Thursday
There are normal church meetings, and of
course they are a part of God’s kingdom, but then there are also meetings where
the Holy Spirit moves in such a way that everyone present is touched. Tonight
was a night like that. There were so many Muslims, poor people and street
children at the meeting – about 7000 at the first meeting of the crusade, which
is good. Now the word is out. Halfway through the meeting many children started
to manifest and an unusually large number, for Ethiopia, were delivered. It
feels nearly surreal to see children getting spontaneously delivered or filled
with the Holy Spirit.
The Muslims are doing what they can to stop
us. Everyone seems to be scared of them. They tried to shut down the prayer
meeting this afternoon at the crusade grounds. The Muslims are the ones who
have scared the authorities into forbidding us from using cars with
loudspeakers. But if the power that pulsed through the crowd tonight continues,
every single visitor will be a loudspeaker for what Jesus is doing here.
For me personally it has been a wonderful
night. I have had so many meetings with Christians for awhile now, and at our
latest crusade most of them were already saved, which is good in its way. But
it is such grace from God to get to preach in a place in the bush, where the
sound from the loudspeakers breaks up, there is low grade of efficiency, there
is feedback on the microphone and everything is one big mess, but there is such
a total presence of the Holy Spirit when Jesus comes to embrace these suffering
people. That is such grace from God.
The opening meeting in Shashamene,
Ethiopia, along with many Muslims, poor people and street children
Friday
It is 30 degrees and the leaders’ meeting
exploded this morning. The first time we were here there were 80 participants,
but today there were over 600, and most of them had taken the day off of work.
It was so encouraging. The theme that God gave me was: “Stay on track” and “Keep
on walking.” If you can stay on track then you will eventually cross the finish
line. And whether people are shouting “Hosanna” or “Crucify”, you just keep on
walking.
At the leaders’ meeting on Friday morning.
Over 600 leaders listened to Pastor Tommy’s teaching in the 30 degree heat.
Saturday
This meeting just never wanted to end. The
Holy Spirit came in wave after wave. Even from the start of the sermon, the
demons started to shriek and people were manifesting. Now we are getting ready
for the final meetings tomorrow. We expect over 20,000 people at the morning
meeting.
She saw Jesus! The Muslim woman who is
falling in the Holy Spirit in the photo below has just been saved and healed.
She had heart problems and a neck injury. During prayer, when she lifted her
hands, a man came out of thin air, clothed in a white, full-length robe, and
placed his hand on her neck. She felt warmth go through her body and she was
completely healed.
A Muslim woman gets saved after Jesus shows
himself to her and heals her completely.
This boy had never been able to move his
arms. His body was like Jell-O. He had not been able to walk or even move. During
prayer, his body jerked, and he moved his arm and hand for the first time and
stroked his mother on the cheek. Amazing! His mother couldn’t stop crying for
joy.
Jesus healed this boy from paralysis and
his mother kept crying for joy.
Sunday
Every time a Muslim went forward for the
altar call, the crowd rejoiced. Today both meetings were full. The photos below
were taken from the stage and they show the crowd from the left, middle and right.
What an atmosphere at the two final
meetings on Sunday
– it simply must be experienced firsthand!
The atmosphere and the presence of God were
surreal, and simply must be experienced firsthand. The things that happen are
indescribable. During the morning meeting two young boys were saved and healed.
One of them got back his hearing in one ear, and the other one got back his
vision in both eyes. One man, homeless and an addict, told us that he had been
healed and delivered. He boldly told us that he had been having trouble with
incontinence. This morning he got set free from his drug addiction and was healed
from incontinence.
If we put the same efforts into reaching
our cities for Jesus as the churches in Shashamene, Ethiopia did to reach
theirs, then the results will be the same – because it is the same Jesus!
