Hello dear friends and family.
I just can't contain myself, I
have to write and share with you the great things God is doing in my
life/our lives.
These past two weeks, God has totally changed my life.
Needless to say, July was one of the toughest months I have experienced
in a very long time. Like a lot of you, our finances are very tight. I
felt the weight of life, and the heaviness, and knew I needed God in a
new way desperately, but had difficulty connecting with Him.
Then came August and the Aussies. Pastor Peter
Nicholes came for a week and brought his ministry team with him: Wendy,
Yvette and Ben. They all came full of the
Holy Ghost
and ready to give and give and give. And that is just what they did!
They came as vessels ready to be poured out on us here in
South Africa.
And the
Holy
Spirit was poured out on us in a very profound,
impacting and life-changing way.
As P.
Peter led us and taught us how to step into Heaven, many of us
experienced God doing deep work in our lives.
My
life will never be the same. God came with his fountain of cleansing, he
washed me, cleansed me, washed out my pain, refreshed me, and healed me.
He also came with His shaking and rumbling. I felt the earth inside of
me rumbling, the hard ground being broken up and a large flowering tree
emerging over the week the team was here. I had some personal ministry
and was able to let go of some OLD stuff and feel free and clean and
whole. My life, my marriage and my family are all brand new. And it
continues. God is doing a deep work in my husband and in each and every
one of my children. He is meeting them right where they are at, taking
their pain, their fear, their questions, their longings and pouring out
His Spirit on them like only He can do, individually and personally.
We all
now are so “hooked on the Holy Ghost”, we simply can't get enough. Many
of our children, especially Joe, Bo and Ty spent a lot of last week
drunk in the Spirit. I have never seen my kids and their friends have so
much fun, and be so bonded and loving with their brothers and sisters,
both natural and spiritual. It was, and is good, clean, youthful, joyful
fun! Oh, God is so good.
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Natalie is released from fear and intimidation. Joe is stepping into his
calling as a minister. Sus is getting healed and free, Ty has been
totally shaken, and is seeing angels, and acknowledges that everything
he has ever asked of the Lord, He has given him. Bo is full of the Holy
Spirit and so much joy, it totally overtakes him, Des is the “fireball”
guy, he gets fireballs from heaven and gives them to others.
Dallas
has been burning within his heart, he can literally feel the heat.
And
God has changed our very personalities.
And
this is just our family, this is happening in all of the families in our
church that are stepping into the Spirit, and asking for it, and coming
for more.
I hope
I have made you hungry. The Holy Spirit wants to be poured out upon your
life also. He wants to touch you, heal you, shake you, love you, free
you. Just ask Him, He is right there. Ask Him again and again. Ask Him
for more and more. He will change your life!
With
lots of love,
Jody
PS A
huge thank you to Pastor Peter, Wendy, Yvette and Ben. Thank you for
releasing this mighty River over our lives and over South Africa.
PSS
Thanks for your prayers for our permanent residency. Our 50plus page
application has been turned in, and now we wait. We feel very confident
of a favorable outcome as we know God is with us. They took Dallas and
my and Natalie and Joseph's fingerprints for our South African ID
books-good sign. And they also took our money. Will let you know as soon
as we are permanent residents, it is just a matter of time now.