September 7, 2021

Yesterday, Josiah (on the left), his mom and I went to the local market near our home to pick up some vegetables for dinner and when we got there we started looking for our handful of items but the usual vendor we buy from didn’t have all we needed, so we made our way down the vending booths to see if we could find what was on our list. We eventually made it down to the cheese vendor and while we were buying our cheese one of the other vendors came up to me and asked me if we remembered praying for her (Josiah and I) a while back. I said that I thought I did and I noticed that she was no longer wearing the cast that she had on when we prayed for her broken arm. She explained to us that the day we prayed for her she took off her cast the following day and her arm was healed! She said that the doctors told her that when she broke her arm they would need to operate on her arm after they take the cast off, but that was not happened! Hallelujah! She was healed and her arm looked perfect; she was very thankful that we had prayed for her that day. It was a sweet moment for Jessica and I to show Josiah that praying for the sick is not only something that we should do as believer’s but that also people can be healed when we don’t see an instant change but that doesn’t mean that nothing happened! Praise God! He is working even when we don’t see it physically!

“…they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:18

April 23, 2021 - May 5, 2021

Over the past few weeks we have had the privilege of seeing 3 more added to the Kingdom Family! Hallelujah! Praise God! The Lord is continuing to build His church and the kingdom of darkness can do nothing to stop it! One of the things I love most about these pictures you see above is that there are 7 different people taking part in the new birth of these new disciples of Jesus. It’s not about 1 person or a few leaders in the group; it’s all about the Gospel and what Holy Spirit is doing through those that are submitted to Him and do His will! We all have a part to play and are called to make disciples, but in order for us to make disciples people have to get born again. So, 3 more were born again and are now coming to our fellowships and we are walking with them in discipleship as they learn to follow the Lord as His obedient children who are no longer alive to sin but to righteousness! We are so blessed to live this life and be part of this!

March 27-29, 2021

More choose to give their lives to Jesus and get born again! It truly is amazing what is taking place in Nicaragua right now and all over the world for that matter! Only God can do the things we are experiencing and we stand in awe of His work as continues to build His church and establish His kingdom on earth! Hallelujah! All glory to the Lamb! 3 young men at a 2 day event we held at a dear brother’s rustic ranch property decided to say YES to the Gospel and died in the waters of baptism and rose up to new life to live in union with God through His Holy Spirit. Our dear friend Carol (far right picture) chose to die to self in the waters of baptism as well after she realized her many years of church service and ministry were not enough to give her full assurance of right standing with the Father and that she needed to die with Him into His death and rise with Him unto new life! We are constantly amazed of what the Lord does and how He convinces us and others of truth and leads them to Himself so sweetly and so powerfully. We also got to baptize a dear sister’s brother (picture in the middle) for whom she had been praying for some time. He has lived a life of server addiction to drugs and actually almost died a few days back when we was assaulted and stabbed by numerous others. Thank you for praying for Luis with us as we look forward to connecting him with his new family and discipling him, teaching him all that the Master has taught us.

March 17, 2021

Today we got to see another sister added to the family! This was also Elizabeth’s (on the left baptizing) first time baptizing another sister and Josefa’s second time? (on the right baptizing) Meyling (who got baptized) says she had been repenting of sin to the Father for the past week or so and that she was ready to take all that sin she repented of and put it to death in the water’s of baptism. It’s so beautiful when someone is ready and the Holy Spirit has already been working on them; our part is so much easier! Meyling will travel to the U.S. in about a week and we don’t know when we’ll see her again; so we have some “kickstarting” to do up until that point! Tomorrow she will go to her 1st gathering of disciples and will also go out on the street to heal the sick and share the gospel. Yay Jesus! It is so beautiful what You do!

March 5-7, 2021

We had another amazing Kickstart this past weekend! We had 10 people get born again during the event, praise God! From ages 13 and up new life was given and freedom from sin and spiritual affliction received and experienced by many! It truly was a wonderful 3 days laboring alongside my fellow brothers and sisters here in Managua, all in one accord giving glory to Him who brought us to new life and leading others into a deeper relationship with Jesus!

This Kickstart was was a bit different in that it was primarily comprised of believers; people who had already made the decision to become disciples of Jesus and had been born again and are presently attending one of the three home groups in Managua. This gave the Kickstart a certain atmosphere of unity and common desire to obey the commands of Jesus that set it a bit a part from past Kickstarts. This was also the first Kickstart in which former students provided the teachings, including myself, so that was also another beautiful facet of the event. Listening to each teaching from a fresh point of view, with personal details and testimonies really made our time together a learning experience from start to finish!

For me one of the highlights of the weekend was seeing the conviction of the Holy Spirit working on our (now brother) Noé. I met Noé a few months ago on a trip to Puerto Cabezas where he was our translator for a day and got to go around with us healing the sick and praying for the refugees there who had lost their homes after the hurricanes. I had shared the Gospel with him there and we had talked about his relationship with God and what that means, but upon arriving to the event and after hearing the first 3 teachings he came under conviction that he needed to repent of his sins, and truly get baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ! Woohoo! Noé had grown up in the church and is the son of a pastor, but he realized that he had never really been born again and wanted to step out in obedience and do that during the Kickstart. It was such an honor to share with him and walk him through that and now get to walk with him, if even from a distance for now, until we meet again in the not-too-far future. Hallelujah!

All of those who were born again are being plugged into one of the home groups in Managua and are already being discipled by other sisters and brothers. Our goal is not just to make converts, but too make disciples who live surrendered and obedient lives to the Holy Spirit! We are committed to walking with them and doing all that is within our power to see that they mature into proper disciples of Christ who live holy and obedient lives worthy of the sacrifice of our great Savior!

