November 2010
11-18-10  This last Monday, too the Spirit drew us into prayer at the college and words of prophesy came forth again. This empowers me to do the same in the jail and this week for the first time we stood up and laid hands on each other to pray for one at a time. I love it.
At my house I am planning to build a shed and the dirt work is getting done. A couple of weeks ago I purchased an old Powerstroke and have started to repair some leaks - learning again.

11-5-10  It is not easy to portray the works of the Holy Spirit in my life in a few lines right here. I keep going to the college fellowship. Last Monday we all prayed for each other one at a time. The Spirit of prophesy was released. Tuesday I went to the prayer group at Cornerstone. I bounced in between bible study, worship and prayer. I got so loaded up, that I went down to Main Street afterwards to release it in prayer. After a while a friend pulls up with her mother. Her mother then tells me about the empty building we are in front of and how her father used to pray inside for hours, when he owned it. This is big encouragement for me to keep praying in front of this building, which God pointed out to me in April.

Oktober 2010
10-22-10  I got the new job which I have been waiting for, for so long. It is still in the same place, but a new assignment. September 21st was my first day out on the service truck. And right away with the first customer we happened to have bible study on the combine - wow. Then I went through a week of heaviness, where I did not even want to eat until a new break through came, when I met Kevin last weekend. Monday night we were together at a fellowship among college students. After some talking/teaching, I prayed with Kevin and God healed his back, which was injured in an accident 2 years earlier, instantly and completely.  Praise the Lord!

September 2010
09-18-10  What a crazy week. For three days I was all stirred about such a secular thing as cars until I made a decision to trade. Wednesday I started listening to Mike Bickle's testimony on the prophetic history of IHOP. It encouraged me very much, especially when I feel so akward. Thursday night I partook in the awakening meeting online as so often. The Spirit was stronger than ever before - I couldn't stop praying in tongues even while doing laundry.
By Friday it was clear: I was offered two nice jobs this week and now I have to choose. Oh God make your will clear to me!

August 2010
08-30-10  The joy of the Lord in me lasted until Friday night, when was trying to hard to too many things done. I am afraid I have to say "no" to people more often, who are asking me to do things for them. The day only has 24 hours and the week only 6 work days according to Scripture. My consequences were neck pain and poor sleep. I got better over the weekend resting, worshipping and praying.
One day and hopefully soon I will have the right balance of work and rest. Today we were asked at work to increase our working hours to 10 per day - not my favorite of course. But I will be obedient without complain.

08-26-10  In a prayer meeting on Tuesday night I was led to read Luke 18. The last event in this chapter came very much alive to me like a Rhema. This blind beggar is sitting at the road side, noticing a group of people approaching. So he asks "What is going on?". "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by", he is told by one of the crowd. Immediately the blind realizes his chance and without hesitation and full of faith he shouts "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me". The blind beggar recognized Jesus. He knew who he was and is.
"Hush, be quiet.", the people tell him to not disturb the Master in whatever discourse HE might have been in at the time. But the blind does not at all care, what people say, because this is the only chance he has. He believes, that Jesus is his only hope. So now he screams at the top of his voice "Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me." As a result Jesus has him brought before HIMSELF and asks "What do you want ME to do for you?", leaving the door wide open for anything the blind beggar might want. We could quickly come up with a long list of wishes and even stuff we might want, being asked that kind of a question by the all powerful Creator. But the blind man only wants to see, even knowing that this would be the end of begging and the beginning of a life of hard work. "Lord, I want to see.", he replies to Jesus. And Jesus granting his request explains to everyone "Receive your sight, your faith has healed you.". The beggars unwavering faith was manifested in shouting and screaming to the Lord totally oblivious to what others might think or say. Therefore he was not only healed from an incurable illness by human standards but he also got to look straight into the Master's face as the first thing he got to see in his new life. The manifestation of the beggars child-like believe and the resulting healing is just what Jesus was talking about a few verses earlier in the same chapter.  "I tell you the truth, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Because the beggar did as he did, his life was drastically changed by Jesus.
And when the people, who were trying to shut up the beggar before, saw the miracle, they praised God.

