How do we move in God's supernatural power? some thoughts...

How do we move in the Spirit?

Firstly let me make something very clear, moving in God's power is normal Christianity and is not complicated or difficult...it's easy!!

Here are some key's I have found:
1. Die to your understanding. Simply open up to God in an intuitive sense, let the mind catch up later. Dethrone reason; God is Spirit, not brain. Don't abandon it, simply dethrone it! Allow the brain to catch up later. Learn to back yourself...believe in yourself. All you can make is a mistake!
2. Focus on what God does, not on what He doesn't do! Often we focus on what isn't happening.
3. Just a hint is often all you get. After prayer, it maybe a thought, idea...a hint speak to this person, say this to them. Ask the Holy Spirit what do you want me to say - "what thoughts do you want me to communicate, what downloads / revelation / insights from Heaven do you want me to speak out."
4. Do the possible - allow God to do the impossible. e.g. The feeding of 1000's of people with a few loaves & fish - a small boy's lunch; OR Peter at the temple gate. A principle seems to be that we often need to first give something to God to work with!
5. God works often with hungry people who are desperate! How desperate are we for God to move? There are many examples of this in 2Kings 17. / 2 Kings 4: Both of these stories describe God moving miraculously in desperate, hopeless situations!

Hmmmmm...thoughts to meditate on...give it a go!!!

Travel - Nick & Karen - Europe

We are staying with rellies in Driebergen, near Utrecht, till Wed. 19th May. During this time we have been connecting with people face to face who we have only previously met through email. Plus, we are trying to get our social security numbers! This has been quite a process. We can't open bank accounts or get a cell phone till we get this number. It's a big brother country with huge red tape!! We have an appointment with the appropriate authorities early next month, I will get that number at this meeting (I believe). Karen will have to wait...that's another story.

On wed 19th - 23rd May we go to Brussels where we speak at the Apostolic Churches Conference, for French speaking Churches. It is Pentecost weekend - Yeah...I have great expectations!!

23rd May - 28th May = Next Level International leaders meeting in Birmingham. This will be a fantastic time to connect with other leaders wanting to impact Europe.

29th May - 2nd June = Ministering in Jurgen's Church, Berlin. It will be great to be with him and see this City.

2nd June - 6th July = In our own house in Amsterdam, which will be great having our own space for a period of time. We think living out of suitcases is overrated!!!

News Flash: We are booked to fly from Philadelphia to Brussells on Wed 28 April; arriving 8am next morning. We will be staying with Andy & Karen Burton, Operation Mobilisation Leaders in Brussells. Nick is planning to attend SHOUT UK conference in London that weekend! How cool!! Karen will probably stay in Brussells.
We will put up photos when we get back to Phillie... Take care everyone. Love from Us. xxx

We are in CANADA!!! Do you remember that often Paul's journeys were"interrupted" by all sorts of things... Well, our journey was interrupted by ASH! We had spent 3 days in LA with a tennis friend, Richard & his wife Carolyn. I played tennis in Hamilton in the morning and in LA in the afternoon! How cool is that? We then flew to NYC and were met by Phil Underwood, a colleague & friend for over 30 years. Phil & Gillian have been pastoring Cornerstone Church in Philadelphia for 13 years. We spent a week with them, preaching on the Sunday & midweek. We did some tripping around with Phil, visited State College which their youngest daughter attends (some 4 hours away)... then we found some wonderful outlet shops, which of course we had to "really" experience. It was time to head for NYC again to leave for Europe - but alas the ASH cloud had appeared & the planes had stopped! We spent about 4 days trying to contact our airline with no success & preached at Phil's church again. They were keen to pursuade us to stay "for a while" at Philadelphia - it could be a home away from home!

Anyway, we decided it was time to explore - Karen really wanted to see Niagara Falls ... so off we went. It was only 5 minutes before we took a wrong turn on the motorway - that was challenging! We went via Elim Bible Institute and caught up on some wonderful history.

After a trip on the Maid of the Mist boat that goes very close to the falls,we ventured back onto the freeway off to Toronto. Oh my goodness!!! Traffic, traffic & more traffic.

We are very thankful for the invention of GPS. We have discovered that the 401 goes forever and that you have to stay in the Rt Hand Connector to be able to get off when you need to!

We stayed with Pastors Phil & Rebecca Woodridge; pastors of the apostolic church in Toronto. They originally came from Wales & then were missionaries in Chile for about 10 years. What a great couple!

Now we are in Peterborough with Ps John Kristiansen; where I will preach tomorrow morning. I am really looking forward to it. We have a revival planned for 9.30am!

Well hopefully our next report will be from Europe - we are booked to fy out next wednesday night - direct to Brussells. Bless you all. Much love Nick & Karen.

The Adventure is REALLY Happening!

It's countdown time!!!

IN 5 WEEKS we'll be arriving in LA! During those relaxing weeks we will have packed up house, visited Christchurch with 2 of our boys & their wives to see Oma & had VCI Retreat 15,16,17 March!!! With just a few more things thrown in along the way! Nick will be 54 in 3 wks time - maybe he's too old to travel??? And then we have our 32nd Wedding Anniversary... and we are about to begin an exciting adventure. My Dutch has taken a bit of a back seat with all the packing up - but I will be getting a crash course very soon. I'm sure Nick's Aunt and Uncle will help me no end & push me to speak & endeavour to understand! Could be dangerous!
We farewelled Josh & Amberley to Great Barrier Island this week - they are leading a Prophetic worship course for 3 months at Orama. It is so exciting to see them step into this new season. Elijah has been crawling for about 3 weeks - oooh that is Wonderful to see! He is really a great miracle and we thank God for every step. He still has a few operations up ahead - They won't be happening until next summer so, plenty of time for the miraculous to intervene. Amen...
Well, I'm back to the boxes.. coffee breaks only last so long. We have a couple of great contacts in Europe & have just said yes to a house for all of June! So cool. God is good.

Schedule for Feb/March 2010

4-15 Feb N & K in Christchurch & Westport
15-20 Hamilton - Packing Up
21 Feb Owen & Raewyn Frethy's church Auckland
26 Feb-8Mar Nick in Dunedin & Christchurch
4 - 8 March K in Christchurch
6-7 March Family Wkend in Christchurch
12 March Move out of house & handover to tenants
14 March Eastside all services
15-17 March VCI Retreat in Taupo
21 March Northend Church TeAwamutu
22 March Nick's Bday!
25-27 ? Orama to visit Josh & Amberley
28th Vision church Tokoroa with Lionel & Becks
2nd April ? Shout Conference
3rd April Nick at Missions Conf in Auckland
4th April Prayed out Eastside 10am
6th April Leave Auckland 7pm to LA...
N & K in NZ 8th July – 5 August for Inspire Conf/Elijah is 2!
28 July-3rd Aug Christchurch
Nick in NZ 15 September – 4 October for National ACTS Conf.