Simply: Testimony from Lyon, France

Hello everyone and welcome again to Wednesday Night Live. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were doing a Wednesday Night Live saying that we were going to be flying into France. That was last week. And we give thanks to the Lord for a wonderfully successful gathering in Lyon and safe travels back. And I am so grateful for the way the Lord used all of our church family and our network family as intercession was being offered throughout the travel going to France, the time of ministry in France and the time of coming back from France.

But I am also very grateful for the way that our team ministered. Monica ministered powerfully, Katie as well. And they are both joining me now on this special edition of Wednesday Night Live to give thanks to the Lord for what he has done. And I want to begin by also saying a word of thanks to our French Saints Network ministers. They coordinated things so wonderfully.

They took care of a lot of details for us. I want to thank Pastor Alan and Colette for coming from Belgium. They translated, on a number of occasions or Alan did, and on the French front, translated beautifully, and so we were greatly blessed by that. Pastor Paul from the church there in Lyon was such a help and his people were such a blessing in providing the setup of audio and recording I suppose. So to all of our French speaking network family, we're very grateful for the way that they provided for us.

You know I said we've had so many different gatherings throughout Western Europe, so many different Saints Network gatherings in France, but to me this had to be right at the top, the way the Lord ministered. So we're very grateful. So Monica, do you wanna begin by saying whatever the Lord put on your heart in reflection?

Yeah. I mean, obviously, the film is gonna be developing over the next number of days. We literally just got home and had a quick night's sleep. But I first of all, I just, of course, wanna just come alongside you and just say thank you to the Lord for his goodness to us. He knew.

He knows the end from the beginning, and he knew I mean, it there was no question that our time there in Leon was an appointed time on behalf of his throne, and it was something that he ordained from the foundation. I have no question about that. And the timing of, you know, the delay from the first time we were in Leon until this last week. The Lord showed over and over again about how he was in that and about how he has really positioned his saints there to stand and to see the fulfillment of his glory being established in that land, in that city, and of course, in in all of France and the the the the nations of Europe but it was just it was such a prophetic time. It was like the spirit of prophecy just flowed from the beginning to the end.

I believe that the intercession that went forth for, I think, nineteen weeks by our French Saints, they prayed every day for nineteen weeks on behalf of this gathering and what God wants to do at this juncture point there in France and in the Western speaking in the Western nations of France. And I believe that that intercession, which was really inspired by Sylvie, And she put the teams together, and they were so faithful to pray and then submit insights at every single, every single day. We had about 90 pages of insights going into this. And yet, you could just see the unity of the Saints because of the the fellowship of the spirit that had been going on for a number of weeks on behalf of what god wanted to do during our gathering. And so it I'm just so thankful.

Because like you've said over and over, pastor, when we go in there, it is literally like going in alongside our allies who have been standing, have been praying and fasting on behalf of what God wants to do in their nations. And it's it's so refreshing. And so powerful to be able to just come alongside them on behalf of those nations. And just the spirit of the Lord and his kingdom being established there. So I just began by giving thanks.

Because it it clearly you know, when you you say let go and let god, I mean, we definitely just let I mean, the spirit just really just guided us through the whole thing. So

Amen. Yeah. That that pre preemptive prayer by the the French saints was a phenomenal thing, but we also were blessed to have prayer coming in, this month of May by our Saints Network in really a covering way and, I know that Katie and Zach labored to prepare that and, implement it to a large degree. So Katie, is there anything you wanted to say about our our network folks here who were praying?

Yes. And forgive my voice. It's we'll talk about the the reason my voice sounds so lovely later. But, yeah, it was really one thing that I always love to do actually is is especially while I was on this journey is I would pull up that sign of genius and I'd see who was fasting with us that day. And it was just so lovely to be able to see, like, well, I know that person.

I know everybody is joining, but especially to see, like, that person specifically is fasting on this day on the behalf of this mission that we're we're part of. And it's and I I loved seeing it even not being on the Brazil journey earlier this month, but being able to see, oh, look. These people are joining. These people are engaged, and it was just lovely. Because it's not just US things either.

It's US and all around the nations that are part of that. So it was really lovely. And I will say as well, it was nice to hear just in conversation with the French the various points where they would just mention, oh, yes. I we prayed, me and this person, we were praying together in such and such group or even like, oh, pastor so and so in Brazil, I was on a prayer team. We prayed for that pastor with so and so and so and so all around the world.

