Thank you NicaBIKEshop and Josh Jaentschke for facilitating the purchase of a bicycle for Poochie by an unk. donater in the states. The power of the internet.
THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD
2 Samuel 22:33 God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
Without God’s resurrection power in my life, I would be just another retired old man in the states, doing absolutely nothing but going to church and playing golf every day.
Only by God’s resurrection power do I keep doing what I am doing. Only by God’s power do I continue to believe. Only by God’s power will I be taken up into heaven when I die. Only by God’s power do I have health and a life of abundance, heaven on earth. Only by God’s power, many people are getting saved, healed and ministered to through PureHeartChildren´sFund.
This may sound like I am bragging but I am not. Every born-again believer has God’s resurrection power available to them. Many don’t experience it because they aren’t plugged in. It reminds me of the Amish. They don’t believe in electricity. But they build their houses wired for electricity (for resale purposes). So they live in a house all their lives, using candles and wood stoves. They never use the electrical power available. All they would have to do is plug into it. Many born-again Christian stumble through the darkness because they don’t plug into the power of God. They are all wired for it, by His Holy Spirit. They just don’t use it. They are going to heaven when they die, but their lives aren’t abundant on this earth. They may be happy here, but their existence here is joyless, thereby unfruitful.
Every one has a different walk with the Lord. Different aspects. I am not a scholar. I don’t even read very well. That’s ok because the majority of the people I teach are completely illiterate. I live in the eye of a hurricane. I have no private room to study in. I only have my smartphone. If I take notes with a pen and paper, the next day it’s gone. If I highlight a Bible and mark notes in it, it’s usually given away in one or two weeks. Pens and markers and writing paper are continually being swiped. (we have floor traffic here of anywhere from 50 to 100 people a days coming and going into the WinnerHome. So, like my friend says, I just fly by the seat of my pants, and by faith.
Here are some suggestions on how I try to connect with the resurrection Power of God.
1. Word of God. Usually when I pray (communicate) to God, He answers through His Word. That’s why you have to read it, a lot. Communication is always talking and listening. Usually, 99.9% of the time when God answers a question I ask Him, He just brings up a verse in my mind (soul). Other times God answers my prayers through hearing a song or a person speaking a Bible verse, or just some plain old country wisdom. The key is to stay in the Word, every day, so you can hear clearly from God, as well as steer clear from thoughts which aren’t from God. Also, God’s power isn’t limited to His Word. He uses anything and everything for his glory, through His power, because He is the owner of everything. God has used secular conversations to show me what He wanted, children playing, He has even used TV. A Great example is FaceBook and internet. I grew up with mean spirited fanatics continuously hissing at me about the evils of everything, most of all electronics and computers. I say fanatics because they never said anything good about anything or anybody. Occasionaly they would say a pastor was the ‘real deal’, with the evil insinuation that everyone else was a phony. But they really really hated electronics, specifically computers. Anything related to a computer was evil. I believed this for the first 44 years of my life. It wasn’t until I founded Calvary Chapel Managua that I used internet or even a cell phone. Internet in my opinion was evil,cel phones too. I didn’t use them.
One day, as I was praying about cel phones and internent, God showed me the verse in Titus 1:15 “Unto the pure all things are pure.” I started using these wonderful tools. Because of the power of God, and the power of the Internet, We have planted a church (CCManagua), 2 functioning orphanages (with a third one on the way) and 3 schools, all through God’s power and the power of the internet (which is God’s power as well, because He created the guys who created the internet, plus all the raw materials and intelligence that went along with it). We, PHCF, are blessing (directly and indirectly) well over 6,000 lives with the Gospel pf Jesus Christ. Hundreds of people are saved as a result. And God’s power is still working because we continue to be plugged into Him as well as the Social Media and internet. Just recently a FB friend, (whom I have never personally met, just through FB) blessed Poochie (whom he only knows through my pics of him on FB) with a bicycle. (see pics above) Things like that happen all the time, thanks to the resurrection Power of God. NOTE, SPEAKING OF SOCIAL MEDIA; PUREHEARTCHILDREN´SFUND IS LOOKING FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA NINJA!
