It's so easy: Esoteric fair in Berlin

I want to tell you about a very exciting weekend. In September I had been together with a team to an esoteric fair called Esoterikmesse in Berlin . In the beginning I was very unsecure und felt queasy. It was my first time in such a surrounding. I did not know if I could understand the people there and if I could address them in their language. Usually I'm very sensitive for the dark world.

But to my surprise it was very easy. At least at our place the atmosphere was very good (people sensed the atmosphere with us to be different). They were very open, were full of faith and it was eays to talk to them. I was overwhelmed to see so many precious and valuable persons. But the other thing was very shocking too: how many burdened people were walking there around. They were carrying very heavy stocks and many times we were not really able to help them.

Right at the entrance we had a room for ourselves. The fair was taking place in the Logenhaus (something like House of Lodges), a building of the Masons. Everywhere you could see their symbols. The whole thing was smaller than exspected. Once we walked praying through the place it was very intense to see what was there on exhibition, what folks were running after. But you couldn't blame them for that when they only know a boring, powerless and skin deep christianity.

Introduction
Before the fair started we had breakfast as a team together with some leaders from Berlin. Daniel Hari introduced us in his ministry and told us what we have in common with the esoteric people. He told us about his longtime ministry and some healing experiences.

Mystics would yearn for power and the supernatural. If we as Christians wanted to have access to their hearts we had to reach them with firm convictions. It would be absolutely biblical correct to call ourselves Healer. They would have no problem if we would say that Jesus is the greatest healer of all times. Again and again Daniel told us that we are not allowed to promise a healing but that we could give legitimate hope. Daniel is dreaming of a network of healing rooms, doctors who would certify the healings and journalists who would bring the healings to public generating media attraction.

Our stand had different parts: there was the Johanneshilfswerks an association that help street kids. Then there was the possibility to get prophetic prayer. Two-party teams have prayed free of charge (a great exception on the fair) for people and listened to what God would tell those people. And last but not least there was the stand of Daniel Hari. There he selled his books Healing like Jesus and Love like Jesus. We had a few rows of chairs there.

Healing demonstrations
Here we had every once and a while healing demsonstrations. Daniel or someone else from our team gave a short introduction that Jesus would heal this very day. And then came the practical part. Everyone who had pain or a sickness should lay one hand on the effected part and the other he should reach to the sky as a sign to express the will to receive from God. Most of them received their healing surprisingly quick. The pain often disappeared after only a few seconds. They were asked to watch over how their healing would progress afterwards and then a doctor should confirm the healing. Then they were challenged to impart what they had received and to pray in the name of Jesus for the other sick people that were present.

One story especially touched me. There was a young man who constantly had a croaky voice because of a mistake during an operation. He received prayer for healing. At once there was a audible advancement. And even though he had not been healed completely he was all excited. He was all smiles and thanked Daniel Hari many times...

Right at the beginning two ladies were healed. They were so happy that they dropped in over and over again. They were present at the evenings of healing too. There soemhow developed a relationship to them.

Intercession
Unfortunately our team had not been that big. So we were only two for intercession. Luckily a local church called Leuchtturmgemeinde (Beacon Church) was praying all the time parallel for us. Some of them were part of our team. I got to know my prayer partner last year in Mongolia and saw him again on the youth event STREAM 07 this year. I was very happy to have him as my prayer partner. I really enjoyed praying with him and to cover our outreach in prayer.

Prophetic Prayer
Luckily we had the chance to take part in the prophetic prayer. Really crazy what happened there. The impressions we got really touched the people.

An elderly guy was deeply touched by the love of God. First he fought against the tears. But after we had encouraged him that tears would not be a sign of weakness he let them go. He really melted away! We rather had finished our prayer when he told us that he had prostrate problems with suspicion of cancer. During our prayer he sensed a power that went from his feet to his pelvic. First I wanted to offer him prayer for healing but then I realised that the healing already had begun. We encouragede him to come to the evening of healing that night. Not to be prayed for but to strengthen his faith and to hear other reports of healing.

Once I went for a go with my prayer partner because I wanted to pray for certain people god somehow highlighted for me. Strangely enough we prayed for none of them. But we met an elderly woman instead of them. She had been before to one of our healing demonstrations. I already had there the impression to tell her that she really was precious and valuably. She could not accept it. Then we talked for a while. Forgivenesss was very hard for her. The word God immediately caused a wall to rise before her. We offered to pray for her helping her to make a step towards forgiveness. It was impossible because she only told us negative stories. I gently interrupted her and refered to her telling us that she already had forgiven her mother and that she got rid of alcohol on her own. I tried to explain her that she already had managed to overcome things and that there was hope that she could be able to do it with other things as well. Unfortunately we had to end our conversation because she wanted to attend a speech: Loving like Jesus that one of our staff was holding.

Lectures
A few of our staff members were holding lectures that were in the course of the fair. The lecture of Daniel Hari Healing like Jesus was a special lecture that was printed on the posters of the fair. I was only able to attend this lecture. About 100 visitors listened full of enthusiasm to the speech. I was surprised at the great belief of the participants and how they took everything for granted that was said. When we prayed for healing there were always 3 questions: "Do you believe that God can heal?" "Do you believe that God wants to heal?" "Do you believe that God wants to heal you right now?". And many answered all 3 questions without batting an eye saying YES.

Evening of healing
Every evening we had healing services in a nearby church. Already at our preprayer times the presence of God was always very strong. We began the evenings with worship that always was frolic. We had great joy and danced wildly.

Sigrun Czech, who's part of the Leuchtturmgemeinde, led the worship. She has published some meditation cds arranged for the esoteric people. She has called her music christcentered meditation and it is very anointed. Alone in the instrumental music you can sense the intense presence of god. During the day we had her music playing in the background. The holder of the stand nearby came again and again and complained: The music would be really nice but the vibrations would have an negative impact on his stand. He was a spiritual healer and working with soundbowls. The vibrations would distract his customers and they were not able to concentrate. Well why? :)

After worship every time Daniel Hari gave a short introduction and after that it immediately was again about healing. And here again people were healed spontanously. The craziest thing was the story with the mobiles. The visitors were asked to phone someone at home who was sick and could not come. And then they would hold their mobiles to the speakers and Daniel Hari prayed for them. On the next day someone was there who had been healed by this. The day before he had such an cold that he had to lay down in bed and could not come. It was so exciting to see how the people joined in and introduced their own ideas. They are really fantastic those esoteric people. I really have become a heart for them :).

In the end there always was a call to submit their lifes under the guidance of Jesus. Every evening about 20 People responded to this call. Wow - gorgeous!

Somehow the last evening was special to me so it was very unimpressive. Many times I have heard of meetings were the glory of god manifested in such a way that gold dust was visible. I never had seen it before, but now I have seen it with my own eyes! In the face of one lady there was clearly glittering gold dust! Very cool.

Tensions
Our team consisted of different individual teams with different background. Somehow it was not very clear who really was in charge of the whole thing. So there were different conceptions and different ways of doing things and how we understood the ministry. So we had tensions and misunderstandings. Even though it disabled some things I believe it was good to happen. We were grinding each other and God had the chance to build and form our character.

Probably I could tell much more but it will be enough for the moment. It was really nice to be together with Keith, my prayer partner in Mongolia, and his folks. We spend the night in the same holiday flat. I shared the room with my prayer partner. As you could have imagined we talked far into the night. Just only ten minutes more... It was pretty cool.

I wanted to do such things for years now in Munich. I now want to do it even more. Who will join me?