Africa Journal entry 2

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Dear freinds and family,
I cant beleive it is wednesday night allready, time goes so fast. It was an amazing night last night, as there was a thunder storm and it was so amazing to sleep in my little randavol and listen to the rain and thunder. Today I picked up about 10 young people that are passionate about Jesus, and took them to a rural community where we have a tent set up, and are holding services for those who have very little. I am so in love with the people here, allready I am developing relaitionships for the rest of my life. I just got back from spending the evening in a rural area ministering, i'll finish talking about that later. You will find in my blogs that I share both the success and "failures", I share testimonies, and I share things that I do not see happen, because we are learning, and I strive to walk transperently and with integrity.
See I sit down with young people over here we look at the bible if its says to do it, they simply beleive, they do not ask questions, rationalize, or make excuses. they will worship and pray all night of you dont drive them out of the buildings. They are people after my own heart. I will give my life to pour into anyone who truly wants to give their life for the kingdom of God, here they all do. See, when witch doctors are turning themselves into hippo's, cheetas, birds, when they curse people and they die. Where devils are so blatant, they do not question the supernatural, but they are desperately hungry for the most powerfull thing on earth, LOVE.
Last saturday we met with local pastors and that was good, then we got the phone call from one of the ladies in the church that her 23 year old son had died over night, and they wanted someone to come pray for him to be raised from the dead, and to minister to the family, and bring the kingdom of heaven to the family. Chad hoffman and I flew over to capetown on sunday to meet with the family and pray. I read in the word of God where people come to Jesus and ask him to raise their sick child, and he says yes, he raised lazuros, Elijah raised the widows son, and so on. I beleive for me to say no to the mom would have been so wrong. And plus I really beleived that he would wake up and preach the gospel. Some people gave me a a bit of a hard time for that. But it didnt affect me, i was obedient to the word, and what I knew to be true. and through it we were able to minister to so many people, in the airport a man who had a bad knee since 5th grade was instantly healed while we were waiting for the plane. and we ministered to a hand full other people over the time we were in capetown. its is a very beautiful place, we got to see "south african penguins". and make new freinds. I am till in contact with the family of the boy, and if i can be honest, i fully expect my phone to ring. and them telling me he is awake. why?, because I live in faith all the time. I have no time not to be living in faith, if I dont people die. period. sympathy keeps more people dead than anything else. sympathy kills people, compassion saved them.
Yesterday morning we met with some people and prayed, and I dont remember what happened the rest of the day, honestly, my mind is blank. huh, I know we did stuff, but I cant remeber if it was ministry, or what. hhmm, I am so busy everything runs together:). This morning I was able to catch up a bit on emails, and practical stuff, btw, " I get up every morning at 6:30!! and go to bed at well, ya, like right now, midnight. but oh well, my body feels great.
This evening we picked up a bunch of radical youth, and oh!, before that we went to the hospital and prayed for a little girl, and it was a pretty nice hospital, looked just like the american ones, but for the first time, I prayed for everyone I could get my hands on:) and didnt get rejected or stopped. lol. it was awesome. There is a handfull of youth here I am pouring into that are so gripped with a passion and hunger for God it is amazing, like when I dropped them off at their houses they were planninjg to fast all day tomorrow and get together and pray and heal people and get ready for the evening service. We went to a rural area to where there is a tent set up for ministry. on the way we stopped at a ladies house that needed prayer, she was in a wheelchair, chad ministered to her a while, and she was able to stand and the pain left her body, and then we ministered to the rest of the family. after whci we went to another house, and while the most of them went inside to pray a few of us stayed outside and were ministering to some young people. they wanted nothing to do with us, and one young man had a hurt knee, but wouldnt let me get close. So I told him to be quite and hols still, I pointed at his knee and said "BE Healed". he was shoked as he was instantly healed. I turned to pray for another young man, and he frekead out and said NO, he had "sangoma" wristbands on, the word for "witch doctor". and he eveidently wasnt a Jesus worshipper. i asked his if he was scared of me, he said yes. I said ok, stand therem I will show you real power. he ws about ten feet from me, I told him God was about to touch him, and pinted at him, the presence of God came on him, and he ran down the road with his hands on his head. But he came back, and said he wanted to get saved, just not yet, I ministered to him for a while, and in the meantime a few of the youth were ministering to the other young guys. I was amazed they have very little experience on the streets and they looked as if they had been doing it their whole life!! anyways we ended up loading a couple of the guys of the street into the car and taking them with us to the tent meeting.
at the tent meeting the one guy took chad, a few of the kids and I into the back to a house, an older lady had a crippled hand with arthuritus and really bad back pain and she had not had a bowel movement in a long long time!!:( which was interesting, I had a young girl pray for her, and her hand was healed, then she said she needed a cain to walk, I said Not anymore! and told the girl to grab her hands and start her walking, she was healed as she walked, she then walked by herself to the restroom and went to the bathroom for the first tine in a while. which is an awesome miracle btw:).
I preached and chad preached a bit, I started with healing the sick, and then spoke for a bit. there were quite a few people healed, and a whole bunch of young men there that Got encountered, dedicated their lives to God. One lady had no eyeball, actually two people I prayed for today had no eyeball, I seen nothing happen, but I still prayed because a while back in the same tent meeting a guy was prayed for and he grew a new eyeball right there in fron of everyone:) so I really wnat to see that, as I never have. The tents btw, are in one community at a time for 2 weeks, then they move, and they rotate through 4 areas. It is SO humbling to work with the pastor who heads that up, he does services at least 5 nights a week, and he has a family, he is at least 55+ years old. and the are he ministers is harsh. and miles from each other, and he has no car! not even a bike. some times he has no transportation, so he stays with the tent in bad areas over night to preach the nect night. he is nonstop ministry, a pator, and he doesnt even have a car, ans often walks mile after mile!!
I go to a meeting in the morning with a bunch of pastors, Its awesome the message of the kingdom is getting out, and people are hungry. I keep drilling it in people though everywhere I go, if "revival" stays in a building it will die, we must disciple the people. and take it to the streets and make it a lifestyle. allso soe thing I am dismantleing over here that is HUGE, is the "man of God" complex. that there is a great "man of God", and you go to him to get your healing, word of God, and or direction for your life, thats why preachers in africa all wear suits and such, well excpet for me. I am doing everything I can to discipling people and teaching them all to do what Jesus said to do. aaaahhhhh, it is so much fun, I see these young peoples passion, I just cry, it makes me come alive. I burn for this, allready there is a handfull that I am becoming best freinds with. Because they know like I di, that they will rock the face of the planet for God, and they are just ready and willing.

Yes!! well that is not a very organized blog, but oh well, I'm tired, and I need to sleep. but. there is a small picture into my world again. be blessed everyone!!! never stop, never give up. be known for love and truth. "killin devils and taking names" as some say it. lol.

I am a humbled man, with a passion that is growing, a fire that is burning, and i cant wait to learn more. Luv,
Sincerely,
Dennis