A WORD TO ENCOURAGE US FROM EVANGELIST REINHARD BONNKE....

JESUS has time for nobodies, unknowns and common people, that the Pharisees said were cursed because they did not know the law. But the Lord could testify ‘The poor have the Gospel preached unto them’. He was their champion. Like the Psalmist said ‘The lifter up of my head’. Whatever the mental capacity of the woman with the issue of blood, He saw in her the capacity for the greatest things in the world, faith and love. ‘Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung round his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.’ Matthew 18:6. He had no time for Herod the King, but the first person He went to when He left the grave was Mary Magdalene, because she loved Him. That is an ordinary thing to say about Jesus – which makes it so wonderful! It is so common for Him to lift people out of their littleness into greatness, and make apostles of fishermen. One doesn’t have to read between the lines of the Bible or delve into the Greek or Hebrew grammar. It is written large in God’s book – Jesus loved the unloved and unlovely. It is so usual, so normal and so workaday for Him. He picks up with drab uninteresting people living grey little lives and makes them special. In fact the whole Bible is full of it. God choosing the unlikely people, the youngest sons, the barren women, not many mighty and giving the nameless a name, putting His arms around them and acknowledging them. That may be even you. God bless you. REINHARD BONNKE

Why always doubt the Word of God? Why not doubt the lies of the devil? Why not having doubts about doubts and deciding to believe and trust Jesus? If you do, you’ll soon receive heavenly assistance from the Holy Spirit. Faith moves the mountains which doubt creates. God bless you today. REINHARD BONNKE
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One man had no intention of having "R.I.P." (rest in peace) on his grave in Egypt. (Gen 50: 22-26). The mummy of Joseph was intended for export. Joseph knew the promises of God and what the future would hold, and he was determined not to be left out of it. Joseph, who died at the age of 110, wouldn't even be found dead in Egypt. He was the man “who lived tomorrow”. "By faith Joseph ... gave commandment concerning his bones" (Heb 11:22). He didn't want to lie quietly in the grave when the Red Sea and the River Jordan opened. When carried through the wilderness, Joseph’s bones did not rattle in the box, they rejoiced. There was more life in his bones, than in those who carried them. Joseph’s eye of faith saw the faithfulness of God fulfilling His word, that word which He had given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob long before. In fact hundreds of years before it happened, Joseph shouted with the armies of men who, yet to be born, would bring down the walls of Jericho. Faith renews our youth. A man of faith, at the age of 110 years, is younger than a doubting teenager. So many of our young are "old" and futureless. They are the defeated crowd whose song is that of the Beatles: "Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away ... I believe in yesterday." Without God and without hope.” Where are the men of Joseph's battalion today? Faith gives life to the fearful. Faith mocks at that king of terrors, death, and terrifies he who has the power of death, even the Devil. "O death, where is thy sting?" (1 Cor 15:55). Ready? REINHARD BONNKE

Denos Testimonies #6) More on My Encounter With the Rushing Mighty WInd. Jesus was the way. Jesus was the how. He was my qualifications to receive the Holy Spirit. He was my Righteousness to receive Him. He was my access with confidence to the Throne. Jesus is All in All. Jesus My every good and perfect thing. Jesus. Jesus. Oh Jesus. There Is truly something wonderful about that Name.

......... After my encounter with the rushing mighty wind of the Lords Spirit in my car I learned something later about that experience from the Lord that I would like to share with you.

