Monday, March 15, 2010
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
TRAUMATIC EVENTS IN BURMA – PASTOR’S WIFE GANG-RAPED
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Dear friends
I am writing this from Thailand, with a heavy heart. I just returned a few hours ago from Burma where I met with our team. From here I leave for Africa for two Crusades and a School of Ministry in Mocambique.
I want to inform you about a tragic and ongoing situation for which we need your prayers and your support.
One of our Church-Planters Pastor Hnin Hnin Htay and her husband Pastor Aung Kham, planted a church in the remote community of Kyu Inn in Northern Shan State. We have actually three churches in three different towns in the area.
Hnin Hnin Htay and her husband planted this church and it began to grow as God did many mighty miracles of healing and deliverance through their ministry and many people came to Jesus as a result.
These new believers in their newfound love for Jesus forsook Buddhism and destroyed their Buddha idols and shrines that they had previously worshipped. This did not go down well with the monks at the local monastery who reported them to the local military authorities. The military and some local Buddhist thugs then attacked the Christians, beat them up, destroyed their property and threw them out of the town. These believers subsist on farming and so they went to their fields. They were attacked there also and forced to flee to the jungles, where they are right now.
It was during these events that Pastor Hnin Hnin Tay, our brave soul-winner, church-planter and Pastor’s wife was gang-raped by the thugs. Her mother, also a church-planter and Pastor with a tremendous healing ministry, was spared because of her age.
Over 100 Christians from 20 families have lost their homes and everything they own and are now out in the jungle without shelter. We need to do something about this immediately!
I had $2000 earmarked for our Church-planting School that I have released for immediate help for these suffering brethren. Our teams are going to go out to help them.
With the rainy monsoon season around corner we need to build simple houses for these 20 families. For $500 each (Total $ 10,000) we can build simple huts for these families. Then we need more funds for clothing, cooking utensils, food and for their other immediate needs! Total I am trusting God for $20,000 to help our suffering brethren.
Please help us with this! Mark your checks “BURMA AID”. You can help by check sent to our ministry office or online at www.pentecostalfire.com
Every Dollar that comes in shall go to help these brethren!
In Christ
Your brother
Christopher Alam
Bangkok, Thailand
Dear friends
I am writing this from Thailand, with a heavy heart. I just returned a few hours ago from Burma where I met with our team. From here I leave for Africa for two Crusades and a School of Ministry in Mocambique.
I want to inform you about a tragic and ongoing situation for which we need your prayers and your support.
One of our Church-Planters Pastor Hnin Hnin Htay and her husband Pastor Aung Kham, planted a church in the remote community of Kyu Inn in Northern Shan State. We have actually three churches in three different towns in the area.
Hnin Hnin Htay and her husband planted this church and it began to grow as God did many mighty miracles of healing and deliverance through their ministry and many people came to Jesus as a result.
These new believers in their newfound love for Jesus forsook Buddhism and destroyed their Buddha idols and shrines that they had previously worshipped. This did not go down well with the monks at the local monastery who reported them to the local military authorities. The military and some local Buddhist thugs then attacked the Christians, beat them up, destroyed their property and threw them out of the town. These believers subsist on farming and so they went to their fields. They were attacked there also and forced to flee to the jungles, where they are right now.
It was during these events that Pastor Hnin Hnin Tay, our brave soul-winner, church-planter and Pastor’s wife was gang-raped by the thugs. Her mother, also a church-planter and Pastor with a tremendous healing ministry, was spared because of her age.
Over 100 Christians from 20 families have lost their homes and everything they own and are now out in the jungle without shelter. We need to do something about this immediately!
I had $2000 earmarked for our Church-planting School that I have released for immediate help for these suffering brethren. Our teams are going to go out to help them.
With the rainy monsoon season around corner we need to build simple houses for these 20 families. For $500 each (Total $ 10,000) we can build simple huts for these families. Then we need more funds for clothing, cooking utensils, food and for their other immediate needs! Total I am trusting God for $20,000 to help our suffering brethren.
Please help us with this! Mark your checks “BURMA AID”. You can help by check sent to our ministry office or online at www.pentecostalfire.com
Every Dollar that comes in shall go to help these brethren!
In Christ
Your brother
Christopher Alam
Bangkok, Thailand
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
FAITH THAT FLOWS FROM GRACE
By Christopher Alam
God had decreed in His Word, “Now the just shall live by faith…” (Hebrews 10:38).
This exhortation tells us that we who belong to Jesus should not merely act in faith when the need for faith arises, but that we should live our lives immersed in faith. Living a life of Faith is one of the very foundations of the Christian life. To live by faith would therefore mean breathing faith, thinking faith, speaking faith, acting faith, walking faith, and so on - literally every aspect of our lives being based and grounded in the spirit of Faith.
