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We're praising God for:
The opportunity to teach the material we learned at Georgia in September. We are offering Spiritual Roots of Diseases course starting November 28th with over 25 people and will have a Tues evening class at our house and a Friday morning class in Chandler for 9 weeks.
Six salvations.
Volunteers in Queen Creek and Montpelier who want to learn to minister on the roadside.
Group Imaging in Mesa, AZ for supplying four Free Prayer banners and for all their hard work in perfecting the poles to withstand high winds.
A case of Bibles donated for roadside give-away.
Free DVDs to give to children on the roadside (www.donkeyollie.com)
We're asking God for:
Safe monthly 2000-mile round trips to Montpelier until our house sells.
Strength and wisdom for the roadside ministry, the classes, the house church in Montpelier.
An increase in financing to run Free Prayer in two states.
Ministry needs:
Airline buddy passes to Salt Lake City to save us 4 days of travel by car to Montpelier and back; we would be able to have 2 Sunday services a month instead of 1 in the same amt of time we’d be gone.
A laptop so we can work as we travel! We are writing sermons and classes by hand for now.
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.
"...In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents."
-Luke 15:10
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IDAHO UPDATE
House of Free Prayer is a reality!
We were in Montpelier, Idaho the first week of November. Although we had a church service there in August, the House of Free Prayer officially had its first service on November 5th and four adults and two teens gave their hearts to the Lord! There were 28 in attendance, 21 adults and 7 children, and we packed the basement of the home where we are meeting.
Haggai 1: "Tell My people it's time to build the church!" We feel that the Lord told us to be like Paul--start the church, oversee it, get it running so that when we move up there, a living, breathing church will be in place to which to send people from the roadside. We had it in our minds that it would be the other way around--the church would grow out of the roadside but God’s way is wisest and best!
We learned that the winter roadsides are full of snowmobilers! We hope to purchase a jeep in Idaho to haul hot chocolate and Free Prayer to the roadsides whenever we’re there this winter!! The lost don’t break for the weather and neither will we!
Our next trip to Montpelier will be December 4th through 10th. Emil will be a speaker at the interfaith Christmas service on the 9th.
4-YEAR-OLD IN A PARTY DRESS
Roadside Report from Emil
She sat down and was all bouncy and giddy and saying what an awesome experience she’d had with the Lord the night before and for the first time she was realizing how much He loved her. She was smiling and happy and I thought, "There’s nothing wrong with her," but the Lord said, "You haven’t asked me about her." Instantly I felt an overwhelming sadness and the Lord said she feels everyone expects her to be happy and to act like it but it wasn’t true. Then He showed me a picture of a little girl about 4 years old in a party dress—but her heart was broken. I told her that I sensed overwhelming sadness and the word the Lord had given me for her was false joy. I described the picture I had seen and asked her who had broken her heart. She said, "Oh, I don’t know—it doesn’t really make much sense to me." Then all of a sudden, she began to cry and said that when she was 4 years old her mom had bought her the most beautiful party dress she had ever seen and she put it on and was dancing and whirling in front of the mirror. Her dad scolded her, "What are you doing that for?!" It broke her heart because she so badly wanted her dad to tell her that she looked beautiful and instead he yelled at her and told her she shouldn’t be acting like that. I told her that the Lord said that’s how she sees herself before Him—that she’s always waiting for the hammer to drop, for the boom to come down; she tries to dance and be happy before the Lord but she’s always afraid that He doesn’t approve of her and that she disappoints Him. She began to weep.
The Lord showed me that she had unforgiveness in her heart towards her dad, her brother and her mother. Her brother despised her most of her life and had said a lot of negative nasty things to her and her mom never stood up for her with her brother or her dad. She said, "Yes, you’re completely right." We prayed through it and she forgave her mother, her brother and her father. She cried the hardest when we got to the part where we prayed about her forgiving herself. Once she did, she seemed to be set free. The Lord said, "Tell her that I’m going to return her joy and it won’t be a false joy—it will be a real joy, because she’s been walking in unforgiveness. All her life she had a broken heart and she’s been trying to find other things to mend it." The Lord said that ever since she was a little girl the memory would try to come up but she would refuse to face it and stuffed it instead. The Lord finally said, "No longer!" She cried and said yes, that she had tried to stuff it all her life but it kept continuously coming up.
