Healing for the Nations

Wonderful Wedding near Dresden

2010-06-04T05:47:00.000-07:00

During the pentecost weekend I was together with my flatmates at the wedding of my good friend and former flatmate Micha. I experienced together with him a lot of cool things, shared joy and pain.

We arrived already on Friday to help building up. A small group already was there and it was a lot of fun taking care of the last preparations. In the evening we were sitting together eating hot dogs. In the background a gorgeous sunset.

We were able to sleep in the house of Micha's parents and had a great time with the other helpers.

I took the oppurtunity to buy a new suit. Here you can see a few pictures of it.

For the service we were asked to line the way to the church. And so people were standing in front of the church building waiting for the bridal couple. We had wonderful weather (thankyou Jesus!)

A bunch of beautiful and nice folks :)

How cool they arrived in a Trabbi (an old car of the former GDR) and the looked wonderful coming up the hill.

Great service in this small church. Great worship, moved me, great sermon.

Afterwards congratulations and sparkling wine reception. I handed over the selfdesigned gift coupon for a dinner for two in our flat sharing community.

Convoy from Kleinröhrsdorf (service) to Bretnig where we celebratetd.

The location was wonderful and decorated nicely. Coffee and cake were very cool. I had nice talks with old friends I had not seen for a long time. And I got to know some cool new friends.

After coffeetime it was time for the group photo and someone from Peru took the chance to do one of his Recréacions. People in action!

Then we had a lot of time to talk, walk and play in the playground :)
The evening program was nice. A cool mixture and not too much. Supper was nice but not really enough.

We from our flat sharing community took a quiz. The bridal couple had to guess the typical things of every flat mate.

At the next morning we were having all breakfast together (would have been a nice picture to post as the only photo of the wedding ceremonies)

I was able to go back together with the family of a former flat mate who took me directly to Munich. We had a good time in the car. Great!

Walk on water

2010-03-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Prophetic painting while delivering the mail

2010-03-26T15:23:00.000-07:00

As some of you know I am working now as a postman at Deutsche Post. First I only did it cause I needed some extra money. I was self-employed at that time as a webdsigner and did not make it very well. But when I continued working God spoke very clear that he wanted me to be there as long as He wanted till he would tell me to quit. Very challening as it is not the dream of a job for me.

At the beginning of last December it was one of those Saturdays. It was very cold, I was freezing though different layers of clothing, it was snowing. And because of an special extra advertising we must deliver every Saturday I exspected to get home very, very late. And as I made my way through all the snow I was praying and fighting with God. There was a prophetic word I received that I had to stay at this place as long till I will be at peace with it. I would be sorry that I would have to leave cause God would do there so much. Impossible to see and believe now. So I am praying and complaining. Asking God how this ever should happen, complaining that I have to do this job at all and that I only wanted to go home...

At some point I reached apartment buildings with mailboxes at the outside. A neighbor is reaching me. He tells me that he wanted to get something asking me to wait. Of course - I continue delivering the mail, I am now at the next house where he lives. He is back now, waiting till I am ready.

Turning to him he begins: He had prayed all day that he would meet me today, he was after other postmen looking if he would find me. Aha! Now he is so happy that he found me. He had asked God if he would give him an impression for his postman. Wow! He then was painting till late half past one in the night! I first thought he would have scribbled something with a pen on a notepad. But no, he really had painted it on a canvas! Wow!

He first covered the other part and explained the picture: He saw an Eagle (symbol for the prophets!) flying through a thunderstorm getting totally wet (how fitting!). He is wearily and only wants to have some peace and quiet. He flies down to sit there and have some rest. The problem: he still is in the rain and wil continue to get wet!

But he should rather soar up in the sky, so hard it might be, and break through the clouds. Up on the mountain top - being only some meters above the clouds - he could rest, dry and take a sunbath (= to rejoice in his God). Here he would have escaped the storm and would no longer get wet!

I can tell you that almost took my breath away! There is someone I hardly know asking Jesus to give him a prophetic picture for his postman (me :)). And above of it he is painting it and very, very cool (Very important for an artist like me. The week before I went to a prophetic art seminar were I got a painting as well. The impression was okay but the painting artificially not so good). And additionally the painting was the exact answer to my prayers on that morning! I was close to tears and deeply touched!

I found out that I went to the seminar together with his wife. As he was presenting me his painting it was snowing. But later the sun came out :)

JFM: Preaching at the Jesus Freaks München

2010-03-26T14:48:00.000-07:00

Last sunday I had the chance to preach again in our service in the bar Café Kosmos. My church the the Jesus Freaks München usually have our services there. We had a very groovy worship with free forms of new lyrics. Was good to be before God.

I was very excited cause I kicked one part of the sermon shortly before. I wanted to have more time for the rest and especially for a exercise. There were certain impressions at the beginning of the year that God wants to give us as a church certain treasures. So we had different sermons about these treasures.

I mostly asked the question what price are we willing to pay to get the treasure, what am I willing to give up for it? Reading novels like Treasure Island or The Hobbit the heroes were at first totally normal people with mediocre lifes. But when they went to get the treasure their lives were totally changed. They were in life danger, had to pass many adventures and dangers. They treasure was not just awaiting them. No, there were others wanting it also. For example there was a jealous dragon who was very dangerous and guarding it. But they also found out that there was a great portion of luck with them and that they were able to master all dangers.

So I challenged my audience to think about what price they were willing to pay. Do they exspect God to give them something really great and wonderful?

Then I talked about the Holy Spirit and his gifts. We need the power of the Holy Ghost to be able to overcome the challenges of the daily life. God has given us the gifts of the spirit as powerful tools. I challenged the people to exspect God to talk to them in their daily life, that He will give them important impressions. I told them some examples and then we made this exercise.

They should meet in pairs, shortly listen if God would say something to them for the other. Then speak it out and pray. Many took part in it with great results.

Really a nice service!

Prophetic Art

2010-03-20T09:55:00.000-07:00

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Breakthrough for Revival
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Hearts of Old and Young bound together made at the teenie kongress STREAM07

"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse." Maleachi 4: 5+6

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Breakthrough
"One who breaks open the way will go up before them; they will break through the gate and go out. Their king will pass through before them, the LORD at their head." Micah 2:13

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Liquid honey glory flows on the altar of worship
Drawn at the healing conference in Heidelberg

Beauty in the deepest heart

2010-03-01T05:00:00.000-08:00

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In Israel I was finally able to draw an impression I received years ago during a leadership training of the jesus freaks in Nuremberg. I was deeply touched by the picture. I was drawing it again and again and had given it to certain people who where touched themselves. Now I have drawn it again and colored it. Now I am glad that I am able to present it this way to you.

There is a place deep in our heart that is so deep that we ourselves are not able to reach there. We don't even want to look there. We are afraid of doing it cause we believe it to be ugly, dirty and nasty. We are ashamed of it and ask ourselves if God knows this place of pain.

In my impression I saw this place in the shape of a deep dark cave. There is only a tiny small cleft reaching the ground and sunlight. Light was not able to reach down to the bottom cause the cleft was so thin. Only when the sun would be on a special position in the sky it was possible that a sunbeam could fall down on the bottom. Like in those old cathedrals with a tiny whole in the wall. With the right position of the sun there (like on Midsummer's Night) would be a spotlight shining on a certain marked place on the floor.

And so this lightbeam of God reached to the deepest place of my heart being normall in utter darkness. But against all expectancy it was not ugly, dirty or even disgusting. No, a wonderful Rose was growing there!

God knows the deepest Place of your heart where it is hurting. There is beauty. So don't be afraid of this place!

Haiti: A Call to Prayer & Fasting

2010-03-01T04:52:00.000-08:00

Haiti - "A Call To Fasting & Prayer" from anthony gehin on Vimeo

On February 12, 2010, President Préval of Haiti called his nation to 3 days of fasting and prayer. Over 1 million Haitians attended this epic event. They gathered to intercede, to read scriptures, to worship and to repent. The president came and wept for an hour. During these days thousands converted to Christ among them over 100 voodoo priests.

That's what I call: healing for the nations, healing for the nations!

Israel Prophetic School 2010

2010-02-25T08:08:00.000-08:00

Last week I spent a week in Israel for a Prophetic School with Pierrot Fey from the church Die Taube (The Dove) in Heidelberg, Germany. There are some prophecies I have concerning Israel so I just went to get to know this country. Somehow I had the feeling that the fulfilling might be connected with Arni Klein. Unfortunately he was not there during the time I was in Israel. Now that I have been there I would have liked to stay longer. The rest of the group spent another week at Sea of Galilee.

The first week we stayed at the Dead Sea in a small village called Ein Bokek. There are only hotels, restaurants and shopping centers. Crazy! Our hotel was the Tulip Inn. A nice one, but a little shabby here and there (eggshells in the scrambled eggs;-) ). I would not have liked a noble one. I shared the room together with a French man who could speak German.

As I did not know anyone I was at first a little bit lonely. I used the time for long prayer walks alongside the only street. Soon I found my own Prayer tower build over a ruin.

We had services in the mornings and evenings. I exspected something totally different, so it was hard for me to accustom with the method of this school. I first always thought: When will we finally start? I longed to pray for people and to prophesy for them. And I myself was in great need of some words of direction from the Lord how to continue my life. All activities were in German/ French. The 100 participants came from Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.

We started with intense worship times (here I was able again to draw some prophetic pictures). Then Pierrot came to the front having some words of knowledge, praying with us for certain things or doing a proclamation with us. Then preached about a theme God had laid him on his heart.

For example he talked about the importance to be close to the heart of God. That it could be that a "great" sinner could be closer to the heart of God than a selfrighteous "small" sinner. The sermon about the spirit of control that everyone of us seems to have. Everyone wants to live in a given frame, nobody likes to break out. Let the others do something new, I will not be the first to do so...

My Spirit was moved especially when he talked about that things can happen on a higher level.
So many times we try to help people with little results. Here we are trained. But there is a higher level were we can bind territorial powers and whole nations get saved instantly. He talked about the meaning of being a prophet for nations. That's exactly what I am about!

At another time he talked about the difference of sharing something I know or imparting a revelation of God. When this happens it is most likely that it happens in a way that does not fit with our German sense of order and it may catapult us out of our comfort zone :)

After the sermons there was again worship and the possibility to come in prayer before God and react on what was said. In these times I got intense times with God. I hardly never sensed so much acceptance and love. God said thank you to how I serve him. Hardly can describe it...

On the last morning service there was a powerful time after the sermon, much was moved in the spiritual realm.

In the afternoons some excursions were offered, but I never found out where they would go. Besides it was far too hot for me and sometimes I was very tired (there must be something in the air they use for making valium and that makes you feel very comfortable. Hmmm). Masada was close, I would have liked to see...

Instead of that I spent the time sleeping, swimming in the Pool of the hotel, bath in the Dead Sea or just hang around with people I got to know by now (everyday sunshine, sometimes 36° C - a totally contrast to icy temperatures and masses of snow in Munich (especially if you are a postman).

There were some people you only talked a few sentences (e.g. at the meals) and immidiately I was one with them in the spirit, were on the same wavelength, we understood each other.

On some days there was the possibility to do some prayer walks with the whole group. I left the first one out. There they would climb the nearest 400m high mountain in the greatest heat.

But I took part when they walked on a street into the Dead Sea. That really was beautiful. There was a great view of the village, the street had sometime bizarre salty formations and we could see the sun set behind the mountains. I had good talks, a wonderful worship and prayertime.

On the last day we went into a Wadi, a dry riverbed that may carry much water. Was kinda adventurous, cause you had to climb around the trickle (or you should have had shoes with whom you could walk inside the water. But I needed my shoes dry for the flight back the next day and for the cold Germany).

Above there was a basin where you might could have bathed. But it was not very big so I did not went in. Last year they baptised some people here. Yeah! Here we prayed and sang. Someone told us that he saw a Jew there who was standing there very awestruck while we did this.

On Wednesday we did a whole day trip to
Jerusalem. We arrived on Mount of Olives with a great view of the city. Got a short introduction.

We walked to the place where Jesus might have wept over Jerusalem. We read the scriptures there loudly.

Then we passed through the Garden of Gethsemane (notice the sign where weapons are not allowed in here). The garden was much smaller as I thought. Unfortunately there was not much time and we went on immidiately.

Then up the Via Dolorosa, the alley where Jesus carried the cross to Calvary. Later we separated the group cause it was too chaotic to hold together such a great group.

It was kinda strange to feel the situation of this city, to breath the air. All these different cultures and religions bumping into each other. Jerusalem has a special atmosphere. Unfortunately there was not really time to give in to all of this.
Everywhere people with guns and machine pistols, special security checks. Some T-shirts that were sold are quite informing too...

With a small group we went to the Wailing Wall, watched the Jews while they were praying.
I would have liked to have my own personal time right at the wall. But we had not much time also. We strolled through small alleyways and the bazaar

Finally we settled down in the Austrian Hospice to eat some delicious apple strudel. We had to wait very long till we were able to order our things and another long time to get it. But in the garden it was cozy and we were able to really relax. I have to come again to watch again unhurriedly.

Right at the swimming pool at the hotel there was a bar in the style of Bedouin's tent with seat cushions. Here you could ly down at the talbe like Jesus did with his discioples. Very comfy. With some of the people I have been here more often to just talk and drink something :) Good talks!

On last evening I went with some people in a restaurant to eat. It was very nice if not for some moments who were very strange.

The week passed far too quick, met some very nice people I want to stay in contact with. One of them is working in Munich so we can meet from time to time. Don't know how I will see my time there in hindsight. But right now I can't see any prophecies fulfilled I had concerning Israel. But who knows. It won't be my last trip there.

It's for sure that I would have liked to pray and prophesy more for people. At least I was able to do it here and there.

When we arrive in Frankfurt everywhere there were campbeds. Don't know if there was a connection to the strike of the pilots the next day.

I was staying again with my friends in Frankfurt. I enjoyed seeing the kids again, to talk with my friends. Before I went back on the train to Munich I joined the service of their church in Hanau. Did like it very much. Very prophetic worship with great anointing and a very inspiring serrmon.

Frankenwald - my beautiful home

2009-11-02T12:20:00.000-08:00

Everytime when I am at home visiting my parents I try to get a chance to visit Griesbach, the village where my Dad was born and grew up. The house lies in a beautiful valley and landscape there is breathtaking. See for yourselves...

Wickie Movie - a dream come true

2009-11-02T11:47:00.000-08:00

This year one dream came true. One of my childhood heroes Wickie, my very first animated series, came to the big screen. This is a situation you won't understand today. At that time there were no DVDs, not even video. You could watch only three programs and until 4 p.m. there was only a so called test picture. So you might get an idea how I adored him, as children we played to be the Vikings of Wickie, my father made me a wooden boat for our playmobil figures that could really swim. Recently I took a picture when I was home at my parents...

I was very excited to see the movie, I couldn't wait till I finally could watch it with my own eyes. The first trailers, making ofs were very promising. My only worry was that director Bully Herbig would turn it into silly fuss that he is known for.

It is really a cool movie, all the great moments of the series are there, much love for detail was put into the characters and sets. Of course it is made for children so the story is very predictable. But it is much fun nevertheless. Though there are some silly bullylike jokes it is really good to watch and not boring.

I don't know why but I left the cinema missing something. My high exspectations were not so much satisfied. Perhaps it is becaues he was the hero of my childhood and some memories and feelings of then can never be brought back. I am now grown up and not anyone more a little boy with wide open mouth and eyes...

But after all a really great movie. Looking forward to have it on DVD!

Stefan Driess in Munich

2009-03-23T15:12:00.000-07:00

Recently we had the chance to have Stefan Driess two times with us. He is a German guy but lives with his English wife and his two wonderful children in Manchester. I think you can call him a prophet. The Father heart of god, healing, of course the prophetic are the main issues that are on his heart. He had been twice before in our church but after that it was very hard to get a date with him.

In December met in the Clang Studios, a studio some people of our church are running. First the worship was quite nice. But Stefan challenged us to stand up and pray a while in tongues. After a while of intense worship there really was a breakthrough. Now we were in a flow and there was power.

Then Stefan shared what was on his heart. He focused on the things he believes God had in store for us in 2009. It was mainly about this: We will taste more of the Glory of God, we will rejoice in the things that God wants to give us. But it is important to get rid of the traps of sin. Cause when the Glory comes the things that are inside of us will show up too...

