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Newsletter – April 2020

April 11, 2020 by POFN

From wherever you are reading this letter, you have been affected in some way by the virus pandemic that has swept across the world. Poured Out For The Nations is part of our larger ministry called Watch Therefore Ministries. It is based on our Savior's command to watch and be ready for His coming for us in the clouds to take us back to that place He has been preparing for us.

As we are watching for that day we are also keeping in mind precious souls in the nations and "pouring" our lives out for the faith of others. It has been said that the only thing we can take with us to heaven is/are souls! That is exactly what we aim to do with Poured Out For The Nations. And according to the Watch Therefore Scriptures our desire is for as many of those souls as possible to hear the words from our Savior "well done good and faithful servant."

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:1-2)

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)

"Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect. "Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods."
(Matthew 24:42-47)

"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'" (Matthew 25:23)

Having said that, I believe it is important to better understand the Coronavirus in the context of truth. Our Savior spoke of four birth pains associated with the signs of His coming. One of those birth pains is pestilences, which would include by definition: diseases, viruses, and pandemics. Like never before pestilences are sweeping the globe as will the other birth pains-global ethnic violence, war, famine, and earthquakes. Coronavirus is an example of the birth pains' characteristics in that they increase in frequency and severity. Increasingly, they become painful, disruptive, and impossible to ignore. In old English "sorrows"meant birth pains.

"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows." (Matthew 24:7-8)

WE SHOULD BE LOOKING UP, LIVING HOLY, AND REACHING OUT!

Our response, as compared to a lost, dying, and hopeless world, should take on these three primary themes: looking up (Watch Therefore) living holy and set apart lives, and reaching out (Be Ready). The grace of our Savior Jesus teaches us always, but especially in this unique generation, to live holy and look for the blessed hope (the Rapture), and to go and make disciples of Messiah Jesus (Poured Out For The Nations)! We are to be excited about the opportunities to work diligently in the Kingdom of God here and now more than ever!

"Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near." (Luke 21:28)

"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works." (Titus 2:11-14)

I would ask you to prayerfully consider the work of Watch Therefore Ministries/Poured Out For The Nations. Here are just a few of the Poured Out works we are involved in, which you could prayerfully and financially support- please, only as the Holy Spirit leads. This is the time to listen to the Holy Spirit as we abide in Messiah Jesus!

•Watch Therefore television program reaching out to 200 countries/200,000,000 homes. (Please note new additional program time: Monday - 7:30am)

•Short-term mission trips for gospel and discipleship outreach to many African countries. (Lord willing, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania 2020)

•Ongoing financial support of pastors and leaders in Kenya, Rwanda.

•Our family stationed in Israel (very strategic for Africa assignments).

Newsletter – February 2020

March 24, 2020 by POFN

Though I will have returned from this trip by the time you are reading this newsletter, I am writing as these events are unfolding by the grace of our Savior Jesus! I pray it blesses and stirs your hearts. The lost are being saved and disciples of Jesus are catching fire for the Lord ~ a real Spirit of revival is touching hearts in some of our meetings. What a great way to start the New Year-thanks to many who are prayerfully and financially participating!

Day one - January 24: Land in Kigali, Rwanda at 7:00am and drive four hours to Ngozi, Burundi. Changed clothes and taught pastors and other church leaders, ate lunch and then spoke at an outdoor event. I preached that you must be born again from John 3. Thirty-six people came forward to repent, pray and receive Jesus as Lord! We then went and I spoke at an evening event in a large church. The lights went out and half the message was preached in the dark with cell phone lights shining in the darkness-it was amazing! The glory of the Lord came down as I spoke about us being light in the darkness! I also preached the Watch Therefore message and the Rapture-heaven came down!

Day two - I preached in a packed little church in the woods-many pastors and church leaders from other churches were there. I preached on the saving grace, teaching grace, and grace of glory in the Rapture from Titus 2. The anointing was so strong-my translator stopped translating as he was standing with eyes closed-hands raised-and crying out to the Lord! A dear lady came forward to be saved and prayed to receive Jesus as Lord! We then went outside close to the area of day one and I preached on our Savior's ministry of the gospel and healing the broken heart from Luke 4:18. It was another powerful move of the Holy Spirit as approximately thirty-five more prayed to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior!

Day three - I preached the Watch Therefore and Be Ready Faithful/Wicked Servant message and then the gospel in three different church services in two churches. The power of the glory of Messiah Jesus was so graciously with us! About thirty came forward to be saved and then seven in the second meeting. But the third meeting was the most tangibly impacting. Again, about thirty-five came forward to be saved-but then the Holy Spirit did something else! I recognized that the presence of the Holy Spirit was providing power for healing, so I preached again, during the same meeting-it just kept going! Almost everyone-about two hundred people came forward and the Holy Spirit fell upon us! The next day, a lady who was scheduled for a tumor removal surgery from her womb that had been bleeding non-stop was healed! The surgeon could not operate because the bleeding had stopped and the tumor was gone-and I have the before and after x-rays-Hallelujah!

Day four - my Burundi evangelist friend drove me back to Kigali, Rwanda where I met the Pastor who had made my arrangements in Rwanda for the next eight days. Wow-what will the Lord do here in Rwanda?!

Day five - I preached in two small pastor conferences. Teaching the entire book of 2 Peter in two and a half hours with a translator was challenging. Yet, many of us felt strongly that the presence of the Holy Spirit was with us very powerfully! Many expressed their thankfulness for the preaching of the word of the living God.

