Flying home today!

Well, the past 6 and a bit weeks in the USA have been amazng, filled with God's love, presence, power and supernatural encounters. It has been a fantastic time of networking with friends old and new, and I have had a LOT of doors open for return visits, so I guess along with being an honourary South African, I am now also an honourary citizen of the good ole US of A!

I can't wait to come back and see what else God wants to do!

I had a great meeting last night at "Lighthouse Intercessors" - a time of deep worship, contending for breakthrough in the area and deep inner healing. God is soooo awesome!!!!

Photos from the Tabernacle of David worship evening in Grapevine, Dallas

Me and the Tab o D worship team!

Me drumming with some amazing friends!

Some photos from "The Realm", Huntsville

The "tunnel of love" at "The Realm"

Me preaching at "The Realm"

Ministering at "The Realm", Huntsville, Alabama

WOW! I'm having a total blast here at "The Realm" in Huntsville, Alabama!

God has been moving really powerfully and there has been a lot of breakthrough and drunkenness (in the Spirit!)

Check out last night's podcast - http://www.realmministries.com/listen_now.html

"Ebony & Ivory" conference, Dallas

I was blessed to be a part of a racial reconciliation conference in Dallas, which was a really good time of healing.

I spoke on forgiveness and the act of foot washing, and God poured out a lot of inner healing to people.

When we were doing the foot washing, I prayed for people and prophesied over them as I washed their feet and there was a special presence of God during this time.

Saying goodbye to the BURN interns

Some messages from the BURN intern students when I left them.....such a cool bunch of dudes!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=599586819#!/video/video.php?v=342352976819

Drumming in Tennessee!

Trish having a great time dancing as I drummed

Me drumming in GAP House of Prayer, Tennessee

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I had a great time drumming in 2 houses of prayer in Tennessee - one evening was at SHOPP 24 in Shelbyville and the next evening was at GAP House of Prayer in Murfreesboro.

I had a blast and God moved powerfully. Many people said to me that God had taken them into new realms in the Spirit with Him, and that they saw all kinds of amazing visions.

God is sooooo good and I am a VERY blessed man to be able to have this much FUN following Him! :-)

Adopted in Oklahoma!

I had an awesome meeting in Oklahoma, where I was asked to do a drum circle (what me, a drum circle you may say! Who'd have thought it!?) and it was WILD!

We had a great time worshipping God and contending for the area, prophesying over the city and just loving on God!

After the meeting, I was told that I had been officially adopted into the OKC tribe!

Cool!

My time in Shawnee with the BURNING ones is coming to a close!

Me teaching the BURN Interns



Me drumming at the BURN Interns meeting house

"But I don't believe in visions or angels!"

This was so cool that I wanted to share it with you.

Apparently at the youth meeting that I ministered at on Wednesday night in Seminole, Oklahoma, parents came in at the end of the meeting and were standing around experiencing powerful encounters with the Lord.

One of the Dads, who is a Baptist said to the youth pastor, "I'm seeing visions, and I can see angels moving around in here." The youth pastor wasn't particularly amazed by this, as he is used to hanging with people who see visions, but the guy then said, "You don't understand. I'm a Baptist and I don't believe in visions or seeing angels." He went on to say that he does now!!!

Other people received inner healing as the presence of God flowed and testimonies of what God did have been circulating. Apparently a lot of the youth were deeply touched by the Holy Spirit and saw visions and had encounters with the Father's love in special ways.

Thanks Dad!

Further teaching in Shawnee

I am really enjoying teaching the BURN students here in Shawnee.

Today I taught on Intercession and did the activation exercise where God takes us into the spiritual realm with Him and shows us something that is on His heart to pray for somewhere else in the world.

I have really enjoyed doing these activations recently, as God has definitely opened a portal when I teach and do these. People are having amazing and deep experiences with God and are seeing very clearly in the spirit, hearing His voice with more clarity and I just stand in amazement at how quickly God is taking people deeper into Him.

Today we prayed for situations that God showed people in Bangkok and other parts of the world, and also personal situations that people heard God say for them to pray and intercede into.

For those of you who aren't sure about this type of activation, the spiritual principle is really very simple. True intercession is praying what is on God's heart - that is the first step, to find out what God wants us to intercede for, and then follow His leading. As God is omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (present at all points in space and time at once) and omnipotent (all-powerful), it makes sense that He has things on His heart for His people to pray into that are taking place in another place (or even time, as in identificational repentance). God will often open up a spiritual "window" and show us information through that window that He wants us, as His people, to intercede for. So, God knows everything and sometimes shows us information that we have no earthly knowledge of (just the same as with prophecy and words of knowledge), so that we can stand in the gap and intercede.

