Hey today we are moving out from Dallas to Fort Worth, been a busy week I wish I sent an email earlier but we were really busy, I wasn’t so much packing as doing other little things here and there. I was still pretty busy with doing some stuff on Fabian’s site, researching and reading stuff for the article about Sudan (so unimaginable, it’s so different reading about it I kind of wish I knew what they went through more closely)
Last Saturday at Miami, Ok while Fabian preached I got to take a few others with me to a skate park where I preached a bit, talked more one on one and prayed for a couple of people. It was cool because a few of them where telling us why they left church (blaming God for something, letting people get in the way).
Oh yeah the guy who was an alcoholic the day before Saturday he came out clean, well dressed and all that. Sunday morning he also came and was even better dressed than I was hehe. Sunday morning Fabian preached about redeeming the time, starting with showing some pictures from Vietnam. Sunday evening he talked about the Holy Spirit and at the end everyone went up for prayer to receive more or receive for the first time, sweet stuff, there was at least one who hadn’t spoken in tongues since she was a child and spoke again for the first time that evening, she’s 21 so that’s still a long time.
Part 2
Hey so I had to switch off to pack my computer up. Now its 21:16, it’s been a long day. We had to go to pick a fridge first coz the new place didn’t have one, then we had to go to another place and pick up (oh we used a truck) Fabian’s tent from someone else’s house, that’s a lot of work good thing we were four guys and we also had a wheel barrow which was very helpful.
That took just under an hour to load. We then went to Fabian’s apartment where we picked up all the stuff from the house, which took about 3 more hours the other 2 other guys help us out, we had a pizza break in between, oh yeah we also heard 3 gun shots and after a short break we heard 3 more, didn’t see anything just heard it and saw people coming out to have a look. That sort of thing was part of the reason they moved from there.
On the way between Dallas and Fort Worth I slept even though I was supposed to read directions. When we unloaded we did all of it in about 2 hours which is great, a couple from Fort Worth came to help us out. I’m tired now it’s good to relax a bit.
Ok so now back to what happened throughout the week. Monday morning we left Oklahoma relatively early by Fabian’s standard (meaning 9 am). We stopped at Tulsa on the way went to the offices of TL Osborn’s ministry offices. We bought a few books, they were really nice to us, we didn’t know our way home so one guy just took us into his office showed us where we needed to go on a map on his pc and then printed out the map with details.
Through out the week I helped out pack a bit, did work on Fabian’s site, ripped cds, put stuff on my site (oh we set up a chat room you can go to from the site with the help of John from Arabs for Christ) check it out I probably won’t be on much till I get home but probably John might be on and maybe some others if you go on u might be able to write /list and there u will find a room called Malta. I’m actually the host of that room. Been talking with John quite a bit, things in Malta might start happening sooner than expected because he had to leave Iraq. So we’ll see.
Yesterday I went to Christ For the Nations it’s the school Rick Peno came out of I think, they had a worship night, it was very good with a mixture of a whole lot of different styles. I then went out on the streets to the gay community; I really wanted to preach when I got there, there were people from heartland with doing worship and gathering people to pray over them. I met with Joseph first, then I met Angela the street preacher who usually comes with us. She came out with Heartland so she had to stay with them.
We then asked permission to go to a different place to minister we went to a good place to preach but a band was playing across the street so it would have been very hard for me to preach. So we walked back to where the others were to ask permission to go to a different place. Before we crossed the street Angela stopped to talk to 2 guys inviting them to prayer and a security guy just came up to us to stop us. Angela doesn’t take that sort of thing she was kinda nice but you know “thank God for freedom of speech” as she put it, she offered to pray for him and he started to get really nervous, he was different Angela said she thought he was on crack I think he was just a gay who stammered. Then 2 people came from the heartland team to stop us and take us back coz apparently he was flashing his torch at the police to come stop us.
So we went across the street where they were then we asked to go to a different spot, I think they told us not to stir any trouble, so we went to another spot, a guy came asking for money he was shaking he said it was his way of breathing because of cigarettes we both thought he was on something, so while I was looking for money which I couldn’t find angela prayed on him, while praying a demon possessed guy walked up quietly when angela finished the guy asked him for money the guy grabbed him from his head and screamed “body I come back” I think he was calling out demons or something, we just walked away, maybe we should have confronted but we didn’t (we later saw the demon possessed guy with the worship team well not with them but dancing around them).
