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Showing posts with label Reinhard Bonnke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reinhard Bonnke. Show all posts
Thursday, November 9, 2017
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Evangelist Who Helped Win 75 Million Souls for Christ Announces 'Farewell Crusade' (Reinhard Bonnke) - CBN News
Reinhard Bonnke
CBN News 03-03-2017
The number is staggering: 75,913,155. That's how many people have come to Christ through the ministry of Reinhard Bonnke.
The German-born evangelist is founder of Christ for All Nations (CfaN). Now, he's preparing for his final crusade, and has decided to go back to where it all began more than 40 years ago.
"The Lord spoke to me, that I should go back for one more crusade in Africa," Bonnke said on CfaN's website. "I want not only to see a gigantic harvest of souls but TO PASS MY BURNING TORCH to this generation."
Bonnke, his wife Anni, and their young son moved to the tiny African nation of Lesotho in 1969. The couple spent seven years working there as missionaries. It wasn't easy.
Bonnke says it was during those difficult years that he started praying to see more souls saved across the African continent.
He says God gave him a vision for "a continent washed in the blood of Jesus Christ."
In 1974, Christ for All Nations was birthed, and since then more than 75 million people have accepted Christ through the ministry.
"Millions in Africa now know the Holy Spirit, thanks to one man's incredible commitment to a singular God-given vision," said Peter Vandenberg, executive vice president of CfaN.
All these years later, Bonnke says the vision still burns in his soul.
"Whether I am eating or drinking, awake or asleep, the vision is ever-present. It never leaves me."
Now, at 77, Bonnke is passing the torch to a new generation of evangelists as he prepares to retire after more than 40 years in ministry.
Lead evangelist of CfaN, Daniel Kolenda, has been tapped to succeed Bonnke. But before he leaves, Bonnke wants to return to the continent he loves so much for one final farewell gospel crusade.
He's picked Lagos, Nigeria to hold the event later this Fall.
"Recently, I traveled to Lagos, Nigeria to meet with the spiritual leadership there and they gave their unanimous support."
Although the crusade isn't happening until November, preparations are well underway.
"Currently we plan to recruit 500,000 counselors, 200,000 intercessors, a choir of over 23,000 and a security force of over 10,000," said John Darku, CfaN's African director. "There is great excitement from all the churches in the country, and we are expecting a spectacular harvest of people coming to Christ."
CBN Senior International Correspondent George Thomas witnessed the impact of Bonnke's ministry while growing up in Africa.
"I am native of the African continent...we would hear these reports whether in Botswana, in Swaziland, in Sudan, in Nigeria, you would hear these incredible stories of thousands of thousands of people coming," Thomas recalled.
Thomas says the potential magnitude of his final crusade could be huge.
According to CfaN, the last time Bonnke held an event in Nigeria in 2000, 6 million people attended and 3.4 million made decisions for Christ.
"I don't think personally that there is one single man or ministry that has had this much of a profound impact on the length and the breadth of this beautiful continent than Reinhard Bonnke," Thomas added.
A sentiment echoed by CfaN's Daniel Kolenda.
"I'm thrilled to join with Reinhard in this vision, and know that the results of this crusade will be farther-reaching and of even greater consequence than we can even imagine."
In a Facebook post, Bonnke said, "This will be a truly momentous event, where we believe millions will, not only hear the Gospel, but will be saved, healed, and delivered!"
For a man who has witnessed the power of the Gospel countless times, Bonnke says he wants to see the Lord move in new and greater ways this November in Nigeria.
"I believe God is going to do something I have never seen before."
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Judgment or Awakening? My Response to America's Great Fall - Jennifer LeClaire
Jennifer LeClaire is now sharing her reflections and revelations through Walking in the Spirit, a new podcast from Charisma. Listen at charismapodcastnetwork.com.
When I learned the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage I went into what you might call spiritual shock. I almost felt like someone had died. Someone didn't, but something did. True liberty and justice for all. I am grieving right now over the false freedom that was birthed out of a false equality movement. I am mourning because true freedom and true equality have been replaced by a counterfeit crusade that truly sets no one free. I am weeping because America has fallen and many in the church are being caught up in the Great Falling Away.
A line in the sand was long ago drawn. Our tyrannical government crossed that line on June 26, 2015. When five Supreme Court justices trampled state rights they knew all too well Christian rights would be trampled along with them. Call it a betrayal of our Constitution. Call it an anti-Christ agenda. Call it an assault on religious freedom. It's all that and more.
