From Notion to Motion 

Have you made plans to change anything this year? While no one should simply change for the sake of changing, there are some things we need to change to come closer to the Christian ideal. We may need to change our diet to improve our health.  We may need to change our financial practices to get control of our business affairs. We may need to change our bible study and worship habits to improve our spirituality. We may need to change our general attitude about life to enjoy its bounties fully. What is certain, those who do not change anything will probably get no further than they have in the past. 

Every year on January 1st at 12 am, people celebrate New Year’s Day and wish each other well for the upcoming year. Happy New Year!! Happy New Year!! Many people at that time begin to set goals for the New Year by making New Year’s resolutions. As the year goes by, they continue to make the same old choices and decisions. They change nothing about their life and wonder why the year was not so “new” to them. The truth of the matter is: Unless there is a new you, there will not be a new year. The definition of “insanity” is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. 55 percent of Americans keep their New Year’s resolutions for 1 month, 40 percent for 6 months and 19 percent for 2 years. You must ask yourself, “Do I continue to do the same things over and over again and wonder why things in my life don’t change?”

There is an old riddle that says, two toad frogs sat on a stump. One took a notion to jump off, how many are left?  Two!  One took a notion to jump, but that’s all. Many of us have a notion motion.  We take a notion to improve ourselves but more often than not, our notions never translate to motion. If we are to personally progress in our spiritual relationship with God it must be more than just a notion.  If you’ve decided to save money toward the house of your dreams, put some motion in your notion! If you’ve decided to spend more time with your family, put some motion in your notion! If you’ve decided to improve your grades in school, put some motion in your notion! If we do everything the same we get the same result. If we do the same thing we did last year, we end up in the same place. What about our relationship with God?  Will it be the same this year as it was last year? Have you taken a notion to do better, or is your notion in motion? Has the resolution you made to intensify your bible knowledge and participation in the church remained a simple notion or have you actually begun to put your notion in motion? As Christians, we remember the words of James which remind us that faith without works is dead. Let’s plan to increase our spirituality and service this year by enlarging our spiritual territory. When we do, God has promised that his kindness will not depart from us.

Excerpt from my message “From Notion to Motion”.

2011 was an incredible year full of adventure with the Lord.  We preached the gospel in 22 nations, we saw thousands coming to Christ and getting their life right with God.  We also saw thousands being encouraged in their faith and equipped.  We saw God perform many unusual miracles  

With our social outreach, ‘Bridge of Hope’, we were able to change lives by building water wells, providing food and shelter, help buy materials for church buildings, sponsor schools, buy bibles for those in need in poor nations, and many other things. 

‘You Too Can Be Used By God’ and ‘Keys to Receiving Your Miracles’ were translated and released in different languages.

Through our apostolic ministry we continue to minister to pastors and leaders around the world at a growing pace.  The ministry is rapidly growing and we are thankful that we have been able to preach the gospel in over 87 nations on 6 continents.

We would have never been able to do all of this without God’s power, strength, favor and blessings.  We want to give God all the glory!   He is able and awesome! 

We also couldn’t have done it without our partners; it’s because of your financial support that we are able to impact the nations.  You are a part of the harvest of this ministry.  We love and appreciate you!

We also couldn’t have done it without our intercessors.  No prayer… no power.  Lots of prayer… lots of power!  Thank God for all the intercessors on the prayer shield network, F 16 and all the people and different churches that are praying for us. 

We are very excited for 2012.  It’s going to be even a greater year.  We expect to move from faith to faith, from glory to glory.  We are going to start the year with ‘Mission America’, preaching the gospel in 15 cities in America, then off to India, Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

The rest of our schedule can be found on our website on the itinerary link.  We are also planning to go to South Africa; Eastern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; Western Europe: Belgium, Holland, Finland, England; and South East Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. 

We also have many social programs planned with our ‘Bridge of Hope’; we plan to help the disadvantaged in the following nations: Sri Lanka, Senegal, Slovakia, as well as other nations.   

We want to ask you to prayerfully consider becoming a partner with us in 2012.  You can give cash, by credit card, check or wire transfer.  Your support of any kind is welcome and appreciated.

Love and every blessing

Guy & Ilke

We wish you a very blessed Christmas!

Each year we are reminded that Christmas should not be just about giving and receiving presents.  But, if we truly think about Christmas, it is, indeed, all about gift giving!  At Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the greatest gift ever given, by the greatest gift-giver of all, our wonderful God and Father!

God is the giver of joy and He is ‘God with us’.

Wonderful Impossibilities

"When God intends to make something wonderful he begins with a difficulty.  When he intends to make something very wonderful, he begins with an impossibility."

