Friday, April 08, 2005

Philippines update, midway report and prayer request

dear all,
i'm in Baguio right now at internet cafe. don't have
much time so i'll make it quick. first, prayer
request. my right wrist has been sore and has been a
problem for me, in playing the violin. i am playing
still but it doesn't get better afterwards. please
pray that God would heal my right wrist/hand
completely so i can play without problem the rest of
the way. my left wrist is also stressed. this has
never happened before in my playing the violin. pray
for continual protection of the team as we'll be
heading into some intense area of occult and demonic
activity later. pray for breakthrough.
we landed safely in Manila, our contact David and his
filippino team met us, and we slepted for 4 hours
before getting up at 5 am to drive 10 hours to ilocos
sur. the weather is pretty hot here.
last three days we have been in the seaside province
of ilocos sur to lead a worship conference/seminar for
about 200 filippinos. Zarina was able to get here and
meet us safely. praise God! It was difficult the
first night to press into worship, but on the 2nd and
3rd day there were some major breakthroughs. people
got touched by the holy spirit and everyone started
crying out to the Lord. I had a chance to share my
testimony and preach on prayer on the third day, I
really felt the power of God with me and it was clear
that people were convicted by the message. Praise the
Lord! and God did a powerful work. We introduced new
worship songs, taught about different styles of
worship, how to dance in worship (Zarina is amazing
dancer), and taught prophetic worship and
intercession, and warfare. none of them had any real
teaching on worship before and everything was pretty
new to them. All of us on the team got to
teach/preach/share to the people there.
On the last night we worshipped for the whole meeting
and the Holy Spirit broke through in a powerful way.
most filippinos typically suppress their emotions and
were starting to break free and started weeping,
laughing, dancing, wailing, under the power of the
Holy Spirit. everyone was up to the altar at the
front and recommitting their hearts and lives to the
Lord. It was amazing worship, joy broke out! It was
up on a higher level than most of what i've
experienced in America and my past mission trips, and
the leaders, pastors there started ministering to
people (both americans and filippinos), and the
worship team just keep going and going. Praise God
that He got me the grace to play through despite my
wrist problems. After it was over, we had to leave
right away and drive here to Baguio. We'll be here
for a few days and do a outdoor worship concert.
Please pray that God would continue to move and do a
great work here in the Philippines! I am sensing that
there is a lot of need for healing of the people and
healing of the land. pray for our team members
Reggie, Debbie, Zarina, Ashley, Bethany, filippinos
David, Rod, Josh, James, etc. Pray for our health and
safety. thanks and God bless,
Sam


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