Stefan again had also some Words for me what confirmed the things I heard from God before: It is good to work for the Deutsche Post, my influence is far greater than I realize.

Then in January Stefan was again in Munich. In the morning he spoke for the first time in the service of the local Vineyard. The sermon was very similar to what he told us in December. Some of the prophetic words he had for different people were quite moving. Especially for one lady, there came power with it. Some of the church began to weep, others had tears in their eyes. I believe that was really some deliverance for the woman.

In the afternoon we had Stefan in our meeting in the Café Kosmos. The whole room really was packed. There was no place where no one was standing or sitting. I was leading the service.
The worship was quite cool. Then Stefan talked full of love about the father heart of God and how our image of God would look like. One thing touched me deeply. He told us about his daughter Grace who liked to jump from the kitchen table into his arms. He requested from her to look into his eyes before she would jump that he would be ready to catch her. But one time she slipped out of his hands and really hit the ground hardly. As a loving father it hurt him even more than her. He feared that he had lost her trust and she would never want to jump again. But without hesitating she climbed again onto the table to jump at once again. She really trusted her Dad to love her and never letting her fall...

He made a short call who was willing to give his life to Jesus and asked everyone of us to pray with him a prayer of Surrender... And then he continued with his prophetic impressions. I believe he got the right ones :)
For the barkeepers he had some nice ones. It was really cool what the people received, how the were able to experience the love of god. Some tears were flowing, some were deeply touched.

Really nice. More!

What grace is given to me

2009-03-23T13:27:00.000-07:00

On my German Blog I have a series called What grace is given to me (Referring to a quote out of the first LOTR movie). Life isn't always easy, at least the circumstances try to say this to you. So it is good to remember what God has done and what wonderful things happened. Time to say THANKS. To stand in awe what grace is given to me...

Gift of Thankfulness: First of all I am so amazed about the gift of knowing the power of thanfulness. There are so many people who have everything they need and all they do is complaining! They have no clue for what they can be thankful. How precious is it when you are grateful! I am happy to know about the secret. You do not only see what good happens to you it does even lift you up!
"He who sacrifices thank- offerings honours me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God " Psalm 50:23
Jesus in my Life: I am so glad that Jesus is in my Life. Years ago I haven't been so happy about it. Cause I never made an "Amacing Grace" experience, how Jesus deleivered me from the traps of sin and lead me into wonderful freedom. But after a drastic experience some years ago I am so grateful that there is no day I can remember that I did not know Jesus.
It was always clear what my church would be - through all the good and bad years. I never had to search long for the right one, what is truth, is there truth at all, what religion is true, which church, shall I give my life to Jesus? No, that was always no question at all. Thank you Jesus! You are the best! I love you!
God's Speaking: It is always wonderful to hear God speaking. I am glad if I can help and encourage others through prophetic words. But it's nice to when God speaks clearly to me and helps me along the way.
I heard God saying that I should keep working at the Deutsche Post as long as He tells me. I was not sure if I heard him rightly. Because I did not like the idea so much to stay there. But after I had talked and prayed with some people, some preachings and finally through a personal prophecy by Stefan Driess I now clearly know that I am at the right place there. It is nice that such words are not totally new but confirm things I already received from the Lord. Now I clearly know and can invest me there with all my heart.
It is nice to have a feeling what God wants from me and what not. There is a situation, a short prayer and then comes a direct answer. Often it is in direct conflict with what my feelings would tell me to do. But it is good :)
Divine Appointments: I am amazed how God grants me precious friendships. I meet some new people getting to know them. And I sense here is something special, something we share though we do not know each other. and the other person feels the same. Some of this friends are far away, we rarely see us and talk to each other. But when we meet it is very special because you do understand each other without many words. I am excited how this relationships will develop.
A special gift: Some days after Christmas I met with an old friend who was just travelling by. We absolutely should meet cause he would have a gift for me. He said that I would not want to wait for it if we were not able to meet... But what could this possibly be?
We had 10 minutes after he arrived with his wife at the Central station heading to the airport. He handed over to me a big box. Unpacking it I found a brandnew cell phone! Really nice, cool design and with extra functions (I never had that before): MP3 Player, photo function and other gadgets. Pretty cool, big time better than the one I had before. That has been a gift too!

My Church: I am glad about my church, the Jesus Freaks München. Of course not everything is good, there are some things I don't like. But we have really cool people there, some good friends, some of our services are really cool. I feel God and he touches me deeply. God is close as I never have experienced him before. There is a quality in it I did not have before although I sensed God and experienced Him in many great ways.

When you're down

2009-03-23T13:07:00.000-07:00

I want to introduce you to a band I very much liked on the Rock on the Rock festival in Italy. Now the slightly changed their name and have uploaded some new songs on their MySpace profile. I do like this song the most, the lyrics touch me deeply.

It's for all of you out there who are experiencing hard times and the world seems to be collapsing. This one's for you...

Call Your Name
The door is shut, the room is looking small
I’m sitting in a haze
Things are hard
My vision’s getting marred
Hope is feeling far
Wars rage on, there’s fear tonight
No guns or bombs can win this fight
It’s deep within my troubled mind
A way out would be nice to find

When I’m lost I call your name
When I’m lonely, call your name

Fear fades away like a falling star
When I turn my eyes to you

How many times I’ve tried to win this fight
Yet fallen on my face
Must lift my eyes to where my help comes from
It’s closer than I know

When I’m lost I call your name
When I’m lonely, call your name

Fear fades away like a falling star
When I turn my eyes to you
Peace falls like rain
All I need is you
I call your name
And there’s breakthrough (repeat)

Link: MySpace Profile with the Songs

70 years of Kristallnacht

2008-11-28T08:52:00.000-08:00

Recently we had the 9th of November. This day was the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht. This dark day in German history had its main influence in Munich and was planned long before. Therefore this whole weekend a lot of meetings and gatherings were planned - to remember, to commemorate, to meet each other and to worship God. A small group of messianic Jews was invited to come to Munich and to take part at these events.

Friday - A Prayer Evening
Friday evening started with a prayer evening.
This special evening full of the presence of God took place at the Charismatisches Zentrum München. It alwasy touches me when the body of Christ gathers together. But it is very special when messianic Jews worship bringing with them their own culture and history.

The impulse for the whole Kristallnacht was given from the Old City hall in Munich. So this small group of messianic Jews gathered there with some Christians from Munich to commemorate this event.

It touched me to hear what moving moments happened there. A sensitive song on violin that led to deep wailing and common lamenting, Germans and Jews were laying in each arms. Finally the celebrated the Lord's supper together and praised the Blood of Christ over all this guilt. Love was there, hearts were bound together, a deep connection was formed. Somehow it is special when German christians and messianic Jews stand together!

Some of the Jews shared very moving their stories with the Holocaust and what this day meant for them. All of them were touched with how much love they were welcomed.

After that we had an intense worship time in which the messianic Jews served us - very intense and dense. A very moving and intense evening. Nice to see that you can make history with only a few...

Saturday - Worship Evening

After being the whole day afoot I was looking forward for a nice seat and the worship evening together with our friends from Israel. But when I arrived at Paul-Gerhard-Kirche (a charismatic Lutheran Church I was attending years ago every Sunday) the whole hall was packed, no more places left over! There were many people standing in the corridors and in the back. It touched me that so many had come.

Some greetings were held, briefly summarized what happened already on this weekend, our guests from Israel were introduced and called to the front, Thomas Römer was preaching about John 17.

At some point everybody was standing to read out aloud a declaration being in opposition of the statements of the Kristallnacht. At that time the Jews were told to disappear, that we did not want them or what they had to give. Therefore we welcomed the Jews in the declaration of today with all their gifts and callings.

A worship band around John Angelina lead us into worship. Here the atmosphere was very dense and the presence of God touchable. Then the musicians from Israel took over. They came to us to serve us with their gifts, not to look at the past, on the wounds or the trauma. They have a special way to play with violin, clarinet and different drums. First the worship seemd to be very sagging, to much focused on shame and wounds.

From time to time I had to sit on the floor cause I was not able any more to stand. I just enjoyed the presence of God. Suddenly the worship went over into a prophetic part, were the drums, the shofar did mighty things in the spirit. Something was broken, the veil was drawn away, it was like something was fallen. now the music was more happy. The people went into the groove and were clapping. Very cool!

How wonderful it is when Jews find their Messiah, how much more when they understand to flow in the Spirit and to set free things in the Spirit! That really is a calling of the Jews to lead the nations into the worship of the one true God - Jeshua Hamaschiach.

The evening was so dense and intense that it is impossible to tell everything here. Again and again it was said that this would be a new day for Germany, a new cooperation of Jews and Germans. Now we are challenged to heed the call. Another important impulse was to found a prayerhouse for the nations in Munich, in which 24h worship and prayer will be held.

Again and again the Jews said thank you for being invited for being able to come and that they were welcomed with such a love. They told us that they would need us to bring light into the darkness of Israel that the people would find newly their God...

Wow, what a wonderful evening. Words can not describe it. How good that I stayed and did not let my tiredness lead me away...

Wedding in Belgium

2008-11-17T16:32:00.000-08:00

At the end of October I had the privilege to be invited to the Wedding of my old friend Frank Ernst (called Ernsti). Now I finally had a chance to visit him in Antwerp/ Belgium.

Travel
We went by car, another Jesus Freak girl from Landshut joined us. So we had a nice travel without problems, had nice talks and listened to a challenging sermon of David Pierce. We started about 10 in the morning and arrived at 19.00 o' clock in Hoboken and received a heartly welcome. We were shown the daycare facility for children. It is the first christian one in Belgium and I only knew it from all the struggles, prayers and other thing realizing it. So I was glad to be finally able to see it with my own eyes.

Some of us went away to get Kebap with strange sauce *hehe. I went cooking with the other girl (Bri) and carried it up all the way over the remarkable stairs under the roof where we all stayed. Sibylle arrived in the meantime and was quite lonely. Sometime later the boys came back and we chilled in all the sofas that were there abundantly.

Spontaneous Service
As Bri had a cold I just wanted to pray for her healing. But suddenly we were in a long time of prayer and worship. Really cool! We thanked God for all the things he had done in the life of Ernsti, how this day care center was realized, thanked God for his faithfulness and prayed for Belgium and Antwerp. Matthias got hold of a guitar and started playing worship songs and we worshipped Jesus. Somehow I got the idea to release the friendlyness and glory over Sibylle (in the midst of night Jesus had the idea to give her a loveletter - at 2 o' clock in the morning!). As we all were very tired we soon went in our sleeping bags...

Sightsseing

After a wonderful breakfast we went together with Mäggi and Susi, who arrived in the meanwhile, into town for sightseeing.

Antwerp is a real nice place - small alleyways, small houses with wonderful facades. Somewhere we got a big portion of chips with different sauces and different enthusiasm :)

On the way back we got some Belgian candies. We liked to have some coffee but no one came to serve us so we left without.

The Wedding

It was nice to be at this international wedding. It was held mainly in flemish without translation. Somewhere closer to the front someone was sitting wo was translating - but only the people around him could understand it. But some parts were at least in English or were translated.

The worship was quite nice, they really have some cool musicians. A friend from Ireland was holding a little speech. Something about that we easily can imagine that Jesus loves our neighbor but not me...

After that sparkling wine (not really alcoholic), some dips with vegetables and some sweets were served.

We retreated to write some greeting cards for our presents. As church we were collecting money for the wedding and everybody from us brought their bills. We wrote our greetings in fake Flemish. We had great fun with it.

The Celebration

The evening program took place in a hall nearby, a real nice location. We as jesus freaks were sitting together and had some nice conversations.

We heard some testimonies of conversions and how our Jesus Freaks churches were founded. Later we were asked to serve at the bar. That was really funny and we enjoyed it a lot.
The clean up afterwards was soon over cause many helped.

The next morning we had a nice breakfast with our host. They just moved in, their flat is still to be renovated. But the really served us gernerously and were excited to have us. Realy hospitality.

Golden autumn

2008-10-27T05:45:00.000-07:00

I always like autumn when the sun is shinig, the leaves are golden and rustling. This year in October we had many of these days. Wonderful! Once I received a mail with lots of questions to be answered to get to know each other. One of it was this: "Summer or winter?" My answer would have been: "Spring and autumn of course!"

We had some days when the morning was full of heavy wet fog though the day was full of wonderful sunshine. But many days were full of sunshine the whole day. I am full of thankfullness being able to deliver the mail in such a weather. In the afternoon I was even able to only have a T-Shirt on - and this in October. It's so nice to be able to be outdoors in the sunshine, to be in this wonderful autumn environment: to see the colorful leaves on the floor, to hear the rustling of the leaves, to see the leaves falling to the ground like rain. superb! What a wonderful atmosphere...

Somehow autumn has something cozy, dreamful... even romantic. It's the time to wrap into a warm cloth, to sit before the fireplace having a hot cup of a drink and reading a exciting book like "The Lord of the Rings" :)

Some quotes come to mind. I like the metaphor of autumn and the falling leaves in Peter Jacksons's adaption of "The Lord of the Rings". The time of the elves is over so they have to leave Middle Earth to move to the West to the Undying lands. When Aragorn finds the brooch of the elven leave he doesn't say something like: "Look, what do we have here....?" but this: "Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall."

This song from Detritus reminds me of autumn too:

As it rains
I feel you gently as the wind blows,
See you as the grass grows,
Know you as it rains
I'm near you sitting in the moonlight,
You touch me when the sun´s bright,
No two hills the same,
I hear you softly as the bird sings,
You refresh me with the pure spring
You feed me with the land
I see you beauty in the flowers,
Your strength as it thunders,
your vastenss in the sand,

I see in autumn as the leaves fall,
I wonder as a child crawls,
In springtime the lambs,
I marvel in winter as the lake freeze,
In summer with the cool breeze,
All move with your hand,
I see your might as the wave breaks,
Fear you as the earth quakes,
Love you in the fields,
I bathe in your presence in the mountains,
Your beauty as it transcends,
Everything I feel,

Guardians fail,
Our ward is neglected, destroyed,
Love is denied,
Creations emotions are toyed,
Greed previals,
The money that blinds thoughtful eyes,
Progress they say,
A gradual worldwide suicide.
MP3 Sample

Nice Evening in the flat sharing community

2008-10-27T05:38:00.000-07:00

Last Thursday we had an evening together after a long time in my flat sharing community. Some of us had been away for a longer time, some new faces were there two and some old ones back again. So I was cooking my delicious Spaghetti and we were eating together and then we talked about some issues of our flat. Nice!

Healing conference in Heidelberg

2008-09-27T05:11:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I was visiting a healing conference in Heidelberg. The whole week before I was laying sick in my bed was a bad cold wondering if I was able to go there. You believe in healing but lay helpless in bed. Very strange that those things seems to happen always before important events (like this conference).

My friends of Cologne invited me to this conference. I never heard of this church called Die Taube (Eng.: The Dove) before. I wondered first why I went there at all. There was nothing really new. But looking back I was totally happy having been there. It was pretty cool there! There was little chance to get practise in healing. But there was a lot of input and much to experience...

I really liked that you had the chance to spend the night there for free and that you could get cheap food there - and it was always very delicious. Respect!

Friday evening Andreas Hermann/ Wiesbaden was preaching. The main part of his session was very practical. He told the people to stand up who had pain. He called them forward one by one. It was cool to see how easy healing could be. He let the people stand somewhere and then he was standing behind them. Then he "drew" with the moving of his hands the pain out of their bodies or he pointed his hand in their direction to let the anointing flow. It was amazing to see the people doing some backward steps though they were not able to see what Andreas was doing! It was like he was drawing them with an unvisible rope. They sick were always looking in another direction! A. Herrmann said that the anointing would draw the healing from heaven respectively out of the sick that the anointing would draw the people. Therefor they would topple down or make those backward steps. Some of them he called by a "Word of Knowledge". It was amazing how quick most of the people were healed or that a visible advancement was to see.

Saturday was the part of Bengt Wedemalm, a Swede who now lives in England. His ministry was full of authority and confidence that God would heal. I really liked this guy!

