We spontaneously decided to go to the lighting store. We weren’t planning to switch out the lighting in the new place, but we decided to after all, and the day we decided was the day we “happened” (God’s doing!) to be near the best lighting store in the area. We had already been there for quite a while when a couple walked in that Don noticed in particular. The husband was wearing a “Waymaker” t-shirt, so Don took that as a sign that he should try to chat with him. The three of them stood in the middle of the store, talking for over half an hour. What Don shared really touched their hearts, and at one point the wife started to cry. By the end of the conversation, together with Don showing them the new “Winging It!” video we recently posted, they were ready to pray.

The wife was already born again (of water and of the Holy Spirit), but she only spoke in tongues during some church meetings. The husband had been water baptized but was not yet filled with the Holy Spirit, and he understood exactly what Don had been preaching from the Word in terms of the necessity to still receive the Holy Spirit anointing. So, three of us went to pray in the car with the couple, and the husband received mightily. At first, he was gently praying, praising God and seeking for the Holy Spirit, but nothing much was happening. We prayed over him some more, speaking powerful words from the Kingdom of God in both English and in the Holy Spirit, and suddenly he started to break down and burst forth in tongues himself, together with tears of joy. His wife was also praying in tongues and crying in the back seat, beautifully touched by the whole experience. I asked if that was the most powerful she’d prayed in tongues in a long while and she replied “Yes!"

What was particularly amazing was that the couple was only in town for the weekend. They had driven all the way down from North Carolina and they were only here for two days, for their son’s wedding rehearsal. They had a little bit of spare time before the rehearsal was due to start, so they randomly — not so random! ;) — decided to pop into the lighting store as they drove by. We took a selfie with them and exchanged details, and then they had to rush off to their appointment. Later, the wife texted back saying, “…This day will forever be in our hearts…” Wow, what a joy - for them and for us!

Wow, God’s timing is purely perfect, even down to seconds! We had been planning to leave the hotel earlier in the day, but we delayed because of the expected rain. But then, when the forecast changed, we decided to go out afterall. We were out for over four hours, wandering here and there, enjoying the warm evening together as a family to the point where we didn’t end up rolling back into the hotel until well after 11:00pm.

Just as we were driving to our apartment block, Don saw in the distance the silver pickup truck that had been parked near us the day before. He had noticed this particular vehicle that day because of the large sticker on the back which said, “Don’t wait for the hearse to take you to church!” Don had hoped we would run into the drivers of the truck, but we never did. The next time Don saw the vehicle, he determined to put one of our cards under the wiper blades, but as he dipped his hand into his shorts pocket, he realized he was out of cards! After that, Don deliberately planned to get a card, write a message on it, and go down to place it on the vehicle. But, by the time he got there, the pickup was gone!

Eventually, Don did get to put the card there, but he knew he was still meant to speak to someone connected with the vehicle - he just didn’t know how it was going to come together. Then, our evening out happened and Don excitedly spied the silver pickup in the distance, pulling into the hotel at the very same time as us and headed to the exact same block where we’ve been staying these last five months. Instantly, we recognized God’s miraculous hand upon the situation. What’s even more amazing is that we parked first after the silver pickup headed to the opposite side of the parking lot, but then the pickup turned around and came to park right beside us (even though there were lots of empty parking spaces)!

Needless to say, after we all exited our vehicles, Don instantly approached the driver of the pickup, eager to tell him the story of how we all finally came to meet. The young man (in his early thirties) was happy to find out that we were the ones that had put the card on the windshield, and so the conversation began…. We spent at least half an hour standing there in the parking lot, sharing scriptures and getting to know his story. We discovered that both of his parents are filled with the Holy Spirit and often pray in tongues, and his dad is even the pastor of a small church. But, the young man had yet to personally receive the Holy Spirit anointing. (He had been water baptized.) We also learned that the other times we’d seen the silver pickup, other family members were driving the vehicle, but this was the one time the young man been driving the truck on his own.

By the time we finished sharing with him, it was midnight, and he was due to go to work the next day. Nevertheless, he was still keen to come up to our hotel room for us to pray over him. He received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, and definitely felt the power. He was saying, “Wow, wow…!” We shared some more brief encouragement regarding living the Christian life as “people of the Way of Jesus” and encouraged him to go and pray in tongues as much as he can every day, in addition to studying and applying God’s Word, of course. We were all rejoicing in God’s miraculous hand and how He orchestrated all of our lives for us to come together in the most perfect way where the truth would be received and acted upon.

We had just finished editing a new compilation video of all the amazing things God has orchestrated during our relocation, over the last five months. James (the preacher from Alabama that we posted about quite a while ago) features at the end of the video with an address to camera, encouraging viewers that if God could change his life around from the darkness he was once immersed in, then surely there is hope for anyone (or words along those lines). I mentioned to Don that he should text James to let him know about it, and to say we’d be soon sending him a copy. Well, just as Don was texting James, James texted Don to say that he’s in Florida again, staying right next to our hotel once more! Wow, God’s timing is so beautifully perfect!

James and Errica visited with us in our hotel room the next morning and we had such a blessed time catching up, encouraging one another from the Word, and praying together. They then so kindly invited us to join them for dinner last night along with James’ mother, so we had the opportunity for even more fellowship. It’s such a privilege to be used by the Lord to be a help to a brother and sister. We are to serve one another and be “helpers of one another’s joy” as per 2 Corinthians 1:24.

A miracle at Best Buy!

