Saturday, August 22, 2009

BRENDA'S DAD WITH JESUS
Ben Peters
Aug 18, 2009


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August 18, 2009

Greetings Saints,

BRENDA'S DAD

We arrived home late Saturday night from two extremely intensive weeks in Korea. While in the O'Hare airport Brenda found out her dad was dying. She did some laundry and repacked for Seattle. She was at the airport by noon on Sunday and has been in Washington State since Sunday evening. Her dad kept hanging on until early this evening. The last two nights Brenda stayed up with him all night. Then when other family members arrived, she took a few hours of sleep.

Today, she had waited until the afternoon, thinking he was going to breath his last any minute as the doctors predicted. Finally, she left to get a little sleep. After a couple of hours the Lord woke her up and told her to hurry back to the care center to be with her dad as he passed. She rushed back several miles and all lights were green. She arrived just in time for her dad's last few breaths.

We ask for your prayers for all the family, especially her 87 year-old mother, Joyce, who has been visiting her husband twice a day for the last few years. She will have to find other things to fill her day and she is also getting weaker and will need some care before too long herself.

PRAY FOR US AND OUR SCHEDULE

We had several events on our schedule starting this week. We cancelled the first already and have to also cancel Atlanta this coming weekend. We still expect to minister in Orlando the following week at a House of Hope Conference, August 26-29. Please pray especially for Brenda. Her mother really needs her now more than ever and she is torn between the many other demands as well as normal pressures of life in these days of transition. She could feel your prayers in Korea. Thank you so very much! She needs them now again.

KOREA REPORT

God did amazing things in Korea. We ended up serving a family which ran a number of Kindergartens in Kwangju. We had up to about 80 people in our last evening meeting, mostly Kindergarten teachers. They all wanted prophetic words and prayers of blessing, etc. It was wonderful and very tiring. We had to change our style of ministry considerably to minister to so many people.

The overall results of our meetings included many healings and hundreds of individual words of encouragement. But, I believe the Holy Spirit's greatest accomplishment was a significant shift in the focus and direction of each church and ministry and their leaders. There was a strong anointing on the message of The Kingdom and The Harvest and raising up the younger generation. We had children and youth pray for the adults with several being healed. We also asked all the ministries to pray for America and partner with us to bring in the harvest.

The pastor of the large church in Mokpo highly honored me and thanked me for also being an example of how I cared about my wife and honored her. He asked us for prophetic wisdom for major decisions he had to make about starting another couple of ministries at the age of 69. He already pastors two large church congregations. I asked him to focus on raising up successors and spend more time with his family, including grandchildren.

THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE

We are very grateful to all of you who have prayed and also supported us financially. These are tough times for almost all ministries and ministers. Fortunately, our team is all volunteer and we don't have to lay anyone off. We do expect to employ a number of them in the future as our Kingdom Sending Center comes to maturity. We want to train and send hundreds and even thousands of this generation into the harvest fields of the earth, including the Seven Kingdom Mountains of Society.

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God bless you all!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team
FINAL STOP - KWANGJU
Ben Peters
Aug 12, 2009


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Greetings Saints,

HEADING FOR KWANGJU

We are excited to be heading for Korean destination #5 today. I think we have enough grace to keep up the pace and finish the race. We will have five more meetings and a trip to the airport in these next three days, counting today. It's now Thursday morning. We don't know what to expect in Kwangju, except that it's a closed meeting (not open to the public) and we will minister to Kindergarden teachers. We don't know if that means 30 or 300. It's hard to predict anything in Korea, but we know many of you will be praying for us and we are very grateful for that.

We have definitely felt your prayers. God has given grace to make it through each day. Brenda took one morning off and it was just what she needed. She got to go into some little shops nearby and find some souvenirs for the grandkids, etc. It was just what the doctor ordered.

