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Life in Cheddar.........

Liam has taken over management of The Cafe (our church run cafe in village centre) which has changed our lives dramatically, lil has been learning how to manage and I have been learning how to not be bossy. He is an excellent boss, our time at Bethel has really helped with this as he is so encouraging to our staff, they all seem to love him. I am very proud of him.

It was so wonderful having Paul Skelton come visit The Cafe and look around Cheddar, Paul runs 'Healing on the Streets' outside the Abby in Bath and is just full of God's presence and leaking it as he goes. He loved our cafe and gave us good feedback about what we can be doing to pray for more healing in Cheddar. He stayed on and we had a meeting in the evening at church with cafe staff, boot fair prayer team and church people interested in healing. The whole evening was a success, Paul taught how to pray effectively, told some testimonies and then he prayed for whoever wanted it. A close friend of ours knees got healed and it was amazing to see so many of our young people being prayed for and getting visibly touched by Gods power.

We were so sad to get an email telling us that one of our amazing good friends from Bethel died this week. He was such a wise, strong man after Gods heart, he looked after us like a father and we spent lots of time with him and his family. We will miss him so much but we know he is with his loving Father in heaven pain and cancer free now.

Its starting to feel like winter which was a bit of a shock, i dont think im ready for it, seeing as last week we had 3 wonderfully warm summer days in which i cycled around the reservoir and generally enjoyed being outside. It was sad to see the sun disappear.

We have had lots of lovely dinners our at friends homes, we often invite ourselves round (sorry everyone) and get to eat yummy food at least twice a week. We went to our friends Nige and Georgia in Weston Super Mare on Friday which was great.

I started work back at the hotel on friday which was enjoyable, it was lovely to see everyone again. I have also been booked for lots of facepainting jobs in the next few months which is fun. i do childrens parties and paint tigers, butterflies and spidermans etc.

This week I prayed for a man who is a regular in the cafe, i was chatting to him and he told me his knee was very painful and thought he might have to have a knee replacement, so i offered to pray for it. He said yes of course (not a christian as far as i no) and so we and adam commanded the pain to go. So 2 days later he came into the cafe with his wife and said 'Thankyou so praying for my knee, all day yesterday i forgot about it beacuse it didnt hurt at all' Thankyou Jesus.

Yestersday I went to Bristol to see my bestest uni friends, Esther and Kayleigh. We spent the day looking around bristol, and LOVED st nicks market on corn street. It was great to see them again. :)

This morning we had some words of knowledge for a neck, ear and shoulder, so pippa and I prayed for a number of people, one of whom had a head neck and shoulder pain and was about to leave to go home and curl up because of the pain, so me and another lady prayed and commanded the pain to go. After lunch at church (we had a shared lunch for baby chloes dedication) she told me she was completely healed so she had stayed for the lunch. :) God is SO good.

The same power that rose Jesus from the dead lives in YOU. What an honour!

Thank you for reading my little humble blog.

God Bless you and pour favour onto you. May His beautiful eyes of love burn into your heart.

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Hello everyone,

Its been a while since we blogged so i thought i'd do a quick update on whats been going on in our lives.
Liam has a new job. He has taken over as cafe manager in our church cafe that is on the high street in Cheddar village. he officially starts on the 29th of august and is working in there a lot so he can learn all he needs to.
I have been given a studio space in an annex of a family at church, and my aunty is sharing it with me, which is very exciting. We have put new flooring in and moved all our equipment in and it has taken shape. we are now really excited to start working in there.
I am also redesigning and project managing the renovation of our church house's prayer room/lounge and our pastor John's office. So i have had people in to give me quotes etc and i'm really excited to get started on it. Its going to look loads better then it does now, seeing as it resembles an old peoples home!
We have been seeing lots of friends and having coffee a lot with people and catching up which has been lovely. Liam spends lots of his time now at Costa, the new coffee shop up the gorge on the other side of Cheddar.
Seeing as Liam has taken on the cafe (with my help, whether he wants it or not) we have commited to staying in Cheddar for 2-3 years. Which is slightly scary but exciting to get stuck in where we can.
Liam and Adam preached on Sunday which was great, they talked about love, that God is love and how much he loves us as his children.
New Wine summer camp has started so lots of families from the church are away. They had Heidi Baker speak there last week, which was of course amazing we have been told. She got the kids from another meeting to come into the adults meeting and be the ministry team!
I am going off now to go for a walk in Priddy woods, so help inspire me for new things to paint in the studio. See you later,
Izzy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hey guys,

Hope this finds everyone well and enjoying whatever you're all up to. It's been a little while since we blogged so I'll try remember whats been going on and fill you in...