Don was tidying up the files on his computer and realized he needed a new hard drive in order to store his excess videos. He could have waited as it wasn’t that urgent, but for some reason (we all now know why!) Don felt moved to go out immediately to buy one. He quickly looked online first and ordered the drive he needed, to pick up at the closest Best Buy to our hotel. As Don was lining up at the store counter, he got chatting with a young guy (Terrence) who’d driven to this particular store from over 40 minutes away. He normally would never drive this far south to go to a Best Buy, but because his local store had mistakely told him they had in stock what he needed, Terrence was forced to drive to a different Best Buy. He had considered forgetting about it all given that he’d already used up a large part of his day. But, he was determined to achieve his goal (he later told us), so he headed to the Best Buy where Don had reserved his hard drive.

As Don got talking with Terrence while they both waited in line, Don shared that he was in the middle of backing up his video footage, most of which was from our Christian ministry work. This immediately intrigued Terrence, and so began a long and very fruitful conversation about the Lord. I was out for a walk at the time, and suddenly Don phoned me to say he was with someone who wanted to get water baptized and pray for the Holy Spirit anointing, and that the guy’s fiance (a platonic relationship) would want to be water baptized, too. So, our whole family stopped what we were doing and gathered together to drive north, to meet up with the young couple.

It was such a blessed evening. We met at the community pool area to chat first. We shared a lot of scriptures, and stories from our God-directed travels and encounters with all kinds of church-goers and even unbelievers. Both of them ended up getting water baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. In fact, Terrence got born again first, and then Don helped him to water baptize and pray with Olivia, to encourage Terrence and to show him that someone’s own born again experience gives him/her full authority from God to go and do for others what God sent us to do for them. That’s the Book of Acts, empowered Christian life that we preach and demonstrate as God continues to use us for His work!

This last week has been amazing in so many ways. First of all, one evening Don felt moved to walk and pray on his own around the next door lake (which is something I normally do instead). As he began, he started to pass a man in front of him. They engaged in a brief conversation which led to Don sharing the Word with him as they both walked and talked together. The man could very much see God’s hand upon things. The timing was truly miraculous considering that the day’s events had held up our family from pursuing our other plans, so much so that Don was craving to get out for some fresh air and exercise. Just go with what the Lord puts before you “to-day” and trust that He is orchestrating all things to His glory!

This is so true regarding the following events, too: We discovered that the DMV printed the wrong address on Daniel’s new driver’s license, so Don felt moved to take him into a different office that’s closer to our hotel. It was there that he and Daniel got chatting with a Spiritfilled man that needed some encouragement from God’s Word. Again, the man saw that the entire situation was set up by God!

Then, while I was speaking with the new company we’d hired to help us with some paperwork, I forgot to ask the representative a few questions. So, I had to call back, and this time a different associate answered. At the end of the call, we got chatting about Australia and there was something in her friendliness that made me offer our ChristiansRULE website, for her to look at in her spare time. She was instantly moved, and the more I shared my personal experiences with her, the more she was touched, to the point where she said something like, “If you could only see me now - my face is a mess of tears!” Praise God! If it wasn’t for what was happening in our lives that I needed to call a rep in the first place, and then have to call again, I would never have spoken with her!

Also, a few days ago, a whole family got touched by the Lord’s Word. They suddenly felt the need to get away for a break, especially to help re-set their direction for the Lord’s work. Both parents were already Spiritfilled, as well as their older daughters, but the youngest daughter was yet to receive the Holy Spirit anointing (she’d only been water baptized so far). Our daughter Elisabeth got playing with this gal in the hotel pool, and she learned that the girl’s family were dedicated church goers. Elisabeth came back to our table and told Don that he should go chat with the parents seeing that they seemed to love Jesus. So, Don did so and it turned into a great conversation. It was revealed that the husband was an elder in his church but had been recently feeling very moved to submit his resignation letter.

Over the course of a few days, Don and I kept running into this family, to the point where there was no doubt in their minds and hearts that God was wanting them to accept our invitation to come up for coffee and prayer, etc. The morning they came turned into a beautiful work for the Lord! God used us to confirm things that the Holy Spirit had already been revealing to them, and we also prayed over their daughter who received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues. She was overjoyed to the point of tears, and then we all prayed many things over one another, for each of our goings-forth in Jesus’ name.

The other amazing thing that happened this week is that Leon called us on Saturday morning while we were just waking up. He is the Spiritfilled man that Don met while taking down some trash to the ground level bins, and Don ended up praying over him late the next night, to help him get praying again in tongues (on a daily basis, fervently and boldly). Well, this Saturday morning, Leon was indeed praying zealously in tongues, sharing that ever since Don had prayed over him that night, he’d felt on fire for the Lord. He had even stood up for Jesus when his apartment manager had confronted him, wanting to evict him for preaching the gospel. He told her that she couldn’t believe because she believed in a dead God. Leon said that his Jesus is alive, and Leon began to pray in tongues. Well, the lady manager was suddenly filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues herself, and she dropped to her knees completely humbled and convicted. Wow, what a miraculous testimony!

We spent the rest of that Saturday “out about in the harvest,” seeking to be used by God according to His will. We got to speak with a number of people at a farmer’s market, inside and outside a coffee shop, and on the streets as we window shopped. One lady in particular was in tears (the one outside of Starbucks). Don had thought she’d overheard him talking with a Spiritfilled family inside, and he approached her on her way out of the store, to give her one of our cards, to help explain what he’d been talking about. She said she hadn’t actually heard what Don and the family were discussing, but Don gave her the card anyway, and as Don shared some more, she started to cry. She said that a number of very prominent things had recently happened in her life that were clearly the hand of God drawing her to Him. Wow yet again! You just never know how God is working in people’s lives until you step out in faith and start a conversation with them!

So much has been happening lately that we haven’t been recording each of the stories in detail. For now, we’ll summarize them briefly below, but if you’d like to know more about how the Lord blessed a particular situation, feel free to reach out to us and we can share more. As always, each and every circumstance has been the miraculous hand of God, orchestrating things perfectly for His work’s sake!

