Service started at 7, but I came early for pre-service prayer and intercession at 5:30. As it turned out, the room was not very set up and most of the others for intercession was not there yet, so I helped a bit with setting up the chairs and stuff like that.

About 45 minutes later, we started to pray together, in the prayer room which is just to the right of the sanctuary. There were three types of people in the group -- the worship team, the ministry team and some intercessors who just love to pray. So the corporate prayers went a few different directions but the important thing was that as God's presence began to intensify in the room as we prayed. Some people responded to his anointing with visible manifestations. A few were slumped over, one was laughing, one's hands were shaking, and there were probably other manifestations going on as well -- but I did not really look to notice what they were because I was busy soaking in God's presence and enjoying Him as I prayed. He felt so good! I just love it when He feels so near.

After we'd prayed for a while, Brenda suggested we go out to pray in different parts of the building and then come back together to pray for Randy and his interns. Some where sent to the room where childcare was to be provided. Some were sent to the platform to pray over where the worship team would be and others of us were encouraged to move about the sanctuary or patio area (for overflow crowds if needed).

I walked out of the prayer room, through a door that lead to the platform. I stepped off the platform into the ministry area that is just in front of the first row of chairs. The Lord's presence was so strong that it almost knocked me over. The anointing had been think in the prayer room, but it was even more intense in the ministry area. I was surprised but I was also delighted. It was tempting to stay there to soak in His wonderful presence, but I knew I was supposed to go pray over the sanctuary.

I began to move up/down the aisle praying quietly in tongues. As I moved up my first aisle, I ran into Randy. (Randy knows me a little because I have traveled with him several times, including on his first Moscow Catch the Fire back in 1996.) So I said "hi," and Randy gave me a hug and we talked for a few minutes. Then he was off with Rodney, our senior pastor, to Rodney's office while the rest of us prayed over the sanctuary. Mostly I prayed, but a few people did come up to talk to me, so it wasn't 100% prayer time.

When we came back together in the prayer room, some of the worship team were praying over the drummer. When they finished, I asked Mark (the worship leader) if I could pray for him. The Lord has shown me something specific to pray. It has to do with him going to the next level of revelation and seeing in the spirit was God was doing in the room during worship and speaking it out so that people in the sanctuary could better respond to God's touch on them during worship.

When I finished praying, everyone except for the worship leader, his wife, and myself had already gone to Rodney's office to pray for Randy. So the three of us went along to join them. God prompted me to pray certain specific things over Randy. The first was that the Lord would take Randy to the next level of healing, where he would see more healings and more powerful ones than he was used to, even here in the USA. The second was for Randy to have a greater depth of intimacy with God and to be a carrier of God's presence. The third was that Randy would "have fun" while ministering with the Lord night.

[When I heard Randy's sermon, I was really amazed because Randy's sermon was from John 14 to 16 and the main points of his sermon matched the things I had been praying over Mark and Randy. I had not been trying to be prophetic, I was just praying. But even then, my prayers were strongly prophetic and that was a personal encouragement to me.]

I think that one thing alone would have been enough to make it a "great meeting" for me -- because God met me personally in a wonderful way. But God had even more in store for me.

Worship began. Normally at church I would sit in the front row and spend the worship time on the floor on my face before God. But most of the front row was saved for Randy's team and the worship team, leaving only 5 or 6 available seats. And someone had beaten me to the available seats, so I sat in the second row on the aisle. Since there was a chair in front of me, it kind of encouraged me to stand instead of kneeling and eventually ending on my face. I must say, worship was a bit of a different experience for me this way. Normally worship ushers me directly into God's presence and I sort of ignore everyone else. But since I was standing, I had more of a celebration and joy thing than the deep presence thing. And that was a lot of fun for me. And I was more aware of my brothers and sisters in the room and felt the Lord's love for them.

