A Week's Fight

Ok, so I find I'm shattered.

Too early in the week to be shattered? Well, yes but the truth is that it's been a bit of a week.
last Sunday night Dan went off his food, we thought little of it, Monday morning he was sick, oh dear, never mind... he didn't keep food or drink down all day, Monday evening in A&E, Monday night, he's admitted to a 'short stay ward' (anyone else know they existed?) Tuesday aft, he and Caroline come home, got a bit better...

Then he got worse again, diarrhoea begins alongside, Thursday Caroline gets ill, Friday I get ill.
Saturday night I wake up itching from head to toe (since had two more episodes of strange brief all over rashes), Sunday back to emergency doctors, on way to pharmacy Caroline's traps her finger in the car door really badly...

Sunday night feel like the dark night of the soul! Dan still bad as ever, all in pain, weak, struggling... faith not exactly on top form!

Didn't get to do either service I wanted to on Sunday, all-age baptism and a really great plan I had for the evening around a bonfire and confession.

Only on Tuesday did I tentatively get back to work.

Sunday before this started we cast a demon out of a woman and her physical and emotional healing followed. Since we've arrived here in the Meadows the experience of spiritual battle has be seriously intense. (which is a good sign.)

BUT, I had lost my prayer intensity, my focus on fasting, my working out of relationship.
Caroline was toiling in prayer but without my leadership as church and home spiritual leader allied to that somehow we became vulnerable.

I've allowed my hope to be deferred in our work here, I've been missing time with God for increasing admin and this despite prophetic words brought to me.

I'm repenting and moving on... but there's some changes to make:

1) This blog is primarily now for prayer.
I'm hoping that I can get people to check it weekly and use it for prayer updates.

2) Return to working out of God's Presence.
prayer, first, last and foremost.

3) The enemy's running scared.
He was forced to reveal himself and be cast out.
He's doing all he can to hem us in, so we're dangerous!
Armour on, take some ground. I need to be on the streets, in homes, etc. more and more.

Please partner us in prayer, tomorrow morning I write the basic list of prayer requests.