Our faith rests upon and flows from that which the Lord Jesus did for us upon the Cross of Calvary, and upon the Writ of the Word of God. The Bible declares:
“Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.” Isaiah 53:4-5
In other words, upon the Cross the Lord Jesus bore upon Himself our sins, our diseases, and the curses that were upon our lives so that we may be righteous, healed, free and blessed.
This is what faith is for; to enable us to appropriate these and every other blessing that Christ has purchased for us with His own blood, so that they no longer remain as theological truths and phrases printed on paper but as living and dynamic truths in our earthly lives. By faith we can take possession of the things which Jesus has purchased for us at the Cross.
I have noticed through my years in ministry that people carry one of two different perceptions of faith. In other words, there are two different ways in which faith is taught, preached and practiced. Both of these perceptions or ways are deceptively similar in many ways, but they are in reality very different from each other. Only one of them is right.
One of these is what I would call “legalistic” faith or “law-based” faith. This is when the believer believes that he can possess God’s blessings only by exercising what he calls the “laws of faith”. The whole idea is that of God being in a passive state who stands at the sidelines watching us as we go through the motions and spiritual gymnastics of faith. Once he is impressed that we have gone through all the motions of faith, he would then see to it that the miracle that we have asked him for happens.
In this “law-based faith”, the believer believes that the main factor which ultimately produces miracles in his life is his own ability to believe, to confess, to hold fast to his confession, etc. Although confession and these things are Biblical principles, his faith leans more upon his own going through the motions of faith than it does upon Jesus. HE is the active one, whilst God is passive. The “burden” unfortunately is on him, and not on Jesus. The results appear to depend more upon him and his ability to pray, believe, and confess, rather than upon the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus.
In this “philosophy of faith”, what appears to be “faith” is actually nothing but “works”.
The other approach is true Biblical faith. This is what I like to call “Grace-based faith”. Grace and works are opposites of each other. We live either by Grace or by works. Many Christians try to make a convenient “mix” of the two, which NEVER works, because the two just cannot mix. It is either one or the other.
After all, the Bible does say, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” Romans 11:6
Works-based faith may give some limited results because God’s Word, even spoken or exercised under a legalistic mind-set is still God’s Word. But on the whole this kind of faith usually brings only disappointment and failure.
Now let us understand what Grace-based faith is. Before doing so let us take a look at Strong’s definition of “Grace” or what the Bible means when it says that we are “under Grace”. The word “Grace” is the Greek word “Charis” which means the following:
“God’s unmerited favor. The merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues. The spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace.”
Wow!
In other words, true Grace is the power of God’s Holy influence working in the hearts of people and drawing them close to Jesus. Grace, as many people erroneously assume, is NOT a passive attitude of spiritual laziness, complacency, or neglect of God and His Word. Grace is NOT a license for sin. Grace is the power of God working in man. When a person stands under God’s Grace it brings forth life, freedom, victory, holiness, healing, peace, and prosperity.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8
Two things stand out in this verse:
1. Grace precedes faith. In other words, Grace comes before faith. This leads us to something that most people have never realized - that we cannot truly understand faith without first understanding Grace, because Grace always precedes faith. Grace is the bedrock upon which faith rests. To truly understand faith, we must first understand the Love and the Grace of God.
2. Faith is “not of ourselves.” In other words, faith too like Grace, is a gift of God. It is through Grace that God gives us the faith to appropriate all the blessings that Grace provides!
An easy way to understand this is through this allegory: God shows me a house that He owns and says, “I am selling you this wonderful house, but it will cost you XXX amount of money, which is far more than you could ever afford!” He then proceeds to give me the money so that I can use it to buy the house from Him. I may say that “I bought the house”, but did I really? It was, after all, He who gave me the money to appropriate it from Him!
Grace could also be described as the pipeline through which God freely and undeservedly pours down all His blessings to us. Faith is the pipeline that God through His Grace freely puts into our hearts. The purpose of this pipeline is to connect to the pipeline of His Grace. When we align and connect our pipeline of faith to God’s pipeline of Grace, God’s miracles begin to flow.
Grace is unmerited favor given to us just because of Jesus. Even faith, which follows Grace, is given to us by God as an act of God’s Grace. Do you know how He does this? “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
Notice that faith is not “produced” by us “working the Word”! On the contrary, faith “comes” as yet another gift of God’s Grace! This is how it works: as we live in God’s Word and immerse ourselves in it, we meet Jesus ( Who Himself is the Living Word) in His Written Word and see what He has done for us. God, by this act of His Grace, deposits faith in our hearts so that we can, by that same faith, lay hold of and appropriate the very things that we have seen in His Word.