One other thing that happened in this Kickstart that I want to mention is of a healing I experienced. On Saturday morning of the event I was watching the little ones and while doing so I twisted my ankle/foot badly playing soccer with the boys. This was one of those sprains where you hear it pop and you know its gonna swell and take a while to go away. Well, after some hours it did swell and by the end of the night I could barely walk on it, but probably 2 dozen fiery sons and daughters of God prayed over it that day for it to be healed and although I didn’t experience full healing that day by the next day it was probably 70% better and the next day even more, so much so that I could go skateboard on it! Wow! That was definitely a miracle as before when I had a sprain like this one it took weeks if not months for it to heal. We have such a wonderful Father don’t we?!

February 12. 2021

I was blessed with the opportunity to share the Gospel with a friend and neighbor of some brother’s of our’s in the faith. Jorge was reaching out for help because he felt like he was all alone in the world and had no peace in himself. Jorge almost lost his wife in the recent birth of his twins and the complications during the birth used up all the funds they had saved up for the coming of the twins to the their household. But it wasn’t just the economic needs that had him feeling alone; Jorge also grew up without a father and much family around him so the weight of the reality of not having an identity in the world was heavy up on him and he couldn’t seem to escape it. As we talked over coffee and I listened to him share where he was at spiritually I realized that he needed to hear the Gospel so I shared it with him using the TLR Witness cards and Jorge listened attentively and things began to click for him. Jorge realized that he had never had a relationship with Jesus as he had never been baptized on his own faith and had never repented from sin. Jorge told me that he didn’t have any vices; no obvious addictions, but after hearing the Gospel he realized that he did have sin and unforgiveness in his life that needed to be put away.

It’s always beautiful to see a lost sheep find its way back to the Great Shepherd of our souls, but for me its even more sweet when someone is so broken, so humbled, and so ready to receive all that the Father has to give them once they choose to let their walls down and let the Light expose the darkness that has been within them. So after meeting for a few hours in the coffee shop sharing with Jorge about his greatest need he decided that he wanted to give all to Jesus and be born again! I took him home and we blew up and filled up the pool while Jorge was with us, before God repenting of his sin and then we quickly took him to the baptismal waters and put away all that sin forever! Jorge received the Holy Spirit and prayed in tongues for the 1st time as well! I them took him to the grocery store to buy him a few things for his babies that would last them about a week at least and he asked me as we walked to the bus stop “Why are you doing this?” and I could only respond that “This is what family does. You are part of the family of God now and we look out for each other. If one part is struggling we struggle with them and come alongside them. What’s mine is your’s and what’s your’s is mine.” I feel so blessed to be able to work the harvest alongside the Master and play a small part in what He does because only He can give new life and set us free from sin! Hallelujah! Glory to the Lamb!

January 26, 2021

Today I got to play a small part in the new birth of another disciple of Jesus! Praise God! This brother is actually the grandfather of a young girl who got delivered and set free a few days ago during a Kickstart event we held here in Bluefields. She had been experiencing much demonic oppression for quite some time and at the event she decided to give her life to Jesus and got completely set free! Today she went on outreach in the streets for the first time to pray for the sick and share the Gospel and her group ended up at her uncle’s house where her grandfather was at the time. Upon seeing her grandfather she told him that they had been out sharing the Gospel and asked if he’d like to hear. Adolfo, her grandfather, said yes and began to hear about what water baptism really is and why one has to be water baptized on his/her own faith in order to be cleansed from sin and when he heard it he immediately said “I want that!” He had actually been wanting it for months as he grew up Catholic but knew in his heart that infant baptism isn’t biblical even though he can’t read! So after hearing the Gospel presentation we took him through repentance as he confessed his sins and repented to the Father and shortly after we baptized him! Hallelujah! He also received the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues for the 1st time a little while later! God is so good and we are constantly being amazed at how He is truly building His church!

Also, we got to see an ear which had ringing in it for quite some time get healed! It was so sweet to see our sister jump for joy and cry tears of thankfulness to the Lord when the ringing stopped after years of suffering. When I laid hands on her with her son in faith to rebuke the ringing in the ear I actually didn’t know she had had it for so long! I thought it was only bothering her for a few days; so I was elated to see that she had been healed when I found it had been going on for quite some time. God is so kind and patient with us! I love Him so much!

January 23, 2021

We saw 8 people healed of different pains and ailments in our time out on the streets today! Upon setting out on our time sharing the Gospel and healing the sick in the streets we encountered a couple within about a minute with whom we were able to share. The man had pain in his neck and stomach due to carrying heavy objects on his head while working which created much pain and discomfort for him; he actually had just gone to the hospital the day before for the pain. We laid hands on him and rebuked the pain and it all left and he and the lady with him were quite surprised! They came to our Kickstart event the next day and heard the Gospel preached but I didn’t get to follow up with them as they left before I could find them. We also prayed for a broken wrist which felt much better after we ministered healing. We prayed for 2 others who had back pain who felt much better as well after we ministered God’s healing power to them. There were two ladies we prayed for, one with diabetes and the other with a cough that wouldn’t leave, which we couldn’t tell if they were healed definitely or not as only time can show the results, but we are believing that there were as God’s word never returns void. We also stopped by a home where a lady had been sick with one thing or another for many years and when we showed up we found her in a chair covered up with blankets and not doing well. She told us that the only place that she didn’t feel pain was in her hair. Wow! Poor thing. So we laid hands and rebuked the unclean spirit and after just on prayer her whole countenance changed! Her face immediately relaxed and her shoulders loosened up. She could now move her body with no pain and although she didn’t jump up and run around the house, she said that she felt better than she had in a long time and the pills she had been taking had not made her feel near as good as she felt after we ministered to her! It was truly amazing to see how quickly and sweetly the Lord touched her body to show her His love and power! In only two hours out on the streets healing the sick and sharing the Gospel we saw Holy Spirit touch so many bodies and put smiles on on previously hardened and pain-filled faces!