08-23-10  I spent the weekend at IHOP in Kansas City. Oh how wonderful. I received prophecies from two different people on the first night, very encouraging and confirming. A a man asked me to pray for his back to be healed and I gave him my testimony beyond praying. In the prayer room I received peace. On the second night I was filled with the joy of the Lord. I experienced physical healing in my own body and in others I prayed for.
Again I will pray, that these kind of meetings will happen in Garden City, too as I received instruction from the Spirit on this.

08-11-10  Things are still about the same. I am very anxious (a little too anxious) to see God move and fulfill more prophecies. A new book I am reading "The Remnant" by pastor Larry Stockstill is encouraging me again to do more discipling. It is also a good read for pastors, since Larry is talking a lot about things, which are going on in church today and should not or vise versa.

July 2010
07-19-10 Jail ministry is still fun every time I go, even so there have been attacks on me for reciting scripture, that some did not want to hear. But Jesus told us that persecution is imminent. A minister who has never been attacked for telling what the bible says, probably hasn't said a lot.
Work is still slow in the shop. Therefore I couldn't understand why I was so tired the last four weeks. Last Friday my roommate moved out and I felt a sudden freedom and a load lifted, when I came home. He is not a believer and brought bitterness and heresy into my house. This just shows, that I need to get better at spiritual warfare.

I found three prophecies of disaster last week. They do line up with my vision from December 26 and my dream in April. I have met at least three more people having dreams of destruction for America just here in town "by chance".
 

It will be all interesting to watch. I enjoy it utmost to live in these most exciting times and be part of Christ preparing HIS church for HIS second coming.

June 2010
Oops, another month went by. There just never seems to be enough time for everything after work. On May 28 I became an American citizen. We went on to IHOP Kansas City for the weekend. I was prophesied over and confirmed in everything I was doing by 3 different people. How great is Yahweh!. I also prophesied over a young man and greatly encouraged him from scripture and my life experiences. It feels good to be useful.
Later in June we had the first revival meetings in Garden City. Few people came and healings were reported. Praise Yahweh. I incorporated the "House of Prayer" as a nonprofit organization (church) in Garden City. Until God is providing for a place/building worship and prayer will take place at my house.
Wheat harvest is in full swing. The crop is looking good. Praise Yahweh! But we have little work in the shop.
The book "Fresh Wind, fresh fire" is more proof for the utmost necessity of prayer and what will happen, when God's people seriously and diligently pray. It brought about the Brooklyn Tabernacle churches and it's world known choir.

May 2010
05-11-10 I am settling in my new spiritual direction and beginning to enjoy the new freedom. To see the excitement in jail every time I am coming is a huge blessing. Yahweh is sooooo good. New hope is rising.
I am looking forward to Shavout or Pentacost as it is called in Greek. It is first mentioned in Exodus 23 as the feast of weeks. It is supposed to be conducted 50 days after Passover and is a celebration of God's abundance. In the Old Testament it was for the coming abundance of the harvest. In the New Testament God expanded it to the abundant outpouring of HIS Spirit.

05-01-10 It's been a long time for updates. I was very busy and much has changed.
There is no water in the river right now. I found out about it on April 3rd. As I prayed down in the river bed the Spirit told me "... because the people did not appreciate it". It is sad but not too surprising.
I slowly stepped away from Cornerstone Church during the last couple of months with much wrestling in prayer since late December, when I asked myself for the first time if I had outgrown Cornerstone. It was confirmed to me in a dream on April 12. Meanwhile my jail ministry has been established and 3 inmates were led to Christ. I have utmost joy in this. Outside the jail another person was led to Christ and 2 have been baptized. Praise Yahweh.
Also during April few people have started coming to my house for fellowship without me doing anything to it. This week I started reading a new book "The Messianic church arising". It is extremely moving and confirms the changes in my spiritual life. It is terrifying to read what all has been lost since the early church. The good thing is, that Yahweh is about to restore HIS church to what it is supposed to be. The outpouring at IHOP is only the beginning of a world wide awakening, which has been prophesied at least since the Asuza Street revival over 100 years ago. It will last until Yeshua comes again to receive HIS pure and spotless bride.
In the meantime things at work are going very well and I enjoy, that we still have not moved to the longer hours.
I have a room mate since this week and enjoy him very much. He is just 18 and is attempting life "on his own".
Last not least, my farm toy collection is gone. I decided to part from it, because it does not have fruit for the Kingdom. It will be auctioned on May 21st at www.totallyauction.com