The birth of Jesus was not just a difficulty, it was an impossibility.  Mary was a virgin.  Only God could breathe life into her womb.  And just as God caused her to conceive the perfect sinless Savior, fully God, fully human. He can accomplish through you, those things that seem impossible in your life.

"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever!  Amen." Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)

We pray that in this Christmas season God will change impossibilities in possibilities.

In the last month we spend time ministering in Europe: in Belgium and The Netherlands.

On 11-11-11 we ministered at the Flemish national gathering of Pentecostal churches in Belgium, a gathering where 97 churches were represented.  I ministered on rejection and on enlargement.  Many were touched and blessed.  We received such a good feedback from so many people.  God has been doing something special in Belgium.

We also organized a barbecue for pastors and elders from West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, where we emphasized building relationships between churches and bringing down walls of misunderstanding and misconception.  There was such a sweet atmosphere it was so good to see pastors and leaders from different churches interact with each other and have fun together.  After the eating festivity we took a walk together.  Unity is not uniformity but unity is complementation and mutual respect.  A special thanks to our friend Geert who always helps us organize the events with great excellence.

We also ministered at the 15^th anniversary of ‘Levend Woord’, pastor Gerard De Groot’s church in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.  The theme of the conference was ‘When the supernatural becomes natural’.  There was an amazing move of the Holy Spirit and many people were blessed.

It’s so wonderful for me to have my wife interpret for me both in Belgium and The Netherlands.  We are a great team together.

Our time of ministry this past month included a special time of teaching and training at ‘Foundation for Life’ a training school for young people in The Netherlands.  They give up 1 year of their life to study the Word of God before going back to school or pursuing careers.  We enjoyed interacting with the young people.

We also ministered to our brothers and sisters from the Middle East from Iran, Afghanistan,….  There was a great time of teaching and impartation.  We enjoyed spending time with these heroes of faith.  We also spoke at a special outreach where many non-believers came and accepted Jesus and asked for prayer.  It’s so special to even see people from the Middle East that do not believe in Jesus but want to receive prayer so that they can get to know Him.  Their hunger is so encouraging.

We also enjoyed our time of ministry at Effatha, a church in Staden, Belgium and our time of fellowship with pastor Johnny and his wife.

2011 has gone so fast and we have been in so many places around the world, circling the globe.  God has been so good and so faithful.  We are so grateful for this opportunity to serve our generation with the Gospel of power and the love of Jesus Christ.

We thank God for all our prayer and financial partners and the overwhelming love of the Body of Christ all over the world.  This has been a source of strength and encouragement to see how God has given us favor with Him and people.

We just had our annual board meeting. We thank God for our board of directors for the input, advice and service.  God has blessed us with quality people that carry His heart.

On Monday we are going to Belgium.  Ilke’s grandmother past away last Friday.  We will be attending the funeral and spend time with her family.  We will be celebrating Christmas and New Year with Ilke’s church family in Belgium.  We will also be meeting with pastors in preparation of our conference next year in Belgium.  We look forward to what God’s going to do next year in Belgium.  Exciting things!

2012 looks very great for us.  God is opening doors all over the world.

Continue to reach forward in Him!

Love and blessings

Guy & Ilke

Greetings from Finland.   

Happiness is the fragrance of an obedient life.  Happiness is feeling good about the happenings in your life.  Do not confuse this with popularity, which simply means others feel good about you.  But what you think about yourself, your character, and your own accomplishments determines your real sense of worth and value.  I hate to see people unhappy.  I don’t like to see people hurting inside.  “I don’t know what is wrong,” an attractive lady sobbed at a recent crusade.  “My husband is so good to me.  We live in a beautiful home…but I feel so frustrated.  What do you think is wrong with me?” 

Life is not a schedule of defeats, but a parade of miracles.  It wasn’t meant to be an endurance of trials, but an enjoyment of triumphs.  We decide.  Jesus said, “These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.”  John 15 : 11  While many believers live in the joy and the power of the Jesus-life, others do not.  Why are so many living in fear and defeat?  Is happiness released by a Sunday morning walk to a church altar?  Or repeating the “sinner’s prayer” after a pastor?  Or by time spent with a marriage counselor?  Too many are looking to someone else to bring their happiness to them.  “But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”  Galatians 6: 4  Happiness doesn’t start around you, it begins inside you.  Stop waiting for flowers to arrive.  It is the growing of the seed inside you this very moment.  Start growing the seeds inside.

Some people go through life pleased that the glass is half-full.  Others spend a lifetime lamenting that it’s half-empty.  The truth is: there’s a glass with a certain volume of liquid in it.  From there, it’s up to you!

Feel grateful for small things in your life, because when you put them all together you will see just how big they are.  The little things in life create the biggest smiles.  Be happy!  Not because everything is good, but because you can see the good side of everything.  You can be as happy as you allow yourself to be.  Happiness is not by chance but by choice.  Stay happy, stay true.  Because in the end, you’ll always have you.