About fifteen minutes into the worship, two ladies came to the front to go worship in the minsitry area. There were already about six or eight youth up there worshipping. The ladies got "shy" and stopped in the aisle just where the front row was. I knew they wanted to be in the worship area, so I put one hand on each of their backs and gave them a gentle push into that area. My intent had been to go directly back to me seat, as I was really enjoying the celebration type of worship and my awareness and love of those around me. But one of the two ladies felt intimidated and immediately skirted off to the far left side, trying to blend in with the front row. I knew the other lady would be uncomfortable front center by herself, so I leaned over and told her, "Don't worry, I will stay up here with you."

At first I was really aware of the people around me, in a very positive sort of way. One of the youth was on my left and the lady I'd "helped" come into the worship area was on my right. Both were worshipping and I could see God's presence on both of them. The Lord focused my attention on the youth for a while and I could strongly feel the Lord's compassion for him. The Lord told me a few things about him but I did not get a sense that God wanted me to share them with him. I sort of enjoyed celebrating the Lord and watching His presence on those near me in worship. It was fun.

But after a while I sort of got "lost" in God's presence and stopped being aware of those around me. About then I realized that I was no longer struggling with an emotional issue that had plagued me the previous two weeks. I guess the Lord's presence drives away those sort of things. I began speaking to the Lord about that, wondering if this was a temporary reprieve or a real healing. I got the sense that it was a real healing. One the aspects of being in the Lord's presence is the way He breaks off bondages and brings true healing. It felt so good to be near Him and I found myself telling God over and over how much I loved Him and wanted to serve Him.

I ended up on the floor during most of this intimacy time with God. Then God told me it was time to get up because the next song was not one I'd want to lay down for. So I got up. A few seconds later, the worship team started their next song. It was more of a joyful celebration song than the deep worship stuff they'd been doing for the past few songs. I had not danced in worship for a really long time, but I felt like dancing. So I grabbed one of the worship hoops and began to dance. It also felt really good to dance before the Lord again. The Lord seemed to enjoy the dance as well, because we had this conversation. I told Him, "Gosh, Lord, I haven't danced before you in a long time." And He told me, "Yes. It's been too long, Teresa."

Worship ended and Randy preached. He mentioned early in the sermon that he would be asking those who had been on his team in the past go give words of knowledge after his sermon. He also mentioned that one of his interns was going to lead that word of knowledge and healing ministry time. Right about then I began to ask God for words of knowledge. Almost immediately, my right wrist began to hurt... it felt maybe like Carpal Tunnel disorder. The problem is that it did not stop hurting, it hurt for the majority of Randy's 2 hour sermon. I began to wonder if it was really a word of knowledge or my own pain, since it lasted for so long. Then I prayed silently and asked God if it was a word of knowledge or just my own problem. Right then the problem stopped and I was impressed that the reason I had felt the word of knowledge for so long was because it had bothered the person for a long time. Then I started to get some other words of knowledge. I got three others, but when I got to the front to give them, I only remembered 2 of the four words of knowledge. The one that I remembered was pain in the bones on the top of the right foot.

When Randy finished preaching, he invited one of his interns to come up and lead us in the word of knowledge time. First she explained what a word of knowledge was and how we might get them. Then she asked those who had traveled with Randy before (there were a lot of us who had traveled with him) to come and line up if we had a word of knowledge. I went up along with a few others. Shandy was in front of me but he decided to let me go first. That put me in the front of the line. But then the other itnern from Randy's ministry came up and got in front of me. She had seen Shandy shuffling me in front of him and me sort of gently resisting. She said something to the effect that I looked uncomfortable about going first and she wanted to make me more comfortable. The truth is that I would not have been uncomfortable, but I was very touched by her thoughtfulness towards me and her attempt make me more comfortable.

She gave her word of knowledge and the the first intern started to hold the mic for me. (I see she had been trained not to give the mic to people who she does not know, but to hold it for them. That is a trick that I was also taught and it is always a good idea when you are having people who you don't know speak into the mic. Since I understood what she was doing, I did not try to hold the mic at all.) I was about to speak when she pulled it away to give some more instructions. She told people that if a word of knowledge applied to them, they should stand up as they heard it spoken. She said this as so the person giving the word could be encouraged that they had heard correctly. But I thought to myself -- "What if no one stands up for my words? That would be really embarrassing."

