Homeward Bound

A great night was had at Kidman St Church Alice Springs where we were invited to workshop the prophetic with many different members of the community from different areas and various churches. How the river flows through these people.

Now we look towards the journey home reminiscing on what a fantastic adventure we have had.

I feel blessed to have met so many amazing people and to have shared an awesome trip with my children, the Newlings and my family.

Outback Australia is one of the most unique and beautiful places I have ever seen. I love this country and all the richness that has been placed here.

Now to head home to contemplate a pilots license and a plane.

Offers of co-piloting most welcome.

Thank you to those who have followed our journey and joined in the fun!!

Carmen x

Rivers in the Desert

What a great week we've had here in Alice.

Monday and Tuesday we had around 30 key women in the community attend the women's conference at the town council. Over the two days we declared, prophesied, saw healings, sung, danced, listened and most of learnt that the great revival that has been prophesied over the centre of this land over the last 50 years is actually here and it is within. No need to wait. Yay!

On Wednesday night we were invited to speak at an indigenous church just outside of town were God was so alive and welcomed and his Spirit free to move. What a blessing.

Today a few of us went out to Papanya, an indigenous community over 200 Km's west of Alice. We were invited to share and to spend time with spirit filled women listening to stories of healings and miracles and hear how God is moving through the great south land.

One young lady who was nearly completely deaf asked us to pray with her as she was due to have an ear operation at the end of the month. After praying and checking her hearing 3 times she found she was completely healed and started bouncing around in the dust with joy. Her total appearance changed as she was touched by God.

Tomorrow we hope to visit the women's prison and then in the evening we will be holding a prophetic
activation workshop at a local church.

Thankyou Jesus for your abundance love.

Streams in the Desert

We have been out and about this week organizing the women's conference for next week. God has lined us up with the right people and all has been running to His plan. We have also been invited out to an indigenous community in Papunya to do it all over again after Alice Springs. Yay!!

A town like Alice

We said goodbye to sunny Darwin and after 3 days of driving we are back in Alice Springs. God has been talking to me about what He wants to do here with his people. I had a feeling back at the start of our trip we would be going back the way we came.

So over the next week we will be racing around looking for a venue, printing flyers and meeting with the local elders as well as the community, all in aid of putting on a 3 day conference called 'Destined for Purpose' This I hope will help empower and equip the women to live as Kingdom women, powerful and purposeful.

One of my fav Bill Johnson lines 'live in a way that unless God shows up, what your doing is bound to fail'

Ocean!

Looks like the Newlings have finally found water on their journey home. We miss them way too much and will never forget the amazing God filled ventures we shared :)

Darwin Hospital

Doing the rounds with Jackie

This is what I want for my country. The Great South Land of the Holy Spirit

Isa 35
Chapter 35
The Ransomed Shall Return
1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad;
the desert shall rejoice and blossom like the crocus;
2 it shall blossom abundantly
and rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the Lord,
the majesty of our God.
3 Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who have an anxious heart,
“Be strong; fear not!
Behold, your God
will come with vengeance,
with the recompense of God.
He will come and save you.”
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
6 then shall the lame man leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.
For waters break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
7 the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
8 And a highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;
the unclean shall not pass over it.
It shall belong to those who walk on the way;
even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
9 No lion shall be there,
nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;
they shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there.
10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Darwin

Ssshhhh

No go with the hospital so we found another way....

Just another day

Walking into Woollies to get groceries for the picnic today, having no idea how many people to shop for, we decided to ask Holy Spirit how many would turn up. I heard 20, Indy heard 20-30 and Elouise heard 10-20. So we decided to average it out and shop for 20. As we arrived at the park a beautiful family of women with children were waiting for us, there was 20 of them exactly. We had a great time together and were blessed to be able to pray for them and encourage them all as a group as well as individually and hopefully enthuse them to gather together weekly to bless and pray over each other.

Late in the afternoon we went to the children's section of Katherine Hospital. There we prayed for ALL of the children in the ward (there were only 2!)

Tomorrow we meet with one of people in charge of the main part of the hospital to see if we can do the rounds in the rest of the wards

The Newlings have surfaced!

Got an email from Ant this morning....


How are you going? We have been having a great time in Wilton and would recommend it to anyone. We stayed 2 nights. Natalie had a dream about a person on Saturday night in one of the shops there that we visited during the day, so after she woke up, she felt (before her morning coffee)! to go back and talk/pray for this person. In the dream she felt this person was grieving over a loss in their life. The dream had a bit more to it. Natalie did what she felt she was meant to do according to the dream which proved to be spot on and the person was amazed at how God spoke to him through Natalie, tears and all. Yes it was Jewellery shop ministry at its best on Sunday morning.

Ant

Gulp!

Crocodile spotting on Katherine Gorge

Katherine

A great day strolling the streets of Katherine praying for the community today. We met a young man who due to a knee injury had to give up his passion for dance and is due for knee surgery next week. After receiving prayer he felt significant healing and we are praying there will be no need for surgery next week.

We also found a small park in the middle of the town and decided to invite the locals for a picnic tmrw.

Thankyou Jesus that you bring them in

Access

A great day giving words and praying over some of the people we have got to know over the past week of being in Alice.