Excerpt from my message ‘The Happiness Factor’

We just completed an amazing 3 weeks of ministry in 6 cities around Finland.  We can sense that the atmosphere is changing in Finland.  Many people are hungry for more of God.  Altar calls full of people giving their lives to Jesus and getting right with God.  Many were filled with the Holy Spirit and many were healed.  We started our tour in Helsinki where there was a big evangelistic ‘Change Campaign’ going on in the whole city that brought more than 70 churches together. Events were organized on radio, TV and in churches.  We were privileged to close the ‘Change Campaign’ with a series of 4 meetings in a church in downtown Helsinki.  Ilke had an amazing women’s meeting in Helsinki.  During the course of those meetings there was such a strong release of the prophetic that the elders wanted to know whether I received information about their church prior to my preaching.  They were amazed about the accuracy of the preaching and prophetic words.  God is still speaking today.

We also had a great meeting in Malmi.  We were in that church 2 years ago and this time around a man came to testify how he was healed from stomach cancer after we prayed for him 2 years ago.  Praise God!

From Helsinki we traveled by train to Kopio.  We had an amazing time of ministry in Kopio.  The meetings were so well attended, even the pastors were surprised.  There was also a great demonstration of the power of God and many lives were changed.  Ilke had a ladies meeting that lasted 5 hours with hundreds of women, the place was packed.  We also preached 1 night in Varkaus. 

After that we went to Tampere where we had some great Holy Ghost meetings in Hervanta.  People traveled from different cities around Finland to be in those meetings.  It was so great to see all our good friends from that area.

Our last city was Kotka.  This church was very exceptional with a great spirit of excellence.  The pastors and leaders were very hungry and so were the people.  In previous times churches did not work together in this area but the Lord used our coming to break down walls. 

This tour was very successful and fruitful.  We thank God for all what He did.  There was a very positive article in a national newspaper about the impact of our tour in Finland.  Thanks to pastor Martti for coordinating our coming to Finland!  We are already looking forward to our tour in 2012.

Thanks for all the prayers and support!

 Continue to reach forward in Him! 

Every blessing!

Guy & Ilke

As we just returned from an awesome trip in the Far East in Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, God has been stirring my heart about teaching people on how to overcome rejection and how we can correct a mistaken identity.

Have you’ve ever felt rejected….welcome to the club.  We all have!  The greatest people who have ever lived have had to deal with rejection.  It’s a fact of life.  Jesus was rejected; Moses was rejected by the people he was called to deliver; Joseph was rejected by his own brothers; David was rejected by Saul.  The one person David was looking up to, the one that was supposed to be his leader was the one that started to compete with him and wanted to spiritually and physically assassinate him.  So don't be surprised when it happens to you.

Not everyone will appreciate what you do. But go on with your life anyway. You can’t spend the rest of your life cowering in fear because someone out there doesn’t believe in who you are. Forget them!  Stop trying to be what other people want you to be. And start being what God wants you to be.  If not, you will turn a minor offense into a major offense, a minor issue into a major issue and this could cause a lot of problems in your marriage, church and relationships.  When you start being what God wants you to be will help you correct a mistaken identity.

Sometimes some people in your life reject you because your success shines a spotlight on their defeat and your blessings will shine a spotlight on their curses.

To overcome rejection, you need to be able to put “man's” opinion into perspective. For some people, all that matters is popularity. "What will other people think of me?  What if I don’t do what he/she wants me to do?  What if he/she rejects me?  What if I fail?  What if things don’t work out?"  Jesus did not fall into the trap of feeling responsible for others people's opinion or feelings. He did not fall in the trap of trying to justify Himself, He was Himself.  Put God first, that's the only way you’re going to be able to overcome rejection. You’re going to have to start living your life for an audience of one - God.  God must come first in your life if you are going to overcome the fear of the rejection of “man”.  The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. (Psalm 118:22 NKJV)

However sometimes rejection is protection.  When people reject you it is because God is trying to protect you from an abortionist. Some people are spiritual midwives but some people are spiritual abortionists.  Abortionists kill your destiny, but midwives help bring it forth.

Know who you are in Christ! 

This is an excerpt from my message: “Overcoming Rejection!  Correct a mistaken identity!”

Our 6 weeks of ministry in the Far East was amazing, we did a range of ministry: church services, radio interviews, preaching on the radio, miracle rallies, marriage seminar, youth meeting, marketplace ministry (ministering to business men and women), conferences, leadership training, training intercessors and Ilke did several women’s meetings.  It was an amazing time where we saw the Lord confirm His Word with signs, wonders and miracles: opening the eyes of the blind, the ears of the deaf.  We saw thousands coming to the Lord and we saw many Christians and pastors and church leaders encouraged.