      In my receiving the Holy Spirit that Jesus said that we who believe in Him should and could receive (John 7:37-39), there was no hard labor on my part to receiving Him. I did not fast to receive Him. I did not beg to receive Him. I did not throw childish tantrums to receive Him hoping that some how by those trantrums God would pay attention to me. All I did was ask in faith nothing doubting. No doubting was in my mind or any part of my atmosphere. It was like God Himself had personally tilled the garden of my faith since childhood. When I saw what that lady showed me in Gods Word I knew and believed that Word was as true as John 3:16 and so I mixed faith with Acts 2:1-4 and God as my witness it happened. To God be the glory.
      A problem with many in receiving the Holy Spirit is to much thinking about it. To much personal efforts trying to some how force God by your own name or goodness to fill you with the Holy Spirit. Folks what the bible cause a gift from God must be received. If you try to earn by your good deeds etc. etc. that which is already sent and already God given then you are unscriptural. Just like Jesus said, what has been given, all you need to do is ask in faith & receive it. The given things are to be asked for in faith nothing doubting. Other things yes you do have to earn or put some personal effort into like, Seek and you shall find. Those are things God wants you to learn and discover. Knock and the doors shall be opened unto you. Knocking yes is ones own effort. But to ask and receive is to receive the things that Jesus has already bought and paid for in full with all his personal hard labor on the cross and by the payment he made with his own precious blood and he has given all those things to us all as freely given so we are to freely receive. 
    Maybe you want hear the rushing of His mighty wind but believe that you receive Him and you shall have Him. We know Christ lives in us because we love him and walk in His truth and love by faith and his witness in our hearts tells us that Jesus is the Christ the Son of God. That he died for our sins and rose again for our justification. That He is the way, the truth and the life. And that there is no other Name under heaven that can save us. If your heart beats to this drum, Christ is in you and he is your hope and glory.......deno....please share freely....more to come 

Denos Testimonies #5)..That Which is of Christ in your heart must rise up to the understanding of your mind or you will have blind spots in your spiritual vision and understanding or you may end up remaining Carnal Minded in your thinking.....deno

   

  Do you know that just as a world of people can be blind to the fact that God gave the world His Son Jesus Christ to be sacrificed upon the Cross for our salvation and they not understand it; evenso Christians can have the Spirit of the Lord and His marvelous light in their hearts richly, but the other part of them (Their Minds) can be seriously blind to some of the many things of the Spirit and not understand alot of the speech of the Lord.
       We must be believing and ask God to bring up the things of His Sons Spirit in our heart to the understanding of our minds. This is a major battle ground. This is where spiritual wars are fought, won or lost in peoples lives. In the realm of the mind.     
      Between the realm of the Heart and of our Minds exist territories that must be crossed by the believer. It is there Satan will wrestle you viciously in hope to keep your understanding in the dark of the riches of Christ in you. He does not want you to understand the power or the glory of riches of Christ within.....deno

Denos Testimonies #4) My Holy Spirit Encounter. Like A Rushing Mighty WInd.

  

