Haunted Happiness

Well its friday nite, ive returned from a bethel firestorm session. Quite solid I must say, n I concluded its time to write down testimonies from my latest trip to Salem Massachusetts.
The good ol single life huh, free nights and time to spare.. I waste them learnin guitar, hangin out with big G or writin away.. Good flippin times..

Well let me explain a little about this trip of mine.. Me and 5 friends from Streams Canada(Miffy, Abby, Danielle, Anthony, Dave) took a 10 day trip to Salem, Mass to partake in an event called Haunted Happenings.. Basically its a couple week long festival that takes place every October celebrating Halloween. People come from all over the world to visit Salem and experience the history and tradition of the city as well as visit psychic shops, palm readings, and various other new agey thingamabobs.. There are some pretty extreme costumes freely flaunted there as well with the most popular being mario and luigi this year!

Me and the crew are involved with a church called The Gathering, who basically are located right in the heart of Salem and are a church who focus primarily on relationship with god and people over rules and structures. They are true lovers of all people groups and religions and the city and locals love them to pieces. Every Halloween for the past few years Streams has par terned with The Gathering to put together free dream interpretation and spiritual readings on the streets of Salem. I will run you thru what this means in the next paragraph..

So I will pretend you are a curious visitor approaching our street front setup. You are strolling along Essex Street in Salem observing weird costumes and spooky shops, as your passing by live music on the stage you see these big white tents.. Instantly your drawn to these tents perhaps by the big FREE on the sign, maybe its the oozing atmosphere of love radiating of our people, or last and quite often the case its my wild dancing, undeniable charm and or loud obnoxious voice :) You approach me and ask what is this all about?

I respond with.. Welll, if you have a dream like when u fall asleep at night. We can interpret that for you.. If you dont have a dream we can do the other one.. Then ill explain that we believe in a personal relationship with god, we believe that he speaks to us.. sometimes thru words, pictures, thoughts, feelings or thru anything in creation etc etc.. so we just take a little bit to listen to his voice and then share what we hear. It might be what kind of person you are, things that you like to do, gifts you have, an area in your life u need encouragement in, or maybe an area we see you succeeding in or something about your destiny. Its all positive so u dont have to worry that were gonna make fun of you, and I usually throw in a funny joke here to lighten the mood a little.

Thats a brief explanation for you, as well this year i decided to make a free healing and spiritual encounter sign. Which is a little less complicated. Most of the testimonies im gonna share were about the healings and encounters that took place outside of the tent as that is where I spent most of my time. With this sign its pretty direct, I believe God still heals people so I just pray for healing. A spiritual encounter is straightforward as well as I invite God to come and encounter people with his love.. and people feel the presence of God.. Sometimes its like fire, wind, they might feel really peaceful, they might get drunk, laugh, cry.. I never know but its awesome as people feel the love of God often for the first time and realize he cares about them.

Well this post is already freakin long and i havent even shared a story yet! Well ull just have to suck it up and keep reading itll be good I promise..

So first from Friday October 30th

So during dinner friday night I came up with the idea to make the free healing n spirit encounter sign.. My good friend Anthony designed the sign and away we went. Me and my brother Caleb spent the rest of the night lurking out front of our tents and had some amazing encounters with people. In the next 2 days we saw over 30-40 healings and countless people meeting the love of God in a personal way.. It was just amazing to see God touch people thru all of us at Salem with Streams.. Heres the first story

Well the healing outbreak all started with these 3 ladies who'd sat in on Miffy and Abby's team.. they loved it and couldnt stop talking about how wonderful it was. Apparently they had just come from a psychic reading and were drawn to our tents..(which happens quite often) They loved our readings and were fascinated with what our team had told them.. While we were talking, I asked Noreen(1st lady) if she had any lower back pain.. She didnt say anything.. Caleb came over and asked the same thing 5min later.. she was surprised how we both knew the same thing and said yes so we declared healing for her back and she was totally healed from about 10 years, and had had nerve damage in her back..

Needless to say she was pretty excited.. The fun part was she had been given a word by Miffy that she was gonna see healing thru her hands.. Caleb got a word of knowledge about her friend Teressa(2nd lady) that she had a knee problem.. she said she had one. I told Noreen that god was gonna use her to heal her friend, so she layed her hands on her friends knee and commanded healing into it.. The knee was totally healed from 2 years of pain.. She was so happy that she wanted us to pray for her breathing problems.. It was noticeably bad.. So we all prayed for that and she got healed from the problem as well and was breathing perfectly..

I then turned to the 3rd lady and asked her if she had upper back pain and she said that she did.. I asked her friends to speak the healing power of God into her back they did and she was totally healed as well.. Me and Caleb then shared about a personal relationship with god and how amazing that is and thats where all of this flows out of.. They were so excited about this and kept hanging around our tents.. I told Noreen she was gonna have a dream confirming it all and to come back tomorrow.. They did all come back tomorrow and confirmed that they were all still healed but she didnt have the dream :).. Which just goes to show nobodies perfect!

Well im gonna end this blog entry for now.. I will write the rest of the stories down tomorrow probably.. As there are many to tell, so thanks for tuning in and make sure you laugh at least once today ok, its good for you.. Thats all Thank You