We had a great time of ministry in Indonesia - the largest populated Muslim country in the world.  We ministered every day in a different city or village, sometimes twice a day.  The Indonesian people are very hungry for God and they are a very kind people.  What we learned is that they eat everything that has 4 legs (dogs, rats, etc.…) except tables and everything that flies (birds, bats, etc…) except airplanes. We saw the power of God move in some villages even the chief of 1 village was touched and healed.

We had a great time in Singapore.  We mostly ministered to business people during the week and ministered in churches on the weekends.  It’s so great to see that business people are taking the message of the gospel in the marketplace of the world.  We also enjoyed meeting many of our friends.  Thanks for the great hospitality.

In Malaysia we went to many different churches.  At Grace Assembly, hundreds responded to the altar call to get right with God.  At City Harvest it was so great to see so many young people as I taught on ‘Kingdom Economics and Demonic Systems’.  We also did a 3 day seminar on the supernatural at Christ Lutheran Church - Ilke and I had a great time preaching there.  The people were so receptive and there was an amazing move of the Holy Spirit with operations of the Holy Spirit.  The pastors were so happy and blessed and are asking us to come back next year.  We were also in another city in the south of Malaysia - in Malacca where we had a great time ministering to a Chinese congregation.  We also met with many of our friends.  It feels so good to have a spiritual family around the world and great friends!

We thank God for such an amazing time of ministry and for all our partners and intercessors.  You are a great part of it!  We love and appreciate y’all!

We will be going to Europe to start a tour of 3 weeks in Finland.  Our schedule is:

Love and every blessing,

Guy & Ilke

The last few months have been amazing as we preached the gospel in Norway, England, Scotland, Belgium, South Africa and the USA.  Below is a little word of encouragement and our ministry report.

The queen of England often visits Bob Morrow Castle.  On one occasion when she was walking by herself, it started to rain.  She rushed to the shelter of the nearest cottage.  A lady came to the door who was really ticked off that someone would bother her at that time in the morning.  She opened the door a few inches and barked, “What do you want?”  The queen didn’t introduce herself.  She merely asked, “May I borrow an umbrella?”  “Just a minute,” grumbled the woman.  She slammed the door, was gone for a moment, and returned bringing the rattiest umbrella she could find, one with broken ribs and small holes.  She pushed it through the door and said, “Here”.  The queen of England thanked her and went on her way with the ragged umbrella.  The next morning, the queen’s full escort, dressed in full uniform, pulled up in front of the cottage.  One of the escorts knocked on the door and returned the umbrella to the woman saying, “Madam, the Queen of England thanks you.”  As he walked away he heard her mutter, “If I’d only known, I’d have given her my best.”

Because God loved us, He gave us His very best - His Son. (John 3: 16).  Can we give Him anything less than our best?  We don’t want to give Him the scraps, the leftovers, whatever costs us the least.  He deserves the best.

We spent the month of May in Europe.  We had an amazing time in Scotland, England, Norway and Belgium.  We did a supernatural training seminar in Hamilton, Scotland and a miracle service in Glasgow, Scotland.  In Norway we trained leaders from different churches and had some revival meetings in Frederikstad.  We also ministered in Manchester and London.

After our tour in Europe we came back to the USA and ministered at Mark Hankins Ministries Campmeeting.

We spent 3 weeks of July in South Africa ministering in Cape Town, Phoenix and Durban.   We also had a great time of fellowship with many friends.

After our great tour in South Africa we went to Belgium.  We ministered at Ilke’s home church and also ministered at an outreach where many Slovakian gypsies are ministered to.

In the month of August we will be ministering in the USA and preparing to leave to minister in the Far East in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia in September.

Your prayers and financial support is appreciated and welcome.

Continue to reach forward in Him!

Every blessing,

Guy & Ilke

Greetings from Manchester, England.

You represent someone great!

Alexander the Great, one of the greatest military generals who ever lived, conquered almost the entire know world with his vast army.  One night during a campaign, he couldn’t sleep and left his tent to walk around the campgrounds.  As he was walking he came across a soldier asleep on guard duty – a serious offense.  The penalty for falling asleep on guard duty was, in some cases, instant death; the commanding officer sometimes poured kerosene on the sleeping soldier and lit it.

The soldier began to wake up as Alexander the Great approached him.  Recognizing who was standing in front of him, the young man feared for his life.

“Do you know what the penalty is for falling asleep on guard duty?”  Alexander the Great asked the soldier.  “Yes sir,” the soldier responded in a quivering voice.  “Soldier, what’s your name?”  demanded Alexander the Great.  “Alexander, sir.”  Alexander the Great repeated the question: “What is your name?”  “My name is Alexander, sir,”  the soldier repeated.  A third time and more loudly Alexander the Great asked, “What us your name?”  A third time the soldier meekly said, “My name is Alexander, sir.”  Alexander the Great then looked the young soldier straight in the eye.