And it's just so lovely. And, gosh, I know we've said it before that that the ability to be able to join internationally for not even I think in the past, it was probably, you know, yes, you can join internationally for something big, something really huge, but something so small as, but not small, but small as a as a prayer group. It is just so amazing that you can just have a call with someone in another nation on the other side of the of the planet. Yeah. And they join me.

That's so true. And I I I can say that when I was in Brazil in my cold room, I would look at that list and I would look at the calendar and I would think, okay, you know, this person, this person, this person, they're specifically fasting for the success of what God wants to do here. And it's just a strength to have such a coordinated effort of saints around the world targeting a divinely orchestrated assignment. And so Monica mentioned the way those saints were praying in France, and my goodness, I guess they said in Lyon that they had had lots of rain during the the time leading up to our arrival. And then when we got there, it was it was sunny and bright.

So they got the rain beforehand, but we got the rain when we arrived in New York at JFK. How long did we wait on that flight? We boarded the British air flight to London. It was at least two hours, wasn't it? Monica, do you remember?

Oh yeah, it was more than two hours. It was several, yeah, definitely several hours. And before you talk about that, I do want to just Mention or speak into what you just said about the clear skies I think. That was definitely a prophetic sign at least I know for me. Because in prior trips going into that city there was.

You know, we faced a lot of opposition. We faced a lot of confusion and just fogginess in our thinking and, you know, whether you say that's the prince of power of the air or the prince of this world, whatever, we faced a lot lack of clarity, if I could say that. Just in our existing there, you know, just in our being there. And that was one thing that I know I had fasted and prayed so much about is that, and pastor, you said this over and over to me, I think in more of an encouraging way, we're going in, first of all, it was eighteen years since we were there last. We're going in, you know, totally changed, totally different.

Not that we're not always going to be changing from glory to glory, but as victors as opposed to maybe just those that are going in to spy out the land. Anyway, so to me, the clear blue skies was such a sign of just that clarity that the spirit brought that really spoke to me of the and of of just overcoming those spirits that we have have really faced off with in the past. And so I know that rain is a sign, and I'm not denying that. And it's raining here, so it rained last night and we got home. But having that clear, crisp atmosphere was really a sign

to me. Oh, agree. And we did deal eighteen years ago, we were there on a few occasions. And every time in that city it was, I think confusion would be a proper description. And Lyon is a spiritual base.

I mean, it is probably the headquarters of spiritism in France over the centuries. And, well, we were talking to our friend Darius who came out of the Catholic church, and he had been trained in Catholicism, he said that, not that we care what the Catholic church thinks, but he was saying that from their perspective, Lyon was the spiritual capital of Western Europe. And so even those holy folks, and there were some sincerely holy, at that time, mystics, they called them mystics. That term has been morphed like so many other. You can't even say, you know, God is moving progressively.

Because if you say that now, it means something totally different than what, when I was growing up, that meant. But there there is, we didn't do a whole lot of spiritual warfare in the natural. We didn't do any activations, but we trained the people we saw, and we'll talk about that in just a minute. But there were some blips on the radar of confusion, like our flight being delayed going, our baggage being delayed, which made things rather interesting. Coming back, when we I did a little Marco Polo for everybody, well for my church, so those of you who didn't get it, don't have FOMO about it.

But we were trying to go through border, the frontier as they call it, to board the plane for England. And we got right up to the front of the line and they stopped the line. And these power control people from the border said, we need to let all the people going to Tunisia come and board. Well, in the meantime, our flight, our gate was closing to go to England to connect to come home. And, man, I think we all kept our cool, but we were praying, Lord, don't let this don't let this interrupt.

You're in control. The enemy's not going to swoop in and stop our ability to connect in London. And we got through just in time. We got on the plane. We made our connection.

We had a safe flight home. Our bags arrived. So even the piddling things that the enemy tried to do with confusion and with blockage, they were not successful. And God turned it to the good. So we were grateful though to see tremendous strides forward by the Saints in this gathering.

We saw tremendous growth. We saw the way that we could minister. We didn't seem to have a bunch of conference people who just moved around from place to place because that's often what we deal with when we go into France for a big meeting. They're so used to the French Christians are so used to going from this place to this place to this place and just kind of having a buffet, a movable feast as has been said about France. But these people were hungry.

