The Hellands in Holland

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. Psalm 18:29 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Luke 11:9-10 BREAKOUT: The ability to go over walls of opposition into realms of the supernatural. -Dale Gentry PLACING A DEMAND ON THE ANOINTING-It means pressing forward despite obstacles to get to a place where the anointing is and expecting it to fall on you. -John Eckhardt We can have as much of God as we want to. Sometimes I relate this with the illustration of a bucket being filled with God's presence and we can pull on a rope and get as much as we want. Often we are guilty of just getting a little and saying, "that is enough." Yet, we can have as much of God as we want. This is why I am constantly placing a demand on God's presence. Everywhere I go, I want to see him m

KID'S CLUB TODAY Today our lesson was about "anger not producing anything good." We spoke about the Molukse people who came to Holland around 60 years ago and suffered much injustice at the hands of the Dutch. However, some Indonesian young people reacted in anger and committed some acts of violence. One of them was Tom Polnaya (link is in dutch). This man as a teenager took part in taking a school over and holding hundreds of kids and schoolteachers hostage in 1977. Since then he has apologized for his actions and is totally against his actions that he took part in then. We used his story of an example how "two wrongs don't make a right" and that acting our of uncontrolled anger always creates victims. Whether that be others or even the person self. In the middle of the kid's club, one child raised his hand and said he saw a shooting yesterday where a man was shot and killed. Half of the kids were witnesses to that. I feel suddenly that I am in New Yor

MINISTRY AT THE HAGUE (DEN HAAG)& MORE Last sunday I felt (as always) very much at home at Ronald v/d Molen's church. ( www.huizenvanlicht.nl ) He had asked me to preach on one of the miracles from John 5 where a paralyzed man is healed by Jesus. I started off my preaching by asking if anyone had pain in their left ankle. Sure enough there was a woman who the previous day could not walk because of the pain there. She normally does not attends Ronald's church, but was there sunday. Sure enough, after praying for her, all pain was gone. What a great gift from God to that woman. Also, last week doing grocery shopping at Albert Hein I ran into a mother of one of the kids's who comes to our kid's club. She told me that she had back pain. I prayed for here then and there and all pain left. It was great getting to watch here carry her groceries without any pain. God is good. :-)

We believe that God wants us to make His love tangible everywhere we go. That does not mean just in Holland, but everywhere. We discovered that this summer as we travelled all throughout Oklahoma. God’s presence is not limited to a church building on Sunday, but we carry his presence everywhere that we go. Where God is present then people’s lives are changed as he speaks to them and heals their hearts, minds, and bodies. Here are some accounts of different things we have experienced in the last months. A woman we met at a restaurant that we prayed for was healed instantly of arthritis. God touches her and her daughter who attend a church which says God does not heal today. A woman at the grocery store has no more pain in her back after we pray for her. She carries her grocery bag without anymore pain. While chatting on Facebook, Matt asks a friend if he has pain in his right foot. He does, and after praying, God takes away all pain from his foot. A worker at Subway shares his life sto

BACK IN THE NETHERLANDS It is four thiry am and I have been WIDE AWAKE for the last few hours. I still can not get over all the stuff that happened in my last week in the US. On thursday I got to speak at the student body at southwestern christian university . There I preached on Luke 10 and when I got to verse 9, "Heal the sick and proclaim that the kingdom of God is here," around a dozen students came forward for healing. All of them said that there pain was gone immediately except for one guy. I had some friends with me and we stayed an extra hour after chapel just praying for healing and ministering to students. On tuesday through thursday in Madill, we had an incredible "School of Prophets". There we also saw a bunch of healings, prophesied, but more importantly so many people at that church now prophesy themselves. This climaxed saturday in a full day of prayer and fasting where the presence of God showed up in a mighty way. The sunday services just continued

LAST WEEK IN THE USA This week is going to be intense. Tuesday through thursday I will be leading a School of Prophets in Madill, OK. This is where we teach on hearing God's voice and help people to learn how to move in the gifts of the spirit, especially with prophecy (1 Cor. 14:1). Thursday morning they are having a missions chapel at Southwestern Christian University where I get to be the guest speaker. Then on Saturday, again in Madill, we are going to have a day (10 am-5pm) of prayer and fasting. That is going to be an awesome day of seeking God's presence, power, and voice for our lives, families, churches, and cities. Sunday I get to speak in a church in Broken Arrow, a hispanic church in Purcell, OK, and one in OKC. Then monday I get to climb onto a plane and come home to my sweet wife and children. Only 8 more nights of sleeping and I will be home to Amsterdam....but there are just a few things to do in between then and now...:-)

Ministry at Evangelistic Temple Yesterday I had the honor and priviledge at preaching 2 services in English and one in spanish at the church I grew up in in Tulsa. All three services had healings take place. After the second service a woman came up to me and thanked me for praying for her healing but most importantly thanked me because she said her daughter's trust in God was restored. In the spanish service there were a whole lot of healings from back, knees, arms, etc. Nearly everyone we prayed for in the spanish service was healed. I shared from Acts 16 and Matthew 10 about being a missionary (apostolic) church. When I got to Luke 11:9 which says, "Heal the sick and tell them, 'The Kingdom of God has come unto you.,'" I started praying for the sick and they started getting healed. What I also really enjoy is not just that this is my home church, but that I have a team of 1st year students from ORU who are traveling with me and they are praying for the sick and