Jun

11

Brazil Mission Trip – Day 3

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Thank you Jesus! It has been a great time here so far. It´s now morning the fourth day (sounds like something that has been said before by somebody famous…) and I want to shortly tell a few testimonies from last night.

Sanna didn´t come last night because she needed to rest, so I was going without her for the first time. It was strange, but she got the rest that she needed and is back on the team this morning! I was going with our faithful team member, Jim, and then two women, Dawn and Clarietha, chose to come along and we had a great time.

It wasn´t room for much preaching in that church, because my interpreter had a hard time understanding me so everything took more time than usual. But that was not a problem for God. He made it very simple for us all. He had me talk a little bit about Jesus and what He did while He walked the earth. I said like Jesus, that if you don´t believe me, at least believe the works that I do so that you will know that the Father is in me and I in the Father. So by that I called out to everybody with shoulder problems that they could stand up if they wanted to be healed. God told me that there were people there with shoulder problems so I knew that they would be healed. 14 people got up around in the church! I prayed over them from the stage and asked those who had received healing to come up front to. ALL 14 CAME FORWARD!!! WOW! I just had to ask them again if everyone of them had been healed, and yes. They were crying and smiling and thanking Jesus for His healing power. One lady in her fifties were crying a lot, waving both her arms over her had and praising Jesus loudly! She told us that her shoulders had been inflamed and painful for a long time. The last 8 months it had become much worse and she was in constant pain! She still had to work to bring home money to support her family. She worked with much pain… Now God had healed her and she was so happy!! Clappy happy :-) Later she came up with a child in her arms and her smile was huge! Thank you for being there to heal Holy Spirit. You are awesome! We honor you God. Thank you!

I also called those who had pain in their feet to stand up. A man that was healed came up front to tell us that he had broken a bone in one of his feet. I had just been healed from shoulder pain too and had been limping when I came up last time. This time he didn´t limp! He was stomping his feet on the ground and grinned. He was getting better and better during the night.

This was an awesome evening. Other people got healed too. God told me to do impartation too. The four of us in the team lined up front and people walked by us and we prayed that they would get the anointing and the gifts that we so freely received from God ourself. After that I had everybody who was in need of a healing to stand up. The others in the church was instructed to lay hands on them and heal them in Jesus´name. 10 more got healed!!

After the meeting we went home to a family from church to eat pizza and snacks. They really honored us and God blessed them for it. Thank you so much, Jesus. I believe that this church is going to walk much more in the supernatural from this day on.

Thank you so much for your prayers. You all have a part in everything that happen down here since you partner with us in prayer. Thank you and bless you mightily!

Jun

9

Brazil Mission Trip – Day 2

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Hi again!

It´s a little past 5 pm now and we´ve been to a meeting this morning. It was for pastors and ministers, and we´re going to have a meeting like that every morning this week. In a couple of hours we´re going to have meetings in three different churches. Gary Oates, Chase Turner and I are preaching and inviting the presence of our Holy God to come be with us to save the lost, heal the sick and free those bound by the devil. It´s going to be very good! Jesus is always good! Please pray for us. I´ll update this note later to let you know some of the things that is going to happen. Thank you all for partnering with your prayers. We love you all very much!

Hugs from Krister and Sanna

Update:
It´s been a fantastic evening! The meeting was very good. God showed up, the worship was glorious, people were hungry. I didn´t know what to preach on as I came there this evening, but Holy Spirit didn´t leave me speechless. He really came and thanks to Him there were many people healed tonight! Our team, consisting of Sanna, Jim (our faithful team member from the Colombia trip in January!) and myself did impartation with everybody in the church. It was great! It took some time because there was over 200 people in the church, but it was perfect. We want people to be able to step into the things that we preach. Since they believe they also can lay hands on the sick and see them recover. So that was my focus. To help them see who they are in Christ, and what authority and power they carry as sons of God.

