Recently I had the
privilege to sit with the leadership team of our partners in a South East Asian
nation. Each day we spent the entire time simply seeking God for their country
and for the blessing of God to fall upon her people.
Stories were told of
amazing miracles occurring in various parts of the nation. Recently a lady fell
from her canoe into the river and was dragged to the bottom. Her body was
lodged there for over an hour before someone was able to reach her and get her
body to shore. A very new believer laid his hand on her forehead and prayed
that she would come back to life. He felt the Lord tell him to lay his hand on
her stomach and push. He did it and she vomited out all the water and sat up!
She was seen by a doctor and was declared perfectly well.
An older man had been
unable to rise from his bed for the past 8 years. His wife had recently become
a Christian but no-one in the village would listen to her. One of our pastors
arrived in the village and she asked him to pray that the Lord would heal her
unbelieving husband because if the village saw him walking they would all
believe. The pastor prayed, the man reluctantly sat up and didn't feel
confident enough to stand up. Others wanted the help him but the pastor told
them to leave him alone because Jesus wanted to be the one who got him up. He
asked the man to stand and walk. He eventually did and the village were amazed.
Many have since come to Christ.
In that specific region
there are now over 2,000 people praying, fasting and building the church. They
are seeing regular miracles, signs and wonders. Every week there are between
15-30 new believers coming to the Lord.
Prior to commencing my
time with them, I had spent a few weeks slowly reading through the book of
Genesis. What a powerful picture that first book of the bible gives for the
establishment of what the Father was truly wanting. He established a family.
After The Fall, humankind very quickly tried to create organisations, nations,
and political power basis. Yet, God was establishing a family through
which He would bring blessing to the world. That blessing was to be
generational; passed from one generation to the next.
I was asked to share
during one of the prayer times and I shared on the power of blessing. I'd been
drawn to the Scripture in Genesis 28 where Isaac was passing the blessing he
had received from his father Abraham to his son Jacob (who became Israel). The Scripture
reads:
“May God Almighty
bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a
community of peoples. May he give you and your descendants the blessing given
to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as
a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.” Genesis 28:3-4 NIV
During my sharing a 95
year old lady pastor arrived who has faithfully served (and is still serving!)
as a pastor in her region of the nation (actually in the area where the
previous miracles are occurring). As she shared the goodness and faithfulness
of the Father through her life we each sat mesmerized by this elderly
grandmother, and the blessing and anointing she carried in her life.
I asked her if she
would go around the room and pass on her blessing to each of the elders
assembled. What an amazing time of impartation. It was like her mantle was
passed on to another generation. It made me realise that one of our
responsibilities is to pass on the blessings we have received to the next generation.
Like Abraham passing a blessing to Isaac, who then passed it on to Jacob,
blessing was to be generational, passed from one generation to the next.
Jim Jung
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