Sonshine's Blog

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Come and See What's Happening at the Barn !

Our friend Steve Lapp, had a vision to have a continuos 24 hr. a day meetings for several days in a red barn, where everyone could come and intercede and worship the Lord. Our main focus was to intercede for the Amish community and for the state of Pennsylvania, our country, Israel and of course the world. A few of us got together at a beautiful barn owned by a precious Christian couple who had been praying for ten years for that barn to be used for the purposes of G-d. We prayed to see if this was to be the place, and after waiting a few days for the answer it was decided that it was to be there.

It was marvellous to see how the Lord provided tons of food brought in on skids. We prayed about the items needed, and the next day or so, it was there. The Amish men and women worked tirelessly for hours cleaning, sorting, organizing, cooking, building a stage, stacking bails of hay for seating, arranging tables and chairs, and the list went on.

Exitement was in the air as everyone anticipated December 23, when it all would start at 3:00 p.m. The week before, we met nightly for prayer and Howard and I would lead the worship.
We also would gather around and take turns praying over the air at a conference call focused on the needs of the Amish community and supporting many who desire a closer experience with the Lord. One particular night, we finished the conference call, and gathered to worship. I played a prophetic song called "Breathe Prophesy," that speaks of Ezekiel's vision of the valley of the dry bones, and everyone began to dance and rejoice and making declarations refering to the army of G-d. After the song was over, we continued to dance and to worship and a cloud of glory entered in the place. There were many signs that the Lord was pleased and in agreement with the Glory Barn experience.

Many people were touched by the Lord, there were many annointed messages from various men of God. I was the only woman who preached on the platform. My message was on unity, grace and judgementalism. I addressed the religious spirit rooted in insanity, and crazy as it was to see, some men walked out because I was preaching with my head uncovered and I was wearing pants! The next day, some Amish sisters that I'm very close to, said that they were proud of me and offered great encouragement. Ed Silvoso would have been proud of me, too.

One night after leadindg the women in a circle dance of worship, we all ended up on our knees, in deep, personal adoration of the King of Glory. This was a totally new experience for these precious Amish sisters. I prompted them to pur out their hearts in loving words to the Lord and bless Him. His presence was all around us, I will never forget it! I suddenly found myself on my hands and knees, weeping and travailing uncontrollably, I had the sense that I was giving birth.
The Holy Spirit brought to my rememberance that He had told me from the mouth of 3 different prophets that I was pregnant with something. The last of them told me that I would soon give birth. That was around five months ago, and I had forgotten about it, until I went into labor. I have a sense that it has to do with the Revival of the Amish, thse new people in my life whom I love so much , that are not my people.

Yes, many things happened in the spirit realm at that Glory Barn, some we will hear about and some we will know when we get to heaven. One thing for sure is: When you're busy with God's things, He does mind boggling things!

Amish "Glory Barn" Experience




They came from many places for four days to worship and intercede at all hours


These are three women from Indiana
worshipping the Lord together in unity

Behold how good and how pleasant it is.....

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Our New Assignment-

We finally left Florida in September 2006, to embark on our maiden voyage. Destination: Native American Tribes in the West, primarily the Navajo. We planned to rendezvous with chief Nigel Bigpond, whom we met while ministering at "Thunder on the Mountain" in Alabama in 2005. Two years prior, an intercessor friend had mentioned that we needed to contact Chief Jay Swallow. We finally got to meet him through Cindy Jacobs last summer. Both these chiefs run Two Rivers Native American training center in Oklahoma. They invited us to partake in their advanced spiritual warfare training: S.W.A.T.

We took a detour to Pennsylvania to visit friends and do some final tweeking on our new bus. It didn't make sense to me to go north before heading west, but I have been taught by the Holy Spirit to follow the cloud by day and the fire by night; don't question, just trust Him and move on.
When we arrived in Pennsylvania, the Lord marvelouslly revealed His plan for us. He began to put a supernatural love in my heart and my daughter, Shaenah's heart for the Amish people. We didn't know much about them, only the lilttle we saw in films. There is a mystery surrounding these people that peaked our interest, not from a queer touristy way, more of a spiritual leadindg of sorts. Every time Shaenah and I would see an Amish buggy, we would yell out, "Amish alert, Amish Alert!", to see if we could get a glimpse of these people that God was preparing our hearts for. To our disdain, the friends that were hosting us didn't like the Amish and would make unpleasant remarks about them and tell us stories that absolutely broke our hearts. What grieved us the most was, that they were actually annoyed and cross at us for liking the Amish so much! We were starting to feel very uncomfortable at our friends house even though we truly like them and their children very much. We tried to minister to our friends and see if we could be an instrument of healing to them, but they were not ready.

THE LORD CLOSED A DOOR AND OPENED A NEW ONE

While visiting "Life Center" in Harrisburg, we were invited by Abigail, the president of the Hershey's Women's Aglow, to lead the worship at their meeting in Hershey Town. She introduced us to three Amish brothers who were to pick us up and transport us to the mee

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Journey to Destiny

For the past fifteen years or so the Father has been training me to hear His voice, to use the spiritual authority that He gave me and teaching me who I am in Him. The methodology that the Father has used with me has been incredible and enlightening, substance that books are made of. At times when I shared what the Father had been showing me, the responses from others were two fold: either they were incredulous and looked at me if I were from another galaxy or grieviously to me, they became envious. I quickly learned that some were not ready to understand what I was experiencing. Another factor was that I was to be quiet and not share with others, which was the hardest thing for me, being childlike in nature, I wanted to share the delightful events I was experiencing.

Through the course of time I met others who understood and we were able to tell me about their own encounters and experiences with the Lord. I could be in their presence and hours would seem as minutes as we stood in the water fall of His presence. I now understand how apostles are a gift to the body of Christ.

In my journal, I shall like to write about the downloads that my Father gives me they are personal to me of course because it is my journey after all. Some of you will delight in what I write, others might question, and later understand as they might encounter similar experiences. All I know is that the Father is speaking, to us and through us and that all creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God to be revealed on the earth.

UNTIL MY NEXT POST....SHALOM!
His servant, Sonshine