In the afternoon Pierrot Fey, the leader of the church there, set a different focus. He asked the question how much we would be ready to invest into intercession and perhaps not being the big stars on stage. How much would we be willing to prepare revival by prayer. he told a story that deeply touched me:

During the 50s/60s there was a successful healing preacher in the US who filled the stadiums. The multitudes were coming to his events.
And then there was an little old lady which God send in different towns to pray. She rented always rented a room in the cheapest guesthouses. Then she spread newspaper on the floor just to prevent the carpet from damage. Then she went on her knees and moved into intercession in tears for this city! No one took any notice of her. Shortly before this big man came into town she was there praying. Finally the woman died quiet and unrecognised. But with her death the ministry of the healing evangelist stopped!

This story totally encouraged me. There are so many things I am still waiting for. We are praying for years now with a small group for our city of Munich. I would like to be at a totally another place with this prayer meeting. But this story showed me how precious our prayer is!

The evening service was broadcasted live into the internet. Bengt preached full of passion about the Holy Spirit, about his first experiences with him. Very inspiring! You can download the video here. Afterwards he was mostly praying for people with depressions, for people who are not able to get children and for people with cancer. Then he asked all the couples whose marriage would stand close before a divorce to give sign. Everybody had their eyes closed. After that he asked them to come to the front because it would be no shame. I first thought that only a few would show up. But it were at least 20.

During prayer time it went crazy. The people fell to the ground under the power of God some shaking wildly. Sometimes Bengt got really loud...
The prayer for married couples really stirred my spirit. Somehow I am always praying for married couples (and that as a single) and for couples how are in danger to be departed. That really moved me heavily!

Afterwards I visited together with the friends from Cologne a friend of them in Mannheim. He himself is very prophetic too. He went in every catholic and lutheran Church in Mannheim (where they let him in) to bring worship and praise into it and to prophecy. We had a nice and cozy evening. At the end it was important for me to pray for this married couple. So we prayed for them - and how could it be different - prophesied over them. THe impressions we had seemde to really fit and seemed to confirm many things.

On Sunday morning the worship was so wonderful, such an anointing. And right when it was the nicest Pierrot came and challenged us not be anointing rester ("Salbungssitzer") and not to make it comfortable in the anointing. But Jesus would look for people who would do crazy things for him. If church would be boring then something is wrong. He made a call for people who wanted to be crazy for Jesus...

Bengt continued this telling stories of his outreaches in foreign countries. He went to a missions school. There they were telling them about countries that are absolutely closed for the gospel. Impossible to get into these countries! The talk was very boring but at that point Bengt woke up and began to make notices. Years later he was able to get into those countries and he got the official allowance even during communist times to hold jesus festivals in the greatest stadiums of the land. Every cost paid by the government. The public Television was broadcasting the event live. It was packed and many received Jesus and were healed. The complete 1st floor of a hospital was completeley healed...

That mightily stirred my spirit and gave me an idea how my minitry could look like, inspired me to dream about countries where still something is "impossible"! Unfortunately I had to leave directly after this meeting cause I had to catch my train. During the trip I was thinking a lot about my experiences on this conference and I began to dream...

Spontanous Service on the countryside

2008-08-18T17:03:00.000-07:00

Yesterday some of our church members invited us to a spontaneous service at home to his family in Gauting, somewhere in the suburbs of Munich. That was very nice because during August we have no normal church services.

Though it was summer and vacation time there were some people there. It was nice to see them again, to talk and just be together. We had worship and a short input from Jörg. Then there was time to talk and pray... and to get excited by the children :)

In the end there was something to eat. Some meat with tomatoes, cucumbers and so on in pita bread. Delicious! We were sitting together in the garden and in the sun. Nice!

Really exciting that we have some children now - inspite of earlier days. Even more exciting how my attitude towards children changed. Years ago I don't liked children at all, even found them annoying - big time! Now I really like them, even be charmed by them. Don't know if I really would like to have some of my own now... But it is great how the Lord has changed me over the years! And that will continue of course...

Reunion: Seventh Angel

2008-08-18T16:53:00.000-07:00

MySpace can be good for some things. Today I found out that one of my favorite bands of old days^^ have reunited: Seventh Angel. I was even more excited to see that Simon Bibby and Mark Broomhead are among the members. They are part of Fire Fly/Exoria.

I was able to see the band 1992 on the Flevo Festival in the Netherlands for a short gig before the split shortly after. I liked the cover paintings of Rodney Matthews a lot.

Now you even can download a new song (The Turning Tide), some concerts are announced too.

MySpace Profile (the new Song)
Offizicial Site

Freakstock 2008: Really great JESUS festival

2008-08-18T13:36:00.000-07:00

Time to give you a report about what happened on Freakstock this year. I had a lot of reasons not to go there, so I really didn't like to go. Finally I decided to go because Martin Dreyer was preaching there for the first time after 11 years (I have prayed for that a lot during these long years). Martin was the founder of the Jesus Freaks in the early 90ies in Hamburg. I did not regret to have been there. It was for me the greatest festival since 1998 or so. There was a lot of fire, I think Jesus touched us as movement very deep, a lot of healing happened.

Most of the time it was very warm (and not too hot), we had only a short thunder storm. Even at night it was still warm. The last years it was very cold, wet and raining a lot. As there was no prayer team this year I was part of the festival newspaper now. I liked the job a lot. We had a great team. I had the chance to do an interview with Charles Bello who did some workshops and preached on the main seminar on Sunday. You can download the interview here:
Interview with Charles Bello 2,7 MB

After the concerts on the main stage were finished there was Nightpraise every evening. I enjoyed it a lot. It were always great times there. Although I heard in the background some bands I really liked I preferred to stay in the worship. There were Zoe from Berlin and Golden Gate, a project only for this festival with members from Munich. On one occasion Shane Claiborn was preaching there very challenging.

Also they splitted the main seminar in many services on different stages I think most of the people went to the ones at the main stage. I really liked the one with Storch who preached about Jesus as the healer. It was full of power and passion.

On Saturday finally the day was there when Martin was preaching there for the first time after long years. It was my birthday too! The night before I had an interesting talk with Paul Strait. We talked about expectancy, where our heart was and about letting go. Paul realized that he was more concerned about certain people in the movement, more about the Jesus Freaks than about Jesus. He found out that he had to let go, give the movement back in the hands of God, let go of his ideas. He said that he believes that I had to do it too... So I gave it all to God. And something happened. It was like a stone felt from my heart. And the whole view of the festival changed. Suddenly I was able to rejoice about the small and big things that happened there... the things that were not so good were not so important any more.

And now there was the main seminar with Martin. The worship with Obadja from Berlin was great... full of passion and fire as usual. During that time I was able to pray with some people backstage like in the old days. And then Martin was preaching. He talked enthusiastically about Jesus. But also he mentioned some alarming things that could separate us from him. After that we went into a passionate prayertime where we were cutting these things off and allowed Jesus to touch us, gave him again our hearts and refocused on him. During that time I went to pray for the people that God layed on my heart. These prayers were very special. I can hardly describe - more than just annoited - kaboom ba!
Then we joined again into praise. The whole crowd was full of passion and excitement. Unbelievable. Luckily there was enough freedom and time. A real miracle for me (the years before there was only limited time because of the concerts afterwards - that annoyed me a lot). I believe it was a real breakthrough. A lot of healing was flowing into our movement, a door was openend that was locked for a long time that could not be closed again so easily. I was so excited that I had to have some time for myself afterwards to celebrate with Jesus what happened!

During the whole festival I had a lot of talks with many people. That was really great. I like talking to people. Some of them were very special. Especially with someone from my church I liked to talk for months and never was able to. So we talked till 3 o'clock in the morning though I had to get up early.

The main seminar on Saturday with Martin had been far more than I exspected. But the closing service on Sunday somehow was greater. Jesusburger from Hamburg were leading worship. I like them a lot. Great music and prophetic worship! Debora summarized some prophetic words for the festival. One was about restoring the women and their ministry. She talked a lot about roses. So again I was reminded about an impression I had years before on some leadership training. In brief it was about that God sees the pain in my deepest heart. During the days I again and again recognised a young girl I thought I had to tell her this impresion. Now I was drawing this picture and going to finally tell her...

All the people then had the Lord's supper together. Great. Nobby was singing the words of institution like in the Lutheran Church (I was raised in). I am always happy when someone does it that way. During the time were the sacrament was administered the band was playing prophetically. Kristian was singing over the people. A really sacred moment! I always had: "There is life in the blood... resurrection life!" Then I prayed for some people. Very powerful!

Finally I saw the young woman. Instantly I went to her and told her my impression and gave her the picture. She had tears in her eyes and embraced me. As I was talking to her exactly the same thing happened prophetically in the worship. A real kairos moment!

In the sermon Charles Bello said that our way with Jesus would have two journeys. The one into the darkness of our own heart (the impression for the girl!) and the other into the darkness of the world around us. To these places Jesus wants to bring healing and light. Later Brian Blunt (one of his team) took over and led us into how the light of Jesus could come powerful into this world. He talked about revival, healing and power. How to break through, continue even though there seems to be no success.

I don't know if it was laughing in the spirit but suddenly Claudi, the translator, couldn't stop laughing. So Brian quit his sermon and led us into the presence of God where we just enjoyed and drunk from Jesus. After that he demonstrated how to pray for the sick. He challenged us to bring healing to the streets of Germany so that the prophesied revival could finally come.
Some people were really healed during this time, a lot happened. Someone who could not smell all of her life suddenly could smell! She was totally excited and tried to find some thrilling smells (the dixi toilets!). I had the impression to pray for someone. That was very special, full of fire! I was totally thrilled. That was far more than usual!!! Again there was so much room for Jesus to have his way, to move in power. Great!

I have recorded the sermon of this day. As it is in English (with German translation of course) it might be interesting for you
Sunday, August 3 - Sermon Charles Bello/ Brian Blunt 14,5 MB

A really great Jesus festival. I am excited what I will hear from this festival from others. Let's see what's going on with the Jesus Freaks and the whole movement.

Resurrection: Stillborn Baby Raised by Praying Teens

2008-07-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

- 27 Hours after the baby was delivered// July 3, 2008
Testimony from Abby:
“My name is Abby. I am 14 years old. I live in western North Carolina. During the summer of 2008, I went on a ministry trip to Guatemala. During part of the trip, we divided up into small ministry teams (5 to 7 people) and visited different villages in the San Pedro La Laguna area. We traveled from village to village telling the Indian people about Jesus. On one particular day, we were visiting in the home of a young woman. She lived in a small village of about 14 or 15 houses. We were trying to lead the young lady to Christ, but it was not going very well. After awhile, we decided to move on. Before leaving, we asked the woman if we could pray with her about anything in her life. She told us that just the day before, she had given birth to a stillborn baby and that we could pray with her about that.

“In Guatemalan culture, there is great shame and condemnation on mothers who give birth to deformed or stillborn children. We prayed a simple prayer that everything would go well with the funeral and burial of the baby and that the mother would be spared the shame and condemnation associated with having given birth to a stillborn child. As we were praying this simple prayer, my friend and fellow ministry team member, Julia (age 17), told me that we needed to pray over the baby’s body. I thought she was crazy to suggest this and that it was not a good idea. Julia was persistent. She said again that we really needed to pray over the baby’s body. She told me to ask the mother if she still had the baby’s body. When I asked, the mother told us the baby’s body was wrapped up in a burial cloth in the back room. I asked her if we could pray over the body. The mother hesitantly said, yes. We went into the back room and saw the baby’s body wrapped up in a bundle on the bed. Julia poked her head out of the back room and asked if she could unwrap the baby’s head. The mother said, yes, if we wrapped it back correctly when we were done. Julia picked up the body and unwrapped the head. The baby’s head was tiny and pale. The baby was stillborn and had been dead outside the womb for 27 hours. Her skin had turned shades of purple. Our entire ministry team, five of us, began crying and praying over this baby.

“We prayed for thirty to forty minutes. At the end of that time, Julia screamed out to God, telling Him that she believed with all of her heart that this baby could be raised from the dead. After Julia screamed out, everyone was silent. We were quietly interceding and praying. Within a few minutes, the baby started moving. Then the baby coughed and began crying. The mother came rushing into the room. She was screaming, what is going on? No one could answer her. We were just staring at the baby, who had come back to life. The mother asked us again, what is going on? She began crying as she saw that her baby was alive. She ran out of the house and banged on every door in the village, telling all of the people that God is real because her baby was alive. Within about thirty minutes, the baby’s skin tone and movements had become completely normal.

“The other villagers came to the house to see this amazing miracle. They asked us which of the Indian gods we had prayed to for such a miracle to happen. We told them we had prayed to the biggest God ever and we began to explain to them about Jesus. Soon, we realized we would not have time to minister salvation to each person individually. So, we gathered all the villagers together, turned on our little sound system and explained the way of salvation. Everyone in the village, 80 to 90 people, prayed to receive Jesus. Each of them was baptized in the Holy Spirit and began speaking in tongues. Many would fall to the ground as the power of the Holy Spirit came on them.

“Five days later, we returned to the village to check in on the mother and the baby. The village had prepared a big dinner in honor of our team. We enjoyed a wonderful time of fellowship together. The baby, whom they named Julia, was perfectly healthy and had gained weight. Even after five days, the mother was still shaking from the impact of God on her life through the resurrection of her child. Two days after our follow-up visit, the mother brought baby Julia to church. The mother was still shaking from the power of God on her life following this astounding miracle.”

-Abby

Source: Breaking Christian News

Wonderful Germany premiere of Prince Caspian

2008-07-23T16:44:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I had the wonderful chance to be at the Germany premiere of "The Chronicles of Narnia - Prince Caspian". The whole day the weather was inconstant and rainy. But when I went on my way to the Central station there was wonderful sunshine - for the rest of the day.

At the station there was a special train to NARNIA. The full train was full of movie posters. On every seat there were water bottles and coke. Florian, a friend of mine was with me. after arriving we were able to get some of the posters.

As we were invited we were able to walk on the red carpet. Very cool. We first took a look around at the middle ages market (the location were the Kaltenberger Ritterspiele, a famous place for Knight's Tournament), were eating some roasted beef in bread, drinking hot mead. Delicious!

Some time later the stars of the movie arrived (before there must have been some other German stars I did not know - how embarassing^^). Unfortunately it was only William Moseley (Peter) and Anna Popplewell (Susan). The excitement was not smaller though. They were posing for photos, signing autographs and were being among the people.

Then we went to the arena to catch a good seat. Here we had to wait first until the program would start. Later the stars arrived here too. Again the fans were coming to get photos with their stars. When we finally decided to go forward to get some pictures to we were told to go back to our seats so that the program could begin.

After a few introducing sentences of the German Disney boss and Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, the head of the Kaltenberger Ritterturnier, the medieval program was beginning. Knights, sword fighting and pyro effects. It was made pretty good, an impressing performance, but the story really shallow. But what can you exspect if you only have a few minutes...

Then Anna and William were called to the "stage" for a short interview. That was pretty cool and could have taken longer in my opinion. Really charming and funny answers. Great actors! Then the movie was about to begin. The floodlights went out and then it cracked loudly: there was a big fireworks going on that did not have to be ashamed of itself.

And finally the movie started... A really visually stunning and rapid epic. Cinema at its most. Admittedly with many changes to the book. At the first part of the movie I really liked the changes. But later the put in some things I did not find really logically and they took a lot of the charm of the book. In return there were some pretty good scenes. The beginning is really great, the introduction of Reepicheep, the mouse, is really gorgeous. For me the movie has some lengths, the Spanish accent of the Telmarines is really annoying. But altogether a real worth seeing movie! I will see it some times in the cinema for sure.

We were taking back to Munich with a shuttle bus. Unfortunately there were no more subway trains going any more, but luckily I had the chance to take a nightline bus. So I arrived good back home, happy that it did not rain the whole evening and that it was not as cold as expected. It was a wonderful scenery for this premiere. Disney had found a really great location for that! Thumbs up!

There was a report on the German TV with nice pictures: click (in German)

Photos: © 2008 Jocky, Florian Kislich

Edit: This post is now featured at Narniaweb.com

70th birthday of my mother

2008-07-15T05:47:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I spent at home with my family in Naila. My mother celebrated her 70th birthday. Several of my relatives were there. It was nice to see them all and to have some good food.

Bayernstock 2008: Great meeting of the bavarian freaks

2008-07-15T04:46:00.000-07:00

On the first weekend of July we had again a new Bayernstock - a meeting of the bavarian Jesus Freaks. It was organised by the Jesus Freaks Wollbach, the youngest group in Bavaria. Happily it was my free weekend and I was able to go there. Originally I had someone who would take me there with his car. But he had to work in the end. So I was pondering a lot if I really should go. It was a 5 hours trip by train. And I would only be there on Saturday and Sunday.

