8- Praise report: Kenya 2013

A Kenyan Wedding And Ministry December 2013

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Shalom, shalom, and blessings in our Lord Yeshua, and in His and our Father, the Holy One of Israel, for the new year 2014 to both near and far, friends and brethren.

I really did not think I was going to Kenya this year. I did not feel at ease to go, nor did I have the funds for it. But I was prayed in – literally, by Apostle Christopher Simiyu Bera (see also his testimonial), his family, and by the bishops and pastors he oversees.

In several of his emails he kept inviting me to the wedding of his eldest daughter Lucy, saying that the wedding just could not be without me as the guest of honor and main speaker. It was to be on Saturday, December 7th. I put the matter before the Lord. He answered:

“It is your choice. I am not sending you. You are free to choose to go or not…”

But then He said, encouragingly, “Go… Go! … I’ll keep you and protect you. Don’t worry, you’ll be safe.”

So what was I to do then – choose not to go?

Hence I called my travel agent, and that very day the cost of the round trip Tel Aviv-Addis Ababa-Nairobi-Eldoret on December 5th dropped by $ 360. Abba’s way of smiling at me for accepting to go.

I got my visa for Kenya into my American passport at the Embassy in Tel Aviv, and somewhere on the trip to Nairobi lost the passport. Fortunately I had also my Israeli passport with me (we are allowed dual citizenship), but had to pay for a new visa. My passport never got found. I called the Embassy in Nairobi to cancel it lest I suffer identity theft.

At the Eldoret airport I was greeted by very happy Bera family members, and off we drove over innumerable bumps in the road (to prevent people from driving too fast) to Webuye (see map Saturday was the big day. A long procession of cars drove up to the wedding hall, where the best men and bride maids accompanied groom and bride into the hall, dancing all the way (see the pictures of “A Kenyan Wedding” at [1] ). I gave the teaching on marriage the Lord had given me in 1979 in answer to my cry for help – a subject ‘hush-hush’ in the Kenyan churches -, which had saved a good number of marriages in the States. Apostle Bera received days afterwards testimonies of saved marriages, of husbands and wives appreciating each other anew. The young couple thanked me profusely when we met again at the Nairobi airport on the day of my departure. It was the Lord Who instituted marriage and everything with and of it He called “very good.” (Gen. 1:31)

December 12th was Kenya’s 50th year of Independence from the British. It is Kenya’s “Jubilee” year. And the Lord declared that He would minister “liberty to the captives” this year by me.

The first 2 days I ministered in 2 churches in Webuye on a very personal level, to get everybody to experience Yeshua more intimately. With tears they embraced Him with a new found love and zeal. The children I encouraged to hug Yeshua in me. After initial shyness they almost squeezed the dear life out of me. And it began to rain, although it was supposed to be the “dry season.”

The day of our first meeting in Eldoret it poured. This has happened every time I have come to Kenya that the rain follows me, ever since the Lord rescued by me a whole village from witchcraft. We eventually realized what was involved here and came against it and bound those forces. The rain promptly stopped.

The messages the Lord had given me for His Kenyan churches were “Obedience is better than Sacrifice”; “Total Forgiveness leads to total Freedom”; “Who we are in Yeshua”; “Tithe & Offerings – G-d’s way out of poverty.” I also taught on water baptism and baptism with the Holy Spirit, as both are not really being understood what they represent and why they are needed. Many received the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

In Eldoret I ministered twice daily for 2 days and one more morning before we returned to Webuye. Bishops and pastors from Eldoret and surrounding areas attended, even as far as from Mt. Elgon, to hear the “prophetess from Israel” teach and preach. The Holy Spirit led to repent of disunity, unforgiveness, and of the many things in their hearts that hinder believers to grow in Yeshua and having their prayers heard and answered. There was weeping and afterwards a hug session of loving Yeshua in each other.

The constant rain had turned the roads in this Eldoret slum into terrible mud, leaving the car’s tires without traction, and Bera got sick from the cold, sleeping on a mattress on the floor without a blanket. The next 2 days I ministered in Kakamega twice daily to pastors and bishops and women leaders who received the Word of Truth with great joy. Allowing the Holy Spirit to freely move through me I felt like being “poured out,” the Lord’s passion, love, intensity and intimacy touching their very hearts and lives. They were eager to take the teachings to their flocks, and Bera was so fired up by them he preached on it some more in Swahili.

At all of the meetings I had wonderful interpreters whom I told to “preach” alongside me in Swahili the message they hear me give in English, rather than trying to translate word for word. Although most Kenyans understand some or most English, “preached” interpretation is far more effective.

