THe house is ill....

we will post something of substance when we nolonger feel like trucks ran over us.

Prayers, healing, demons... a true Kingdom week.

so Corrie couldn't stop coughing last week. So I laid hands on her and she finally slept through the night & is on the road for recovery. Then, when we were praying for Zeke to get better, I kept getting a crazy pain in a certain part of my lung. Then, when he went to the Dr's and they found the pneumonia, he had a black mass of infection in the exact spot where my pain was. Then, at bootcamp we prayed lots for people and saw God move people to new horizons and many to tears. Next, we went to baptisms at the Danville campus and one of the girls who we were laying hands on afterwards (FYI-like 6 people were immersed during first service we were at and they had MORE second service. Praise God!) totally got shaken by God. Here joy was so apparent and she was so filled that the tears and laughter completely were incredible to watch. God's gonna turn that girl into a huge light for her college campus. So, when we got home after 3 days away at bootcamp, we were not ready for spiritual warfare... though we should've been.

The kids were cranky, but Zeke was almost unbearable. I had to carry him to the car screaming. We just chalked it up to 3 straight days at gma's and angry at parents. When he didn't stop screaming for half an hour, Corrie was like this is inhuman. Sam and Ethne seemed a bit freaked out by his behavior. When we got home, I took him straight to his room and closed the door. NOTE: we have not been yelling but have talked calmly with him the whole time. I asked him to take off his shoes and coat, which he refused to do, yelling as loud as he could in a voice I didn't recognize. I removed his shoes and hung up his jacket, then began to pray. The screaming got louder. I asked Zeke to tell me his name, at which point he yelled louder and said, "NO." Then, I asked him "in the name of Jesus" to tell me his name. He then screamed louder and said "get away from me." Then, I began to pray in tongues and asked the Spirit to come, which really agitated him. When, I place right hand on his forhead and my left on his heart and prayed "in the name of Jesus", he screamed 3-4 times, "I WILL NOT LET HIM GO!" in another voice and began to punch me 12-15 times in the face screaming "I WILL NOT LET GO!" several more times. After 10-15 minutes of prayer like this, he calmed some and I embraced him and once again began to pray in tongues over him. He got violent for about 30 seconds, then the Spirit broke through and I began to weep. After this, I began to ask him his name several more times. At about the fifth time, Zeke finally answered and said his name. He told me he was tired and very hungry... to quote the scriptures "he was sitting and in his right mind. (Mark 6)".
So now, I am tired and thinking a nap is in order, but not without leaving you with one more note. After all of this happened and Zeke was "himself" again. I began to wonder where the demon might have gone. So, I prayed against it bothering the rest of the house and agaist it bothering Corrie, me, Sam or Ethne. Then, on a whim, I prayed it wouldn't bother the dogs (see pigs in Mark 6). Upon the moment of me praying this, Bart (our younger-larger black lab) vommitted imediately under the table, ran into Zeke's room and vommitted again, then ran to the back door and puked once more before going outside...

Let me know your thoughts.

And please pray for us. Apparently we're in the right spot with God, because Satan doesn't attack non-threats to his earthly kingdom.

Come Jesus. Come Spirit and fill us up with new strength.

Blessings,
Adam

Busy week ahead...

Well, everyone in my house has been really ill this weekend. Corrie fighting off a severe cold in which she's lost her voice and the kids have had some viral/flu thing...yuck. I seem to have escaped most of it although I've been really tired the last 2 days.

Pray for us over the next few days. My busy time of inspections begins tomorrow. Corrie has 2 days of appointments for the new one. And, we both will be at Church Planting Boot camp all 3 days this weekend. Pray that we can not only make it through, but that we will be healthy enough to tackle all that life will be throwing at us. It should be a crazy-eventful and hopefully very rewarding week.

Relocating Small Group Sunday 14th

Hi friends,
Zeke now has the bug Ethne had earlier in the week. He started getting sick this morning. Sooooo, we are going to have smallgroup at Joe Bubon's home.
We will bring a few toys for the younger ones (Emily Br. and Anne are helping out THANKS SO MUCH GUYS!). Samantha is leading discussion and either Corrie or Adam will be there to help pull everything together...lol. Here's Joe's address... it's pretty simple to find on yahoo OR google maps.

Joe Bubon
3213 Weeping Cherry Dr
Champaign, IL 61822

EMAIL US BACK WITH QUESTIONS.

Adam Waters

Church Plant Bootcamp

Discover:
Friday, February 19, 6-10pm
Saturday, February 20, 8am-10pm
Sunday, February 21, through lunch.

The Vineyard Church hosts this intense weekend for those interested in serving a church-planting team, or multi-site campus. Provided through the Vineyard Midwest Regional Church-Planting Taskforce. For more info & to register: www.causeconference.com/training/church-planting-boot-camps


for our friends interested in coming...
We will host anyone interested at our house who doesn't have money for a hotel.
The cost is $45 to register OR $70 for a couple.
It will be awesome and well worth it.
If you are interested in joining our team, then this is an essential weekend for YOU!

call or email me ASAP
adam

Maybe February will bring an early Spring this year...

So, in our small groups at the Vineyard, we have what's called the BLESSING LIST. Each week, we pray for specific people in our world to be blessed by God and find Jesus as their Lord and Savior. Well, for Corrie and I, we have a "blessing list" of sorts from the past 10 days or so, that has kindof left us speechless, humble and feeling like God is moving forward in ways that will continue to astound us. Anyway, without lots of conversation and stuff, here are the broad strokes of a breathless week or so...

Friday January 22nd - Corrie found out she was pregnant with our 3rd child.

Sunday January 24th - Our small group sees new faces again and adds our 9th & 10th family.

Tuesday, January 26th - Adam's car is hit in the Wal-Mart parking lot while he is inside buying diapers.

Wednesday, January 27th - We are told that a relative is going to sell us their minivan for almost nothing (some titletransfer fees, etc.) because they felt like God wanted them to give it to someone... they didn't know we were pregnant yet and they decided at the exact time Corrie was praying about our situation.

Thursday, January 28th - Adam borrow's a car, but less than an hour into his inspections, his laptop crashes.

Friday, January 29th - Adam borrow's a car and a laptop for work. Paycheck comes a day early and is $200 more than what we had anticipated. Yeah God!

Saturday, January 30th - Someone tells us that God wanted them to give us a check. And we were officially asked to be small group coaches of 3-4 other small groups.

Sunday, January 31st - Had lunch with a couple who recently moved to Illinois. They might be interested in being worship leaders in a church plant (both parties are now praying on this... join us in prayers please).

More Sunday - Incredible night at small group. Lots of people serving and sharing and praying. Over 30 of us gathered in our little house, including another new family.

More Sunday - Had a late night and good conversation with a future leader in our church planting team.

Monday, February 1st - Got the check (see saturday). It covered our car repairs and more. Plus, we added another $50 monthly supporter. God is good!

This is just a snapshot, but there were lots of other trials and blessings through the week. Satan is attacking and Christ is upholding. It's crazy to be in the battle, but an honor to serve. God bless friends!
Adam and Corrie