The Meetings

Break through in Kosovo-- Thought this would brighten your day.

When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"

"Looking unto Jesus"

Hebrews 12:2

-----Original Message-----
From: Gregor Menga <gkmenga@gmail.com>
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Sent: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 4:32 am
Subject: The Meetings

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

There are times when you experience so many things, and so much is going on that putting everything in words is hard.

The period of  praying for people's needs events, where one of those times.

We prepared in prayer and fasting for it.

We where expecting some help from church in Shkoder, (a couple of guys) with worship. But things happen all of a sudden that team from outside grow to 10 adults (and a bunch of Kids) including Gary and Sandy Blake that came from Tirana. My cousin Ita came from Vienna, Austria, to help as well.  I was wondering what God had in mind.

Distributing 3000 in and more invitations in the streets gave opportunity to meet new people. It was not an easy thing. Much opposition faced at times, but we expected that. We felt always the spiritual warfare going on.

 

Preparation meetings, events itself, invitation hand outs, where all a great example of team work. Everybody did his part.

 In countries like Kosovo, the strongholds of darkness are so heavy and seem at times unbending no matter what you do . But we did witnessed a change.

 

One thing is that here, you don't have people showing to church meetings, unless they are someone you know personally (you have invited) or that you have been sharing Jesus before hand with him. People would feel shame if others see them entering our building.

Well, about 45 people we don't know at all, showed up for the meetings both nights. People with physical needs, and others. We had a number suffering from depression and one man suffering from schizophrenia. Others had problems with fear, paranoia, nightmares etc...

 

God's presence was so thick in these times, releasing much grace, and gifts. He gave insights, words of knowledge, and other manifestations of the Holy Spirit. Over all we wanted people to know the love Jesus has for them, and I believe many experienced that for the first time. Many had tears, two decided to become Jesus' followers.  I have never seen so many "on the spot" changes as we prayed for these people.

 

On the next Sunday we had two sisters who came to the worship service They had not been in the meetings , but their sister in law had send them after the drastic change she had experienced with her health. We prayed for them. One of the women suffered as well  from depression. God showed us she used amulets, and had been to witch doctors. We asked her about that, she said yes. We explained how she needed to trust her life to Jesus only, and get rid from all these things. She said she would do that, clean her house from all the amulets and stuff like that. She had been going to the witch doctor paying 100 Euro per session. Had two more sessions to go. but had run our of money.  Good news she learned was she did not have to ever go back there.

Kela met her in the street latter, next day. She was so happy. She said I never slept like last night, I had such peace. I was also amazed how I did have peace when my husband started to shout about something. He is always an angry man, and that is part of my depression problem. But I was amazed at myself at the change. I had peace. His anger did not reach me...

 

Vedad, suffering from schizophrenia showed up on Sunday as well, and was last to leave the church. He said he was much better, he feels so good in the church. Took a new testament and all the time had a big smile like a big baby...

 

There are many other episodes I would like to share but it would be a long book...

 

We believe this is the beginning of a new stage in spiritual breakthrough for the city of Gjilan.

 

Please pray, also for us. We have been exhausted. On top of the spiritual intensity we had up to 16 people at our house.. for a period of 12 days

 

Please pray for financial provision as well. We are a happy empty pockets family right now

 

Blessings

Gregor