MIRACLES IN MOKPO

God did more than any of us know here in Mokpo. The crowds of several hundred grew almost every meeting. The anointing on my preaching was at an all-time high. God put together every message and the altar calls as I stood before the crowd, calling on God to do what He desired to do. The messages God gave me had a strong impact on the youth and the leadership of this large church. The pastor actually pastors two large churches at the same time and is 69 years old. Koreans look much younger than they are and he still has tremendous energy. He keeps the service going for at least another 45 minutes with more prayer and worship, after I finish preaching and praying for people.

Both Brenda and I had powerful and impacting visions on the destiny of this church and the city. On the way to Mokpo I saw a vision of many ships coming into the Mokpo harbor. Mokpo is right on the southwest corner of South Korea. I felt the Lord say they were coming to pick up exports from Korea and the city would prosper from new industries, etc. When I shared the vision with our host and pastor, they said there were no real exports out of Mokpo. But I felt God was still saying there would be. Also, I believed they would be exporting the gospel and many of their people would be going to foreign countries as missionaries to bring in the harvest. Two days later, they discovered that China and South Korea had made a deal to build a large port in the harbor to bring exports from Korea to China. I was so blessed that God confirmed the vision so quickly and built their faith that God was going to bless them.

Brenda had a powerful vision during worship of the church full of fire and people were coming from all over the world to see what God was doing there. We feel like a tremendous shift has taken place and we will see many eternal results.

In addition, there were many people physically healed of many illnesses. Last night I spoke about having our spiritual eyes opened. I asked God to open natural eyes as a sign that He would show us many things in the spirit and give us eyes to see what the natural eyes could not see. We heard several testimonies from men and women who said their vision had been blurry and now it was clear. I believe that's what God wants to do with our spiritual vision in these days. We certainly see through a glass darkly, as the Bible says. But He wants to take our vision to a new level.

On Tuesday night we called up the youth who wanted to serve God in the harvest wherever he sent them. About 100 came up for prayer. Then we called for spiritual fathers and mothers to come and pray for them and commit to support them. About 200 adults came up and there was a lot of weeping and fire falling on them. Some went down under the power of God. One girl was powerfully impacted and lay on the floor shaking for an hour or so. Yesterday she gave her testimony and it was powerful what God had done in her spirit.

Please continue to pray for us as we finish the race. You are making a difference. Thank you all for your kindness and support. Don't forget our September 10-12 conference in Lombard. It will be a historic event.

AMERICA NEEDS YOUR PRAYERS - NOW AS NEVER BEFORE!

Also pray for America as never before. We have heard prophetic warnings of another terrorist attack in New York. This one is supposed to target Citicorp around the time of our conference. The man who got the word had also predicted the Oklahoma City bombing and the twin tower attach.

Please pray for the momentum of evil legislation and political changes to stop and be reversed. Many Americans are beginning to realize how bad our new administration really is. We are being taken on a fast train to a foreign station, where we've never been before in America. We are becoming a nation controlled by atheistic, European style politicians who have a humanistic philosoply of the comparitive value of human life. In other words, some people have more to contribute to the common good than others and deserve to receive medical treatment. Some would require more expense than they are worth to save them. Newborn babies have less value than young adults because society has not yet invested much into them. This philosopy was written out by the brother of Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff.

This just scratches the surface of what is going on and how quickly we are losing our rights and freedoms. No one would have dreamed that we could slide so far so fast. Whatever you can do to get informed and voice your opinion to your government officials, please do it.

We still hold on to the prophetic promises that this administration will be overturned before it's time is due to expire. God has good things in store for us when our national leadership honors God and His Word once again. Please don't stop praying. Thanks so much! Your future and your children's future depend on it.

That's all for now from Mokpo, South Korea. After a few days at home we head for Atlanta and Orlando for conferences. Keep these also in your prayers, please!

Much love from a very special place with very special and hungry people on God's planet!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

Sunday, August 09, 2009

MOVING ON TO MOKPO
Ben Peters
Aug 8, 2009


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Greetings Saints,

God has touched hundreds of lives in a profound way in the last week. We finished our ministry time here in Chunan last night. There were about twenty or thirty pastors and associates in attendance and God gave me a special word for them. God has been putting my messages together in a truly prophetic manner. Every message brings me fresh revelation as I speak. I am truly amazed by the goodness of God. Brenda also has had a strong anointing and together we have prophesied over hundreds in a short time. Our poor interpreters get worn out like we do.