February 2010
02-28-10 Last weekend we visited the International House of Prayer in Kansas City. The fun can hardly be described. JD got water baptized and slain in the Spirit.
Last Monday I went into the jail to minister to a young friend. I got to minister to two more adolescents and see a need to come back to feed these hungry souls.  My guide, who took me in, told me that after 20 years of laboring he is finally seeing fruit.
We went down to the river yesterday. Water is still flowing and we prayed for God's increase. The excitement of these times keeps on growing.

02-14-10  Oh boy are there things happening. It's just not so easy to write them here. After studying the prophecies of Chuck Pierce etc. I had a dream to rent a place and start a house of prayer in Garden City. I went downtown to pray about two weeks later and seek God for further instructions. Instead I was suddenly aware of the spirit of poverty and depression on Main Street as I prayed. Apparently it is not quite time yet for a house but instead more preparation prayer.
I had much joy during the past two weeks at work. The good deeds of our new service manager are taking effect not only on my pay check but also my emotions, after I got better in dealing with the foreman.
This week some young musicians stayed at my house after giving a concert at church. Again God put this nice house HE gave me to good use.
Today I found one more longtime prayer answered: Water is flowing under the Main Street bridge down the river. I never thought what then 11 year old J.D. had prophesied just about 6 weeks ago would come to pass that soon. But then again God seems to be speeding things up lately. I pray, that the river will never stop flowing from now on and increase to a full river.
Prayer in tune with IHOP is still vital and I hope to be there in person this coming weekend.

January 2010
01-22-10  Finally a great prayer night again together with IHOP on the screen.
A week ago I had some boys from the youth stay at my house overnight. They fulfilled my expectations and went wild around the house - what a joy. God promised me a year and a half ago, that HE would fill my house and HE did.
Oh and there was this incident last Sunday night. I got ticked of at my sometimes so demanding friend and wanted to tell him his boundaries. But God spoke to me very directly "Let him use you". I remembered, that God had always blessed me, when it looked like that other people used me. So I did not vent and took my friend home. On the way I spoke to him about the Holy Spirit. When he got out of the car, he thanked me for the conversation. If I had vented he surely would have not thanked me. Praise God. Thank you Abba for your guidance.

01-10-10  The storm seems to increase. A friend of mine went to jail and he is still a youth. It grieves me endlessly that he has to go through this. I wish more people would be praying more and playing less to break generational curses and iniquities and to release the prophecies already spoken, so kids had a better way of growing up and could enjoy their youth while they learn. It led me to a post on facebook which I had to correct, because people got offended. But I also found support and learned through this incident.
God is always in control and not surprised by any of our actions and has his special ways to lovingly correct us. Thank you Abba (Father).

01-03-10 Really? Yes, it is a new year. And it looks like God wants to do greater things then ever. I only got to watch maybe three messages of the "onething" conference at IHOP. If they were all as explosive as the ones I saw, our government might push to shut this place down, because these men of God are pointing out many things, which our politicians do not want to hear.
Another move of God was reported to us at church today. Vietnam has finally allowed one Christian church to exist legally, after growing underground faster and stronger than anything else.

December 2009
12-27-09 It was a long and fierceful prayer night yesterday, until 1:30am, starting with Jeremiah 10. I checked again where the "Christmas" tree comes from. It has nothing to do with Christ, but is a pagan worship symbol which was used first among the German tribes well over 1000 years ago. The date for "Christmas" comes from the European tribal rituals having a feast around the equinox of the sun which happens on December 21st. There is a reason why "Christmas" is not found in the bible and Christ's birth was not celebrated then. Christ was never truly born. HE has always existed with God (John 1). The incident referred to as "Christmas" is Christ becoming flesh. That means, that "Christmas" is really a celebrating of the flesh and not the Spirit. Paul writes plenty about the war between flesh and Spirit.
Relating to the prophecy given through Chuck Pierce, it is very clear, that Yahweh is wanting to purify HIS church and break the religious spirit in it and purge the church from all pagan rituals.
This is why there is such a heightened urge to prayer among the people that hear HIM.