2. Prayer, simply put, is communication with God. Communication with God keeps you plugged in, recharged. I have a 4 year old electric tooth brush. I have to have my tooth brush plugged in all night to have the power next day to brush my teeth with plague destroying power. About once a month I forget or am too tired or too lazy to charge my toothbrush. The next day, I have the great displeasure of trying to brush my teeth with a lethargic, powerless toothbrush. Jesus knew the power of praying, of staying plugged in. He prayed all night, often. I am starting to see the value of it. Prayer is a million times more important than oversleeping. We are told to pray without ceasing. If you are praying in the Spirit, you can pray without ceasing, because your mind is free to do other things. It is possible. Try it. That’s why when I am done praying alone, I never say amen, because I just keep on praying deep inside, in my soul.
3. Hunger for God’s power. If you want to experience the power of God in your life, talk about it all the time. Dwell on it. Obsess about it. Hang out with people who want to talk about it. You ever notice that when you are fasting you don’t want to talk about food? You don’t want to hear about food or think about food because it makes you hungry? Well, the same thing about God’s resurrecting power. To hunger for God´s resurrection power, you should talk about it, covet it, surround yourself with others that earnestly want it. Avoid the silver tongued devil who tells you God’s power isn’t for today. That is the doctrine of demons. That is the definition of the word ‘profane’. I always thought that profanity means dirty words, but it means instead ‘denying’ the power of God. So when someone says that miracles can´t happen today, you have my permission to call them a ´potty mouth´.
1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Surround yourself with Power of God people. Not just believers. Even the demons believe. Don’t hang around with people with ‘demon faith’ but those with ‘the resurrection Power of God´ kind of faith. Choose your words that you say very carefully, and who you listen to.
Proverbs 18:21 “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
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For example if you give $1,000 dollars, $2,000 dollars goes straight to the kids.
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COVID 19 UPDATE- GOD IS STILL ON THE THRONE, PRAYER STILL CHANGES THINGS. WE STILL HAVE NOT HAD ONE CASE AMONG THE 300+ FAMILIES WE SERVE, NOR AMONG OUR STAFF, NOR THEIR EXTENDED FRIENDS AMD FAMILY HERE IN NICARAGUA. NICARAGUA SEEMS TO BE FINE FOR THE MOST PART! PRAYING FOR THOSE WHO HAVE IT IN THE STATES, AND HAVE LOST LOVED ONES. PSALM 91
Praise Report
1. I am so healthy it’s ridiculous, I love and cherish my wife, we have all that we need (more than enough so we can help others), our own kids are happily in the states, studying and are healthy. Our ministry is flourishing. God is good!
2. I AM IN A 3AM PRAYER GROUP WITH PASTORS FROM COSTA RICA. (ZOOM , PRAISE GOD FOR ZOOM, WHO SAID INTERNET WAS BAD? PRAISE GOD FOR INTERNET. I AM IN SEVERAL OTHER ONLINE BIBLE STUDIES AS WELL) THE REAL PRAISE REPORT IS WHAT I LEARNED THIS MORNING. A SOLUTION TO HAPPINESS? BY BEING HAPPY. HOW DO YOU GET HAPPY? BY THINKING, SAYING AND DOING THINGS THAT ARE ALL IN HARMONY WITH EACH OTHER.
3. ABIGAIL, THE LITTLE GIRL WITH THE HOLE IN HER HEART IS RECOVERRING FROM HEART SURGERY NICELY. I LOVE HER LITTLE SMILE. (PIC ABOVE, PINK DRESS)
4. ROGER (MY FRIEND THAT LOST HIS EYE TO A HANDGRENADE ACCIDENT, IS STUDYING ENGLISH WITH ME IN MY FRIDAY ENGLISH-DESCIPLESHIP CLASS. HE IS IN THE PIC BELOW, BROWN SHIRT) HE WILL SOON BE WORKING FOR SITEL AS AN ENGLISH SPEAKING CALL CENTER ATTENDANT. SUCH A JOY GIVING ACTUAL LIFE SKILLS ALONG WITH THE GOSPEL.
