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Five years ago Rosy Soh started a pool hall as a street ministry in the heart of one of Melbourne's worst drug scenes. In the process she received the following prophetic vision...

Rosie was standing on a wall dividing two pools of water. One pool was putrid with dead fish and the other fresh with live fish. As she stood on the dividing wall she began to weep. As her tears landed on the wall it started to dissolve and the living water stated to flow into the putrid water. As it did so the putrid water was refreshed and the fish started to live.

This vision is similar to Ezekiel 47, which was an expression of our Lord's deep compassion for lives being lost to death and destruction. As the living water flowed into the dead sea, healing and life came to that which was lost (Ezek 47:8-12).

Rosie received her call to intercession for the drug culture of Springvale. She was then moved by the Holy Spirit to live out this prophetic intercession. As a result on many occasions she stood in her pool hall looking out through a large glass window to the other side of Springvale Road, where a major drug centre was operating.

She wept in the Spirit for hours at a time for these drug pushers and users. These were tears of intercession.

When high level pushers came into her pool hall with their body guards she went up to them and told them she ran a Christian pool hall... no drugs, no alcohol, no smoking. Just a clean fun alternative for young people. She even had a word from God for the pushers:

"What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

When the Government decided to put injecting rooms into Springvale, Rosy went to the public meeting called to explain to the residents how this was to be accomplished. Injecting rooms were "man's answer" to drug addiction... but this was not what God had in mind!

Rosie went to the meeting under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. She spoke out against injecting rooms. The plan never went ahead. The next day the papers rang her to ask her what she had said that would cause the Government's to change it's mind? However Rosie can't remember the specifics of how God spoke through her at that meeting. She was just available to Him.

Well what was God's answer for Springvale?... intercession. The tears of the river of life from a compassionate and Spirit filled woman flowed for the souls of the lost in Springvale.

Now the drug dealers have gone. The main shop where drugs were pushed was taken over by a retired missionary and revamped as a Christian drop-in centre. New churches migrated into the area. Drug addicts stopped coming from all over Melbourne to Springvale. The city has been largely cleaned up and it's safe to walk the streets of Springvale again.

Special note:

Subsequently to hearing the above story from Rosy, I had the opportunity to attend a meeting of Intercessors for Melbourne. At this meeting one of the intercessors spoke up as follows: "I can see a vision of two pools of water, one fresh and the other putrid. The water from the fresh pool is flowing into the putrid water and bringing new life". As the lady speaking had no knowledge of Rosy Soh's story, I knew I had to fill in the gaps.

To this the intercessors were moved to tears, as they had been praying for the situation in Springvale but had no knowledge of how God had moved. Praise God for intercessors moving in obedience and accuracy under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Peter Kentley

Update on the John So ticket for the Melbourne City Council

Gary Singer
A lawyer who represented victims of the infamous Tasty nightclub raid, said yesterday luring pink dollars was among his priorities.

"We can be the gay capital," he told the Herald Sun in his first interview. Openly homosexual, Mr Singer was elected to the Melbourne City Council in a landslide victory with mayor John So at the weekend (click here for full article).

David Wilson
David was previously the Principal of Kingsley Bible College until his move to the CBD. In recent years David has launched Urban Encounter as a ministry to the CBD and is very much committed to marketplace ministry and the growth of the Kingdom of God in business and commerce.

On behalf of "OnWatch" readers we extend our heartiest congratulations and prayerful best wishes to David.

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