Well – what do I say? Where do I start? Revival is coming to Scandinavia. The Lord tells us that within 2 years the whole of Scandinavia will be in full revival. Not a one or two day ‘revival’ as advertised by so many churches. Full blown, solid gold, hallmarked at every corner revival like that of Wales, Azusa Street, the Hebrides, and many other places. It is coming. It is coming. The trouble is that I cannot share much of it all here – it will upset the balance and achieve for him what Satan is not able to achieve for himself. It could kill it off before it really gets going. But I get ahead of myself
There we were, nice and early on the flight to Copenhagen. Just John & I this time because Peter had only got back from Norway a couple of hours before we left for Denmark. Peter did actually join us on Saturday but more of that later. SO it was that we arrived in Copenhagen Kostrup Airport around 10:00a.m. to be met by dear friend Preben, our ministry partner in Denmark. I have to say right now that, having now experienced that which Peter does time after time after time, I now realise just how tiring it can be and just how much we have to rely on the Lord. By ourselves we just cannot do it. Only with His input and His supernatural energy can we do it.
We arrived to see snow everywhere – not very deep, but nevertheless snow. So we had a very pretty drive from Kastrup to Korsør. After lunch we went to see a local family, Susannah & Gunnar at Svenstrøp – about 20km from Korsør. After a time of fellowship, prayer, and ministry, we moved back to Korsør for an early dinner with a lovely young lady, Charlotte and more fellowship and prayer. From there we drove the 50km to Holbaek where we had previously visited Linda and Søren and their new cell group. The first thing we learned was that one lady, Lokke, had been healed of thyroid problems sufficient to preclude the necessity of surgery. Then Søren confirmed that he had been healed of foot and ankle problems and of a reflux problem which had caused him grief for several years. We heard a wonderful testimony from a lady called Mercy and, following a good time of ministry we entered into prayer for more healing for those present – including Linda and Søren’s daughter Sara. There were also words of encouragement for many people – especially Linda and Søren themselves. We finally got to bed around 2a.m. – a 22 hour day !! Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
The next day, Friday, saw us at the lovely home of Lars and Henrietta except that Henrietta was not there. SO Lars and Preben suggested John and I take some air and go for a walk with them. As we were right by the sea this seemed a great idea and we set off to find ourselves wading through calf deep snow !! About 2 hours and 5km or so later we arrived back ‘home’ to a very welcome cup of coffee and some even more welcome local home-made cakes. Actually the walk was exhilarating. We saw all sorts of wild life and waded through more snow than I can shake a stick at. Most surprisingly of all – we remained dry and very warm throughout the walk. Unsurprisingly we met not a soul all the time we were out – at least not until we were nearly back again. A time of fellowship and some prophetic words for Lars (& Henrietta in her absence) concluded the visit and we drove back into Korsør once again.
A very short break and on to a lovely lady called Anna-Lise in central Korsør where Preben had arranged for us to meet Erik & Mona. This wonderful couple have spent many years ministering among street children in Romania. It turned out that we had another acquaintance in common in another worker in Arad, Romania – a man called Lee who has been working with street children for many years. There were many words and confirmations including an extraordinary one by John. He spoke about Erik working with government officials over there to change things for these thousands of street children. This was an amazing confirmation of something Erik had been involved with some years ago when the then American President had sent an emissary to Romania and this man had met with Erik and recommended him to the Romanian government as the man to help with the restructuring of the law regarding the street children into more Christian lines !!! Erik and Mona had found the document produced at the time, and had been reminded of the ‘tasking’ just 2 days before we got there !!
After dinner back at Preben & Maureen’s home, we met with our old friends Preben and Bente once again for a short time of fellowship. Bente is the brave lady who does all our interpreting in Korsør and the Preben is the one who plays harmonicas for the praise and worship team. This was overtake only too quickly by their weekly prayer meeting in the church. Around 90% of the church members turned up – an astonishing figure and one which I would like to think other, larger churches should aim at emulating. I stood up to talk about us NOT taking God for granted but He changed that and I ended up managing to speak a few words of encouragement to everyone and we had an extended time of healing prayer and prophecy for everyone present. Bed again at 2:00a.m.
