May 2, 2008 Report on the National Day of Prayer - DC
The National Day of Prayer/DC Prayer Strike was awesome. Corporately we entered into
worship and prayer to welcome the King of Glory and His heavenly hosts into DC. I led a prayer team of ten people from
Indiana, DC, Washington state, Atlanta, Orlando, Virginia and Minnesota to the Capitol, Supreme Court and the White House
on Friday. The concert of prayer that was released from this group of seasoned intercessors was strategic for our nation.
I was truly blessed to lead this group and make new friends from around the country. We spent time praying with the
Justice House of Prayer at the Supreme Court. We ended the day infront of the White House where the group received a
Lakeland Fire impartation. It was awesome! One of the ladies, a school teacher from Minnesota, had a growth on
her leg that began shrinking after we prayed.
Jeremy Burke from Dutch Sheets' church led worship and I got to jump in on Friday night and sing.
The prophetic song I released is still echoing in my head: "Let the winds blow. Let the winds blow. Let
the winds of change blow through DC. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. Let the winds blow."
This seems to be what God is releasing to the Body in this hour. Everything is changing - churches, finances, calls,
visions. It all needs to be laid down at the altar so He can set us up with His dream and purpose for our lives.
Those who submit to the surrender will find a greater measure of His glory and power in their lives. Those who resist
will become old wineskins. It is a time of decision for the Body of Christ.
May 3 & 4 - Chesepeake Bay Report
Thelma Bowers, Viviana Ferriera and I joined with a group of prayer warriors in Crisfield, Maryland to participate
in the Pray for the Bay Joshua Run. Our goal was to pray for the Chesepeake Bay area, which covers
3 states and 4 capital cities. This meeting proved to be an awesome time of worship, prayer and declaration. Barbara
and Randy Walters of Shiloh Ministries headed up the event. We stayed overnight at their home/ministry which is appropriately
called "Redemption House". I led worship Sunday morning and then Thelma and I prophesied over everyone there.
It was a great time of impartation and healing. Randy, a Christian newspaper editor wrote the following report:
Forty-two of us boarded the Steven Thomas
and sailed to Tangier Island last Saturday. Despite predictions of rain early in the week, the weather was perfect and the
water was smooth. Some people who could not go due to illness were still vital to our day as they covered our journey with
prayer.
People came from around the bay and beyond. Three were from Florida; three from Richmond; three from Baltimore.
Eleven came from the Western Shore of Virginia. Others were from Washington, D.C., Annapolis, Chesapeake, VA,
Delaware
and the Eastern Shores of Virginia and Maryland.
After exuberant praise and worship on the water - a very strategic
aspect of our day - we were met on the island by Pastor John Jones and escorted to Swain Memorial United Methodist Church.
Their highly anointed praise team led worship. The Esther Company, from Virginia, danced. And following the service, we prayed
individually with several of the 25 islanders who attended. Then we had a time of fellowship over a meal, and some of our
group were able to tour the island before it was time to leave.
Edge and Charlotte Pereira led worship on the boat.
Prayers, declarations and prophetic acts were conducted on the water. Everyone had freedom to bring their portion and speak
what the Lord was showing them. We all prayed over and blessed a rock from Israel, which was put in the bay. We poured in
water
from rivers around the U.S. plus water from the spring Elisha healed in Israel.
We all anointed the soles of our shoes
with oil to bless the places we walked. Everyone's heads and hands were anointed. We took corporate communion and poured a
little of the juice and put some of the cracker into the bay. The many shofars onboard were blown to the north, east, south
and
west. An oyster shell Barbara and I found when we prayed at Joshua Thomas' grave was returned to the bay with a prayer
for healing its shellfish population.
As we disembarked from the Steven Thomas in Crisfield after a glorious day, the
people boarding the boat for its next cruise were from the Pocomoke Church of God. They had scheduled a hymn sing and fellowship
dinner on the water that evening. Without knowing about the Joshua Run, their praises would in effect seal what we had done.
We figure there must have been continuous praise on the Chesapeake Bay from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day.