It's very cool to see how people connect at deeper levels with God once they have some encouragement, from a leader, but also of course - and more importantly - from God.

I have also enjoyed doing an activation which is similar to the above, but where we ask God to take us into a spiritual "room" of His choosing, so that we can hear His voice and/or see what He wants to show us. This is not spiritual guidance, but is simply asking the Lord to take us somewhere of HIS CHOOSING, speak to us and/or show us something of HIS CHOOSING. We are returning to the spiritual disciplines of meditation and asking God to take us deeper into Him.

So.....there you go! There's always more in God, and this is just one of the many ways that He uses to take us deeper into Him.

Tonight is the start of the Mid-West BURN Summit, and I am looking forward to hanging out with Sean and other friends of mine that I haven't seen for a while.

Love you all!

Shawnee, Oklahoma

Well, the weeks are flying past and I realise that I have almost been in the USA for a month!

What a month it has been though! WOW! God has been doing such a lot of amazing things (as He does when we give Him the space to move!) such as salvations, physical healings, deep inner healing and taking us into deep places of revelation in the spirit. I have taught on many subjects and one of my favourite things that God has been doing is when I ask Him to play through me on the keyboard and then ask the Lord to take people on a journey with Him into the spirit to a place of His choosing. WOW! I have done this before (for those of you who know me, you will of course know this!) but there seems to be an even deeper thing that God is doing in people's lives at this time through these times. It's a lot of FUN too!

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So, here I am in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and I have so far taught 2 lessons to the BURN interns (BURNING ONES) here - Intimacy with God and the Spiritual Realm & Creativity in Worship and ministry, but we have also touched on angels, inner healing and walking in the supernatural. It has been a lot of fun teaching them - they're a very cool bunch!

I have also been really blessed to sit with them in a teepee at a Native American heritage centre and pray with a tribal leader. WOW! For those of you who know me, you will know that for me this is like MEGAWOW time! Native Americans are my absolute fave people group and have been ever since I was a child. I just love their spirituality and those that I know are very open not only to the gospel, but to the deeper things of the spirit as well. Awesome people!

Last night I ministered in a youth meeting in Seminole, which went really well too.

Those who were still in the meeting hall at the end just didn't want to leave as God's presence was pretty strong in there and a lot of ministry and prophecy was flowing as the Holy Spirit moved on people. It was a sweet time!

So.....off to Starbucks!

Coeur d'Alene, Idaho

OK, so here I am in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. What a cool place. I definitely like Idaho!

I am here to do a prophetic school this Saturday and then a Sunday morning service, both at "Revolution Church" with my friend Kari Browning -

http://www.revolutionchurch.us/events-schooloftheprophetic.htm

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OK, so the prophetic school was AWESOME! God did some very cool and deep work in lives today as we went on a journey into His heart and into the "Revelation Room".

I spoke on intimacy, on prophetic intercession and on hearing God's voice and flowing in the supernatural power of God. It was a blast!

In the afternoon we did a series of activation exercises, which went down really well.

Again, I played the keyboard and released some interesting and creative sounds over the people. As I did so, we felt a very strong sense of God's presence and knew that we were tapping into something special. Afterwards several people spoke to me that they had received inner healing, some physical healing and even some deep experiences with God.

One of the activations was to ask God to show us something that is taking place in a different part of the world that He wants us to pray into. One man was taken in the spirit to India and saw a girl there who needed prayer and so we lifted her up to God in prayer, as well as other situations that God was revealing by His Spirit.

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On Sunday morning, I led a drum circle at "Revolution Church" and it was a great time! I sang prophetically and we felt that God was releasing His warrior bride to stand up and press into Him.

Again I played the keyboard and released creative sounds and God again moved by His Spirit. It was like a warm wave that continually washed over me, and when I stopped playing there was absolute silence. It was like a heavy blanket of His presence was laying on us.

After the meeting, a friend of mine did a concert for Valentine's Day, and it was really cool.

I was then taken out for a meal, which was really needed as I had spent the last hour and a half after the concert prophesying over people!

God, you are sooooooooo cool and sooooooooo creative! Walking with you is a great adventure!

Abraham Lincoln's birthday!

Well, today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday!

