Early Spring

While the Midwest froze, Desert Stream glimpsed an early Spring at our Living Waters Training in London last week. Seeds sown and tended there years earlier emerged as righteous oaks.

Training site

 Our extraordinary team members sowed new seed and plowed ground in hearts from Europe and beyond (Czech Republic, India, Egypt, Portugal, France, Germany, England, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, Switzerland.)

Living Waters is back: seeds will become saplings and grow into oaks in local churches.

I marveled. The UK froze out Desert Stream years earlier due to a series of demonically-inspired organizational conflicts. Tragic. We had a brilliant run there from ’87 to the early 2000s; we sowed transformational ministry throughout the UK from a solid base in central London. Churches throughout the land—mostly Anglican and Vineyard—ran Living Waters groups and conferences.

Our message was clear: Jesus has authority through His Church to meet people in profound areas of sin and disorder and establish His Father’s healing there. We accompanied John Wimber and Leanne Payne in their sizable efforts in the UK; we followed up by providing ongoing pastoral care in church-run groups.

I’ve rarely seen such powerful moves of God in human hearts: we declared our freedom, and signs and wonders followed. Demons shrieked and slouched out, and members of Christ lamented ancient wounds and were healed. I witnessed the resurrection of hundreds of young adults stuck in homosexuality; I saw lives crippled by lies restored and set on a proper course, prepared to do battle in a culture intent on confirming them as LGBTQ+.

Then, the big chill, a deep freeze.  

Today? Fresh green shoots breaking the soil. We reengaged some of these saints in London last week—mostly married men and women with families who want to sow fresh seed in the UK. Their lives speak a better word: Jesus really heals the same-sex attracted!  

For an entire week, we worshipped and witnessed and did the works of Jesus, inviting the Holy Spirit to show us Father and Son. We created safe and compassionate spaces for persons to reveal the whole of their broken lives and be healed. I cannot tell you how deeply God moved. Countenances changed. One woman said, ‘These last few days have been the most blessed of my life.’

Because of His great love for us, Jesus will never allow His deposit in human hearts to go to waste. Good seed planted in rich soil cannot lie fallow for long. Last week in London, we witnessed the miracle of Spring.