1) Lady from South America: Don noticed her struggling with trying to park the little cargo trailer she was pulling with her vehicle. He approached her and her brother to offer assistance. The next night, he saw her again - only because I left something in the car and Don kindly offered to go down to get it for me. On his way out of the room, I said “Maybe there’s a reason…!” which is one of our common declarations when something ususual or unexpected happens.

While chatting with the lady, Don found out that she’d literally just escaped her abusive husband and had driven all the way here from up north with her three children. She loved God dearly but knew she needed more of Him and His power in her life — now more than ever! She accepted Don’s invitation to pray over her and came up to our room to meet the rest of the family.

As we prayed, she received the infilling of the Holy Spirit almost immediately, praying in tongues, and she was nearly jumping out of her skin with thankfulness and excitement. We don’t want to post her video just yet given her delicate situation, but I can tell you that it was soooo beautiful. I don’t think I’ve seen someone smile as wide and rejoice so much. She gave us all the biggest bear hugs we’ve ever experienced!

2) One evening I went for my daily walk quite late at night given that we’d been too busy earlier in the day. As I looped the lake, I heard a lady praying loudly and passionately over what seemed to be something like Facetime or Zoom. She was on her netted porch, outside her hotel room on the first floor.

I waited quietly until she was done and then approached the back of the patio to chat with her through the netting. I quickly discovered that she’s filled with the Holy Spirit and regularly prays in tongues (I was not surprised from the way I heard her praying). We had a beautiful conversation and ended up praying some very powerful words over one another. It was a very unexpected and blessed end to the day!

3) While driving around on some errands, we spontaneously decided to go to Trader Joe’s for a snack and eat it by the nearby lake. While there, both Don and I noticed a gal sitting by herself in the distance. No-one else was around - just our family and this gal. Don obeyed the leading of the Holy Spirit first to go and chat with her, and I joined them after a few minutes.

When Don asked her if she was okay, she began to cry and shared that she’d been diagnosed with breast cancer and was due to have a mastectomy the very next morning. Wow, God’s timing is simply awe-inspiring! We prayed over her and tried to help her pray for the Holy Spirit anointing, but she was too distracted with all of her thoughts and emotions. We encouraged her to pray on her own and to not give up. Her name is Maraysha (I’m not sure of the spelling) if anyone feels moved to also pray for her.

4) Another day when we were at the same Trader Joe’s, Don saw a man out front wearing a t-shirt that said something about God on it (I can’t remember exactly what the message was). We try to always keep “in tune” with things that God sets up for us to do, and t-shirts that people choose to wear for the day seem to be a reccurring theme for our family. Anyway, we all ended up praying over him, to get him praying in tongues again, fluently and confidently. He was already born again of water and the Holy Spirit, but he had recently come back to God after straying for a while. Needless to say that he definitely recognized God’s hand upon the situation!

5) As I was waiting outside a music store for the rest of the family, I prayed for a friend of ours. I’d just found out that he was experiencing some health issues, so I sat on the curb with my head down, focusing on him as I prayed in the Holy Spirit. After a while, a caring guy approached me with some parcels of food to hand out, thinking I was in need. After I thanked him kindly and explained what I was doing, he sat down next me to hear what I had to say about being born of water and of the Holy Spirit, and the power of praying in tongues.

He looked semi-homeless himself and suddenly he felt changed, touched by what I had to say. I discovered that although he had experienced some serious negativities within church life (“Churchianity”) as a child, he had at one stage received the infilling of the Holy Spirit. I knew because as I described speaking in tongues, he said “Oh, you mean like…..,” and he proceeded to speak clearly in tongues in demonstration, to check if that’s what I was referring to.

He had a friend with him that was kind of badgering him to leave, so I only had a brief amount time to encourage him from the Word and pray over him at the end. Even he himself stated the obvious - that he had come to minister to me in kind servitude, and he got ministered to instead! He definitely felt the love of God, praise the Lord. We have learned to expect the unexpected!

6) Don got talking with a guy that was down in the foyer of our building after the guy mentioned something about the weather. They ended up having a great conversation about the Lord (apparently, he’s a minister in his church fellowship back in his home state), and the guy said he was going to call Don to have prayer (it had been a long while since the guy had prayed in tongues, and he “happened'“ - God’s doing! - to be on a spontaneous vacation here at the invite of a friend).

He never did phone, so God caused Don to run into him again very late the next evening - about midnight! This time, they had a really fruitful, deeper conversation, and Don got to pray over him, to help him pray in tongues fervently and confidently.

The Lord never ceases to amaze us how He orchestrates our lives together with the lives of others, so that His message(s) can be uttered forth and bear fruit.

7) On the way out of a convention we attended, Don yet again spied someone wearing a “God-related” t-shirt. After sharing our experiences with him, he was very inspired, and his wife got to hear a lot of the conversation, too. The husband wanted to pray for the Holy Spirit anointing, and we did so for a short while, but his exposure over the years to confusing religious ideas got in the way.

Nevertheless, he and his wife said they were keen to be open minded and make an effort to study the Word of God in terms of all that we had shared with them, which is great! Sometimes, people need to carefully read it for themselves before they can open themselves up to praying in complete humility, desire, and need for the Holy Spirit anointing. God promises that His Word will always accomplish that which He purposes it to do (Isaiah 55:11).

8) Quite a while back, Don got chatting with a small table of young-ish people who were here on vacation. He discovered that one of the gals is Spiritfilled but has wandered away from the faith and been led astray in a number of ways. As Don spoke lovingly yet firmly from the Word, she was convicted and, although she felt uncomfortable, she was thankful that God had set up the conversation.