I had a few words of knowledge and had people stand up for me to pray over them. God sovereignly healed 39 people of various conditions!!! Jesus you are the saviour of the world! It was so great! One lady used a walker and had done that for a couple of months because of a knee surgery that left her off worse than before. She couldn´t bend her knee… after I prayed over her and some other people that stood up she was able to bend her knee again and she came up using her walker. I asked her why she still had the walker and so she tried to walk without it; and she did! Glory to God! She walked back and forth, better for every step. In the end when she was going back to her seat, she just folded together the walker and lifted it up! It was so glorious!

One woman gave her life to Jesus for the first time, and two men that had been walking away from Jesus, rededicated their life to the Lord. Tears were streaming down their faces as they had seen the power of the only living God manifest in their midst. They wanted to come back and walk with Jesus again. Hallelujah, there´s a party in Heaven right now!

After the meeting we were invited out to eat pizza. The translators didn´t come so we ended up with 50 people from church, with nobody to translate! It was both fun and interesting. The pizza was very good, even though we couldn´t communicate very well with the people there. We left 12:30 am and went back to the hotel; tired, but full of joy. Thank you for everything you did tonight, Holy Spirit!

Jun

9

Brazil Mission Trip – Day 1

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Dear friends,

Sanna and I are now in Bauru, Brazil. It´s a city in Sao Paulo and it´s one of the smaller cities around here. From our hotel room balcony on 14th floor, we can see houses as far as the eyes reach..! It looks like a big city to me… The reason why we are here is to do a mission trip with Gary Oates Ministries. It´s 23 of us here with the group and we all look forward to see what God is going to do this week. We arrived this morning and drove 4-5 hours by bus to get to the hotel in Bauru.

Tomorrow we´re going to have a morning meeting in a church and then we will go to 3 churches in the evening. Gary will be preaching in one church and then two of the interns will take one intern each and a part of the team and go to the other two churches and preach. It´ll be great fun! There is always a lot of people saved, healed and delivered on these trips, and God shows up bigtime! Thank you Jesus for being with us!

Please pray for all of us. Sanna and I will probably preach once or twice each so please keep us in your prayers. Please pray that God will use us and that we will not be in the way of what He wants to do for His children here.

Thank you so much and God bless you!
Love, Krister and Sanna

Apr

17

Dog Healed in Statesville

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Today´s news is absolutely astonishing! A married couple from Norway and an American girl who´s interning with Gary Oates Ministries went to Statesville yesterday. The things they saw down there were beyond their wildest dreams and imaginations! It was not premeditated. Not planned in any way.

Statesville is a beautiful place to visit. The sun was shining and the sky was clear. The reason why this small group went there yesterday was to go and minister at a House of Hope and go horseback riding. When they got down there from Wilkesboro they got out of the car and saw a dog that was limping badly. His right front leg was obviously hurt and the girls there told them that the dog had been limping for a couple of days already. The young Norwegian man decided that this was the the appointed hour. This was the Lords moment! It was time for that dog to get healed! He got down on one knee beside the dog, laid his right hand on the hurt leg and commanded pain to leave and healing to flow through that leg, in the name of Jesus. Nothing happened! At least nothing that could be seen with the natural eye. But what was going on in the spiritual?! The Norwegian had faith, and in perfect Smith Wigglesworth style he told the dog to activate it´s faith and walk! The dog obviously had great faith because it started to walk. Still limping though.

After a couple of hours they went horseback riding. After 5 minutes they were able to catch up with a dog that was running in front of them. It was the dog that only hours before limped severely! Now it was running in front of them with no sign at all of the limping!! It was healed! Praise you Jesus!! The power of God touched that dog´s leg and took away all the pain. The pain had to bow to the name of Jesus Christ.

This concludes today´s news. God is good. All the time!

Mar

30

What is on My Mind?

