Our Prayer Adventure – November 6th 2010

Sometimes it’s nice to go behind the scenes – so here you go…

On October 29th as I was driving along the island highway towards Campbell River for a leadership meeting, I had a vision of a mobile prayer meeting going from Port Hardy to Victoria, stopping in seven locations along the way.  This mobile prayer meeting would declare freedom, revival and release to our island.  We took this vision to our leadership meeting and felt God clearly confirm to move ahead and we decided that night to proceed.  The next day we put it on Face Book.  The following day we shared it with our church and that evening Drew shared it with our friends Rick and Becky Lawrence in Qualicum.  On Monday I shared it at a local pastors gathering.  The day after we received this vision, Laurie Thomson received a scripture reference in the night and decided to look it up in the morning.  She cracked her bible open and it landed on the exact page of Zechariah 8:20-21

20″Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘It will yet be that peoples will come, even the inhabitants of many cities.  21′The inhabitants of one will go to another, saying, “Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the LORD, and to seek the LORD of hosts; I will also go.”
Three days before I received this vision a pastor friend of mine in Courtenay shared with me how he had blurted out as an intro to his sermon that “revival has broken out in Port Hardy and Duncan with miracles, healings and that the apostle Paul’s ship has landed on Vancouver Island”.  He had no clue what was going on in Port Hardy.  This landing of the ship had incredible prophetic significance for me …more on that at another time aka “The Malta Saga”.

Within a short time we had over 40 people signed up on facebook to pray with us.  Twenty plus were committed to the journey.  I called George Ewald – pastor of the church in Port Hardy, to get his blessings on the launching the prayer assault out of his church.  In chatting with George he shared a prophetic word they had received.

“When the church of the north island and the church of the south island unite, there will be an eruption of power”.

We will share the synergy of several other prophetic words in another post. We are also amazed as we digest a report from a team that was sent literally the week before by the Lord to pray over our island and drove from Victoria to Port Hardy via the west coast making declarations and having communion. They knew nothing of what was happening in the natural but made connections with George in Port Hardy as well as with churches we prayed with in Nanaimo etc. I am waiting to hear back from them after sending an email this morning.

To sum up this prayer assignment, twenty plus Christians from five churches encouraged two hundred plus folks from over a dozen churches in seven cities over a distance of 600 kilometers in a span of twelve hours.  Every location we stopped and prayed in except Duncan, there was a good size group of believers from various churches that came into amazing agreement, unity and proclamation of freedom for our island.   We shared, worshipped, prayed and released the fire on people.  We also brought anointing oil from Port Hardy to mix together with each city.
Our services in Courtenay the day after are hard to describe.  In both churches the presence of God was so strong and powerful we wept through communion.  Both our churches had communion as well as at least two others in the valley.  Our altars were full and people were experiencing God’s intimate touch.  We are excited at the myriad of testimonies we are hearing.  We are also super excited as we anticipate our forward movement together as an island into a supernatural, miraculous, fire filled destiny.  Get ready for a cross pollinating of teams and streams that will release God’s dreams.

Paul Hansen