Bonjour and Buenos Diaz though I have been in France for more than two weeks I am writing this newsletter from Spain. It’s a good thing I am portable. It has been difficult until now to find the time to send a newsletter. For all of your prayers – you will never know just how much they have been needed and I feel them; thank you, please don’t stop now. I seem to have a habit of making the devil angry.

 

I left the USA August 1^st and arrived in Paris August 2^nd. For several reasons that I won’t get into I had trouble getting a rental car. I had a reservation but the requirements in person were different than online. I was at the last place available when the Lord gave me supernatural favor and basically broke all the rules to give a nice rental that is just what I needed. It is even diesel (cheaper on gas here, which is $5 - $6 USD per gallon). I have already put a lot of miles on it and will put many more.

 

My dear friend Doretta blessed me with a place to stay just outside of Paris. She has been very gracious. I will stay with her again the night before I leave. I now have several friends in Paris. My friends and my vocabulary in French are both growing. It seems the Lord has called me to a major battle for one area just outside of Paris. But this battle will take some fasting, prayer and preparation. It will not be able to be accomplished this trip. Though the Lord did give me explicit instructions for the pastors involved and how they are to prepare for it.

 

Any time you set yourself to take enemy territory and rescue the captives of the enemy you can expect much opposition. But I must admit some of this opposition and the constant onslaught of it caught me off guard. I have faced many battles and long battles but this was especially hard. The meetings will be televised as we have already said; in many areas and Marbella, whom some of you know, will be taking the audio of it to Curacao to put on the radio. [I am also bringing back an audio of the meetings for those who are interested both on CD and MP3 thanks to my beloved friend Bruno. I will also try to post some lovely pictures on my website thanks to Daniel. Some of them are amazingly beautiful. ]

 

We held 10 days of meetings of which I spoke more than half. That is not a problem as I am used to speaking in all the meetings in a conference in most instances. Those who know me well know I love to talk about the Lord. Most of the problems I will not discuss because they involve Christians, some of them from other countries. We should never talk bad about other Christians. So I will just in general tell only a small portion of the battles and use no names.

 

I was informed by Sergine and Andre (the ministers in charge of the camp) that outside the camp both witches and Christians who didn’t agree with our doctrine, were praying against us and casting spells non-stop. The main spirits attacking were spirits of religion and pride, which meant I had to doubly check my attitudes and keep my heart right as well. These attacks became more than evident and grew as time went on.

 

One woman from one of the Christian groups against us came and was in the prayer line. She evidently was just prayed for in general along with others and slain in the spirit. She saw a vision of hell. Evidently a warning that if she didn’t change her ways she would go there. She felt disoriented and confused. The next day she still felt confused. She said that my touch made her crazy and she wanted to confront me. I refused to meet with her until the people running the camp could be notified. I should not act with out their approval. In the mean time she was very threatening and spreading rumors. She said she was going to the police. (It is against the law in France to pray for someone with a history of mental illness and she had such a history and could cause much trouble.) This seemed to cause much alarm. But the leaders met with her and calmed the situation.

 

Another person disliked something I said about an angel as it crossed their doctrine. They also began a vast campaign of rumors and trouble, trying to turn others against me, but in truth very few were affected by it and many came to warn me because like Stephen when he was about to be stoned, they saw the love of God on me. I set my face to seek the Lord’s help to forgive and love and be real in it and not just say it. With the Lord’s help I ignored it as much as possible but I do believe it had a drastic effect on some of the meetings and the attacks from the outside the camp gained force from the attacks inside.

 

Most of the ministry from that time forward was done by personal appointment only, and I was grateful for these appointments because my heart is to see the people set free. I have never seen so much need for deliverance, not even in India. I believe this must be because the land is steeped in witchcraft and religion for thousands of years. There were very few who did not have a relative or inheritance in witchcraft or had been a witch or someone who had cursed them being a witch or some like that. These kinds of things often take more time and in private sessions we were able to give them that time. My days were full to say the least and I ran out of time for many. One friend laughed and said that I must open a hospital in France. Of course that would be silly but the need is not funny. It is very real and very sad and the people are desperate to be set free. My heart was broken for them.

 

Some said I cast out demons using the Catholic Exorcist Power, or like they said of Jesus, I cast out demons by the power of the devil. But the proof was in the glorious victory of the people who were delivered from every kind of demon and addiction. One man delivered from cigarettes was so happy about it. I checked at the end of the conference and he was still free and happy. I don’t know how Catholic Exorcism works and I don’t want to know, I follow Jesus and He did strange things like put clay on people’s eyes and spit on their tongues. I wonder what they would say to Him now. I’m sure He would be in jail.