January 18, 2021

A few days ago I got to share the Gospel with a man who had been searching for more with the Lord over the last month. He had been baptized 35 years ago but after sharing the Gospel with him he realized that his baptism was most probably not a true one because there was no life transformation afterwards. He was still hesitant to make a decision for Christ after this realization but we encouraged him to not wait too long to make the decision. So after a few days he came back by and was ready to get baptized. Before baptizing him, myself and another brother sat with him to make sure he understood the decision he was making and to walk him through a repentance talk; explaining what repentance is and why it is the necessary 1st step we take towards the Lord in our relationship with Him. There was some doubt in the two of us as to whether our friend was really sincere or not about his convictions of sin and his need for Jesus, so we decided to ask the Holy Spirit to touch him and to baptize him with His Holy Spirit. He was baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues so that was confirmation for us that he was ready to be baptized in water for the forgiveness of sins! It was a beautiful moment, and always one of my favorites with new believers, when he spoke in tongues for the 1st time! I love the surprised and sincerely yet sincerely touched looked on people’s faces when they experience the intimate communion of praying in tongues with the Holy Spirit for the 1st time! Praise God for our new brother’s birth and joining the Kingdom family!

January 11, 2021

Hey, so I just realized this is my first post on the testimony page of 2021! Praise God! He is still as amazing as He was in 2020, haha! So yesterday I arrived in Bluefields, which is on the other coast of Nicaragua, for three weeks to participate in the Pioneer Training School. There are about 10 of us students in the school; all like-minded, fiery disciples of Jesus Christ who want to go deeper into the things of God and learn to walk more completely as devoted followers of our King. We spend many hours in fellowship encouraging and challenging each other as well as many hours in the classroom receiving teaching from the scriptures; but the most exciting part of this school for me is the opportunity to go on outreach out in the streets of Bluefields alongside the other students to pray for the sick and share the Gospel!

Today was our first day out in the streets and we prayed for many people and saw healings. The most impactful healing for me was praying for a deaf lady, well . . . she was about say 75% deaf and after praying for her a few times her hearing was greatly improved! Unfortunately she was a bit weirded out by the whole experience and kept her distance after we prayed for her while we ministered to her husband’s ailments, but it was exciting to to see Holy Spirit touch her hearing and give her back most of it back to her after only a few prayers!

We also prayed for a few men that had paralysis due to strokes and one of them was able to walk better with more stability after we ministered to him! We will go back to check on him later in the week because we believe he will be even more improved as time goes by. It was definitely a challenging day out in the streets as I felt the heaviness of the community spiritually in pretty much every home or business we entered to find people to pray for. However, Holy Spirit is doing what He always does, healing bodies and lifting burdens. While my outreach partner and I didn’t take any pictures today, below are a few from others in our school during today’s outreach. The Gospel was shared many times and one even decided to say YES to JESUS and give his life to Him, repent from sin and get baptized! Hallelujah! God is so good!

December 3, 2020

The Lord says that He longs to talk all things, even our bad decisions and less than desirable circumstances made by our own rebellion, and use them for our good if we will let Him. Jean recently made some bad decisions that lead him to a place he didn’t want to be in his life. He had grown up in religion for years but religion could not give him peace nor purpose in his life and that left him empty and depressed.

I had the blessed opportunity to share the Gospel with Jean and after hearing the simple plan of God for his life he decided to repent of sin and get baptized into Jesus Christ! Jean had already been baptized a year before in the church but no transformation had taken place because he did not understand the central tenet of the Gospel, dying to self and sin and truly leaving it all behind through repentance and water baptism.

Jesus answered, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.”

We are continuing to disciple Jean and have already taken him out on the streets to kickstart him in praying for the sick and sharing the Good News!

November 25, 2020

During our weekly meeting several of our group got delivered from demonic oppression. Gabriela was suffering from suicidal thoughts and depression and after our meeting we laid hands on her and there was a huge manifestation, which was a first for many in our gathering to experience. After around 15 minutes of ministering deliverance to Gabriela she was free’d from much affliction and very thankful, while at the same time surprised that she manifested a demon as she was unaware that’s what it was. The following day she came over for some more prayer to fully get free from what had been plaguing her life and since then she has been walking in deeper freedom and peace! Praise God!

Another of our gathering had been suffering under fear and suicidal thoughts as well and was set free! Both girls continue to be free to this day and we are walking them through how to wage spiritual warfare against the attacks of the evil one so that they remain free. Being a disciple is so much more than just Bible studies and prayer meetings! Someones we need to minister freedom to one another and help each other come our from underneath lies that we may be believing which have opened doors to the evil one into our lives. However, as sons and daughters the One who has overcome the world lives in us and if we maintain intimacy with Holy Spirit through a relationship founded on truth, darkness has to go! Praise God!

November 4, 2020

Bless you, whoever is reading this, haha. I hope this encourages you! You are not reading this by chance! I wanted to briefly share with you about what God did in the life of the man getting baptized in the photo above on the left because it’s a beautiful story! Davis is the brother in law of one of our brothers, Josh, who i wrote about a few months ago on this testimony page. You can find his testimony below on this page. Anyway, Davis had been seeing the transformation in Josh’s life and Andrew’s as well, his other brother in law, who have both recently been born again and been on fire for the Lord ever since. Davis, who has been on the worship team in a local church here in Nicaragua and had considered himself a Christian for some time now began to realize that his life did not look like that of his brother’s in law. Davis went out with us one Sunday on one of our outreach outings and in his small group that he went out with he saw 3 people get healed and also saw the Gospel shared with a family. In the photo from that outreach on the above right you can see my beautiful and amazing wife sharing the Gospel with a vendor with another disciple from our group. From that family who heard the Gospel one of them decided to repent from sin; so Davis saw and participated in actual disciples of Jesus doing the same things that Jesus did and commanded us who believe to do as well!

After going one that night Davis began to feel conviction to repent from sin and began to confess sin to his wife, who also recently got born again! The next morning Davis called Josh to repent of sin that he could wait no longer to confess and after another conversation with Josh and Andrew the following day he decided to get baptized because he realized he wasn’t truly born again! Wow! How amazing right?! So, from going on one outreach for a few hours and through and after seeing 3 lives around him transformed by the power of the Gospel Davis also fell under conviction and saw His need to repent and get free from sin! It’s just so beautiful! I love it! Only Jesus can do that! Praise God!