In the end I went there and did not regret it. It was really superb! Storch and Alex from Remscheid (a city in the North of Germany) were there. Pretty cool to have them there.

Storch was preaching very inspiring. The first on the regional meeting on Saturday about the Supernatural. If we want to experience the supernatural we would have to do the things that Jesus had done. We have to overcome and have to really pray for the sick. It is good to read books, listen to sermons and hear stories about where it happened, to be encouraged. And then to go and do it!

Afterwards we had a great prayer time expressing that we really wanted it, that we would enter into the supernatural, that we were willing to pay the price.

We prayed for the Jesus Freaks in Bayreuth who are in a time of difficult change. I had some impressions that really fitted in: It is time to really focus on prayer and to breakthrough and not to be let hold back. Strangely I had for one of them an impression since the beginning of the meeting. It was very fitting also. On sunday I was able to pray with him. He told me about some decisions he had made, some things he now could see clearer! Pretty cool.

Later during the regional meeting it was about how the regional work and leadership would look like. Several of us had a heart for the region but no one really wanted to be the regional leader. It is really nice to see what cool people we have in our region, how much potential is there and how much union we have about a lot of issues.

For diner we had delicious fried sausages. They were self made and out of the meat of wild pigs.
In the evening we had a worship session with a band from Bayreuth. They were pretty cool but faaaar to loud.

I was able to have some cool talks with some guys. About 2 o´clock I went to sleep. I was able to get a place on a couch. But the flies and midges were annoying.

For breakfast we had white sausages (a bavarian special) besides the normal deliousnesses. I was afraid that I would not be able to attend the service as I had to get a train. But luckily some girls took me with them in their car to Ansbach. So I was able to stay until the end of the meeting. I would have missed something If I would have left earlier.

Storch was preaching that the love of God must become visible. We had to encourage one another, stand up for one another. It must be sensible that if one limb suffers that the whole body would suffer. Some stories are very challenging were people in certain places live it - where the love amongst the brethren is present.

During the sermon I had the impression that we should build a circle and that we should pray that this very thing happens: the region would grow together, love amongst us would be visible and that there will begin a good regional work. The prayer time was really intense. Storch was standing amidst the circle and was praying heavily for us. He entered into a holy rage and bound the things that went wrong in the past in our region, that that would not happen again. He challenged us to stand up more for one another, that intercessors would rise...

A great meeting and weekend. Was good to travel with the girls in the car, had good conversation there. And I got a train right after arriving in Ansbach though the travel time was not shorter. But it was good to have the time on the meeting there.

Vote Triplet Nr. 1 on MTV Portugal

2008-07-01T08:14:00.000-07:00

Sometime ago I postet the video of Triplet to their song Eye43. It's on rotation on MTV Portugal. In the meantime it's No. 4 on the website leaving many well known bands behind. You are able to vote once a day.

If the band would reach No. 1 many doors will possibly open and therefor for Jesus and the gospel. Who will join in?

English Blog, Comments + Provision

2008-07-01T06:44:00.000-07:00

Sometimes I wonder if it is good to have my English blog. I do not have as much time as on my German Blog. I am not able to translate every German post, so I do not have as much visitors as on the German blog.

But from time to time people comment on my blog who I have never met before. Most of the time these comments are encouraging. A while ago someone commented on my article about my outreaches to the esoteric fairs. And my job as a postman keeping me away from doing these ministry things. He hinted me to a book about finances that could help me doing my ministry and having good finances.

He is an American. He has such a hunger for God that he read this book that is only available in German. He used translation platforms on the internet to translate and read the book side by side. Now today the book arrived that he ordered for me in England. Crazy!

Thank you very much, Scott. This post is for you.
Praise God!

This story encouraged me a lot going my way with Jesus, gave me a lot of encouragement that my way is right.

I am excited to read the book and see what is inside. I have seen one of the author Wolfgang Simson at a conference some years ago. And read certain articles of him. They are very inspiring and challenging!

Awesome: Eating in Ethopian Restaurants

2008-06-30T08:39:00.000-07:00

I like to go eatin in Ethopian Restaurants. Luckily I had the chance to go there during the last weeks. It tastes pretty good and very special. Good to be there and talk to friends!

Those were the days

2008-06-30T07:53:00.000-07:00

Some pictures from me. Some newer and some older ones!

Freshfire: Revival in Lakeland/ Florida

2008-06-29T18:28:00.001-07:00

I don't know if you heard about it. But there is revival breaking out in Lakeland/ Florida. At the beginning of April there was a healing conference of about a few days. But suddenly they realised that is bigger than just a conference so they continued. There were happening a lot of miracles, healings, appearances of angels, raising of the dead. They are now in a big tent with about 10,000 people every night. People from all over the world are coming to receive an impartation.

The leading figure is Todd Bentley, a young man full of tatoos and piercing. I like him a lot. It is very inspiring to watch and hear him.

There is a live stream every night via God.TV. As the programs are beginning at 1.30 a.m. of our time I am not able to watch so often. But during my free days I try to be watching live as often as possible. It is great to see what God is doing there.

The worship is so intense every time. One reason why I like it so much that I am so one in the spirit what happens there. There are prophetic things that I received over the years and other thing I heard and read that seem to fulfill now or to begin to fulfill. So awesome!

It is a great inspiration to hear what they say about revial, about pressing in and breaking through.

Here you can watch live:
www.freshfire.ca
www.god.tv

Open Heaven - interconfessional Service

2008-06-29T12:52:00.000-07:00

Last sunday there was Open Heaven again in the open air theatre called Theatron in the Olympic center. It was a real gift to have sunshine weather because there was a lot of rain in the last time. But the heat was almost unbearable.

The audience was filled good with people full of excitement. I liked it that the program was so manifold, that some foreignspeaking churches had some parts. A real enrichment. That was so cool because during the last years it was difficult to integrate the foreign churches. Something special has grown in unity amongst the christians in this city during the last years.

The event was integrated in the celebrations of the 850 anniversary of the city of Munich. During this celebrations the spiritual part is coming short. Therefor Gabi Steffe talked about the spiritual history of our town in a competent way.

It was great to be part of it!

After that I went away with a friend had some lunch in an asiatic restaurant. After that we went to my home and had a good talk. That was pretty cool. A great weekend.

2nd prayer tram in Munich - God was present

2008-06-28T15:31:00.001-07:00

Last Saturday the 2nd prayer tram happened in Munich. During the prayer week of the Evangelical Alliance in January the 1st prayer tram was a full success. Many voices asked for a 2nd volume. Now it did happen as prelude to the interconfessional service called OPEN HEAVEN.

I had to work during the day but had to lead one part. And I wanted to be part of it anyway. In the morning I went earlier to work to be able to start sooner. But I forgot my knapsack in the bus. Luckily someone had the glorious idea to ask in the next bus if it was found. Luckily that happened, but I had to wait almost till 9 a.m. when the bus came back. My original idea was to start little after 8 a.m.... Though I was able to start so late I have been quite quick with the mail. But I only reached the tram just in time at the central station - broken down from the work.

As I got on board it was already very excited. A frenchspreaking latino church was leading energetic worship! So much fun. But it was heating hot inside.

The streetcar was filled pretty good and having a good atmosphere. Full of joy and excitement about Jesus. The prayer impulses were good and it was fun to pray. I really sensed the presence of god. We prayed for the economy, politics and social things in Munich and the integration of foreigners. At the end (my part) we prayed for marriages, families and relationships. But in the end it seemed the power was gone.

It was pretty good to be part of it. Hopefully it will be repeated soon and far often (I like the idea also to have the tram to invite people to get prayed for)

Powerful Video about the revival in Florida

2008-06-11T03:59:00.001-07:00

Exciting video with Brian Welch, former guitar player of KORN, Todd Bentley and Patricia King.

The video deeply touched me. Was so exciting to see how they are enthusiastic about Jesus, about what Jesus is doing. The special about the revival in Lakeland would not be the healings, the appearances of angels but the manifest presence of God!

It touched me to see that it would cost a price to have revival. Brian and Todd had difficult times. I am in good company, gives me hope!

Hat mich berührt zu sehen, dass es einen Preis kostet, diese Erweckung zu haben. Sowohl Brian als auch Todd sind durch schwere Zeiten gegangen. Bin in guter Gesellschaft :) Macht mir Hoffnung!

It is exciting to see how Brian really burns for Jesus, that he already payed a price (and was willing to pay it). His bible is always with him, is always talking about Jesus! Cool, cool, cool!

And it is very prophetic. But that's not the cool thing about it.
God is on the move... Aslan is on the move...

JFM: A powerful service

2008-06-11T03:39:00.000-07:00

On Sunday we again had a pretty cool service. We now meet in a bar called Café Kosmos. There was much of the power of God present. Not only that you could feel the presence of God but there really was power in it. I do not often sense it in my body, I was full of energy. Would have liked to pray for more people. Somewhere the energy has to go^^.

Wolfi from the nearby city of Landshut led us into the worship. He brought some people with him. Nice to have you here. He really rocked the house. Feel free to come more often :)

My dear friend Ernsti, our Belgium missionary, preached. He has been long in Munich and we led together the Jesus Freaks München for a time. His sermon was full of energy and power. He emphasized that the gospel does not come in nice words and good arguments but in power. And so it was: very powerful. Cool - mooooore!

Actually such a service should not be something extraordinary or special. It should be normal. Should be lowlevel, normal. Special would be something more or something above.

Afterwards I went to a parting party of friends. They will move to England on the end of June. Met some nice people there. Had to tell them of my final trip. In the end we worshipped together and blessed the married couple. Had some nice impressions for them. Anointed them with a breakthrough anointing.
They said to me that it totally fitted into that what God is talking to them again and again.
When I just was about to go I had a deep talk with the couple on the doorstep. It is really exciting when you meet people with one spirit and one heart. Nice to see how God connects people. Yeah!

Cityprayer on the Olympic Mountain

2008-06-11T03:21:00.000-07:00

I am part of a leadership team for a monthly prayer for our city Munich. In the warm season we meet on the first Saturday of every month under the cross on the Olympic Mountain (In 1972 the Olympic Games were in Munich). I call it our Prayer Mountain :)

Last Saturday we again met there. It was my part to lead this meeting. Very thrilling as I had to deliver the mail before. It usually took me to 17.30 (the meeting began at 18.00 and a far distance to travel). I was able to finish my work much earlier than usual but was quite a few minutes late.

In the beginning it was very rainy. But the meeting was pretty cool. We are now focussing on one theme these last months: Marriage, family, relationships, education... This time my focus on it was models. It depends how we live our lifes, how our families, marriages, friendships and relationships are from what models we have and what is shaping us. When we look around very often we find negative examples, the peverse, the broken seems to be the norm. There's really a need for models...

In the end we gathered some momentum. As we prayed for the Media you rarely had a chance to get the word because everyone was praying with excitement. Pretty cool!

In the end the sun came out. And suddenly a lot of rabbits were on the meadows...

Finally again in the Ethopian Restaurant

2008-06-11T03:07:00.000-07:00

People who know me know that I love to go to foreign restaurants especially to the Ethopian. I do not often have the chance to do it. The greater is my luck and joy when I can do it! Last Weekend my old friend Ernst Frank who now has a ministry in Belgium (the first Christian daycare center for children in Belgium) visited Munich.

On Friday evening we had a great evening together at this restaurant: Blue Nile. Was good to talk a little longer than usually and to update about what'S going in each others lifes. Talked a lot about Lakeland/ Florida and freshfire (there is a great extraordinary revival going on). I did not know all that happens there. I can tell you a lot!!! :) The level what is happening there is very high. I want to have it!

I've got a new camera someone gave to me as a present for my last trip to the nations. Good to document my trips. But it is also good to show what happens in my daily life :) Here you go!

Pictures from the Far East

2008-06-03T06:30:00.000-07:00

Music: King's X - XV

2008-06-03T06:26:00.000-07:00

In Frankfurt I was able to listen to the new album from King's X XV. I like the bands for years now. Some of the last recordings were not so good. But this album really rocks, really has some groove... I like it :)

Have seen the guys a few times live. They have a real powerful show!

There and back again: Prayer trip NK

2008-06-03T06:18:00.000-07:00

I have come back from my trip. Very exciting and spectacular. We came back with rich experiences and full of joy. It seems that we had taken gifts there and were not only the givers. Unfortunately I am not able to tell more here.

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood? Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow- servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed. Revelation 6:9 - 11

Spent some time with friends in Frankfurt. Was really good... not at least because of the children:

Video: Triplet// Eye 43

2008-06-03T06:13:00.000-07:00

EYE 43 from TRIPLET on Vimeo.
Finally it is here: the video for "Eye 43" from Triplet/Portugal. It is on rotation on MTV Portugal. I really like the band. They rock and have a spiritual impact. I know them from Rock on the rock and Freakstock.
I like the cutting of the video. It is made very professional and has a good quality. Go for it!

Gifts

2008-06-03T05:37:00.000-07:00

These days I have been planing a trip into the nations. I have been very excited, if I would manage all preparations in time. What would I need to take with me, would I have to buy some things, is there something I would have to do or prepare for it?
I have my job as a postman, luckily there was an appointment for 2 internet banners for the Spotlight Verlag. Of course they should be finished before the trip! A little bit of stress...

As I now have a regular income I was able to buy some things. I bought a new digital watch (cell phones are not allowed in this country), some new trousers. And finally I got my own sunglasses for my own eyes (as I have weak eyes regular sunglases won't do). Very expensive: 300, - €!

Then I had to buy new glasses for my spectacles. The old one were somehow misty. One layer of the covering seemed to be destroyed by great heat. The only possible thing to do was to replace them by new ones. He could give me 50% allowance. But still it was 150,- €

It all arrived just in time. So I was able to go to this trip with new spectacles, an alternate one and my new sunglasses! Gift Nr.1!

Doing these internet banners was great fun. I was able to do them in Flash and in comic style. It was long time ago since I could some banners and even longer that I could do something for a customer in comic style. Very nice Gift Nr. 2!

And now we come to the very best. As I am doing trip into the nations from time to time it was very annoying to me to have no own digitla camera. I always had to lent one, never be sure if I would get one. There were always problems - no enough memory or the camera was out of order. For my trip I still did not have a camera. Some friends of my church said that something had to be done about it. And they went and bought me a new and up-to-date camera! Very cooool! Finally my own camera. I am able now not only to document my trips but can bring more color to my blog entries. Very exciting!

Und jetzt kommt das Allerbeste. Ich bin ja öfter in den Nationen unterwegs, da ich bisher keine eigene Digicam hatte, war das immer nervig, sich eine auszuleihen, unsicher, ob ich überhaupt eine bekomme - und wie die dann auch noch funktioniert. Für die aktuelle Reise hatte ich noch keine. Leute aus der Gemeinde meinten, dass man da doch was machen müsste... Heute haben sie mir eine topaktuelle Kamera besorgt und geschenkt. Seeeehr geil! Endlich ne eigene Kamera. Nun kann ich nicht nur ausgiebig meine Reisen dokumentieren, sondern auch meine Blogeinträge aufpeppen. Man darf gespannt sein! Geschenk Nr. 3!

Thank you, Jesus! Thanks to the donators!

Anointed

2008-04-13T11:59:00.000-07:00

As Jesus Freaks München a long crisis and a real hard last year with church services like chewing gum lies behind us. Now it seems to be really a time of change and healing. We can look back on some really cool services!

The worship is really anointed and flowing in the spirit. It really makes fun to worship and praise Jesus and to have an encounter with the Lord. Most of the time I have some cool prophetic pictures and impressions for the congregation or single persons. We had some really good sermons. It makes fun to go to the meetings and to be on the way with the people. Seems to be like a new spring for our church.

It really makes a difference to have new elders now. Finally it seems to have an impact on the church what we were doing as a leadership team. The more what input is coming through our elders!

Looking forward to the future of our church!

Hey, Mr. Postman

2008-04-08T12:18:00.000-07:00

Want to give you a brief update of what's happening in my life. The past months were very hard. I had no jobs for my webdesign business. And for months no money. So I was not able to pay my bills and my rent. So it was time for a change.

