We had an awesome first week in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab with my friend, Mushtaq. Grace and Shirley were both very busy praying for people bringing healing and deliverance to many…they have been wonderful to have on the team for those first several days. The Presence of God has been beautiful as we traveled from city to city…each day was filled from morning to night ministering, praying, encouraging, and drinking endless cups of chai…feeling very humbled, thankful and overwhelmed at the love displayed to me this week…the people here have welcomed me as if they were welcoming Jesus. My heart is forever grateful for these beautiful people who pour themselves out daily for the Kingdom. Please continue to pray that God would pour out His Spirit and bring a Great Revival to “the Land of 5 Rivers.”

Our second week was just as full and blessed, ministering with another friend, Solomon. We saw many healings, and even Solomon experienced a personal healing of a severe food allergy he’s had for 5 years.  As we visited one area new to us, the pastor spoke of the great difficulty ministering here…how many missionaries would come but leave defeated. I immediately knew this was our assignment…to bring breakthrough to this region.  After our time there, we all sensed a level of breakthrough.  We are anticipating great reports.

Now well into week three, we have connected with a pastor in a small village, and were blessed to have a service in the prayer hall we helped build. Then we (a small but mighty team), began our trek in the Himalayan mountains, prayer walking through villages where there are no Christians. We will have several days of trekking in two different regions in north India. Please pray God will pour out His Spirit throughout the trip, starting a revival in one village that will spread all across these mountains. Please pray there will be open doors for ministry as His Presence enters the villages, that we would find houses of peace and open hearts. Pray for safety, good travel weather, divine health and strength/endurance…11.5 miles our first day with 25-30 pound packs. Some of us aren’t used to this!

It’s been three amazing weeks so far, and there’s still more to come! Thank you for your prayers that empower us daily to move in Him and with Him…God is good!

It was dark inside.  We had just stepped out of the sunlight into a small one room brick house.  There was no electricity, no lights of any kind.  As our eyes began to adjust we could see rice sacks scattered around like rugs trying to cover the dirt floor.  There were no chairs, just a bed in the corner to sit on.

A woman sat on the floor clutching a small baby to her chest rocking her back and forth as the little one coughed and wheezed.  Her husband scurried about the room looking for some cups as he prepared chai over a small mound of hot coals. He reached his hands, covered with dirt and callouses into a tub and retrieved some cups from the dirty brown water. He wiped his hands around in the cups in a gesture of trying to clean them for us and then poured the hot liquid.  I smiled and sipped the chai.

The woman’s dark skinned face was etched with worry as she told me of her child’s illness and showed me the medicine bottles that had taken their last rupees. Despite their sacrifices the child was not getting better.  I told them about the God who loved them, who died for them and who answered prayer. After a few moments the woman stepped across the small room and laid her little girl in my arms.  As she looked at me I could see sparks of hope trying to flicker in her eyes.  Hope that this God I spoke of would help her baby live.

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Our next trip to North India begins March 21st.  For 5 weeks we will be conducting pastor conferences, doing house visits, trekking mountain villages, prayer walking temples and drinking endless supplies of chai.  Please pray for us to have strength, endurance and carry a spirit of breakthrough everywhere we go as God uses us to advance His Kingdom. Funds are still needed for this trip, including scholarships for our India team to travel to remote places.

Beginning June 21 we will be going back to Kashmir for a 7 day prayer journey.  God has given my friend Mark Geppert a vision of establishing a House of Prayer in all 10 districts of Kashmir.  He has asked me to bring a prayer team to pray through this region to help break things open for this vision to be fulfilled.

From there we will be going into Thailand where a missionary friend has requested me to bring a prayer team. After more than 100 years of missions in this all Buddhist nation they have yet to see a major breakthrough of church growth that transforms a region. For 12 days we will prayer walk spiritual power points and finish off the last few days with non-stop prayer and worship to experience heaven touching earth.

We are asking God to assemble a powerful team of intercessors to go into this nation and bring spiritual breakthrough. If this is something that stirs your heart to be a part of and would like to join our team please contact us.  You are welcome for all or part of the trip. This is your chance to be a part of changing the history of a nation.

The old Anglican church was packed wall to wall…every inch of the pews filled, young people on the floor, knee to knee across the front, leaving just enough space for myself and Shema, to stand to preach. Dozens of people sat on the grass outside under the moonlight straining to hear every word.

Two Anglican churches from nearby towns along with a Catholic church had invited us to come for 3 days of revival services.  What had been considered dead and dry religious institutions were now hungry for a move of God in their region. I had come to this area over a year prior. We prayer walked two towns.  We did not know anyone.  We simply prayed.  Now it was these same two towns that had joined for revival and who asked us to come release God’s Presence.  Not a coincidence.

We spoke about God’s grace and the Holy Spirit began to fill the room. So we let Him come.  We stopped speaking and waited. For nearly one hour no one sang.  No one prayed.  There was no music.  We simply stood and made room for His glory.  There were times of silence.  Times of intense weeping.  Other times of shouting and crying out to God. He had come…convicting, cleansing, forgiving, restoring, encouraging, transforming, loving. The hour slipped by like it was only a few moments.  We then released healing and over 100 people stood and proclaimed that their pain and sickness was gone and they had been set free.  There is a time for preaching, worship and prayer but there is also a time to just let God come.  We simply made room for His glory.

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Trip overview by Shema

Srinagar, 2015: Riots were still burning hot in the city when we arrived. The tear gas hung heavy in the air when we were dropped off on the street strewn with rocks that stone pelters had only moments ago used as weapons to engage the riot police. We had come in to do 3 days of revival meetings in a conflict zone…what a great idea! And as we moved in obedience, God came powerfully, and healed and set people free!

2016: The riots had resumed. Curfew was on for the 70th day straight. Markets were closed, streets were deserted. Food was scarce. We decided we had to go back again. If not now, then when? This time God inspired us to go into the city and pray for the region, for 24 hours, or more if we could. We would turn the church into a house of prayer while we were there. Local believers joined us. We slept on the floor in a back room, taking turns keeping watch in worship and intercession.

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