The Hellands in Holland

The Helland's In Holland FOR OVER TWELVE YEARS OUR BASE HAS BEEN AMSTERDAM.  IN THE LAST TWO YEARS, WE HAVE TEAMED UP WITH BRIGHT FAME, A MINISTRY IN AMSTERDAM’S RED LIGHT DISTRICT WHICH HELPS WOMEN GET OUT OF PROSTITUTION. FROM OUT OF THIS WORK WE ARE SEEING A NEW CHURCH COMMUNITY - IGLESIA VIDA NUEVA. OUR DREAM IS TO SEE NEW DISCIPLES MADE AND CHURCHES PLANTED IN AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, EUROPE, AND BEYOND. THIS IS AN UPDATE OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING LATELY.   Ministry in Amsterdam's Red Light District (Standing at night in the center of the Red Light District)  For nearly two years, we have been weekly visiting and serving individuals who work in Amsterdam's Red Light District. For many, we have truly become their pastors. Often our Tuesday and Friday night Bible studies are overflowing with people coming to eat and share God's word and prayer. Nearly every week we see people get physically healed and touched by God's love and power. W

One week, my good friend, Iskander told me, "Matt, I am going to pray for people with crutches and believe that they are going to be healed." The next week, he told me that he had seen his first person in downtown amsterdam with crutches healed. On that same day, we also saw a young Spanish boy healed and able to walk without his crutch anymore. It was then that he told me, "Matt, now I am going for people in wheelchairs." The next week, he told me he had seen the first person in a wheelchair healed so that they could stand up and walk. It was awesome! Then he went to a large Dutch Christian conference to be part of the prayer team to pray for the sick (Opwekking 2016). He stood at the wheelchair section and kept praying for people in wheelchairs. Three people in wheel chairs were healed that weekend. One of them was Marije de Vries. Marije had been operated due to a bone that was growing out of the side of her foot. Because of the malformat

There are cords in our heart. These cords are like harp strings which can be tuned and are tuned according to the sound of the song our heart hears. This can be a song of hopelessness without meaning or it can be a song which comes from heaven. As we tune our heart strings to the sound of heaven, we find ourselves playing in a great orchestra where God is the conductor and we get to play in unison with many others. As we read books from saints of the past, we can pick up playing the same songs they played. We can improvise and give their songs a personal touch. As we do this, there are times when it is no longer just our fingers playing the music, but the fingers of the creator of the world is playing. The fingers of the one whose hands were pierced begin to play with our hands. It is no longer just our voice that sings, but the spirit of God who blows through the sound pipes of our lungs. Stillness is no longer empty, but full of life, meaning, faith, hope, and trust. We are

The Importance of Feeling Sadness " Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted." -Jesus Christ, Matt. 5:4 In the 2015 Pixar's Film Inside-Out , teenage Riley Anderson has a huge problem in that she cannot feel sadness anymore. Because of this, she isolates herself and begins to lose her own identity. She runs away from her home because her pain is unbearable. Inside-Out climaxes when she can weep in the arms of her father. Just as sadness was important for Riley, so recognizing sadness and pain is part of finding healing in the loving arms of our heavenly father. Life is full of tragedy, pain and disappointment. A friend of mine who was happily married with five children lost her husband at a young age in a car accident. During the week of the funeral, she refused to take sleeping pills or medicine because she said, "I need to feel this pain. I need to mourn and process my loss. I am afraid if I begin taking pills, they may become an ad

" Only I can tell you the future before it even happens..." Isaiah 46:10 (NLT)  " But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come." John 16:13             In 2013, I was preaching at Victory Iglesia in Oklahoma City when the following words popped out of my mouth, "Two years from now, you will no longer be in this building, but in another larger building."             I was shocked when those words came out of my mouth so then I added (just in case), "And two years from now, we will find out if that was really God speaking or just me."             Two years later, Victory Iglesia moved into a much larger building.             In March of 2016, I walked up to a man in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma I did not know and told him that I felt that God was going to give him his own