Day six - I have lived fifty-seven years and preached in many countries for twenty-five of them. I have never seen anything like what I have seen today. After very clearly sharing my testimony, the truth about sin, the things of heaven and hell, the requirement for fruitful repentance, the gospel of salvation, and the requirement for real discipleship, I have truly seen a miracle. I watched one hundred and twenty-four prostitutes and street youth commit to repent and follow our Savior Jesus! I watched their faces change form darkness to light-from bondage to freedom, from the power of Satan to the power of the life only found in heaven and earth's King-Jesus! My fifty-nine year old professional Christian translator told me he too had never seen anything like it! He could not help but teach them a gospel song and by the time he was finished they were all singing it with him! We finished the day at a small church in the Rwandan Mountains. Hallelujah, another seven prayed to repent and receive our Savior Messiah Jesus!

I am ending this newsletter here because it is time for our administrative team to process the letter and do the mass mail-out. So far, we have seen approximately 275 pray to receive Jesus as Lord! Pastors are working to bring all of these new disciples in our Messiah Jesus into fellowship in the body of our Messiah. There is no money in the poor churches to buy Bibles for the ladies and street youth who prayed to receive the Lord today-so our ministry is buying fifty Bibles here before I return. Lord willing, we will buy another fifty after I return to Israel. We still have five days of gospel and discipleship ministry here in Rwanda. I pray the best is yet to come as it often is in our King Messiah Jesus!

Blessings in His glorious name!

Newsletter – March 2020

March 13, 2020 by POFN

Last month I was in the midst of my January 24 - February 6 Gospel, Watch Therefore, preaching and teaching trip to Burundi and Rwanda. My newsletter deadline required me to report on the trip as of day six. Now, it is time for a look back report at the exceedingly fruitful rest of the time in Rwanda. I am giving it to you as I recorded it in my personal notes.

January 30, 2020 - day seven - we went to an Anglican High School where I preached to about 250 children. I shared my testimony and the gospel and about 168 of them came forward to receive Jesus as Lord!Then we went again to the mountain church from yesterday and another 2 prayed to receive Jesus as Lord-Hallelujah! That brings our approximate count to about 445 who have prayed to receive Jesus as Lord on this trip! In the night I preached to a small group in All Saints Church as the rains kept most from coming. We had a delightful time in the word anyway.

January 31, 2020 - day eight - My translator and I traveled by bus from Nyamagabe, where we have been since Kigali, to Rusizi down by Lake Kivu and across the lake is DR Congo. It was a day of rest and preparation to preach three times on Saturday Feb 1. I also received an email from Rwanda Air notifying me of a flight delay leaving me in Rwanda for two extra days-Abba knows best.

Feb 1, 2020 - day nine - I am preparing to preach three times and prayerfully discussing the way forward regarding my flight delay. The flight delay is from our Savior as He has arranged for me to have two extra preachings- one already scheduled -and two additional in Kigali, the capitol city of Rwanda. By day's end I have preached 3 times-twice in churches, which produced one salvation. Of course, we rejoice with heaven at one sinner's repentance but a bit disappointed that more did not receive our Savior-at least visibly anyway. Then, I preached in the evening to about 600 Christian school students. It was a powerful time and over 300 prayed to receive Messiah Jesus-Hallelujah!

Feb 2, 2020 - day ten - We went on a long and narrow old wooden fishing boat across Lake Kivu to a small island called Kabombo. We went fishing for men and after preaching at the first church we went by moto (small motorbike) to the next church. At both meetings heaven came down and our pastor partner managing my trip informed me that 153 prayed to receive Jesus our Lord! Then I remembered another fishing testimony in the gospel of John! Our Resurrected Savior told the disciples to throw their nets and they caught a miraculous 153 fish-just like us on our fishing trip today-oh Hallelujah!!! I preached one more time today in the evening and I taught on the grace of Abba from Titus 2:11-15-many were blessed. So far, we are just over approximately 900 who have prayed to receive our Savior Jesus!

Feb 3-5 2020 - days eleven-thirteen -
I am writing this after the fact having just arrived in Tel Aviv and now on the train to be picked up by my son at the Haifa train station. On Feb 3 we drove back to Kigali as I was scheduled initially to speak at a church and then to the airport for my return. But my flight was delayed and the Feb 3 church added two nights and a daytime women's conference to my speaking schedule-Hallelujah! The pastor and I agreed these meetings were more for the body of Messiah than to reach the lost. However, I preached the gospel after teaching at these meetings and the first night 4 came to faith and the third night 1 precious soul was saved-again-Hallelujah!

Evening Feb 5 - Morning Feb 6, 2020 I reached the airport without incident, and now I am back in Israel. Between 900-1000 prayed to repent and follow our Savior Jesus and I am overjoyed with my Savior! Certainly, more than ever I want to watch therefore and be ready!

For those who prayerfully and financially supported this amazing Kingdom effort -
I so thank our Father in heaven for your help and partnership in the everlasting Kingdom of Messiah Jesus! And know this, in our Savior Jesus the best is yet to come! Please join me in prayer for confirmation and execution of such trips for the rest of 2020. We are praying about Kenya, India, Romania, and an August return trip to Burundi/Rwanda with an additional leg to Tanzania. Oh Father be glorified in Messiah Jesus by the Holy Spirit through our Kingdom partnership and efforts-amen.

Please also remember to pray for our basket to be filled regarding our monthly commitments for: Watch Therefore TV, ongoing African pastor support, Bibles for former prostitutes who are now following the Lord and street youth who prayed to receive Messiah Jesus (from this mission trip), and much more!