Apparently I am like a 5th generation relative of his (exact details are a little complicated!)

So, here I am in the USA, touring around on my distant relative's birthday and it feels pretty weird but also cool!

Special meetings in Boise, Idaho.

Well, Boise is a beautiful and very cool place. I am really looking forward to my return visit sometime later this year.

I did 3 meetings there - the BURN, which was at "The Garden", a teaching and ministry time at "Maranatha Christian School" and a meeting last night at "The Garden".

At each of the meetings, there was a really cool flow of the Holy Spirit in prophecy and in deep inner healing and connecting on a deeper level with the heart of Daddy God. It was so cool to be a part of what He was doing. I got prayed for at the end and got blasted! :-)

I have been teaching a lot on intimacy with God, the reality of the spiritual realm and how to walk in the supernatural, and also about worship and creativity.

Tomorrow I am doing a full day prophetic school at "Revolution Church" in Coure d'Alene, Idaho. I am really looking forward to it!

Boise, Idaho

Mountains in Boise




A view of Boise



OK, well I made it!

I'm now in Boise, Idaho, and what a beautiful part of the world!!!

WOW!!!

The meeting last night was great - the Holy Spirit moved in deep and refreshing ways during the worship times and the teaching and sharing I brought seemed to go down well. I did one of those "OK God, I'm stepping out in faith again here!" things and played the keyboard and sang as I played (OK - I don't actually "play" keyboards! Never have! I ask the Holy Spirit to guide my fingers as I play and release sounds and music, and then sometimes sing at the same time) - I love doing this, and I love that God always turns up when I do, and last night there was a real sense of His presence as I played and sang. Thanks Dad! :-)




Check out the website for "The Garden" where I ministered, and where I am again on Thursday evening -
http://www.the-garden.org/flash/

Arrived in Boise, Idaho!

OK, so after a pretty crazee route to get here and a night in Minneapolis, due to the weather (worst snow storm in history!) I am now here in Boise, Idaho!

I have a BURN meeting tonight that I am speaking at and playing at, and then tomorrow off and another meeting at "The Garden" on Thursday evening.

My case took an earlier plane and I was praying that I didn't lose it, but here it was waiting for me when I arrived! Of course! Thanks Dad! :-)

A meeting with my Sis, Cate Combs

It was a real blessing to spend a couple of hours with my good friend and sis, Cate Combs this morning. We are planning to tour together later in the year........ :-)

Les Miserables in Grapevine, Texas

Well.....tonight was a welcome chillaxing one, and I was taken to see "Les Miserables" at Grapevine High School in Texas. It was an excellent performance by a group of teens who did a VERY good job and were talented. I enjoyed it, and of course afterwards there had to be some awesome American ice cream!

In Dallas again....

Well, after some seriously NASTY turbulent flying today, I am now in Dallas again, and have had a great evening with my awesome friends Scott and Emma. I am with them until Monday morning for a chillaxing time! YAY! :-)

About to leave Los Fresnos for Dallas

WOW! What a week and a bit this has been!

I knew that God had told me to come for a week or so (ended up being 10 days) to this ministry in south Texas, and I am soooo glad that I did!

I have had a powerful time here, marked by deep inner healing, deliverance, prophetic words of God's love and encouragement, deep experiences with the Holy Spirit - as He came in a refreshing way to touch people, some physical healing and at least 5 people were saved as the Holy Spirit moved in different churches and areas.

The teaching has been received really well and I have been told that there is a lot of fruit from it already. I have taught on worship, the spiritual realm, intimacy with God and inner healing.

Last night I ministered to the youth here on the supernatural power of God, and then we prayed for several sick people in the group. Today I prophesied over several of the leadership in the ministry and tonight my last meeting here is again with more youth.

I leave in the morning, filled with God's love and having experienced His power to set people free from emotional pain and things that they have carried for a long time. We have had great times of pressing into Him in worship and have had a party with the Holy Spirit, but I know that this is a place where I will come back regularly, and I know that God has soooo much in store for these precious people!

More later from Dallas.......

Check out some videos from Mexico!

To see some videos (that run the range from serious to crazee) go to my YouTube channel -

http://www.youtube.com/slcongas

An honorary Mexican!

An amazing Mexican family who I think I may have been adopted by! :-)

One of the churches in Matamoros, Mexico

One of the awesome Mexican children I fell in love with!

WOW! What a week (and a bit!)

