Brazil Mission Trip — Day 6 & 7

Hi,
The last few days of the mis­sion trip we were both too tired to take time writ­ing on the blog. It was all really good, but all the meet­ings, and get­ting up at 8 am and in bed at 2 am made it dif­fi­cult for us not to rest in the breaks we had :)

I´ll quickly tell you some of the sto­ries from the last days in Brazil. We went to a youth meet­ing one night. The youth had a full day at a school gym. They were wor­ship­ping, danc­ing, play­ing, pray­ing. All the good stuff. We came in the evening and Chase preached to them. After that we all went around and prayed for them and blessed them. They were really really hun­gry! Many of them got very much touched by the Father. A lot of them ended up on the floor rest­ing in His pres­ence. It was good.
On our way our from that meet­ing, one of our inter­preters, Paula, stopped me. It was only her and I left in there from the team. She had been pray­ing for a man that had told her that his left eye was com­pletely blind! She had me come over to pray for him too, and together we prayed for him. Sanna and Chase came back also and we prayed for him, about a minute or so. Then he opened his eyes again, cov­ered up his right eye, and started read­ing a poster that was on the wall! Did you get that?! His left eye had been healed and he can see now!!! WOW! That thing right there makes me very very happy. Thank you Jesus for giv­ing him his sight back. Great!
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Brazil Mission Trip — Day 5

Glory!

I should have writ­ten this yes­ter­day when we came back home but we were so tired after a very long day so I put it off until now. I´ll make it quick :) We had an awe­some meet­ing yes­ter­day morn­ing. It was for pas­tors and lead­ers in Bauru. Rafaela Sil­veira taught in words of knowl­edge and it was great teach­ing. When she was done she had peo­ple come up who had received words of knowl­edge dur­ing the meet­ing. I will write more about words of knowl­edge at a later time, but for now I´ll just explain in very eas­ily; it´s when God tells us about somebody´s pain, sick­ness, need or some­thing else He wants to do. The peo­ple that shared got together with the per­sons it was for and prayed for them. It was amaz­ing! We received some words about revival in Nor­way! Hal­lelu­jah! Sanna and I really look for­ward to go back to Nor­way and see what God will do there for our coun­try. Pray for revival everybody!

In the evening Sanna was going to preach. It didn´t look like we were going to get to the church at all last night. We were sched­uled to be picked up at 7:30 pm, but nobody showed up. We waited an hour and then they came. We didn´t know why they were late, because they never told us :) Maybe they started an hour later then we thought? The church was the best we´ve been to down here! I don´t remem­ber last time I´ve been in such an amaz­ing church! It was glo­ri­ous!! I was on the floor after the wor­ship and they put a blan­ket over me. Sanna intro­duced her hus­band as “the guy under the blan­ket”… She was awe­some! I have heard her preach before and it has been good. This time it was incred­i­ble!!! Jim was with us again, and also a lady named Nora. The three of us kept look­ing at each other and stare in amaze­ment at her. She was so filled with the Holy Spirit. It was about 100 peo­ple in the church, and about 80 of them came for­ward to reded­i­cate their lives to the Lord. Not that they weren´t Chris­tians, but the mes­sage she spoke made them want to sell out even more to the Lord. Give Him every­thing they have.

Sanna preaching on surrendering to God

Sanna was really lifted up into the next level of anoint­ing and author­ity. As her hus­band, I just mar­velled at what God did with her dur­ing the meet­ing. That church will never be the same. My wife rocks!!

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 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