So then I started to preach, after a bit people from heartland came and told us the leader wanted us back with the worship team, so I world angela to go and I stayed for a couple more minutes, when you preach ur supposed to be at least 2 people so if people come to talk to you, you don’t stop preaching and keep on going, even if police come they don’t talk to the preacher but the other person, so it felt weird being on my own, I started to get a bit fearful but it was ok I guess (not enough to stop). Then Joseph came so I had a bit of back up, but then I stopped coz he was suggesting going to another quieter place so I went with him we also went to the store to buy a drink and do our business.
The place he had in mind was too quiet there weren’t any more people there. We started heading back to where the others were at the corner where we were going to preach earlier it had quieted down so I was going to preach but before I started I saw a guy and started talking to him it took quite sometime, the usual they believe they are right with God and yet they choose to live in sin, it’s painful they believe we are deceived and there is no biblical backing for what they believe
Romans 1:22-26
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
It’s so hard considering the fact that they believe that Jesus died so they can keep living in sin and have a free ticket to heaven. But he died that we might be freed from sin not freed to live in sin.
James also said James 2:18-20
18 But a man may say, You have faith and I have works; let me see your faith without your works, and I will make my faith clear to you by my works.
19 You have the belief that God is one, and you do well: the evil spirits have the same belief, shaking with fear.
20 Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?
(sorry bout KJV style earlier it’s the version I have on the PC this one here is easier)
While I was thinking about it later, first I thought about all the people who justify sin and call themselves Christians and this includes pastors, prophets (we actually across both of these in the gay community), apostles…
The encouraging thing was I was seeing how much bolder Joseph was getting, he wouldn’t even give me time to speak sometimes, he used to be just a conference going I think he went out on the streets for the first time when I got here 2 weeks ago, his brother preached for the first time since I’ve been here as well. That’s encouraging.
I thought id soak up a bit from the worship out there and then go to preach again coz I didn’t have anything else to preach on. But after a while Joseph needed to go home coz he wasn’t feeling so good and he was giving me a ride home because Fabian had to go home and keep preparing for today so he only dropped me off. So we left I was out only for an hour or so.
Ill see most of you soon, I get home Tuesday night at 9pm
I guess that’s it for today, I can barely keep my eyes open
peace
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Monday, September 3, 2007
3/9/07
Saturday night we went to Fort Worth and street preached a few others went to another corner and worshipped and talked to people. It turned out to be hard but good, I preached for about half an hour, while I was preaching I saw a guy crossing the road and I told him that Jesus wants to set him free, I did follow where he was going but apparently he went straight to the cross (oh yeah we carried a large cross with us actually 2 but one of them was self standing) leaned on it and I think He was praying, Kimberly one of the girls with us went up to him and talked and prayed with Him.
The police came a few times even with reinforcements but we stood our ground, apparently some one from the residential area close by called them I was ready to move because I understand if you are trying to sleep you do not appreciate people shouting, but it’s downtown, there people shouting any way, loud vehicles and loud musicians on the street, so Angela who was preaching the first time they came felt like we should stay because they only wanted to stop the message.
Later the lady who reported us came out to talk to the police on the other side, after the police left her I noticed she was crying so I told Kimberly to go talk to her she went but she started shouting at her and said she was ok. A couple of Pagans came to talk to us they had been hearing us preach for 1 ½ hours, they talked to Joseph’s wife and sister, they said it was an interesting conversation. Another guy came to talk to us after Fabian was done preaching, he was a Christian and he witnesses as well he was encouraged by the simplicity of the message.
Yesterday morning we went to Well Spring church (Jack Deere) it is connected to Morningstar in fact Rick Joyner preached. Worship was very good, you can tell the worship leader was influenced by Morningstar even from the way she dressed and danced. Rick preached about a new kind of army a people who are not visible generals but their decisions would change the course of the whole war. He talked about such events in history like civil war and world war one.
Last night was rough we went to the gay area again Samuel Joseph’s brother preached for a whole hour, unfortunately his voice was very low, I was about 2 meters behind and couldn’t hear him. Then I went next, then Fabian and then Angela. We had some people who came who actually wanted to be free, the first person to come up to us was actually a gay pastor and his assistant or maybe he was another gay pastor. It was rough they are so deceived they accept God’s love but reject his hatred of sin.
People kept coming up to us claiming to be Christian some saying what we were doing was wrong others said that it was right but because some gay people were not saved but they still denied that God could change them and believed that God made them that way. They classify homosexuality in a completely different branch fro other sin, they also justify other sin as well. It was hard some people just screamed at us and cried as they said it probably it shows they were hurt either by Christians, their family members and members of the opposite sex. It was very hard for me not to take some things they said personal and not to wonder on them.