I realized that I was doing a lot of things voluntary. It were a lot of things I really liked to do: Being in the leadership team of my church, the prayer leader, I preached a lot and did many other things. It was on my heart to do these things. It was a part of my ministry for me. So I thought the Lord would provide my life if I would do the things for him without expecting payment for it. Perhaps that is wrong and it would be right to get payment for some things (as pastors do). But for the moment there was no way. On the other hand there were not enough things I got money for. Especially the jobs for my business.

So I was looking for a side job. I was expecting to find an office job to do in the morning to have time for my webdesign in the afternoon. I was looking for a long time. I had some interviews, really good talks. But that brought me no jobs. So finally I signed a job as a postman. I never wanted to do a job like this. I did not like to be all the time in the fresh air with wind and weather.

But it was the only chance. Now I see a lot of good things coming with it:
I always wanted to do more for my fitness. Be regularly in the fresh air for a walk and to get exercise. Now I have it every day on an amount I would never have reached!
And the best thing is: I can pray every day for a whole area of my city. A very special way of city prayer!

After some weeks in this job it is still very hard for me. It is taking me everything. When I come home in the afternoon I am so done that I am able to do almost nothing else. Many times I have to take a few hours sleep. I am lucky to have no other design jobs. It would be to much for me.

It makes fun to deliver those mails - especially in the sun :). The colleagues are very cool, all young people. I like to be together with them. I think it is good to be there for a while (at least to have some result on my fitness). But it is very unflexible. You can finish your day when all the mail is delivered. There is almost no chance to go home a little earlier than usual as it was possible in my old job in this internet agency. Most of the weeks you have to work on Saturdays. So it is not as easy as before to just be away on a weekend. The flexibility is gone to just go on an outreach for the Lord.

As I realized the need for change and to be able to conecentrate on my business I stopped a lot of things I did voluntary. I quit being in the leadership team, layed down being the prayer leader, stopped preaching and a lot of other things. That is very hard for me. There was an outreach of our local healing rooms on the Esoterikmesse here in Munich. I was looking for a door to get there for years. Now it was open and I had to say NO to it.

This a time of change for me. A reboot of my life to find out what the Lord really has in store for me. I want to hear new from Jesus to get a new focus for my life. It feels like a step back for me, feels like loosing, giving up most of the things that are on my heart... but I think that I am very right. It is the place the Lord wants to have me now. Feels like crying, I am very uncomfortable with this situation. But it is better to be in the will of the Lord than anything else.

I feel very close to Jesus, a lot is shifting, all the air is filled with change, change, change. A time of healing - hard to imagine for me... Looking forward to the future.

Backgrounds of "Kingdom Of Comfort"

2008-04-08T11:48:00.000-07:00

I just found an article on hearitfirst.com about the new album of delirious? "Kingdom Of Comfort". Very inspiring! In the beginning it says that you can say everywhere a shift going on. Another hint that all over the world a change is taking place. God is shifting and bringing us to the places he wants us to be. Being on places of the poor it had a great impact on them and changing their lifes...

“We just can’t carry on the same way in any sphere of our lives. Everywhere you go there’s a shift happening. People are evaluating what’s truly important in life, and I think our new album reflects that urgency.” — Delirious? frontman Martin Smith

For more than a decade now, RIAA Certified Gold-selling band Delirious? has provided the soundtrack for Sunday morning worship services worldwide. Tracks like “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever,” “Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?” and “History Maker” have inspired congregations to lift their hands and praise God with abandon.

But when Sunday morning has come and gone, what does it actually mean to be a Christian the rest of the week? What tangible difference are believers making in a hurting, impoverished world? Do our lives actually reflect what we say is important?

These questions, not to mention the band’s first-hand experiences among the poorest of the poor in India, Cambodia, South Africa and beyond, have inspired Delirious? in unimaginable ways. Simply put, it’s been the fuel for their latest album, Kingdom of Comfort and the driving force behind how they structure their ministry.

“Playing in places like India makes us think about how we distribute our finances and how we’re living our lives,” Smith says. “It’s imperative that we reach out and be a friend to the poor. That’s the only way that God’s light will shine upon us.”

That particularly timely theme of reaching out to those who have no hope is one that’s urgently communicated in the songs of Kingdom of Comfort, the band’s 12th album.

“Seeing children looking for scraps on the rubbish dump they call homes in Cambodia and the education and feeding projects in the slums of Mumbai really had an impact on us,” says lead guitarist Stu G. “It wasn’t possible to simply proceed with business as usual. We had to ask ourselves, ‘What am I building? A kingdom of comfort? Or a kingdom of heaven?’”

The idea behind Kingdom of Comfort came from a sermon from popular Mars Hill pastor/author Rob Bell. “Rob was talking about the contrasts in the lives of David and his son Solomon,” Smith shares. “David built a kingdom of heaven. And Solomon was more concerned about himself. All the decisions he made regarding intermarrying and wealth led to building a kingdom of comfort. Of course, hearing that makes us ask an obvious but important question: ‘Are we focusing on building our lives with eternal things?’”

Like the old saying goes, though, “actions speak louder than words,” so Smith began considering how he, along with the international Christian music community, could truly make a difference in the world together.

After 18 months of prayer, countless business meetings and careful planning, Smith’s dream came true when the first annual Compassionart conference met in Perthshire, Scotland. In what he described as a “I-can’t-stop-pinching-myself moment,” Smith, along with Stu G, Michael W. Smith, Steven Curtis Chapman, Darlene Zschech, Matt Redman, Tim Hughes, Israel Houghton and other internationally-respected songwriters teamed up to write songs with 100% of the proceeds from the songs and forthcoming album going to the charities of their choice.

Given everyone’s busy schedules, it would’ve been an impossible feat for many to pull off. But Smith’s passion for helping those in need couldn’t help but resonate with everyone involved.

As anyone who’s listened to a Delirious? album before knows, however, the band had a few new musical tricks up its proverbial sleeve, too. While Smith describes the project as a “step up” from the call-to-action given in 2005’s The Mission Bell thematically, Kingdom of Comfort also marks a new progressive era in the band’s sound. In fact, it’s fair to see that Delirious? has now truly become a guitar band.

Inspired by everyone from Kings of Leon to The Killers to Sigur Ros, tracks like “Give What You Got” and “Eagle Rider” have a decidedly stripped-down, raw sound that meshes well with the album’s insistent message.

With the emphasis on the bread and butter elements of rock ’n’ roll—guitar, bass and drums—rather than incorporating elaborate string arrangements and choirs in the mix, the band was able to translate the frenetic energy of the live concert experience to the studio, giving the album a grittier vibe.

“From a production standpoint, our producer Sam Gibson [Pearl Jam, Crowded House, Hillsongs United, Natalie Imbruglia] kept encouraging us to keep the energy of the live experience rather than overproducing the tracks,” Stu G says. “That deliberate focus made these songs spring to life in an entirely new way.”

While the progression in sound and social justice-minded lyrics are what immediately stand out when listening to Kingdom of Comfort, there’s also plenty of those classic Delirious? moments, replete with soaring choruses that’ll stick in your head for days. Whether it’s the penultimate piano-based track, “All God’s Children” or the gentle strains of “We Give You Praise,” it’s clear that Delirious? remains committed to its worshipful roots. But instead of providing all the answers, the band hopes that listeners will be left with plenty of thought-provoking questions.

“Kingdom of Comfort is a collection of songs inspired by our recent spiritual and physical journeys,” says bassist Jon Thatcher. “Sometimes you get so close to something you can no longer see it for what it is. This record is a journal full of observations, questions and prayers that should leave the listener inspired and inquisitive.”

Exoria: Live at Meltdown 2007

2008-01-15T06:35:00.000-08:00

Here another cool video of Exoria, former Fire Fly

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Blogging

2008-01-15T05:11:00.000-08:00

Recently I finnaly got the chance to see the mediocre movie adaption of the genius five issued trilogy "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". But around that movie some brilliant more entries were published as audiofiles. I did not find any more of the mp3s but can show you the text version. Here you go!
Blog·ging - Blogging is the act of regularly updating your website with some humdrum information about your life or a link to something you just read on the internet in the mistaken belief that anyone actually cares.

It is the 21st century equivalent of hanging around railway stations, writing pithy but erudite descriptions of the passing trains. To take part in "blogging" or to use the appropriate terminology "to join the blogosphere" there are a couple of things you need to do. Firstly, you'll need to increase the size of your ego. Without a swollen ego you simply cannot achieve the levels of solipsism required by a modern blog. This necessary step is often missed by new bloggers, yet without it, you won't believe that anyone is remotely interested in what you've had for lunch today, how cute your cat Mittens is, or whether or not you designed some tedious internet protocol.

In fact blogging without a nova-sized ego can actually be dangerous. If you start using words like blogosphere there is a very real possibility that your own major intestine will leap straight up through your neck and throttle your brain in an attempt to preserve civilization. Fortunately there are various forms of medication to increase the size of your ego, many offering a money back guarantee that you will be at least twice as obnoxious in four weeks or less.

Until you are sufficiently obnoxious, you might feel the need to explain or at the very least describe the things you leap to. Experienced bloggers know that they are so important that readers will blindly follow their links. After all, a few seconds of one blogger's time is clearly more valuable than all the time spent by people discovering they really didn't care. The other thing you should do to become a successful blogger, is change your website to use dotted lines and unreadable tiny fonts, wherever possible.

Klaus Bärbel: Storms of life

2007-11-29T20:35:00.000-08:00

Satisfied with so little?

2007-10-25T11:54:00.001-07:00

© 2007 Copyright by Jocky.de

I got the iadea for this drawing on the fair in Manchester. I spoke to a woman who told me about a lot of angels who were a responsible for a lot of things. But she would not speak to God cause he would be so busy... tsts.

2nd take: Mind Body Spirit Manchester

2007-10-24T18:17:00.000-07:00

After I got surprisingly the chance to minister in September at the Esoterikmesse in Berlin I was able to have my 2nd experience last weekend on an similar event.

I've been praying for years now for a door to get into the esoteric fair in Munich to bring the guys there the light of Jesus. In January Stefan Driess asked me if I would like to help him out in October on the fair in Manchester. And now it was finally there...

Difficulties in the beginning
Praying about it it soon was clear to me that I should be there. When it was time to book the flight it was difficult for me with no money on my bank account. I was happy that a friend of mine offered me his airmiles. There were some difficulties too. But finally the flight was booked.
The night before I had to leave I got terrible diarrhea once again. Because of this I was only able to reach the urban train after the one I attende to get. The train was many minutes late due to the strike and an operation of an emergency doctor. So I was unable to check in because the flight already was closed.

I tried to exchange the flight at the tickets desk. It was impossible as it was a premium flight. After some see saw they recommended me to try a last-minute flight. Not really a possibility with no money available. I saw myself going back home. But I didn't want to give in cause I knew that God wanted me to be there.

I looked again at the display panel and there I saw that the flight was about half an hour late. I took all my courage and tried again at the desk if there was somehow a chance to get on board this plane after all. Finally I had the chance to check in regularly. The plane was leaving 1½ hours late because there was fog in Manchester.

Staying with family Driess
It was very cool to stay at the home of Stefan's family in a beautiful typical english house. On Friday a married couple of Northern Ireland joined us and stayed with us. It was nice to see how Stefan is living and to see him together with his children. I enjoyed the talks and the being together. Thursday evening we had a wonderful prayer meeting with some people from Manchester who would be with us.

Our Stand
The fair Mind Body Spirit was taking place in a great hall
right next to a futuristic Hilton hotel. Stefan told me that he was late booking the stand so it might be not so good as the years before. But the location in the right corner in the back proofed to be a real gift. Beginning with the divine number 7 of our stand, then that we got an extra meter because the stand right next to us was empty and finally that there was lots of room in front of our stand that we were able to use without bothering someone. The only problem was that the platform was near and that it was very loud from time to time.

We had covered our stand with purple cloths and put on some pictures. Especially the picture with an angel drew a lot of attention. We offered prophetic prayer and prayers for healing. It was so exciting what was going on. Most of them were so touched that they got tears in their eyes.

Our team was very small and then there always were different people serving and within different numbers. So sometimes it was difficult to have a break because often so many people were waiting to get prayer.

And so I was praying with different people together. That was pretty cool. But many times I reached my boundaries because soemtimes I had difficulties to understand the people because of their accent or just the words they said. And I often had difficulties to express what I wanted to say or pray. But overall it was great great fun!

Some experiences
Many people we talked to had a church background. The good thing with that was that they trusted us beforehand as the title on the stand was Healing like Jesus. It was very attractive too that we offered our services free of charge (on the fair there was a separated area where people had to pay extra 25£ to be told the fortune by cards) . Many guys tolds us that they were literally drawn to our stand. Some mentioned that they would never have gone to such an event like this but have only come because of us.

A very lonely young man came on Friday to receive prayer. I got a picture for him that Jesus would walk right next to him like a lion to protect him. He came back again on Sunday evening 10min before the closing of the festival and asked me if we could pray again for him. He told us that he once gave his life to Jesus but that did not satisfy him. So he was searching and searching but did not find fulfilment. He went from event to event and had been to every esoteric fair. But he figured out that there was nothing new and all would be the same and would not satisfy. The short prayer that we were able to pray for him seemed to give him peace again...

A young lady with a church background was afraid of her pregnancy and the birth date. When we prayed for her she was so touched that she burst into tears.

I was sitting in the other corner of our stand when our people prayed for a young family. With them was their young girl in the baby carriage. While they were praying for them (I had no idea what it was all about) I got an impression for the little girl. All around the girl I saw special - special - special so as if she was totally surrounded by it. It was like this would be a constant companion in her whole life that she was special. Now there would be two ways how to handle this: The parents could complain "Why is she so diffetent than the other children? Why can't she be like them?" oder they could see it as an award and support her daughter that she would not try to be like others. For me it was just a simple impression. But when I was able to say it to them the mother's eyes were filled with tears.
Afterwards I found that the others prayed for her because she had a post native trauma and by that got depressions. Now she was pregnant with the second child and was afraid that it would happen again to her a second time.

On the next day the mother of the young lady came to us. She was in a wheelchair because she could not walk a long distance with her legs. Her daughter was always speaking about what happened and she was totally changed so that she had to see it for herself. She always pointed out that she believed in Jesus and that she would never gone to such an event. Her grandfather had been German so it was very special for her to meet two Germans her (she had been the opinion that the spirit of her Grandfather brought her here *tsts).

Stefan prayed for her and encouraged her to walk a longer distance than she would normally dare to go. She told us that she only was able to walk without problem from the one end of our stand to the other. So we walked with her a long distance finally she walked this without any help. To bring the heavy wheelchair home she sat in it again. She said that she had to be careful now not to fall back again in old habits because she got used to live with walkers. She was right that it is one thing to get healed and another to keep the healing. She brought her other daughter as well.

Some wanted to receive prayer to know how to carry on. It was quite clear that they were searching else they would not have come on such an event. As we prayed for a woman I saw a lot of traffic signs on a place. My impression was that God would not show her more signs but rather would take some away so that there would always be one for a moment or for every step. When she would have taken a step another traffic sign would appear.

We were praying for a young lady who had pain in her knee and in her arm. I sensed a power flowing but the pain did not disappear completely. As I prayed again for the arm I got the impression that the real problem would not be the pain but that she could not imagine that there was forgiveness for her. So I told her that there is forgiveness and that Jesus wanted to forgive her. She looked at me with great eyes!

Right next to our stand was a woman who selled her book (she called herself The Highland Seer or Goddess - in former times you might have called her a witch). She shared her stand with a musician who selled his cds. As we were building up our stand he greeted us friendly. I really liked him much and he totally reminded me of Eric Clayton from Saviour Machine. In the first night I got an impression for him: God had given him a double edged sharp sword. But it would be important to use it the right way. The next day I was too afraid to tell it to him. I kept trying the whole day but did not manage to do it. The following day I made a drawing of the sword and was finally able to give it to him. He was totally happy about it and gave my one of his cds for it. I thanked him and gave him a hug. In the night after the fair I received another impression for him. I think I will send him an email...

Stefan prayed for a lady that had problems with her back because soemthing seemed not to be at the right place. She had constant pain. As he was praying for her the woaman heard how it made CLICK in her back. She was healed and the pain was gone!

Another woman said: If only I had known this before. I paid 25£ to this fortune teller. What the guy told me was totally rubbish. And now I am here and everything is so accuarate and to the point. And on top of it it's free of charge!