Don never heard from any of them again and so wondered what, if anything, had come from the short time he had spent with the three of them. Then, a few days ago, he received a call from an older lady. She left a voicemail which Don returned and, to his pleasant surprise, it was the aunt of the Spiritfilled gal. It was her son that had been one of the others at the table, and when he returned home he encouraged his mother to contact Don for prayer.

Don had such a great conversation with the mother. She is Spiritfilled as are some others in her family together with the minister at the church they attend. Don was able to fill in some gaps in her understanding, encourage her regarding her daughter and her niece (the one Don had met and spent time chatting to), and offer some wisdom regarding how to be a positive light in her husband’s life. It was such a joy for Don to discover that the Lord blessed his efforts here in Florida to spread further and touch the lives of even more people throughout the country.

9) Yesterday, we were at a music store and while Elisabeth was offering a young boy some encouragement regarding piano playing and the best apps to use for instruction, Don and I got chatting with the boy’s parents. We chatted about travel and general life and somehow found an opportunity to “throw into the conversation” relying on God as a Christian family. When they nodded their heads in response, we realized that perhaps God had set up yet another situation.

After sharing examples from our lives and various scriptures regarding salvation and how the one true church (the Body of Christ) began, I asked the couple if they’d had any particularly ususual prayers to God lately. I shared how that we often discover “after the fact” that the people God connected us with on a particular day had just been praying about a specific situation that we had answers to, or that they had recently been drawing closer to God more than ever.

They seemed both taken aback for a moment and then the Lord revealed exactly why He had connected us all together. We ached for the wife in particular who had experienced some “Churchianity” related challenges, but more than anything she was experiencing very heavy burdens relating to family and health, amongst other things.

We ended up praying over her in the back room where it was quiet and she did receive the Holy Spirit. She most definitely felt the power and peace of the Holy Spirit as He filled her and she prayed a little bit, on and off, in tongues. However, she knew she needed to get away on her own one-on-one before the Lord, to let the fullness of her healing and strengthening take shape. She had to go seeing that her family was waiting for her, but we encouraged her to purpose to have more prayer on her own before the end of the day.

Also, she could most definitely see how God had moved upon their day (and our day) in order for our two families to come together. She shared that they were meant to go out for a bite to eat, yet they had suddenly decided to first come to the music store. Plus, seeing that they’d already been to the same store at another location, they hadn’t expected that they would ever visit this one. Likewise, when we had started out on our afternoon drive, we were actually quite closer to a different store, but I suggested that we drive to this one instead because I assumed it might be nicer. Little did I realize at the time that that was the directing of the Holy Spirit. I love how God guides us through our days for His work’s sake!

We received an exciting text from Keita. (We posted about what God recently did with him and his family here in Florida, and we have been keeping in touch.) Anyway, Keita texted that a sister-in-the-Lord friend of his was going to be attending a convention here and that she’d like to catch up with us. We were able to spend a whole day with her before her convention started, and it was a mightily blessed time together as we talked and prayed, encouraged her from the Word, and filled in the gaps of her understanding about various scriptures.

She was excited to get home and pray over her husband and children, for them to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit and to be water baptized. Keita didn’t even know she was planning a trip to Florida when he first told her about us, so God’s hand was most definitely upon the entire situation!

Also, just as I met Keita on my daily “lake loop walk” at the resort next door to us, I met another Spiritfilled man two days ago. I passed him twice as I walked around, and each time I felt drawn to speak with him. I noticed that he was listening to (or watching) something on his cell phone which was propped up against a sofa pillow as he rested under one of the palapas. Being a small, slight female I don’t just wander up to any strange man when I’m on my own. I wait for the leading of the Holy Spirit, so I purposed that if he was still there on my third lap around and if I still felt a strong call to talk to him, I would wander on over.

He was still there! This time, I was convinced that he was listening to a Christian band or perhaps a sermon. I smiled as I approached and asked him if he was listening to Christian music. He said he was and started to show me who it was. We quickly got into conversation about what we do as a family, and the struggles he was experiencing in his life. I discovered that he was already born of water and of the Holy Spirit, but he had only spoken in tongues the one time.

Through me, the Holy Spirit spoke many powerful things to him, and the man was eager for me to pray over him, too, to get him praying in tongues again. We prayed right there under the palapa, making the most of the moment. We then continued to speak for a long time, he cried quiet tears of relief and joy and gratitude to God for sending me his way, and we parted with him feeling revived and strengthened to “go and do likewise in Jesus’ name.” We also exchanged numbers and he now has our website. It felt very surreal, similar to the lyrics of one of my favorite songs — “the world grows strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.”

We believe our time right here in this location is winding down, but as we prepare for our next stage, the Lord continues to make the most of using us for His work…

1) On yet another lake walk/pray, a driver of one of the hotel shuttle buses stopped to talk to me. He asked if I was in training for something (I guess because he sees me do so many loops!). When I told him that I walk and pray, he was very excited. I quickly shared with him our website address and then he had to drive away.

Then about a half hour later, I ran into him in person as I was exiting the promotions building that has bathrooms and a water dispenser. He was eager to tell me that he was already browsing our website, so I asked him about his experiences with the Lord. I discovered that he had been water baptized and had spoken in tongues a long time ago, but hadn’t done so since. I encouraged him to get together with us for prayer, to help him access what is already inside of him but has been kind of “lying dormant.” He later emailed us and we’re hoping to connect again with him very soon.