Then the intern leading the ministry time gave a word she had gotten. She had trouble finding the right words to express that word of knowledge because she had felt it. She said it was like a swollen blood vessel in the brain causing pressure. I knew immediately that she was talking about this baby from Santa Maria, baby Noah, who had a brain tumor. Some people from Santa Maria (a 4 hour drive away) had planned to bring the baby to Randy's meeting, but the baby had to go back in the hospital the night before the meeting. So the parents stayed at the hospital with the baby, but some friends of the family came and brought a picture of the baby. They were not experienced in words of knowledge, so they did not sort out that the word was for the baby and they did not stand up. No one else stood up either.

I could sort of see the intern's shoulders sag a bit as no one responded to her word. I wanted to tell her about baby Noah, but I was afraid I might distract her in leading the meeting to pop in with unsolicited information. But I did not want her feeling bad because I knew her word of knowledge was a good one. So I silently debated what to do, whether or not I should volunteer the info about the baby with the brain tumor. I guess I debated too long, because she decided to move on and pointed the mic at me and asked what my words of knowledge were.

So I just went ahead and shared the two words of knowledge that I could remember. First I shared the one about the sore right wrist. To my surprise, the youth who I had been standing next to during worship stood up -- the one God called my attention to and showed me how much He loved him. He was wearing a wrist brace on his right arm. I was shocked that I had stood next to him during worship and watched him worship, that God had called my attention to him, and that in all of that time I had not noticed his wrist brace. But I thought it was neat that God had given me a word of knowledge for someone He's placed me next to during worship. (By the way, when I saw that youth at the end of service, he was no longer wearing his wrist brace. I asked him how the wrist was and he indicated it was healed and the pain was gone!)

The second word of knowledge that I remembered was for the sore right foot. I shared that as well and two people in the back of the room stood up. I guess a third person had stood up too, because she asked me to pray for her for that condition during the prayer ministry time, but I did not notice her stand up when I shared the word of knowledge. As soon as I sat down, I remembered the other two and I debated as to whether or not I should get back up to give them. But as it turned out, one of the others gave one of those two words and then Randy gave the other one. So everything was covered even though I'd forgotten to share it.

Then the intern began praying over those who stood up in response to words of knowledge. She asked people to indicate if they were 80% healed or more. About 8 people indicated they were healed, including the youth I had the word of knowledge for. I was feeling very happy for him. About then this lady began crying really loud. The intern started a second prayer over the group and the lady's crying got louder. I could see who the lady was because she was sitting on the far left end of the same row that I was in. Two of my friends had been praying for her and she had already receive some significant healing from their prayer. But she was still pretty handicapped and could only walk with a walker. She did not appear to be the loud or disruptive type, so my guess was that God was touching her with some deep inner healing or deliverance or something like that. But a few minutes later, she was walking to the front, leaning heavily on Dolly. She was crying loudly and the intern walked over to meet her and ask her what was going on. The lady said, "I'm walking!"

We began to understand that God was doing something really big. Even though this lady did not go to our church, we know about her condition because Dolly and Leanor had been sharing some of the neat things God had done when they went to pray for her. An excitement rose in the room as we heard what God was doing in her life. Even as she was up front, we could see a change in her. The miracle was happening before our very eyes. At first she had been leading very heavily on Dolly and the intern, and was taking very small steps. The intern began to walk her and she was taking bigger steps and was not leaning on people very much at all. She was still bawling (tears of joy) and telling us how she had not been able to walk without a walker for over three months!

This was an awesome miracle and we were all very excited about it.

