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That's Eliane on the left showing the Proclaimer Bible, and on the right is Paul, his wife Janis, and Eliane with the Proclaimer Bible after a hard day of work of moving furniture.

Flash News Alerts

Unless you are from Pakistan, you probably can't read the writing on the poster. However, all of our affiliates should recognzied the photo is pastor Ayub Sagar. Please remember to support this event.

News from Brother Ayub in Pakistan! Brother Ayub and his team are very innovative and consistent in witnessing to the lost. They will by holding a Childrens Christmas Rally on December 21, 2009.

They will rent a large church building, have prizes for children coming from 20 churches, have around 1,000 children with pastors and teachers, meals will be provided for the children and all the participants, and the poor and orphaned children will be helped in addition to the showing of Christian videos.

All affiliates, please be sure to pray for the success of this endeavor, and if anyone wants to help Brother Ayub and his team please contact them by going to their website: www.ourchurch.com/member/m/MandateMinistry

We just returned from our mission trip to Brazil. It was awesome what the Lord did, including casting demons out of a woman. See the story and pictures by going to the main menu and clicking on the Link: Brazil and Beyond Ministries.

Affiliates please note: Regarding our ministry of discipleship, on October 20th I postal mailed to each affiliatre two great teaching CDs. One is about the importance of the tongue (the words we speak) and the other is about the powerful blood of Jesus. Please share them with your congregations and be blessed. Also, please visit our affiliates page where have have listed a new affiliate, pastor Samuel and his congregations from India.

Beware - the Counterfeit Will Come

During the contest most every affiliate has observed the Lord is manifesting his greatness in your part of the world. Although the contest is over it is important not to stop, but to keep this fire going. It can get even much bigger than what you have already experienced, and I believe that is what the Lord wants to do. It could even become known all over Africa and Asia. However, the Lord prompted in my heart to write to you today and share with you a few things.

The devil is upset about what the Lord is doing through you and he will move to stop it. The most likely way is that he will try to cause dissention among your leadership. It’s important to remain in one mind and one accord. Also, he will send his messengers, disguised as believers, during services to disrupt things. That happened in this country in the great Azuza Street Revival during the early 1900s. Brother Seymour was the one who God used to usher in this mighty move of the Holy Spirit.

Unfortunately, brother Seymour lacked discernment and was unable to recognize when the counterfeit moved in. Eventually false signs, wonders, prophecies, etc. took over and the revival stopped. Be sure the devil will begin moving in on what is happening there in your work and try to stop it.

You can do several things to counter the enemy. First of all I would plead with you to share this information with your leadership so everyone in all of your congregations can remain in one accord and be on the lookout for counterfeit manifestations. Also, fast and pray that the Lord would give those in your leadership group (both men and women) the gift of discernment, and always remain humble knowing it is God doing this thing and not people.

Another practical thing you can do is to make it clear to the people attending, there will be no gifts of the Spirit manifested through those in the crowd - but only by those trusted and recognized people in leadership positions that the pastor has chosen. If someone in the crowd doesn’t honor that, the ushers should be trained to look for these things and move in to deal with the situation before it gets of out of hand and the speaker in the pulpit has to ask for help. Kathern Kulman, a great evangelist in this country, used that tactic and her ministry lasted for many many years, where as the Azuza Street revival was very short lived.

Manifestations in the crowd of falling down under the power of the Spirit, shaking, laughing, wailing under conviction of sin, staggering around as though drunk, and weeping are all normal Holy Ghost manifestations. However, remember not to allow any of the 9 gifts (manifestations - see 1Cor. Ch.12) of the Spirit to come from the crowd. Although it is possible they could be legitimate, if allowed to continue the devil will move in and stop the move of the Lord.

Also, beware of disruptive behavior of any kind, such as people crawling on the ground and barking like a dog (cast the devil out of that person), or shouting that goes beyond real praise and worship. There will be times when it is difficult to determine when the behavior is actually disruptive and the person is knowingly or even unknowingly being used by the enemy. In such situations have ushers close by to escort the person to the side to pray with the person. A little conversation with the person often reveals the truth. The point is - don’t tolerate any disruptive behavior. Just as Jesus put unbelievers out of the room when he prayed for someone, remove the disruptive messengers of Satan from the area.

I’m sure you understand my intentions of sharing this information with you simply are to help you benefit from my experience and help you to make your own decisions. May the move of the Lord among you grow more powerful than it is already, and may there be peace and harmony among your leadership.

In the Master’s service, Brother John

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Looking Ahead to Next Year’s Contest

In this year’s contest we had affiliates where only the pastor or just a few people did all the work. In others, more were involved as they went out in teams. But despite the grand success in winning the lost, not EVERY Christian was a soul winner. Imagine what could happen if every person in all of your congregations won at least one person to the Lord? It would be mind boggling. If EVERY Christian is a soul winner (see the story on the Affiliate News page: Catch the Vision) the gospel will spread like wildfire across Asia and Africa. As more are saved and also catch the vision, each one will go out and win someone else to the Lord.

So that's why next year we are going to base the winner on the affiliate who has the most individual adult members of their church winning at least one person to the Lord.

You might want to spend a large amount of time in training each person in your various congregations to be a soul winner. Review the lessons we gave on that coupled with the expertise of those in your church. That was the purpose of the contest being called EVERY Christian a soul winner. So next year we not only are going to try and make the celebration bigger and better, but we are changing the rules to better zero in on the EVERY Christian being a soul winner.

This rule change will also have added benefits in leveling the playing field. For example, an affiliate with vehicles is at an advantage of one where they have to do all the work by walking place to place. With the rule change having better mobility will not be an important factor. The important factor now will be that each adult member in your congregations is trained and unafraid to go out and win the lost.

Tentatively, here are the rules for next year’s contest (celebration) .

Rule 1. During the month of April 2010, count the number of members in all of your congregations who are adults. (people 12 years and older). Email this number to me sometime in April but no later than April 30th. The contest (Celebration) will start May 1st and end May31 st.

Rule 2. After May 31th (the end of the Celebration) get a count from all your congregations on the total number of individual adult members (people 12 and older reported in Rule 1) that won at least one person to the Lord during the contest period (month of May). I must receive an email of that number no later than June 31st. The weak place in this year’s contest was in reporting the numbers on time. So rule number three is:

Rule 3. If either of these two rules (1 and 2) are not complied with, the affiliate will be disqualified. I realize many of you have difficulty getting to a computer, but allowing four weeks both before and after the celebration should be sufficient for all.

Rule 4. The winner will be the affiliate who has the largest percentage of individuals in their total congregations, winning at least one person to the Lord. Review the above examples. If you have questions or suggestions please email me.

We plan on making next year’s Celebration bigger and better and more fun. You suggestions are always welcome.

In Christ, Brother John

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(From a mission trip to Brazil) So you don't believe in the devil or demons? You should take a trip into witchcraft territory. This lady got into macumba (like New Age) and got more than she bargained for, and was tormented by the demon she opened the door to. It made her sick, violent, and partially blind. But the power of the risen Christ is greater. In the name of Jesus she was set free, but not without a fight. The demon thrashed her around on the floor for about three minutes, just like the demons Jesus dealt with in the Bible, before it had to come out. You can hear this whole exciting story by listening to the audio below. If the Mp3 player does not appear, right click anywhere on the screen and then click "refresh."