A woman came especially from Liverpool because her friend had been so excitet that the things were so exactly.

There was a stand of a union who had been founded only a while ago. The leader heard a voice that told him: Found a union called Tribe of Light!. Everyone of them was wearing a t-shirt with I've joined the TRIBE on it. One of them must been to our stand and must have been deeply touched. On the second evening a group of about five came to us cause rumor must have come to them. They were all so touched that tears came to their eyes. The leader of the group was all tears. The next day he made sure that his whole troop came over to us. And so we had on the last day a whole bunch of people waiting all to get prayed for.
The leader totally was astonished to hear that Jesus called himself Light of the world and that we as christians would be light as well. Stefan will make a special appointment with the leaders of this union to tell them how finding the true light: Jesus!

We were praying for an indian woman who believed in Jesus. Her husband died a few years ago. She was afraid to fall asleep because during the night she would see a dark figure standing at her band. We told her that she would have authority in Jesus over darkness. As we were praying for her I got a picture for her: Jesus was driving her in a Rolls Royce and she was sitting totally relaxed in the backrow. She really liked it. She said that she would hope that someday she could again driver on her own. Her driving license would be dead now. But Jesus is able to raise the dead. She brought her daughter with her and prayed for her too. She was not believing in Jesus but dreamt to be someday a writer. We told her that Jesus could make dreams come true. She was happy about it.

It was overwhelming to see what Jesus did amongst those hungry people. With some of the people we had the freedom to speak clearly about Jesus. About 10 people per day have prayed the prayer of commitment!

Again on this fair it was similiar what strange you could see there and what folks were willing to let do to themselvers. There were many people that were cool and precious to me. But again many burdened people. Some of them seemed to be full of demons.

Altogether it was pretty cool to have been there and to make some totally different experience. I get a growing heart for these people and I yearn even more to do something similar in Munich. First I thought we would begin only with a small stand. But I receive more and more ideas what we could do there: prophetic prayer, healing rooms, stands with pictures, live drawings... perhaps some music too.

Seemingly God is finally opening a door and it will begin. Jesus is so good.
All the glory to him!

It's so easy: Esoteric fair in Berlin

2007-10-24T07:02:00.000-07:00

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?

Klaus Bärbel: Powerhouse

2007-10-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

A jewish parable

2007-07-30T13:52:00.000-07:00

I just read a quite nice story on this blog. I just have to post it. Pretty cool.
There was a man called Eisik, the son of Jekel, who was trusting in God despite the poverty and hardship that reigned in those days. In a dream someone visited him and ordered him to go to the bridge in Prague near the palace to look for a treasure. After the same dream returned for the third time, Eisik decided to make the long journey. When he arrived after many days, he found the bridge, but it was guarded day and night by the palace guards. It was impossible to dig for the treasure. But still, everyday he came to the bridge and watched. One day the officer called him and asked what he was doing all the time. Eisik told him everything about his dreams. The officer laughed loud and said: "You poor fool travelled so many miles just to obey a dream! Don't you know that you cannot trust dreams, that they are nonsense? I once had a dream as well and was told to travel to Krakau and look for a treasure under the oven in the house of someone called Eisik, son of Jekel. I can imagine myself searching every home because one out of two has the name Eisik or Jekel." Eisik bowed and went back home. Under the oven in his own house he found a big treasure, and he used it to build a synagogue in his neighbourhood.

Rock on the Rock: Just the beginning

2007-07-24T13:59:00.000-07:00

Sunday I came back from my third Rock on the Rock at Lake Garda in Italy. The christian festival took place for the fifth time, this time at a new location: Castelnuovo de Garda, near Verona in the very south of the lake. This time the festival began Thursday evening and ended sunday morning with a worship service. We were 4 guys from Munich, 3 from my church Jesus Freaks München and an old friend of mine of the local Vineyard (I enjoyed being together with him for a longer time than usual)

There were a lot of trouble and problems advancing the festival. Even shortly just before the festival it looked like it could not happen. Suddenly there were obligations and drawbacks of things that were already warranted before. So I was in intense prayer beforehand.

We arrived there in the late evening on Thursday. I first at to be accustomed to the new location and situation (you had to stand in the toilet (Was heißt Stehklo auf Englisch???) and could not lock the door). We were quickly up to date in terms of obligations and permissions.

We then went to the lake bathing and praying there. It was so hot all the time (about 38° C) the water was a most welcome refreshment. Finally we prayed together before a beautiful sunset in background.

When we came back David told me what happened on the festival ground: 2 hours before they laid down every work that was going on. They gathered all the staff to pray and worship. Just as they finished it the mayor came along to give permission for the festival at least for this evening. The rest of the time still was unsure. What a victory and breakthrough! Denny, the main organizer, was standing beside me during a concert in the evening being all smiles. He asked me if I had heard what happened. That was so great for me seeing the joy, peace and relief it had brought. What a contrast to all the adverities and difficulties. Without that the glory of the victory and breakthrough would not have been so intense.

Gebetszeiten
In the next morning we met as the prayer team. We 4 guys from Munich and Joseph and Christie from Alaska. They are doing a worldtrip being led by the spirit where to go next. Though they already worked overtime in the kitchen it was important for them to pray together with us. They were such a blessing for us, it was so wonderful to pray with them. We began with thanksgiving and worship as it is important for me at the beginning of prayer meetings. Suddenly I felt such a surge, a burden that Jesus longed to be worshipped by us. It was like a vacuum that literally sucked in our worship. We kept worshipping for an intense time... And all the prayer requests had not been delt with, we haven't even started the fight. After a while I felt that we were through. But I was empty too. Our worship really felt like a battle.

While we were praying the city council met again to negotiate about the festival. There were people who were against it and some who supported. So it was not sure what would come out of it. During the afternoon we went again bathing at the lake this time at another place. When we came back we wanted to pray at the camp ground. As David was just right there I asked him for new issues to pray about. Just by the way he mentionend that permission had been given now for the whole festival. But now the daughter of a member of band that would play this evening had been brought into hospital. After that we had a good and long prayer meeting where we moved over just checking off all the issues. Afterwards Christian and Kai went to the city to give away some flyers. As a result a teenie girl came together with her whole clique. They liked it! One of them evven plays in a punk band. During the concert the father witnessed the healing of his daughter!

On Saturday I had the intense burden that we should call in the lost intoi the Kingdom of God that they no longer would be dazzled by prejudice that they would literally run to Jesus. And then we did this. This time an italian married couple joined us. It went over into worship that called the people to God... When we were ready with this we surrounded the are for seven times proclaiming the protection and victory of Jesus over the festival.

I had the impression to pray for several people. Most of them I could pray for. I just began to pray. I was amazed what was coming. As far as I could see it the people really were touched. Wonderful! Last year I already played for Egi, singer of Boarders. Over the year we stayed in contact and mailed from time to time. So I wanted to pray again for him. But first he asked me how I was. He then had a wonderful impression for me and the he prayed for me. Really prophetic too. As he had to move on I wasn’t able to pray for him. That was okay for me :)

Pastor Bob
This year Pastor Bob Beeman was there, founder of the Sanctuary churches in the states. He gave a short input after every lunch time and preached at the service Sunday morning. This man is really the guy. Just what he says is pretty cool but the way he says it is overwhelming. He has such an ease and peace such a love. Even difficult things he says with a smile on his lips.

He really amazed me in former times as there was a boom of White Metal in the 80ies. I never dreamed of seeing him someday. We talked a few times. He asked me to write him a short article for his international column in Heaven’s Metal.

The question is really urgent how the festival will continue after Denny and Maureen moving to Protugal this fall. Bob Beeman had the vision that this would only the beginning. He sees the great chance that the young people of stand up and take their stand to rock the land with Christian rock music and thereby would lead many to the Lord. Another confirmation of my impression that God is about to do worldwide something new, something great and wonderful

Bands
This year there were a lot of bands I like a lot. I don’t know which to mention. Triplet and Reform the Resistance were pretty cool and will play at Freakstock too. Boarders, Metatrone and the German band SnakeBreak9 played wonderful melodic metal. Rivelino from Amsterdam, a band consisting almost of coloured people, played twice. They were great and very groovy. Was great to enjoy some bands. Most of the time on freakstock I did not get around seeing bands because I rather like meeting people there. And even in the back parts of the ground you get the concerts quite well.

I really enjoyed talking to Ingo my old friend and praying for each other. That was quite powerful.

We four were a quite cool company. It was fun to be on the way together. Altogether a great festival that had been victorious and glorious just because of all the tension and opposition beforehand. I am very excited about what’s going to happen in Italy. Really cool people there, really familial. We will see…

Preview Samples: Legend III:II - Saviour Machine

2007-07-23T13:26:00.000-07:00

The wait is almost over. Unfortunately the final album Legend III:II of Saviour Machine did not come out at the historic date 07/07/07 as exspected. Singer and mastermind Eric Clayton is suffering of an illness. So he has to take care of himself and can not work as hard on the album as he would like. The releasedate is postponed to an unknown time.

But beginning with 07/07/07 we were shown samples of the whole album. Every week there were new ones. Last Saturday you could listen to the last samples. And even the small insight sounds amazing. What a gorgeous and glorious album to come!
I cannot wait!

... for a thousand years we shall reign with Him from the throne of peace...

Listen here: click!

Prophesy: Eyes and Wings

2007-07-13T17:02:00.000-07:00

There is a prophesy that comes to mind again and again in these days. It's somehow very old. But it always touched and challenged me. It is from at least 1999 or earlier. And it is more accurate than ever today. I think that it is important for these very days. So I will type it to you here. You can find it on a CD of the Praying the Bible- series.

Eyes and Wings (Stacey Campbell)
What Ezekiel kept seeing was eyes everywhere, there was all these wheels and they all had eyes all the way around them. Eyes everywhere. And the verse in Isaih with all the wings, he had wings on the front and back. Andy eyes and wings just keep coming to mind. Eyes and wings, eyes and wings... eyes and wings!

Eyes and wings, they are part of the nature of God.

I feel what the Lord is saying that the Lord wants us to plant here, I have the sense that the Lord is showing me that everybody is looking for a model. But there is no model, there is no models. And feel the whole church knows what is up. Even the outreach laid person knows that these are very toublesome times. And they don't know where to go and they don't know how to get there.

And I feel there is this knowledge without the ability to get anywhere like this understanding. And I feel like the Lord is calling us to - with the eyes and wings part - is
1) to see what the lord is doing and
2) to get wings to get there

And I feel like the Lord is calling us to begin to model not only for the nations but for this local city.

Eyes and wings... what to do and how to get there, what to do and how to get there, what to do and how to get there?

And now we have to get the people eyes. And I feel we don't really know the fullness of this thing but the eyes and the wings are very very important. It's like the whole thing of Isaiah and the Lord looks for that. And like in the times of David there are times in periods in the church with a lot of unrest but someone got to do it differently but someone got to break totally out of the mold someone got to create a container for the time.

Someone got to create a container for the time. And they can't go to the past to look for it. Some of it have never been done before and especially the final hour. Haven't I said throughout my word, throughout my word there is coming a generation there is coming a final hour of the church that will be different than any other that will be different.

(perhaps some of the words I haven't heard right, but you get the idea...)

The Piano

2007-06-26T07:09:00.000-07:00

A video I found today that moves me very much

Wow: Mongolian Ping Pong

2007-06-25T13:33:00.000-07:00

Today I want to post something special. I recently bought me a DVD of a movie I am really excited about: Mongolian Ping Pong. On the one hand it's a totally untypical film for me, no action movie and no sci-fi... A rather long-winded film that has not really a plot.

But this movie is fascinating me totally, the pictures of the landscape are awesome and by the way you learn something about the simple lifestyle of the nomads in mongolia. It's a movie with much humor and charme, it's enchanting you.

About a year ago I had been for a short trip to mongolia. This movie shows me that mongolia is somehow special for me, like I've been fallen in love with this country, the wonderful people, their special clothes (but there are also some things that deter me, that are disgusting for me). I dunno. The movie is absolutely recommendable. something to dream about...!

Alas, you want to hear something about the story? A small boy someday finds a pingpong ball in the river while getting water. He is totally fascinated by it and takes it with him. No one can tell him what this thing is. His Grandma tells him this might be an illuminated ball that brings luck to the finder. He and his friends begin trying to find out the mystery of the ball... until finally there is an unexpected solution at the end of the movie :)

Terminator - Rise of Jesus

2007-04-02T15:08:00.000-07:00

The internet is good for everything weird. Real funny.
Hasta la vista, Baby Jesus

Morphia: Memories Never Die

2007-04-02T15:02:00.000-07:00

Today I found one of my old CDs on which I burnt some MP3s. One was Memories Never Die from Morphia. A very cool song. I love the change of growling and screaming :)

You really can get lost it when memories of wounds of the past come to mind. How can you better express your feelings?

Here you will find the lyrics:
Memories Never Die Morphia// Album: Fading Beauty (2005)
Endless dreams flowing silently
Like winds against my face
Like a lost youth that comes back to me
It speaks to me

Ascending visions of my agony
They force me to confess
That time is now
And they are echoes of my memories

Leaving colors of my blackened sight
In tears behind
Must find the way, just leave the pain
Struggling trough another day

Take a run to the water
Wash away all my deepest pains
Forget the past and the present
And take me to another day

The sleepless night I left behind
Facing just another day
Drawing tears, I weep inside
Trying to find my way
I will do anything
To change the things I did wrong
Now take me to another day

Endless dreams flowing silently
Like wind against my face
Like a lost youth that comes back to me
It speaks to me
It waits for me
It follows me everywhere
Everywhere I go

Take a run to the water
(release me)
Wash away all my deepest pains
(no longer imprisoned)
Forget the past and the present
(take me to another day)
And take me to another day

And as I stare into this dark cold water
I see my own reflected pain
Will it take long, for the sun
To shine upon and warm me?
Will death come silently?
Oh, this cold remembrance
I say goodbye now
Oh, how I long to sleep forever
I'm gone

The Link to the song: click
and a live-video (not the best quality): click

Dream: It's the love of the father

2007-03-31T04:18:00.000-07:00

Tonight I had once again a special experience. Yes, you could call it a dream. I try to describe it though it is not really easy. Why isn't there a gateway to your brain and you could just simple download your dream to your blog? (Okay, perhaps it's really better that this is not possible)

It all began that I was dreaming about reading a book of Geri Keller about the Father's love. It was a small paperback illustrated with copper engravings (there is the
Prophetic Bulletin that is published by Geri's community called Stiftung Schleife that often ist illustrated with those copper engravings). Somehow two things became important to me reading this book. But I have forgotten them. But I stuck to a picture. I looked at this illustration for a while until I suddenly realized what I saw. At first it looked like one of the many versions of the women taking Jesus from the cross after his death mourning and weeping... A simple altarpiece in the sanctuary of a church.

But suddenly I realized that the picture was completely unusual! It was the father who was holding the oppressed corpse of his son on his arms ejecting a shrill but also choked scream: "MY SON IS DEAD! MY SON IS DEAD! What have they done to him? MY SON IS DEAD!MY SON IS DEAD!" And he weeped bitterly over him...

All of a sudden he turned to me (or to you) and said:
"Whenever you will have doubts... FOR YOU! Whenever you cannot believe tha I really love you... FOR YOU! Whenever you will despair how long you will have to bear it... FOR YOU! Whenever you might think you will never manage it... FOR YOU! Whenever you might think that your guilt is far too big... FOR YOU! Whenever your loneliness simple seems to devour you... FOR YOU! Whenever self-condemnation seems to shatter you... FOR YOU! Whenever the words IMPOSSIBLE and NOT FOR ME seems to bring you down... FOR YOU! ... FOR YOU! ... FOR YOU!"

And here you can put in every trouble and doubt you have concerning God. The cross and the death of Jesus were really tough things. Not only for Jesus but also for the father who gave his only begotten precious son to die for us so that we finally could come again to him...

"For God (the father) so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that everyone who believed in him should not perish but have everlasting life" John 3:16

The father was standing on the steps of the altar holding his son into the nave of the church weeping bitterly under loud sobs over his miserably died son. The blood flowed down the white marmoreal steps of the altar and dropping into the cup of the last supper. As it would like to emphasise how important the Lord's Supper is, what power would be in one simple drop of His blood, in one drop of the Lord's Supper...

