Before anyone could preach the Holy Spirit moved

Dear Mission Partners,

It's not often that I find myself without words, but right now I'm really not sure what to say. I've never seen anything before quite like what we experienced tonight.

Often, when a sick person gets healed, it causes a great commotion in the immediate area surrounding that person. When those standing close to the miracle watch it happen right before their eyes, it has a profound impact on them. They often begin to shout, scream, cry, jump, dance, etc, and we can usually hear and see from the platform that a miracle has taken place out in the crowd. We've actually become quite accustomed to this phenomenon over the years as it regularly happens after the prayer for the sick. But tonight was something altogether different...

Before I had even got up to preach (during the boring announcements), this started happening all over the field on a scale that is hard to describe. The hair on the back of my neck stood up as we watched wheelchairs, crutches and walkers going into the air EVERYWHERE! One after another, after another, after another, until the excitement among the crowd of 250,000 rose to fever pitch (even now it's emotional to recall what happened). The roar of the crowd kept growing louder and louder until those of us on the platform looked at each other with shock and awe! It was hard to believe what was happening!

The blind, the deaf, the mute, the lame and those with all manner of sickness and disease were being spontaneously healed – without a single prayer being said and even before the Gospel was preached. It reminded me of something Evangelist Bonnke has often said, "Sometimes the Holy Spirit cannot wait for we preachers to finish our boring sermons – He itches to do great things!"

Now this amazing and historic event has come to a dramatic close and our whole team is in awe of what Jesus did this week. Nearly a million people attended the 5 days of  meetings. The way Abidjan was shaken is like something out of the book of Acts. I can tell you for sure that I will never forget it.

To those of you who helped us financially and who interceded for us – thank you, thank you, thank you! You are a part of the team and the CfaN family. We are co-laborers together in the harvest. We love you, we appreciate you and we thank God for your lives.
Daniel Kolenda
http://www.bonnke.net/review/review2012_en/
Christ For All Nations
Freepost MID25585

Halesowen
B62 8BR
United Kingdom

A Little Girl's Umbrella as told by Daniel Kolenda

Daniel works alongside Rheinhard Bonnke in cfan.org

Wherever you are in life, and regardless of what you are going through or what you've done, God wants to answer your prayers!

Sometimes the space of time between the "Amen" of your prayers and the - "There it is" - becomes a season of WAITING.

When Jesus ascended from the Mount of Olives to His throne in glory, He left His church in an attitude of expectancy. In the last moments of His earthly ministry, He gave them the final command, "WAIT!" (Acts 1:3-14)

The secret to WAITING is EXPECTANCY. When you believe God will do what He says, you will not give up waiting for His timing. The world's time limits are not God's time limits.

SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING, I call it a "Bring Your Umbrella" attitude of EXPECTANCY and I get that from the following TRUE story:

Many years ago, a region of the American Midwest had been stricken by drought. There was a small town there that was totally dependent upon farming, and the crops were dying in the fields because of the lack of rain. A day of prayer and fasting was declared in which all the townspeople would come in from their surrounding farms and spend the day in prayer, asking God to send rain.

That morning a five-year-old girl came along with her parents to their church to pray. Some people were amused as this little girl was carrying an umbrella. They asked her why. She replied that she thought they had come there that day to pray for rain, and she didn't want to get wet going home.

Suddenly conviction gripped their hearts. The people realized that they had come to pray, but no one but this little girl actually believed anything was going to change! In tears, they repented of their unbelief; and these same townspeople began to pray that day as though they really believed their prayers were going to change things.

About four o'clock that afternoon, clouds began to form on the western sky. By evening, a slow, soaking rain had begun to fall across the region. The heavens had literally opened for these people. This slow rain lasted for three days and nights. Their crops were saved, and they eventually had one of the biggest harvests that they had ever seen! Everyone remembered that it was the little girl with her umbrella who had come to pray and had changed their hearts from a place of religious duty bound with unbelief to a place of expectancy that God would in fact hear and act.