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Bethel Leadership Advance Day 1

It is 1:30 a.m. my time so this may be brief.

The trip here was good but mostly boring.  We flew out of FLL at 8:30, and into Sacramento by way of DFW.  There is nothing on the north side of Sacramento’s airport.  I qualify that by direction because I have to believe that the capital of California has to have buldings in it somewhere.  But I assure you they are not on the north side.

we did the two and a half hour drive in slightly less than that

The highly recommended Oxford suites should not be so highly recommended.  This would probably be the nicest hotel you had ever stayed in if you never spent the night indoors before.

On to Bethel:

It is far bigger than you might think.  The building is big and it is packed.  We got here at 7 which is right on time unless you wanted a decent seat.  The added another row right by the entrance and we got the last seats on the row.  We did not care that much because we had been going at it for 17 hours by that time.  We decided to go up to the stage for worship.  Brian Johnson was leading.  Right at the end of the first song Bill Johnson went on stage and spoke to Chris Quilala then announced that Chris’ wife was going into labor.  He left and another drummer appeared and worship continued.

Worship was good.  Worshiping with a thousand other pastors is different.

Near the end of worship Bill Johnson went on stage and spoke a few minutes about hope.  Then he had us pray for the people near us.  While I was doing that he came off stage.  I did not know this at the time.  I looked over at Tracey and he was praying for her and she was gettin it.

Then I saw him motion toward me and the next thing I knew, the guy I was praying for and I were being catapulted through the air.  About 5 minutes later the guy said, “That felt like we got hit by a truck”

Danny Silk got up and spoke about Apostles are spiritual fathers.  It was like he got David Copeland’s notes from last night and preached part 2.

We dipped out a little early because I still feel the plane moving and we were sitting in chairs.

Keep us in prayer as we continue.