Living Naturally Supernaturally.

Just thought I’d let you know about some of the supernatural things that are happening here in Bethel at the moment.

Well…there are healings that happen daily here. Last Sunday night we were at the church service and Bill felt to pray for people for healing. Here, they usually get words of knowledge of what God is healing so for example they feel God wants to heal back problems so they get everyone with back pain to stand up and the people around them begin to proclaim healing over them and the person tests it out and if needs be prays again and a lot of people are usually healed- its that simple!! So that night people were healed from back pain, injuries from all sorts of accidents- a woman who was in a car crash years ago and was crippled with pain and couldn’t lift her arms very high was waving her hands over her head etc. I was praying for a woman’s bottom teeth to grow back which was a first for me, they didn’t that night but here they believe that every time someone is prayed for something happens- a seed is planted. However two stories really stood out for me that night, Bill had a word of knowledge about people feeling guilt and like illnesses were the result of them doing something wrong so he brought them through just forgiving themselves and felt God would release healing through that. In the congregation there was a woman whose son was killed in a car accident and she felt responsible and guilty and had depression for years but when she forgive herself she felt joy and peace for the first time in years. Then there was a girl who’d been in a bad car crash with a few friends a few years ago and everyone in the car but her died, she’d had back problems and whiplash since it but always felt its something she just had to live with because after all she had survived and had to be thankful for that and felt some sort of guilt that she lived and the others died. But that night she felt released from that guilt and all the pain she had left.

I’ve been learning a lot in the healing class I’m taking at the moment. The thing that’s most sticking out is its not about me and the prayers I’m praying and how good they are its just about letting Gods grace in us and flowing through us. Jesus is the healer and he’s really good at His job so in praying for healing its not about a perfect polished prayer trying to convince God to heal it’s about trusting who he is and that he is really good at his job. So we don’t really need to do that much, but just release His love, who He is and His kingdom over people saying ‘Be healed’!! This is simple but its deep revelation to me that the “Kingdom of God lives in me” so I don’t need to perform all I need to do is be and release that kingdom.

Last week there was a conference here at Bethel with John and Carol Arnott. On the last night at the end of worship a cloud of gold dust appeared in the church and stayed there for 45 mins- exploding every so often. We weren’t there but its been captured on video and is so visible. Its appeared before but never for that long. Also that night quite a lot of people’s teeth/ fillings I think turned gold. Our friend was there and a woman near him got 4 gold teeth that he said were glowing. Bill Johnson always says that there are signs and wonders in the Bible, and sometimes these ones are signs that make you wonder…but its just God manifesting himself, getting our attention of how real and good He is.

So hope that’s been encouraging to read, God is moving and the supernatural is becoming part of everyday life. Here it is normal but it wasn’t like this even 10 years ago its been a gradual increase as kingdom minded people constantly and consistently seek God for the more…so lets do it and believe for it.

Here's the link to the 'gold dust' video:

Bethel church/ Open Heavens Conference

Christine Oliveira.

Hey guys!!

Hey everybody, greetings from the USA!!

Sorry it’s taken so long for us to update this but we have been so busy here. We have been reading loads and doing a lot of books and Bible reports already. We’ve now had 3 weeks of school and we are loving it! The first 2 weeks were a lot of information about the year as well as great teaching and worship. We had either Bill Johnson or Kris Vallotton everyday so there was a lot of really good stuff to take in and to try to process (and trust, 4 hours of Bill Johnson and Kris Vallotton a day really is a lot to take in). We also had amazing worship times, there is so much freedom here so there have been times when 1000 people have been dancing and jumping up and down which has been so powerful and a lot of fun.

We are loving the environment here, Bethel has amazing core values that they really live by. There is such a family environment, were everyone is accepted and loved. They encourage us to be so open and vulnerable with each other without any judgement but just acceptance. This has been fun to get used to but we love it, this really is a safe environment to be open, especially in our revival group, which is a group of about 70 students who we meet with once a week and is really our family here. (will talk more about this in a different post soon)

Last week we went on a retreat for 3 days with our revival group. We went to a Ranch in Northern California which was really beautiful. This was just a time to get to know each other better and we also had meetings at night. Last week we also had a day were the 2^nd years at the school prophesied over us for this year and our futures which was really encouraging.

This week we are back in school and it’s the first week of our regular schedule. We  start our chosen classes (which are called Advanced Ministry Training) and also our outreach. Daniel is doing the class on prophecy and I am doing one on healing and we don’t know yet what kind of outreach we’ll be doing but we are really excited to put all we’re learning into practice. At the minute we are also trying to decide which mission trips to sign up for. At the end of March we have the opportunity to go on a mission trip for a week or so, there are about 60 different ones to choose from going all over the world so please pray for us in the decisions we have to make.

We are really settling into life in America now, we love where we live and our housemates and we’re even getting used to the food. Also, we were able to buy a car which has been such blessing, especially now that its starting to get quite rainy here. We got a 1994 Volvo Station wagon, which is a lovely green colour and who we’ve named him Burt. We bought it of a lovely Christian couple for a really good price, so now we’re trying to figure out how all the paperwork works here!

Please continue to pray for us that we’ll continue to grow in our relationship with God and be stretched in everyway, that we’ll be able to process and really apply all the great teaching we are getting and that we’ll see God use us as we start our outreach etc.

From now on we’ll be updating this blog more often, so you guys can keep up with what God is doing here and with us, and send us some prayers.

Love from the Oliveiras!!