These people were desirous of moving forward in Saints, and that was refreshing. So we thank God for your intercession, and we continue to pray to sum this little segment up. I think on the calendar, we're still covering against the enemy doing retributive attacks. And then I I don't have the calendar in front of me, which I should, but I think at some point this week we transition into giving thanks, and then on Sunday we have a great opportunity to rejoice together. Isn't that right, Katie?

Yes. I believe we probably I think we put the giving thanks and as well as guarding the heel on today. Okay. And going going through the week and then rejoicing on Sunday.

Yeah. So, we're trying to apply that biblical principle that God established, and especially when you're dealing with a power base where the enemy has been in control for a long time, to be able to enact that biblical principle and to stand on it is an amazing point of order, I think. And it's going to govern a lot of what we do, and particularly when we transition now in the month of June to look at Manaus. We'll see what the spirit wants to do in conjunction with our Brazilian and our French speaking allies. This is going to be a continual point of growth and standing at the throne.

So I don't know what we want to transition into now. Do we want to talk about the young people? Do we want to talk about the prayer times? Do we want to talk about the gatherings as a whole? I'm up for whatever.

So, Monica, why don't you lead us on from there? Oh,

okay. You know, many years ago, the Lord established a connection with the Deborahs, which are the the five women. We call them the banner girls, or I can't remember what you call them, pastor, but they're very, very anointed in the ministry of the banners and in intercession. We met them, two of them, in Paris the first time we went into France. Long story short, we've been walking with them for now about twenty two, twenty three years.

They have been so faithful. And they are originally all five of them were in Lyon. And Severin has gone and she's ministering in Switzerland and Armelle went into Toulouse. But Patricia and Laurence and Marjorie are still there in Lyon. And the beautiful thing is that Laurence's family, she's a big Italian family, they, them and Patricia really were the ones that hosted us there in Leon.

They had their sons and their daughters come be with us at the seminar, plus some of their friends, cousins, just an amazing combination of beautiful young people that I would say between 20 and 30, 18 and 30 or whatever. But anyway, it was such a wonderful blessing to have a good percentage of our congregation be this upcoming generation of Elisha's. And, you know, they're learning to accept this walk. And we were able to speak into them pretty much throughout every session. Because it's, you know, it's always somewhat of a gamble when you go into a place and you're bringing, you know, the fresh meat, you're bringing the monocaust revelation line upon line that was built upon.

But then you have people that perhaps need a more foundational understanding of why we do what we do. I mean, why did we start the gathering off first off in intercession? I mean, I don't normally think that that might be what conferences do. Maybe they do. I don't go to them.

Maybe you have a prayer room where people are praying. I mean, we we gather the saints, you know, first off for a time of intercession. There was obviously a lot of activations and diversities of tongues, and we talked a lot about, you know, what that what that meant as far as embracing who you are in the Lord and how he wants to move through you in in intercession. And at the same time, by the grace of God, we were still able to bring, you know, the fresh revelation that God had given us to bring. So there was a real grace on that, and we really sought the Lord for wisdom in how you navigate through having seasoned saints with also those that are younger and really need you know, they have questions, and they need they need understanding of why we do what we do.

So all that to say, the Lord really gave us grace. And yeah. So I'll I'll just hand it back to you. Yeah.

It was really we knew this was gonna happen. But to have all those young people there was a shock to me because, and they were anticipating, they were waiting for this gathering. And normally it's mature adults, well, I don't want to say mature, some of them are pretty immature, but you know, people that were older that would be in our meetings. Here we had all these young people and when we lined them up to pray for them on Sunday, how many were up there? I don't wanna speak evangelistically.

You think maybe 20?

Yeah, I'd say between fifteen, fifteen to 20.

And man, the power of the Lord was just all over them and they were moving. To have some of them now teaching and translating and being willing to travel to be missionaries with us into other countries, that's astounding to me.

Yeah, and let me just add to what you just said. You know, Ossian, she she translated a lot for us, and she's really good at it. And and she's good at it because she's connected. You know, she's she's really connected in spirit with us. And and to have her really be the voice in their language to what God was speaking over them and to them, I think was so powerful and such, really a testimony for them to think, you know, here's this very cool, very beautiful, very on fire young woman who with passion is speaking the word of God.

Cause whenever I have somebody translate with me, it's not like they're just saying what I'm saying. I, you know, you pray that they in the anointing are delivering the message and the language. And I think just as a as contemporary with these, you young people, I think that the Lord orchestrated that, and I'm thankful for that.