12-25-09 I finally found audio and video of the prophecies about Kansas given through Chuck Pierce: http://freshpublishing.com/gloray-advance-conference-2009-fresh-c-197-p-1-pr-33435.html
Just scroll down to the session "Changing of the New Land". Here are a few notes from this session.

I am shocked again over all the idols of this current "season". Just read Jeremiah 10:1-5 in the NIV.

12-20-09 On the 18th my dear friend and spiritual father Destal Tyler (click here) passed on to our Lord. He was truly a man of God and the fruit of his works will be everlasting.

12-14-09 Wow what a week. The assignments have been heavy on me. I couldn't even connect with God as usual in our breakthrough prayer night last Tuesday. I took Thursday and Friday off from work and was looking forward to it all week. So I started early Thursday morning with my final paper. I got along well, found much to read and stopped for the prayer at the OC with IHOP. I came back home and intended to go to bed with one last check on the computer. But I got into my final paper again and it flowed so well, that I went on until 2:30 that night and finished it without getting tired. A miracle from God, just for me. HE is sooooo good. Friday I did the other three assignments until the afternoon. And I had anticipated to be busy all through the weekend. This feels sooooo good. Praise God.
More good things happened on Saturday and Sunday we had the best Christmas project ever at Cornerstone Church. It was totally focused on Christ coming into the world and into our hearts.

12-02-2009 So much to do and so little time. I am working on getting a daily prayer team established to join with IHOP to pray for revival and where ever the Spirit leads us. At the same time my professor is piling assignments on us like crazy. The plan for my final paper does not work right now. I am not getting the information which I am hoping to get. I can do only so much and have to leave the rest to God in faith.

November 2009
11-26-2009 The Spirit keeps moving. Last Sunday Pastor Neil read the prophecy over Kansas again, given by Chuck Pierce maybe last year. When I get a copy I shall post it here. Tuesday night testimonies were given of what happened to each one in our prayer meeting a week ago, when the Spirit hit stronger than ever; some were slain, I was first convicted in what incredible filth we are living, then shaken as I saw the need for cleansing, then drunk, as HIS love flooded. I have joined IHOP online since the 19th and started a prayer watch at the OC.
An interesting article and testimony about Muslim believes found me this week experienced and written by Rick Mathis.

11-20-2009 My friend Ray got saved tonight. Praise God. Now I have one more brother.

11-19-2009 The Spirit is moving. Just watch the live stream at www.ihop.org  (International House Of Prayer) It spilled right over into our prayer group on Tuesday shaking everyone like never before and touched the "Core" yesterday.

11-13-2009 Unbelievable, another month has gone by. Many things have happened since my last post. I was sick, but only for two days, partly because I got too wound up over some things at work - not a good thing to do.
Last week I attended our prayer meeting a church again. This is so good for my soul (and as a result for my body, too). I have not done it for so long, because I thought I was too busy with my online class. But it made me restless and weak. Lately our lectures have been very minimal because the professor is out of town often.
This week I attended our "burn" night again, after missing the last one. This is a time of prayer and intense worship. The two hours went by faster than ever. After two weeks of spending more time with God one on one, I am feeling much stronger and my job is not affecting me much less.
Today I looked into an opening for an electrical engineer. But 6-7 days of work per week and on call the rest of the 24/7 is not good. When is one supposed to take care of life as in spending time with God and family? No wonder many are burned out these days and productivity is going down.
I finally put my photos from Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston, TX on. Check them out.

October 2009
10-18-2009 Just got back from a weekend in the corn maze www.kansasmaze.com . The best part is, that I always find some one there to have a deep conversation with.

10-14-2009 The Core is launched. It is a new branch of our Remnant youth ministry and geared to be a one-on-one discipleship training for high school students. I felt the Spirit so strong tonight that I wrote in my diary "I felt like revival has begun today".