We have been sharing the vision of the coming global harvest and the Kingdom mandate to lift our eyes to see what God sees. The prophetic ministry must mature quickly so that all Christians desire to encourage and strengthen each potential harvester. We have focused much on empowering the younger generation. We've talked about a David generation replacing a Saul spirit in the church with worship and intimacy and power to wage a good warfare. The people's response has been very gratifying. We have heard of healings, deliverance and people coming back to God after receiving prophecy.

Thank you all so much for all your prayers. We have one week left of an intense schedule. Here in Chunan they wanted to add a third meeting on Saturday, but we declined, even though they had already advertised it without asking us. We actually got a couple of hours rest in the afternoon, which made a huge difference.

Tonight, (Sunday) and through Wednesday, we'll be in the largest church of our tour and we so appreciate your prayers for us. They also love the presence of the Lord and the prophetic and we want to pace ourselves so we don't wear out. Pray the anointing increases and our strength is sufficient for each opportunity. We have actually begun to fall asleep while our interpreters are speaking during the prophetic times after the message and altar ministry.

Now I want to change gears and share a report from our team in Mozambique. You will be thrilled with what they all got to experience. Some of you might want to sign up for next years trip. Here's their newsletter to their friends and family at home.

Hello everyone!

We wanted to give you an update on the adventures we had in the bush as well as what's happening with our flights.


Cleo and Mary went on a medical outreach seven hours into the bush. They treated over 300 children for worms, parasites, etc as well as many adults until it got dark outside and they had to stop for the evening. They saw blind eyes opened, deaf ears opened - and the Lord moved many times when they were praying for people. After showing the Jesus film in the evening, about 95% of the village children and also many adults accepted Jesus as their Savior. They both came back marveling at how God moved! They were both very stretched, but grew so much through the process.


The majority of the rest of us went on a bush outreach 4.5 hours out. It was a village of over 50,000 people - but it was still very very primitive as they live in mud huts with dirt floors. This particular village has been hard to reach in the past as it is dominated with witchcraft. The first night we went to a different village where we preached to about 2000 people. Many asked for prayer and our group got to pray over many - we too saw miracles of sight and hearing restored as well as many others - one woman's leg was totally healed from being crippled.

The second day started with kids ministry which was very fun! The kids crave attention and just loved having us all around to love on them. After that, some of the ladies prayed with some of the women of the village and prophesied over them and prayed for healing. We did outreach into the village as well and went around and prayed for different people at their homes. Our group saw a baby's very distended belly retract, a baby with a high fever broke, an alcoholic came for deliverance from that addiction, women with headaches went away, a man's back pain was healed, and a woman tormented with spirits was healed to name just a few.

When we went back to the camp, one of the leaders felt we needed to refresh before we ministered that evening - so we began to pray and holy fire fell on us! Lindsay, Rose and Luke were especially touched in a profound way and none of us will ever be the same! It was incredible - it was as if God reached down and touched each one of us in such a special way. Afterward we prepared to go out to the outreach. Megan mentioned to someone in the crowd that she had never spoken in tongues so she received prayer and immediately received the gift! She was standing by Luke who had just gotten an amazing touch from God and he went under the power of God again and had to be carried to the outreach!

We showed the Jesus film to this village and as soon as it was done, about half the crowd left but we still saw many healings of those who stayed. A man with a crippled wrist had much resoration, a man unable to move his arms and hip was relieved of his pain and ended the night dancing with Luke, and there were many other testimonies of miracles.

Upon returning, we were so blessed to stay at a hotel right on the beach of the Indian Ocean. It was absolutely stunning and we were so humbled by the extremes we had experienced all in one day - from roughing it in the bush with no running water to the most beautiful accomodations. We also enjoyed a meal together at a restaurant right on the beach that evening!

Sunday we went to church and prepared to go to the airport. It was very sad to leave and we all had a really hard time leaving Iris. We had met so many wonderful people!

