Ministering to the French team with Jessica
Some dreams are over in moments, some melt and disappear on waking, others, like fine wine grow and mature over time till years later we can uncork something that has been contemplated, turned over and yearned for over years. Years ago whilst I was studying at the University of Cape Town I was on the way back from the showers one day when I felt the Lord tell me that I would preach the gospel in France. I have waited a long time to see that become a reality. This last week I saw the beginning of the realization of that dream when a team of 22 young people came out from France to receive prayer, teaching and impartation to take revival back to France. They are now home and we are already hearing wonderful reports of the presence of God breaking out in cities across France. Many say that France is a “hard, dry place” but that is no problem for the Holy Spirit. What follows is a testimony from Cecile a young woman who came and got radically touched here in East London. One of the sessions that particularly impacted her was the one my 12 year old daughter took where she shared her experience of “going to heaven” at Bethel and then showed them how they too could access heaven. Cecile went, encountered God and came back a changed woman. What we need to realize is that girls like Jessica not only have a message for us they ARE the message! The message is that God is pouring out His Spirit on all people in this hour. Men and women, young and old, Jews and gentiles, rich and poor. There is a global out pouring in progress get ready for revival on a scale we have only dreamed about.
Cecile’s Testimony
Dearly loved South Africans
How do I explain what is happening since returning to France? So much to tell!First of all, I want to say what I experienced during this magnificent time, is by far the most beautiful week of my life. I truly want to thank you and bless you for the love that you gave us. I have never felt such love before and I believe that it has completely transformed me. I could never have truly imagined that this day would eventually arrive – this day for which I have been waiting for so long – where I was free to love and where I could affirm that I have met my God. But I have met my God and this meeting has totally swept me off my feet. God has completely opened me up… set me free.
Thank you for your welcome and your love. Thank you because you gave to us without counting and you changed me from who was handicapped in love to someone who loves and loves and loves … oouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh!
Well, this is what has happened. When I was with you in East London, I thought a lot about my return to France. I have the good fortune to be able to share very easily with the leaders of my church because it is a small church and my uncle and aunt, with whom I am very close, are the leaders. When I experienced all these things, when I saw this revival with my eyes, this love, I felt that I was living what my church has always been looking for. I knew that I would be free to share what I had experienced. But I truly had the desire to not only tell what I had happened to me, but allow them to experience it – they would not just be words, but an experience.
I felt the importance of the experience and the choice that you had made to stop to seek His presence was the key to everything that followed. That from His presence followed love. From love comes the power, the joy, the life … the freedom. I understood that this was the key to revival, at least in our church in France. Simply to stop everything and wait for our Jesus – wait for His presence. And it is beginning for here that the Lord fills us with His love, like you, to bless our friends, our church, our town and our country.So that’s what I had decided to share because I felt that this was the key.
Monday evening, my uncle and my aunt (with whom I now live) and the young people of the church were invited to say goodbye to Jason, a young man who is leaving for Quebec this year. Matilda and I were full of the love of the Lord for them. Ha-ha, completely changed by God’s love… Many asked us, “Oulalala, what has happened?” Then Matilda and I hugged (perhaps the first spontaneous hug of our lives) and it all began. Several people asked me to tell them what I had experienced and why I was shining so much with the love of God. I didn’t want to only tell them, I wanted them to experience it. I started to tell them the most important thing I learned in South Africa: the choice that you made three years ago, to stop and wait for the presence of God. Then I told how from that came this unconditional love that I saw in you, and power, and joy…
They saw the change in me and burned with desire to experience the same. No one spoke anymore. Everyone had stopped eating. I took a glass, and I filled it with God and I drank it! And there … HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA JOY!
The French team, worshiping wildly dancing to shift the atmospheres over continents
Matilda began to laugh with me and my aunt also … Some were afraid and a little taken aback, but others asked us to pray for them there in the garden between two chips… They WANTED His presence. We began to pray for them and God’s words came to our mouths. I had never experienced that but I let it flow. I redressed each one with a different mantle. We prophesied over them and filled them up with the love of the Lord. We blessed them and gave them everything we had received. It was truly amazing and funny.
Words came out of our mouths, the Lord showed us what was in their hearts and revealed Himself to them. That night the Lord enabled me to see how He saw them. The French feel so small!!! God showed me in each one what He had made and I told them. Little by little, they felt full of power, loved, treasured by Him who had created and chosen them as they were.