We had our second taste of Praying on the streets of Weston last Saturday (3rd July). We had a few extra people join us which was great. We were able to pray with a number of people and see God touch people's lives. One lady had trouble lifting her right arm at all, she could literally not lift it but after prayer she could lift it up to a right angle with her shoulder! It was great! And a young girl was prayer for after her heel had been causing her trouble when she walked with her friends, we prayed and God touched her and she was feeling great afterwards, jumping up and down with no problem at all. God is so good!

I was able to go to a men's breakfast in Bath early on Saturday, which was a great time. Met a couple of great men and had a great free breakfast! good times. We've met quite a lot of fun and exciting people since coming back from America. It's been such a blessing because we often felt isolated in Cheddar, but it's been great to meet some people who are excited about what God's doing in this region and it's really on our heart to partner with these people and see unity grow.

We've both not had jobs since being back, which has sometimes led to boredom because of the English rain meaning we can't always go out and walk or do things, so I was really excited to work for a few hours in our church-run Cafe on Tuesday. The Cafe is a great place in Cheddar that offers people the usual selection of food and drink, and it was great to be in there on Tuesday and work with some amazing people. I'll be working in the Cafe on Tuesdays throughout July and possibly picking up some other hours here and there.

Izzy led a housegroup on Monday night on the topic of healing. She did really well, talked about Bethel's take on God's desire for healing and some of the testimonies from when she worked in the Healing Rooms and practically how the Healing Rooms happened. She did amazingly well and finished the night with a time of prayer for the various members of the group. She's amazing and it's exciting to see her grow and become more confident.

The rest of July is shaping up to be great. We're heading up to Nottingham in the East Midlands to spend most of next week with Hannah and Matt, Izzy's sister and brother-in-law which will be great. We're dropping into see our good friends Matt and Elaine on the way up. I'll also be hoping to see some friends from uni who are still in Nottingham. At the end of the month, my friend from university, Dan, will be getting married somewhere near Watford I think. I've also been asked to do a reading at the wedding ceremony which is a great honour and priviledge. My friend Adam and I will be speaking at our church at the end of the month too. Our church will be having some interesting meetings in the coming weeks. Please do pray for wisdom and vision as we have meetings to do with the way forward for us. I also start pre-season training for my local football (or soccer for my American friends!) team tonight. Really looking forward to getting back into it.

Anyways, there's a small insight into what we've been up to the last week or so. We'd love to hear from you wherever you are in the world. Please do get in touch.

Please pray for us for open doors and wisdom on how to continue to move forward.

Thanks for reading. Until next time, may God bless you loads.

Love you all
Liam and Izzy : )

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8

Well we've had another interesting week.
On Thursday we were invited to a meeting in Weston Super Mare to find out about doing a stall at a psychic fair there. We met some lovely people from a church there called St Pauls. My sister Corrie's boyfriend Rich goes to that church so they all knew Corrie. The pychic fair was going to be on saturday so we prayed and chatted about it.
On Saturday we met up with our new wonderful friend called Nigel in the centre of the shopping area in Weston. We set out some chair and A boards with stuff on them explaining what we were doing and set about handing out leaflets about Healing on the Streets. It was a brilliant 2 hours. the first hour was a bit slow but after people realised we didnt want anything from them we wanted to help them they were more receptive. We got to meet lots of lovely people and prayed for some of them to be healed. We met a man who was 77 yr old Scot. He wanted prayer for his knee, it had arthritus. So me and liam prayed for it and commanded the pain to go. He said it felt better and was really happy and left. He came back about 20 minutes later to ask for more prayer, as he had been feeling depressed and suicidal, so we had the priviledge of praying against that and helping him to understand that God is always good.
We also got to pray for a lady who had a painful neck and a bad heel, so me, liam and Nige all prayed and invited the Holy Spirit, she started crying peacefully as she felt His presence, we asked her how her neck was and she said 'oh it feels lovely, thankyou very much!' She left feeling so happy and peaceful and pain free!! :)
We also prayed for a couple, He had a walking stick and explained to me that his ankle was crushed 4 years ago and was still in pain. He was skeptical about God healing and said we should pray for his wife as she was in agony with an infection in her jaw bone. So he went off to get his wife and we sat her down and asked her out of 10 how painful was it, she said an 11. We prayed once and said she thought it was a bit better, probably about an 8/10, so we prayed again and she started saying 'yes yes its going down now, its down to a 3/10' WOW!! so we prayed again and it went down even more. Then I asked the husband if he would like his ankle better and he was hesitant but i said it would just take a minute. So he sat down and me and Liam prayed for his ankle, which had been a 4/10 in pain. We got him to stand on it and test it out and guess what...it was now about a 1/10 in pain, and then said 'actually i dont even think its a 1!' I told them Jesus healed them and if they want to know him to read a little card i gave them, they left really thankful. :) Thankyou Jesus.
We prayed for more people in the next hour. Holy Spirit showed up all day and did His thing. It was wonderful.
Nige, Ted(a man we just met who had been praying for us nearby because God told him to) Liam and me went and got a hot drink on the seafront and them we went to the psychic fair.
It was wierd seeing people getting 'healed' with crystals on them and all sorts of strange things going on. The guyson the st pauls stall did an amazing job praying for people, telling them about Jesus. I did some prophetic art for some of the stall holders, which was interesting. The man next to us was Greek Orthodox, he was lovely. He knew God but had some strange ideas about Him. I just wanted him to know the truth and know Gods presence but he didn't want to change his views. He gave me a painting that he'd done (he was selling them) it was amazing.
Yesterday we had church, then a lot of us went to the South coast to watch our friend Marni get baptised. it was such a sunny warm day, it was perfect.

