we were praying for the sick on the streets.

He said to me “Dave, the people in Mozambique don’t need any more handouts from white people. What they need, is to be helped to stand up on their own two feet! They need to be empowered to start businesses and build industry!”

Prisoners Getting Saved From Painting!

Paint Multiplies in Prison!

Kimberly, one of my good friends on our team, was praying before the trip what ‘extra item’ she should bring. She felt God say “Paint”. So she went out and bought 4 small tubes of paint.

When we arrived at Africa 180 base in Mozambique, Tracey heard about it, and said “Hey I wonder if you could do a mural in the prison when we go tomorrow?” Kimberly was ecstatic at the thought of using art to bring transformation in one of the darkest places on earth!

So Tracey checked up with the prison warden at the prison we were going to, and the answer was “Yes!”

So Kimberly got with God that night and drew up an amazing sketch of stairs leading up to a doorway in the wall, leading to a landscape and beautiful ‘freedom’ sunset!

We were amazed and knew that God was going to use this picture powerfully!

So the next day, we went into the prison to minister and to paint.

The only issue we were going to face was that the painting was about 2.5m x 2.5m but Kimberly only had enough paint for half of it!

So as the paint began to run out, Kimberly began to pray. And God did something incredible! The paints began to multiply! So much so, that we had exactly enough to finish the painting with some left over! It was a miracle!

After the painting was complete in the prison, I reflected on how we all layed hands on the wall and prophecied things like “freedom” “healing” “salvation” “sonship” etc. by writing on the wall where the paint was to be applied.

I also remember being in a car with team mates, during a car trip home and us all breaking into a spontaneous rap song: “be healed, look at the painting, be free, look at the painting, be delivered, look at the painting...”

It was like God was causing us to speak things into being.

Since returning from Mozambique, I received an email from Katrina, a team member who had stayed on for a further two weeks after we had left.

It was about the painting in the prison, God was moving powerfully through it!

She was so excited as she wrote

“... i'll be getting a hold of you when i get home so we can swap some videos. p.s. guys gettin saved after looking at the painting!!! ...ah yes. :D”

Prisoners were now getting saved just from looking at the painting! Then a few days later, she emailed again saying “The prisoners have named the painting “Pathway to God” because so many of them are finding God through looking at this painting!”

The doors to the prison are only opened to let the missionary team once a week. So the only vision of the outside world and a greater reality is this painting!

Please pray that God continues to use this painting supernaturally for years and years to come!

Dave's Mozambique Final Letter

Mozambique was the most incredible time ever! Now I know, God is really in a good mood!

One of the biggest things I learnt on this trip was about the authority and power that we carry as believers to bring heaven to earth!

From the moment we left God was impacting the world, from the airplane trips, to the village markets, to the weather and environment, mud huts, churches, prisons, schools and soccer fields (in the middle of nowhere) Everywhere we went, we released heaven into earth!

Flight Attendant Healed!

On our first flight, our airhostess ‘Gail’ complained of an injured shoulder and was in lots of pain. So some of our team went into the back of the plane and released healing over her! She was completely pain free in minutes! Then our team prophesied over her and the other airhostesses!

Villagers 100% Healed!

On the way to the “Africa 180’s” base we were stopped because of flooded roads for a few hours.

So one of our teams got out and began to play music. A crowd of villagers soon gathered, to which they began to ask if anybody needed healing? A man stepped forward (the chief of the village) who had chest pain and he was instantly healed! Then all the villagers lined up for prayer, and 100% of them were healed!

Bad Weather Stopped!

God even moved on the weather! Mozambique had just experienced 3 weeks of torrential rain. To this, our leader Kate told us that she carried a “sunshine anointing” and all would be well. So the first morning I heard the slight patter of rain on the roof I said “No rain! Stop in the name of Jesus!” It stopped straight away! Then a few days later I was out praying early in the morning and dark clouds were rolling in ominously over the base! So I just began to worship Father God and then I looked up, and there was a hole 50metres wide directly above my head! So I moved to another part of the property to see if it would follow me… and it did! The more I prayed the clearer the clouds got around our base! Our prayers really are powerful!

Worship Service Breaks Out!

On our first day at the base, we had a great time of praise and worship, releasing the Kingdom of God over the land. After we worshiped for a few hours, we looked to our right (through the barbed wire fence) and there were about 10 children poking up through the cornfields watching our every move! So we went over to them and worshipped with them! Then we went around the fence and began to release God’s presence and joy into the villages! We saw one lady instantly healed of a bad headache, and were also ministered too by the singing of these beautiful people!

Prophecying Life

Throughout the trip, I had lots of opportunity to prophecy over people from airhostesses, to long-term missionaries, to prisoners and to teammates! It was incredible what the Holy Spirit does through you when you take a step of faith!

There were a couple of prophecy’s that blew me away!

The first was on our way to Washington DC, I felt to prophecy over the airhostess who had just been healed. So I asked God and began to draw what he told me to draw. He showed me a fine porcelain jug, which was covered over with a silk sheet and placed on a stand in a graveyard. God said, “she has a gift, that she has buried for many years, and I want you to tell her that I know, and I want her to begin using it again.” So I wrote the message and handed it to the airhostess. Little did I know that Kate and JP had prophecied the exact same word over her life only minutes prior! She was so excited when she read it and came out and thanked me with teary eyes! God is good!

Another time I saw a picture of a baby, when I asked God about a word for not overly helpful manager of the airline (when we were held up in Johannesburg airport, with no place to sleep, because of an error which their airline had made!)