Saturday was the day Peter joined us. He was picked up at Kastrup and taken to Kai and Annette’s house in Køle – just outside Copenhagen. We had lunch there with their motorcycle group of about 15 people, then we settled down for a fellowship meeting with them all. There followed one of the most amazing testimonies I have ever heard from one of the group. This is the part where I disappoint you all because part of the testimony was the establishment, in the name of Jesus, of a bridge between two traditional enemies. That it took place in a court room and even left the judge slack-jawed may be all that I can tell you for now but it gives just a tiny flavour and, please believe me, the significance of it could be so far reaching that it blows the mind. What does scripture say – “more than you can dream or even think...”? Regarding the work this group is doing, Peter gave them this very brief Word from the Lord – “I have made preparation – Not one will be lost.” And this brought great joy to all of them.
You see, some things are of such importance that it would simply be foolish to try to tell about them before the right time. We have asked these lovely people to keep a journal so that one day, the book may be written. As Peter also remarked, “Revival is as much a threat as a benefit because judgement will start in the house of the Lord.” We believe that righteousness is coming to Denmark and all of Scandinavia – and it is coming soon.
Saturday evening was another meeting which, really, simply followed on from where the afternoon one left off. So after a time of praise and worship, Peter asked the group what they would like him to speak about and he ended up with Matthew 10:8 “......drive out demons ......” and Peter ended up giving them a basic teaching on deliverance ministry. Then some fun started as he named about 30 demons present around the table. He was asked if they could all be driven out with one command? Yes – it was done when Jesus came to the mad man and the Gadarene herd of pigs. Hmm – the noise level around the table immediately started to rise and it was getting quite noisy. Both Peter and I knew immediately what was happening so I called (or rather bellowed) for silence and told them that all the demons in the were manifesting noisily to try to distract us from casting them out. In one sentence Peter cast them out and then taught the group about how they would try to return and that “Satan – you are a liar.” That seemed to do the trick.
Sunday dawned snowing again but it soon stopped and Peter and John set out for Kalundborg where Peter was to speak. I stayed to speak in Korsør. This is the fourth time I have spoken in Korsør so the people must have good staying power. I had been asked by Preben to speak about either Prayer & Fasting, or about Helping the Poor & Needy. No contest – as I asked him in the meeting, “Do I look like someone who knows a lot about fasting??” Preben may be built like a racing snake – I am more comfortably built however – let’s leave it at that. The Lord had immediately asked me “Who is my neighbour?” and I had planned to talk on that but Preben had also showed me a DVD of Bill Hibels of Willow Creek Church speaking about 1st Century Church in the 21st Century – a subject about which I too have written. The amazing thing is that their group bible study for this next week is all about the 1st Century church and how it operated. Don’t you just love it when the Lord lines things up so neatly for us??
In Kalundborg, Peter spoke on 1Kings 17:1-3 and the authority of a prophet. God is restoring the prophetic. In Kalundborg, prophesies have been fulfilled quickly with new families coming into their church. Real breakthrough is happening there and he called into existence buildings which will come to them free of charge. Children will not be in Sunday School – rather they will be in the church laying hands on the sick and taking a full part in all the meetings.
Both churches had a good time of prayer and prophecy and we all ended up, after a time, back in the car and on the road to Fredericia in the southern part of Jutland or Jylland as it is known locally. It’s about 80 to 100km from Korsør and involves crossing two large Islands and then driving North to find Fredericia. Pastors Grada and Fleming, and Mickal met us there. They have a small cafe church in the town. Usually attended by maybe 10 or 12 people, there were 37 people waiting for us from all over Jutland (!!!) and after a time of inspired praise and worship Peter spoke about the RoFMI ministry with many stories of what we have experienced this last year or so. We had prayer and words of prophecy for all who asked and eventually we left again for Korsør.
We eventually arrived at Tonny and Ohn’s house where we thought it was just the family but news had got around and half the church turned up and we had a wonderful time of simple extended fellowship. A word here for Tonny and Preben. Until now, Preben has done most of our driving. This time Tonny did a great deal of it thus relieving Preben of the added pressure of getting us from A to B on time every time. So our particular thanks to them both.
Next trip to Denmark is 25-29 March and it is already over-subscribed so we may well have to split up and do two or three meetings in different towns.
Exciting isn’t it?
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