Yeah. I totally agree. What say ye, Kate?

No. I I absolutely agree as well. And I was thinking of a time I believe it was well, was one of the times that Saints was was translating for you, pastor. I think it was during a prayer. You were making declarations over over the people.

And and I just I witnessed I mean, did it throughout, but I witnessed so much of her just when she was translating, she was using her hands. Yes. But she was releasing in the same way that you were releasing, and I could sense the spirit. I could sense that she was releasing in the same power that you were because she was that conduit for what the Lord was releasing through you. And I made sure to tell her.

I was like, that was very cool. Like, you were really engaged and that's I pray that all of our translators just like you said, Monica, I pray that all of our translators just are fully engaged and and functioning in that in in the as a conduit for the Lord and and in releasing what it is that's being released in English over the body of saints. It's just it was very powerful. I was very blessed by that as well.

Yeah, you know, Ocean was translating for Monica and I told Monica, I said it was like a mirror because anything Monica said, Ocean was just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom saying that very thing. And it just is so helpful to be able to minister in that way. For me usually, and there were some times where pastor Alan was translating for Monica and sometimes that, as Katie said, Ocean was translating for me, but primarily it was Alan for me and Ocean for Monica primarily and Katie also when Katie taught. Now Alan,

Pat Well that was called scene translated for me.

Oh that's right, I'm sorry. You know, they look so much alike. I get them confused. But yeah. That's true.

But, you know, pastor Allen works with me every Monday doing message of the week now. So he's been a friend for a long, long time. When we first met he and Colette when we were going up to Tornay to minister at pastor Michelle's church, Michael, pastor Michael, pastor Michelle, who's since gone on to be with the Lord. But Alan was come to basically be a liaison to translate for us. And Alan was just kind of there.

He was

funny, but he was just there helping his uncle. But over the years we've become, all of us, friends with them. And now that he's doing the message of the week, he's becoming more and more Saints oriented. And so it's nice to have two really strong translators who are familiar with the message, who are aligned with us as saints, and who for the most part are emulating and embracing or embracing and emulating the message and the identity of the saints, that makes all the difference in the world. It really, really does.

And so I even forget how we got on this topic. Oh, the young one's coming. There was Amy Matopesh who was there, really smart girl. Both of those girls grew up. When we first met them, they're mothers, they were just little kids and now there they are embracing the message.

And that's been something the enemy has tried to destroy. He's attacked our ability to have the next generation come in. This Elisha anointing, which God prophesied both in Brazil, and as Monica said here in France, really a breakthrough. And so we just need to continue to pray now that God will develop that. We're hoping to have both Ocean and Amy to be teachers on our platform.

We're hoping to have a young man Vinny and some others from Brazil translate on the platform. God is building this. And so we just thank the Lord for the continual fulfilling of what he prophesied that the Elisha's were coming, they were going to be standing alongside, and they will be moving in a double portion of the anointing and by that, instead of us vacating, we're standing there and they're standing alongside and it's a great, great blessing. So Monica, anything you want to add to that or?

No. No. I just I guess I would just say that we really, the IN, as the mature ones, we need to be covering these young ones in prayer. We need wisdom to know how to really disciple them and the deep things of the spirit. And we just ask the Lord for help with that, to know how we do that.

Because, you know, I was even talking this morning at the table about this need and, you know, how we can best, whether it be like through Zoom or however we can best, you know, disciple them. Because, you know, I mean, I'm just gonna speak truthfully. I look back at, say for instance, Switzerland. And when we were ministering a lot in Switzerland, we had so many young people that just were coming to our meetings and they were still on fire for the Lord. And I was actually talking to Olivia about it this morning at the table.

I said, I don't want to lose these ones. I the Lord to I wanna seek the Lord as to how we can really just come alongside and help cultivate their walk in the Lord. So just please just be in prayer about that.

Yeah.

We, you know, we being a ministry, a teaching ministry where we do teach light upon line and you know, it's always, we're always going after the new thing god is saying but we really need help in in in establishing just a foundational base of teaching where we can just provide that for for the young ones that are coming alongside. And then we know by prophecy what god has said that he's gonna exponentially, by his grace, just promote them and just move them forward quickly. So I all I would say is just let's all just be in prayer about that.