October 22, 2020

We had shared met Claudia before a few months ago when her sister got baptized and born again, but she was real resistant to the Gospel and still wasn’t ready to give all to Jesus. Claudia had experienced a lot of hurt and deception from people who claimed to follow Jesus during her life and consequently didn’t want anything to do with “religion”. However, this day she contacted her sister and said that she was ready to give her life to Jesus! I find it so amazing when someone comes to that decision all on their own, simply responding to conviction that the Holy Spirit brings upon their life without anyone pouring into them or influencing them to do so. But that’s how it was with Claudia, praise God!

So she was brought over to our home by her sister and brother in law and we all got to sit down with her and share the Gospel with her and after hearing the Gospel she decided that she wanted to repent of sin and get baptized that night! Woohoo! Claudia was so ready to give all to the Lord! So we all took her up to a friend’s pool and my wife and her sister baptized her into Jesus Christ that night and she has been part of our fellowship ever since! Hallelujah! Since her baptism Claudia has been lead through repentance of hardness of heart towards others and unforgiveness towards others who have done her wrong in her past. We are so amazed at what King Jesus does and only He can do!

At a recent Kickstart that our friends and family in Christ, the Van der Kaaij family, put on here in Managua we had several people that were touched out in the streets by our time in outreach and decided to repent of sin and be baptized into Jesus Christ the same night! This picture above is of Ingrid who had been going through a hard time battling with sadness in her life and when she saw a group of the Kickstart team out praying for people and sharing the Gospel she came over to ask for prayer. She heard the true and simple Gospel for the 1st time, came back to the center where the Kickstart was being held and repented with a sister in Christ, and then she was baptized on her own faith! This is the moment pictured above.

Afterward she was baptized in water Remon, my brother in the faith on the right in the baptismal waters, asked me to pray for Ingrid some more with Nadia, our sister in the Lord on the left, for her to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit and to receive the gift of tongues. Nadia and I spent about an hour with Ingrid explaining to her about the necessity of the baptism in the Holy Spirit in a believer’s life in order to live the life of power and holiness that we are called to live. Ingrid was on page with receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit but even though she had only spent a few months in church before this night she had already heard that speaking in tongues wasn’t for everyone. We at Fervent Fire Church believe that the baptism in the Holy Spirit and the gift of tongues is for all who are born again, not just for a select few. We prayed for Ingrid maybe 6 or 7 times in all, and after each time we prayed and nothing came out we continued to encourage her and explain a little more about the great gift of praying in tongues for personal encouragement and edification. The last time we prayed Ingrid wanted to stand up to pray so as she did we just encouraged her to let sounds come out of her mouth; it wasn’t important what they sounds were or how they sounded, we just wanted to encourage her to get over the fear of man and be bold in working with the Holy Spirit in faith in what He desired for her.

It was amazing that when Ingrid decided to let what was inside come out and took a bold step of faith to begin praying in tongues the Holy Spirit soon took over and she took off in the Spirit and it was just so beautiful! She was shocked afterwards at what had happened and we were so happy to see her receive this precious gift as we know it will be so essential to her encouragement in her walk with the Lord. Sometimes its just necessary to persevere, not give up, not get discouraged, and take steps of faith even when we don’t feel anything! That’s what faith is! Trusting in what God says and His will even when we don’t feel anything :)

September 8, 2020

Darwin, cutting my son’s hair in the picture on the left, has only been born again for a few months, but the Lord has really done a huge work in his life! He used to work at a liquor store, but got fired shortly after he got saved and decided to take his severance pay and open up this little barber shop in his home and took a basics course on how to cut hair. Darwin is bold for Jesus! He has been praying for the sick and sharing his faith with everyone, even with former enemy gang members! We’re so proud of how he shines Jesus! One thing he had been praying for but still hadn’t received was the gift of tongues. I wanted it for him so badly! Well, we went out to get a coffee and edify each other in the Lord and after we visited a guy Darwin had prayed for before but the guy didn’t get healed. So we prayed for him and the man’s stiff leg got probably 50% better and while we were praying for him Darwin received the gift of tongues! Needless to say I was excited and Darwin was too! Praise God!

September 6, 2020

August 25, 2020

This day Baruc, Josefa’s live-in boyfriend/father of her children decided to repent of sin and follow Jesus in water baptism as well! Jessica and I were out sharing the gospel on a home-visit and when we arrived at home Josefa and Baruc were waiting for us and I could tell by Baruc’s face and red-eyes that this visit was different than all the other ones. Josefa had gone home after her baptism the day before and had told Baruc that she was done living the way she had lived her whole life and was now deciding to live for the Lord and that meant that if he was not on page that their relationship was in trouble because they had never been married legally or in front of God and she knew it was sin. Baruc quietly listened to her and after she was done talking he told her that he felt that something like this was going to happen soon but that he had hoped to be the first one to get born again. Wow! So they went on a walk together and during that walk for the first time Baruc apologized for how he had treated Josefa all these years together and with tears asked her for forgiveness! Needless to say she was shocked and they decided to come to our home the next day so that he could tell me that he was now ready to repent of sin and follow Jesus in water baptism! What a blessing for me it was to see this hardened and expressionless man now broken before me, repentant, sincere and firm in his decision to die to self and to live for Jesus! Praise God the only one who can orchestrate such amazing things!

Josefa and Baruc have already begun making arrangements to get married legally and before the Lord and they also have been coming to our meetings together to get connected to other members of the family of God. Hopefully soon we will see our second couple come out of living in sin and make their relationship holy before the Lord through marriage!