This wonderful interaction of the Word, Grace, and Faith is pivotal to our Christian life. Paul said: “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Acts 20:32
The Word of God is the “Word of God’s Grace”, also known as “the Word of Faith”. Grace working through God’s Word not only brings us faith, but also builds us up and brings us into the fullness of our inheritance in Christ.
Another wonderful thing about Grace is that it is for EVERYBODY! Nobody is left out, and then once we receive Grace, we receive faith too!
“And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:16-17
Grace also gives us “righteousness”, which does not mean fleshly perfection as some assume it does. Righteousness means “right standing” with God. This means that God accepts us and loves us just as we are. He looks at us in Jesus, as if we never sinned or failed in our lives. This in practical terms means that our own failures and imperfections are of no consequence when we are in Christ Jesus and walk with Him. God sees us just as He sees Jesus! Because of this we can walk with a clean conscience without guilt, and our faith is always powerful and always brings miraculous results. The Bible says:
“For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:17
When we live under Grace, faith and righteousness are not an issue because they are ours, given to us freely by our Lord. The problem is that man’s natural tendency is to turn to legalism. There is something about the natural man that, although he recognizes that he is saved by Grace, he feels he has to turn to legalism for Christian life and conduct. This is religion and not freedom in Christ. The Bible says:
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:1, 4
Religion and legalism are more dangerous than we realize because they can actually put us in bondage and cause us to fall from Grace! That is why we have to fight the fight of faith - to fight against the tendencies of our flesh to go into the works of the law. We should fight to stay in Grace and in faith where we know that God’s favor abounds to people like us, not because we deserve anything, but we are blessed with all things only because of Jesus, and Jesus alone!
Lastly, True Grace makes us holy. I say “True Grace” because the concept of Grace has been so misinterpreted and misunderstood by some, that there are those who have come to believe that God’s Grace is a license to neglect godliness and even to indulge in the lusts of the flesh. True Grace is NOT lawlessness!
A man truly living under God’s Grace develops a mind-set that says, “God loves me so much, He has given me so much more than I could ever deserve in this life: Therefore I will never allow anything into my live that would cloud my communion with Him!”
Grace, Faith, Righteousness bearing rich fruit in our lives and in our ministries. This is true and wonderful living indeed!
God had decreed in His Word, “Now the just shall live by faith…” (Hebrews 10:38).
This exhortation tells us that we who belong to Jesus should not merely act in faith when the need for faith arises, but that we should live our lives immersed in faith. Living a life of Faith is one of the very foundations of the Christian life. To live by faith would therefore mean breathing faith, thinking faith, speaking faith, acting faith, walking faith, and so on - literally every aspect of our lives being based and grounded in the spirit of Faith.
Our faith rests upon and flows from that which the Lord Jesus did for us upon the Cross of Calvary, and upon the Writ of the Word of God. The Bible declares:
“Surely he has borne our infirmities and carried our diseases; yet we accounted him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the punishment that made us whole, and by his bruises we are healed.” Isaiah 53:4-5
In other words, upon the Cross the Lord Jesus bore upon Himself our sins, our diseases, and the curses that were upon our lives so that we may be righteous, healed, free and blessed.
This is what faith is for; to enable us to appropriate these and every other blessing that Christ has purchased for us with His own blood, so that they no longer remain as theological truths and phrases printed on paper but as living and dynamic truths in our earthly lives. By faith we can take possession of the things which Jesus has purchased for us at the Cross.
I have noticed through my years in ministry that people carry one of two different perceptions of faith. In other words, there are two different ways in which faith is taught, preached and practiced. Both of these perceptions or ways are deceptively similar in many ways, but they are in reality very different from each other. Only one of them is right.
One of these is what I would call “legalistic” faith or “law-based” faith. This is when the believer believes that he can possess God’s blessings only by exercising what he calls the “laws of faith”. The whole idea is that of God being in a passive state who stands at the sidelines watching us as we go through the motions and spiritual gymnastics of faith. Once he is impressed that we have gone through all the motions of faith, he would then see to it that the miracle that we have asked him for happens.
In this “law-based faith”, the believer believes that the main factor which ultimately produces miracles in his life is his own ability to believe, to confess, to hold fast to his confession, etc. Although confession and these things are Biblical principles, his faith leans more upon his own going through the motions of faith than it does upon Jesus. HE is the active one, whilst God is passive. The “burden” unfortunately is on him, and not on Jesus. The results appear to depend more upon him and his ability to pray, believe, and confess, rather than upon the love and mercy of our Lord Jesus.
In this “philosophy of faith”, what appears to be “faith” is actually nothing but “works”.
The other approach is true Biblical faith. This is what I like to call “Grace-based faith”. Grace and works are opposites of each other. We live either by Grace or by works. Many Christians try to make a convenient “mix” of the two, which NEVER works, because the two just cannot mix. It is either one or the other.