10-13-2009 This weather is strange these days. This is the fourth day of total overcast and nonstop misty rain. It is very unusual for Western Kansas and not good for the ongoing harvest.

10-12-2009 I got one of those Eden Pure www.edenpure.com electric infrared heaters. Now I want to find out how this is going to influence my gas and electric bill.

10-11-2009 I was a little sick last weekend. It was a stomach pain hurting at every bite I ate. I knew right away it was caused by stress. I had bottled up some anger from work and not dealt with it. Plus I had stretched myself over too many projects. So I did what God's word prescribes. I prayed, repented and reconsidered my schedule. I canceled the Monday night bible study and decided to enjoy my wonderful home more instead of constantly craving for things I don't have right now. Three days later God healed me. Forgiveness is so marvelous. I wish everybody could understand this concept. We would have a lot less sick people and health insurance would not be such a problem, because health care starts with the relationship with God. I just finished reading "None of these diseases". It's a great book written by two doctors (grand father and grand son) S.I. McMillen and David E. Stern. God's word has an unimaginable greater potential of solving this nations health problems than Obamacare.

Speaking of politics: How does this current ice and snow weather in the High Plains in early October fit in with the "global warming" phantasy? The record cold of the past winter in North America and Europe did not line up with that phantasy either. I love it, when God proves self proclaimed "experts" wrong.

September 2009
09-12-09 It is already September and I have not uploaded any vacation photos.  Well, that's how it goes with a 50+ hour work week, church activities like youth group, a "little brother" and another class at K-State. I have signed up for the "Applications with the smart grid" class. It is a lot of fun to see the ideas out there. Only the difficulties in the K-State classroom have damped the fun a bit. Not all the lecture videos come through. There were no problems like this in my last online class. But the software and hardware at K-State has been changed and now we are proven again, that not all changes are for the better.
Out in the country corn harvest has started and it is looking pretty good. A farmer friend of mine stated the other day, that this year he has harvested the highest yielding wheat in his farming life. Therefore hopes for the fall crops are high. Praise God!

August 2009
08-20-09  Wow it has been a while again. I was in Germany for 2 weeks, seeing my parents and my sister with family. I had a lot of good time and some not so good. In the old downtown of Gelnhausen I behaved like a real tourist and took photos at every turn. I wish we had some of this modern engine technology of German cars here in America - lots of power out of small engines with little thirst.
When I got home I had to repair my mowing tractor and still working to get my Suburban to 4WD again. At work I have a new boss and hope that he gets some much needed improvements done.
Changes at church, too - our youth group will move to Sunday nights to draw more youngster into the saving arms of Christ. The food outreach ministry has started and I haven't even seen it yet. 24 hours a day seem very short.

July 2009
07-22-09  There is a new atmosphere at work. I hope the changes will soon have a positive effect. In between I am reading books on hell right now written by people, that have been there, like "23 minutes in hell" by Bill Wiese or "To hell and back" Dr. Maurice Rawlings. It is very sad to see, that so few people believe in hell as it is described in the bible and than have a rude awakening when they die. Why can people not understand, that things just don't disappear just because they don't believe in it? Just try it with that wall next to you. Does it disappear just because you don't believe it exists? There are many things we can not see, but they do exist; like electricity for example. No we can not see electricity by looking at a light bulb. The light is caused by the electricity, but we can never see electricity itself. But nobody would doubt the existence of electricity. So would it not be smarter to believe in hell and make sure not to go there instead of refusing to believe its existence and then find out different after death?

07-10-09  J.D. and I made it into the newspaper, too.
Wheat harvest is over since a week, but I am still catching up on the things I had to put off during harvest. Getting my degrees evaluated at K-State is one of those.    It is very dry now and I am praying very much for rain.  At work we keep getting new managers; this time the service manager is being replaced. I hope it will be for the better.

June 2009
06-22-09  Last week brought an exciting vacation. J.D. and I were among 5 chosen pairs to be invited to K-State and do a TV spot with head coach Bill Snyder. What a great award and blessing.
After another 2.25 inches of rain Saturday the wheat harvest is starting now.