Thanks for reading
Love izzy
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Hello Everyone,

We have been getting a few requests to keep on with our blog so here it is.

Now we are not in Olive house anymore it seems odd to still call it that.

Well as you know we are back home in Cheddar, England. We are living with my grandmother in her lovely big house in the centre of the village. My parents are also living there which is interesting.

When we first got back everything seemed really small, the steering wheel was on the wrong side of the car and everyone drove on the wrong side, which was especially scary going round corners.

Liam, me and Adam spoke a little at church on the 1st sunday we were back, which was fun, and after we prayed for some people and imparted what we were given. At one point i turned round to see where liam and ad were and there were people all on the floor. I heard some testimonies after about people who were healed or half healed, which was exciting.

We were asked to speak at a church about 10 minutes away on the next sunday evening, a friend of ours, Dan Collison runs the evening meeting. Lil spoke with Ad adding to it a little at the end. They both spoke really well. I got some words of knowledge, that I felt God was healing afterwards for knees, backs and diabetes. About 20ish people came up for prayer and lots of knees and backs got healed. It was so exciting. Obviously you cant check with diabetes straight away if the person is healed or not.

Last week out church ran a week long outreach event called the Cheddar Festival. We had bands and dance groups in from a company who were amazing and went into the schools to do music lessons and they also did a lunchtimes in our big top tent and a friday night youth evening. After that on the Friday night some of the kids came to the healing tent, and josh prayed for a boys back and grew his leg out, his back got healed, also a group of 5 girls came over and one of their knees got healed from a sporting injury and then josh and ad prophecied over them all, it was incredible, the words of knowledge were spot on and the girls were saying how do you know that!! On the saturday night we did a meeting in the tent, afterwards we said some words of knowledge and some people came up for prayer and some got healed, also 5 legs grew out. Lots of people get back pain and dont realise it is because they have one leg shorter than the other, but God can grow the other leg out easily :) My uncle Grahams leg grew about a centimetre which was so fun so watch.

We are starting to look for jobs now and have a few prospects, hopefully it wont be too long until we get jobs, Liam is particularly starting to get bored. I am looking for a studio/ room to paint in so i can get back into oil painting, i have really missed it.

Thanks for reading, Take care.

