CHARIOT VISION June 8th, 2006

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

Dearest Friends,

What a joy it is to serve Jesus in these exciting days of harvest!  We have ministered in four home groups in the last five days and have three more in the next four days.  We have seen many people weep before the Lord as He touches their hearts.  Some had struggled with suicide and depression and many other attacks of the enemy.  Many of the people we ministered to had been with us before and reported how words from Jesus some years ago had been coming to pass since we had seen them last.

So many people have encouraged us with testimonies and with such thankful hearts.  It keeps us going, even though we can be totally exhausted when we go until close to midnight and get home around 1 a.m. most evenings.  But God has given us strength and we continue to get excited as we see the people of God rising up into their destiny with a new sense of vision and confidence in their God to build His Kingdom.

Another thing that has really blessed me is recording the donations that came in during the conference for our speakers and the special offering that Che Ahn took up for us.  So many folk gave over and over again, and I knew it was a great sacrifice for many of them.   As you know, we host these conferences totally by faith, without registration fees.  

We have been blessed with many of the best and most anointed prophetic and apostolic speakers in the world today, and we expect to have even more of them in the days ahead.  By God's grace, and through the sacrifice and generosity of the people who attend, we have not had to send our speakers off without a good offering to support them and their missions and mentorship projects.  This all happens without lengthy offering messages and appeals.

So thanks to everyone who gave and thanks to the Holy Spirit who touched us all in such a powerful way.  For those who couldn't come, we do have discounted CD's and DVD's of all the speakers and six of the worship sessions, including two with Georgian Banov.

Also, we are not able to express how overwhelmed we were by the outpouring of love in the surprise offering taken up for us by Che Ahn for our trip to Africa.  No one had any idea how badly we needed the finances that came in.  

We are still committed not to share our needs publically and we have been stretched financially so many times, but each time we get a bigger miracle in answer to our prayers of desparation.  May God bless all of you who made the sacrifice to bless us and send us to Africa with our bills paid.

CHARIOT VISION

I want to share what I saw last night during worship at the home meeting in Fox River Grove.  I saw a circle of heavenly chariots circling around the base of the Mountain of the Lord.  I knew they were looking for those who wanted to get on board and take a quick journey to the top of the mountain.  They were like Cab drivers looking for passengers.

I knew that the people who were there at the base of the mountain were all planning on climbing the mountain to be with the Lord, but the journey would be a slow process and might last their lifetime.  The angels riding the chariots were inviting those who were willing to leave everything behind to go quickly right into the presence of the Lord.  It would mean really letting go and being totally abandoned to the King.  

They would have to be willing to emotionally detach themselves from every form of natural security, including reputation, resources and relationships.  The chariots were for those who were a people of One Thing - sold out lovers, whose hearts were beating in tune with the Father's heart.  

I really believe that Jesus has opened the door into His presence wider than ever before.  He is looking for those who will come to Him to receive their Harvest assignments and become like the angels in Jacob's dream that ascend and descend into Heaven to report to God and to receive new assignments.  The only condition to ride the chariots into His presence is a yielded heart.  Neither gifting, education or position will put us in those chariots, but a broken and contrite heart that is totally surrendered to God will qualify.  I'm asking God to make my heart willing and totally yielded to Him.  I don't want anything to keep me from inheriting everything available to lay at His feet.

COMING CONFERENCES

Something very exciting is developing for this fall's convention season.  Not only are we scheduled in Crystal Lake with Shawn Bolz and JoAnne McFatter and others in late October, but we also now have another conference developing quickly to be held in DeKalb, IL, September 21-23.  We should know all the speakers very soon.  Some are not well-known yet, but are moving in the glory realm like few ministries are.  The theme of the September conference is "Show Me Your Glory."  Please don't write this off as too far away.  We can get overnight housing for a lot of people who want to spend the night.  We also have a good motel with reasonable rates.  This conference is going to be very special.

JUNE SCHEDULE

After the next three home meetings we rush to Washington for Andrea and Harvey's wedding.  Then we rush home to leave for Mozambique for two weeks.  Please pray earnestly for both these events.

May God bless you all richly and help you activate your gifts for the expansion of His Kingdom!

We love you all!

Ben and Brenda, Tim and Nathan