After all, the Bible does say, “And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.” Romans 11:6
Works-based faith may give some limited results because God’s Word, even spoken or exercised under a legalistic mind-set is still God’s Word. But on the whole this kind of faith usually brings only disappointment and failure.
Now let us understand what Grace-based faith is. Before doing so let us take a look at Strong’s definition of “Grace” or what the Bible means when it says that we are “under Grace”. The word “Grace” is the Greek word “Charis” which means the following:
“God’s unmerited favor. The merciful kindness by which God, exerting his holy influence upon souls, turns them to Christ, keeps, strengthens, increases them in Christian faith, knowledge, affection, and kindles them to the exercise of the Christian virtues. The spiritual condition of one governed by the power of divine grace.”
Wow!
In other words, true Grace is the power of God’s Holy influence working in the hearts of people and drawing them close to Jesus. Grace, as many people erroneously assume, is NOT a passive attitude of spiritual laziness, complacency, or neglect of God and His Word. Grace is NOT a license for sin. Grace is the power of God working in man. When a person stands under God’s Grace it brings forth life, freedom, victory, holiness, healing, peace, and prosperity.
“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8
Two things stand out in this verse:
1. Grace precedes faith. In other words, Grace comes before faith. This leads us to something that most people have never realized - that we cannot truly understand faith without first understanding Grace, because Grace always precedes faith. Grace is the bedrock upon which faith rests. To truly understand faith, we must first understand the Love and the Grace of God.
2. Faith is “not of ourselves.” In other words, faith too like Grace, is a gift of God. It is through Grace that God gives us the faith to appropriate all the blessings that Grace provides!
An easy way to understand this is through this allegory: God shows me a house that He owns and says, “I am selling you this wonderful house, but it will cost you XXX amount of money, which is far more than you could ever afford!” He then proceeds to give me the money so that I can use it to buy the house from Him. I may say that “I bought the house”, but did I really? It was, after all, He who gave me the money to appropriate it from Him!
Grace could also be described as the pipeline through which God freely and undeservedly pours down all His blessings to us. Faith is the pipeline that God through His Grace freely puts into our hearts. The purpose of this pipeline is to connect to the pipeline of His Grace. When we align and connect our pipeline of faith to God’s pipeline of Grace, God’s miracles begin to flow.
Grace is unmerited favor given to us just because of Jesus. Even faith, which follows Grace, is given to us by God as an act of God’s Grace. Do you know how He does this? “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17).
Notice that faith is not “produced” by us “working the Word”! On the contrary, faith “comes” as yet another gift of God’s Grace! This is how it works: as we live in God’s Word and immerse ourselves in it, we meet Jesus ( Who Himself is the Living Word) in His Written Word and see what He has done for us. God, by this act of His Grace, deposits faith in our hearts so that we can, by that same faith, lay hold of and appropriate the very things that we have seen in His Word.
This wonderful interaction of the Word, Grace, and Faith is pivotal to our Christian life. Paul said: “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” Acts 20:32
The Word of God is the “Word of God’s Grace”, also known as “the Word of Faith”. Grace working through God’s Word not only brings us faith, but also builds us up and brings us into the fullness of our inheritance in Christ.
Another wonderful thing about Grace is that it is for EVERYBODY! Nobody is left out, and then once we receive Grace, we receive faith too!
“And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” John 1:16-17
Grace also gives us “righteousness”, which does not mean fleshly perfection as some assume it does. Righteousness means “right standing” with God. This means that God accepts us and loves us just as we are. He looks at us in Jesus, as if we never sinned or failed in our lives. This in practical terms means that our own failures and imperfections are of no consequence when we are in Christ Jesus and walk with Him. God sees us just as He sees Jesus! Because of this we can walk with a clean conscience without guilt, and our faith is always powerful and always brings miraculous results. The Bible says:
“For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.” Romans 5:17
When we live under Grace, faith and righteousness are not an issue because they are ours, given to us freely by our Lord. The problem is that man’s natural tendency is to turn to legalism. There is something about the natural man that, although he recognizes that he is saved by Grace, he feels he has to turn to legalism for Christian life and conduct. This is religion and not freedom in Christ. The Bible says:
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.” Galatians 5:1, 4
Religion and legalism are more dangerous than we realize because they can actually put us in bondage and cause us to fall from Grace! That is why we have to fight the fight of faith - to fight against the tendencies of our flesh to go into the works of the law. We should fight to stay in Grace and in faith where we know that God’s favor abounds to people like us, not because we deserve anything, but we are blessed with all things only because of Jesus, and Jesus alone!
Lastly, True Grace makes us holy. I say “True Grace” because the concept of Grace has been so misinterpreted and misunderstood by some, that there are those who have come to believe that God’s Grace is a license to neglect godliness and even to indulge in the lusts of the flesh. True Grace is NOT lawlessness!