Pureheart Update – WE ARE STILL BUILDING AN ADDITION TO THE WINNER HOME FOR BETTER, MORE COMFORTABLE HOUSING FOR WINNIE AND A BIGGER WAREHOUSE. DAVID OUR CONTRACTOR GOT SAVED. EVERYONE THAT WORKS WITH US GETS SAVED EVENTUALLY. PRAY FOR MORE SOULS, AND THAT I MAY DESCIPLE THEM CORRECTLY. AN ORPHANAGE-OLD FOLKS HOME ON THE SAME PROPERTY IS STILL ON OUR RADAR.
PRAYER REQUESTS
1. PRAYING TO USED OF GOD, TO WIN SOULS, AND TO FINISH WELL, PRAY FOR SOULS.
2. FOR HEALING OF LOVED ONES WITH EVERYTHING FROM CANCER TO MENTAL ILLNESS.
3. FOR HOME VISITATIONS TO PRODUCE RESULTS, FOR VISITORS TO OUR HOME TO GET SAVED. FOR THE FAMILIES AND PARENTS OF ALL THE PURE HEART WORKERS TO GET SAVED.
4. FOR OUR 2 FEEDING CENTERS AND THE TWO OTHER FEEDING CENTERS THAT WE HELP. FOR OUR SISTER FEEDING CENTER IN ISLAMABAD PAKISTAN THAT WAS BURNED DOWN LAST YEAR BY ISLAMIST EXTREMISTS AND GOT FLOODED OUT LAST WEEK.
5. AS WE ARE HELPING OTHERS WITH EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS *RAINY SEASON DESTROYS THE SHACKS THAT MANY OF OUR PEOPLE LIVE IN*. THAT WE BE THE LIGHT AND PEACE OF JESUS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM.
7. AS WE ARE STILL STRIVING WITH THE GOVERNMENTAL PAPERWORK, AMONG OF WHICH IS FOR PERMISSION TO HAVE AN ORPHANAGE-OLDFOLKS HOME ON A SUSTAINABLE GREEN FARM IN THE MANAGUA CITY LIMITS. THIS IS THE 4TH TIME IN TEN YEARS THAT WE HAVE HAD TO START AGAIN FROM SCRATCH EVERYTHING FROM ALL THE ACCOUNTING, BOOKS, AND PERMISSIONS FOR THE ORPHANAGE. EVEN FORCED INTO REINCORPORATING DOWN HERE. IT GETS TOUGHER EVERY TIME, BUT WE AREN´T GOING ANYWHERE. THE CPA PAPERWORK AND ACCOUNTABILITY IS ESPECIALLY TOUGH. WE HAVE HAD TO DOUBLE OUR CPA´S PAY .
8. AS WE ARE WAITING ON THE LORD TO PROVIDE THE MONEY AND THE PERFECT RESOURCES FOR ALL THE FULL TIME STAFF, DOCTOR, NURSE, AIDES ETC THAT COME WITH A FARM THAT HAS ROOM FOR AN ORPHANAGE AND AN OLD FOLKS HOME ON IT, AS WELL AS THE PROPERTY ITSELF. EVEN WITH JUST AN ORPHANAGE HERE, OUR STAFF WILL ALMOST HAVE TO DOUBLE IN SIZE PER NICARAGUAN REGULATIONS
9. FOR OUR OWN CHILDREN`S SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND SAFETY WHILE STUDYING IN THE STATES.
10. My friend, Pastor Bob Trolese in the hospital.
A TALL ORDER, BUT NOTHING IS TOO BIG FOR GOD, NOT EVEN DIFFICULT.
Please continue what you are doing to keep us going.. WHATEVER YOU’RE DOING, IT’S WORKING!!. pray, donate, and spread the word!
LOVE
DEAN AND WINNIE PETERS
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