“Soldier,” he said with intensity, “either change your name or change your conduct.”

We who carry the name of Christ and call ourselves Christian must live up to the name.  We are ambassadors for Christ, reconciling the world with God.  Let’s represent Him!  To represent means to give a new introduction.  Let’s introduce God by the way we live our lives with an attitude that matches his greatness.

For the last 3 weeks we have been in Europe experiencing a great time of ministry with an outpouring of God’s power, changing and transforming lives.  We started our trip in Latvia, it was so great to see the hunger of God’s people there.  We ministered in Vinspiels and Riga.  We did a training seminar on the supernatural.  We were so blessed to see the response of the people and the faithfulness of God.  As we prayed for the sick, many testified of being healed by the power of God.  The leaders in both cities were very encouraged and refreshed.  We enjoyed our time with the family of pastor Maris, our good friends and we enjoyed meeting pastor Vilnis.

From Latvia we went to Belgium where God did something amazing at ‘The Next Level’ conference.  Many said that this was a breakthrough moment for the church in this region as God used the conference to heal previous wounds in the Body of Christ.  It was an incredible demonstration of what can happen when we lay aside our differences and when we stop competing with one another and choose to elevate the name of God.  More than 14 churches joined and participated in the conference.  Different churches did different things in the preparation efforts.  Even the worship was led by 4 teams from different churches.  The meetings were opened by different church leaders.  I did all the preaching and Ilke translated me in all the services.  The conference was charged with an atmosphere of freedom and joy.  The ministry of the Word was powerful.  One Saturday night we took testimonies of different people that were healed.  Sunday was celebration service, all the 14 churches and more canceled their Sunday morning services to join together.  At the end of the meeting all the pastors came on the platform and joined hands, singing: ’Father make us one, so that the world may know that you send your Son.’  At this point we received numerous testimonies of different church leaders, pastors of how this conference impacted their lives.  We love the Flemish people and are so encouraged to see God bless them in such way. 

We want to thank all the teams that worked hard to make this event such a success for His glory. 

The next 4 weeks we will continue to travel and reach people in Europe.  Please keep us in your prayers.

Love and blessings

Guy & Ilke

Greetings from Europe!  We want to wish you a very blessed Easter. 

As we celebrate Easter I want to share this story with you.   Back in the 1800s, a young Englishman traveled to California in search of gold.  After several months of prospecting, he struck it rich.  On his way home, he stopped in New Orleans.  Not long into his visit, he came upon a crowd of people all looking in the same direction.  Approaching the crowd, he recognized that they had gathered for a slave auction.  Slavery had been outlawed in England for years, so this young man’s curiosity drew him to watch as a person became someone else’s property.  He heard “Sold!” just as he joined the crowd.  A middle-aged black man was taken away.

Next a beautiful young black girl was pushed up onto the platform and made the walk around so everyone could see her.  The miner heard vile jokes and comments that spoke of evil intentions from those around him.  Men were laughing as their eyes remained fixed on this new item for sale. 

The bidding began.  Within a minute, the bids surpassed what most slave owners would pay for a black girl.  As the bidding continued higher and higher, it was apparent that two men wanted her.  In between their bids, they laughed about what they were going to do with her, and how the other one would miss out.  The miner stood silent as anger welled up inside of him.  Finally, one man bid a price that was beyond the reach of the other.  The girl looked down.  The auctioneer called out, “Going once!  Going twice!”

Just before the final call, the miner yelled out a price that was exactly twice the previous bid, an amount that exceeded the worth of any man.  The crowd laughed, thinking that the miner was only joking, wishing that he could have the girl himself.  The auctioneer motioned to the miner to come and show his money.  The miner opened up the bag of gold he had brought for the trip.  The auctioneer shook his head in disbelief as he waved the girl over to him.

The girl walked down the steps of the platform until she was eye-to-eye with the miner.  She spat straight in his face and said through clenched teeth, “I hate you!”  The miner, without a word, wiped his face, paid the auctioneer, took the girl by the hand, and walked away from the still-laughing crowd.

He seemed to be looking for something in particular as they walked up one street and down another.  Finally he stopped in front of some sort of store, though the slave girl did not know what type of store it was.  She waited outside as the dirty-faced miner went inside and started talking to an elderly man.  She couldn’t make out what they were talking about.  At one point the voices got louder, and she overheard the store clerk say, “But it’s the law!  It’s the law!”  Peering in, she saw the miner pull out his bag of gold and pour what was left of it on the table.  With what seemed like a look of disgust, the clerk picked up the gold and went back in the room.  He came out with a piece of paper, and both he and the miner signed it. 