„When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until you come in glory.“

Klaus Bärbel: Policy of the day

2007-03-30T12:54:00.000-07:00

Pfingstpanzer: Special worship

2007-03-24T08:18:00.000-07:00

Today I want to introduce you something special. Yesterday I received a friend request on MySpace. I looked on the site and listened to the songs. I liked this one so much that I am playing it in loops since then:

I lay my hands into yours, Lord (the one I adore) anhören

The whole is called Pfingstpanzer (something like pentecostal tank). It's a project of Markus Bender (called Benderhead) from Hamburg, Germany. I know Bender for a long time now. He has been with the Jesus Freaks Hamburg since the early days (unfortunately the JF Hamburg are no more - at least officially). I always liked Bender leading worship. He has played in a lot of cool bands, now i.e. Rodeo Five.

With Pfingstpanzer he provides worship songs he has written. And to get an idea how the stuff sounds he has simply recorded the songs and made them downloadable. A very cool thing!

Guard your heart

2007-03-02T16:50:00.001-08:00

In the midst of wolves (Unter Wölfen): colored cover

2007-02-27T15:37:00.000-08:00

Some of you know that I have illustrated the novel In the midst of wolves for the coming German edition. It was translated by Joe Wittrock. He was the one who let me illustrate the story in comic style.

I've made the pictures in black/white only. As I recently went through the files to make a CD from them I decided to color the cover picture. As it was interesting for me how the picture developed I made a small animation showing the process :)
(Click on the animation to see the full animation large)

Here's the final picture: hier

Klaus Bärbel: Sorrows of tomorrow

2007-01-16T12:49:00.000-08:00

I was only dreaming...

2006-12-19T00:55:00.000-08:00

It is exciting what can happen during night times. Recently there was a night full of events. I had many impressions and dreams. Before I went to bed this night I had an intense prayer time. One of these things was a story I will post here. for me it's not just only a dream but a story the Lord gave me. It least it deeply touched me personally. I will post it as precisely as I received it

The fighting turmoil stopped for a moment. Nobody knew why. Heavy clouds were laying over the battlefield. So it was almost impossible for a sunbeam to come through. The air was thick with the scent of death and blood. The fronts remained motionless.

Suddenly there was a vibration in the distance. A rumbling rolled from the horizon. The ground was shaken as heavy steps neared the frontline. An alley formed inside the array. Hard men made way without grumbling, heavy fighting machines went whimmering to the ground, heroes of war burst into tears. Slowly the reason for all this turbulence was visible:

A small blond boy with diapers was carrying a long black lance. At its top there was a triangular banner... "They will look on me, the one they have pierced" - "This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths" - "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given"

As the boy reached the frontline he rammed the lance into the ground so the banner was now visible for everyone. On the banner you could read only one word in great capital letters:

FORGIVENESS!

Had the atmosphere been tense before it now got quiet as church mice. Nobody moved.

All of a sudden a ferocious warrior with an impressing armour of a general stepped forth. On his head was a crown helmet that was pressed deep into his forehead, in his hand he got a sword. Now he took off the helmet and layed it and the sword down before the banner. On sword and helmet it was engraved "WAR". Suddenly you could see that the helmet left bloody bruises cause it was pressed so deeped into the forehead. The whole head was deformed and with this the thinking of the general...

In the meantime a puddle of blood had formed on the place where helmet and sword had benn laid so that both objects had completely disappeared. The boy disappeared too. At his place was standing now a lamb that was bleeding out of his side. The black lance caused the wound...

Something unexpected happened now. First it was imperceptible than it became more and more distinct. The warriors formed without anyone saying anything. They arranged in a long row to lay their hand onto the lamb being covered by the blood of the lamb that came out of its wound.

Both armies intergrated into the line so finally no one could recognise any more who belonged to which side. The line was many miles long and reached to the horizon. Always two were standing side by side. Nobody recognised as the time went by cause the whole scenery was filled with such a peace...

On the way to the council

2006-11-14T16:10:00.000-08:00

The great stories that really mattered

2006-11-06T04:22:00.000-08:00

Probably some of you know that I am going through hard times. There are a lot of bills to pay with almost no money and assignments. I am just trying to find some other jobs that have nothing to do with my business, to work as a freelancer in agencies - but that is not easy too. I am questioning myself how to continue whether it would not be better to just quit everything. I yearn for normality.

On the other hand I am experiencing Jesus very strongly. There are many prophecies these days speaking directly and precisely in my life. Even though it is very hard these days, very challenging to walk on the water (especially with high waves) I do not repent anything. I rather want to go my way with Jesus than to have a boring irrelevant life. I want to live a life with impact. During those hard times there are some quotes that are helping me a lot. And so there is a quote coming to mind I have preached about some time ago...

Sam Gamgee: It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?

But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why.

But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.

Frodo: What are we holding on to Sam?

Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.

The really good thing is that we as christians have a lot more reasons to continue. About that I was preaching...

The Sick Messenger: 3rd issue online

2006-11-03T07:48:00.000-08:00

Hello folks,
as you probably know there is a magazine of the Jesus Freaks called "Der Kranke Bote". Here you will find news and events out of the movement, interviews, reports, comics and always a special theme. This time we are dealing with Jesus Freaks running their own business.

This is the 3rd issue we have translated completely into English. So all our friends from non german speaking countries will be up to date about the jesus freaks movement...

Download the complete magazine here

Klaus Bärbel: Arise!

2006-10-10T13:22:00.000-07:00

My Space: Enemy Mine

2006-09-15T17:56:00.000-07:00

I do not know who knows the platform MySpace. Actually it's a community for bands to introduce themselves and their songs. But every normal person can create a profile there too. You can add people to your list of friends. You are asked to be added and you decide whether to accept or deny it.

Usually you know the people and add them. But sometimes there are requests where you ask yourself: "Hum? Who for Christ sake is this? What does he want from me?" And most of the time you deny the friendship.

Recently I got a query of a band called Your Favourite Enemies from Montreal, Canada. It seemed to be a christian band (at least there was a concert photo in a church). I added them to my list of friends and dug deeper.

And I found out some quite interesting things (besides the music is pretty cool). It's really a band where all are christians but they are not playing in the christian music scene.

The singer Alex Foster has been a neo-nazy leader in North America (he was quite interested about neo-nazis and Skinheads in Germany). The Lord saved him 10 years ago from that crazy lie he's been living and promoting for years. They're now spoke persons for Amnesty International, are the Rock N Rights (an non-profit organisation promoting human rights trough music) founders and are working against racism in North America as speakers.

Alex wants to reach young people through rock music. The Lord told him a few years ago to start a Bible study group oriented for drop outs and artists in his house just a few months after he received the Lord himself. They started with 4 persons (including him), a few weeks later they were 40, all new converts, never heard the gospel before, coming from different back grounds... all rockin.

First they were not accepted from others (even the christians thought they were bad company) cause it's very unusual there. After a few years of taking care of people and impacting their generation people seem to have realized that they are not too bad after all.

I told him about Jesus Freaks, Freakstock and Rock on the Rock.

He could totally relate to the Jesus Freak Movement... saying he was some sort of a Jesus Freak himself :)

Really crazy, isn't it?
Some things are quite familiar...

A short glimpse of Fire Fly

2006-08-28T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here is a very short video that I have made of the english band Fire Fly at Rock on the Rock (I). It isn't that long cause the digital camera wouldn't let me :) But you get an idea.

That's a new song that will someday be on the new CD.

The wisdom of Bob

2006-08-24T10:29:00.000-07:00

As I told you before I was excited of the seminar of Pastor Bob Beeman on Freakstock .

I love this guy for a long time now. Back in the 80ies and 90ies almost every White Metal CD had a letter written by him advising the listener to buy this CD. Not only because of the superb music but also because of the (spiritual) content. The letters were very similiar and always ended with "...as the pastor of Sanctuary I'm here to pray for you".

But now to the seminar. Bob has pioneered many christian version of musicstyles and founding churches in those cultures i.e. the metalchurches Sanctuary.

He has noticed that we Christians often are afraid of getting dirty. So we found subcultures. But Jesus was different. He was not afraid of getting dirty and unclean. He did not take us out of the world. No, he prayed to the father to protect us cause he would send us into the world.

In the Old Testament the highpriest was only able to go once in a year into the holy of holies with danger of life. But today Jesus lives in us. Regardless of how much dirt or sin we have the holy of holies, the living well dwells in us! We are the temple! Wow!

We are always looking for something new because we are perhaps bored with what we have. We tell the people that Jesus will set them free. But they will look back to us with raised eyebrows wondering "And how about you?" Jesus so many times says that he will set us free. He always repeats himself like going in circles.
"Whom the Son sets free is free indeed" and "For Freedom Christ has freed us". Like he really wants to emphasize it. When Jesus said this (he was serious about it) it has to be possible!

Paul prays that the eyes of our hearts may be openend. Our hope is not based on something in this world but on eternity. Therefor we have to discern the eternal that it might come into our hearts.

But how will the eternal only come into our hearts? Very simple: We cannot do it! And God knows this. Jesus went to the cross because it's impossible. He came therefor that we long for the things of the spirit and not for the things of the world.

Bob knows a lot of subcultures mostly coming out of darkness. The Gothics have experienced much pain and darkness. They have a way to express it in there culture and music. What can really be beautiful. Only the problem is that many search the darkness. Even christians do it sometimes. They ask themselves "How much darkness can I bear and still be christian? How close can I dance on the edge without falling over it?"

But we should ask the question how close can I come to Jesus, how nigh can I come to him, how much can I be like Jesus, how can eternity come into my heart.

It is not attractive for many to go for holiness especially the nonchristians. But what's the meaning of sanctification? Seeking God. Bob said this might be different for everyone of us. Very early God told him (he is now christian for 49 years) not to drink any alcohol (he only drunk alcohol twice in his life - everytime it was communion) and that he should have no wife (and earlier he told us about his many girlfriends - the first with 7 for three wekks :)) That he told us very relaxed like it was very normal.

The best was that he was beaming love, you really believed what he said cause he lived it.

Another thing touched me deeply. He was very honest. He had many hostilities out of the "normal" church who was fighting against him. He was filled with bitterness because of that. Once he was praying about it. And Jesus said to him: "Yes, she is a bitch. But she still is my wife!" That healed him. No matter how many mistakes they church will make, no matter how much sin there is, God is faithful to his church, cause it is his bride, his wife. Heavy! I have to hear this also when complaining about church and being desperate about it (and overseeing my own sin). Ooops!

Really a great man of God. Unfortunately I had no chance to talk to him.

© Foto von Emmanuel

M:M // My prayer team

2006-08-14T11:27:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I got an email from our prayer leader for the event in mongolia Chungchi. He send me some fotos from our team. So I want to share it with you. Ohh, it was such a wonderful team :)

Rightmost is Keith, my prayer partner. Next to me his wife Dagmar. In the 2nd row you will find Chungchi and Sarah the co-leader.

Freakstock 2006 // We are... relaxed

2006-08-14T06:06:00.000-07:00

My 10th Freakstock is lying now behind me. To answer the question how it was for me this year I have to go back in the past. The last years freakstock has been very disappointing too me. It always had been nice too though cause God is sovereign and has done some mighty things although. But that were things that were independent from freakstock. I often asked myself why I was going there again.

Last year I had the impression that on freakstock the freaks should be set free to go into the nations to reach the freaks there and that freakstock itself should multiply itself into the nations. And I was disappointed cause it did not happen.

I was reconciled a little when I saw that everyone was all of a sudden talking about Jesus Freaks Japan, as we were getting really International (Jesus Freaks Holland and Czechia), everything is translated into English on events now. We even have a full version in English of our magazine (The Sick Messsenger). I realize with this that certain things need their time to grow. As a prophetic man I can see things others are not able to see for a long time. And I have to learn to wait...

Having this in mind I went to freakstock. I arrived there and everything looked pretty cool. But it felt like something was completely wrong deep inside. There were some things that were strange: The setup was very chaotic and one day behind, the staff service was exclusively only for people with a staff ribbon (though there were many other freaks on the ground who served all the rest by i.e. making pizza), for the first time there were less visitors than the year before (about 5,500), the weather went crazy. At the first place there was not much room for the main seminar. I asked myself what is really in center?

Luckily this impression did not remain for the rest of the festival. I had a nice talk to someone of the prayer team. She was watching the JF movement for a while too. For her the shell of the freaks was crumbling, something was breaking up. And that would not look nice at all. But inside something beautiful was spouting. And that changed my vision. I always thought that everything would break down with nothing inside. That gave me hope and encouraged me to wait once again. Though it will be difficult and wearisome.

What have I done this year? It was very heavy this year. I had an exhibition on KunstRasen (the art tent of the festival), then there was a videopresentation of some of my videos and finally I joined again the prayer team. That was a lot of stress before hand.
However the prayer team was great. It was very relaxed though we rocked a lot. We met twice a day. The prayer times were really intense. That was really fun to pray with the others. The benefit of such meetings is that you yourself get prayer and cool impressions. And so it was this time again :)

During the main seminar I had some nice and special impressions for people. Some really fittet like an arrow directly into the target. Wow!

The main seminars were really great. The worship was full of passion and fire (especially with Obadja and Jesusburger). This year everything from the stage was translated into English. It felt a little weird but really was a step in the right direction moving more towards International.

The sermons mainly were about standing up and to go forward. Not letting the others do the stuff, only to pray for certain things that someone would care about things, help poor people, homeless ones etc but do it for yourselve and join in. Jesus came for the weak and the sick to serve and save them. But not that they would stay weak and broken but for their healing and to set them free.
During the last message of David Pierce it felt like birth pains and I had a heavy prayer burden to pray it through what David wanted to happen...

Freakstock always had been international but this year it jumped a great step forward. Many friends from different countries were invited to help shape the festival. The announcements were always mad by them, the JFI Tent was arranged this year by the Jesus Freaks Holland. So this year it was really the Jesus Freaks International tent. And it really was very stylish!

But the cherry on the cake was the international roundtable of emerging and underground churches. That never happened before. People from around 40 nations were there. I so much liked to be part of it. Unfortunately most of the time they were for themselves. You hardly saw them anywhere else. I would have liked to get to know some of them. I could not really talk to even Denny & Maureen (Rock on the Rock) who had been part of the roundtable.

Yet there was some good result. People from the roundtable were giving seminars in the JFI tent. On the first day I saw Andrew Jones though I really wanted to see Bob Beeman. Andrew said something about the history of mission in the last century. Many ideas and impulses came from Germany. On the next day there finally was Bob Beeman. I always liked him. In the 80ies he founded the Metal Church Sanctuary and supervised many White Metal bands. Wow, he really had something to say! But the best was everything he said beamed out of his body. He was beaming love and Jesus. Such a love. So cool! Perhaps I am doing an extra post about what he said...

All in all it has been very cool to have been at freakstock. It was so nice that the main seminar had in the end more room. Jesusburger had all the freedom to play and do what they liked and how long they wanted. I had some nice talks (though I was not able to talk with as many I wanted to talk with). Let's see how freakstock is developing. There's a lot of prayer needed for this - that's for sure. For the ones who have to find out the new directions.

Shortly before we went home on sunday evening I met a guy from Brazil. I sat in the saloon tent and was waiting for my people. I told him from my wish to visit the Zadoque churches and that it never happened. He invited me to stay at his home. Perhaps something will come out of this...

What I missed last year I finally could see this year: Violet Burning. I really like this band. I first saw them years ago at the Flevo Totaal Festival way back in 92. I was very impressed with their gig. They were praying all the time. Michael Pritzl the singer alsways focused us on the lord. The last song the played is very famous among jesus freaks because we sing it often during worship: Clean. Great!

© Pictures by Haso
© Photo of Violet Burning by Emmanuel

English Website of The Sick Messenger online!

2006-08-08T14:40:00.000-07:00

Hello folks,
finally it is finished: The English version of the Website for our Jesus Freaks magazine Der Kranke Bote (The Sick Messenger). Here you will find the 2nd full version of the magazine to download now for free.

click

Get in contact with us. We need you and your input. You english speaking people from the nations shall be represented in it too. So we look forward for your articles, cartoons, translations etc.

See you!

Revisited: Rock on the Rock 006

2006-07-26T02:47:00.003-07:00

Now we have been to our second Rock on the Rock at Lake Garda in Italy.