A man truly living under God’s Grace develops a mind-set that says, “God loves me so much, He has given me so much more than I could ever deserve in this life: Therefore I will never allow anything into my live that would cloud my communion with Him!”
Grace, Faith, Righteousness bearing rich fruit in our lives and in our ministries. This is true and wonderful living indeed!
Monday, January 11, 2010
A GLORIOUS ENDING TO THE ROSARIO CRUSADE
We just finished the Crusade in Rosario Argentina. The Crusade was arranged by my friend Pastor Norberto Carlini and his 6000 member Santuario de Fe Church. I have known Pastor Carlini, a wonderful man of God for over 22 years.
This was a small 5-night crusade held in a field owned by the church in the outskirts of town, but we saw many people come to Jesus, and many people were healed. Deaf ears were opened, blind eyes saw, tumors disappeared. A lady who was dying of cancer, all swollen due to liquid retention in her body, bedridden and unable to walk, was carried to the crusade. Jesus touched her, she stood up, walked, and all the swelling and other outward symptoms disappeared.
Another lady had all kinds of diseases and was unable to walk because of these. She heard me preach on the radio, and got up and walked and was totally healed. She came to the crusade to testify of all that the Lord had done for her.
Another lady testified that she had been unable to walk because her feet and toes were all twisted due to arthritis. Jesus healed her too. We heard many wonderful testimonies this week. All Glory to Jesus!
The mother of a professional Rugby player told me that his career was ruined last year due to a serious knee injury, but God had healed him in our last crusade a year ago, and now he was back playing professionally again in England, and was looking for a church there.
Pastor Carlini told me that a top leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses, overseeing 38 of their Congregations had been Saved at our Crusade and was now in his church.
We give Thanks and Praises to the Lord for the Priceless Privilege of being able to preach the Gospel to the lost. All Glory to Him! I was also able to hold a Leadership Seminar and did teaching on Prosperity and Financial Increase (For those of you who don't know, before I became a Crusade Evangelist, Church planter and Overseer I taught for 4 years at the largest Bible College in Europe! So i enjoy this stuff too! )
Thank you for your love, prayers and support. Do continue to stand with us for this Wonderful Gospel of our Glorious Lord Jesus!
In Christ, your brother,
Christopher Alam
This was a small 5-night crusade held in a field owned by the church in the outskirts of town, but we saw many people come to Jesus, and many people were healed. Deaf ears were opened, blind eyes saw, tumors disappeared. A lady who was dying of cancer, all swollen due to liquid retention in her body, bedridden and unable to walk, was carried to the crusade. Jesus touched her, she stood up, walked, and all the swelling and other outward symptoms disappeared.
Another lady had all kinds of diseases and was unable to walk because of these. She heard me preach on the radio, and got up and walked and was totally healed. She came to the crusade to testify of all that the Lord had done for her.
Another lady testified that she had been unable to walk because her feet and toes were all twisted due to arthritis. Jesus healed her too. We heard many wonderful testimonies this week. All Glory to Jesus!
The mother of a professional Rugby player told me that his career was ruined last year due to a serious knee injury, but God had healed him in our last crusade a year ago, and now he was back playing professionally again in England, and was looking for a church there.
Pastor Carlini told me that a top leader of the Jehovah's Witnesses, overseeing 38 of their Congregations had been Saved at our Crusade and was now in his church.
We give Thanks and Praises to the Lord for the Priceless Privilege of being able to preach the Gospel to the lost. All Glory to Him! I was also able to hold a Leadership Seminar and did teaching on Prosperity and Financial Increase (For those of you who don't know, before I became a Crusade Evangelist, Church planter and Overseer I taught for 4 years at the largest Bible College in Europe! So i enjoy this stuff too! )
Thank you for your love, prayers and support. Do continue to stand with us for this Wonderful Gospel of our Glorious Lord Jesus!
In Christ, your brother,
Christopher Alam
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
ROSARIO CRUSADE - FIRST NIGHT
What a service tonight! It was the first night. There was a really heavy thunderstorm storm last night, so things were late being set up and everything got delayed
Because of this the crowd was small on this first night, but I was amazed to see the response to the Gospel message. Many came to receive Jesus. The Lord confirmed His word with good and powerful miracles.
Three people with very bad sight were healed (one could only see blurs). 3 had their deaf ears opened. A young man was healed from a speech impediment
One lady came to the crusade that she could not walk but she listened to me preach over the radio and after we prayed on the radio she got up and walked! At the crusade the Lord opened her deaf ear.
A kid had a large tumor on his foot saw it disappear. Some testified of other things.... All Glory to our Lord Jesus!
My friends and fellow RHEMA Grads Gary and Amy Hector who minister here and are doing a great job are a great help and blessing to me. Amy is my interpreter this week.