 

As the conference continued the attacks increased. Before the last evening meeting I heard the enemy tell me, “I will win because I have something to throw at you that you can’t win against.” I just laughed but I did listen. Sometimes the Lord forces the enemy to warn us of their plans. That evening after the meeting I was asked to pray for a man who had just been there a couple of days. An older woman that I liked asked me to please pray for him though I was very tired and it was late. I agreed but was uncomfortable.

 

When I put my hand on him I could feel the anguish of his childhood and the horror of being brought up in an occult home but… He talked too much about the details of troubles old and new. I finally told him to be quiet. I took my hand from him because I was seeing what he wanted me to see not what God wanted me to see. Then I saw much demonic material in his home that I told him would have to go. At first he said no I don’t have that and then he admitted it was there. He contradicted himself a lot. I told him that he no longer read the bible as he did when he first sought the Lord and that he was leading a double life of being a Christian and serving evil. (Another way to put that is a spy in Christian circles for the devil or a missionary for Satan.) He seemed upset that I knew this and tried to find things to say.

 

Then I saw a small refrigerator just more than waist high, I described it to him. In it was almost nothing but one item was there that he used and it fed the devil in his life it must go. Now he acted distressed. Then I said I see it clearer now it is a small bottle and syringe like a drug addict. You must get rid of this. He began to talk contradicting himself and trying to say it wasn’t true. I simply told him I wasn’t asking him I was telling him. He was sent to trip me and bring a curse on me by trying to get me to cast things out of him that he has given every permission to and has no intention of getting rid of. That would hurt both of us. I gave him a list of instructions should he get serious about being delivered, of things to do that would prepare him and told him we were done. He was a trap and I wasn’t going to fall for it. He didn’t argue any further. He didn’t know what to say because it was true. But the devil wasn’t done….

 

The next day (the last day of the conference) a woman came to me saying she had a word for me. I won’t go into details but I humbled myself and received it and I shouldn’t have. It caused me much pain until the Lord finally showed me that though the information was correct it was not from God because there was no healing following the hurt of the truth (of things that had happened in my family in the past). Things I already knew. This caused a knife in my spirit that had to be removed. Then the Lord gave me this word that I share with you, as perhaps it will help you in the future.

 

The Lord told me, the enemy will speak truth that it is not time for, that you recognize as truth, in order to get your eyes off the truth it is time for. This woman had a religious spirit that brought truth that cuts deep but brings no balm or healing. But when God cuts He always follows with healing and often with restoration and protection. If there are only cuts or wounds followed by no healing then it was not God. It is not His way.

 

We receive it trying to be humble but we must first discern because when we take the open position of humility in such a place we bare our heart to the devil’s knife, where he would other wise have had no access. Pain from the enemy is made to pierce in order to gain access and he is not afraid to use the truth.

 

Because there was so much attack and hurt through out the conference both by the enemy, gossip, etc. the Lord worked a wonderful healing of all the hurts I had received during the conference. A wonderful pastor (and I believe he and his wife will be life long friends, Pastor Yves and Martine) and my dear beloved friends and interpreters Kurt and Edith came to my room and ministered to me, giving me freedom from pain and the ability to continue in “true God love”. That was and is my desire. The people need to experience the love of God and I must forget myself, pay the price and let it flow (no whining.) The Pastor took my feet and held them to his chest and I could feel the emotional pain being pulled out of me. (The Lord had showed me earlier the pain in my feet – which is my walk or way, which is my attitudes). No one was more shocked than he and he told me later he doesn’t often do unusual things but seeing the results he said maybe I need to be more willing to do so. The Lord always has and answer and a way.

 

The people not only received me and my love but seemed to pull it from me by their great need. I have never seen people so grateful and so hungry for love and truth. It ministered to me and encouraged me to see them receiving it and being strengthened by it. They were buying the CD’s of the meetings to listen to them again and again. They are so hungry and their hunger and receptiveness ministered to me. One doctor told me he is still listening to the tapes from my trip in November and being strengthened by them. No matter how hard the battle, this is worth it. This is what it is all about and I pray the people who hear the messages on the radio and see them on the television receive in like manner.

