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We're praising God for:
The donation of a teardrop trailer! It was built by a friend and is, as he said,
a real conversation piece!
Tons of room for our cooler, extra chairs, and the banner.
No more duffle bag, bungee cords, or clip-on signs!
Our new setup: easy to see, easy to pack, and easy to tear down!
We're asking God for:
An increase in our funding that would enable us to go on the road as He directs. Our current commitments on a monthly basis are just enough to cover mortgage, utilities, food and gas.
Prayer Partners:
If you would like to be an intercessor for this ministry,
please email us at info@bwbministries.com.
We will email you current prayer requests.
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- "YOU DON’T KNOW THAT!" "YES I DO AND I CAN PROVE IT!"
Roadside Report from Emil
I couldn’t see through the dark windows of his pick up truck. When the passenger window came down, he was sobbing. I could feel the evil coming from the truck. He said God has put one obstacle after another in his life to cause him to fall. When he was 8 years old, his mother took him to the airport, got on a plane, and left him. His grandmother raised him. He has been on drugs all his life. His friends abandoned him. He had closed his business. He was at the end of his rope. He cried the entire time that he spoke.
He said, "All my life I’ve asked God why my mother left me at the airport and why I never knew my father." I said, "It wasn’t God’s will for your mother to abandon you." He said, "You don’t know that for a fact." I said, "Yes I do. I can prove it. The Bible says you should raise up your children in the way they ought to go and they won’t depart from it. It was God’s will for your mother to raise you." This would be our pattern for the next hour.
A drug dealer once put a loaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger; nothing happened. Another time he overdosed. "I know I died. All of a sudden, something lifted me up and shook me, stood me on my feet and said, ‘Wake up.’ I woke up with something holding me under my arms. I figured it was Satan messing with me; he won’t let me go." "That was NOT Satan," I said. "You don’t know that." "Yes I do and I can prove it. If that was Satan, he would have let you die. If you die, he wins. Every day that you’re alive, there’s a risk of you giving your heart to Jesus. But if you go to hell, he’s totally won."
He then said, "Well, Jesus has never been there for me." "Yes He has—" I said, "you just haven’t known it." "You don’t know that for a fact." "Yes I do and I can prove it. When the gun was put to your head and didn’t fire, that was the Lord. When someone raised you from the dead, that was the Lord, too. Satan’s way is to cause things to fall apart so bad that you’ll give up and kill yourself." "But why does God keep allowing this stuff to happen in my life?" "Well, it wasn’t God that caused you to close your business." "You don’t know that for a fact." "Yes I do, and I can prove it. The Lord says that every time you started to succeed, you felt you didn’t deserve that kind of life and so you shut it down." "You’re right," he said and started weeping harder.
"Everything in my life is screwed up," he said. "I wanted to die when I pulled up. As you walked toward my truck, that feeling left. You started talking to me and I immediately felt better. But if Jesus really is the answer, then why is this feeling coming back now?" "Because you have a spiritual battle going on for your life right now, and you have a decision to make." "You don’t know that for a fact." "Yes, I do and I can prove it. The Bible says that we don’t war against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers; that means there’s a war between Satan and God for you right now." He punched the side of the door and said, "Man, you don’t understand. I can’t go through with this Jesus thing." "Why not?" "Because Satan just told me that he’ll never let me go. He’s told me that all my life and he just told me again now." I said, "Well if you decide that you want to give your heart over to Jesus and get set free from every-thing that’s been going on in your life, Satan has no choice but to let you go." "You don’t know that for a fact." "Yes I do and I can prove it. The Bible says that Satan fell from heaven like lightning. God has power over Satan. And when you make the decision, Satan HAS to go."
He then said, "Jesus can never forgive me. You don’t know the things I’ve done. I even killed a man." I said, "Jesus will forgive you for that." "You can’t prove that." "Yes, I can. Jesus was beaten and nailed to the cross and just before He died, He looked at those murdering Him and said, ‘Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.’ So if Jesus can forgive the men who murdered Him, He can forgive you." And he cried harder.
"Just before I came here, I heard a voice say, ‘You need to leave for a while,’ so I left my house, planning to kill myself. When I came out of my street, the same voice said, ‘No… turn right.’ So I turned right and there was your sign and I heard, ‘You need to pull in and talk to him.’" I asked, "Do you think Satan told you to leave your house and turn right? Satan wanted you to kill yourself. The Lord knew I was sitting here, waiting for you." I said, "If you’re ready to pray, I’ll pray with you." He was and I led him in prayer. He put his head back and cried, "God, forgive me for all the junk I’ve done all my life," and wept. We prayed for him to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
He said, "Lord, did you hear my prayer?" and immediately he yelled, "Hey, what the [heck] is going on?" and held out his arms—goose bumps were moving slowly up his left arm. "It’s going across my neck and over my head…" and then, "It’s coming down the other side. I’ve got goose bumps but I’m not cold. I’ve never had anything like this happen in my life. What is this?" I said, "It’s the spirit of God coming upon you. God’s showing you that He’s heard your prayer." He really started crying then, "How do I know that’s what this is?" I said, "Well, it’s all over the upper part of your body, right? Just say, ‘Lord, if you really heard my prayer, then I want more.’" Immediately, he felt it travel down both legs. He cried, saying, "I can’t believe this. God really heard my prayer. He really heard me! I just felt from the very beginning that I was supposed to trust you but I didn’t know why."