At home in
Berlin, we had 19 people stay overnight with us on Friday and Saturday. Since so many spent the second night, we had a Sunday
worship service in our back yard from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with 23 adults and six children. Even though much of it was spontaneous
for us, God had everything
planned out.
Kim Johnson, who has been part of the praise team for the revival in Lakeland,
Florida (her home town), led our Sunday worship. The Lord told her to go to Washington to pray, and she joined in prayer
and worship for Dutch Sheets there during the National Day of Prayer on Thursday plus on Friday. Then she and two friends
came to the shore to be with us on the Joshua Run.
Mildred Johnson (a native of Tangier, no relation to Kim) had a
vision of a healing line for our Sunday worship. Barbara felt that the Esther Company was supposed to dance, and they chose
to perform "The Woman Who Touched the Hem of His Garment." It was very powerful. The healing line followed, and
each person
passed under a red scarf before receiving prayer and personal prophecy. Everyone moved in their giftings.
To close
the day, Robert and Annette Stagmer brought a profound teaching on understanding one's gifts and calling.
May 11, 2008 Testimony from Pastor Tom Perrera, Woodlawn Christian Fellowship, Baltimore, MD
It was not only the presence of God but the anticipation of what God was going to do.
We hungered for Him and He desired us. There was a oneness because everyone pressed in. It has carried me the
whole week. These services have changed me. Jesus, certainly has lifted me up and placed His banner over me, His Love...
This
love was so present there and has filled me. I have shared this with others this week to, Jesus' love. I became a receiver
of the glory and didn't have to give just receive. It wasn't a service to God, it was a serving of God.
May 12, 2008 Delivered from the Fear of Man. Testimony of Deb Rush, Woodlawn Christian
Fellowship, Baltimore, MD
Kim prayed for me to be delivered from the fear of man on Thursday
night after class. As Kim ended praying for me she said “what’s that? it sounds like the song Color my World”.
The song goes color my world with love, and was my husband and my wedding song. This past Friday and Sunday service
I felt such a Peace of God . When Kim asked me to come up and sing Friday night , even though I could only hear the
drummer and quitarist, could not hear Kim’s words, and only knew very little of the words it was OK. I felt a
liberty to go down and dance and BE ME in the Lord . Friday as Kim prayed for everyone the power and love of God
consumed me. I will never be the same and only want MORE, MORE MORE.
Sunday the power & presence of God in the service was mighty.
As Kim stood behind me in the service I did not feel any intimidation or fear. The Lord poured oil on my hands as I worshipped
at the piano. My husband quickly yielded to Kim praying for him and the power and presence of God , I KNOW touched him. I
am waiting expectantly to see!
May 13, 2008 Gold Dust in Baltimore!
The meetings we have been holding in Baltimore have been incredible. Last Sunday, one of the ladies
we prayed for was covered with gold dust on her neck and upper chest, God's fire has been touching people when we pray, a
deaf ear opened on Saturday night. The Body of Christ is being touched by the presence of the Holy Spirit as the weight
of His glory is falling in the meetings.
On Sunday night, while sitting in Michele Perrera's office, I was talking with my husband who was watching
the Florida Outpouring on GodTV at our home in Lakeland. While we were talking I noticed that I had gold specks
on my black pants. When I looked at my hands they were covered in gold dust. The gold then spread to the table
I was sitting infront of as well. The glory of God has been so present up here. It has been amazing. Signs,
wonders and miracles have been released in Maryland!
May 18, 2008 - Abundance of Crabs for Tangier Island's Waterman - Report by Randy Walter, Shiloh
Ministries, Berlin, Maryland
Dear friends of Shiloh Ministries:
Last Thursday Barbara got a call from Tangier's mayor, "Ooker" Eskridge, who had something exciting to tell me. I couldn't get ahold of him but was able to speak with his wife,
Irene. Here is why he called, why he has been working extra hard and why I couldn't get talk to him:
Since Pray for the Bay culminated with the Joshua Run, the watermen of Tangier have had an abundant catch of soft crabs (I don't know about Smith Island, Deal Island,
Wenona, Hooper's Island or any other watermen's communities). What's unusual about this is that peelers
ordinarily shed their shells when the weather is sunny and hot, not cool and rainy as it has
been this spring.