Yeah. That's that is such a a needed aspect. We need we need some of them to rise up as leaders because so the enemy uses so many ways. Youthful lusts, Paul says, and that just doesn't go on. You know, that's other things pulling.

And we need some to receive an anointing to rise up as ramrods and leaders to say, all right, let's go forward. Come on, let's go. So let yeah. Maybe we need to do don't anybody besiege Monica. When's this happening?

I'm just creating this for the first time here, so give us a breathing room. We just got back. Maybe we need to put together a fivefold or some kind of a pursuit to pray about this and to ask the Lord for directive wisdom, both in Brazil and in France. And I think that some of the ideas of how to do that are already germinating, but ideas without extensions from them and the anointing upon that extension are just ideas. But you're right, man.

In Switzerland we saw religion captivated some of those young people.

We had those same influences there in Leon.

And theosophic pursuits, which is another name for what Richard Rohr and some of those progressive ideologies would say that God is in everything, God is everywhere. So let's just open up to the spirit realm, which is basically an all you can eat buffet of demonism. That's really strong there. Other movements move in. Well, we've got this big band.

Let's come over with us. Know, all kinds of dating, know, come with us. You know, anything that could draw young people away. But we need the anointing to just to just inflame them and like young Timothy. So we'll we'll do something to that end.

And I know this is kind of a unique topic, but Katie, do you have anything you want to add to that or should we just move on?

No, I think you guys have covered it, but yeah, I love that thought for the for praying regarding covering the the youth because it's it's throughout those the two nations we've mentioned as well as here. So it's it's definitely something that we could use that the Lord's guidance on.

Yeah. Well, let's let's talk for a minute. Well, for how many ever minutes about another aspect of this because the way that God fulfills his promise. So eighteen years ago, we went to Lyon and we spoke about the Valley Of Dry Bones. And these powerful intercessors that Monica mentioned were right there with us.

And when we left Lyon, man, the enemy ravenously came against all of them and against the promise that was given. So first of all, I want to give thanks that the enemy was not able to stop what God said, and that he was able to preserve not only these intercessors, but their lineage. And the promise of the Lord released into that city is not forgotten, but the hands that laid that promise are still active to bring to fulfillment that promise. So Monica, would you talk about what you released from Haggai and you know, in conjunction, you know, all of that promise for Zechariah and Zechariah four, and what then happened with Patricia, who is a mainstay leader there in Lyon.

Yeah. So, you know, in prep for for ministry, I know that that all three of us were before the Lord as to what he would have us to release. And almost instantly, when I began to pray about it, I really felt so strongly that he wanted me to speak on the Ur, which is the awakening of the spirit. We all know that teaching. And because I from the first time I was there, and just in processing over the years, to me, Leon is this thing to that I think I've ever been.

Mhmm. The closest place. Yeah. I mean, very high like you said, pastor, I mean, probably the most spiritually just heightened, one of the heightened, most heightened places, probably in the world.

And let me let me just mention, just bookmark. Yeah. Some would wonder, what do you mean by that? And to me, I think that there is a bastion of the glory of the Lord that had been developed by probably some early, well, first of all, developed by some early Christians that was then absconded by the Celts and, well the Celts were there at the beginning, the Celtic people originated from there. And when Rome came in, they drove those people out because they were so obstinately opposed to Roman rule and they were such spiritual people that it created chasms.

So the Celts were driven out of Europe into Ireland and into some parts of Scotland. And then from that point, this spiritism was prevalent everywhere. And it was probably indicative in Pilate came from Lyon, his wife came from Lyon, and remember she was the one that was troubled in dreams, that Pilate should let Jesus alone. And that wasn't a godly thing because there's no way that God was saying, you better not crucify this guy because that's why Jesus came. This was a spiritual entity probably out of that base of where they grew up that was saying, even though the princes of this world were gung ho to crucify the Lord, at least some of them, maybe in a Magi type of way, was saying, you better not do this, you better not do this.

But Pilate did it anyway, which was what God brought that time to do. So what I think, and of course I'm not God, but I'm trying to be perceptive, is that this place is inhabited by not one fallen principality, but by several influence in exousia levels, and they all kind of coordinate, which is why you see different different types of influences of the demonic coming together in a way that you don't see in other places. It's like Ur. It's like when Paul went to Cyprus and he met Elamos. It's like when Simon, was a Magi, Magioi, it's like what he did, and there's power there.