She could not walk and had a host of other diseases. Jesus healed her when she listened to me preach over the Radio.
He had a large tumor on his foot that disappeared after prayer.
She had very bad eyesight and saw only blurs. Jesus gave her perfect sight!
Because of this the crowd was small on this first night, but I was amazed to see the response to the Gospel message. Many came to receive Jesus. The Lord confirmed His word with good and powerful miracles.
Three people with very bad sight were healed (one could only see blurs). 3 had their deaf ears opened. A young man was healed from a speech impediment
One lady came to the crusade that she could not walk but she listened to me preach over the radio and after we prayed on the radio she got up and walked! At the crusade the Lord opened her deaf ear.
A kid had a large tumor on his foot saw it disappear. Some testified of other things.... All Glory to our Lord Jesus!
My friends and fellow RHEMA Grads Gary and Amy Hector who minister here and are doing a great job are a great help and blessing to me. Amy is my interpreter this week.
She could not walk and had a host of other diseases. Jesus healed her when she listened to me preach over the Radio.
He had a large tumor on his foot that disappeared after prayer.
She had very bad eyesight and saw only blurs. Jesus gave her perfect sight!
Sunday, January 3, 2010
A GREAT WAY TO START THE YEAR... WITH SALVATION AND MIRACLES
I am in Buenos Aires with my sons Immanuel and Gabriel. Had a wonderful day. It is the first Sunday of the year and it has been a great day!
Many people Saved, at least 8 deaf ears opened, around 8 with blind eyes or with very bad eyesight healed. One man who could not walk got up and walked. Many others who were healed shared their testimonies. What a great start for this year! It is so wonderful to serve Jesus!
All Glory to our Lord Jesus!
On Tuesday we fly to Rosario to our crusade there until next Sunday. Then back home for two days and then my daughter Victoria and I fly to Sweden for 10 days of ministry... preaching in churches and teaching at a Bible School.
We ate great good today! Codero Patagonia (Lamb), Bife de Lomo (Beef Filet), Mollejas (Sweetbreads), Asage del Tire (Short Ribs), Provoletta (Grilled Provolone with Herbs), Empanadas, Fresas Fresca Con Crema (Fresh Strawberries with Cream).
It has been a great day in Buenos Aires. Praise the Lord!
Cordero, Chivito and Beef Ribs getting Happy at the Asado!
This is HALF a portion of Cordero Patagonia
Bife del Tire Asado. Tender and delicious!
Empanadas 
Provoletta
Many people Saved, at least 8 deaf ears opened, around 8 with blind eyes or with very bad eyesight healed. One man who could not walk got up and walked. Many others who were healed shared their testimonies. What a great start for this year! It is so wonderful to serve Jesus!
All Glory to our Lord Jesus!
On Tuesday we fly to Rosario to our crusade there until next Sunday. Then back home for two days and then my daughter Victoria and I fly to Sweden for 10 days of ministry... preaching in churches and teaching at a Bible School.
We ate great good today! Codero Patagonia (Lamb), Bife de Lomo (Beef Filet), Mollejas (Sweetbreads), Asage del Tire (Short Ribs), Provoletta (Grilled Provolone with Herbs), Empanadas, Fresas Fresca Con Crema (Fresh Strawberries with Cream).
It has been a great day in Buenos Aires. Praise the Lord!
Cordero, Chivito and Beef Ribs getting Happy at the Asado!
This is HALF a portion of Cordero Patagonia
Bife del Tire Asado. Tender and delicious!
Empanadas 
Provoletta
Thursday, December 31, 2009
LET US GO INTO 2010 FULL OF FAITH, FIRE AND HE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST!
The end of the year 2009 is here and I am glad to be able to say that it has been a good and blessed year for us.
Once again, we have seen over a Million people make decisions for Jesus at our altar calls for Salvation. We have planted 10 new churches in Burma, and the 168 churches that we have so far planted there continue to thrive and to grow. We reached the milestone of seeing over 30,000 people receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost and with Fire at one time in one single service. We saw the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear. We also saw the Lord raise a woman from the dead at one of our crusades.
The Lord has been Gracious and Faithful and we have been able to fulfill everything that He told us to do this year. In fact we did much more for the Gospel this year than we did last year.
For this we give all Glory to our Lord Jesus, who alone is Worthy to receive Glory, Honor and Praise!
We are living in tough and difficult times. The truth is that in such difficult times the Lord does not tell us to cut down our vision to match the size of the shrunken economy; On the contrary He bids us to press forwards and to do more for Him than ever before. This is because He is El Shaddai, the God who is “More than Enough!”
The economy has slowed down; but we have seen many of God’s people step up to make even greater sacrifices. Many, in spite of financial fears and difficulties, have reached deeper down in faith than ever before and made great sacrifices to enable us to continue to preach the Gospel to the lost.
