3rd Night In Lakeland....

Night number three was quite differnt than the first two nights in that Todd Bentley was not there as he was ministering somewhere in North Carolina. The worship was again led by Heather Clark and it was wonderful...a real sense of presence. She actually wrote a song right before the service about going the nations and it was incredibly anointed and inspirational.
The meeting/bonfire tonight is at Mel & King Barry's house at 7pm and please bring munchies and soda. If our flight is on time Meghan and I will not arrive in Syracuse until 4:40pm. Assuming we make our connection at JFK and our flight into Syracuse is on time, we will still have to pick up our luggage and then take the shuttle over to pick up our car. Providing all things go well, we will probably not be leaving Syracuse until after 5pm, which will put us into Massena around 8pm. If everything goes well, I may be seeing you tonight, but if not, we will see you Sunday.
Meghan & PD

2nd Night In Lakeland...

Well it is after 3am, so my update will be extremely brief. The worship this evening was completely different than last evening, yet it was excellent. HeatherClarkband.com led in worship and it was soooo anointed. Todd Bentley had a difficult time ministering since he was so emotional during worship, and just from the day. He made the comment early in his exhortation that he really felt disengaged today and had planned on having someone else speak for him, but when he heard the worship, he felt like the Lord wanted him to jump in and lead. Though it was different, it was good, as his emphasis was desperation for more of God, for fire to fall in every community where there is hunger for God, and for the Lord to impart a double portion to people so they could carry something back to their home churches. At the end I happened to see Brian Cooney and his wife, former worship leader/pastor of New Life Worship Center in Rhode Island, and we had a great time catching up, as he is now living in Nashville, TN working with Steve Fry. Just before leaving I asked a Chinese lady and her son from San Francisco (I had met them briefly last night) to pray for Meghan. She also brought some of the other people who were with her from SanFran to pray. It was a good and intense prayer, so we are continuing to contend for all God has for Meg/Gorgeous. More later.....

1st Night In Lakeland...

Meg & I arrived in Lakeland at around 5:30pm and waited in line until just after 6pm to go into the meeting. After getting inside we noticed people up near the platform praying and pressing in for the meeting. The service started with great music and genuine sense of expetantcy. During the worship, which you all know if you were watching, the worship leader felt people were focusing too much on him and the platform, so he and the band just quit playing and started encouraging everyone to just worship from their hearts. Well this continued for about 40 minutes and was wonderful, as it just ebbed and flowed for quite some time. After the relatively quiet time of worship, the band started up again and we sang for another half hour or so before Todd Bentley came up. As you know his speaking was more exhortative and encouraging for people to trust Jesus for personal and community breakthroughs. When his prayer began Meghan and I did pray for quite some time, and twice she experienced a lessening of the pain, but after some time it would return again, not sure why. As you may know, Meg is not quick to say something is happening, from all the dissapointments she has experienced, so for her to really sense something going on with her pain level, we know there is something happening. There is so much I would like to write, but I will wait until later after going to a few more meetings. Thank you to everyone who is praying for us and trusting God for a genuine move of His Spirit in our generation. Go for it...
Press On,
-PD & Meghan-