Before we started I went with Joseph to some Hispanic houses a couple of blocks down from the gay clubs, we talked to a few people and gave out a few tracts we prayed with one guy and with a couple of women with a bunch of kids, it was good. He had already been and a Puerto Rican gave his life to Christ.
While I was preaching the mayor of the gay community came up to me introduced himself was just making sure people were treating us ok, that was a nice thing for him to do. He had a firm hand shake, he told us we like people being tolerant of us so we should be tolerant of you.
The police came a couple of time one group of three stayed on the opposite side, like they were waiting for a false move from our side, to more came up to us from behind us because the owner of the restaurant complained but he said we went into his store to talk to people or something of that sort which we did not I know Samuel was leaning on the rail and playing guitar and 3 guys went to talk to him but that is no reason to complain. Anyway the police told us to make sure we don’t go onto his property and that’s ok. These 2 were not gay but at least one of the ones on the other side was, even last time at least one of the police was gay, that’s probably because there is a high concentration of gay people living in that area.
When I got home it was hard I found it hard to sleep even while sleeping I was struggling it was like I was under attack by the demons over that place, Fabian told me his first time he had the same thing but it was also hard for him to sleep this time.
This morning I woke up very tired I went to pray and ended up sleeping for a couple of hours. Today I was contacted by a guy a friend of a friend of Fabian’s I had to talked to about starting a drugs rehab in Malta. Oh and on Monday I was contacted by a guy I know (a missionary in the mid east) about starting a discipleship/training centre for people wanting to go to mid east and North Africa.
The cool thin about that was that first God asked me to give Him my desire to go to North Africa to focus on Malta then he gave me the idea for the magazine five days later, then 5 day later I was contacted by the this guy, then a week later I was contacted by this other guy so it was like God asked me to give Him one part of my dream and He formed them a bit and gave them back to me.
I hope you are al OK, be blessed
The police came a few times even with reinforcements but we stood our ground, apparently some one from the residential area close by called them I was ready to move because I understand if you are trying to sleep you do not appreciate people shouting, but it’s downtown, there people shouting any way, loud vehicles and loud musicians on the street, so Angela who was preaching the first time they came felt like we should stay because they only wanted to stop the message.
Later the lady who reported us came out to talk to the police on the other side, after the police left her I noticed she was crying so I told Kimberly to go talk to her she went but she started shouting at her and said she was ok. A couple of Pagans came to talk to us they had been hearing us preach for 1 ½ hours, they talked to Joseph’s wife and sister, they said it was an interesting conversation. Another guy came to talk to us after Fabian was done preaching, he was a Christian and he witnesses as well he was encouraged by the simplicity of the message.
Yesterday morning we went to Well Spring church (Jack Deere) it is connected to Morningstar in fact Rick Joyner preached. Worship was very good, you can tell the worship leader was influenced by Morningstar even from the way she dressed and danced. Rick preached about a new kind of army a people who are not visible generals but their decisions would change the course of the whole war. He talked about such events in history like civil war and world war one.
Last night was rough we went to the gay area again Samuel Joseph’s brother preached for a whole hour, unfortunately his voice was very low, I was about 2 meters behind and couldn’t hear him. Then I went next, then Fabian and then Angela. We had some people who came who actually wanted to be free, the first person to come up to us was actually a gay pastor and his assistant or maybe he was another gay pastor. It was rough they are so deceived they accept God’s love but reject his hatred of sin.
People kept coming up to us claiming to be Christian some saying what we were doing was wrong others said that it was right but because some gay people were not saved but they still denied that God could change them and believed that God made them that way. They classify homosexuality in a completely different branch fro other sin, they also justify other sin as well. It was hard some people just screamed at us and cried as they said it probably it shows they were hurt either by Christians, their family members and members of the opposite sex. It was very hard for me not to take some things they said personal and not to wonder on them.
Before we started I went with Joseph to some Hispanic houses a couple of blocks down from the gay clubs, we talked to a few people and gave out a few tracts we prayed with one guy and with a couple of women with a bunch of kids, it was good. He had already been and a Puerto Rican gave his life to Christ.
While I was preaching the mayor of the gay community came up to me introduced himself was just making sure people were treating us ok, that was a nice thing for him to do. He had a firm hand shake, he told us we like people being tolerant of us so we should be tolerant of you.
