Brazil Mission Trip — Day 3

Thank you Jesus! It has been a great time here so far. It´s now morn­ing the fourth day (sounds like some­thing that has been said before by some­body famous…) and I want to shortly tell a few tes­ti­monies from last night.

Sanna didn´t come last night because she needed to rest, so I was going with­out her for the first time. It was strange, but she got the rest that she needed and is back on the team this morn­ing! I was going with our faith­ful team mem­ber, Jim, and then two women, Dawn and Cla­r­i­etha, chose to come along and we had a great time.

It wasn´t room for much preach­ing in that church, because my inter­preter had a hard time under­stand­ing me so every­thing took more time than usual. But that was not a prob­lem for God. He made it very sim­ple for us all. He had me talk a lit­tle bit about Jesus and what He did while He walked the earth. I said like Jesus, that if you don´t believe me, at least believe the works that I do so that you will know that the Father is in me and I in the Father. So by that I called out to every­body with shoul­der prob­lems that they could stand up if they wanted to be healed. God told me that there were peo­ple there with shoul­der prob­lems so I knew that they would be healed. 14 peo­ple got up around in the church! I prayed over them from the stage and asked those who had received heal­ing to come up front to. ALL 14 CAME FORWARD!!! WOW! I just had to ask them again if every­one of them had been healed, and yes. They were cry­ing and smil­ing and thank­ing Jesus for His heal­ing power. One lady in her fifties were cry­ing a lot, wav­ing both her arms over her had and prais­ing Jesus loudly! She told us that her shoul­ders had been inflamed and painful for a long time. The last 8 months it had become much worse and she was in con­stant pain! She still had to work to bring home money to sup­port her fam­ily. She worked with much pain… Now God had healed her and she was so happy!! Clappy happy :-) Later she came up with a child in her arms and her smile was huge! Thank you for being there to heal Holy Spirit. You are awe­some! We honor you God. Thank you!

I also called those who had pain in their feet to stand up. A man that was healed came up front to tell us that he had bro­ken a bone in one of his feet. I had just been healed from shoul­der pain too and had been limp­ing when I came up last time. This time he didn´t limp! He was stomp­ing his feet on the ground and grinned. He was get­ting bet­ter and bet­ter dur­ing the night.

This was an awe­some evening. Other peo­ple got healed too. God told me to do impar­ta­tion too. The four of us in the team lined up front and peo­ple walked by us and we prayed that they would get the anoint­ing and the gifts that we so freely received from God our­self. After that I had every­body who was in need of a heal­ing to stand up. The oth­ers in the church was instructed to lay hands on them and heal them in Jesus´name. 10 more got healed!!

After the meet­ing we went home to a fam­ily from church to eat pizza and snacks. They really hon­ored us and God blessed them for it. Thank you so much, Jesus. I believe that this church is going to walk much more in the super­nat­ural from this day on.

Thank you so much for your prayers. You all have a part in every­thing that hap­pen down here since you part­ner with us in prayer. Thank you and bless you mightily!

Brazil Mission Trip — Day 2

Hi again!

It´s a lit­tle past 5 pm now and we´ve been to a meet­ing this morn­ing. It was for pas­tors and min­is­ters, and we´re going to have a meet­ing like that every morn­ing this week. In a cou­ple of hours we´re going to have meet­ings in three dif­fer­ent churches. Gary Oates, Chase Turner and I are preach­ing and invit­ing the pres­ence of our Holy God to come be with us to save the lost, heal the sick and free those bound by the devil. It´s going to be very good! Jesus is always good! Please pray for us. I´ll update this note later to let you know some of the things that is going to hap­pen. Thank you all for part­ner­ing with your prayers. We love you all very much!

Hugs from Kris­ter and Sanna

Update:
It´s been a fan­tas­tic evening! The meet­ing was very good. God showed up, the wor­ship was glo­ri­ous, peo­ple were hun­gry. I didn´t know what to preach on as I came there this evening, but Holy Spirit didn´t leave me speech­less. He really came and thanks to Him there were many peo­ple healed tonight! Our team, con­sist­ing of Sanna, Jim (our faith­ful team mem­ber from the Colom­bia trip in Jan­u­ary!) and myself did impar­ta­tion with every­body in the church. It was great! It took some time because there was over 200 peo­ple in the church, but it was per­fect. We want peo­ple to be able to step into the things that we preach. Since they believe they also can lay hands on the sick and see them recover. So that was my focus. To help them see who they are in Christ, and what author­ity and power they carry as sons of God.

I had a few words of knowl­edge and had peo­ple stand up for me to pray over them. God sov­er­eignly healed 39 peo­ple of var­i­ous con­di­tions!!! Jesus you are the sav­iour of the world! It was so great! One lady used a walker and had done that for a cou­ple of months because of a knee surgery that left her off worse than before. She couldn´t bend her knee… after I prayed over her and some other peo­ple that stood up she was able to bend her knee again and she came up using her walker. I asked her why she still had the walker and so she tried to walk with­out it; and she did! Glory to God! She walked back and forth, bet­ter for every step. In the end when she was going back to her seat, she just folded together the walker and lifted it up! It was so glorious!

One woman gave her life to Jesus for the first time, and two men that had been walk­ing away from Jesus, reded­i­cated their life to the Lord. Tears were stream­ing down their faces as they had seen the power of the only liv­ing God man­i­fest in their midst. They wanted to come back and walk with Jesus again. Hal­lelu­jah, there´s a party in Heaven right now!

After the meet­ing we were invited out to eat pizza. The trans­la­tors didn´t come so we ended up with 50 peo­ple from church, with nobody to trans­late! It was both fun and inter­est­ing. The pizza was very good, even though we couldn´t com­mu­ni­cate very well with the peo­ple there. We left 12:30 am and went back to the hotel; tired, but full of joy. Thank you for every­thing you did tonight, Holy Spirit!

Brazil Mission Trip — Day 1

Dear friends,

Sanna and I are now in Bauru, Brazil. It´s a city in Sao Paulo and it´s one of the smaller cities around here. From our hotel room bal­cony on 14th floor, we can see houses as far as the eyes reach..! It looks like a big city to me… The rea­son why we are here is to do a mis­sion trip with Gary Oates Min­istries. It´s 23 of us here with the group and we all look for­ward to see what God is going to do this week. We arrived this morn­ing and drove 4–5 hours by bus to get to the hotel in Bauru.

Tomor­row we´re going to have a morn­ing meet­ing in a church and then we will go to 3 churches in the evening. Gary will be preach­ing in one church and then two of the interns will take one intern each and a part of the team and go to the other two churches and preach. It´ll be great fun! There is always a lot of peo­ple saved, healed and deliv­ered on these trips, and God shows up big­time! Thank you Jesus for being with us!

Please pray for all of us. Sanna and I will prob­a­bly preach once or twice each so please keep us in your prayers. Please pray that God will use us and that we will not be in the way of what He wants to do for His chil­dren here.

Thank you so much and God bless you!
Love, Kris­ter and Sanna