06-09-09  To continue on the economy and our government - the Word of God says in Psalm 127:
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who built it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps awake in vain. It is in vain for you to rise up early, to retire late, to eat bread of painful labors; For HE gives to HIS beloved even in his sleep.
This simply means, that unless we do things God's way, it will not work out.

06-08-09  The changes at my work place keep going on. Managers are still changing. The weather still remains on the cooler side with some hot days in between. My room mate is painting my living room - excellent.

The bankruptcy of GM, once the largest automaker in the world and American icon, is sad. But it was in the making for nearly 30 years. I could see it coming just watching Opel, a GM subsidiary in Europe. Opel, once a nobody, started making a name for itself in the late 70s and more in the 80s with some very popular, well engineered models and probably the most economical yet powerful four cylinder engines later on. I owned some myself. Still there were struggles with quality and service. Then came a man named Ignaz Lopez and taught Opel how to buy even cheaper parts. In the early 90s Opel started a new factory in East Germany, which quickly became the worlds most productive auto plant. Shortly after that the consumers caught up with the poor quality. Warranty costs rose fast and sales declined. Opel lost billions, which GM had to replace. At the same time BMW rose from not overly popular to a class on its own with good quality, a great model line and excellent engineering especially engines. In the early 90s one of the leading BMW CEO's wanted to switch to Opel to get the quality back into their cars, but GM prohibited the man's intensions. The manager went to Audi instead to assist the rise of another noble brand. In America GM did not do much better and is paying dearly for those past mistakes now. Unfortunately, thanks to the Obama administration the tax payer will pay, too. But what is even worse is, that the GM CEO's still don't understand what happened and are cutting now in the wrong places. How can one expect to keep selling and servicing a lot of cars by closing nearly half the dealerships. Why would one shut down a brand like Pontiac with its very unique and popular model line up and at the same time keep two totally redundant brands like GMC and Chevrolet untouched? Why not keep the Pontiac with its line of smaller vehicles alive, that meet the demands of higher fuel prices and instead melt Chevrolet and GMC into one to save the double up?

No one can ignore God's decrees without suffering the consequences for very long. Ill gotton and hasty gain does not last.
Proverbs 28:22, 12:22
God's values clearly reflect quality work. HIS word also shows a clear connection between morals and economy (Deuteronomy 28-29).

May 2009
05-24-09  The temperature roller coaster is finally letting up and leaning more towards warm. Seeing God growing things in the fields and the garden is so much fun. I took the top of the Jeep today and enjoyed the new radio, too. I've got a new bible software on my computer. It's called "Quick Verse" and was only ten dollars. I found lots of additions to it on the companies website.
I had to work on a JD silage cutter yesterday and was amazed again how complicated a machine can be that only has to cut up plants. How simple and still powerful a cutter can be is shown on my silage page.

05-12-09  I am so glad my K-State class is finished. It was very time consuming.
It is astonishing cool this spring - the coolest spring since I am in Kansas. So much for global warming.
This past weekend we had the world famous play "heavens gates - hells flames" take place in our church for three days. Many people gave made the decision to give their heart to our Lord Jesus Christ and accept his forgiveness of our sins. I pray that none of these new believers may fall away, but grow to mature followers and receive the full baptism of the Holy Spirit.

April 2009
04-19-09  Wow God has done impressive things again during the last two weeks. I have been praying for rain ever since I moved to Garden City. This past week God has blessed us with over four inches (100mm) of rain. HE exceeded my expectations again.
The other great thing was a major breakthrough at work. But I don't want to go into any more details at this time.

March 2009
03-24-09  I have to admit, it is not easy to come up with something to write here ever so often. Not that there is nothing going on in my life, but the majority of events are not ready to go public yet.
I had a great surprise last Saturday, when I planted a pear tree together with my little friend J.D. . As we dug into the ground we soon found the soil to be moist. But we had not had any rain to speak of since last October and no snow either. This just proves again, that we can not explain rationally many of the things that God does.