I also texted him to say that it was the miraculous hand of God that I ran into him (or, rather, that he ran into me). Our family had been having regular late nights for a long while, causing me to get out for my walks quite late in the morning. But this one morning I woke bolt upright at 6am even though we’d had, yet again, gotten to bed very late. I tried to go back to sleep but couldn’t, which is completely foreign to me - I normally have absolutely no problem catching up on a bit more sleep when needed. So, I realized that maybe God was causing me to start my day earlier for a reason. Now I know why…! Thank you Lord! Our lives are all about helping to save souls…

2) Don got chatting with a guy at the hotel gym. He had been experiencing quite a few challenges in his life and was wanting to change. He’d been in prison before and is now dealing drugs to try to pay the bills. Don shared with him God’s promises and expectations, including His moral standards (which can be followed with dedication and strength and peace once we have the power of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us, to equip us to “mortify the deeds of the flesh”). Then Don encouraged him that we could chat to his girlfriend, too, to see where her head and heart are at toward God.

So, that evening we all caught up by the pool and we got to have a really positive in-depth conversation with the girlfriend. She was clearly hurting as she broke down in tears and shared that she felt alone, with no-one on her side in life. Although neither of them were quite ready to make a commitment to the Father through Jesus that night, they were both very grateful for and moved by what we shared.

We pray God will continue to give increase to the words we spoke on His behalf, in obedience to the situation He put before us. Sometimes it’s a matter of planting and/or watering seeds that end up taking stronger root at a later time.

3) I had booked a hair appointment and was convinced that it was on a Tuesday morning. We raced to get there, but as I spoke to the receptionist, she told me I was mistaken and that the appointment was on Thursday instead. This is so incredibly unlike me as I’m normally very organized. On our way out, our daughter declared out loud exactly what I was thinking: maybe there was a reason - a God-ordained one!

She and I both immediately mentioned the library to one another - that is, that we now had an opportunity to go and join as new members, to cover off one of our “to do” list items. I wondered if God might be lining up someone for us to talk to. On our way there, we drove by the diner we ate at a couple of weeks earlier. I remembered the cookies we were wanting to try from there, but had no yet had the opportunity. I thought that we should go now versus on the way back from the library, in case they ran out again.

To our dismay, we discovered they had just sold the last one! But, to our delight, they told us they could bake fresh ones for us if we could wait 20 minutes. We were happy to hang out, so we sat on a bench seat together with our daughter and chatted. A tall older lady (Estelle) kept passing by, making friendly comments to us as she prepared her table for her family (it was self-seating). Don had noticed her first and had felt moved to talk to her. Then, when Estelle kept stopping by our bench seat to talk, I too realized God was setting something up.

After we received our baked goods, we wandered over to Estelle to give her one of our cards. Almost immediately she started speaking positive things over our daughter. As she did so, I noticed Estelle speak in tongues a little under her breath, kind of seeking God for the message He had for our daughter through the lady. I immediately rejoiced and shared that our whole family is filled with the Holy Spirit, praying in tongues daily as much as we can.

Well, this was like a beautiful spark upon the situation, and Estelle got touched mightily by God, prophesying over me and my husband (including our two boys which were back at the hotel for the day) for another 20 minutes or so. Her words were so miraculously on point - relating directly to a long and blessed conversation we had as a family the night before and which continued in the morning between Don and me. Don and I were in tears, rejoicing in the very personal and powerful “touch from the Lord.“

After big hugs and glorifying God with Estelle, we left the diner and immediately phoned our boys to share with them what had happened. We certainly don’t go looking to be prophesied over by others, but this encounter was most definitely of God. It was one of the few times that something like this has happened in our lives, and this was very strong!

We rejoiced all the way to the library and even filmed a little video about it outside of the car when we got there. We had a great time discovering the brand new amazing library, and then… On the way out, Don got talking with a young-ish construction worker. He is here from Chicago, repairing windows on the next door conference center as a specialized contractor. We found out that he is already baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit, but he had never been encouraged to pray in tongues daily, and he had never fully developed his relationship with Jesus. We prayed over him, and then he ended up coming over to our hotel a couple of days later where we encouraged and counselled him some more from the Word.

4) Another time when we had brunch at a newly-opened cafe in the same area, Don overheard the gal at the adjacent table. She was speaking to someone online (on her computer) about things that were seemingly related to the Lord. Don asked her about it after her call, and he discovered that the discussion had to do with her psychology studies at college.

The more we all talked together, the more the gal opened up about her struggles in life. She said she could (indirectly) relate to our experiences with God because her grandmother prayed in tongues often and offered much wisdom from the Bible. It was a very long, blessed conversation, and although the gal wasn’t ready to make a commitment to the ways of Jesus at the time (because of what it would mean for her chosen lifestyle), she stressed very gravely and thankfully at the end that she knew the words we spoke were “of God” and that they would not be lost on her. Praise the Lord for the situations he sets up!

5) We have had the blessing of continuing to pray with and encourage the hotel manager that got born again a few weeks back. Remember, Don baptized him in our hotel room bathtub, and he received the Holy Spirit as we prayed over him straightway afterward. He is such a great guy and very fun to hang out with. He is so very “thirsty” for the Word of God after having been hurt and blinded by his Catholic background. He asks such great questions and is very humble in accepting the truth of the answers, including God’s wisdom and expectations relating to lifestyle and life choices. He has also been listening to an audio Bible, and purposing to be a light in the lives of his friends and family. It’s such a joy to hear how he is growing!

The Lord has been moving in our lives in very interesting ways!….

1) First of all, we had to head up north to drop off a check. When we searched the address, I realized it was just around the corner from a Spirit-filled brother in the Lord who had posted a video on his Facebook page just the night before, saying he was “going through a storm” in his life. We felt moved to drop in to meet him for the first time. As we waited until he had time for us, we got speaking with his receptionist. We chatted for over an hour, during which we discovered that she also was born again (of water and of the Holy Spirit - John 3:5, Acts 3:38, Acts 19:2) and was going through her own trials. We were able to counsel her from the Word, especially to start praying in tongues as much as she can each day, and we offered her some advice about sharing scriptures and praying with others.

