Another early start saw just Peter and I off to the airport at a very early hour of the morning. We were off to Denmark again for two events. A 10th Anniversary celebration and a gathering of pastors and leaders. That we squeezed much more than this into our time is almost a given these days but how much we can report is somewhat limited. The planned schedule is one thing, but what goes on behind the scenes is entirely another matter, and is probably 80% of the ministry.
So, arriving in Copenhagen at 9 UK time or 10 Danish time, we were met by Jens and Lotte Nielsen, our hosts from Stege on the southern island of Mon. We were to spend three glorious days with them. Glorious because the weather was wonderful and glorious because the Glory of God came to that place. They are building a habitation for the Lord right there is Stege and very soon the whole world will know of it. We had rather a relaxed schedule but we soon filled that in with home visits to the surrounding area of pin-neat and picture perfect little villages. What a blessed and idyllic spot !!
The first official meeting was at 7.00pm and we were entranced by the children (aged 2 to 11) leading us into a time of worship. There is something so powerful when children are encouraged to take the lead and we were all greatly blessed by the two ladies leading the children – their anointing was there for all to see. After the children left us we continued with anointed worship. I felt led to give Jens and Lotte a word about sowing and reaping. There is a cloud on their horizon and the rain is coming. This apparently confirmed very clearly a word Lotte had received at the new year and again almost repeated what Peter had said a couple of months ago – about neither of which I knew anything. Peter then spoke about the coming revival in the whole of Scandinavia – relating many confirming events, most of them being in which we have been directly involved. Several words of prophecy followed and Peter themed on Jesus last words in Mark 16:15-end. He reminded everyone that God does not lie and when He says ‘signs and wonders following’, then He means just that. Yet there is the price to pay for this and there is no pace for sin in our lives – no place for unforgiveness.
We eventually got to bed at 1.00am – a 21 hour day – and Friday dawned very bright, warm and sunny. We did two home visits to Brian and Yvonne, members of the Stege Church, and then to Mette, Jens & Lotte’s daughter. After lunch with Mette, she drove us all the way to Korsor, where our dear friends Henrietta and Lars who had an open BBQ for all their saved and unsaved friends and neighbours. After a ‘cautious’ start the whole thing went wonderfully well and everyone there was greatly blessed. Our new team member, Tonny, then drove us back to Stege for the final night of celebration. We got ‘home’ at around 3.30am – it was almost light; the birds were singing etc etc. Not much change there then – the usual RoFMI trip of long days and unusually short nights. The Lord is so good as He gives us His supernatural energy to keep going.
Saturday, we went to find Joanna & Simeon. I say we had to find them because the satnav took us the three places before we got the right one. The enemy really didn’t want that meeting to take place. Joanna had laid out a red carpet (!!!) leading to the gazebo in their garden – a sign of the respect that some people afford to the prophets in Denmark. We spent the whole afternoon there and they held another wonderful BBQ for us before we all came back to Stege for the final 10th Anniversary celebration. I felt very strongly that Jens and Lotte are ‘a heralds trumpet’ and that they will be heralding the coming revival to the whole area. Not just a beacon but the heralds of revival !! The main speaker this evening was Pastor Jens Garnfeldt from KBC Church in Copenhagen. This gifted man of God spoke about revival and how it comes and then, with Peter, ministered to everyone present. I received a powerful personal word which encouraged me greatly. A relatively early night at 01.00am.
On Sunday we bid a very fond farewell to Jens and Lotte and moved to Copenhagen for the second part of our weekend in Denmark. Tommy Joseffson is the owner of 5 TV channels and he had organised for a group of pastors and leaders from both Denmark and Sweden to gather together at his studios for a meeting. Little did we realise . . . . . After a short period of praise and worship, he invited Peter to take the meeting – that was at 11.20. Apart for a break for lunch we didn’t finish till just after 7.30pm – the longest meeting we have ever had. The time just went !! Peter was speaking about the price of revival and he illustrated it with anecdotes from his ministry. As I said – the time just flew by.
Then again on Sunday, we had another session with the pastors and leaders when Peter spoke about the price of pastoring – touching on issues that most pastors cannot share with anyone as they have no-one with whom to share these things. On both Saturday and Sunday, there were many words of prophecy and we were all greatly blessed by the fellowship and especially so by a couple of very moving moments of testimony and confession. As Tonny, our new team member quite rightly observed, “THIS is church”!!!
Then, finally, we went into central Copenhagen to where our very good friend Rene has just opened a Christian Café and he asked Peter to officially declare it open. So Peter duly cut the ribbon to the cheers of about 30 gathered friends and we launched a café. Isn’t God amazing? He has made this venture possible on a virtually zero budget and even as we fellowshipped and prayed together the good people of Copenhagen were peering in hopefully !! The text given was Matthew 22:9 “Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.” Very apt for René who is also a street evangelist.
So ended a wonderful weekend – and I cannot even tell you all about most of it !
No comments:
Post a Comment