A few impressions from Sloshfest 2008 in pictures and videos:

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Mat 5:14-16 GNB “You are like light for the whole world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid. (15) No one lights a lamp and puts it under a bowl; instead it is put on the lampstand, where it gives light for everyone in the house. (16) In the same way your light must shine before people, so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven.

I recently experienced what it can mean to be the light of the world as a follower of Christ. With the Holy Spirit inside of us, we bring the reality of the Kingdom of God, the dominion of God everywhere we go. So when I go to my office in the morning I always invite God to be in the office with me. I know that He lives inside of me, but what I mean by that invitation is, that I invite God to bring His tangible presence into the office, so that all of my teammate’s and all the customers who call us can actually feel the presence of God and experience His love and grace.

For me there is no point in being a child of God and keeping my Daddy all for myself. I owe people an encounter with my Dad. And the more I share Him with others, the happier I become, cause our family grows and grows.

One of my colleagues offered me to order a mobile phone for me and sell it to me a lot cheaper then would usually be. I found that a bit dodgy, but still told him, if we will set up a proper contract of purchase and if it will sealed in its original packaging, I’ll be up for it. A few days later he approached me again and told me, he wants to give the phone to me as a free gift. The following 3 weeks I would ask him almost every day, when my new handset would arrive. He always found a different excuse.

Then suddenly at last weeks monday he said to me: “Bad news Tom, the phone is on its way to me, but it will not be the original one. It will be a counterfeit phone.” Well my reply was, that I wanted to have a think about that first. God then was very quick in telling me, that this is definitly going to be theft, cause the original brand would lose money because of that purchase of a fake phone. So later this week we met again and I told him: “I don’t want the phone, even though you offered it to me for free. God told me, that this is going to be seen as theft and I don’t want to steal, because thieves don’t enter heaven.” The guy seemed to be quite shocked at first, but then he returned to his joking around mode and everything was fine.

What I didn’t know this time was, that later that day the police would have him handcuffed and taken off the office premises for further questioning due to a lot of fraud issues he was involved with.

Here God’s light brought something to the surface, that was hiding in secret and in darkness for a long time. God taught me, that if I would have taken the phone that day, things would have turned around a lot different and the whole thing would have taken a much longer to come to the surface. Also they might have taken me as a suspect as well.

I’m thankful for that lesson and I’m very impressed by the power of God’s light in each of us followers of Christ.

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Tim, our Team-Leader and Pastor introduced me to a very special place last week. It is called Nash Point and is about 15 minutes by car away from where I live. We had a nice walk around there and then each of us took 45 minutes by himself to talk to God and read the bible. This was a very intensive time for me. God showed me several verses in the bible which really encouraged me! After the 45 minutes, Tim and I met again and talked about our experience and what God has told us. This then was very encouraging for both of us. Let me share one of the verses with me, that has impressed me the most:

How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They relish and feast on the abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light. [John 4:10, 14.]
(Psalms 36:7-9 - Amplified Bible)

It was a very precious and encouraging time Tim, God and I shared with each other and I’m really thankful for it. May we repeat that soon!

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From my humble point of view.

From the 16th to the 18th of August Emerge Wales had this conference running, that was called the SLOSH FEST. Because I have signed up to receive their newsletter, I knew SLOSH FEST would be on, months ago. I was really looking forward to it and to what God would do there. Why was it called SLOSH FEST? Well, let me quote their website:

“Slosh Fest ‘07 is looming! An opportunity to be filled to over flowing with the new wine of heaven like never before! I dont know about you but I’ve had enough of our efforts. I just want to be overwhelmed with Holy Spirit. I want to enter into the finished rest! I want to experience the pleasure of God!

See there’s no need to stay dry anymore the Holy Spirit is not going away but coming in realms and waves of glory as history unfolds. Joel’s army is going to be an army that experiences the mountains flowing with milk and new wine! We’re about to see He has invited us to eat at His table of wine until our cup overflows, even in the midst of war! Ha ha! Our efforts are not necessary! Shoobie doo! He made us righteous!”

So it was all about drinking from the wells of Salvation, drinking the New Wine, drinking the Water of Life that flows out of our bellies, …. simply drinking from God. It was not meant to be a teaching conference, or a “taking notes”-conference as John Scotland liked to describe it. The speakers weren’t invited to satisfy some peoples hunger for more head knowledge. There were simply there to help us drink.

When I went there the first night, it all was a bit strange to me. And don’t get me wrong here. I’m used to strange and weird manifestations or a noisy church envroiment. That wasn’t the point. There were other things going on the first night, that I could not agree with and that were really off the line so to speak. And sorry folks, you can not back up everything you do with “Those who don’t have a religious devil anymore, will be able to deal with this.” To be honest, I found that the first night of this conference was the most religious event I ever went to. I do have the gift of discernment, and that was what I discovered there the first night.