So I drew a picture of the baby and wrote what God told me to say on it “I feel like joy is coming into your house, that God is giving you a gift because he loves you etc”. Anyway, after an hour and half, Kate came back, from being with the man, and saw that I’d done a prophetic picture for the man. She said “show me that Dave!” and I did, and she said “Come on Dave! You are not going to believe this, but the man just was bragging to me how he and his wife had just given birth to a new baby girl!” I was soo encouraged that God was going to lead that man closer to Jesus.

Church People Activated in Healing!

We had some incredible church services with whole villages of people some who had walked for miles just to be there! Tracey has done an incredible job at planting these churches and turning them over to the locals. She told us that when she first goes into a village, she could possibly grow it to 30 people maximum. But then when she turns it over the local people, they grow it to 200-300 people!

At the churches we saw God do incredible things. The best part was seeing the church activated in supernatural healing!

We had reached the end of our trip and were at a church about 1hr away from Tracey’s base.

Kate our leader asked the congregation if anyone was sick, to which the whole church stood up!

Kate then led the church in a prayer for healing, and then she asked if anyone felt better?

No-body responded! They all just stood there!

Kate then, got them to put their hand on the part of their body, which was sick or sore, and then asked them to pray for each other.

So everyone began to pray for each other with one hand on their ‘sore spot’ and the other on the person next to them. It was incredible what happened next!... Kate asked again for anyone with a testimony and then one after the other people came up to testify that Jesus had just miraculously healed them! It was so amazing seeing them uplifted and empowered to pray for each other!

Street Outreach

One day, while our team was visiting a larger city, Kate (our leader) and I went for a walk to a paint store to purchase some more paint for the ministry in the prison. On the way we bumped into a blind lady begging on the street. She was about 70 years old and sat there quietly and humbly with her hands out. We couldn’t speak her language, so Kate and I sat down and began to pray for her in tongues. I wish I could say her eyes opened up immediately, but they didn’t. But what happened next was amazing. A crowd soon gathered, and a young boy walked another blind grandmother to us for prayer. Then other people came up and asked for prayer! Kate began ministering to a young girl who was unable to have children and wanted to be healed. So as she prayed the young woman felt Gods presence strongly in her body! Kate then talked to her about what she was experiencing and if she wanted to know Jesus. To which she replied “Yes!”. So Kate led her to Jesus then and there!

Supernatural Smuggling!

During our stay, I was selected to go on a trip with Tracey Evans to Zimbabwe, to smuggle supplies for the clinic back into Mozambique!

I was so pumped! I love danger and a challenge! But also, it was an incredible honor to be with one of the greatest missionaries on the planet for two whole days!

Tracey was so much fun to travel with! She was just like an Aussie, and loved a good laugh and just having fun!

She was incredible to listen to, we sat there engrossed in her stories of how God had gotten her out of life threatening situations like guns pointed at her head (and triggers pulled, but nothing happening) being shipwrecked and captured by communist gorillas and escaping! And her meetings with a billionaire in Canada (whom when asked by him “how much money do you want?” she replied “I don’t want your money, I want your heart!”)

It was like sitting with Jesus :)

Anyway, the smuggling was also incredible!

*Tracey has a friend in Canada who can ship her food and medicine for the baby clinic (which feeds 550 children weekly) for free, because of the corruption in the Mozambique ports she has to spend two days smuggling supplies into Mozambique from Zimbabwe!

Anyway, we met a Christian surgeon in Zimbabwe, who took us to his friend’s factory on a commercial chicken farm. There we loaded so many boxes onto the 4wd that we had to go to another rendezvous to repack the good (so it didn’t look like they were there!) I packed biscuits and oatmeal packets into a huge tent on the roof, while Tracey and the other guys packed the rest into other parts of the car.

When we were finally ready to cross the border, the car looked great! The goods on the roof looked like a bunch of camping gear, while the medicine in the back looked like luggage covered under a blanket.

Getting past the guards was such a God thing! When we arrived at the first guard, he just happened to be a Christian who desperately wanted a bible! So I gave him my bible of 15 years (as we only had a small book of John).

The next guard opened the back and found the medicine... but then Tracey told him about the clinic, and he began to warm. He then realized Tracey was ‘medical’ and asked her to diagnose an allergy problem he was having with his eyes. So he let us through no worries, as Tracey was going to bring him back some anti-histamine on her next trip.

Then at the Mozambique border there just happened to be two women and a boy (who Tracey knew from the base!) So they jumped into the back of our 4wd and made it seem as though there was no ‘unnecessary luggage’ entering the country!

God is so good! He faithfully looks after his children and his kingdom!

Bad Flights and Activating a Whole School in Supernatural!

At the end of our trip, we had some flight difficulties, which forced us to miss our Washington DC connection and stranded us in Johannesburg South Africa overnight with no-where to stay!

But God had a plan!

Bethel church helped was connected with an amazing South African family, who put all 14 of our team up overnight!

This family ran a Christian school, which had been going through some hardships recently from religious leaders. So they asked if our team would come and minister to the students. We gladly accepted.

Our teams got to split up into teams of 2-3 and minister to all both primary & secondary students. My team took grade 3&4 kids, and we began to teach them about prophecy and then proceeded to activate them in it!

It was incredible seeing them realise the power that they had to call out the gold in each other! And they began to understand how this could change their whole school, by calling people upwards into Gods vision for their lives.

The best part was at the end when students were activated in prophesying over the teacher! She was really blessed and began to cry!

The whole school was rocked by Gods presence and all young people had supernatural experiences that day!