After a week filled with the wonderful love and power of the Holy Spirit, I have just been told that the pastors from the churches where I have been ministering have been praying that I would come back soon, as they and their people have been so blessed by what the Lord has been doing! Of course it's ALL Him, but this just confirms to me that I am in the right place and that this is a deep thing that God is doing between me and this wonderful group of people!

I guess I must be an honorary Mexican! Praise God!

An amazing week (and a bit) in Los Fresnos, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico

One of the houses in Mesquital, Mexico




The bay in Mesquital

Me in Mesquital

Me drumming in Matamoros

WOW! What an amazing week (and a bit this has been!), a week of amazing breakthrough, Daddy's love being poured out, healing, deliverance and salvation. It's actually hard to know where to start!

The people here are REALLY precious and I have connected with them on a special level. I have been asked to come back and will return here later this year to speak at the ministry's annual conference and then bring a team back after that. God is moving here in amazing ways and I am glad to be a part of it!

I had the privilege yesterday of sharing a meal with a Mexican family in the village of Mesquital, and that was after we had been out evangelising, praying for the sick and prophesying over people. The Lord has now got 3 more friends on the way to heaven and the angels are rocking out over each one! Praise God! :-)

The ministry that is hosting me here is "United in Christ" - http://www.uicmw.com/

Each day has had amazing breakthroughs by God's love, including MANY people receiving deep inner healing as God's love has broken through. In 2 meetings I spoke on inner healing and how God wants us to be open with Him and allow His Holy Spirit to bring us into healing. In Mexico, it is cultural for men and even boys not to cry and God has been breaking this deception, and men and boys who have been carrying deep emotional pain for years have been getting set free. One of the key scriptures that brings freedom is the shortest verse in the entire Bible - "Jesus wept." When people realise that it is OK to be hurt and to ask for emotional healing as well as physical healing, they have been receiving it from the Father's heart. It has been a wonderful thing to experience.

God gave me a vision in one of the meetings of a little boy who was crying as he had just lost someone close to him and he was told that he mustn't cry! As soon as this had been translated, a woman came to the front of the meeting holding a little boy's hand and both were weeping. Then another came, and another! Soon, the Holy Spirit was moving on a lot of people, as they got free. I sang over them from Dad's heart and His love touched them deeply. He's so amazing! He knows exactly what to do!

The times of worship have also been really powerful and one evening we had a fire tunnel, which was definitely VERY fiery!

On Sunday evening I called people to the front to receive physical healing and there was a strong outpouring of the Holy Spirit with people experiencing the power of the Lord as His Spirit moved on them. God is awesome!

Report on my time in Ardmore, Oklahoma by Andy Rudd (pastor of Harvest Fellowship)

Days of Breakthrough Part 1

We are definitely in days of breakthrough in South Central Oklahoma! I am so thrilled to see what God continues to do in our region.

Harvest Fellowship was blessed to host Steve Lincoln from the UK from January 19 to the 24 as he began a six-week tour of the US. Steve is the UK BURN Director and the founder of Eagles' Wings Ministries. Steve is a prophet with an anointing for breakthrough, and that was very evident as God used him during his stay in Ardmore.

On Wednesday evening Steve ministered at Solid Rock Church which is pastored by my friend Steve Skinner. Harvest Fellowship joined this congregation for a joint service filled with worship, teaching and ministry. Throughout the evening we saw a manifestation in the natural of what I believe is happening in the heavenlies.

As the service progressed, a thick fog settled in outside, hindering visibility as the meeting was ending. However, as Steve continued ministering to people still remaining (including me....and isn't new wine awesome!), a powerful wind suddenly swept down on the church. I thought at one point the doors would blow off of the building. By the time Steve and I left, not a trace of fog remained.

Steve sees many things in the spirit, and that night he saw lots of angelic activity as we left the building. These angelic beings were pushing things away. I believe what we saw manifest in the physical realm is manifesting in the heavenlies over Ardmore and the surrounding areas. The heaviness is being forced out as a new wind of the Spirit comes rushing into our midst!

In the last month I've seen several remarkable signs in the heavenlies in our region and our state, including a 'blanket of glory' during the December BURN Preview at Harvest Fellowship (detailed in a previous blog). These things all seem to be prophetic signs that an awakening is happening and increasing!

Acts 2:17-20 says, "In the last days...I will pour out my Spirit on all people...I will show wonders in the heavens and signs on the earth below." Lord, continue to pour out your Spirit!

A day of incredible breakthrough in Los Fresnos and Indian Lake, Texas

WOW! What an amazing day! Thank you Holy Spirit!!!!