Some retreated into the house, a little afraid seeing me like this, haha… But these are my friends so they had seen the change. I think that they were just afraid because the knew it was contagious and they were afraid to start doing strange things in the garden, hahaha… But others stayed and all said to us that they wanted the love of God. I felt that, like I was before, they did not know the love of God, and that they had the impression that this only happened to others, that when they asked God for His presence, they did not feel Him and therefore thought they were not worthy. So Matilda and I began to repeat what we had heard in South Africa and which had done us so much good. GOD DESIRES TO TOUCH YOU ABOVE ALL SO WHEN YOU APPROACH HIM, HE IS THERE AROUND YOU EVEN IF YOU DON’T FEEL HIM. We shared with them what we learnt about God, that He is there even before we ask Him, and that the absence of a physical manifestation doesn’t mean anything… I felt that for many felt blocked, that they felt like they had a problem which prevented them from experiencing the presence of God…
So little, by little, we told them how God saw them, how much God loved them and we hugged them to give them the love of God. We experienced a particularly super moment with Jason. I felt he had a fear to let himself go in the Lord (haha, just like me before) and I told him what I had experienced. I felt like he had a fear of falling in the presence of the Lord. So Matilda told him of an experience she had had. He really fell in His presence. And Matalida felt that the Lord wanted to meet him in heaven so in the same way that Jessica showed us, we guided him up the staircase… Jason encountered his Father in heaven. He gave him big hugs. They went tobogganing together until they fell into a big bit of water. When he came back down, I saw a new Jason. A Jason who knew the love of the Lord. ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh! A Jason who had fallen in love with his God!
Mathilde and I were so happy… We found this even better than in South Africa, and so happy to see that ITS POSSIBLE HERE ALSO!!! It is crazy how the Lord used us together. He told me exactly when it was better for Mathilda to speak. We complemented one another. And when we prayed for the people, we did it together and our words confirmed each other. This unity was amazing. There in the garden, in a moment, God came and filled us up… pfiouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. They wanted more, so we decided to meet again the next morning at the church for a time of soaking.
My cousin Anna (14years) came to see me and told me that for the last 3 years she spent her nights waiting for the presence of God, however she felt that God wasn’t there. I prayed for her and felt that she was pregnant, that she was chosen by God. I saw that she was the thirstiest girl in France for Jesus – she had an intense thirst for Jesus. I didn’t truly understand why that for three years she had waited in her bedroom and he didn’t come. That night, on the internet, I spoke to Jonathan from South Africa. I asked him to explain it to me and pray for Anna. He also had a picture of Anna pregnant with France. I saw Mary in Anna, so we renamed her Anna-Marie. Jonathan saw her chosen by God to give birth to the nation of France…
The next day we found ourselves at the church soaking with Jesus. For our music, we put on ‘Jika’ and it was magnificent. The power of the Lord fell, freedom as well. Thomas was called by the Lord, “CRAZY LAUGHTER OF GOD”, an anointing of joy fell on this french warrior. Jonathan felt we needed to anoint him with oil. Hahaha, cool! Benoit was clothed in a mantle of power and called, “the lion”, “You are not a cat, you are a lion.” He was completely overwhelmed by the presence of God. Odile, my aunt, saw water in the room and she had fun in it. Hahaha. We experienced an amazing moment and no one was forgotten…
Since then my friends in Nantes have asked us to come to their house to share with them what we have experienced. We are in the midst of preparations for the wedding of my cousin on Saturday, but despite that people from the church have been filing through the house to receive what we have to give them from South Africa. I sense a thirst which is the key to wells and a great wave which is coming.I never stop laughing and giving hugs. I used to be so shut down to love!!!
I am transformed by His love and my friends see. I see it!!! My relationships with my family (friends and brothers) was broken. I now feel a love which has replaced all the anger that was in me. My parents are going to arrive in Nantes this afternoon. I am going to jump on them and give them the big hugs I haven’t given them my whole life.
My friends in France, be assured that revival has started here…
As for me, the Lord has put His love in my heart. I am filled and happy, I feel completely changed. For such a long time I have wanted this dimension in my life. I am truly touched by the love of God. He is showing me His plans for my life. He has fulfilled all my desires. I feel like hugging everyone I meet and blessing them. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Revival has started. The youth who were here at soaking yesterday have themselves shared with their families. Many of them in turn, have shared the presence of God with their friends and experienced super moments. The love of God has been released. And for the people of Nantes who have waited for so long, this moment has arrived.
The key, is to stop to wait for the Lord and He comes!!! HE COMES!!! Revival has started here. I know it. I feel it.
French people, I really want to encourage you, you haven’t lost what you received in South Africa, on the plane. South Africans, thank you because you are always with us. We need your prayers, but I know that you are praying lots for us and for our country.
Cecile
Cécile
In the next post I will share another testimony of a class full of Kids here in East London who are getting rocked by the love of God and an awesome christian woman who has learnt how to call out the treasure in her class. The world cup is over, but world revival is here, feel it, feed it, LIVE IT!