It was such a blessed time that we ended up getting together again that weekend to chat some more and to pray over her. We’ve been keeping in touch and are praying that God will bless her growth in Him and the fruits from her personal ministry in His name.

2) Another day, we prayed with our realtor while we hung out with him during a home inspection. We didn’t end up buying the home because it turned out to be way too much of a renovation job, but we now know why God brought the house our way for a short time. Actually, our normal realtor was on vacation, so he sent his team member in his stead. After we discovered he had a Catholic background, we shared some of our stories with him and suddenly he said, “Oh, that’s what my wife does - she speaks in tongues, and I have no idea what she’s saying!” We ended up praying over him in our car and he was filled with the Holy Spirit so powerfully. He was so excited to be praying in tongues! A few days later, he came over to our hotel to get water baptized in obedience to God’s Word, and we had some more prayer together. He was all smiles!

3) Next, Don met a lovely older hispanic man as he was hanging out near the hotel pool as he listened out loud to some music on his cell phone. We found out later that he (Isaac) had been intentionally playing gospel music, hoping it would open up conversation about the Lord. Well, it worked!

Don had also gone down to the social area to see what conversations God might open up. When Don noticed what Isaac was doing, he approached him to ask if he was a churchgoer. This quickly led to Don asking Isaac if he had been filled with the Holy Spirit since he believed in Jesus (Acts 19:2). Soon, they found themselves back at our hotel room where we all prayed over Isaac. He received very quickly and was very relieved to be finally speaking in tongues so fluently and peacefully. Most of his family members had already been born again (water baptized and anointed with the Holy Spirit) for many years, and Isaac had always wanted what they had, but he struggled.

We were able to clear up some scriptural understanding for him, and we encouraged Isaac that now that he is fully converted, he has the same authority and calling as we do - to go and share with others and pray over them. Simple, but miraculous and powerful!

4) During the four months at our hotel, Don has gotten to know one of the managers. Don never really spoke anything directly about the Lord to him until very recently as he just didn’t feel it was the right timing - which is quite rare for us; we normally get talking about God fairly quickly after meeting new people. But, Don sensed that this situation was different. Finally, during a conversation about us staying longer, the subject of God came up as they discussed life’s struggles and healing needs, etc. The hotel manager was amazed to hear what Don had to say about real proof, miracles, and relationship with the Living God versus religious tradition (the manager had grown up in the Catholic system). He said, “I think I’d freak out if I ever started speaking in tongues!” Don replied, “No you won’t; you’ll feel joyful and at peace!”

Finally, the manager came to visit us in our room one evening after work, to have a coffee with us, see some scriptures for himself about being born of water and of the Holy Spirit, and to pray. We encouraged him to get water baptized first, for many reasons, which he did. He started to speak in tongues when Don prayed with him immediately afterward. Then, we suggested that he dry off and come back to the lounge room to pray some more. He did, and after a couple more times of prayer, he was praying in tongues fluently.

He was really amazed and sent a text to us the next day about how good he felt. He eagerly took a Bible home with him, too, to start with reading the New Testament for the first time. He was keen to learn about what had just happened to him and how it fits in with Jesus and the early church. Needles to say, we were all delighted for him because he’s such a nice guy!

Last Friday, Kristi invited us back to her stall at the farmer’s market, so we gladly went, expecting that the Lord had more work for us to do. As we approached the stall to say hello, we saw that Kristi had a friend (Mary) with her for the day. So, we got chatting with Mary as well, and it turned into such a blessed time together (Kristi, Mary, and our entire family).

Mary is also Spiritfilled and on fire for the Lord, and she too has been experiencing a calling (along with her husband) to follow after the leading of the Holy Spirit versus being quenched in their church fellowship. We ended up going to Mary’s house that night to chat with her husband (interestingly, his name is Joseph!), reiterating what we’d spoken to Mary during the day.

What we shared was a confirmation of what they’d both been feeling and experiencing for some time - the Lord simply sent us to add fuel to the fire that the Holy Spirit had already kindled within them. We prayed over them and encouraged them, and we look forward to the Lord using them mightily as they step out and lay hold upon the fullness of the Book of Acts life.

Then, the Lord continued to show his mighty hand over the weekend. We were out for coffee at a new place we’d discovered, and just as the coffee shop was winding down for the night, a couple walked in to have a quick bite to eat. As we were eyeing the delicious dessert they had ordered, the wife (Jennifer) asked us if the server had mistakenly brought the treat to their table instead of ours. After reassuring them that we were just admiring what they’d chosen, Don started a more in-depth conversation with them.

As soon as the husband (Jay) mentioned that they did church ministry in addition to what they did for work, we knew the Lord had set up the connection between us all. We ended up going outside after the cafe closed, to continue the conversation. It was such a blessed night as we exchanged testimonies and rejoiced in the many similarities we shared, and as we prayed together for each of our futures.

It never ceases to amaze us how the Lord sees His people and orchestrates our days to cause us to meet and bless one another in God-ordained ways. Thank you Jesus!

This week has been very exciting for the Lord’s work! Two families have been touched mightily:

1) Ethan headed down to the poolside to do some work on his computer and although it was super busy and crowded, the one table we normally like to sit at in the corner was, amazingly, available (the Lord’s doing!). There was a family of five (American with Haitian decent) hanging out very close to the table, and Ethan overheard the dad talking about his dissolutionment with his church. Ethan sensed that the situation was set up by God, so he got chatting with the man about our experiences. The man was very touched by what Ethan shared and purposed to catch up with all of us before they were due to check out.

The next morning he texted, so we all gathered in the hotel boardroom to chat some more and to pray. The parents’ 14-year-old cousin (whom they are caring for) actually received the Holy Spirit anointing first! She was very moved by the whole experience with many joyful tears as she continued to pray in tongues.