February 2009
02-18-09   It is amazing how much time one college class can take. To my struggles all the old complex mathematics, that I hoped never to see again, came back to me. I am glad God is helping me finding solutions. At first I studied the old way and worries and fear of failing set in and my back was hurting again. Then I remembered God's command not to fear. I repented and God healed my back. A week after that  I struggled with an equation the professor had written down. I searched through all my old scripts and books, got close but didn't come up with a solution. This time I remembered to ask God instead of worrying. I prayed and went to bed. 5am the next morning I woke up with the solution in my head. I wrote it on paper quickly and went to work.             Praise God.

January 2009
01-18-09   I became a K-State online student and had my first class this Friday. I also signed up for the YMCA and went swimming - my favorite sport.
Last Monday God allowed me to lead my neighbor to Christ. That was a first for me. Praise God!

01-04-09   I went to a funeral yesterday. In the past I avoided going to funerals. My reasoning was "What is the point of honoring the dead person now, instead of doing something for him, when he was still alive." While praying for the parents of the young deceased, the Holy Spirit explained to me. "Attending a funeral is not for the dead person, but for the left behind". So I went to the funeral and had a new experience of being among strong believers. Hardly a tear I saw, instead I heard strong witnessing for a life with Christ, while friends and relatives testified from the life of the passed on 22 year old.
Also for the first time in life, I got to see a dead body. I can not say person, because there was nothing person like anymore. The person's spirit had truly departed. There was just dead matter left. Even a sleeping person is nothing like this.  

December 2008
12-21-08  I have followed up on "The cross and the switchblade" with the book "Run baby run" by Nicky Cruz. He is one of the first boys saved by the Holy Spirit through David Wilkerson. Now I am reading "Beyond the cross and the switchblade" by David Wilkerson. I hope to put a lot of this exciting knowledge into practice soon.

12-07-08 The Lord had me meet a number of people this week to minister to. That is new to me and a result of me drawing closer to Him. My latest read, a book from John Bevere "Drawing near" is guiding me.
I am also reading "The cross and the switchblade" by David Wilkerson, founder of Teen-Challenge. It is very exciting and helps me to better understand the teens I am meeting downtown. I wish every youth pastor would read this book.

November 2008
11-24-08  I got all new windows in my house a week ago. Now I am filling in gaps in the southwall, that have always been there and could be felt at southwind conditions. I hope to find time soon to post some photos of the windows made in Germany.

11-09-08  The Holy Spirit made it clearer to me today. Paul teaches us in Romans 13:1, that there is no authority on earth which is not established by God. This also reminds us on what Jesus said to Pontius Pilate in John 19:11, that Pilate would not have any power unless it was given to him by God.
The question for us, the church of God, is now: Are we willing to obey the authority and the new president, that God is establishing right now in front of our eyes? Are we willing to follow him whole heartedly? Are we willing to obey God to the full and pray for our new "king" Barrack Obama and therefore release in the Spirit realm what God wants to do through this man, He has chosen?
Proverb 21:1 teaches us, that the kings heart is in God's hand. Therefore we can rest assured again, that God is in control and He wants to do good.
I know this sounds strange to many of us, considering what Obama has said and campaigned for. It took me a while to get around to it as well. Now I am excited to see God work again and I want to be part of HIS plan, first of all through being obedient.

11-07-08     The big election has taken place. I am curious what the change will be now. Kim Clement has an encouraging outlook on America's future after this election.
James Dobson also had some very encouraging news/interviews on his daily broadcast on Thursday November 6. Among many actions about 33,000 young people prayed for 12 hours in the Qualcom Stadium in San Diego on election Tuesday to support the California marriage amendment. And God answered our prayers.

Oktober 2008
The coolness in early September has postponed our fall harvest about two weeks. Now harvest is in full swing.

After work the garden ministry of Cornerstone Church takes up a lot of my time. I have found quite a few spiritually hungry people through our food outreach, whom I am still ministering to as the time God is giving me allows.

The last weekend in October I went to the men's retreat of Cornerstone Church at Silver Cliff Ranch in Colorado. What a wonderfully uplifting and freeing experience for the spirit.

September 2008
still working on adding pages to my site

9-28-08
it was cold early this month, but now we are back in the 90s again
fall harvest has come into full swing this week, about two weeks later then usual

August 2008
The website is born and growing.