August 23, 2020

After our Sunday gathering at Fervent Fire Church a group of us went out to heal the sick and share the Gospel with people out on the streets. A friend of mine and I found ourselves in the park near my home where we walked up on the park security guard and a client sipping coffee before his ride back home. We asked them if they had any need for prayer for healing but they both said they were ok physically. We continued to ask one of the two about his relationship with God and he said “not good” so we asked if we could share with them the Gospel message using the TLR Witness Cards and they said “yes”. So we did so and both of them looked very interested and another guy even walked up at the end of the presentation and also looked very curious. Both of them said they knew that they did not have a relationship with Jesus but were interested in knowing more. Interestingly one of the two confessed that he had lied and that he really did have pain and wanted us to pray for him. He had level 10 out of 10 pain in his arm and couldn’t even lift up his moto-helmet with his right arm. So we prayed healing over him 3 or 4 times and he was totally set free from all pain! He was pretty shocked and the 3rd curious guy who walked up at the end of the gospel presentation with the cards and witnessed the healing of the other guy’s arm starting asking questions and we got so spend another 15 minutes or so clarifying some questions he had about Christianity and water baptism. Seeds were sewn! We now wait for God to bring the increase!

August 7, 2020

This one was extra fun and special for me to witness because of how much happened in a short time frame and of how many people were involved in leading Josh to this moment portrayed in the picture on the left. I met Josh through a good friend of mine who shined Christ for him as a roommate for some years and through that friendship I got to meet Josh and we prayed for him to get healed of migraines, which he did! A few months after that encounter Josh wanted to meet up to talk more in depth about sin and addiction, which led Josh to repent of sin and a few days later he went out with Remon and Julio (the two also in the pic on the left) and others to pray for the sick and share the gospel where he got to pray for and see his first healing done through his hands! That same day Josh decided to get baptized and born again and has since seen more healings and been able to share what God has done in such a short time in his life! Praise God!

July 15, 2020

During our Wednesday meeting we had several healed and set free! I want to share about one case in particular which really stood out to me as a clear example of how the evil one attacks the children of God but in the end has to go! One of our Fervent Fire family came to the meeting feeling great but as the meeting progressed she started feeling itching all over her body and it got progressively worse. By the time we began ministering to the physical needs of those present she was at a level 10 itchiness out of 10!

Karla was attending our Wednesday gatherings for the 1st time and had never seen the Lord heal someone through her own hands and so it was a perfect time for her to begin healing the sick! Karla prayed 4 short prayers, rebuking the spirit of allergy and itchiness and by the 4th prayer all the itchiness had left Carmen’s body and even the red spots from the rash had began to disappear! This all happened right in front of everyone and was a real encouragement to Karla and other new believer’s who were watching. One cool thing I’d like to mention is that after the 1st prayer Carmen said that the itchiness actually got worse. This was a great teaching moment for everyone; to learn how to buckle down when the evil one doesn’t want to budge after the 1st prayer or 2nd; to not give up and and to stay persistent until the sickness or pain goes.

It was a real joy for me to see how energized Karla was, and others for that matter, after just one meeting in which she got to minister healing for the 1st time and see the Spirit of God move in power! She said that afterward she felt like electricity was running through her body and even though it was 9pm at night she didn’t look ready to calm down and go home! Haha!

June 22, 2020

This day we had the pleasure of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ to a young man who had been curious and searching for himself the source of what changed the life of his girlfriend so dramatically. Darwin had been in and out of churches and religion at various times in his life but had never been set free from sin and addictions because he had never truly repented and put everything into the light and followed Christ through water baptism. We were invited to his home to share with him what Jesus wanted to do for him and after hearing the gospel he decided to truly repent and put everything into the light. We then took him to our local laguna and buried the old sinful flesh in the water and prayed for Darwin to receive the Holy Spirit! We are so excited to see what God is doing in the lives of those he touched only a few short weeks ago bearing fruit in that others are taking notice and are desiring to have the same thing for themselves! Thank you Lord!

June 17, 2020
In our mid-week gathering of born again believers we had four people that had who came and had pain in their bodies that we ministered divine healing to and they all were healed after one short prayer! I personally didn’t lay hands on any of them but others who are learning and growing in their identity in Jesus Christ ministered the healing prayer of faith and saw results by their own faith in God’s promises! Hallelujah! Back pain, pain in the ribs, burning sensation in the eyes, and kidney pain was healed in an instant!

June 15, 2020

We had a visitor drop by our home on the morning of our Sunday gatherings that I have prayed for periodically over the last 7 years or so who had an ongoing battle with depression and suicidal thoughts. Seeing as how I had already prayed for him numerous times, along with others, I believed that what he needed wasn’t another gathering amongst believers but rather a 1 on 1 session where I could explain to him the gospel and give him a chance to see where he was at with the Lord. He came by today and I had the opportunity to share the gospel with him and he got to repent of his sins to the Lord and I along with two other brothers in the faith took him to the nearby laguna to baptize him and get him delivered from demonic strongholds. Several demons manifested and we cast them out and he said he felt better after we finished and we also laid hands on him and prayed for him to receive the Holy Spirit. He will begin coming to our gatherings more regularly hopefully and will once and for all turn his back on religion which had caused him so much confusion and torment over the years. Praise God!

May 13, 2020

At our weekly prayer and adoration gathering we had a good crowd who showed up, about 15 people. During our time together one got healed of leg numbness and shortness of breath/allergic cough. Another who had digestive issues and normally would not have eaten pizza due to certain intolerances, ate pizza and felt fine! Another cane to the meeting with back pain and left healed without anyone even ministering healing to him! Lastly, another was ministered to and a demon manifested and left and she got free! God is good!

This same day earlier in the day our sewing class assistant called us to tell us that she was sick and wanted prayer. So we made our way over to her home, laid hands on her and commanded the sickness to go and she got healed! All her pain left and she even said she felt that God had given her a big hug on the inside! She felt so good that she also showed up to our prayer and adoration time a few hours later, much to the surprise of her family!