God is greater, but this is the influence that's there. And God is in control. God is raising up people who are going to indigenously stand and take back through the power of the cross what God wants. But what Monica's gonna tell you about now is really the inception of God bringing this message of the saints, those that embraced it, the opposition that came, and how God is so faithful. I'm sorry to interrupt that.

But when both of us say this was a really spiritual place, that's what we mean.

Amen. Amen. Yes. So so I I was just studying out just, you know, reviewing some of the scriptures that where Ur is used in the Old Testament. And I happened upon the very first prophecy that Isaiah brought, where he says, I'm going to raise him up.

He was referring to Cyrus the king. I'm going to raise him up. I'm going to direct him in my ways. He's going to build my city and let the captives go. And that was like one hundred and fifty years before Ezra came on the scene and began to prophesy by the word of the Lord that the Lord was going to stir up the spirit of Cyrus to actually lead and see that temple was rebuilt and the captives were set free.

And it says, in Ezra one, it says, And he stirred up the spirits of the priests, the sons, the Levites, and all the remnant whom god had awakened them to actually go and build the house of the lord and so we were basically prophesying into them that god was going to not only rebuild the Tabernacle Of David there that it was going that city was gonna be a dwelling place of god's glory and praise once again and that he was calling us. He was awakening us to to be those ones that did that and so that was that was the release over them and the commission over them. But then what happened the biblical days is there was a delay. The people got I mean, probably because of the opposition and a multitude of other influences, there was a delay and they stopped building. And then what you find is eighteen years later, you find the prophecy of Haggai and Zachariah simultaneously where they come back and they speak it again.

And it's where the Lord stirred up or awakened the spirit of Zerubbabel and of Joshua and the whole remnant to go in and to rebuild and to establish Jerusalem once again as a dwelling place of God's presence. And the beautiful thing about it is that when I did the math and I looked back at the last time we were in Lyon, which was 2008, and I I literally, like, put it in my calculator, and it was exactly eighteen years ago. And so to me, it spoke that this was an annoy you know, an appointed time where god is saying, I'm commissioning the Levites, the priests, the sons, the remnant to come alongside and to, yeah, I'm gonna stir your spirit to to to finish this, to see this fulfilled. And the crazy thing about it to me is that, you know, at our Adonai seminar, and then again at this seminar, pastor spoke on the gulah out of Zechariah four, and that's the exact passage where he speaks about Zerubbabel being stirred up and about, you know, not by might, not by power, but by my spirit and what your, you know, what your right hand has begun, your left hand will see it fulfilled, speak grace, praise to the mountain.

And it all just came together like this is what God is saying. This is the time. I mean, it's been eighteen years, but now is the time. And I just found that so profound. And so we released those words over them through that teaching and through the teaching that pastor did.

And after we were finished on Sunday night, Patricia, who's really the leader there of the intercessors, she came up to me and she was just blown away. And she said, You don't know this, but eighteen years ago, after she and Armel and Severin came to Dallas at the Valley of Dry Bones that we did in March, we went into Leon right after that in May and did a Valley of Dry Bones seminar there in Leon. And that's the eighteen years ago that we're referring to. She said, in that interim time, the Lord spoke these very passages over her, over Leon. And they were rejected.

And now

By the leadership there.

Yeah. And now to look what God has done. I mean, they have stood, but there's been a tearing. There's been a delay. But God's been in all of it.

And and just the reality that God was speaking this over them afresh this weekend, encouraging and saying, okay, now is the time. It just it I mean, she She had tears flowing down her She was just like, God is so good to us. I marvel at the goodness of God.

You became aware of that, you shared it with me and we felt, you know, Patricia needs to get up and declare that passage from Haggai again and talk about this. And she did so in such a graceful manner. She didn't really talk about the rejection. She just said this was a promise that God gave and now here we are and it's been reiterated. As she did, as you said, you know, tears were streaming down.

Not that, you know, it was an emotional moment and everybody responded, not just because of tears, but the prophetic indication that was obviously there. And that was a PowerPoint. It reminded me, you know, so many times in history. See there? Every time the bell rings, an angel gets

his wing.

When MacArthur had to leave The Philippines and the Bataan death march happened, and then when the Americans came back, the commander of the Philippine forces was brought back, and he stood there triumphant. And, you know, these these intercessors have remained faithful all these years. And we didn't go back to Lyon by choice. It's just that the door did not open. And we were going other places in France.