     A few weeks past after my mom had floored me with her words that one day I would preach the gospel and privately before God I went about my life day after day wrestling with those words with a you have got to be kidding me attitude. I just couldn't see it. Moses I could see doing that. Peter, James and Paul I could see doing that. My dad and Billy Graham I could see doing that. But me, how could such a thing be. I'm a nobody special kinda guy. Simple, plain and very carnal in the head was a whole lot of my thinking.
    Then one day dad came home from being in town for a while and he said to me. Son I was in town today at the DeRidder Vac & Sew shop and the man there said he was looking for some  part time help from a student. Why don't you go down there and talk to the man and see what might happen? I said ok.
    Well dad taught me and my brother and sisters of the importance of work and I think he started on each of us as soon as we came out of the womb. Dad believed in family work and family chores. He was raised on a dairy farm and for all his growing up life he had to get up like at 3:30 AM in the morning. Go help milk the cows. Do the farm chores. Go to school. Come back home and he and his brothers had to go milk the cows all over again etc., plus keep up with all there school work. That was my dads upbringing in the forties and fifties. So he learned about work very early in life. 
    Recently I was told that when my dad and his two brothers uncle Delton and uncle Howard were growing up together on that farm, that they were known as the three hardest working boys in Lincoln County Mississippi. So as you can imagine. There was not much room for being lazy around our dads house. He was a preacher, a pastor, an evangelist, an Army Chaplain, A Patriot, A man of high work ethics and standards. It was me and my brothers responsibility every army work day for a long time to spit shine our dads army shoes and boots. Brasso his insignias and pin his military ribbons on his army shirt and we had better accomplished these things up to dads standards. If we fell short of it, he certainly would let us know. Thank God I had an older brother about me in this. He got the most of the brunt if you know what I mean. Yalahoolahoo on you Danny. Love you bro. Your the best. 
      Just to note. Our dad was the most loving, honest man I and we have ever known next to the Lord. He was a man of the highest integrity. The love he had for people was Gods Love.  Dad was so special.
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      Well being raised to work before play, I went to that place dad told me of and talked to the man Howard Issac the owner. Howard was a Pentecostal man. This didn't mean anything to me at the time, but boy it sure was going to mean something to me in a few more days. God as my witness deno's mind had no idea what being Pentecostal was or meant. Pentecostals? Wonder what that means? I'm a baptist. He's a Pentecostal.  Ok thats cool. He is a believer and so am I, so lets move on.
      Howard interviewed me. Immediately a connection was made and he hired deno. Howard took me under his business wings and taught me the vacuum cleaner trade. He taught me how they functioned and how to even overhaul their motors and fix them. I got to where I liked that and plus it put me some money in the pocket for all the fun deno liked to do. Plus that money helped me buy a car and the gas to put in it in those high school years. There was no free ride with dad. Nope. You worked for what you got or with food and water therewith you had to be content. Dad always provided for us our needs plenteously. But he believed in teaching us life's valuable lessons. This world will not give you a free ride. You must set goals, dream and work to accomplish those dreams. That was dads daily sermon in the way he raised us kids.
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     Well after that I had been working there for awhile, some weeks had past and Howard hired a lady to work the front part of the store. She would greet people. Work the cash register. Sell the vacuum cleaners etc., and answer the phone. I noticed that this lady wore her hair like the empire state building on top of her head. It was high and lifted up. Hmmm, that looks different I thought. Wonder what that's all about. Simple people ask that same question about a lot of things. lol. Well its the truth. I have asked that question about a lot in my life's journey. I'm nearing 53 this year and I still ask that same question about many things. The Lords knows I'm a simple man and he directs me to keep it simple.
     As time went on that word Pentecostal began to more amuse me for some reason. At first I did not talk much about it. Just pondered it in my heart now and then as I lived out my what I would call normal teenage frantics. (I'm not going to go too deep into that, but deno loved to have his fun just like others in High school ville in the great 70s). 
      Well one day at work after school I was in the repair shop of this place of business working on a vacuum cleaner for a customer. I was changing out the motor brushes to the armature. Basically doing an overhaul to it. I had been back there in the repair shop close to an hour when it all began. I knew and thought and felt something different about that day, even in that morning, but had no idea why. All I knew is that something seemed to be up. It was in my atmosphere.
      The pentecostal lady that I told you about was in the front of the store and a man walked in. After he had been there a few minutes, they began to discuss things from the bible. Their discussion somehow intrigued me. For some reason my interest into their conversation soared and at the moment I did not understand the reason why. My hearings hearing was somehow being enhanced and magnified. I thought what in the world is going on here. Hmmm. More of this strange stuff again that  seems to be following me around these days.
      The more they talked the more intrigued my heart was becoming. As their conversation more blossomed, they entered the subject of the bible of the Day Of Pentecost when all the disciples and the followers of Christ in those days were all in one accord, gathered together in the upper room waiting for the promise of the Holy Spirit. They began to lay out in their conversation the settings of the day of Pentecost. They spoke about how the Holy Spirit was poured out that day and entered the place where they were gathered together like a RUSHING MIGHTY WIND AND THEY BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT OF GOD GAVE THEM THE UTTERANCE.....Folks I was in the back room with two walls between my ears and them and somehow God magnified their words in my hearing way above the norm. I could hear those two people as clear and as loud as if I was in the room with them or they with me. This was for me an unusual hearing the word of God experience.
