It's 5:30am here, and I'm well into my day. I woke up at 4:00 and called my daughter Tammy in Minnesota and learned that she has a wedding date (good news!). I have sufficient frequent flier miles for the trip and a conference I need to attend in Dallas in the end of June, so I'm going to be there! Hallelujah!!
The inner healing seminar on Saturday went well (pictures attached). It was principally a training session for people in an established healing ministry, which is just what I wanted. My throat made it through the day with minor difficulty (and major throat lozenges). I felt pretty sick on Sunday, though, until it was time to go to church in the evening and preach - then I felt fine! The church-in-the-garage went very well Sunday morning (they tell me - I was in bed; I could hear the singing through the window, though, and it was glorious). After everyone left, Erton, Lydia, Russell and Lynn sat under the tree and fellowshipped with joy and laughter that rang through the neighborhood, testifying to anyone with ears to hear that JOY IS HERE, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD!
Our Monday evening group has shrunk a bit (as they always do), but has become EXTREMELY lively. I have never been a part of a group that had so much energy, sometimes resembling a busy airport - lots of planes full of good stuff, but only one can take off at a time!
Yesterday I had a counseling session with one of the attendees of the Saturday seminar. It is possible that I will have a better experience in counseling someday, but it is just as likely that yesterday was the best - ever. At least half of what I had to say had occurred to her already, and she was ready to take responsibility for her own sins and renounce judging others. We had a rare, severe thunderstorm during the night on Monday, and Tuesday morning she found a tree lying in her driveway where she normally parks her car. Monday afternoon, however, she had felt a prompting to park further from the garage, and so the tree missed her car - so she was well aware that God is with her, cares for her, and is ready to help her. It might be a bit much to ask for something like that before every counseling session, but then again . . . She wanted a list of all the Scriptures she needed to meditate on in order to line up with God's Word in all her issues. Wow! (Maybe it helped that we met right in the middle of the sanctuary of the Methodist church.)
I will be going to Namibia for two weeks, leaving in about a month. I'm not sure what I'll be doing there, except teaching about 'Fresh Bread' and inner healing and whatever else God has in mind, probably doing some preaching, maybe some counseling . . . Namibia is pretty big, so I don't know how much of it I'll be able to visit. I was reading about a place along the coast where a cold current from Antarctica comes up the east side of the south Atlantic, adjacent to a big desert in Namibia that extends right to the ocean. It hardly rains at all there, and it is not uncommon for there to be NO rain at all for a year or more. But the humid air over the cold water produces a fog and a constant temperature of between 50-60 degrees (F) day and night, summer and winter, so there is vegetation there. (Reminds me of Genesis 2:6)
I am busy preparing some new seminars, including one on 'Science and the Bible' for presentation at some point (or points). Please pray for inspiration. I really need help in finding what people need to hear, rather than what I would enjoy saying (which, among other problems, would be WAY too much!).
[By the way, I'm feeling much better now. Thanks for your prayers!]
Love from Africa,
Lary
Break
time.