But God opened this and I think that was a profound that was a profound thing and that was really powerful. Katie, was there anything you wanted to add to that? I know we're kind of talking lots of stuff here.

No. I think you guys have covered this one pretty well. Very well.

Well, what about the worship time? We you you were able to partner some with pastor it's funny, pastor Paul. He doesn't look at all like our old Pastor Paul, but I'm very grateful for having two pastors, Alan and this brother, who were there, but he was helping to a degree in and his brother Pierre were helping with the worship. Is there anything you wanted to say about that?

Yes. I wanted to to talk about that. So I know they mentioned. So yes. So, actually, pastor Paul himself, he he was not able to to play with us, but he is very much a a worship a worshiper at heart.

And but his brother his twin brother, Pierre, he he did. He played with with me. He played the bass. And my goodness, he's a very good bass player. And it was really lovely and very easy to work with him.

And it was just it really brought just another level of the spirit as as we were playing together. It just brought such poignance to what we did. And like they mentioned before that pastor Paul and Pierre and with the aid of Noel's husband, Herve, and and what's the name of the other gentleman? Was it was he Ronnie, I think, is his name? Something like Ron or Ronnie, which I thought was fun.

Well, it's a triumphant name.

It is a triumphant name.

It is.

But they brought in this equipment from their church. Lots of lots of equipment. So wonderful speakers and amps and a little soundboard and their microphones and everything. And it was just wonderful to have essentially sound techs there with us the entire time.

Which we've never had before.

Never. It's it was marvelous. And so if there were weird screechy sounds or the mic dies or something happened, they were able to come in and just fix it. And it was just like, that's a huge blessing. But on the side of worship, you know, I already mentioned Pierre playing and that being such a blessing to me and I know to the to everyone.

I'll note I'll I'll note this as as a bit of a testimony where you can hear my voice right now. I'm very sick. I haven't been getting sick when I travel to these nations like I used to. I used to always get some sort of a cold, but this was very fun. But from the very beginning, my throat hurt and it hurt throughout the whole time and I thought, oh lord, just cover.

Just let it let me be able to do what I've gotta do because I needed to be I needed to be able to sing and play and and and also got the opportunity to speak at one point. And it's like, god. Keep my voice. And and, honestly, I there were so many times I would I would get up there and I'd I'd get ready to play and I would think, okay. Well, I'll just do what I can.

I'll sing what I can. But then the Lord just poured out through me. And I think I and again, I I say this without any any ounce of pride or sense that, oh, it was me that did this because it was not. That the Lord really just released through the piano, through my voice, and through through having Pierre there in partnership, a man of Lyon in partnership in that city, and every time was so blessed. And it and it didn't to me, sometimes I worry because it's another language as well as just thinking, okay.

Well, I've got several worship times that I'm doing. I don't wanna be repetitive. I don't wanna sound like I'm just singing the same song every time. But it didn't feel that way. It felt like it was a different different flavor every every time that I got up to to play that the lord just the spirit moved in a different way every time and it just really you could sense just the wind of the spirit moving.

And despite my physical failings and whatever the enemy was trying to do in attacking in a his his stomach kind of way that the Lord was able to prevail. And even on the final day when I actually finally was losing my voice, which was Monday, I still was able to play multiple times during the ministry and it just it again, it felt like the Lord just was moving. And it was I'd so I say I speak that as just a a testimony of what the Lord the Lord's power and what he can do even in our physical weakness and and despite enemy attempts to stop. Because if I had lost every I lost my voice at the beginning, I don't know. I guess we would have had instrumental worship.

Yeah. Monica and I would have had to late lead by tap dancing or something, which would have been a real blessing.

Right.

Well, we couldn't God really did bless because you couldn't tell you were having any vocal difficulties. And you spoke and we're almost out of time here. Where does the time go?

The

last day, Monday, we did communion, but it was one of them, I think it was the most powerful concluding day we've ever had. And the way the Lord ministered the communion, and you didn't really need to sing. Need to just play every now and then. Monica, do you wanna talk about that?

Yeah. You know, it's always hard for me to close because that means a soon a soon farewell, which is always hard. But we just honestly, I mean, we had no agenda other than we knew we wanted to take communion together and address the bitter sop. And the Lord just the spirit just led us just from one thing to another. I think we accomplished more during those two and a half hours than maybe we ever have.