Next was the wife. Her experience was very interesting. She was struggling to be filled with the Holy Spirit - groanings, but no clear language. So, I was moved to ask her if she sang. She nodded, so I encouraged her to simply open her mouth and sing whatever words came to her from the Holy Spirit as He filled her. So, she started to sing a familiar tune, but the words were in tongues! Then she went back and forth - singing in tongues and then speaking in tongues, then singing again, then more praying in the Holy Spirit.

Last to receive was her husband. He was struggling a lot and we sensed a major blockage. So, we asked him if there was any sin in his life that he felt he needed to confess and purpose to forsake in order to come to God in complete repentance. He hesitated, so we knew there was something going on, so Don encouraged him to come to another room (just the two of them) to talk man-to-man. That was the breakthrough because when they came out and we all prayed again as a group, he received very quickly and so powerfully.

Also, he had been told that tongues was something that needed to be kind of learned and worked toward, whereas what he experienced with us was that, no, it’s the anointing of the Holy Spirit that people need to seek for in true repentance and humility - and that speaking in tongues is a miracle that happens when someone is filled and the Holy Spirit starts praising and praying in His spiritual language (through us).

It was a very wonderful morning! Don even water baptized the cousin in the hotel pool before they departed as it was something she wanted to do in obedience to Jesus’ command in John 3:5. Praise God!

2) Yesterday, on my loops around the lake, I kept passing a lovely older man who beamed a huge smile at me each time I went by. I did the same. By the next time I saw him, he was recording a vlog on his phone and I heard him say the words “God” and “Holy Spirit” and “ministry.” I didn’t want to interrupt his video, so I sat at a bbq area not far away and waited. (Later, he said he felt moved to talk to me, too!)

After he was done, I wandered up and told him that I was excited to overhear him mention the Lord and that I would love to know about his ministry. He was excited, too, so we exchanged numbers and purposed to catch up for coffee with our families later that day. We ended up inviting them to our hotel room to try our new cappuccino machine and we all thoroughly enjoyed chatting for a long time, sharing stories and discussing the Word.

He was already born of water and of the Holy Spirit and loved to pray in tongues, but his wife and daugter and grandson had not yet received the Holy Spirit anointing and had not been water baptized (except the daughter - she had asked to be baptized when she was a teenager after returning from a mission trip). So, we prayed with the daughter first and she received, speaking in tongues. She shared that she thought she already had the Holy Spirit but now she realized she wasn’t filled until now. She definitely knew and felt the difference, praise God!

Next, we encouraged her mom to get water baptized first before praying for the Holy Spirit anointing given that she had been quite heavily (and falsely) indoctrinated that water baptism was unnecessary for salvation and was only an act of joining oneself to a particular group. After sharing some relevant scriptures with her, and after some beautiful heartfelt and Holy Spirit-inspired confession and encouragement from her husband, she was ready. Before we headed down to the pool, though, young Andrew (13 years old) had a chance to share his thoughts, and soon he was wanting to get water baptized, too!

So, we all went down to the hotel pool where Don encouraged the husband to baptize his own wife and grandson, which he did so beautifully. Not only that, both the wife and grandson also received the infilling of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues virtually straight away after coming up out of the water. It was such a joyful and miraculously special evening to witness their entire family come to be spiritually united and passionately inspired to go forth and live the Book of Acts life like we do as a family team - our reasonable service, but a wonderfully blessed calling!

We went out for Pho the other night and on our way out of the restaurant, Don got talking with a young man in his twenties who was standing outside with his take-away bag of food. He was wearing a Canadian t-shirt, so that’s how the conversation began. When Don found out that he’d been struggling with quite a few things over the years and that he attributed his overcomings so far to turning to Jesus and the Bible, it opened the door to us sharing our stories and global Christian ministry.

We ended up praying over him at the side of the restaurant and he received the infilling of the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues as proof. It was a quiet and gentle experience for him, but he was very touched by the miraculousness of it all. We then encouraged him to complete his born again experience by being water baptized, so he came back to our hotel where Don baptized him by full immersion in the outdoor hot tub.

Praise God! His timing is so perfect in connecting us together with people who are hungering and thirsting for a real relationship with God!

We went to visit another hotel in the area to look around and grab a bite to eat. On our way into the car parking area, Don got chatting with the parking attendant. We found out she is already Spiritfilled, but doesn’t pray in tongues regularly, and she didn’t know how John 3:16 is connected with John 3:5. So, we were able to chat to her for a while, encouraging her to use the Holy Spirit and the authority given to her through Jesus to pray for others.

Then, a couple of days ago, we were walking around the lake and got approached by a young gal who was collecting for a charity. She has a Catholic background and was unaware of the infilling of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues. We ended up stepping aside and laying hands on her, praying over her to receive the Holy Spirit anointing. She received, speaking in tongues so quickly. She was bravely trying to hold back tears. It was a very special moment!

That same night, we received news that our previous neighbors back in Georgia had gone with Kaiyah and Zorina to pray for a couple of people in hospital. Two of them prayed over Inez and got him speaking in tongues again (apparently, he hadn’t prayed in tongues for a very long time). The other two prayed with Melissa who received the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues so beautifully.

Wow! Our time of ministry back in Georgia is having an amazing ripple effect. We’re so proud of our neighbors, and of Zorina and Kaiyah, for laying hold upon Truth and going forth to do the Lord’s work!

Yesterday, on my last loop around the lake during my power walk/prayer, I passed a lady (Janee) that seemed to be parked just inside the entrance leading up to the resort. Before I got to the other side of the road, I realized (I believe the Holy Spirit moved on me) she might be in trouble. So, I turned around and approached the car, asking her if she was okay. It turned out that Janee was having car trouble and was stuck, and she had no-one to help her. She was just sitting there in her car that refused to budge, together with her two young girls.

