Last night (Feb 4) we were going to have a new-wine party because Daina and Ken Doucet and Cheryl Weber and Penny Spence and David Holmes were out visiting the SF Bay Area. (They are from the TACF, and 4 of the 5 of them are on staff there.) Daina and her husband were staying at my house and the others at a friend's house. About an hour before the guests were due to arrive, Daina decided she'd like to go to the grocey store to get some grapes and cheese for the party. So we went. As we walked through the enterence, Daina was telling me about a friend and said, "She's a real prayer warrior..."

The person directly in front of us turned around and said, "A prayer warrior, huh?"

So I asked him if he was a Christian. He said he was and then began telling us about his church and making other christian type of small talk. His wife went on ahead to go collect her groceries. We chatted for a few minutes and then he mentioned that he had been sick.

I am not sure what came over me, but I asked him if he'd like Daina and I to lay hands on him and pray for healing. He said ok, so we did. We were standing in the main asile right by the door, and a lot of folks were coming and going past us as we stood there. As we began to pray, the Lord's presense increased tangibly in the area. The guy's eyelids began to flutter and he began to sway. The Holy Spirit was clearly all over him. In fact, both Daina and I could feel the Lord's presense quite strongly ourselves. We only prayed for about 3 minutes or so. When we finished, the guy opened his eyes and thanked us. He went to catch up with his wife and Daina and I began our shopping. But the Lord's presense stayed heavily on us, and we both broke out laughing. We were both filled with the Lord's joy and commented to each other how strongly we felt the Lord's presence once we began to pray. As a matter of fact, we could still both feel His presense and His anointing on us quite strongly. We continued laughing as we did our shopping.

Then the fellow we'd prayed for came running up to us, very excited. He told us that he was healed. We both said, "Praise the Lord!"

The Daina decided to give him a copy of the Spread The Fire magazine, as she had spares in the car. So she went to get it and I went off hunting for decorative toothpicks for the cheese squares. When I got back to the front, Daina and the fellow were both there. Apparently he had followed her outside when she went back to the car. His wife also came out, excited that her husband had been healed and asked Daina if we'd pray for her as well. So they grabbed me and we found a not too crowded spot in an asile between two cheese counters. The wife said she needed prayer for anxioty. So we began to pray, and the Holy Spirit showed up again. The wife had looked a bit stressed when we first started praying for her, but we could see the Lord all over her as we prayed. When we finished, she looked much more peaceful. They went on home and Daina and I finished our shopping. We kept our eyes and spiritual antennae open, just in case the Lord wanted to minister to anyone else. But He did not point anyone else out to us. So we paid for the groceries and went home, feeling very excited by what He had done.

When we got home, half an hour before the party was supposed to start, there were already 4 people there. We started sharing what the Lord had done at the grocery store, and His annointing came back on us just talking about it. About then Penny and Cheryl arrived from the friend's house. They could immediately sense the anointing and took our hands. We stood in a circle and invited the Lord to come touch and fill us. Then I felt impressed to go get Joyce and invite her into the circle. (Joyce is on staff at my church and has a very strong prophetic anointing.)

The 5 of us moved to the dining room and the Lord really fell on us. We started praying for each other and all heaven broke loose. It was awesome and it also got pretty much on the wild side, with a bunch of manifestations. Several people had arrived by this time -- there were 34 of us all total. Many of them began to crowd into the dining room as we prayed for each other. We sorta started praying for the people around us and pretty soon it was a full pledged and very powerful ministry time. That impromptu ministry time lasted about 1.5 hours and then we gathered together to do some worship. It was an incredible night. And it all started when the Holy Spirit decided to go grocery shopping with us.

I want to see His presense and His influence permiate every aspect of our day-to-day lives! He is welcome to go grocery shopping with me any time, or to come into whatever aspect of my day-to-day life that He wants. I believe we are going to see more of His presense and power and touch come into what has previously been mundane areas of our lives.