The young girl looked away as the miner came out the door.  Stretching out his hand, he said to the girl, “Here are your emancipation papers.  You are free.”  The girl did not look up.  He tried again. “Here.  These are papers that say you are free.  Take them.”  “I hate you!” the girl said, refusing to look up.  “Why do you make fun of me?”  “No, listen” he pleaded.  “These are your freedom papers.  You are a free person.”  The girl looked at the papers, then looked at him, and looked at the papers once again.  “You just bought me…and now, you’re setting me free?”  “That’s why I bought you.  I bought you to set you free.”  The beautiful young girl fell to her knees in front of the miner, tears streaming down her face.  “You bought me to set me free!  You bought me to set me free!” she said over and over.  The miner said nothing.  Clutching his muddy boots, the girl looked up at the miner and said, “All I want to do is to serve you- because you bought me to set me free!”

As we celebrate Easter, let’s not forget what Jesus did for us.  At one time we were all salves to sin and to death.  But Christ came to redeem us, to pay for our freedom.  He bought us with His own blood, that we might be free.  “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed… but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.”  1 Peter 1 : 18, 19

We just finished an amazing time of ministry in Asia.  We ministered in Hong Kong and Macau.  The ‘Rise up Mighty Warrior Conference’ was attended by delegates from 35 states from mainland China.  The services were filled with the power of God and the anointing.  In the Saturday night miracle service, during the preaching people started running to the altar and knelt down and started to cry before God!  What a hunger and passion!  The altar call was filled and the Holy Spirit was ministering to people as they were weeping and crying before God.  God did great things.  Many testified of being healed.  It was a wonderful birthday present for me to be able to minister all day to Chinese people.  God gave me a vision 6 years ago about the East.  I call it “Look to the East’.  He’s faithful. One of the miracles that took place was a man at the hospital in Inner-Mongolia; he planned to come to the meetings but fell sick with a cancerous tumor in the colon and was admitted in the hospital.   His wife came to the meetings, I laid hands on her and we sent the Word of healing to Mongolia.  We received the following testimony few days later:

Dear Hugo, brothers & sisters in Christ,

Peace be with you all.  I would like to inform you of a miracle.  Praise the Lord that God has healed the cancer at my anal.  This has just been confirmed by anorectal experts in China.  They operate a very simple one minute minimally invasive minor surgery on me on site and testified that the tumor has incredibly reduced from a soybean size to a rice grain size and the tumor was benign. Halleluyah! Praise the Lord, victory and glory to our Almighty God! I also like to thank you, Dr. Guy and Ilke who laid hands on my wife and pray for me and also all brothers and sisters who pray for me.  My sincere thanks to you all.

Your brother from Mongolia

Gao

We also ministered in different churches in Hong Kong where we had some powerful services with many getting healed and saved.

I also traveled to the island of Macau where we had an awesome youth rally.  Many Chinese young people were filled with the Holy Spirit.

Let’s continue to pray for revival in Japan - we passed through Japan twice, on our way back we experienced an earthquake.  It was a scary moment but we were fine.

We thank God for His power and faithfulness.

We are currently in Europe.  We are starting a series of ministry vents in different nations. 

Keep us in your prayers.

Love and blessings

Guy & Ilke

Greetings from Hong Kong!

Sometimes people are afraid to step out and allow God to use them in the supernatural and the miraculous, because they have questions. I believe that everyone who wants to be used by God - directly or indirectly - needs to answer these 3 questions: Can I trust God? Can God trust me? Can I trust myself?

The first question we need to answer is: Can I trust God?

Another way of asking this question can be, "Can I have faith in God?" I define faith as, "Man's ability to believe and trust in the ability of God." The answer to this question is, "YES, you can trust God!" God has a good track-record that demonstrates that He is trustworthy. His record reveals who He is, and what He is able to do. The Bible is full of accounts of people in desperate situations that trusted in God's ability. As a result, they experienced the supernatural power of God in their lives. I am referring to people like David, Daniel in the lion's den, or the three Hebrew children who said, "Oh king, our God is able to deliver us," before they were thrown into the fiery furnace. The fire did not burn them. The lions didn't eat Daniel. Goliath didn't defeat David. David had a history with God. Through God's power, David was able to defeat a lion and a bear. This became a platform of confidence that helped him believe that God would give him the victory over the giant. King Saul thought Goliath was too big to fight. David thought he was too big to miss. Some people are afraid to trust in God because trusting God sometimes requires a willingness to take a risk. Faith and trust in God involves the concept of risk and reward. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. ~ Hebrews 11 : 6 Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. You may say, "I don't have enough experience to obey God," but I will say to you: Obedience to God will bypass experience. Start where you are. He will guide and order your steps. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths. ~ Proverbs 3 : 5 - 6 Sometimes people do not trust God because of fear. Do not allow the devil to rob your destiny through fear. Fear produces death, disease, and torment. Faith produces life, health, and peace. You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

The next question that people should answer is: Can God trust me?