 

I will just list a few. Almost all were extreme and intense. My dear friends from Menton, France that I stayed with while there in November came for prayer. He had sores of a sort on his hands and body and his hands were stiff and sore. He had these sores for many years and believed it was because his grandmother, a witch, cursed him when she was angry with him. When I put my hands on him the story began to unfold as the Lord revealed it. His grandmother was from Armenia and was Jewish but bitterly hated the Jewish people. (But he himself loves the Jewish people.) She denounced all Jewish ties in her life and it affected her very much. She had no love in her heart and was unable to love at all. He verified this was true. (Can you imagine a person cursing her own grandson?) The curse she put on him was called loveless and though he could love much and be surrounded by people that loved him, he would never feel loved. I was a bit amazed to hear him say this is true. He is a very loving man, he has a very loving wife and family but inside he feels unloved. One of the off shoots of this curse were the lesions inside and out, as well as extreme fatigue. I won’t go into all the details as the Lord revealed them but once the curse was broken and the lesions began to heal, he was surprised at the energy he had and all stiffness was gone.  When the curses are high level and detailed so must the deliverance be detailed and specific.

 

His wife had a problem with anger and discouragement. She felt she was ill affecting her family but couldn’t seem to stop. When I put my hands on her back I heard a strange sound again and again like a mournful horn. Then I saw the face that went with it, a water buffalo. That was not from Europe, some how she or her immediate family had been to another country and brought this curse back. So I began to question her. As a small child she lived 2 years in Africa. I saw a wooden statue of a water buffalo; she said I think it was her grandmother who had it for a long time. Now not all wooden water buffalos are dangerous but this one evidently carried a curse. I could see it was a specific curse put on her by a witch doctor. This is important to know because it was put on her in a specific way and must be removed in a specific way. Once the curse was removed she felt like a new woman. What a joy to see the release.

 

One young woman living in sin wanted free from the demons that troubled her but did not want to stop sinning. The Lord told me she wasn’t ready and though I felt sorry for her there was nothing I could do but give her the advice of strengthening her spirit in the Word. She was so tormented and frightened. She kept wringing her hands so harshly I thought she would pull the skin off her hands. The next night she came with her Pastor and his wife and her mom and dad. But it was not time to minister to her during the service because she had such major things to deal with, so I asked them to wait. When the service was over we could give them our undivided attention. She received the Lord Jesus Christ as her savior, she left the position of sin she was in and was ready to be delivered. Unlike the night before, now she was very cooperative. She was delivered of several major demons and gloriously freed. She was amazed at the joy she felt. Her dad sent me word days later that she was still free and didn’t even need the light on at night. No more terror but complete peace and joy.

 

One young man was so open and ready that he was joy to work with. I pray that I will see him again. He comes from a very demonic part of France near the ocean. I could see his mother touching a stone in the center of town when she was pregnant with him. The Lord said it was a stone of blood and sacrifice. The man said this was all true. There is a great Celtic stone in the center of town and touching it is a game and often pregnant women do this and he knew his mother had gone to the stone when she was pregnant with him. I told him that it drastically marked the child inside of her, which was him. I told him of many things that he had seen and felt in the demonic realm that kept adding to the enemy’s power against him. He was very surprised at all that the Lord revealed but he needed to know that the Lord knew him and had a plan for him. One thing was the feeling that the ocean was calling him and that if he could dive to the depths he would be able to breath and not have to come up. He said this was so true that he actually tried it a few times but was unable to remain in the depths of the ocean. I saw him in the woods with birds gently calling him but then more and more birds would come making a loud mixture of noise until he felt crazy. He also said this was true in the moors and that when the birds became so many and so loud he felt he must find a woman to sin with, etc. I saw one of the curses wrapped around his lungs and some around his heart. As the curse was removed he began to scream with joy – “I can breath” over and over. Even Kurt my beloved friend and interpreter had tears of joy for the young man set free. The Lord removed much and gave him a plan to continue in. A couple of days later I saw him and he told me he played soccer and everyone was amazed at how much better he now played. He laughed and yelled again, “I can breath.” The session with this young man took 1 hour and was well worth it. What is 1 hour when a life is so drastically changed? There is no cost in money, time or battle to compare with that.

 

One family came to me and I ministered to the mom and dad but when I ministered to the teen I was amazed at what I saw. A knife in his innermost being that came at a tender age when he was still a baby, a traumatic experience, a terror that pitted him against himself with a deep self hatred. They told me a later that a relative had raped him when he was one year old. I saw him being sucked down in the quicksand barely holding on and seriously considering giving up, which meant suicide and there were many other details. The Lord delivered him but his life was weak and needed rebuilt and retrained. So I was able to give counsel by the Spirit of the Lord for the family, to tell them to encourage and build him again.  I began to describe his feelings to him so he could know God knows him and hasn’t forgotten him and the Lord will continue with him so don’t give up.

