• Some of the staff and interns attended a Hope at Hand show (the hardcore band I am in) in a bar. During the evening, some of our staff began to pray for the sick. One man who was in another band (which was totally secular) was completely healed of his leg injury which has left him on crutches and proceeded to take off his cast and share with the entire bar that Jesus had healed him. So, more people asked for prayer and one man ended up on the floor of the club. Everyone left and said that it was because of the time spent in the presence of God in prayer that they found such boldness and that the breakthrough came so easily. Since then, the healed band members have asked about houses of prayer in their area!
• A couple of young high school students from Culpeper started coming to the Prayer Furnace weekly. They were so deeply touched by the Holy Spirit that they chose to start a prayer meeting in their public high school. Since then, they have seen an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in their school with fellow students coming to Christ and being dramatically filled with the Holy Spirit. This prayer meeting is rapidly growing.
• The other night a number of new believers/non-believers came to visit the prayer room. On a Monday night one of them came up to the front when we asked if anyone wanted prayer. He told God to “prove” to him that all this was real. Someone walked up to him with a word of knowledge that he had just told God to “prove” it to him. He broke before God, gave the Lord his heart, was filled with Spirit, and spoke in tongues along with all of his friends. They wept for hours and came back the last night with more friends who got similarly touched by God and told us they are bringing as many people as possible to the prayer room.
• The Lord has begun healing people almost daily. A lady was healed of a pulled hamstring instantly the other night when we prayed for this sick in the prayer room. Another lady had severe arthritis and all the pain left her hands. Another woman came to a prayer meeting who was almost completely deaf with hearing aids in both of her ears, we prayed for her and by the end of the night we were whispering into her ears without her hearing aids and she could hear us perfectly.
• Some of our interns went to the hospital to find some sick to pray for. There was a lady there with a severe injury to the leg. They prayed for her and she was healed. A few days later Teri Buck coincidently ran into this woman in the hospital. Teri explained that she was with the prayer furnace and the lady proceeded to say how the Lord had touched her and healed when “a couple of young men prayed for her” and she felt “electricity” going through her body.
• One of the most exciting things has been watching hearts come alive with love for Christ. Since we launched the prayer room young people have been praying for extended periods every day, joining us in the prayer room, and is finding prayer joyful for the first time in their life. They are experiencing intimacy with Jesus.
• A local church told us that they have experienced tremendous growth and breakthrough since we started praying for hours every week for them.
• One man told me the other day that before the prayer furnace launched he was not walking with Jesus and had turned his back on the Lord. He came to the launch as a favor to a friend. When he arrived, he wept as he met Jesus. Since then he told us his life has been revolutionized and he cannot stop praying and reading the Bible. He is now helping us with the prayer room and has experienced a complete transformation of his heart.
• The poor are being fed across the city every week!
As most of you know we have hosted a conference for the past 4 years called Awaken the Dawn (ATD). ATD has a become somewhat of a regional conference to blow the trumpet for the urgency of the hour, the beauty of Jesus, and has been a catalyst for outbreakings of revival in churches, youth groups, college campuses and houses of prayer all over the east coast. It has always previously been held at Grace Church of Fredericksburg, however this year the Lord had different plans for us. Several years ago David Bradshaw, who's the Director of the event, had a dream that ATD would be in a tent. He kind of brushed it aside until one day his dad got a call from a stranger by the name of Neil Blake. Neil Blake had never met Scott Bradshaw and had never heard of ATD but he he called him and said "The Lord told me to call you. The Lord told me to offer you my tent, free of charge, for an event you might have.
This tent has been to Israel and signs and wonders have broken out in it". Needless to say we have a lot of expectation for this year's ATD.
We're praying that ATD wouldn't be just a 4 day conference but it would be a defining moment of encounter for all that come; calling them into a radical lifestyle of prayer, fasting, giving, and laying down their lives for the gospel in the schools, workplaces and the nations.
For more information please visit: www.awakenthedawn.net
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