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Hi everyone,

A week ago we had a RevivalReform meeting on Sunday night and immediately following that i hopped in my car and drove to redding CA to meet with some good friends I had went to school of ministry with, and they had been in different places around the world and we all got back together to go on a backpacking trip into the Trinity Alps in northern CA for a few datys.

It was awesome, I have a need to be free, to be raw, wild, untamed, and to explore. And so it was really good to get into the mountains again. I had a 50 lb pack, and the hike into the lake was 9 miles so it wasn’t to bad, but still was a good workout, we spent 3 days and two nights, we were going to spend the whole week, but circumstances came up so we made it shorter. The air is so clear up there and the mountains so beautiful, I caught some fish and hiked around a bt, really just relaxed and lay in the sun by the lake a lot. You can see pictures on my face book if you want.

We came back to Redding on Thursday and I was able to spend some time with friends I haven’t seen in a while. BTW, its so awesome to have friends who are transforming the world, and when you get together, you just talk about the main points in life, and a few highlights, and enjoy each others presence, otherwise to begin to talk about all that goes on would take days.

Friday night in Redding my friend Lars who has been in Norway the past year said we should just get some people healed while we were there. So we went to a local area with plenty of people, the first guy we approached as we got out of the car had a brace on his elbow, I just told him to hold out his arm and I put my hand on it and commanded it to be well. He acted like nothing happened, so I prayed again, he was skeptical but admitted that there was something taking place. We loved on him, and spent a few minutes reaching the gospel to him. And then continued on our way, we prayed for a handful of people all of which were healed except for one person that did not see immediate results. But when we returned to the car there was a piece of paper stuck on my windshield, I picked it up and read it, it was from the man that we prayed for with the hurt elbow. He wrote an entire letter!! He said, Dennis and Lars, I need to tell you that my elbow is better, he said, you have to understand that its not just better, it is better than it has been in the past ten years!!, and he proceeded to talk about a few things ask us to pray for his mom. That’s awesome!! Because we are created in the image of God, Gen1:27, and when God spoke he spoke the world into being. When we speak we have the same creative power in our words, (life and death is in the power of the tongue) and when we speak those words will not come back void until they have accomplished what they were commanded to do. Because we have the spirit of the living God living inside of us, our words create worlds, and command realities to be either removed or created. Gal 2:20, Cor 6:17.

Saturday morning I got up and got a phone call for a man with cancer with weeks to live, and the man told me to call this girl named krystal. So I called the girl and halfway through the conversation she goes, is this…Dennis Bontrager??, I said yes, then I realized who I was talking to, it was a girl I had met in a youth group like 4 years ago when I was in BSSM and I used to drive about an hour to speak at their youth group and love on the kids. One night I needed 500 dollars for a missions trip in two days, and I had no money and nothing to my name except my guitar worth about 450$. God told me to give my guitar to this girl named krstal. So I did, and the following morning there was a check for 500$ that was given to me. When this happened I told God I wanted a better one back, and that I wanted a custom built taylor with a curly maple back and spruce top, and of course 8 months ago a man walked up and handed me a guitar case with that exact guitar in itJ worth around 2700$. SO, back to the origonal story, so I talked and reconnected with her and she gave me the address, so I went and prayed for the man with cancer, and seen some improvements, and am waiting for results back.

I came home Saturday night and it is soooo good to be back with my family, we’re not all blood related, but we are family, and its so beautiful.

We have launched the beginning of “school of obedience” which starts august 23rd, so it’s a flurry of getting ready for that, talking to people who want to come, added to the normal ministry. But its all good, it makes us grow. Sunday morning we went to a local church called “Jubilee Christian center” ryan and Brandon went last week with some friends that have been attending there for some time, and a lady that was in a wheel chair for over 5 years I believe, was healed and dancing around, so this Sunday following the service on the way out we healed 15+ people backs, deaf ears, pains, one lady had crutches and walked away with out them. So that was good. Following the service my friend let me ride his motorcycle, I cant even describe what happens to me when I am on a bike, its like I was made for them. Ya….I’m not even going thereJ

I am gripped with the reality of heaven the last couple days and being in love with The person of the holy spirit. I m a person who doesn’t focus much on feelings, I have them more than most people I know, and I have left my body and have visions and lost of stuff like this, which is awesome, but I don’t talk about it because it is not necessary to do what Jesus said, and its easy to over spiritualize things, But I realized the past weeks that my life of intimacy has been lacking, and I have an extremely high value for being in a constant state of intimacy with God, and being in a “holy fear” of who he is, which means “reverential awe”. And at the same time be so completely even totally romantically in love with him, it’s a burning consuming fire that consumes all of who I am, I have never been truly in love with a girl, and I used to say I didn’t know what it was like, but that is not true, Because I am in love my Jesus and I am consumed with it, its all I think about, he is all I dream about. My world revolves around him, Yes he is my Lord, but he is also my beloved. And who can quench the flames of passion, no ocean, no man, no circumstance will ever come close.

Well I have to go, we have someone here from Singapore who is with us for a few days and we are going to the streets, so I need to be meeting with a bunch of radicals in 30 minutes at a local market. So be blessed!!! Luv ya’ll!!

Dennis