When we prayed, I saw a picture of the Lord running His finger over her heart and the crack that was in it began to heal. She began to laugh and laugh. She could feel the difference and when we got done, she said, "I’ve been in counseling most of my life—how come no one has ever told me the things you’ve told me?" I said, "Because it wasn’t me—it was the Lord and I just told you what He wanted to say. Obviously this was your day—the day He wanted to set you free." She cried and gave me a big hug and thanked me for allowing the Lord to use me that day.
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MINISTERING THE FATHER’S LOVE
She stopped because she’s in the midst of a divorce and she had just lost her job. She didn’t know where to go and she was afraid. The Lord gave me two words for her: disappointment and failure. I told her the Lord said that she feels she lost her job because of something she caused and yet that wasn’t true—the company downsized. She cried and said that was right. I told her that I felt the Lord was showing me that she felt that her marriage was failing because of her and yet the truth is that her husband wanted the divorce and that he was verbally and physically abusive and she was afraid that he was going to kill her. Her previous marriage had also ended in divorce when her ex-husband left her for another woman. Again she felt she had failed.
The Lord said, "It’s even deeper than that. Ask her if her father ever told her he loves her." When I did, she really began to cry and said no. Her parents had gotten a divorce and she felt she had somehow caused it. Her dad never approved of her. I assured her that she didn’t fall short, her dad did. The Lord showed me that all her life she sought from other men the approval she so desperately wanted from her dad, but she did not find it in them either. Only One can fill that need, Jesus!
The Lord had me ask her if it would be okay for me to tell her everything that her father should have told her. I said, "The Lord really wants you to know the words that He wanted your father to tell you but your father, because of his own issues, didn’t." She agreed and as I took her hands, the Lord began to show me pictures… riding her bicycle with training wheels by her dad sitting on the porch, calling out to him, but he never looked up or paid any attention…getting dressed up to go on her first date, but her dad didn’t notice…getting a really good mark in school and showing him her report card, but he only said, "Yeah, yeah, that’s nice," and pushed it aside…All the times she sought his attention and approval and never got it. The Lord had me apologize to her for not telling her how proud I, being her dad, really was and that I was sorry I didn’t clap when she rode by, that I didn’t give her a hug and tell her how proud I was when she got good grades, that I didn’t tell her how beautiful she looked all dressed up for her first date; I apologized that all through her life, I should have been there to tell her how much I loved her and what a great job she did with her life. She sobbed uncontrollably and kept saying, "Daddy, I always wanted to hear you say that." I learned later that her dad had died several years ago. Then the Lord said, "Now, as her father, give her permission to turn that need for approval that she’s been seeking from her dad to Me." Once she did that, it was apparent that the Lord had healed her heart toward her dad and that the yearning and striving that had been in her was finally released. She had a joy and comfort she’d never known. She was totally changed when she left.
FREE PRAYER • 1 CHURCH • 2 STATES
When the Lord gave us the vision of Bikers with Boundaries over three years ago, He said the roadside ministry would eventually be in five states and it would be a part of a bigger vision. We see the beginning of the fulfillment of His vision. Two groups of volunteers, one in Queen Creek and one in Montpelier, have asked to learn the Free Prayer ministry. Emil is getting together with the group in Queen Creek on Saturday mornings and we are all excited for them to continue the roadside when we move. The group in Montpelier envisions Free Prayer on all the major highways in the area at the same time! In other words, several groups of people with Free Prayer banners sitting out on different roads on the same days and at the same time!
The house church in Montpelier has grown faster than we ever imagined. That is evidence of the Holy Spirit bringing it about, not us. God is growing the church through word of mouth and we’re not even there! When we felt God telling us through Haggai, chapter 1, to start the church in Idaho while still living in Queen Creek, we asked how that could work. He instructed us to spend one week a month in Montpelier, doing the roadside, holding a Sunday morning church service and a Wednesday night home group, attending the monthly interfaith potluck.
It is thrilling to be a part of what God is doing with BWB in Arizona and Idaho.
Whew! What a s t r e t c h — both personally and financially!!!
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