IHOPU New England Update 3/19
On Friday, March 19, the IHOPU team ministered at Grace Fellowship Church in Nashua, New Hampshire. During the drive from Boston, they asked the Lord to show them how He wanted to move. A number of students felt the Holy Spirit emphasizing the Father’s love and freedom from performance. They also felt that this church has an important calling in God, and that they were to encourage the church to persevere and to press into this destiny. A word of knowledge was given that the IHOPU team would be surprised by the miracles that the Lord would do that night.
As worship began, the presence of God was felt in the sanctuary. However, at the same time, many IHOPU team members were struggling with the discouraging feeling that the power of the Spirit was not breaking out in the way that they had anticipated.
After the service that evening, the team gathered to debrief and realized that they had not been aware of all that the Spirit was doing. Nearly every student shared a story of someone they had prayed for that night who had received a significant breakthrough.
One young woman came to the service in deep depression and on the brink of suicide. Though she did not raise her hand for prayer, the Lord highlighted her to one of the IHOPU students. After receiving prayer for deliverance, the Holy Spirit met her and she felt like a completely different person. Another young woman said hat she felt clean for the first time in her life. There were many that night who were delivered from self-hatred, depression, and a performance mentality.
The team was so amazed by the many testimonies that their debriefing time became a time of worship, giving thanks and glory to God for what He had done. The entire team was filled with the joy of the Lord. They read Psalm 126 together: “When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing . . . the Lord has done great things for us!”
Here is one of the testimonies from that evening:
Sandy’s Story
A word of knowledge was spoken from the stage about a person in need of healing in the lung. A lady named Sandy raised her hand. She wanted to be healed from lung pain and other pains that she had throughout her body that doctors had not been able to explain for over a year. As a student began to pray for Sandy, she did not feel anything happen in her lung, but she began to feel the presence of God as the student prayed. The Holy Spirit used the student to speak straight to Sandy’s heart.
After ministry time was over, the student felt led to go back to Sandy. As she walked up, Sandy exclaimed, “I cannot believe you walked over here at this very moment. I need deliverance.” The student led her through deliverance related to performance, and a burden lifted off her.
Later on that night, Sandy walked up to the student and said, “The pain that I felt in my body is almost gone.”
Prayer Requests
Pray for the believers in Grace Fellowship Church to lay claim to the deliverance they have received and to help set many captives free in Jesus’ name. Pray for the IHOPU New England team for continued health, strength, and boldness in ministry and evangelism. Pray for a revival in New England that will lead to another great awakening and touch the ends of the earth.
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