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We are believing and contending for

• a new Toyota pickup truck $35,000
• our debts to be erased $6,200
• plane tickets $4,000
• our third building to be finished $10,000
• new monthly donors to have 100% of our budget met

We declare the time of lack is OVER!

GOD BREAKS INTO OUR PRAYER MEETING

Yesterday we had our first prayer meeting since our visitors left 10 days ago, and we could not have anticipated what God was about to do. I've been in Mali for 12 years, took in the first kids 9 years ago, and have always dreamed to see what I got to see yesterday.

It was a Thursday as any other as we gathered in our living room to worship and pray. We had just resolved some interpersonal issues and started late. We started off singing "Lord, You Are Good", and what struck me right away was that everybody was actually singing and I could hear their strong voices like I had never heard before. We sang "My Redeemer Lives", and they sang loudly with strong voices, raising hands, dancing and full of joy. They requested "Undignified" - a joyful dancing song - and danced and praised freely. They raised their voices, praying loudly, lost in intercession.

Then Paul raised his voice above theirs and started making powerful decrees about poverty being over, living in God's provision and abundance, His glory and His kingdom and other promises God has for us. You could tell He was inspired by God, and the children responded with as much faith with their amen and loud shouts. Everyone continued praying loudly, lost in His presence, and they just started singing their own songs, faces and arms raised to heaven, eyes closed, worshiping Him. Everyone fell to their knees.

This went on for a while. Nobody looked at the clock. Nobody cared. They were overcome by the presence of God. Then Paul got up and said Randy & I needed to come into the middle. He talked about holding up our arms so we'd have the victory, and everyone grabbed our arms and held them up. They all started praying for us with power. Then Paul prayed above their voices and prayed for the glory of God. That's one of those prayers where I respond immediately, and I sank to the ground under the weight of His glory. They tried to hold me up for a while, until they let me kneel on the floor.

As I was kneeling on the floor, I started laughing in the Spirit. And then I started weeping, as I was overcome by love for my children. I started laying my hand on each child's heart and just weeping and weeping in prayer. Holy Spirit touched them powerfully. Some had already stood up but sank straight down as soon as I touched them. They were still praying loudly, raising their hands and faces to heaven. I had never been able to get them to pray for more than a few minutes before!

I prayed for Paul last. And then one of the kids spoke up to pray for Paul, and another had received the same instruction from Holy Spirit. So Paul was surrounded by our children praying for him and was touched powerfully. Some kids had tears run down their faces, and so did Paul, who then hugged several children and just held them. WOW!

20 years ago God called me to Mali, and I started interceding and weeping for a nation and a people I had never been to and who I had never met in person, weeping over the Malians going to hell every day as they had never heard the good news, and crying out, "Send me, Lord!".

For the past 9 years I have poured out my life to raise up these boys to love God and have prayed and prayed, so many times frustrated at their lack of passion for God and inability to pray and worship.

A dream has come true. It's a manifestation of the new season we have entered. A lot has happened already as I will share later, and there is so much more to come.

What led up to this? What happend while Patricia King and Bruce & Cheryl Lindley were here? You'll have to be patient a little longer, as this breaking news postponed that report until next time. Let me just say for now that their visit was absolutely crucial to help us break through to the next level, more than any other visitor has ever been.

Please pray for us and for our children that instead of going back to their old ways, they would just go higher and higher even as we prepare to leave for the summer.

More soon.

More pictures here.

Loving HIM,

Claudia