NEWSLETTER
December 2020
Thank you very much for your commitment to pray for us regularly! Our Almighty God bless you and a loved one for it! Here is a brief overview of the last few weeks:
After we lost our unborn child in August, we agreed that we wanted to have a farewell ceremony. We had a prophet sitting with us in the living room who let us know through the Holy Spirit that it was a boy. Anita already had this thought, which is why she named our son Lemuel. The prophet promised us that we would have another son and that we should then baptize Samuel.
On a Friday morning I, Andreas, took a little more time with God again.
It was such a blessed time because there was so much clarity in my head and I also asked the Holy Spirit a few things. I got the answer right away that we should say goodbye to our prodigal son Lemuel that day.
In the afternoon we were in Karlstetten in Lower Austria on a small hill to do the farewell ceremony. When we drove there in the car, I saw a man walking halfway, then when we started, the man was already at the entrance to the forest and looked down at us with his stick. Then when we got to the top, the man was sitting on a bench next to the place where we had put the decorative stones. He had closed his eyes and was sitting motionless. In the evening in bed I had the impression that the man was our father in heaven, like in the film "The Hut", and he was with us when we said goodbye to Lemuel. We then lit a candle, played a song, celebrated communion and prayed, and then we went back to the car with Tatjana.
It was a solemn farewell, with the hope of seeing you again in heaven!
Yes, we don't understand so much, but we trust that God will make something good out of this too.
Good news from Hochimst in Tyrol: The "Haus des Lebens" seminar center has set an appointment for us in winter 2021 to hold a seminar on the subject of vocations. At this point we want to thank you for your prayers. We are aware that this is an unequivocal answer to prayer. In any case, we look forward to helping some people to discover their calling next year. Together we see our task in helping people to come into their God-given calling. With various practical exercises and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we try to get the participants from A to B. We will love to help people with our enthusiasm to dream big and trust our father to keep his promises. Here is the link to register if you know someone who would like to discover more what God put him in the world for:
Link: Seminar: Follow your destiny, November 5th - 7th, 2021, Hochimst / Tyrol
Unfortunately we both got Corona in mid-November and unfortunately both had all common COVID-19 symptoms except fever.
We had severe body aches and pains, as well as many other ailments, but the chest area hurt the most from coughing ... nevertheless ... it was worse in between with chills and shortness of breath. In this situation we could only trust that our heavenly Father would carry us through and that we would get well again .. Thank God our daughter Tatjana had no serious complaints except a little diarrhea and a lot of boredom ;-)
We are now almost 100% back, still a bit tired and weak and itchy throat, but it will. After our families as well as some from the community were health affected by Corona, everyone is now healthy again. Praise and thanks be to God!
I, Andrew, even got a county office criminal case for being at a meeting with other Christians during the lock down. But the proceedings have since been discontinued after a phone call with the police. I was able to make it clear that it was a prayer meeting, which is exempt from the regulations and restrictions. God is good!
We usually organize a Christmas party every December in a house for the homeless at the "Emmaus" facility in Sankt Pölten in Lower Austria.
Most of the time we sang a few worship songs together, including Christmas carols. In between reading from the Bible and specially written Christmas poems were recited. We also had several kilos of cookies baked and taken with us. It was a really blessed time. We then all sat together on a table and had a very good chat. We also offered to pray for them or to be given a Bible if someone wanted to. In the community, after an impression during prayer, it was decided to give the institution 500 € for the homeless. The leader and also the supervisors who had taken care of the celebration were very grateful.
Due to the Corona there is no celebration this year, but we still wanted to invest in the homeless and present them with Jesus as hope. A dear sister from our community has designed a little booklet for her family with pretty pictures in it. It is clearly about the message of Jesus Christ. Every homeless person gets a little booklet for Christmas this year, plus something to snack on, a little creative thing (painted stones) and a 10 euro note with a Bible verse.
For the coming year we are planning a few days of reconciliation and releasing the relationship between the people of God and the body of Christ in Austria in association with various congregations and houses of prayer. Racism and above all anti-Semitism are always an important topic that should not be kept silent!
Anita experienced herself a few years ago (in Israel) how she was freed from this spirit of racism and only then did she have a heart for Israel. Yes, Christians can also be affected. Maybe even without being aware of it. This can be carried along for generations. We just know that the time is now and that God cares very much.
It is therefore important to do something about it!
The date on May 21 and 22, 2021 has already been fixed and we have already received a very great and well-known worshiper from Israel - Joshua Aaron.
After the booking request, it turned out that he himself is very happy to be there, as there are also victims of the Holocaust in his family. This confirmed our plan yet again. The venue was also an answer to prayer.
We are allowed to hold the ecumenical service on this topic in our government district in the Landhaus in Lower Austria.
That means in the "political headquarters" of the largest federal state Austria.
We had a special prayer time in October. A prophet from Israel came as a surprise and confirmed that we should hold this event next year, where it is about reconciliation between Christians and the people of Israel. He talked about the fact that around the 13th century a total of seven Jewish provinces were settled along the Danube from Budapest to Linz. Anita and a sister in prayer, had the impression weeks before that we should go on a boat trip where we should pray along the Danube, give praise and liberate various places from racism and anti-Semitism. The picture was that the Danube should be swept with blood and corpses, from the time the Danube flows into Austria until it leaves the country again.
The prophet said that at this event I should break the covenant that the Austrian people had declared for the 1000-year Reich with Hitler. I then had a picture of how everyone at the event should do a physical act to fix this bond. Just as many at the Hitler Bund did it at the time by raising their hands in the Hitler salute, they should now either raise both hands or put one hand on their hearts or just hold out one hand to God to express this covenant with Jesus to fix.
Nevertheless, there are still so many unanswered questions that we are currently moving before the Lord. What else is there to do? Which political representatives and church officials should we invite?
Here, too, we are very grateful for your prayers, as a small team has already formed, people who have a heart for the cause and are ready to serve.
It is interesting that through this "commission from God" some brothers and sisters have already been convicted by the Holy Spirit himself that there is still a problem in their hearts on this subject. We are of course very happy when there are such great "side effects" in this project that only God can do. Alleluia!
Here is the link to more information about the Danube project ;-)
Our PRAYER MATTERS:
Even more intimacy with our Lord Jesus and immerse yourself in God's fatherly love
Wisdom what priority should be in our life and how we organize our time.
Longing of the heart for time in the presence of God - for the people of the community!
That Anita's father-in-law and her grandmother both entrust their lives to Jesus Christ.
Furthermore for our dear sister in the Lord (Dörthe) who is tormented by illness.
Reconciliation event 2021 Austrians - Jews, that we get clarity which church leaders and political representatives should be present at the event and other practical things about the organization.
We wish you a Merry Christmas, good health,
but above all God's blessing for the year 2021. Thank you for your prayer!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your support and your love!
Be blessed with Eph. 1:17:
"I pray that God - the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father to whom all power and glory belongs - will give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you will get to know him better and better."
Sincerely, YOUR Andreas & Anita