The whole situation evolved into a wonderful blessing for Janee. I called Don to come help, and while waiting for her car to cool down, we shared our testimonies with her. The conversation started because of a t-shirt (another t-shirt situation!) that Janee was wearing with what looked like a scripture printed on it. Janee in turn shared that she believes things often happen for a reason, and we ended up praying with her right there to be filled with the Holy Spirit. She received, praying in tongues so beautifully with tears of joy. Janee explained how she felt that a 100-pound burden had been lifted from her; that she felt a kind of happiness and peace that she had never before experienced.

We then borrowed some jumper cables (and got to briefly speak with a Spiritfilled security guard, too!), got the car running, and drove over to our hotel. I made sandwiches, we all ate by the pool, and then Janee was eager to get water baptized to complete her “born again” experience. She was even more joyful afterward - beaming and seeming “light” in spirit. It was wonderful to see. We were able to follow Janee over to her hotel, to make sure she got there safely, and give her some money to help with the repairs, etc.

Oh, interestingly, we got to briefly speak with the security guard because he said to us, “You must be Christians…” when he discovered we had stopped to help Janee and her kids. Praise God!

The Lord keeps putting us in all kinds of situations to get Truth out there, and to help people come to an understanding of things that their churches are not telling them. Lots more has happened since my last post:

1) Don got chatting with one of the front desk staff here at the hotel we’re still staying at. She ended up coming to our room after her shift one night, to have us pray over her. She got filled with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues as proof. She was overjoyed!

2) At a homeschool convention we attended, we all got chatting with one of the vendors. One of them had struggled with a very strong stutter his whole life, so while I chatted to the ladies, Don got talking to him about the healing power of God. We ended up going to a quiet corner of the convention hall to pray over him, and he received. He had been a little worried about speaking in tongues based on some past negative experiences (which are never of God - they are because of mankind corrupting the things of God), but he was so happy when he heard himself praying in the Holy Spirit so powerfully and so fluently.

3) James (from my May 18th post) had invited us to minister at his church, so when Don and Daniel headed back to Georgia for a few days, they let James know they were close by and that they could pop over to Alabama for a visit. James was really eager, so Don and Daniel attended his Sunday service, and Don preached at the end about the need to be born of both water and of the Holy Spirit.

Also, on their way back to Georgia, they stopped by an ice cream place at which they met a couple who were on a lunch break from their own church service. They were able to encourage the husband (who was already Spiritfilled) to pray in tongues more often (our standard, “Pray in tongues as much as you can every day!”) and to pray over his wife to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

4) While Don and Daniel were away, the rest of us here stopped by a coffee shop north of our hotel. While we relaxed, we overheard three women speaking a mix of Russian and English, and they were talking a lot about God and church. After a while, I politely interrupted, and that led to us spending over two hours with them, encouraging them from the Word. Two of the young women were already Spiritfilled - with Spiritfilled husbands and children! They welcomed our encouragement to not get bogged down in their traditional church and religion that is quenching the Holy Spirit, but rather to go and live the Book of Acts life - gathering with their other Spiritfilled friends and family, and ministering to whomever God brings their way.

5) While Don and Daniel were still back in GA, they stopped by our old gym to do a workout. Daniel got chatting to someone we’d all spoken to a few times in the past and ended up inviting him to come pray outside with him and Don. He received, speaking in tongues, after years of going to church (which he had eventually given up on)!

6) While still in GA, Don had to pop to the local Walmart late one night to get a few things. At the checkout, a lady came up behind him who was wearing a “Joy FM” t-shirt. Given the t-shirt, Don asked her if she was a church-going lady. She said “No, but I’m a lover of Jesus.” This led to a whole series of events…

Don discovered that she’s already Spiritfilled and loves praying in tongues, and she even prays over people for healings. She joined our WhatsApp prayer group straight away and put her niece in touch with us. We shared God’s Word with the niece over the phone (as Don was back with us in FL by this stage) and encouraged her to visit our old neighbors, to have them lay hands on her to be filled with the Holy Spirit. She did, and she received, and now they’re ministering to her every day. The niece is also part of our prayer group now, and we’re all rejoicing in the difference between the like-minded Spiritfilled fellowship we’re all having together versus the “churchianity” environment that both ladies came out from.

7) The washing machine in the hotel room here wasn’t working the three times we tried it throughout the day. We then had to go out, so when we returned to the room, I called for maintenance to come take a look at it. When Joseph (the serviceman) arrived, he pulled the button and the machine worked straight away! I laughed and did a mild scream in mock embarrassment. It was quite funny.

But then I realized that what happened to me earlier was probably for a reason. So, I gave Joseph (a Haitian man) one of our ChristiansRule.com cards and briefly told him about our ministry. He was on his way out the door by that time, but he immediately stopped as soon as I started to speak. He was beaming as he started to tell me about his own family’s Christian ministry. When I asked him if he was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues, he eagerly said yes, and he proceeded to agree with all the other things I shared, especially about the need for people to be born again of water and of the Holy Spirit (and not just “give your heart to Jesus”), etc. It was wonderful that God connected us briefly, as an encouragement to one another.

8) Don had to head back to Georgia for a second time, and this time it coincided with our Thursday night WhatsApp prayer group, so he got to connect with everyone back there in person, to pray together with the rest of us and to encourage them all with more scriptures. Also, while in GA this time, Don saw Jermaine at Costco for the first time. He was a man (and one of the people who do the food samples) that Sharon got to share some of the Word with a long while ago. Jermaine is Spiritfilled and he has a street ministry where he even baptizes people in public using a portable baptismal tank. Don was able to dig into the Word deeper with Jermaine and especially encourage him to also pray over people to be filled with the Holy Spirit.