Paul Hopkins Online

Well, we’re back, over jetlag, but… we’re different.  Our routines have already changed and we are giving so much of our time to God, praying together, meeting with neighbours.  God is up to something.  Two formal meetings later we have seen God impact people, even healings.

I’d tell you more, but why not come and hear it and even get some of this presence of God!  We are speaking at St. john’s Hinckley at 6:30pm on Sunday night the 6th.  See you there!

Again there is so much to say, so I need to focus again on some key highlights.  The crowd was huge last night.  They had to put 10,000 chairs out.  The space at the front was totally packed for worship.

The worship went on for over two hours, and I don’t know exactly how long, because I got ‘lost’ in it!  After about an hour I was really feeling tired, and then Read More »

Kathryn writes…….

As the torrential tropical rain falls outside our Hotel room I am reminded of the persistent cries in the meeting for God to send His rain. One of the speakers on the first night testified to a fine mist cloud settling in his living room while he and some friends watched the meeting on God TV. They were literally wet when they put their hands in it. Read More »

A highlight from last night was the worship. Roy, the leader, changed all his plans, did away with the band and we sang simple worship songs with a keyboard for an hour and a half. It’s a phrase that does not really communicate it well enough, but ‘God’s presence was strong’ at the front where I was standing. For me, that meant hearing God’s tender thoughts in my minds very clearly; an awareness of his love for me ( and others ) that several times brought tears to my eyes.

Tonight, the 81st night, before any preaching had happened, healings started to happen. Read More »

Wow, what a meeting. I think the only way to recall it all is to watch the replay on God TV. Six hours of meeting, finishing with everyone in the tent being prayed for… about 7,000 people. This was the 80th day of this ongoing meeting. The worship was powerful, the presence of God was thick, and sometimes for me overwhelming. I cried as I thought of the broken, wounded people on the streets of England who need to experience this, who need to know and experience God healing them. I could blog for pages on last night, but I will reserve myself to a key highlight of when Todd spoke.

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Last night was our first night, and we thought that we had better arrive early, not knowing how full it would be. We arrived at 5:00pm, that’s two hours before the meeting officially starts. There was already a queue of perhaps 400 people! The whole meeting went on until about midnight, but it felt like it went so quick.

By about 9:00pm people were on stage telling of healings that had just happened. One young woman was crying as she talked of having no back pain whilst standing up for the first time in many years. There were many people suffering from hearing problems healed. One man talked of being totally deaf in his right ear. He had left the army years before after an injury had left him with this problem. During the meeting he was suddenly aware of a wooshing sound in his right ear… and the noise from the worship music started to hurt! He was totally healed.

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We have just arrived in Lakeland, Florida, settled into our motel, and eaten our first Florida breakfast after an eventful night - constantly wondering ‘what that noise was’ - and then realising it’s the air conditioning kicking in! Oh and the journey involved flying through lightening, major turbulence, and four and a half hours of delay.

It seems like many people here at this motel are also here for the meetings that you may have heard about, with Todd Bentley and the many healings that are happening here. I will try and blog at least once a day here and give you our perspective on what is happening and snippets of what is happening to us in the process! So stay tuned.

Try as I might, I cannot seem to remove the odd diary mistake, and last week had them!  I was supposed to be in two places at once… but I have not yet worked out a way to do that.  I had to be at both a YWAM England leadership meeting and be in Scotland teaching on a course with leaders from all over YWAM globally called the LDC(Leadership Development Course).  But I did manage to be in two places at once!… Read More »

Now and then, part of my role involves debriefing people. It is important for people to stop, reflect, grow and move on. This is a healthy process. Part of that process is often dealing with the hard things, things that may have led us to feel discouraged.

Discouragement is a powerful force that can paralyse, demotivate and cause is to limit who we can be. Ever had it hit you? You would not be human if you had not! What makes you feel at the end of the day that maybe you need to do something else. How is it that our buttons are pushed so that we feel that we need a new career, need to give up on working on a difficult relationship or are just in need of being somewhere that values you more. And anyway, how do you know that you are not merely being discouraged but it truly is time to change? You could be simply banging your head against a brick wall and it is time to admit that you need to move on. Read More »

Well, you may have wondered where I went… not very far, but I have had some time off with my kids and then refuelling myself. In that time I have read a few books, and as a way back in I thought I would quote from a person that I think will interest most of you… whether you are techy or a fellow God-Chaser. A man that many love to hate, and some follow with a religious fanaticism: Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple Computer.

I am not aware that he is a man with faith, or even what he thinks of the afterlife. He speaks of choice in a way that I know many people in the world (and on work abroad with YWAM, I have met some of them personally) do not have. Many just have to try and make ends meet and get through the day being able to feed their families. but for those of us who have been placed by forces outside of ourselves, with the luxury of choice, Steve’s words I believe should make us at least think:

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “no” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something… almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.