It was obvious that it would be different this year but it's hard to describe how it was. This time we arrived shortly before the beginning of the festival. So we had no start-up phase, had no idea who was doing what. This year the helpers were almost completely different. Though there were many known faces too. The pleasure of seeing them again was great of course. Another difficult thing was the extreme heat. During the day you could hardly do anything.

Last year we have prayed more and more intensive. So it is more difficult to say something spiritually. We have prayed primarily in the mornings after the team meetings and in the evening. In the afternoons the others were bathing in the lake and I was relaxing under the shadows of some trees.

But we did something new together with Bob: the prayer for everyone shortly before the beginning of the evenings. In fact Bob never has been there so I was leading those meetings. That has been pretty cool. At the first time there were about 20 people from different nations. First the culinary team wanted us to pray for them. They next day they thanked publicly for this ("After pastor Jocky prayed for us..."). Then I let them pray for the evening every tongue for themselves: English, Italian, German..

On sunday we prayed at every station of the festival: restaurant, eating tent, mixer, DJ stage, merchandising and main stage. And then we prayed otherwise: We prayed for the nations represented in our prayer group. The others blessed always one nation who stood in the middle. Finally we prayed for Italy though no Italian was present among us.

As I told Bob about it he was so excited that he integrated it in his 10min preaching in the evening. For this we searched people out of the nations represented on this festival. Cause they were come to bless Italy. And then Italy should bless the nations back. Exciting what dynamic is there when I begin something with the nations...

Speaking of Bob. Bob Hazlett has come with a team from the USA
to preach and minister. He was allowed to preach every evening for 10mins and after that he was available for prayer (and prophesy). He preached also on sunday after the worship time. That were always powerful times. Bob was a little disappointed that he could do only so little and was happy having us with him. And we for ourselves were happy to have him and that there was more than last year.

I talked with him a lot and got well on with him. We helped him out in the evening with his ministry to pray for people. As no one was coming we prayed for each other. And Bob had some real heavy stuff for us. He acknowledged some things I had before, others he made more precise and added some new things. I am excited what's to come.

The whole festival was pretty cool. There were always moments where the presence of God was there, most of the bands were great, there were cool encounters. But I was missing the special, fire was lacking. But sunday morning there was a great worship time with the band Luminous who was the last band in the evening. That was an intense time. The sermon of Bob was very challenging. He told us that he once was seeking God on a mountain to see his glory. He wanted to be near him. As a result he lost everything: job, house, possesions. He went through a lot of brokenness. But he has really seen God's glory. God wanted to give it to him but Bob had to make a step towards Jesus. And that he asked from us too. Many came to the front. The prayer time was really intense. There really was fire!

In the evening finally Fire Fly played who blew me away last year. This year I knew all the songs and sung along loudly. The new songs were great too. There really has been fire. In closing they played the old song that I knew from my youth time "Seek ye first". In the version of Fire Fly it's just amazing. This song was full fire too!

Denny & Maureen, the main organisers, will be at the roundtable at Freakstock too. Perhaps we will find some time to talk there. This year on the festival we hardly talked.

It was great to be part again of this wonderful festival. I believe the festival is going through a great change that is really good. Because of this I am excited about next year.

We've been in Berlin

2006-07-26T00:42:00.000-07:00

Wow, now it's behind us the longexspected event: Calling All Nations. How has it been? Difficult to say on first hand. It has not been as great as expected. There have been disappointing few people, the atmosphere wasn't as dense as in Mongolia, spirirtually could have gone more (i.e. more Prayer and Proclamation). But if I step one step back I finally have to say that it has been phat. It has been an honor to be part of it. Only our presence there has been a sign in the visible and unvisible world.

What happened there?
There have been about 25,000 people from around 40 nations. As the stage was so far away and you only got an idea what happened through the video screens it wasn't easy to follow the events. Everytime you had to decide to participate and not only to watch.

The diversity of worship and bands was amazing, likewise to hear the songs original from their writers. It was just good to be there. But again and again there were moments that touched me deeply or when I sensed that something special happened.

There was for example a french worship band who made us pray along one song in the signs of the deaf. In the end we were silent and proclaimed only in the signs of the deaf and then burst into shouts of joy. At this very moment I sensed that in the spiritual world walls, building and towers just grumbled down into pieces.

In the evening David Ruis played one song that just expressed what I am sensing too: There is a wind, a rumble in the earth as change lies in the air. During another of his songs I saw a picture in mind of a warrior rising up over Germany with an outstretched sword and raising a banner. That was no banner that had a painting on it. The banner consisted of fire and flame. The warrior claimed with a warcry Germany back from Satan for Jesus. Heavy! I could hardly believe my eyes when they carried in those banners of fire at the end of the evening

The prophetic words that were given were just cool too. The impression of Lilo Keller was special for me cause I had a similiar one years ago: As the Trümmerfrauen after World War II established Germany out of the detritus it will happen again nowadays. As the women are responsible for the "nests" it will be very beautiful. Then the men were missing cause they died in the war. This time the men of god will stand side by side as warriors with the women.

I enjoyed of course Delirious as I really love them. They have written many great songs but Majesty is really special. That was deep worship! It was just only one little comment but it showed how Martin smith (vocals) was touched by this whole event. He remembered it starting 9 years before (in Wembley stadium, London). They were just boys then but also this is just the beginning.

It was said again and again that more of events like this are needed in Germany and in the stadiums of the cities all over Germany. I enjoyed hearing it as I have a vision that the Olympiastadium in Munich will be filled someday for Jesus (most likely not only once). There have been a few hundreds hungarians who wanted to fill the stadium in Budapest. I suppose I have to be there too (besides Budapest is a wonderful city).

There has been times when I didn't like dancers and flag wavers at all. This time it was pretty cool. The many dancers, flag and banner wavers have filled the arena and so the gap was bridged between stage and audience. In parts it was really powerful. Starting in the morning we just had to arrive and arrange. But as the banners marched in under drums that was real heavy stuff and set free a lot!

There have been many discussions in Germany. It was said that the tickets were to expensive and a worship service has to be for free. Again a typical example for the Germans always discussing everything to death and knowing always better. I believe that just because of this it was good that you had to pay something to come. We must learn to think big for God wants to do great things. And for this you have to do great things, right? My money doesn't belong to me I surrendered it to God as my whole life. So God has to pay my ticket. All the critics wantig to have everything for free most likely do not have the faith to even consider organising such a big event. Can you believe it there was someone who seriously said that for him a ticket for a game of the World Cup with 60€ would be cheaper than 40€ for a whole day.

It is a shame for Germany when people all over the world take on them labor and pain and travel a long distance just to bless Germany and we Germans sit at home in our comfortable sofas complaining it is too expensive, too far away and that big events are nothing for us and moaning nothing happens in Germany.

Wake up, Germany!
But at least this happens gradually.

Thank you to Noel Richards and his team who organized this event despite of malice and critic. Thanky you Jesus for bringing "Calling All Nations" to Berlin, Germany. Thanks for the brave pioneers for doing uncommon things that are not for granted, who are big and expensive that someday the will be. thank you so very much!

A great collection of pictures: here
Small thumbanils: © 2006 André Wirsig
Big thumbnail: Steve Best

The English Version of our Jesus Freak Magazine is finally there

2006-07-18T14:11:00.000-07:00

The next step to Jesus Freaks International is reached. We now have the first English Version of our magazine Der Kranke Bote(The Sick Messenger) and you can download the complete version here for free.

Wowza!

Go for the Nations!

Homepage: bote.jesusfreaks.de

Rock on the rock: It's less than two weeks away...

2006-07-12T17:09:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Denny Hurst, Rock on the Rock:
The Rock on the Rock music festival is less than two weeks away and the excitement surrounding it is growing! As the organizing committee, we're thrilled that so many of you have decided to come and participate for all three days, living the full experience of the festival that goes well beyond the evening concert events!

On Sunday, July 23, at 10:30 in the morning, we'll be having a service at the main stage with worship led by the band, Luminous, from Hawaii, USA. Bob Hazlett of Touch of Fire Ministries will share the message. We hope to see you all there!

During the mornings and afternoons of the festival, there will be different sports activities you can participate in at the nearby basketball court: basketball, volleyball, skateboarding/rollerblading, etc. You will also be able to sign up for a group trip to the lake or a walk in the surrounding area of San Michele. For those coming with children, we'll have "Kinderlandia" every afternoon during the festival from 4 to 7 pm, with fun and creative activities designed just for kids!

Remember that you can arrive at the sport's field and begin setting up your tents in our camping area beginning at 4 pm on Friday, July 21. Some of you have asked for information about the bathrooms and showers which, as our website explains, are limited. Though they are few, there are toilets, sinks and open showers (locker room style) for both guys and girls.

Starting Friday night, you'll be able to eat your meals at the festival restaurant, which will be open from 7 pm to 1 am, serving tasty meals and cold drinks at reasonable prices. At the restaurant's cashier, you can also purchase meal tickets for the following day's breakfast (5 euro) and lunch (8 euro), which are also served in the restaurant area (breakfast from 8 to 10 am and lunch at 1 pm). Don't forget that with every purchase from the restaurant/snack bar, you help support Rock on the Rock!

You're also free to prepare your own meals at your tent, but the lighting of fires is absolutely forbidden in the camping area, which must be vacated (and left clean) by 10 am on Monday morning.

For now, that's all. We're looking forward to seeing you all and may God richly bless this time we'll share together!
See you soon!

The Rock on the Rock Team

Looking forward to it. Yeah!

Klaus Bärbel: Live together or be together

2006-07-12T16:16:00.000-07:00

Bono (U2) about poverty, justice and God's bless

2006-06-28T02:53:00.000-07:00

I always loved U2 and Bono. This speech is very moving (and challenging) but also very humorous. A must see! Enjoy.

Rock on the Rock - Flyer, programm and full website

2006-06-27T12:54:00.000-07:00

There's news from Rock on the Rock! The complete website is online now. You will find all the bands and links to their music.

The mp3s of Luminous from USA, you can download on their MySpace-site, are playing continuosly on my player. I am looking forward to them, and of course FireFly that were there last year either. And there's much more to explore of course. And my Blog is linked in their links section. Nice!

And there's a flyer too. You will find here:

M:M // The festival

2006-06-27T09:02:00.000-07:00

Finally I am able to report you about the festival itself. Tuesday afternoon we were going to the festival ground. But before we had a meeting with Tommy Femrite for the intercessors. She teached about intercession and we talked how it would work there in this ministry. As violence would be the strongest force over mongolia we should not complain, grumble or moan. Instead we should bless as we want to be a blessing for this nation and not a curse. I was lucky cause we had such a wonderful place with this guesthouse and nothing to complain about.
Another answer would be the mercy inercessors who often prayed by their tears. I never thought that I could be one of them. For years now I had not been able to weep. But we were told that especially those who heard that they should not cry and those who swore not to weep any more could possibly be mercy inercessors! So I am obviously one of them. We had to stand up and we got prayer. Nice!

Then we were divided into the prayer teams. My prayerpartner was Keith whom I knew from the prepararion weekend. He said to me: It was obvious to him that we would be together.

Over rough and smooth we went then to the festival ground in a very full bus. We passed the luxurious Hotel Mongolia, a former temple. The street was very bad and dusty. But the landscape was excellent. We went along a river shore, in the background the hills and we passed interesting villages with spotted modern buildings.

After we arrived we first set up our things. There was a hall in a building behind the stage. On the left side the women had to sleep, on the right the men, divided just by a curtain. The toilets were very adventurous too. A little wooden hut, the floor had flagstones and in the middle a small gap. Everything had to pass through this. Within a short amount of time it was very scruffy and it smelled like in the hog house. Wonderful! As you almost did not sweat every fluid had to come out of the body here. There was a water container there, but the faucets gave no water. There were no showers there. The only chance would have been to wash in the icecold river. The mongolians slept in tents. It felt a little bit like freakstock. But the landscape was much better!

And then the festival finally begun - though a little delayed. A mongolian band opened up using the traditional horse-head fiddle. Very moving! As a few riders with banners arrived on the top of the hill behind many begun to weep. Everyone made fotos and had tears in their eyes. So had I. Finally they raised a cross and came into the festival ground. And everytime the mongolians participatet on full volume. It always touched me to see the mongolians worshipping God. At the night times it was always full before the stage. And the young and the old were there. To some extent the old were dancing even more and wilder. There was a mongolian hallelujah song that became kind of a hit. Everyone was singing it even afterwards.

As the prayer team we were on duty from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm. Perhaps there were about 50 intercessors partet into 5 teams with leader and coleader for each. Our leaders were great. Chung Chi from singapore and Sarah from USA. The team was completely German. It was funny to talk and to pray in English when we had our meetings :).

Every hour we made something different: Walking, Rejoicing and Resting. During the walking time we walked praying over the place with open eyes of course to see what happened and how the spiritual atmosphere would be like. There were a few buddhists and shamanists trying to curse us. As the were doing it by walking we were undoing by walking as well. Some of us experienced some interesting stories.
As we were rejoicing we joined the worship and prayed that people would be let into the presence of God. And resting were of course the breaks that were far too short. It was pretty cool to be part of it though it was very exhausting. It was very hot and the air was really dry. At the latest of the afternoon of the second day I was finished. And during the whole of the third day I was lying down unable to do anything more. So I almost do not know what happened all day.

Every day at 9.00 am and 5:00 pm there was a wonderful thing: Tommy Femrite, Billy or Gila Rohsmann gave a teaching about prayer for the mongolians. It is wonderful to see the mongolians worship but it is even greater to see them here. After every sentence (that of course had to be translated first) the screamed together: "Amen!" There were always practical issues about prayer. Different ways of prayer: Sitting, lying, with raised arms, kneeling and walking about. One expression was to reach in the different directions in the sky and to proclaim the truth of God over the land. Very powerful. One day we had the chance to pray for a deaf man. He was healed. Praise the lord!

On Friday afternoon Andy Park was playing once more (he played a lot of delirious stuff. Wonderful!). He led into a ministrytime that was all about acceptance, the father's love of God and very intimate times with Jesus. He asked the intercessors to pray for the people. He said sometimes God comes quick sometimes it takes time. So he took a lot of time for this thing. That was such an intense time full of God's love.

So I prayed for the people. Though they did not understand a word they were really open. And I went through the ranks and prayed for the people. Suddenly a young girl went under the power of god down to the ground. I took out my umbrella and held it over her so that she would not lie in the full sun. The girl was crying and intensly praying. A few steps away demons were going out of another woman lying on the earth. Then two other intercessors prayed for an elder man I prayed before. Suddenly he was falling on his face. He was lying there, his cap before him crying real hard. When he raised to his feet again there was only dust on his nose. Nothing seemed to happen to him, he was unhurt.

Finally someone laid another umbrella over the girl and I could move on. I searched for Keith, my praying partner. I found him praying for a young man. I went to them to give them shadow and pray with them. Exactly as I was putting the umbrella over them the man was falling down. I did not even had the chance to put down my daypack. Crazy!

At the night times most of the people were worshipping. It was always full there at the stage during these times. It was said that there were about 4,500 participants. Many of them had to work during the day I think. On one evening with Walter Heidenreich and Tengerin Doo about 50 people followed an altar call to give their life to Jesus.
As I had to get up early in the morning I could not stay as long in the night as I wanted. As our sleeping place was directly behind the stage we didn't miss so much. So I could not sleep so very well. But the presence of God was always strong. If you could not sleep so well it was at least in the very presence of God. That always touched me.

There were some stands where you could by food. It really tasted quite well. We often got some of these flesh bags that were very tasty. Then we had rice and chicken or a meat skewer (this tasted more like rubber). There was lemonade (Fanta) too. But all different sorts tasted the same and were awful.

I could tell so much more but I will stop here. I only just want to tell that the leadership thanked us so effusively. Every teamleader had the chance to say thank you to his team. That was great! I hope there soon will be another chance to make intercession in this way!

At the end we had to help to dismantle the festival. I felt very soon sick again so I was laying down again. They burnt all the garbage. What an awful smoke! How great it was to be back again in the guesthouse and having the chance of a wonderful and long shower. That was soooo good. Now there was no dust in the hair all the time and I could really relax.

On the last evening we had a meeting in a wonderful chinese restaurant. The food was delicious. We talked about the festival. I was feeling bad again cause I had fever. There were told great stories. Now, what's next?