I felt the Lord say to give him three books. I told him to first read the New Testament, then the whole Bible, and a story out of God Guides every day to learn to hear God’s voice. I said, "God loves to prove himself to those who seek Him. So here’s your assignment: Read the books. Do what they say. And talk to the Lord every day like you’re talking to me. Ask Him to love you like no one else has. The Lord says that no one has ever taught you how to love. The book of Proverbs will tell you how to run your business. The Lord said you’re to open your business again but this time you’ll work with Him. So call your crew back!" He said he would, "I’m gonna hang on to Jesus with everything I have." He put his hand out and shook my hand, then put his other hand on top of mine and said, "Thank you so much for being here for me. I know I can trust you. I know you’re telling the truth."
"PUT A REFRIGERATOR IN ITS PLACE!"
"I’m an alcoholic," she said matter-of-factly. She said she doesn’t want to feel so she drinks and added, "Sometimes I can’t deal with life and it helps to be numb. I’m going through a divorce, I have 2 boys, and I could use prayer." She stopped going to church in college—the "whole church thing" was empty. But now she’d like to go back again. I felt the Lord say, "She needs to rededicate her life and start with a clean slate." She agreed and we led her in prayer.
We then explained that alcoholism is a spirit and that’s why it’s hard to kick. She was surprised at that. We asked her if she’d like to be free of it and she said, "Yes." We had her come out of agreement with the spirits of alcoholism and addiction and told them to go and to take desires and cravings with them. We then asked the Holy Spirit to fill these places.
I felt the Lord told me to explain it like this: "It’s like having a closet in which we put all our junk but when we clean it out, we don’t want to be tempted to use it for junk again. So we put the refrigerator in and it fills the space perfectly. Now it’s productive and useful. That’s the Holy Spirit."
When she left, she thanked us and said, "I really needed someone to point me back."
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MORE THAN SHE STOPPED FOR
She brought her car to a screeching halt in front of us and jumped out, dust flying! "I have wanted to stop for so long! I am so glad to finally meet you guys!" She had a couple of prayer requests, including healing for family members. She told us also that her family’s finances were depleted and they were weary from the constant struggle.
As we prayed with her, we broke the enemy’s assignment against her family. Then the Lord had me anoint her feet and hands and tell her she has stood firm upon the path that God laid out for her and has never wavered. She has held on to every promise He’s given her. She began to weep. Then I anointed her head and told her that her heart has stayed focused on the Lord even when things were hard and she would think, "Why do the right thing?"
When I asked the Lord what else He would like to say to her, I saw the word "violated" over her head. I said, "The Lord is giving me one word for you. I see ‘violated’ over your head. Have you ever been violated?" She burst into tears and said, "When I was six, my brother molested me and I’ve never told anyone." I hugged her as she wept and wept. I asked if she has forgiven him and she said yes. The Lord said she had never forgiven herself. When I told her that, she cried even more and said she always wondered if she had done something to cause it. The Lord assured her that she had not, and she was able to come out of agreement with that. She prayed and released her brother to the Lord. The Lord said He had washed her clean.
She wept with joy, feeling clean for the first time in her life! Then she hugged us and said, "I’ll never forget this day, and I’ll never forget you two!"
SALVATION TRANSLATION
Two men pulled up in a truck. The passenger spoke some English but the driver didn’t speak any. I asked, "Do you need prayer?" The passenger said, "I don’t know. I guess everything’s okay." When I asked, "Have you ever prayed and asked Jesus into your heart?" he answered, "Oh yes, I go to church." I felt God say, "Ask him if he knows if he died tonight that he’d go to heaven." His response was, "No." I told him there was only one way to heaven, by asking Jesus into his heart and asked him if he’d like to know he’s definitely going to heaven? The guy seemed shocked at this revelation but said, "Yes, I would like to know for sure." I said, "We can pray right now. Ask your friend if he knows he’s going to heaven." The question was translated and the response was, "Oh yes." The Lord said to ask him if he ever doubts if he’s going to heaven. At the translation, he nodded and looked like, "Wow, I’ve never realized that." I asked the passenger to ask his friend if he’d like to invite Jesus into his heart to know for sure. The driver said, "Yes." I took the passenger’s hand and the passenger took the driver’s hand. I led them in prayer and told them to repeat after me. After I said it in English, the passenger repeated it and started to cry, then he translated it into Spanish, and the driver repeated it in Spanish and also started to cry. It was incredible how the Holy Spirit set in while they prayed. It was an over-whelming experience during which Jesus overcame the language barrier to make sure they both came to Him.
They received Jesus and the Holy Spirit. We gave them Spanish New Testaments and shook hands all around!
Getting Outfitted for the Road
by Karen
You may be wondering, after reading our praise report, whether we still have the tent trailer that was given to us previously. Yes, we do!
When the FREE PRAYER banner was donated to us several months ago, we found we were unable to take it out to use on the roadside because of its added weight to the motorcycle.
Packed with chairs and umbrellas, the duffle bag was heavy; and our saddlebags were packed with Bibles, books, and water. We were already overloaded!
So, we had a hitch put on the Vulcan 2000 and prayed for the money to get it wired to pull the tent trailer even though it seemed bulky for the roadside.
Just when we had the money for wiring, we received an email offering the teardrop cargo trailer to the ministry! At this time, we prayed for God’s direction regarding the tent trailer, and we heard Him say that they are both necessary for the ministry. So we took both trailers in with the bike and had them wired!
The teardrop we’ll use for local roadside ministry and the tent trailer for long-distance ministry. We’ve been asked to set up in several states in the spring and summer of next year. God is definitely outfitting us for the road!
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