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We're praising God for:
Our Spiritual Roots of Diseases classes which are in their 7th week!
Our 24 students, many of whom are experiencing a new depth of spiritual freedom and at the same time a new depth of spiritual warfare; please keep us in your prayers through the remaining few weeks (classes end Feb 23rd).
A laptop donated to the ministry which is a huge blessing to us; we get so much done traveling!
Four salvations.
We're asking God for:
Traveling safety for our trip to Idaho Feb 7-13.
The house He has for us to rent in Montpelier.
Finances to move.
Ease as we make moving arrangements and tie up loose ends.
Peace as we prepare to leave our friends and family.
IT’S OFFICIAL!
WE’RE MOVING!
TARGET DATE: MARCH
We were given the gift of a night at Noftsger Hill Inn in Globe, AZ, which we were happy to use for a much-needed prayer retreat recently. There we felt God's release to make the move to Idaho.
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IDAHO UPDATE
House of Free Prayer
The church services in Montpelier, Idaho in December and January brought more new people, and we’re celebrating!!! We had four more give their hearts to the Lord.
The Lord told us through Haggai 1 to start the church, oversee it, and get it running so that when we move up there, a vibrant church will be in place to which to send people from the roadside. We thought the church would grow out of the roadside but God’s way is wisest and best! The following excerpt from a recent email to us from Montpelier confirms what God is doing: "You are building a foundation in your core group that will stand. You are teaching them to draw on God, not on ‘the Pastor.’ You don't require that they come to you with all their problems. You are teaching them to take the tools you are giving and use them to build the house alongside of you instead of having to have your hand over theirs in order to swing the hammer. Rest assured that when God gives you the go-ahead to permanently live here, you will be walking into this valley with workers that are ready to walk beside you of their own free will out of their love for Christ and wanting to see his Spirit dominate in this valley." Thank You, Lord!
FEAR FREE, PAIN FREE
Ministry Report from Emil
She and her husband wanted prayer for her back. They are a Christian couple and have been married one year. She had extensive back surgery years ago with multiple fusions. In the last couple of months she noticed that the pain had gotten continuously worse. She had gone back to her doctor and he felt they might have to go back in and re-fuse her back.
As she talked, I felt this unbelievable amount of fear, almost to the point of being overwhelmed. I said, "Lord, what is this?" He said, "She has a spirit of fear that has totally consumed her life. Ask her to tell you her deepest fear." She seemed surprised by the question and then said, "I’m afraid my husband is going to die and I’m going to lose him." Every day when he goes to work, she prays continuously until he gets home that nothing will happen to him. Her husband seemed very surprised at this. She said, "I’ve been waiting for him all my life and I know he’s the one I’ve been waiting upon the Lord for, and I just can’t bear the thought of losing him and going through the rest of my life without him." I told her I felt an overwhelming sense of fear from the minute they came near.
I explained to her that God is not a cruel God, that He would not bring them together just for the sake of taking her husband away, and that the kind of fear she was talking about is not of the Lord.
I asked her when these feelings started. She said a few months earlier she had taken a nap and when she woke up, she had an overwhelming fear that she was about to lose him. Now she lays awake many a night worried about this. I explained to her that the Lord is our protector, our healer, and it was not the Lord that was keeping her up at night worrying about losing her husband. I told her that fear that would affect her life, rob her of her sleep and steal her peace was not from God. The Bible says the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and this was not wisdom at work in her life.
She also said she lives in constant fear that if she had another back surgery, she would again become addicted to the pain killers as she had the last time she had surgery. Every time her back hurts, she immediately begins to get afraid of the pain medication. The Lord said to ask her if she trusted Him. "Yes!" she answered. Then the Lord asked her if she believed He could heal her. Again, she said, "Yes!" The Lord said that the pain in her back was due to her constant fear. If she would repent for living in fear and not trusting God, He would heal her back. She said, "Tell me what I need to do, and I’ll do it."
I said, "Recognize that you have a spirit of fear." She said, "If that’s the case, I want it gone!" I led her through a prayer of repentance for living in fear, then cast the spirit of fear out, and then asked the Holy Spirit to fill her. She said, "When you told it to go, I felt something leave immediately and I felt something let go of my back." She said all the pain in her back had left, and then said, "I know God healed my back and now I am not afraid of ever going back on pills." We saw her again two weeks later and she is totally pain free and the joy of the Lord has returned to both her and her husband!
WE’RE ON THE MOVE TO IDAHO!
Over three years ago, God said the roadside ministry would be in five states and it would be a part of a bigger vision. We had no idea how that would look at that time and we still don’t see the big picture, but we see some beginnings of the fulfillment of His vision as people in Queen Creek and in Montpelier are learning the Free Prayer ministry to take to the roadsides.
When we felt God tell us to start the House of Free Prayer in Idaho while still living in Queen Creek, we asked how that could happen. He instructed us to spend one week a month in Montpelier "having church and doing ministry." This we have done since November.