See, crossing this line in the name of equality was a spiritual assault on every believer who calls on the name of Jesus. This isn't about allowing gays to get married. No, not really. While I stand against gay marriage, it's not the letter of the law that concerns me most. It the spirit behind the law that truly grieves me. This ruling will open the floodgates to a tsunami of perversion in the land. Pedophiles now want the same rights as same-sex couples. But that's the topic of another column.
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Of course, we wrestle not against flesh and blood (see Eph. 6:12). Our nemesis here is essentially the spirit of the world (see 1 Cor. 2:12). The church opened the door to the spirit of the world long ago, as is evidenced by the adultery, child molestation, financial improprieties and other scandals running rampant in the body of Christ. Unfortunately, we've discovered it's not so easy to shut the door. High-profile pastors and entire denominations are capitulating to the popular opinion on gay marriage. As Charisma Media founder Steve Strang so aptly wrote, it's time to stand up and be counted.
I would say that persecution is coming except that it's already here. Bakeries, bed and breakfasts, pizza shops and farmers are being sued for refusing to accommodate gay weddings. Public officials are being fired for standing for the truth and military chaplains are being told they cannot pray in the name of Jesus. As the saying goes, you ain't seen nothing yet.
So what is my response to America's great fall? Will we see a great judgment as so many are saying in this hour? Or will we see a great awakening that spills over into the nations of the earth? This is my response: I am grieving, but I will not fear. I am mourning, but I will not compromise. I am weeping, but I know joy will come in the morning and that joy will strengthen my hope. All is not lost. Yes, we deserve judgment, but I am still believing for mercy. If Jesus gave Jezebel and Nineveh a space to repent, there is still hope for America. And faith is the substance of things hoped for. So I hope and I believe that it will be just as the Lord told me. The Holy Spirit woke me up after midnight on April 21, 2007—long before I ever discerned the need for a Great Awakening—and told me this:
There is a great awakening coming to this nation. For I have heard your cries and I long to heal your land. I am a covenant God and I will not forget the covenant I made with your Founding Forefathers. Yes, there will be a shaking, but the foundations will not crack and they will not crumble. Only those things which can be shaken will be shaken that the sin in the land may be laid bare.
Repentance. I require repentance from My people who have through the generations allowed the enemy to take ground in this nation. I require repentance for the abortions and for the prayerlessness. I require repentance for the apathy and for the idolatry. You shall have no other Gods before me. I am indeed the God of America.
Yes, there is a great awakening coming to this nation. I am the Author of it and I will bring it to pass. Just turn from your wicked ways and humble yourselves. Stand in the gap and make up the hedge. I am the Lord and I am a Warrior. I will not leave or forsake this country. I will fight through you and with you to regain what has been lost.
Be encouraged now because as you go forth boldly with My Word and My Spirit there will be the sound of truth and it will prevail in the land. Speak boldly and clearly and watch as the mighty men arise to take their positions on the wall and in the churches and in the marketplaces. For I am raising up deliverers and reformers in this generation who will not shrink back at the challenge that is coming in the days ahead.
Yes, it will grow darker before My light shines brightly from this nation again. But the light has not been extinguished and will not be extinguished. The time to rise up is now. I am calling you to war. I am calling you to repentance. I am calling you to My side. I am the captain of the hosts. I am calling you to victory. I am calling you to destiny. Will you answer?
I believe this so much that I've set my heart labor for it with everything in me until I see it come to pass. I wrote a book on the topic that released almost eight years to the day after I received that prophetic word. In The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening, I included thoughts and perspectives from the likes of Franklin Graham, Reinhard Bonnke, Greg Laurie, Dr. Michael Brown, the late Steve Hill and many others and we're all agreeing for a spiritual awakening.
I have to keep believing even in the midst of a raging spiritual war. I believe America as we know it died last Friday but I believe America can be born again. Like Winston Churchill said during World War II when the situation looked dire, "Never, never, never, never give up."
Jennifer LeClaire is senior editor of Charisma. She is also director of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and author of several books, including The Next Great Move of God: An Appeal to Heaven for Spiritual Awakening; Mornings With the Holy Spirit, Listening Daily to the Still, Small Voice of God; The Making of a Prophet and Satan's Deadly Trio: Defeating the Deceptions of Jezebel, Religion and Witchcraft. You can visit her website here. You can also join Jennifer on Facebook or follow her on Twitter.
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