I was back at the dekhomai stand at the Mind Body Spirit Festival again today and had that same sense of privilege. Again people spoke and shared concerns, again people asked for prayer, again God blessed what was going on.

Today someone came back to say thank you as she had been healed through the prayer one of the team prayed earlier in the week. She was amazed and wanted to share more and receive more prayer. While praying with someone else I had a vivid mental picture of Mary and Martha and when I shared it the woman was amazed as it spoke to her on a level that only God could be aware of!

Today was an amazing time and privilege again.

I have some thoughts and in particular how my charismatic upbringing enables me to relate and offer prayer in this ‘spiritual supermarket’ – we were discussing this with Steve when the stand was at a very rare time of quietness. It’s interesting that I need to use the gifts that came from that experience but yet reframe them so that they fit into the MBS setting where people are spiritually searching and wish to avoid much of what established church is all about, preferring to take what may work from a variety of different spiritualities.

It’s an interesting situation which I am going to ponder on over the next week or so – we are off on holiday to (hopefully) sunny Cornwall!