In Nakuru – after we seemed to have driven that long and torturous way in vain because the person who was supposed to have arranged the meeting for which we cancelled the third day in Kakamega disappeared – we went with the pastor to the market place where I witnessed to the people that Yeshua lives, having seen Him 3 times. A large number of people received Yeshua, including many children.

In Malava I taught a Bible students class on discipleship, which linked like a wheel into a wheel into the lesson their teacher had just given them. One cannot prepare such things but G-d… Unfortunately, I could not finish the second session as I was overcome with nausea from the tea and food we were served at lunch. We returned to Malava the next day for a youth conference at a Bible College upon the request of the bishops and teachers there. The large hall was full with young people who laughed at my being thrilled to get to minister to them. I shared my testimony as part of making Yeshua very real to them Who accepts and loves everyone where ever he/she is at.

On the way back we stopped at a tiny place of a recently founded church. We were greeted by several bishops and young men standing at the wall to our right and young girls standing to our left. They were going to sing to us. Never did I expect to encounter one of the most wonderful choirs I’ve ever heard, efficiently led by a musically untrained man who claimed his gifting to be from G-d. I heartily encouraged and exhorted them to not stay hidden but to go forth and sing across Kenya, even all of Africa.

Who would have thought to find this treasure in such a tiny way-out place?

Upon the bishops and pastor’s request I gave a short teaching on “G-d does not need our help,” using the story of Abraham & Sarah, Jacob & Rebekkah as an example, who had feared G-d might be too late to fulfill His promise.

Bera cancelled the next day’s meeting as I was exhausted from the Lord pouring me out like this into the churches, into their lives. I slept almost all day and all night, and woke up refreshed the next day, a Sunday. Our dear friend and brother, Herman Kasili, pastoring a church he founded in Webuye, had dreamt the night before that I was to minister in his church. He prayed and shared with Bera the dream. I ministered at both morning services, once again making Yeshua “real” for the youth and for the adults. Especially the Mammas “ate” every word of “Who we are in Yeshua,” rejoicing in getting “to see” themselves the way G-d sees us. The people experienced their own “transfiguration,” and moreover received the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

In closing I would like to quote a post (his English edited by me) by Lukas Maina, Pastor of Gospel Deliverance Church in Eldoret, because it is prophetic, posted on my Facebook timeline, although I had not even ministered in his church only a few hundred meters from the one where I was:

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Thanks, my sister, for your kindness and prayers! It is great for me to be connected with great saints from Israel. May the almighty God bless Israel as a nation! I love praying for Israel as the nation!… We gospel deliverance church say, thanks my sister and may the Lord bless; thanks for accepting the divine call, and coming to equip the saints in our nation Kenya. We praise the Lord for your international ministry of outreach! Like a spring of fresh waters, the fresh waters will break forth to the whole nation of Kenya, and to the continent of Africa from your ministry. Many will drink and be refreshed, from the spring of Abraham’s seed … What the Lord put in your heart, no man may try to enclose that in a box!!! The enemy cannot stop that!! For the springs of the fresh water shall surely flow, and we from Africa shall quench our thirst… We need your ministry in Kenya! Be blessed! Thanks for preaching to our slum, you were a great testimony happening in our village, after you prayed and left. May the Lord bless you. Come again! We love you and pray for your ministry. The well of living and natural waters that have sprung up in Israel’s desert, in the city of Beer-Sheva where Abraham’s well is, have made their way even to Kenya. Lukas Maina knows nothing of our “Spring Up O Well” conference in April of this year 2013 in Beer-Sheva, and what the Lord promised and accomplished at that time. May the prophetic words of Lukas Maina come true for all of Kenya and Africa.

Throughout the 35 years of ministry in the Lord’s service it has pleased Him to send me to the ones described in 1 Corinthians 1:(22-25), 26-31, regardless in which nation, of what race. As I was watching Joyce Meyers ministering to a packed sports-stadium auditorium, I thought of the slums, the poor, the lowly, the market places, the “way-out-yonder” people and churches the Lord would visit by me and pour me out for them, and all I could cry is: “Oh Lord my G-d, I want to know and understand you! I want to be one with You and Your Body as You and the Father are One! I in You and You in me! I want to keep your new commandment (John 15:34-35) and live according to 1 Corinthians 13, for You to be glorified in me. I have no greater goal!”

This is my prayer for all of you, dear beloved friends and brethren, for this new year 2014, and for the times and seasons still to come.

Yours in Yeshua,
Annelore [aka Elinor] www.ortzion.org