Another way of asking this question can be, "Can God have faith in me?" God does not want to crush us, He wants to make us whole. You can rest assured that God can trust you, because He loves you unconditionally. Love equals trust. You can never do anything to earn more of God's love. God will never love you more than He loves you now. He demonstrated His unconditional love for you and for me when He sent His Son to die on the cross. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. ~ Romans 5 : 8 God sacrificed His most precious possession just for you. If you were the only person in this world, He would still have sent His only Son for you. To me, there is no greater demonstration of trust and love. The answer is that with the sacrifice of His only begotten Son, God trusted you with His anointing, His power, His miracles, and everything good. God meant for every part of our being to be used to its greatest potential. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ~ James 1 : 17 God doesn't ask you to be the best, just to do your best.

The last question we need to answer is: Can I trust myself?

Another way of asking this question can be, "Can I have faith in my own faith?" Sometimes the only thing that will stop you from fulfilling God's call is YOU. Many times people have faith in the preacher's faith. They have faith in other people's faith. But they do not have faith in their own faith. How often, today, people feel inadequate when it comes to ministry for different reasons: inferiority, fear, intimidation, religion, culture, past failures. Most people think that you have to be special to be used by God, but the scripture is very clear when it says, "I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh." "All" means, all. You are part of that all. You are special. If you wait until every hindrance is removed before serving the Lord, you will never attempt anything for Him. Sometimes people cannot have faith in their own faith because of past mistakes and failures. They have not been able to forgive themselves. We all mess up sometimes. So why is learning to forgive yourself a lot harder than forgiving others? Just think about the apostle Paul; he was a murderer and a persecutor of believers before he got saved. He had to forgive himself, and obey the call of God. Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. Don't look to the past, but look to the future.

Excerpt from my book: You too can be used by God       

 
Picture 1: Altar call at Cathedral of Life - Canton, OH

Picture 2: Ilke speaking at Cornerstone Church in Alabama

Picture 3: Miracle Moment in Sacramento, CA - Hearing restored!

Picture 4: Gateway Fellowship - Millersburg, OH

 
The last 3 months we spent time preaching around the USA. This time of the year is what we call 'Mission USA', a special emphasis of ministry in America. We ministered in 16 cities in 6 states: Katy, TX - Vidor, TX - Silsbee, TX - Sacramento, CA - Willows, CA - San Francisco, CA -Pittsburgh, CA - Raleigh, NC - Decatur, AL - Moulton, AL - Millersburg, OH - Dover, OH - Canton, OH - La Fayette, LA - Dallas, TX. We saw God do amazing things; in many of the services there were outbreaks of miracles; the preaching and teaching was often interrupted by a spontaneous move of the Holy Spirit where incredible things happened; amazing stirring of the prophetic and the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Many pastors and church leaders were encouraged. We have documented many miracles. Many gave their life to Christ and many rededicated their lives to Christ. Many believers were refreshed and encouraged.

Here are some testimonies:
Doloris, healed of diabetes
Rebecca, healed of fibromyalgia after a lot of suffering for 20 years
Cheyenne, healed of hip and knee pain, she had a lot of pain for 4 years
Chrissy, healed of insomnia
Annette, healed of lower back pain
Annie, sinus congestion healed
Susan, healed of shoulder problem
Rhonda, delivered of depression
Marsha, healed of lupus
Doug, healed of back injury
Woman healed of deafness, she was able to hear for the first time in 1 of her ears since she was born (50 years old),
Woman healed of cancer
and there were many others that were healed.

We thank God for what He did and give Him all the glory!

We thank God for all our partners and intercessors.

 
We are currently in Hong Kong. Please keep us in your prayers. Revival in China and Hong Kong!

 
Remain blessed in Him!

Love and blessings,
Dr. Guy & Ilke Peh

We wish you the best of heaven in 2011! 

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, "Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt  ~ Ezekiel 30 : 20 – 21a

As we are entering this new decade, expect God to break every bondage in your life: spiritually, economically, physically, socially and mentally and to stop every evil plan or scheme against your life.

Expect healing!  Expect wealth transfer! Expect joy!  Expect good health!  Expect peace!  Expect breakthrough!  Expect new life!  Expect miracles!

May this year be a year of expansion, glory and power.  God has great things planned for all of our lives this year.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. ~ Jeremiah 29 : 11 

God is not limited by our limitations, but can be limited by our expectation.  What are you expecting this year?  Expectation releases the power of God when you believe Him for a miracle.   Expectation and anticipation create the spiritual atmosphere for miracles.  Evangelist Oral Roberts once said that we should “expect a miracle every day.”  The word, “expect”, means to look forward to the probable occurrence or appearance of; to anticipate in thought.  There’s a Chinese proverb that says that: He that expects nothing shall not be disappointed.  