Yeah.

Just just the lord I mean, the progression of it was just so perfectly orchestrated by the spirit. And the beautiful thing about it is that all of our saints were just they were, you know, on the ready. I mean, they were just totally just engaged through every part of it. And we had the anointing of the hands, which was a prophetic word based on just the revelation of oil and what God was going to do with our left and our right hands our right and our left hands, and how he was going to use us to fulfill what God had commissioned to do. And so we had our three pastors anoint the palms of our hands.

That was very powerful. We had several people who had submitted prophetic words that we activated upon. And everybody just stepped up. Everybody just flowed so flawlessly with the spirit and what he was doing. And then when it was over, it was over, but it's not over.

It's a new beginning. And I think everybody People were coming to me saying, We have to have the next seminar in Lyon. We have to. It's been too good. And like, okay, okay.

We'll seek the Lord about that. But it was really such a beautiful way to conclude, but also to launch us into just this next season of the amazing things God's going do, not only in that city, but in that nation and throughout Belgium and Switzerland and Luxembourg. And we prayed for people that needed healing. And, anyway, I could go on and on, but it was just really a beautiful prophetic conclusion, ceiling.

Was. It really, really was. And, you know, I I'll end this by saying that when we concluded on Monday, we then had a meal with a number of the with the with the intercessors from Lyon, and it was really precious with pastor Allen and some a couple of other folks. And then normally we would have been leaving to to to part, but without going into details, we weren't really sure at the beginning whether we were going to have an evening meeting that night. We didn't have anything planned for that night.

And I remember each of us just went and rested, and I felt, and I think I speak for everybody, so spiritually poured out that I just needed to be laying before the Lord for for the few hours, that we had that evening. And you could tell that not only physically had we exerted ourselves, but spiritually we were being poured out. And then in that atmosphere of totally offering that expression to the Lord, he came in a unique way. And then, of course, that next morning, we had to get ready for a full day of travel. And we're so grateful for the safety and the way the Lord watched over us.

But, I just again, to close this because we're now an hour in, we want to thank you for your partnership because this is our mission as Saints. And this month, we still are in this fifth month, it is a month of prayer. We we now need to be continuing to watch against retributive attacks of the enemy in combination, not just with Leon, but for all that God done has done in this month. We need to be praying for the people that were touched there, that God would cover them. We need to be interceding in the spirit.

That's the beauty of diversities of tongues. We can be praying exactly what needs to be done. So we need to be investing ourselves. And then we'll come together this weekend and have a celebratory time on Saturday and Sunday. And then we look forward as May ends and we go into June, the prep time going now into Manaus because there's a lot of things God's wanting to develop there.

So again, thank you. Thank you for your partnership. Thank you for your prayers. This month of prayer is not over. So as so often is the case, we as Christians go and we do something and we say, yay, Lord, and then we don't cover the heel.

We don't keep praying earnestly for those seeds not to be stolen by the enemy. Parable of the sower mind you. And this is just good. It's it's it's an extension and a growth period for us as saints, and I think God is continuing to train us. And we but we just give thanks.

We give thanks for his goodness and we look forward to what is coming next. So I speak blessing over Monica, various things that are going on with her family and her sacrifice and being willing to go and minister. I speak blessing over Katie. We ask health and immediate strengthening into her body. I I thank you that you were with me and with the host of people that are marching forward as saints.

We give it all to you, father, and we thank you for the privilege of being able to serve. We seal this now triumphantly with great thanksgiving, and we present it to you, our Lord Jesus, for the will of the father to be done. We love you. We thank you. And we ask all of this in your wonderful name, Jesus.

Amen.

Okay.

Unless there's some last minute thing either of you want to say, is there? No.

Bless Thanks

everybody. We'll look forward to reaching out on Friday with the devotional And this weekend, triumphant time. I know wherever you're gathering together as saints here from the Father's Church, we don't know exactly what we're going to be doing, but it is a celebration time. And just FYI, surprisingly, we have Pastor William Bukenya, who we met in Uganda and who's now ministering in Ottawa, Canada. He's coming down here to spend some days in prayer.

So you may even see a word, not a message, but a greeting from him on Sunday. We'll see. So thanks for joining us. Thank you Monica. Thank you Katie.

And God bless all of you. Goodbye. And again, we give thanks to the Lord.