Well, anyway … I went there again on friday afternoon and to me surprise it felt and looked like as if I was on a completely different conference. The whole atmosphere was better, I didn’t feel all this pressure and manipulation anymore and one could really sense God in the house. So, I don’t know the reasons for this, but all I can say is, that the conference sessions on friday and saturday were a real blessing to me. I had two times were I was totally “lost in Him”. I was “whacked in the Holy Spirit” as the guys from EmergeWales used to say all the time. I had some real quality time with my Heavenly Dad and I was introduced to many new people from Barry that I didn’t know before. I will definitly go to another conference with Emerge Wales. Hopefully they will have Joshua Mills over again, cause I would love to sit under his ministry for a couple of days.

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The sunday at the beginning of the week in which I planned to move to Great Britian I had applied for a job with one of the most established companies in Britian. I applied for it online and didn’t really expect them to come back on me very soon. I applied for a number of other jobs with other companies, while I was still in Germany. But none of them would invite me in. On Tuesday I took the plane to Britian and arrived at my hosts house late in the night. The next morning their mobile rung and it was the company calling whom I had send my application to. They were asking for me for a 5-minute interview on the phone. God helped me with that and I answered all the question this fellow had. After the interview was over, he invited me over for a “face-to-face-interview” to their main office for the next monday, the 6th of August. Wow, that was really fast.

Friday the same week I met with some folks from NEO-Gibby team. We had a really blessed time of prayer and one of the girls had a vision. She saw me as an embryo in a mothers womb and she interpreted as follows: “In this vision you’ve been fed through the umbilical cord and you were in a womb. That means, you can rest. God is going to provide for you and you are in a safe place!” This really encouraged me.

The interview was a test at the same time. The tried the speed of my typing and how many mistakes I would make while I’m typing fast. The whole interview thing went on for about 1,5 hours.

Wednesday night I used the bathroom. I sat there and prayed. God talked to me, saying: “Do you really want this job at “….”? You know I can give you a better job, right?” And I said: “Yes, I know that. But I just think I wanna start somehwere. I could still apply for other jobs while working there.” And then He responded: “Alright, be prepared. They’re going to call you tomorrow and tell you, that you have been accepted as a new employee.”

Thursday morning I took a shower. During washing my hair, God told me: “Be quick. Prepare yourself, “…..” is going to call you soon and tell you that you have been given this job.” As soon as I was ready showered I went downstairs and told my hosts to please turn their mobile on, cause I believe the company is going to call to tell me, that I have the job, because God told me so. Andrew timed the next minutes. After 34 minutes the company called and told me, that I have the job and that my first workday will be the 3rd of September 2007.

I’m really impressed how God is managing all this here. The next thing I believe I’ll see, will be a very good accommodation. A very good flat or shared flat somewhere in Gibbonsdown, Barry. I’m sure I’ll find that soon. Glory to God!

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I had two meetings with my local dentist last week and today. Among other treatment we talked about the wisdom tooth on right side of my lower jaw. This tooth came to the surface in 2006. It was a ruin from the beginning. So I went to a dentist near seminary last year and he put a filling in there, but he gave me the advice to let him pull out all four of my wisdom teeth. Usually I don’t fear the dentist at all. But this guy was really brutal when he was working the filling into this tooth. So I decided to not come back and to receive prayer at church for this tooth. It didn’t hurt. The only annoying thing about it was, that it had a really rough surface and there was a weird feeling when I touched it with my tongue. Well anyway… A few weeks ago I received prayer for that tooth a second time and after a few days I tried to touch it with my tongue and I couldn’t find it anymore.

When I was with my local dentist now, she adviced me to have my mouth x-rayed. I already had a short look at the x-ray last week, but today I was able to have a longer talk with my dentist. She didn’t believe me, when I told her, that this tooth wasn’t removed by a dentist. But I told her, that I had received prayer about it and that I believe that God did a miracle in my mouth. She was really bewildered and said to me: “But it all looks so professional and nothing looks damaged. Are you sure they didn’t pull it out the last time you were there.?” I told her, that I had felt this tooth with my tongue until a few weeks ago. Now she didn’t know what to respond and simply dismissed me with a friendly “good bye, see you next time”.

Halleluja! Thank you God!

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Abba & I, I & Abba went on a walk together. We had a long chat. I talked to Him about sins and mistakes from the past and sorrows I had about the coming next few weeks. This whole “program” tried to control my thoughts and I was giving into it. But then I told Abba about it all and He gave me a very calm, but intensive answer: “Big boy, live today! Today is important. Yesterday is over. The sins and mistakes of the past are known to Me, they are forgiven and gone and you have allowed Me to change you. Give me the sorrows about tomorrow. You’re walking on my path and there you can expect all my support and care. Live today! Live with Me today! Be aware of My glory in and upon you. Look at Me. Ask Me what I’m doing in situations and then do the same. Follow my model. You have My love, My power … I Myself am in you. Live today & let Me live through you.“

Thought that might be an encouragement to some of you.

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Wow! I got so blasted today, when I watched the recording of the Friday Night service of Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship via their ReviveTV page. I was sitting in front of my computer, when suddenly the fire of God made its way inside of me so massively, that I couldn’t hold myself back and started to jump up and down with my chair! I started to scream, laugh and shake all at the same time. It felt like as if my chair was moved through the room by Daddy. I found myself away from the desk later. Wow. And later on where some breakthrough prophecies and the worshippers encouraged everybody to join them in an indian war dance, so I joined that. And so much fell off of me and I just know, that I know that I experienced a major breakthrough today. I feel so much love for my heavenly Daddy inside of me. I am so blasted, so ruined by now. I LOVE HIM! He is so good! So awesome. I then received a word for a good friend of mine and it was so detailed and long. Wow. God, you’re surprising me all the time!