2010 was an incredible year full of adventure with the Lord.  We preached the gospel in 15 nations, we saw thousands coming to Christ and getting their life right with God.  We also saw thousands being encouraged in their faith and equipped.  We saw God perform many unusual miracles.

With our social outreach, ‘Bridge of Hope’, we were able to change lives by building water wells, providing food and shelter, help buy materials for church buildings, sponsor schools, buy bibles for those in need in poor nations, and many other things. 

Our new book, ‘You Too Can Be Used By God’ was released this year and the book ‘Keys to Receiving Your Miracles’ was translated and released in Chinese, Estonian, Finnish and Russian.

Through our apostolic ministry we continue to minister to pastors and leaders around the world at a growing pace.  The ministry is rapidly growing and we are thankful that we have been able to preach the gospel in over 65 nations on 6 continents.

We would have never been able to do all of this without God’s power, strength, favor and blessings.  We want to give God all the glory!   He is able and awesome! 

We also couldn’t have done it without our partners; it’s because of your financial support that we are able to impact the nations.  You are a part of the harvest of this ministry.  We love and appreciate you!

We also couldn’t have done it without our intercessors.  No prayer… no power.  Lots of prayer… lots of power!  Thank God for all the intercessors on the prayer shield network, F 16 and all the people and different churches that are praying for us. 

We are very excited for 2011.  It’s going to be even a greater year.  We expect to move from faith to faith, from glory to glory.  We are going to start the year with ‘Mission America’, preaching the gospel in 15 cities in America then off to Hong Kong and China, The rest of our schedule can be found on our website on the itinerary link.  We are also planning to go to Africa: South Africa, Zambia and Ghana; Eastern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; Western Europe: Scotland, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Finland, England; and South East Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, India. 

We also have many social programs planned with our ‘Bridge of Hope’; we plan to help the disadvantaged in the following nations: Sri Lanka, Senegal, Sudan, Egypt, Slovakia, as well as other nations. 

Picture 1:  Water well that we build in a village of Senegal!  'Bridge of Hope' project.  

Picture 2:  Miracle Rally in Maleka, Malaysia

Picture 3:  Article in Charisma Magazine in the Netherlands

Picture 4:  Miracle service at the Jesus Dome in Durban, South Africa  

We want to ask you to prayerfully consider becoming a partner with us in 2011.   You can give by cash, credit card, check or wire transfer.  Your support of any kind is welcome and appreciated.

Love and blessings, 

Dr. Guy & Ilke

“When you say a person or a situation is hopeless, it is like slamming the door in the face of God.” C. L. Allen 

C. H. Spurgeon wrote that, “If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all.”  Because it is really not anything to claim strength when there is no challenge to put it to test.  The Scripture says: ‘If you faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.’  Proverbs 24 : 10

We don’t know what you are facing or going through in this season in your life.  We want you to be encouraged to hope against all hope.  The Bible says that Abraham hoped against all hope.  The will of God in every case that appears hopeless is that we should have hope.  Every hopeless situation carries a promise from the Father.  To Abraham it was to become the father of many nations but to you it’s maybe a breakthrough, a healing, a deliverance, salvation of a loved one, provision,…  Whatever you need today, know that God has a promise for your situation!

Consider the following people who chose to rise above hopelessness:

~ Winston Churchill, failed sixth grade.  He was subsequently defeated in every election for public office until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62.  He later wrote, "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.  Never, Never, Never, Never give up."

~ Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, was told by his teachers that he was "too stupid to learn anything."  He was fired from his first two jobs for being "non-productive".  As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.  When a reporter asked, "How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?"  Edison replied, "I didn't fail 1,000 times.  The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

Proverbs 13 : 12 (ESV)

Hope deferred make the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Expect God to do a miracle!  Never give up!

We just finished an incredible time of ministry in Europe.

We saw the power of God touch the lives of many people through church services, training seminars, women’s meetings, conferences and revival services.  We are sensing a shift in the spirit and an increase of God’s power in our ministry.  We were blessed to see hundreds of people in Finland come to meetings even though it was  –  15 degrees.   We are excited about new things that God is doing in this region.

We are blessed to be home and to enjoy some time off.

God has been so faithful this year; we can truly say that 2010 was one the best years of our ministry.  We give all the praise and glory to Him.  We want to thank all our partners and intercessors from around the world.  As we close this decade, and enter in a new one, we are expecting to move from faith to faith and from glory to glory.

Never give up!

Love and blessings,

Dr. Guy & Ilke Peh