The day started off with a time of worship that was only planned to be about 1/2 hour and then I was going to share for a while, but God had different plans! The worship went on for nearly 3 hours and the teacher who had come to teach the missions staff Spanish had to postpone her lesson. She said she was really glad, as she hadn't been in a time of worship like that for a long time. :-)

In the evening I did a meeting at a small town called Indian Lake, and the worship was really good. I was helped by a wonderful and anointed friend of mine, Jessica Long, and a team of cool musos and worshippers.



I had prepared a teaching on the love of God, but again the Lord did something else (don't you just love the freedom of the Holy Spirit!?) - the worship and the prophetic flow was all about God's deep love and when I started to share I just felt that people should come forward to get personal breakthrough and healing. Almost everyone came forward and received prayer and there was a deep flow of inner healing.



Later on, we had a time of worship back at the United in Christ base, and it was ROCKIN'!!! The prophetic flow was great and we ended up going until about 1.00am!



Am I a blessed man, or what!? Thanks Lord!!!



Tonight I am ministering at the soup kitchen......

Matamoros, Mexico and Los Fresnos, Texas

Welcome to Matamoros!

Well.....after a great meeting on Sunday morning at Harvest Fellowship in Ardmore, Oklahoma, I flew down to a little town called Los Fresnos in southern Texas, just about 1/2 hour from the Mexican/US border.

I have been soooo blessed to see what this incredible group of people are doing and I count it a real privilege to be spending time with them and to be a part of the family.

Some of the projects that this ministry is involved with are an orphanage, a soup kitchen (which is also a church - I am preaching there tonight), a rehab centre and also other churches that they are planting in the area. I was taken around these projects and met some of the people who are leading the work in Mexico.

Our ministry will be helping to support this work and we will be giving more details later....

The "Love Homes" orphanage







The gates of the "Love Homes" orphanage







A home in Matamoros close to the orphanage






Some locals out for a ride!








The new soup kitchen building, soon to be used to bless the people of Matamoros

BURN Ardmore!

Well........I had a fantastic time at the BURN in Ardmore on Saturday!

God really moved powerfully and my teaching went down well. I had a lot of positive feedback about it afterwards, and have been invited to minister at a couple of other churches when I am back in Ardmore.

Here's a video of me "drumming up a storm" for the Lord with my good friend Tino.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&id=599586819#/video/video.php?v=268690894189&ref=mf

More later.....

More from Ardmore...

Well, I'm enjoying my time in Ardmore. It's great to be amongst a church community that has a real family feel to it.

I am staying in a classic American motel, and it's been nice to have some space to get over my jetlag (and a cold that I am fighting back!) I personally prefer to stay with people, as it helps you to get to know each other, but this has definitely been God's doing and I am grateful for it. :-)

So.....I taught at a Christian school yesterday, that is headed by Andy and Jami Rudd (the pastors of Harvest church where I am being hosted). I taught on hearing God's voice, and it went really well. The children were all very attentive, even when we had a time of listening to God's voice. They are great kids! (They are also fascinated by my Brit accent!)

In the evening we had a time of fellowship and talked about the BURN, which will take place on Saturday. I will be teaching at the BURN and then also leading worship and helping some of the teams during the day.


I thought you might like to see the extremely cute little girl who is probably going to take over my job as drummer!!!

I've arrived in the USA - first stop - Ardmore, Oklahoma

I had a GREAT meeting tonight at "Solid Rock" in Ardmore, Oklahoma. The worship was very sweet and from the outset I could feel that God was going to do something special in the way of inner healing.

After I had finished the worship I taught for about an hour on "Releasing the Power of Creativity in Worship" and it went down very well with some good questions asked afterwards.

I then asked people to come forward if they needed a breakthrough in order to come into the fulfilment of their dreams and visions that God has spoken to them over the years (God had spoken about an open door of opportunity that is there for those who feel discouraged about their prophetic words, visions and dreams not coming true).

The prayer time was very powerful and God released a lot of people into inner healing and brought encouraging prophetic words to many people. God is soooooo good!!!

There was some very cool "joy in the house" as the Holy Spirit fell and laughter broke out with some of the people (me included - of course!) New wine is definitely good for jetlag!

I have been asked to come back, so all in all it's a great way to start the tour! THANKS DAD! :-)

I'm teaching at a Christian School tomorrow morning, so off to bed now!


Love you all!

Steve.