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John wrote:

(Revelation 1:10, Amplified Version)
I was in the Spirit [rapt in His power] on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a great voice like the calling of a war trumpet,

Now, that is a good word right there. Quiet short, yes. But last night, when I watched the live streaming of RMI’s evening service, Rodney Howard-Browne started his welcoming right with that verse. And he said, he believes that God will raise up a generation of people who are constantly "rapt in His power". Yeah, that is what I’m here for. That is what I’m looking for. Thank you heavenly daddy! "There is no high like the Most High!"

Today we had our evening worship service. Every last sunday is a worship service. And we met as "N4 prayer guard" 30 minutes before the service. N4 prayer guard was created by our pastor a few weeks ago and it is modelled right after the watchmen on the wall in Nehemiah 4. We’re just in the process of kicking out the religious spirit off our congregation. I’m so glad God showed our pastor and us, that this is on His roadmap for us right now! Please, pray and decree with us!

During the time of intercession I got really drunk in the Holy Spirit. I was laughing and it was just soo good. On the way out of the prayer chamber and over to the service room I had to hold on to one of my good friends to be able to walk there. But the strange thing was, as soon as we entered the service room I went back "sober" every minute I was there. When the time for the announcements came, I had one announcement to make about our guest preacher we’ve invited from England for the mid of April and also about our new soaking evenings. I was still a bit "high in the Most High" when I went to the front. But as soon as I touched the pulpit, I was as sober as one could get and my announcements where just regular and boring. Isn’t that weird? I mean, what was that? I’m still shaking my head over that.

After that I went back to my soaking mat. I was listening to the sermon, which was good and encouraged me. But I’m so hungry to go away from just listening to some good appeals and come right into the real thing. Experiencing more of the Kingdom of God right in and around us!!! I think, it is really easy to experience that, but we germans just make it to difficult in our minds. Oh God, have mercy! Help us!

Let me tell you something. I’m not after some "happy clappy" service and some acting like being drunken and inside you’re dying. No! I’m after the real thing! And Heidi Baker is an example for me in that. I see the fruit in her life and her missionary work. I want that. And I don’t want that just for myself. Just to have good time and feel good. No! I want that, to share it. I want others around me to be touched with the reality of God. I want to see more people radically healed then just one among 30! And I had times in my life, times in my God given ministry were I had that every minute, every second. And if at home alone by myself, I experience this presence of God. I experience Him changing me, cleaning me out, shaking me and making me new. So what is the point? Why doesn’t that happen in church on a regular basis?

Pray for me, will you?

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Last weekend I hat a very lonk talk to an almost “professional” clairvoyant who is only 16 years of age. He is talking to people about their future and is using regular skat cards for that. I met him via Skype and just had it on my heart to share the gospel with him. He claimed that he is also working with “angels”, so that was the point where I started my talk with him.

I asked him some questions about the angels and how he gets in contact with them and so on. That caught his interest and very soon he started to ask me, why I’m asking him these questions. So I told him about my relationship with Jesus Christ and also told him some stuff about angels from the bible. Then I asked him the question if he knew what the source for his power is and where all these informations he receives for his clients come from. Well, he didn’t know exactly. He just thought the informations come from the cards and because of his supernatural gifting.

I asked him, who the giver of this gift was. He didn’t know either. So I told him a little about the fallen angel, named lucifer. I also told him about the fall of satan and how he became the opponent to God. Until then we were just chatting via instant messages on Skype. But now he called me via Skype and so we started to talk with our real voices.

I offered him, to pray for him so that he may found out the truth. He allowed me to do so. After I blessed him, he told me: “Wow, there is such a power coming from you. I can feel it. And it has so much peace in it.” Soon he got more and more open and curious. He started to ask me more questions and told me some of his life’s secrets. I won’t share them here, of course. But I was deeply moved by what I heard and he again asked me to pray for him and to continue to pray for him. God started to show me some things that were going on in the spiritual realm during our talk and I started to command the demons around and in Giuseppe to be quiet. As soon as I did that, he became even more open. It was amazing! Well, he didn’t give his life to Jesus that evening, but I left him with a lot to think about.

On sunday we again had a short talk. He was totally different then the night before. This time he was joking around and seemed to try to deflect me from what I wanted to talk to him about. Then he went offline very soon.

Today we talked again and he started to curse me and was simply defending himself and the things he does. A lot of fear was in his words and it seemed as he didn’t know what to say anymore and so he just started to curse me. In one of our talks he told me, that he fears that God would take away his fortune telling gift as soon as he would start a life with Christ. And today he told me: “I will never give up that gift and I will never lose it.”

Why am I sharing this with you? Cause I’m asking you to join me in prayer for Giuseppe. Let us pray, that the truth in person - Jesus Christ - will set him completely free!

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