 

If you have someone in your family that has no friends, their room is a mess, they are angry with everyone, they are always negative and it is hard to get close to them though you can tell they need it, there is a possibility this person is suicidal, as these are the symptoms of that. Then you must not be negative with this person, you must not criticize or fight though they will probably try to provoke you to see if you really love them unconditionally or if they are right in their feeling that no one loves them, which is how they take your anger. Find something, anything that is not sin that they can do well and encourage them to do it and continue in it. If the only thing nice you can say is they have nice hair or good skin, say it. They must be built, it is desperate they be built or they will sink in the quicksand. For one such person the only thing they could think of that person could do well was tennis. So the mom purchased tennis lessons under a tennis teacher that was known to be positive and encouraging. I believe this action stopped suicide and gave the Lord a chance to reach this person.  The turn around was amazing.

 

There were so many more testimonies but it is not practical to list them all. Unlike most conferences where I can list many healings there were only a few that asked for physical healing but there were some healings. One young man who had surgery on his elbows and the metal plates had slipped and were causing pain, the Lord healed. There were several backs, bones, blood, lungs, heart, blood pressure, etc. healed but mainly inner healings and deliverance. I have never seen so much deliverance. But the people are desperate and the Lord will meet them at their need and the cry of their heart. Funny that the time I have felt the most personally attacked was the time I also felt the most loved. God is good.

 

Though I was only going to take a day trip into Spain, there were no left over assignments after the conference as there some times are, and I was exhausted to the bone from the long hours and long battles, deliverance ministry alone take so much out of you, so I felt the Lord told me to come on to Spain and battle and rest. The battle here is not a confrontation with the devil but decreeing a legal statement for the Lord and putting something of the Lord’s in place to hinder the growing power of the enemy. I am amazed at how much this area feels like Saint Maarten where I was in the Caribbean in June.

 

I am in the Pyrenees Mountains at the Atlantic Ocean in Bilbao, Spain. Technically I am in a suburb of that called Getxo. I did not know where exactly to go and I did not have any contacts here. But I just kept following the Lord and praying as I drove. I saw only 2 hotels the entire time and one did not look very nice. This one is not great but okay and it is on the beach. When I got up the next morning I told them I needed to find my way to the bridge that crosses the river where the river meets the ocean. I thought I was in for a long confusing drive. (The river is the Bilbao River or canal.) God is good as I was only a few blocks from there and was able to easily find my way.

 

The Lord told me of a vortex here that must be hindered because it grows too powerful too fast. On one side of the river are the Basque people. They are not French or Spanish, they migrated from the far north to this area hundreds of years ago and remained separate in language and customs. That is why many signs and things written are strange to me because the language is not from the romance languages as is French, Spanish and English. It reminds me more of Holland or Norway. Many of the people are blonde and look more Viking in heritage. There has been much blood spilt in this land because of the clash of these people groups, the Spanish and the Basque.

 

The people who had booths to sell things by the bridge looked like American Indians in heritage. They also had many American Indian things to sell, spirit catchers and so forth, pictures of the wolf and many pictures and statues of American Indians. Most other items for sale were either blatantly drug related or openly demonic or sexually suggestive items. I noticed in the first store I stopped at in Spain that the porn is not hidden away but in full view for all to see. I think there is a real seeking in certain parts of Europe for the American Indian Shamanism (witch doctor) and the power that goes with that, especially among the youth. This is an openly demonic and drug infested area with an open focus on sex. No wonder the enemy is able to grow in power here.

 

There is not a hotel room available for tomorrow so I will head back to France toward Vichy and stop somewhere along the way for the night. I will be in Vichy on the 19^th and leave the 23^rd for Germany, then on to Rome the 26^th and back to Paris on the 29^th returning to the USA on the 30^th. All of these drives are long, some 14 hours. Please keep these trips and the ministry in prayer.

 

Thank you for your prayers. Please continue to pray. I am concerned that I am so exhausted even after a good night sleep. Please stand with me that nothing of the attack can cling to me to cause me to be weary or tired or sleepy when I shouldn’t be. It is just not like me to be so tired. I am usually like the ever-ready bunny, I just keep going and going by the anointing and never stop until I get home.

 

God has brought me through great battles – intense personal attacks, because you stood with me in the Lord. God has wrought great victories and amazing deliverance because you stand with me in the Lord. And God will do much more as we continue to stand together in the Lord. You may never know what your prayers have accomplished until heaven but the Lord will reward you openly for being His prayer partner in the earth. As for me all I can give is my gratitude and ask that you to continue.