May 11, 2020

We are helping Kenner get his license to drive a motorcycle and while I was waiting outside the Red Cross while he was getting his eye, blood, and psychological exams done I had the opportunity to share the love of Jesus with a volunteer working outside in the parking lot. I felt like I wanted to approach him even before I saw him wince in pain as he sat down for a moment in front of where I was parked. When I saw him in obvious discomfort I got out of my car and approached him to ask about about how pain and he told me that he had hurt his leg in a soccer game the night before. After sharing with me this information he walked away to attend to someone else and I thought my chance to share with him had gone; however, after a few minutes later he came up to me and asked me for the time and I got to ask him if I could pray for his leg. My friend told me “sure” and after a few prayers his pain had greatly decreased and he was able to walk without such a limp as before. Kenner had just finished with his exams so we had to leave, but before we left we got to tell our friend about how much Jesus loves him and how he had transformed our lives and that he would do the same for him. Yay God!

April 29, 2020

While out at the local mall running a few errands before getting back home to host our weekly prayer and adoration gathering, I noticed a guy walking around by himself on crutches. I actually him a few times during our short trip to the mall and it crossed my mind to walk up to him both times that we walked by him to ask him about what had happened that he needed crutches to get around. I decided it would be better not to approach him as I was out with the whole family and didn’t think my wife would appreciate me stalling our plans while with the kids and we also didn’t have much time to get our errands done and get back home. So we made our way back to the car, but once we got back to the car my wife remembered that we had forgotten to go back to the photo place where we had left an order to get some photos printed that we would need to pick up before leaving the mall. So, I rushed back into the mall and upon arriving to the photo place I once again saw the same guy walking by on crutches; so I said to the Lord “Ok Lord, I will approach him as it appears You really want me to!”

I caught up to Napoleon and asked him what’s up with the crutches and asked if he had pain in his body. Napoleon explained to me that he had diabetes for the last 9 years but the last 2 years had been worse for him. I was surprised to hear that he had diabetes since he was pretty young and not over-weight and I told him that I was a Christian and believed that Jesus would heal him if he would allow me to pray for him. Napoleon looked a bit surprised and confused by what I was saying to him and he explained to me that he had been part of a jewish group before that obviously did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah, but recently he had found himself doubting his former beliefs. After talking with him for about 10 minutes or so he agreed to let me pray for him but he asked me not to touch him as he explained that if he got healed he wanted to be sure that it was 100% Jesus, not me; I consented and said I would just point at his body while I prayed and he would be healed.

After a short prayer rebuking the demon of diabetes and commanding healing over his body I asked Napoleon to try it out and to walk some to see how he felt. Most of his pain had been in his feet before, but now he was a bit quiet and bewildered by what he was experiencing. The pain had dropped a great deal and in fact was no longer to be found! He began grabbing at the back of his legs and bumping them with his fists as this would have hurt him just a short while before but now he found that it did not! I told him that Jesus had highlighted him to me and that it was no coincidence that we met up. Napoleon agreed that maybe it was a divine encounter; I gave him my phone number and I dashed off back to the car where my ever so patient wife was waiting for me with the kids already knowing what had happened. Upon entering the car she said “Don’t tell me, you prayed for the guy on the crutches didn’t you?!” I laughed and said “Well, I guess we are one flesh, it makes sense that you know me so well!” Haha.

April 22, 2020

At our weekly prayer and adoration meeting 3 guys showed up drunk, one of which is a regular to our Sunday gatherings. One of the guys that came is someone I have seen around town over the years as he goes through the trash and takes out things he can re-sell or use at home; he also has a pretty serious drinking problem and has for a long time. Several times he has come up to me out of nowhere and starting ranting and raving to me about the problems in the church and with Christians. A few times, after going through this with him numerous times, I have simply asked him to not talk to me about God that way, since I know God personally and I could see he had never met him nor desired to be sincere in his dealings with God. Well, it had been a while since I had seen Pablo around town so when he came into our prayer and adoration time with his two other drunk buddies I was shocked to say the least. During the 2nd part of our time together as I was leading worship you could easily hear him saying to his buddies “Come on, let’s get out of here! Aren’t you ready to leave yet?!” Well, his buddies didn’t want to leave so he made his way to the door but as he got close to the door I started praying out loud as led by the Holy Spirit and Pablo just laid on the ground by the door. After our time together began coming to a close Pablo asked me out loud if I would pray for him because he was lost in his addiction to alcohol. I asked him if he really wanted to be free, he said yes; so we gathered around him and laid our hands on him, rebuking the spirit of addiction off of his life, anger, condemnation, religion and other unclean devils. Pablo fell to the ground and began going through deliverance and after about 10 minutes or so he sat up and looked about as clear headed as i’ve ever seen him. He then went outside to throw up and disappeared after a few more minutes. We pray that a seed was planted and the 1st steps to true and lasting freedom were taken! Praise His name!

April 13, 2020

Tito and I were out buying materials for the re-roofing job we are beginning at our home and during our errands we came across Saira. While Saira was helping us with our order I began to feel the Lord impress a heaviness upon my heart that I felt was due to something difficult that Saira was going through in her life. So I spoke up and told Saira that I was a Christian and that sometimes the Lord spoke things to me about other people to show them how much He loves them and that He had spoken something to me about her. I asked her if she was going through anything difficult right now in life and immediately her eyes welled up with tears as she stared at me with a shocked look on her face. Saira explained to us that she was about to leave her husband of 14 years due to marriage problems and had been crying out to God to show her a sign or send her someone to let her know what she was to do! So here I was standing in front of her to encourage her to let the Lord show her how to love her husband as He loves her and Tito and I got to pray over her and her marriage as well. It was truly a sweet encounter and hopefully Saira will follow up our conversation together by coming to our gatherings at Fervent Fire Church as she said she would like to do. God really is for us and wants to reach out to others through us! I encourage you to seek His heart today and to let His love compel you to love others as He does!

April 11, 2020

Today in the sewing class, my sweet and talented wife leads, one of our girls was healed! She had previously explained to us and asked for prayer for back pain that would come upon her at random times, but when it would hit her it would hit her hard. So today during class she felt much pain in her back and it was obvious to my wife Jessica that she was in extreme discomfort. So Jessica offered to pray with her student and while praying together the pain, which she could feel just by breathing in and out, left her body and did not return! The tears began to flow freely when she realized the pain was gone. Yah God! Isn’t He so good?!