The police came a couple of time one group of three stayed on the opposite side, like they were waiting for a false move from our side, to more came up to us from behind us because the owner of the restaurant complained but he said we went into his store to talk to people or something of that sort which we did not I know Samuel was leaning on the rail and playing guitar and 3 guys went to talk to him but that is no reason to complain. Anyway the police told us to make sure we don’t go onto his property and that’s ok. These 2 were not gay but at least one of the ones on the other side was, even last time at least one of the police was gay, that’s probably because there is a high concentration of gay people living in that area.
When I got home it was hard I found it hard to sleep even while sleeping I was struggling it was like I was under attack by the demons over that place, Fabian told me his first time he had the same thing but it was also hard for him to sleep this time.
This morning I woke up very tired I went to pray and ended up sleeping for a couple of hours. Today I was contacted by a guy a friend of a friend of Fabian’s I had to talked to about starting a drugs rehab in Malta. Oh and on Monday I was contacted by a guy I know (a missionary in the mid east) about starting a discipleship/training centre for people wanting to go to mid east and North Africa.
The cool thin about that was that first God asked me to give Him my desire to go to North Africa to focus on Malta then he gave me the idea for the magazine five days later, then 5 day later I was contacted by the this guy, then a week later I was contacted by this other guy so it was like God asked me to give Him one part of my dream and He formed them a bit and gave them back to me.
I hope you are al OK, be blessed
Saturday, September 1, 2007
1/9/07
Yesterday morning we didn’t do much just looked up different flights and stuff like that. Please pray we might still go to Algeria, David one of the guys coming with us feels we should go to Algeria, I found some chap flights between Tunisia and Morocco just in case we don’t manage to get in. there is an air line called Clickair, it’s very cheap.
In the evening well at night we went out witnessing (Fabian, a friend of his (Joseph) and a friend (Angela) of his friend)at the gay community, first we did some one on one then Fabian and I preached (I lost my voice). While I was preaching a policeman came to stop us Fabian started talking to Him coz legally he has no right to stop us, he knew he couldn’t stop us so he called in more police, 2 more cars came and 4 policemen showed up, they were more polite but they were looking for an excuse to get us in trouble, when they found out we knew enough of the law about street preaching they brought another excuse saying we gathered a crowd which we later found out wasn’t illegal either.
There was no crowd before they came so I asked where the crowd was and they pointed to us 4 we were not a crowd because we were dispersed before the police showed up so that was pretty lame. Anyway we agreed to move to the opposite side, we didn’t want to move because we would be their puppets and then if we moved they could easily kick us out of the other side also.
On the other side we didn’t preach, the other 2 sat down I wasn’t sure what was going to happen while Fabian and I were talking about that 2 guys from Heartland (Steve Hill’s church) and they told us they had around 40 people coming out just to worship and witness. So we were pretty excited we were stopped and then God sent us reinforcements.
So what happened was we just formed a circular crowd with a drum and guitar in the middle and just worshipped with the same song from around 10:00 to 1:30. And what they did was (there was normal one on one witnessing) but they also just asked people if they wanted to experience the power of God and if they said yes they took to the centre of the circle and everyone just prayed over them and worshipped.
It was so cool there were 2 guys slain in the spirit. First there was this one guy without a T-shirt and he got slain, then I went to pee when I came back there was another guy on the floor and the other guy was standing, after a while I didn’t see the second guy but the first guy was back on the floor. They later helped him stand up but it was a bit hard, so sat him down talked, prayed.
Later they called me and another guy to check something out coz we were close, we went and he started showing us his ring, he said this was a plain silver band (ring) and He showed us how in the bottom of it there was cross carved out. He was like “I was a gay atheist, I wouldn’t wear a cross” basically God gave him this sign, he branded him.
While he was showing us this stuff, a guy and a girl started talking to me they were just playing around kind of making fun, I could tell from their voice but I later even saw them wink at each other, anyway they were saying something and this guy just stood up started talking to them for about a minute coz he couldn’t stand very long and telling them how they needed to have an open mind. I left and ignored them soon after that.
He also started turned round and said no when one lesbian started screaming at them that this stuff is s**t. That was very cool. In the mean time the police showed up, first one guy then 2 more cars and then they kept on coming, I know there were 5 police cars there all the time and maybe 6 at some points. First they tried to stop us but the guy had been the proper research that same day so they knew they even wage a protest as long we didn’t block the way for people to walk they couldn’t stop us. So they just stood there and told us to stop at 1 or 1:30 I guess coz we stayed till 1:30.
It turned out to be a good thing they were there some people got really aggressive, one guy started running into are crowd with fists in the air, when they tried to hold him coz he was going towards 2 kids he started crying for help from the police, it turned out the police had seen the whole thing so they arrested him, one of the leaders had gone to get more police before as he was getting aggressive by the time they came the other policeman had him. He went to jail for 8 hours I heard.
