Hi to everybody at Living

Waters! Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ from the very wet and jolly cold weather in Cape Town. I would like to share with you all what God has been doing in my life lately.

I fellowship at the Church of the Holy Spirit, which is the youngest church of the six churches of the St. John’s Parish. It is an Anglican Evangelical, charismatic Church. I have been there for about seven years now. We have a Sign Language interpreter, just like Christ Church in Kenilworth, which is one of the churches of the St. John’s Parish.

About 18 months ago, we started “Soaking in the Spirit”, which happened once a month at our church, on a Friday night. We would meet in the church with our pillows and blankets. We would find a place to lie down (anywhere) and have dimmed lights and softly playing Gospel music in the background.

It is not a time of praying for someone, or something, or for needs for others and ourselves. It is a time to let God speak to us with words, visions and dreams for ourselves individually. It takes about half an hour before we can really settle into that mode of relaxing and listening and to push aside all the bustle and worries of the day, before God starts speaking to us.

Just imagine yourself as a pickle in a pickle jar. The longer we are “marinated” or “soaked” in the jar, the more we become pickly! That is what God wants us to do. In the same way, by being “soaked in the Spirit” often, we get to hear what is on God’s heart.

About a few months ago, Ceri, a hearing friend, felt led by the Lord to do this “soaking” every Friday night. She is there long before we start to prepare our prayer room. I have been going almost every Friday night, and have been so richly blessed! Ceri would often lay hands on people and prayed. Sometimes after God had given me something, I have often gone out and stepped out in faith to pray for the others.

Some weeks ago, God filled me with His power of His love so much and I felt compelled to start laying hands and praying for
others in the room. There were ten of us. So for nine people were blessed because of what God had done for me. The meeting ended about 11.30 pm!

Be blessed ….. So that others can be blessed!!

By Daryn Sutton (HoH), Cape Town, South Africa

(21st July 2008)