        They talked and in a strange like focused trance I listened. A thickening swelled up on the inside of me. I was feeling a presence but being the simple that I was I had no idea what was going on. I said to myself, I have got to go and ask these people a question. I dropped what I was doing and took off. I made it up to where those two were in the front of the store, and I asked that lady. I said, Mam, I have got to know something. Is what you two are talking about really in the bible? This precious lady just looked at me and smiled and said. Yes it is. I said. Ok then would you mind showing it to me. She smiled again and said I certainly will. Of course she would have a bible with her. Pentecostals do that sort of thing I guess in case some denos show up.
        She went and got her bible and opened it up to the second chapter of the book of Acts. She pointed with her finger to verse one and said start reading from there so I did. (ACTS 2:1-4)  And the day of Pentecost had fully come.....they were all in one accord in one place.....and suddenly there came a Sound of a Rushing Mighty Wind and it Filled the whole house where they were sitting.......And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them....And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.  I thought to myself. Well there it is. Its definitely in the bible. I was mainly a children's bible story boy in those days. Never had gotten to deep or to serious about biblical studies yet. Just child like simple faith, hope and love was my faith in God and in His Son Jesus Christ, much like my mom's faith.  Beyond John 3:16 my heart had seldom roamed beyond or past that verse. But in days to come, starting with this day, my inner world was going to be effected for an up and coming change and that by the long suffering Spirit of God. I was soon to be apprehended for that road God apprehended me for. A place of grace full of patience, long suffering, and extreme mercies multiplied. A road full of fore known intercessions. A place where Carnality & traditional thought and the Spirit of the Lord would collide and clash. A road that for a long long long time deno would feel the  every impact of the collisions of truth verse's traditional thought and thinking that had dominated my life until the fruit of my apprehension would be brought forth to the glory and honor of Jesus Christ from the span of many years even decades.... 
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       Well after I read that I said to her and the man thank you, and I went back to the repair shop in the back and finished that days work. About an hour was left after the conversation before we closed the shop and what an hour it was. Over and over again her words, his words and those scriptures were echoing in my hearing.  I could not turn them off.  Rushing Mighty Wind, Tongues of fire, they began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance. Still I sensed this presence with me. Strange it was. It seemed to be following me around. No matter where I was so was that presence. Hmmm.
      Well we said our goodbyes and closed the shop. I got in my car, cranked the engine and took off down the road. I haven't even gotten a mile from the shop and my heart was pumping with the words I had heard earlier. Rushing mighty wind deno. Tongues of fire. They began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit of the Lord in them gave them the utterance. Then somehow floating around in my atmosphere I heard these words. If you who are evil know how to give good things to your children, How much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him.  Ask deno. Ask.
      So I did. I said in my own child like faith way, Heavenly Father I know Jesus is Your Son and that he died for my sins and rose again from the dead and he is my Lord and Savior. But Father I have never heard of this infilling of the Holy Ghost as happened on the day of Pentecost. So I'm asking....and folks as surely as God is God no matter what the blind say of Him, and as surely is the fact that Jesus is seated at Gods right hand fully risen from the dead to where death can touch Him no more,  All of the sudden, my car was full of a Rushing Mighty Wind. I heard it. I felt it. Jesus said in the scriptures that the things of God and His word shall be measured unto you according to the WAY YOU HEAR IT.  Jesus said that He felt Gods power flow from him. I was feeling Jesus and the Father flowing together in me and in my car as One. The Spirit was filling me and my car up. It was circulating this way and that way, every bit tangible to the touch. It was so awesome that God somehow helped me drive in the evenings traffic, stopping at stop signs and red lights that I hardly even noticed were there. Then on green somehow I went thru them. I was in another world for a while there. Crying and crying. Praising and praising. I don't know the full of what went on during those minutes of this immersement into the Spirit of God and His Sons resurrection glory, but Yahoo, deno was having a yalahoolahoo time in this grace where in I was somehow driving. Scroll down.

      As the moments in this glory began to become less tangible to my physical senses, as the High began to slowly fade, right before it all ceased so to speak and I returned to the place of my personal normalcy yet not alone.( It appeared to me something was different on the inside. Like I had company now). At the end of this in my car experience I saw in the canvass of my eyes as in a vision the biggest Cross I had ever seen. This Cross was huge. It was not standing up though. It was laid over and underneath it, it looked like unto a huge massive amount of people, a sea of them, joined and packed together side by side helping in the carrying about of that great Cross. All I could do was look at it and cry uncontrollably and wonder what does that Cross and that great sea of people there under it mean? Then slowly I'm wiping away my tears amazed at what had just happened to me wondering what does all this mean? What is this all about and why?......more to come....please share freely....deno....America Founded By Believers For Believers.