The adventure then began!........

Our plane was almost 2 hours late arriving - oh and by the way, we watched Heidi Baker come off the airplane that we were about to board. That's how close we got to meeting her! It was quite something. We were sooo close to meeting her! She was a window pane away from us! Because the plane was so late leaving Pemba, once we finally got to Johannesburg they had closed boarding and we were unable to catch our original flight to Atlanta. We were able to book 4 people for today, and the other 8 are on standby as of right now. We found a hotel that had a shuttle and rested last night. This morning, Lyn and Luke went to the airport to speak with LAM about the issues they caused us and they retroactively paid for all of our meals and our room from last night and today. They are going to help us this afternoon when we talk to Delta about waiving the fees for changing our tickets. We had time to eat lunch just now and let me tell you about the amazing feast we just enjoyed! Every single one of us had different things that we had been talking about last night - things that we were craving or desiring. And EVERY single one of us's wish was granted at the buffet - from pretzels to flan to sushi to ice cream.
We are now leaving for the airport and will let you know what's going on as soon as we know more!

THANK YOU so much for your prayers. We are really all in peace and doing well - once we got over the shock of missing our flight home. God is really taking care of us and showing us how we can depend on Him when the going gets tough!!

Rose



Everyone is now safely home, as far as I know, but the adventure was truly amazing.

That's all for now. We love you all very much!

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

FROM KOREA WITH LOVE
Ben Peters
Aug 1, 2009


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Dear and Precious Friends,

Here we are again, in this very special land called Korea. We were very exhausted on arriving here, but a few hours of sleep has done wonders. It's already Sunday morning here, thanks to the International Date Line, while it's late Saturday afternoon back in the USA and Canada.

In a few hours, we will be speaking at Seoul City Church. We are asking for as many of you as possible to pray for us. Brenda has requested special intercession for her. There is definitely some warfare going on the the spirit realm. I do feel she is here to bring more breakthrough, especially for Korean women, who are not always given the honor they should by the males in their Asian culture. God has always done great things in our meetings and we know this will be no exception. So this is a call for prayer. We appreciate your faithfulness.

As you know, our hearts are to empower and raise up all segments of the Kingdom, especially the youth and those who have been overlooked in the past. The world is going to be greatly surprised at the spiritual revolution which is brewing around the world, led by worshippers of Jesus, young and old, male and female. Most of these will be unknown saints, who like David, have learned to worship and draw near to God when rejected by others, including their own families. David was the least likely candidate for the throne, according to his father, his brothers and even Samuel, but God chose him. Today, Jesus is called, "The Son of David", as well as the Son of God.

Please keep in mind the September 10-12 Conference, called Kings and Kingdoms, which will be held at the Fountain of Life Church in Lombard, Illinois. Bobby Conner, Shawn Bolz and David Tomberlin will be speaking. Expect many miracles and great prophetic insight in these incredible times we live in.

Much love to you all,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team
KEEP PRAYING - KOREA IS HUNGRY - WE ARE TIRED
Ben Peters
Aug 4, 2009


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Dear Friends everywhere,

What hunger for a touch from God and fresh revelation we find here in Korea. We finished in Seoul City Church Monday night and many were powerfully touched. One tall, handsome young man was delivered from demonic power as Brenda prophecied to him through Kyung, her interpreter. Many others were visibly and powerfully impacted by the touch from Heaven. Others testified to healings as the children and youth prayed for them. We first anointed the children and youth and then called up the sick for prayer from them. It was a beautiful time.

We are now in Kunsan, where there is a smaller but hungry group of believers - another Presbyterian Church. The place was packed last night and the crowd of well over 100 was very responsive. We ministered late into the night again after a long day with little sleep the night before.

We need wisdom and grace to handle the rest of the schedule with no time off in 15 days. From about noon until midnight we will be ministering one way or another and it's more than we can do without supernatural strength and grace. We will try to make some adjustments, but it's very difficult to disappoint hungry people.

We so appreciate your prayers and support. We can't do this without help from the body of Christ.

Much love,

Ben, Brenda, Family and Team