We have had one student already healed (this makes 2) and she will be baptized soon as she decided to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior the same day that He healed her! So we are continuing to believe big things for this year’s sewing class as we continue to love on these women and share the Gospel with them in power and love! Thank you for praying for us and these precious women!

We went back to visit our friends at the rehab-center for alcoholics to share with them some more about the Gospel and to pray for them. After sharing the Gospel with them we asked for those who wished to open their lives to the Lord and to begin a relationship with Him to make it known and we would pray with them. About 4 guys said they wanted something real with the Lord, which is awesome! I also felt that I was supposed to pray for the director Marcelo, who is not a Christian, but that didn’t stop Holy Spirit from speaking to me about a situation with his daughters. I asked him if he had a daughter of about 6-8 years old and he said that he didn’t, both his daughters are adults already, but he does have a son that age. I felt that there was something going on with his daughter or daughters and he said that there was. Actually that morning he sent them a message telling them that they should consider him as dead to them and that he no longer wanted anything to do with them. The Lord gave me the opportunity to speak about the Father’s love for Marcelo and how that is the type of love He desires for Marcelo to show his daughters. We ended up praying together and I lead him into asking forgiveness from the Lord for what he said and for the Lord to show him how to forgive his daughters. A few moments later he asked if he could speak to me alone and still reeling about how the Lord spoke to me about his daughters he wanted to ask me for help in making the rent payment for the rehab center and that they were $100 short this month. Little did Marcelo know that the Lord had already put it in my heart to gift Marcelo exactly $100 before we even showed up to the center that night! I got to share with Marcelo that that is the grace of God! Before Marcelo even prayed to ask for forgiveness for what he said to his daughters the Lord had already provided for the need he later asked me to help fulfill! It was fun to see the glazed stare on Marcelo’s face after what had just taken place, haha. We will continue to go back to the center to follow up with the guys and I hope to personally get some time to sit down with Marcelo and hear more about his story and share with him more about THE STORY that changes everything! Praise God!

April 4, 2020

Saturday mornings I watch my two sons while my amazing and talented wife teaches a sewing class to a group of women. My wife asked me to pray for the class to open up their time together; so I did, but I was left with the feeling that God wanted me to do more than just pray for the ladies this day. So a while later I was asking the Lord how I could bless them and if He had a word for me for them and He impressed upon me that one of them had pain in her back or midsection area. I went out to the group and told them that I had kind of a weird question for them and asked two of them, because I knew it had to be between the two, if they had pain in their bodies in the back or mid-section area and one of them said “yes I do” with a startled look on her face.

But, before I could pray for her a man who I had not met before ran up to our gate calling me by name and asking me to speak with him and that it was urgent. I wasn’t really wanting to leave the girls hanging as I had just identified who it was that had pain and had told her that the Lord was going to heal her, but the man at the gate looked like he wasn’t going to leave easily if I didn’t attend to him. I walked outside and he got real up-close and personal to my face and starting telling me how some guys had broken his nose and that he wanted me to call his sister to come get him. His nose clearly wasn’t broken, maybe swollen but not broken, and I could easily sense that something weird was going on with this guy. Within a few minutes, Luis was sitting down and had begun telling me how bad his life was and horrible thoughts he was having and how much pain he was living in on the inside. To my surprise he pulled out his crack-pipe and showed it to me then he slammed it down on the ground, shattering it into a thousand shards of glass. He told me he hated what he was doing but couldn’t stop. I began telling him about Jesus but I had to make a quick trip to the corner store to pick up some refreshments for the sewing class, so I left a friend with him to speak with him about the Lord until I got back and when I got back Luis had gone into a demonic stupor and was just swaying side to side while staring down. I began rebuking evil spirits and commanding them to leave him; Luis’ body locked up with tension and he began spitting and throwing up mostly saliva, some blood, and probably whatever other residue had been in his body due to drug use. This went on for about an hour until Luis passed out on our porch into a deep sleep.

While Luis was sleeping I was able to go back and pray for the one whose pain the Lord had shared with me and after three prayers she was totally healed and began weeping at the sewing table at the goodness of God. After the class I was able to share the Gospel with her and she decided to pray with me to began a relationship with the Lord! She gave her life to Jesus and has come to our meetings at Fervent Fire Church and has continued to be touched by Holy Spirit and set free from religion and other things. We hope to be able to baptize her very soon! Unfortunately Luis, the man passed out on my porch, got up and left while we were out and when we came back he was gone; so we didn’t get to speak with him any further but hope to see him again soon and see what the Lord did for him and continue to pour into him if the opportunity presents itself!

April 2, 2020

This day it was my turn to stay home with the kids in the afternoon while my sweet wife gave driving lessons to a good friend of ours and so that they could spend some time encouraging each other in the faith. Even though I was at home with our kiddos I had the opportunity to have an awesome conversation with my wife, encouraging her in her walk with the Lord ( something I consider as one of my highest callings) and I was also gifted another opportunity to share Jesus with another guy, Alex, who sleeps on the streets and still struggles with alcohol. Alex has come by our home various times, but what made this visit different is that he was visibly irritated and upset. I tried to share with him a little about Jesus being the Bread of Life that forever satisfies us, but he just shrugged me off and muttered under his breath his frustrations. After digging a little deeper he told me that just before arriving to our door someone had thrown hot soup on his feet and burned his foot; he had once again been rejected and cast aside. I got to share with Alex about his real longing, which is to know the love of the Father and to know who his worth to Him. After talking with him for a few minutes he calmed down and I asked him if I could pray with him to which he said yes. After our prayer ended he was visibly touched and in tears; his demeanor had totally changed! Alex also asked us if we had a pair of shoes around that we could gift him because the ones he had on were too small and his toes were all curled up in them; so I was able to find him a pair of shoes we had laying around and he left our house happy and thankful after showing up angry and dejected. How good is Jesus!?

