We received this message from a pastor in Honduras, after we gave the Lord's Word concerning fasting and prayer for the churches of Honduras as a corporate people. This was in November 2005 when we traveled there.

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As we went through the day to day fasting of repentance and praise as a congregation, we experienced the following:

1. The Lord emptied us from what we thought should be a church program. It used to be our own controlled program. Now He leads and we are flexible to what the Spirit prompts us to do.

2. He, who is Holy, started pulling out sins that were "under the table". Some members were brought to repentance and restortation. Others decided to leave the church. These are leaders we are talking about. It has been a cleansing process.

3. We continue to come unto Him with a flow of higher praise in our meetings. The Holy Spirit is pouring down with manifestation of prophetic word, revelation and His presence and power as never before. Praise Him!

4. Our personal lives, as pastors, have been realigned to a total dependance of Him and only Him. We are more conscious of Him and less conscious of ourselves. He is the glory!!

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He goes on to say that many churches in Honduras have responded to that call and are experiencing the same thing.

PRESENTING YOURSELF BEFORE THE LORD

We ourselves here in Franklin, came into the same understanding of what the Lord wanted for us. This began Jan. 4, 2006. We fasted, prayed, but then felt strongly that the Lord wanted us to meet three evenings a week to seek His face. What a time that has been. For one month, we have presented ourselves before the Lord and each time He did something different. We sang, read scripture, fell on our faces and were quiet before Him, received His deliverance, washed each other's feet, sang out of the Psalms, laughed, cried, but always mindful that we were before Him for instruction. We felt the increasing kitting of our hearts together, that we were being put together as a unit - as a ONE PEOPLE - to demonstrate the family of God. No more hypocrasy, no more hiding behind ourselves, but transparancy and love towards one another. And then what began to happen?

First, a sister began to hear in her ears, whereas she was in the process of getting a hearing aid and now does not need it; another, their fractured toe was instantly healed while she was praying; another, whose leg has been swollen from the knee down to the ankle for years, is seeing the leg becoming whole, almost to the normal size as the other; another, whose neck had disks needful of healing, through prayer had no pain, which was a miracle.

We became sensitive to His voice, and what He is speaking through a corporate people, His church. We saw the value of the corporate body, and how each member has gifts and words to speak that make up the whole. The awareness of the value of the Body, which is His body, must penetrate His people.

We know that this will not be the only time of presenting ourselves before the Lord, for we know that there will be other times this year. But we rejoice, because we need no agenda, no programs, just letting the Holy Spirit have His way, and we are expecting HIS presence and revival to break forth and change lives.