Peace out

Izzy xxxxx

Afternoon lovelies,

So we've started getting the house tidy and clean for leaving it on tuesday. Everyone has been pitching in, Ems been just brilliant shes amazing. We have been seeing a lot of people again this week, saying goodbyes. I,Izzy was helping at our school of creativity conference, which was AMAZING. So many creative people under one roof, and even people who didnt know they were creative in some areas were finding out new things about themselves. The speakers were amazing. I was doing portraits alongside people doing singing telegrams, healing art and creative writing. We got to speak into peoples lives and prophesy about what God has for their future and how he sees them. So that was tuseday to thursday and yesterday we started cleaning. Last night we went for dinner with a couple in the church here. We had a bbq, it was yummy, then homemade creme brulee for desert. We had a great evening and the boys all got to go in their hot tub. Today I was at the healing rooms for the last time. The healing rooms experience has been life changing for me. Seeing God move every week in hundreds of peoples lives will change a person. I have NO doubt that healing is for today, Jesus said 'Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here. Bring health to the sick. Raise the dead. Touch the untouchables. Kick out the demons. You have been treated generously, so live generously' So that is what we should do. The healing room has provided a place for God to bring health to the sick for years, in person and on skype and everyone who comes in leaves feeling blessed, and as a bonus most people leave healed.
Today me and my team leader prayed for many people, all with high pain levels, some that have come from far far away to meet Jesus and be touched by Him. SO many people got healed! It was amazing. backs and necks and hips and feet and allsorts. It was so easy. We just told the pain to go in Jesus name and it did! Almost everyone we prayed for got healed. They had that smile when they are testing it out like 'oooo wow it actually worked'.One lady who had never had prayer before came over and God healed her elbow, wrist, back and neck, she left pain free. Another lady had had pain in her neck and back for 35 years, we just invited Holy Spirit, she fell over and when she got up she was HEALED! No more pain. Thank my Jesus. A man who was a driver called Rory came in in a lot of pain, he said he is often crying in his cab because of the pain level. It was an 8/10. He left us pain free. We went next door into the waiting/encounter room where there was probably about 150 people waiting for prayer, so the prayer servants all spread around the room and started praying for people for about 5 minutes per person. The 1st lady we came to was sitting next to a child, we got her to lay her hand on the old lady and command the pain to go, she said a simple prayed and the lady was in tears, her hip painthat hs caused her to limp badly which we saw as she got up from ehr chair) had almos gone. The child prayed again for her hips then again for her arthritus and the old lady was pain free. She went off for a walk down the corridor to try out her new hips. :) We then prayed for another 5 or so people, one of whom had tennis elbow. It was painful to lift anything. So we prayed maybe 3 times, and it was gone. I had a word of knowledge that a lady had back and neck pain, so i went over and asked her if she did, she said yes a lot. So i prayed for her once, and all the pain left, meanwhile her daughter was getting rocked by God and He was taking away all her fear. She danced for the 1st time with out fear of pain, and without fear of people. It was beautiful.
So it was wonderful last day in the healing rooms. Chris Gore and Joaquin Evans have done an amazing job following Holy Spirits lead.

We are going out for say goodbye to our lovely friends Tim, Laura and their son Joshua now. Then we are out for dinner with Heidi and Antje. What a lovely day.
Thank You for reading. Love you all
Izzy and Liamxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

16.55 Sunday afternoon.

The last few weeks have been an emotional rollarcoaster. We went to the redwoods, had heidis birthday party, were knighted and commissioned by Bill Johnson and Kris vallotton on friday, we graduated on Monday, had lots of coffee dates and goodbye parties, the tears just keep coming, and there will be more to come this week. Every time i say goodbye to someone my heart hurts as i do not know when i am going to see them again. I have to drink more water than usual because the tears are dehydrating me.

We said goodbye to some of our favourite people on tuesday,Ben and Sarah. They have gone to Florida for a long holiday with sarahs family and then they are going back to Austrailia and we won't see them for a long time. It was a hard goodbye.
On wednesday I had prohetic portrait training, which Theresa Dedmon took, she showed us how to sketch out a face and use pastel to create a portrait. It was good training, I am going to be doing portraits at the Bethel School of Supernatural Creativity conference next week, i'll also be ushering, so i get to hear Patricia King and Shawn Bolz speak on arts and the Kingdom.

On Friday we had our close friends Dave and Justines's goodbye party which was fun and then some of the guys went to Bethel to hear a speaker called Hugh Ross speak, who is the founder of reasons to believe. He is an amazingly smart man. (http://www.reasons.org/dr-hugh-ross.html) They came home very late and were up talking about it with our friend Mark Proeger, there were a lot of LONG words going around! The boys went to hear him again Sat morning and loved it.

Saturday afternoon we went to whiskey town lake for our awesome revival group pastor, Crystal's birthday. It was a hot day so perfect for a bbq on the beach by the lake. lovely. Then about 10 of us went to a new frozen yoghurt place down town called 'spoon me'. It really yummy, me and my lovely friend Heidi went to its grand opening the other night and sampled a LOT of the yoghurt. it was SOOO good, and then we bought a crepe.

Today we went to church and Bill J spoke about Soloman and wisdom. He really feels like this season we are going to need supernatural wisdom, and he spoke about longevity and finishing well. It was a great talk!! Our good friend Lynda left after church, so that was another hard goodbye.:(

Liam has gone out to play football with Josh, Adam and their friend Luke, while Em and I have been sunbathing, but we had to come in as suddenly dark clouds appeared and a storm decided to come.

Thankyou for reading about our week, we hope you had a lovely one.
God Bless you all
love Izzy xx