March 29, 2020

As night fell upon us we had the wonderful opportunity to reach out to a community of homeless and addicts who live in the largest and most dangerous market here in Nicaragua. I had never been to this market after nightfall as its very well known for how dangerous it can be, especially for “gringos” to wander in there. Even in the daytime its not really advisable for a foreigner to wander deep into the market as you might as well have a bullseye on your back for thieves and others up to no good. So we found ourselves there for a couple hours last night hugging on and sharing the love of Jesus with these precious and broken people. We distributed coffee and bread, but more importantly we got to hug and pray over them, about 30 or so showed up. The security guards near by watching us said “Its a real good thing you all are doing here as no one comes down to things like this for them.” We hope to go back soon and sew more seeds and watch what Holy Spirit will do!

March 14, 2020

I got to share my testimony with the ladies in my wife’s sewing class today! It’s always an honor to share about what the Lord has done for me with anyone. I only pray that the words I shared touched their hearts and although I didn’t see anyone break down in tears I am believing that the Lord will do something with what He has done in my life in the lives of those precious ladies!

March 8, 2020

While visiting Tsidkenu Church in San Diego during a moment of prophesying over someone else near you that you didn’t know too well I felt the Lord highlight a young man to me named Abraham. I shared with him what I felt the Lord had placed on my heart for him which was the beauty and power of living a holy and clean life. I shared with Abraham that I was a living testimony that it is possible to live a clean and transparent life before the Lord and everyone else around us and that it doesn’t come by striving or religion, but rather full surrender to Holy Spirit in every area of our lives and resting in His ability to sanctify us and enable us to live holy lives. It was a powerful few minutes with Abraham as he gave me a big and sincere hug while wetting my shoulder with his tears. The Lord loves us so much and longs for us to hear Him and walk with Him in complete trust and utter dependence on all that He has done and all that He is.

March 2, 2020

The other day Jessica and I went to go pick up some plants and while doing so we noticed the lady helping Jessica was very kind and smiley and Jessica noticed that she even had a Christian shirt on. After we paid for our plants and headed on our way we both mentioned how we felt we should have talked with her about Jesus and at the very least should have shared the love of Jesus for her.

Well, today we went back to the same plant-stand where Juana, the lady that helped us out the last time was working once again. As we were paying for some soil we were picking up I felt that we were supposed to give Juana a monetary gift and tell her how much Jesus loves her. So Jessica handed her the money and began talking to Juana about the love of Jesus and got to pray for her as well. Juana was super touched and crying during the whole encounter.

After Jessica finished praying for Juana she told us that when we showed up the first visit she felt that there was something different about Jessica, something good and something that she liked feeling while she was helping Jessica pick out the plants we ended up taking home. We are so thankful that we got to go back and bless Juana and see Jesus put a smile on her face and tell her that He is the reason that we live like we do and it was Him that she felt inside of us!

February 28,2020

Today I got a chance to meet up with a really good friend of mine to have a coffee. After a few hours of amazing conversation and sharing about what God has been doing in our lives we made our way to the door after my buddy so graciously paid the bill. As we walked out I blessed our waiter with a bit of extra cash after the tip because we always have enough with Jesus and I asked him how he was doing and if he had anything going on in his life or body that’d he’d like prayer for. Maciel quickly responded to my question with the question “What do you know?” and “How do you know?” I told him that I didn’t know specifically what it was but that sometimes God speaks to me and leads me to pray for people for specific things; but sometimes I just ask because its what I do! So he asked me and my buddy to follow him to the bathroom where he told us that about a week ago he had gone through a tough situation with his girlfriend (who I think he is living with) and that he wanted peace in his home and between them. I got to share with him about the power in confession of sin and how it invites healing into our lives and the importance in his example lived out in Christ and how that can impact his girlfriend (who doesn’t know Jesus). It was a joy to get to pray for him by the men’s bathroom with people coming and going all around us. I don’t mind looking a fool or at the very least a bit strange for my Jesus!

February 15, 2020

I was invited by a friend to go minister with a visiting team of Americans in a park about an hour and a half away from Managua. While praying for people we encountered in the park who needed healing in their bodies, near the end of our time there a man named Jose walked up to us and asked for a Bible. I started to chat with him and wondered why he was there in the park alone, as he was over 70 years old and it seemed strange to me that he would be out at that time of day by himself. He explained to us that he lived alone and that he had a daughter that he saw from time to time, but other than that he he was on his own. I’ve always felt compassion for the elderly who have no one to care for them or with whom to share the last years of their life. I asked Jose if he had any need for prayer or any pain in his body; to which he said he did have pain, arthritic pain in his hands and knees. He showed me his hands and I could see that his knuckles were swollen and he couldn’t open and extend his fingers very well. We prayed for Jose and the pain left his hands and he could open them without pain and a sweet smile came across his face. Jose left the park clutching his Bible with his pain-free hands!

February 2, 2020

This is Maria Jose to whom we ministered healing a little over a week ago while in the grocery store. We ran into her again and she told us that she had only used her walking stick three times since we prayed for her! She also shared with us that the pain that the Holy Spirit took from her that day she got healed had not returned and she even went to her church to give testimony to what the Lord had done for her! We don’t get many chances to run into people again that we pray with while out and about so this was a real treat!

January 25, 2020

While out with the family making some food purchases for our Sunday Bible study after breakfast together at McDonalds, a treat for us (mostly the kids haha), I saw a lady hobbling through the store and walked up to her and asked about her foot.  Anna told me she had been having problems with it for some time and needs to use a brace. When we offered to pray for her foot she said yes with a smile. 

So we prayed for her and she took off her brace and said it felt good, although we didn’t see her walking any better, and continued to tell her how special she is to Jesus and how much He loves her. She told us as we began to say our goodbyes that “I feel alone sometimes (she’s not married and has no kids) and I wouldn’t say that I’m a holy person but I am a person of prayer and you telling me that Jesus loves me is the best thing that has happened to me all year.”  She told this to us with her eyes starting to well up with tears. It’s so important and only takes a few seconds to look someone in the face and tell them in total sincerity that they are loved by Jesus and that they are very special to Him!!