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Hi everyone,

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

It´s been a while since I last updated this blog and I am sorry about that. I pray that you will still check it our once in a while and that the Lord Jesus Christ gives me grace to write here more often to tell you what He does for us here in Moravian Falls. We´ve been to 3 conferences since last time I wrote here. Two of them we hosted here in Moravian Falls and one we hosted in Franklin, Tennessee. When I say we I mean Gary Oates Ministries with staff and interns.

The first conference we had here that Sanna and I was a part of was “Charting the Course in Changing Times” and the speakers were Gary Oates, Bobby Conner and Rafaela Silveira. It was great to be a part of it all and have the opportunity to listen to them all preach and teach. It was great fun! It was the first time I met Bobby Conner and it was very inspiring. It made me want to learn scriptures like he does. I don´t think he opened the Bible at all during his sessions but I probably quoted more than 50 verses to us. It´s pretty amazing!
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Mar

12

I Am a Friend of God

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Jesus loves me and calls me His friend:
Just read this in John 15:12-17 (New King James Version)

12 This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another.

Jesus wants you to know Him. He wants to spend time with you. This is something that have caught my attention the last week. I really want to be Jesus´ friend. He wants to provide for all my needs and I want to be close enough to Him to rely on Him always. And I want to lean on Him always just like we can read about in Song of Solomon 8:5 (NKJV)

Who is this coming up from the wilderness,
Leaning upon her beloved?

I´m telling you right now, that I´m the one coming up from the wilderness leaning on my beloved Jesus Christ. I will not be ashamed of my beloved again. I love Him and He loves me!

This is one of the promises we have in Psalm 91, v.1-2 (NKJV):

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High
Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress;
My God, in Him I will trust.”

So that´s where I want to be; in the secret place of the Most High.

I just wanted to share with you what´s on my heart. Seek Jesus with all your heart and he will let you find Him according to Jeremiah 29:13-14a

13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you, says the LORD

BLESS YOU!!!

Feb

11

Colombia Mission Trip Report

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It´s been a few weeks since I last posted here, and when I did we were still in Colombia. Now Gary and Jim has each written a report from the trip and that´s what we´re posting here now so that you can all see a summary of what happened there. It is our hope that you will be blessed when you read this, and that you once again will realize that we serve the Living God! Just click below and read on. Be blessed!
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Jan

24

Third Day in Riohacha

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Hola,

Today we have been in three different orphanages and we met some truly wonderful children and people who were helping them. It was wonderful! Some mothers had come with their children to the church who work with the last group we visited, and they were not christians. By the way, that was in the same church our group went to last night. I don´t know how many but some of them said yes to Jesus today! There´s a party in heaven today!

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Jan

23

God Does Miracles in Riohacha, Colombia

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Thank you God for Your love and grace. Thank You for letting us be here in this city and spread the gospel of Your love. You are awesome God and we give all the glory to You!

This day has been totally amazing! We could never have expected all this. We had a meeting with the pastors in Riohacha, this morning. Gary preached about spending time in God´s presence and to make it a priority to take time with God every single day. The Holy Spirit came and the pastors and their wives got down on their faces and God moved on them. Some wept, some laughed, others were silent… the atmosphere was really good.

After lunch we went to the prison to minister to the inmates. Most of us didn´t know what to expect and I was a little nervous when we came in to the first group of prisoners. It was many of them. They had a christian fellowship in the prison and he that brought us in there had worked as a missionary in the prison for 5 years. Three of us shared testimonies with them and 15-20 of them received Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Hallelujah! It was fantastic! The second group we ministered to had made presents for us. They were very happy to get visitors. They gave us a big urn made out of cardboard, newsletters and coated with colored pieces of stones. It´s really beautiful. We´ll bring it back to Moravian Falls. They also made two pair of sandals that two of the women in the group got. The rest of us got bracelets that they had made. It was very powerful to be there with them and to hear some of their stories. God bless all of them.
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Jan

11

Our New Home

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Hi everybody,

Last time you heard from us was the day before we left Norway. Now we are here in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, and we´ve been here since Tuesday night. And it´s great!
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