Ooker has been going out early in the morning, getting home around 5 o'clock,
then going back out at 6. The bounty he and other Tangier watermen have received has all been within commercial
fishing regulations.
The state of Virginia has put some of the bay's shellfishing areas off limits to watermen and reduced the number of crab pots they can legally use. With tightening rules
and the skyrocketing cost of fuel for their boats, there was much uncertainty on Tangier. Men wondered
how they would feed
their families. Just before the Joshua Run on May 3, Ooker told me this was the most critical time ever for the islanders.
God has mercifully answered the entreaties of Pray for the Bay, moving in a way which defies scientific or government explanation. Irene told me the watermen are hauling in
such a huge catch that they are working almost around the clock. "They just keep coming," she said of
the harvest. "I don't
know what the Lord is doing but we want Him to get the glory."
Irene said her husband is thrilled because watermen are catching "so many crabs that they don't know what to do with them." She added, "Now everyone will know the Lord did
it," declaring that the Lord has blessed the islanders more than they ever could have imagined.
Prior to the Joshua Run, in The Daily Times, I noticed several headlines about the Chesapeake Bay and island residents which used the word "revive" or "revival." News reports
about the bay have been negative and discouraging. The crab population was said to be diminished; the
health of the bay, dismal.
Could it be that this netbreaking harvest from the bay is a foreshadowing of the harvest of souls that is to come? Those who participated in Pray for the Bay have implored
God to do these things. The present revival in Florida followed a spate of wildfires there. We expect
this ingathering of shellfish
from the bay is a harbinger of of God's Kingdom advancing by adding such an abundance of souls that the churches won't be able to hold them.
Pray for the Bay isn't over! We have to keep praying that God blow a fresh breath of His Spirit over the Chesapeake Bay region, that living water overflow its shores, that
the land be healed, and that men will repent and be freed from the curse of sin so their hearts will be
supple toward God.
Every great revival has been preceded with fervent prayer from people whose hearts are broken for the lost. Please pray we all will be those people!
May 19, 2008 - Canton, Pennsylvania - Man's back is healed & he leaves his cane!
Michelle Perrera, Bob & Kim Johnson drove to upstate Pennsylvania to bring the revival fire Canton,
a small rural town nestled amongst the mountains there. The revival fire went with us to meeting. Expectation
was in the air. Some people drove for over 2 hours to come to the meeting expecting a touch of the contagious Lakeland
Outpouring. God met there expectation and showed up in a might way. Most of the 300 people receive personal
pray and impartation. One gentleman caught my attention while I was praying for people in the prayer line. I called
him to the front and asked him why he had a cane. He went on to tell me that he had 5 damaged vertebrae in his back
from a truck accident years ago. I prayed for him, he was touched by God, fell out in the Spirit and I moved on to the
next person in line. After we were done praying, he came up and shared how he had been running up and down the front
steps of the church since he got up from prayer. He was so excited because he didn't need his cane! He then began
jumping up and down and said he hadn't been able to jump for several years! He left his cane at the church and left
healed! Thank you Jesus!
May 28, 2008 - Washington Post Article
Believing In God's Harvest: Watermen Find Strength in Faith
Despite Gloomy Crab Forecast
Washington Post Staff Writer
Where in the Bible does it say God will save the Chesapeake crabber?
Down on Tangier Island, Va., some people say it's in Ezekiel: "There will be large numbers of fish, because
this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh." Never mind that Ezekiel was written about the ancient Middle East;
that half-salty sea sure sounds like the bay. And "large numbers of fish" could certainly mean blue crabs.
Here on Maryland's Smith Island -- at the heart of a waterman's culture still on fire from an 1800s revival
-- they turn to John. That gospel tells how the disciples once fished all night but pulled their nets up empty.
Then Jesus arrived.
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