Newsletter February 8th 2006

OPEN HEART MINISTRIES
www.ohmint.org
15648 Bombay Blvd
S. Beloit, IL 61080

Greetings Saints,

What a precious time we have had with many new friends in the state of Arkansas!  We had our team from the House of Prayer in Elgin for the first two days, and what an impact they had.

The teens were given opportunities to minister like they never had before and between Henderson, Kentucky, and Paragould, Arkansas.  The results were quite amazing and awesome.  All of them learned to listen and release prophetic words and many of them were involved in praying for the sick.  From the reports we just got last night, there were several wonderful healings.  

One lady is sure her kidney was healed.  She was given a very short time to live.  Another lady was healed of diabetes and another problem.  Several people shared how accurate they found the prophetic ministry of the teens.  Several of the young people began to really flow in prophetic ministry for the first time ever.  It was so wonderful to experience it all.  Gene and Mary Ferguson and Val Coltman were also huge blessings to us and ministered beautifully with us.  Val was such a blessing with the administration of the trip with all the teens.

The team or 14 people left us on Monday morning, but we carried on Monday and Tuesday night with just our family.  We missed them all very much but during worship Monday night, God said to me that we were to finish strong and not let weariness or missing the team cause us to let up.

As we pressed in for God's presence and plan for the service, we both were given an unusual anointing as we ministered.  My message was totally spontaneous and impacted us all, including me.  Tuesday night was another powerful night.  Tim led worship on the keyboard and Nathan played bass and we truly finished strong, ministering to everyone that desired ministry.

We believe the messages and anointing God gave us to share with the church will change it forever and help the pastors and leaders bring their people into their destiny in God.  God has a special plan for these special folk.

SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST

Andrea, our daughter, sent us a special prayer request and asked me to share it with you all.  Her friends baby needs prayer.  You can read about it on the following website: http://web.mac.com/brettjri/Web


JOURNEY RESUMES TOMORROW

Tomorrow we head for Idabell, Oklahoma, where we minister on the weekend.  After that we head for Florida and Brenda goes to Washington State for one week.

Much love to you all,

Ben and Brenda