After a little while, the intern asked the ministry team to come forward and invited those who needed physical healing to come up for prayer. Since I was on the ministry team, I came up to pray for people. The first lady who came to me for prayer had a bit of trouble describing her condition to me. English was a second language for her. She described it as "feeling hot" but assured me it was not the type hot flashes that come with menapause. This was an intermittent problem and she was not experiencing it when she came forward for prayer. So I tried to cover all of the basis... I rebuked any spirits or infirmities, broke any curses, commanded (in Jesus' name) the hot flashes to leave, commanded whatever was out of alignment in her body to cause this to line up and then invited the Holy Spirit's presence to come and wash over her with His healing. She stood perfectly still for most of the prayer, but had some mild physical manifestations when I commanded the body parts to work properly and the anything physiologically out of order to right itself. I am not sure if that was an indication of God's power at work, or if she was merely agreeing with that segment of the prayer. I prayed until I did not know what else to pray. Then I touched bases with her. She did not feel anything during the prayer -- no heat, tingling, peace, etc. And she had not been having the symptoms when she came up for prayer, so it was not possible for me to determine what had happened or if any healing occurred.

The second person I prayed for was another person who I did not know. This was a man who' spine had been hurt in an accident. He had a disk problem that left him in constant pain. I began to pray for him the typical authority prayers. He felt some noticeable relief, but the pain was not completely gone. I prayed some more. I felt prompted to invite the Lord's healing presence and then his back began to get really hot where I was touching him. I asked him if he felt any heat. He said yes, it was like it was coming from inside of him. I told him that was the Lord's healing presence on him. I asked "Does it feel as good as a heating pad?" He got this smile and said that it feels better than any pain medicine he's ever had. There was noticeable improvement and I could tell the tension in his back muscles had relaxed. It seemed like God was still doing something - a slow healing. So I kept praying for him for a long time. At the end I asked him to rate where the pain was on a scale from 1 to 10 where 10 is agony and 1 is no pain. He told me that before he came for prayer he was a 7 -- and that he'd been around a 7 every day for a long time. But now he was a two. The heat was still on him and I believe that God will linger on him overnight and that when God's presence leaves the last residual of pain will also be gone. But just by looking at the big smile on his face, you could tell that God had touched him in a wonderful way and he was feeling much better.

The next person I prayed for said that she had the foot condition I'd described but it was not hurting at the moment -- it came and went. So I prayed for her about that foot pain, using mostly authority prayer. She also had a sore shoulder, which was giving her pain at the moment and had been doing so for a long time. So I prayed for that next and God healed it. She had this delighted and a little bit surprised look on her face as she moved the shoulder and could not make it hurt. I just love watching those expressions of delight as people realize that God really did heal them.

She also wanted prayer that God would make John 14:12-14 real to her so she could do the things Jesus did. That was a response to what Randy had preached, and I am sure it delighted God's heart.) The Holy Spirit seemed to really meet her as I prayed. During the prayer, I just finished praying one sentence and became of the song the worship team was doing. They were singing something almost identical to what I had just prayed. I felt like the Lord had gone out of His way to orcherstrate that for her as a confirmation that He intended to give her what she was asking for.

After I finished praying for people, the intern who had led the ministry time walked by and I had the chance to tell her about the baby with the brain tumor that matched her word of knowledge. She was really happy to have that piece of information. It was an encouragement to her. I got into a short conversation with her and she seemed like a really interesting person. I hope that the people from Santa Maria who came for baby Noah will be back tonight -- it is a long drive for them. But if they do come back, the intern wants me to point them out to her so she can go pray with them for the baby. I would just love to hear a report of that baby's healing by the end of the weekend!

It was a lot of fun praying under the Lord's anointing. I am not sure if God healed the first person since she did not have any symptoms when I prayed for her. But I know that God healed the other two because there was a drastic change in their symptoms. It was pretty late by the time I finished praying, and I did not have time to talk to the others who prayed, but I am guessing that their experiences were similar to mine and they saw God heal people. I am looking forward to finding out what God has in store for the rest of this conference!