February Update

January ended and February brought with it a break from the rain. We have been going through Mike Bickle's book Seven Mandates of a Forerunner with the youth and we've started holding each other accountable to a deeper walk with the Lord. We've come as far as the area of prayer, fasting, justice and recently, giving as part of the life style of a forerunner. It has been amazing to see the zeal of the youth as they go forward in this. I am starting to enjoy the book which is written as a guide to help us understand better the lifestyle of a forerunner and even just a believer. It's very basic day to day guide. At times we need to take what he says with a grain of salt but it is still good. He takes from his own experience of what the Lord taught him in the sphere of being a forerunner which he then tells the reader. So while we read, rather than going o.k, I'll now copy what Mike Bickle does, we can ask the Lord, "how do You want me in my own life to set myself more apart unto You?"

Stefan and I ran one of the youth nights as Jon Mark had family business come up. Stefan taught on Soaking, being a sponge and letting the Lord fill us as we sit/wait in His presence. Then we practiced soaking in His presence. The youth who were there enjoyed it. It was a small group that night but it was a good group.

The way the Lord has provided for us this month has been interesting. We have come to a tight place in our finance. Nevertheless God's peace has been on us in a real supernatural way since we got back from the U.S. I (Stefan) believe that coming to a place of peace in trusting Him is key for us. So as the Lord's peace settled on us we also started seeing His hand move on us in the are of provision. as we mentioned earlier when we took in our cat Amira, He was going to teach us about His grace and provision. There is a Jewish believer (who is quite old and from what we heard, most probably a holocaust survivor) that comes up to the Prayer Tower (where Stefan works) and he brings bags of food almost every other day. So much so that if people don't take what he brings it goes bad because of the huge amounts that he shows up with. So because of this we have not had to buy much food in the last month. We keep getting bread, rice and soups. Also we recently went to a Succat Hallel dinner and after which there was tons of chicken left over and we were asked to take as much as we wanted home with us . God is so good! As He increases our faith to one day be fully supported to go full time into ministry we are seeing things break through at levels which are to us very encouraging.

We also received our copies of the new Shani Ferguson CD called Garden of Secrets (Titled after on of Stefan's songs on the CD) on which 6 out of the 10 songs are Stefan's. We heard it and were blessed. The entire CD project is really anointed and we're grateful to have been part of this project. We encourage you to look it up on itunes. It's possible to buy right off the itunes store by downloading the entire CD in mp3 format or individual songs or to order the CD go to:

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One of the pastors from our congregation met with us this month just to catch up since he hadn't really spoken to us since we flew back home and God did something amazing there. We ended up telling him about what God is doing with us and the youth at Succat Hallel, the way these young people are pushing in their own lives with God in the are of prayer and fasting and drawing closer to God's heart. He was absolutely astounded. He told us that he didn't know that there were such youth in the land in the Messianic community that had such a desire to become, as we mentioned earlier, forerunners. He highly valued what we shared with him and added his blessing and a loud Amen to us one day being able to go full time in raising up a generation in Israel that is on fire for the Lord, not only for a few days at a good conference, but those whose lifestyle is dedicated to honor God presence and work in their lives through prayer, fasting, justice, giving and the release of the supernatural Kingdom of Heaven in signs and wonder and miracles across the land.

Speaking of supernatural; We went to Succat Hallel two weeks ago for the showing of a Korean movie called Forgiveness. The Ortiz's where there that evening. A quick reminder; This is the family which had a bomb placed at their door a few years ago during Purim (the Feast of Ester). The bomb was opened by their teenage son. He was not meant to survive 24 hours after the blast. His parents said that he is doing well. He has now had plastic surgery and has been able to be a regular teenager again. He is on a few basketball teams and is hoping for a basketball scholarship to an American university. The trial however is not going so good. The defendant's lawyers are trying to get an insanity plea for a professionally trained assassin. And there are millions of dollars coming from an unknown source to pay for the Dr.s to test him. All the Ortiz's want is justice in this case for them and their son. So pray that the same supernatural God that raise Ami from the death bed will in turn move on the behalf of the Ortiz's.