Driving by the Alice Springs Dialysis Centre this afternoon we decided to pop in and see if we could pray for any of the patients hooked up to the machines. Turned out we ended up praying for EVERYONE in the ward except for one patient who was sleeping, then the staff asked if we could pray over them too!
Another outstanding day in God's Kingdom. Yay!!

Newlings vanish

Promised an update on the Newlings but from what I can make out they seem to have gone underground....

Hermannsburg

Today we ventured 125kms west of Alice to an indigenous community in the town of Hermannsburg. Armed with apples, bananas and chupa chups we drove around the town and felt to stop at a small playground and wait. The town seemed desolate with the odd car zooming by. While I was sitting on he play equipment I had a picture of a lady walking towards the park pushing a stroller with a toddler. Half an hour passed and still not much sign of life, again being the Gideon I am I asked for a second confirmation - 'God if you want us to move on from this park or if this is the right place please let the first words that come out of Elouise's mouth give us direction' At this time she was across the park playing on an old steamroller with Indiana. Of course the first word that she then said to Indy was 'WAIT'
So we waited...half an hour later a lady came walking down the street pushing a toddler in a stroller. Here's my lady I thought as she walked into the park but then walked straight past me, across the road and disappeared! Another lesson in faith and patience I thought as I stubbornly waited for her to reappear determined not to be put off by the fact she walked right on by with barely a hello. Anyway 10mins later she reappears with 2 more children and another lady. We ended up sharing lollies fruit and lots of prayer as they opened their hearts to His love, presence and healing. Yay

Update on the Newling adventure to follow...stay posted

As you go

Despite the loss of the fab Newling clan today we had yet another great day wandering the streets of Alice. We met a lady who was sporting a bandage around her ankle and after receiving some prayer she was feeling the heat in her foot that often comes with healing and was then able to move rotate her ankle without restriction. We also ran into our friend Helen in the park who had painted a beautiful interpretation of the resurrection. Nothing quite like coffee, shopping and healing...now that's gotta be kingdom culture :)

Goodbye to the Newlings :(

A great day today where once again we were lead by HS and given accurate words of knowledge to be able to demonstrate Gods Kingdom amongst the Alice Springs community.

Tonight was our last night together as sadly the Newlings will be fair welling us tomorrow as they begin their journey home which will surely bring them plenty more opportunity to spread more of that kingdom culture.

As for us we will be staying here a few more days to meet up with Alison who we met in Uluru and to head out to an indigenous community 100kms from Alice....and then?....well we'll see what He has planned :)

Stay tuned!

Swimming

This is Brad our friendly lifeguard at the local aquatic centre who the kids treasure hunted and prayed with. We were very blessed to meet such a great guy

Soul shopping

Having to step out late this evening to Woolies to grab a few things we took
the opportunity to ask HS for some clues in regards to who He wanted to talk to tonight. As we wandered through the aisles Ant felt there was a female who was suffering from migraines. As we got to the end of the aisle we were met by 2 ladies who we had seen previously and had been drawn to. We exchanged hellos and began chatting. We discovered they had both been suffering from migraines but one of them felt her migraine leave as well as her rash and itchiness as soon as she stepped into the supermarket and had wondered why. In a very short period of time we were sharing the gospel with them and they were keen to re-commit to relationship with Him after years of putting him aside due to human judgement and hurt.
Thank you Jesus that you go before us and make the harvest easy

Bush church

A great day exploring the bush surroundings of Alice Springs. After seeing the beauty of Simpson's Gap we wandered back up to the picnic area for lunch when Joshua spotted a group sporting wheelchairs, walking sticks and respirators. After sharing testimony on what we had seen so far and the reason for our venture, we offered to pray for them. This opened the doors and they began sharing stories of doctors appointments and illness and were open and keen for prayer. We split up and were blessed to be able to lay hands on most of them and see Jesus touch them as they needed. One lady who was wearing a respirator and was due to see her doctor in the morning confessed of noticeable improvement in her breathing and was very pleased.
Life on the road with God is good, yay!

Icy

This wasn't in the brochure

Fueling up

This morning as we're driving to Alice this morning I saw three overlapping circles/rings in the sky to the north as though they were over Alice Springs. He spoke to me about the unity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and about the dance they do as three yet as one.

Nat and I had talked earlier that morning about worshipping in Alice Springs and finding an opportunity at some point to do that while we were there.

At a fuel stop about Half way from Uluru to Alice we pulled in for some fuel and a drink and we noticed a family sitting next their car and sensed the presence of God and wondered if they were Christians.

After stricking up a conversation with them and finding out they were indeed Christians and on a spiritual journey we pulled out the mats, tarps, drums, guitar and didge in the middle of the petrol station carpark and began worshipping. This attracted a small gathering of on lookers including a few emus

Yay

Bye Uluru!

Tomorrow we hit the road again and continue north to Alice Springs.

Once again today we had a great time with Allison harnessing our creative side and putting paint to canvas to come up with what we though was a pretty good combined effort for 9 beginners!

Tonight we said farewell to Alison and look forward to seeing her up in Alice Springs, her hometown.

Exploring and digging

We've been having a great week here enjoying finding treasure and exploring the beauty of the land. We have been blessed with an abundance of dreams, words and visions which have opened the doors to many divine appointments.

We caught up with Alison again today and spent the afternoon back
at our campsite getting to know her as she shared with us her incredible knowledge and demonstrated her wonderful artistic talent and gave us all a fabulous art lesson we will never forget.

Looking forward to tomorrow :)