To those friends and partners I say, “I am thankful for and commend your love and your faith, that you chose to put the Gospel above all things. Your faith shines as an example to us”. It reminds me of Gideon’s small band who were willing to give their all in the battlefield. Through their Faith and their fearless dedication God did mighty things through that small band that He would otherwise do using a mighty army!
This is the Christmas season. For us this is truly “The most wonderful time of the year”. Christmas in actuality is really about the Gospel because we remember and celebrate how God sent His only Son to the world to save the world.
But is the Christmas Story another beautiful legend or is it reality? If it is reality what does it really mean for us?
I remember my very first Christmas as a Christian. It was December 1975. I had just received Jesus and was eagerly telling everybody I knew about what Jesus had done for me. Because of this I had been confined to an Army Mental Institution. Christmas day came. I had stashed away a little cupcake and a small candle for the occasion. Coming out of Islam and not knowing Christian Christmas traditions, I did the best that I could under the circumstances. On that Christmas morning in the “cage” in which I was locked up, I lit the candle, read the Christmas Story aloud from the Bible and celebrated the Lord’s Birthday with the muffin.
As I bit into the cupcake, suddenly the Presence of God filled the place. Great peace filled my soul. It seemed to me that I was soaring above my circumstances, I was victorious above all things and received an assurance that better days were to come ahead.
Two weeks later I was out of the Mental Institution. I went out on the streets and began to preach the Gospel. A couple of months later I was arrested and imprisoned for this. The year was 1976 and I spent almost that entire year in prison. Upon my incarceration I was told that I was detained “until further orders” and that I would come out of prison “either as a Muslim or in a coffin”.
I told them that I would rather die there than go back to Islam.
Months passed and one day I sat down and took stock of my situation. There I was, in prison, having lost everything in this world. I asked the Lord, “Lord, I have made many mistakes in my life, and if my faith in Jesus is yet another one of my mistakes, I am the greatest fool of all and have indeed lost everything. So I need to know. I really really need to know….. If Jesus truly is the Son of God, if He is truly risen from the dead, if the Word of God is true, then I have won. I have won eternal life; I have won Heaven! So please God I need to know!”
At that very moment God answered. The Glory of God came into the prison cell. My bed began to shake with God’s Power. The Presence of Jesus filled that place and I heard a voice that said, “I was in prison, and ye came unto me” (Matthew 25:36). I began to weep. That day God circumcised my heart. I knew that Jesus was real. His Word was real. Heaven was more real than earth. The promises of God are more real than the things that we can see.
That day became a turning point in my life. God himself marked and circumcised my heart. Since that day I have known Jesus as a reality, as a person who lives in me and is always with me. I know that the Savior who I serve is far greater than all my circumstances, that His Grace is far greater than my faults and weaknesses. Since that day I have made my share of mistakes but I cannot remember a single day when I have not been On Fire for Jesus. Since that day I have never looked back.
And that is not because of me, but because of Jesus, because of what He has done for me.
Today I live in America, where I am free to worship God, free to preach the Gospel. I travel all over the world telling people about Jesus and people come out in huge multitudes to hear that beautiful Old Story about the Savior. And then God confirms that Message with Signs following, to show the world that Jesus is the Truth, that He is alive today!
Jesus came into our world. He became one of us. He paid the ultimate price upon the Cross. He Rose again from the dead. The Gospel is true beyond truth itself. The Word of God is true. Jesus is real! We are redeemed! We are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us!
So beloved, let us celebrate this Christmas triumphantly! Let us go into the New Year 2010 triumphantly, full of Faith that our God is able to bless us, prosper us and cause us to increase and to abound in all things! This is Harvest time. Joel said “Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe” (Joel 3:13).
Let us Preach this Glorious Gospel! Let us sow! Let us reap! Let us do the work of God with all our hearts! Let us celebrate this season with praises unto God. We are on the winning side and we can never fail, never lose. We are destined to win, to conquer. We are blessed to be blessings wherever we go!
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place”. (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Have a Blessed Christmas, you and your loved ones. And may 2010 be your best year yet!
In Christ
Christopher, Britta and Family
Our Teams in the US, Sweden, Zimbabwe and Burma
Once again, we have seen over a Million people make decisions for Jesus at our altar calls for Salvation. We have planted 10 new churches in Burma, and the 168 churches that we have so far planted there continue to thrive and to grow. We reached the milestone of seeing over 30,000 people receive the Baptism with the Holy Ghost and with Fire at one time in one single service. We saw the lame walk, the blind see, the deaf hear. We also saw the Lord raise a woman from the dead at one of our crusades.
The Lord has been Gracious and Faithful and we have been able to fulfill everything that He told us to do this year. In fact we did much more for the Gospel this year than we did last year.