The weirdest thing was when I was witnessing to one guy and he was looking at me like a piece of meat and hitting on me. I saw at least one other guy checking me out. One girl got onto the face of the guy with the camera who was there filming, she was trying to get the camera I went up to them coz they were 3 girls and one guy, then another leader came as well. She was like “why are you here?” and she kept repeating that, then I told her “we are here because you have just as much right to here the message of truth and freedom as I did” then she said ”whatever”.
As we were leaving we also prayed for the lady who came out with us, mostly for financial provision and work coz she has been struggling and also for her knees, was really blessed. There was a lot of activity last night; we got home at 2:50.
In the evening well at night we went out witnessing (Fabian, a friend of his (Joseph) and a friend (Angela) of his friend)at the gay community, first we did some one on one then Fabian and I preached (I lost my voice). While I was preaching a policeman came to stop us Fabian started talking to Him coz legally he has no right to stop us, he knew he couldn’t stop us so he called in more police, 2 more cars came and 4 policemen showed up, they were more polite but they were looking for an excuse to get us in trouble, when they found out we knew enough of the law about street preaching they brought another excuse saying we gathered a crowd which we later found out wasn’t illegal either.
There was no crowd before they came so I asked where the crowd was and they pointed to us 4 we were not a crowd because we were dispersed before the police showed up so that was pretty lame. Anyway we agreed to move to the opposite side, we didn’t want to move because we would be their puppets and then if we moved they could easily kick us out of the other side also.
On the other side we didn’t preach, the other 2 sat down I wasn’t sure what was going to happen while Fabian and I were talking about that 2 guys from Heartland (Steve Hill’s church) and they told us they had around 40 people coming out just to worship and witness. So we were pretty excited we were stopped and then God sent us reinforcements.
So what happened was we just formed a circular crowd with a drum and guitar in the middle and just worshipped with the same song from around 10:00 to 1:30. And what they did was (there was normal one on one witnessing) but they also just asked people if they wanted to experience the power of God and if they said yes they took to the centre of the circle and everyone just prayed over them and worshipped.
It was so cool there were 2 guys slain in the spirit. First there was this one guy without a T-shirt and he got slain, then I went to pee when I came back there was another guy on the floor and the other guy was standing, after a while I didn’t see the second guy but the first guy was back on the floor. They later helped him stand up but it was a bit hard, so sat him down talked, prayed.
Later they called me and another guy to check something out coz we were close, we went and he started showing us his ring, he said this was a plain silver band (ring) and He showed us how in the bottom of it there was cross carved out. He was like “I was a gay atheist, I wouldn’t wear a cross” basically God gave him this sign, he branded him.
While he was showing us this stuff, a guy and a girl started talking to me they were just playing around kind of making fun, I could tell from their voice but I later even saw them wink at each other, anyway they were saying something and this guy just stood up started talking to them for about a minute coz he couldn’t stand very long and telling them how they needed to have an open mind. I left and ignored them soon after that.
He also started turned round and said no when one lesbian started screaming at them that this stuff is s**t. That was very cool. In the mean time the police showed up, first one guy then 2 more cars and then they kept on coming, I know there were 5 police cars there all the time and maybe 6 at some points. First they tried to stop us but the guy had been the proper research that same day so they knew they even wage a protest as long we didn’t block the way for people to walk they couldn’t stop us. So they just stood there and told us to stop at 1 or 1:30 I guess coz we stayed till 1:30.
It turned out to be a good thing they were there some people got really aggressive, one guy started running into are crowd with fists in the air, when they tried to hold him coz he was going towards 2 kids he started crying for help from the police, it turned out the police had seen the whole thing so they arrested him, one of the leaders had gone to get more police before as he was getting aggressive by the time they came the other policeman had him. He went to jail for 8 hours I heard.
The weirdest thing was when I was witnessing to one guy and he was looking at me like a piece of meat and hitting on me. I saw at least one other guy checking me out. One girl got onto the face of the guy with the camera who was there filming, she was trying to get the camera I went up to them coz they were 3 girls and one guy, then another leader came as well. She was like “why are you here?” and she kept repeating that, then I told her “we are here because you have just as much right to here the message of truth and freedom as I did” then she said ”whatever”.
As we were leaving we also prayed for the lady who came out with us, mostly for financial provision and work coz she has been struggling and also for her knees, was really blessed. There was a lot of activity last night; we got home at 2:50.
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