This weekend, God showed us clearly that His timing is now: our work here is done when the classes end February 23rd; the church there has offered to rent us a home until our house sells so we that we won’t have two house payments; friends will take care of our home here until it’s sold; and as of March 1, House of Free Prayer has been granted the weekly Sunday use of the very building we’ve had our eye on for an extremely discounted price!
The Lord gave us Joshua 1:9, "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
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"THE LORD SAID YOU HAVE A WORD FOR ME!"
She stopped because the Lord told her to go find me, that I had a word for her and she was to do what I told her. (I didn’t care too much for THAT pressure!) She agreed that if He’d show her where I was, she’d stop, so sure enough she turned down the street and saw the FREE PRAYER sign! When I prayed for her, I got a picture of her and a man sitting quietly. I said, "Are you praying for a husband?" She said, "Oh no, no…I’m tired of having men in my life that push me around and tell me what to do and are demanding and push me to the floor. I don’t want a man in my life." I said, "Well, I felt like this was your husband." She said, "Well, maybe God is telling me I need to let go and allow someone in my life." I said, "Yeah, I feel like He is." So I prayed for her that she would lay down all of her preconceived ideas and allow God to bring the man He has for her into her life. I also prayed that if a man came into her life, she would be willing to say, "Jesus, if this man is not the man you have for me, then burn it up," and to trust Him if He doesn’t! She took that to heart and said, "Okay, if God wants me to have a man in my life, I will." And I prayed that it wouldn’t be just any man but it would be THE man who would worship with her, go to church with her, pray with her, and that the ministry God has promised her would come about with this husband. When I prayed that, she almost fell backward. Her knees got weak and she said, "Ok, Lord, I accept that."
Then I felt to pray for a new infilling of the Holy Spirit. I prayed for the fire to come from heaven to fill her with a new and fresh fire. As I prayed for fire to flow through her veins, she almost fell to the ground, and she caught my arm. I prayed that God would give her the intimacy with Him that she’s been seeking—the deep heartfelt relationship with Him that she’s always yearned for. When I got done praying with her, she said, "Thank you so much. Everything that you prayed for me was exactly right."
Then she told me that she had a blood vessel break in her left eye and the doctors told her she’d never fully regain the sight, so she’s partially blind in that eye. She has a big grayish mass that sits over her sight. I said, "Let’s pray for it." When I anointed her with oil and prayed, she felt a heat and afterwards I broke the power of all the words of the doctor; I asked the Lord to restore her sight just like He did when He prayed for the blind man and asked, "What do you see?" and the man replied, "I see men that look like trees." The Lord then prayed for him a second time and He restored his sight. I also prayed that where her blood had caused the blindness, the blood of Jesus would instead wash that away; that although man’s blood caused her to become blind, Jesus’ blood instead would wash it clean and make it whole again and by His stripes she would be healed.
When I got done, she jumped up and down and said, "I knew, I knew, I knew that you were the one to pray for me, and God led me straight to you!" She hugged me and left, praising God for her restored eyesight and her new view of the future!
WHERE’S THE BEEF?!
She said that she had developed an allergy to all kinds of meat and for the past year, if she would so much as take a single bite, she would vomit for hours. Even tasting the juice of the meat would cause the same allergic reaction.
The doctor had no explanation and put her on a diet restricting wheat and all meat. She said all her life she had been able to eat anything she wanted with no problem until out of the blue, a year ago, this started. As she spoke, I kept asking the Lord what He wanted to say to her. She said it was very difficult through the holidays when she cooked hams and roasts for the family and all kinds of things that she couldn't eat.
She commented, "Well, I guess God just wanted me to get rid of meat and wheat in my life." I said, "I hate to tell you but I don’t believe that. Don’t you think that God would be an awfully cruel God if He was to create all these animals for us to eat, just to make you allergic to them? And to create wheat for bread and pasta and then make you allergic to those as well? Sorry, but according to my Bible, I don’t believe God is sadistic like that!"
I continued to ask the Lord, "What do you want to say to her?" He said, "Ask her about the occultism in her family." She said, "There isn’t any." The Lord said, "Ask her about Freemasonry." She said, "Oh yeah—my grandfather, my dad, my brothers were all in it and my sisters and I even went to dances with Job’s Daughters." The Lord said, "Tell her Freemasonry is demonic and Satan worship. It is associated with numerous throat problems that people develop. Break all the strongholds over her life associated with Freemasonry." She said, "I always felt uncomfortable with it growing up." She then renounced all demonic forces of Freemasonry. As we prayed, she felt something in her throat pop and something leave.
She emailed us a few weeks later that the Lord told her after we prayed, "Eat meat! I’ve healed you." To her amazement, He had totally set her free. She wrote, "I’ve been having a great time sampling every kind of meat since then without any problem!"
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