For this we give all Glory to our Lord Jesus, who alone is Worthy to receive Glory, Honor and Praise!
We are living in tough and difficult times. The truth is that in such difficult times the Lord does not tell us to cut down our vision to match the size of the shrunken economy; On the contrary He bids us to press forwards and to do more for Him than ever before. This is because He is El Shaddai, the God who is “More than Enough!”
The economy has slowed down; but we have seen many of God’s people step up to make even greater sacrifices. Many, in spite of financial fears and difficulties, have reached deeper down in faith than ever before and made great sacrifices to enable us to continue to preach the Gospel to the lost.
To those friends and partners I say, “I am thankful for and commend your love and your faith, that you chose to put the Gospel above all things. Your faith shines as an example to us”. It reminds me of Gideon’s small band who were willing to give their all in the battlefield. Through their Faith and their fearless dedication God did mighty things through that small band that He would otherwise do using a mighty army!
This is the Christmas season. For us this is truly “The most wonderful time of the year”. Christmas in actuality is really about the Gospel because we remember and celebrate how God sent His only Son to the world to save the world.
But is the Christmas Story another beautiful legend or is it reality? If it is reality what does it really mean for us?
I remember my very first Christmas as a Christian. It was December 1975. I had just received Jesus and was eagerly telling everybody I knew about what Jesus had done for me. Because of this I had been confined to an Army Mental Institution. Christmas day came. I had stashed away a little cupcake and a small candle for the occasion. Coming out of Islam and not knowing Christian Christmas traditions, I did the best that I could under the circumstances. On that Christmas morning in the “cage” in which I was locked up, I lit the candle, read the Christmas Story aloud from the Bible and celebrated the Lord’s Birthday with the muffin.
As I bit into the cupcake, suddenly the Presence of God filled the place. Great peace filled my soul. It seemed to me that I was soaring above my circumstances, I was victorious above all things and received an assurance that better days were to come ahead.
Two weeks later I was out of the Mental Institution. I went out on the streets and began to preach the Gospel. A couple of months later I was arrested and imprisoned for this. The year was 1976 and I spent almost that entire year in prison. Upon my incarceration I was told that I was detained “until further orders” and that I would come out of prison “either as a Muslim or in a coffin”.
I told them that I would rather die there than go back to Islam.
Months passed and one day I sat down and took stock of my situation. There I was, in prison, having lost everything in this world. I asked the Lord, “Lord, I have made many mistakes in my life, and if my faith in Jesus is yet another one of my mistakes, I am the greatest fool of all and have indeed lost everything. So I need to know. I really really need to know….. If Jesus truly is the Son of God, if He is truly risen from the dead, if the Word of God is true, then I have won. I have won eternal life; I have won Heaven! So please God I need to know!”
At that very moment God answered. The Glory of God came into the prison cell. My bed began to shake with God’s Power. The Presence of Jesus filled that place and I heard a voice that said, “I was in prison, and ye came unto me” (Matthew 25:36). I began to weep. That day God circumcised my heart. I knew that Jesus was real. His Word was real. Heaven was more real than earth. The promises of God are more real than the things that we can see.
That day became a turning point in my life. God himself marked and circumcised my heart. Since that day I have known Jesus as a reality, as a person who lives in me and is always with me. I know that the Savior who I serve is far greater than all my circumstances, that His Grace is far greater than my faults and weaknesses. Since that day I have made my share of mistakes but I cannot remember a single day when I have not been On Fire for Jesus. Since that day I have never looked back.
And that is not because of me, but because of Jesus, because of what He has done for me.
Today I live in America, where I am free to worship God, free to preach the Gospel. I travel all over the world telling people about Jesus and people come out in huge multitudes to hear that beautiful Old Story about the Savior. And then God confirms that Message with Signs following, to show the world that Jesus is the Truth, that He is alive today!
Jesus came into our world. He became one of us. He paid the ultimate price upon the Cross. He Rose again from the dead. The Gospel is true beyond truth itself. The Word of God is true. Jesus is real! We are redeemed! We are more than conquerors through Him who has loved us!
So beloved, let us celebrate this Christmas triumphantly! Let us go into the New Year 2010 triumphantly, full of Faith that our God is able to bless us, prosper us and cause us to increase and to abound in all things! This is Harvest time. Joel said “Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe” (Joel 3:13).
Let us Preach this Glorious Gospel! Let us sow! Let us reap! Let us do the work of God with all our hearts! Let us celebrate this season with praises unto God. We are on the winning side and we can never fail, never lose. We are destined to win, to conquer. We are blessed to be blessings wherever we go!
“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place”. (2 Corinthians 2:14)
Have a Blessed Christmas, you and your loved ones. And may 2010 be your best year yet!
In Christ
Christopher, Britta and Family
Our Teams in the US, Sweden, Zimbabwe and Burma
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