issue 4 march 2011

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Spiritual Middle East

Warfare
As the month of
As we are living in a fast
world, also the time when I am
going to the Middle East is co-
ming closer. The preparations
February is the
shortest month a are going well and our team
year, it went over is looking forward to a time
also very quickly. where we can be mightily used
It was a very rough by God. You might have he-
month for Deise and ard about the riots going on in
me, not just because this area. I want to assure you,
we were missing not to worry about us when
each other and can’t we are there. Our team will
see us because of the be safe but this doesn’t mean
distance between that we don’t need your prayer
Brazil and Germany support. We really need your
but also because we
prayer already now in the time
had to learn how
of preparation but then also
to fight spiritually.
Sometimes we when we are going there. We
are getting very appreciate all of your prayers
vulnerable towards and are very thankful.
the world of evil,
especially when we
are going to serve
God to fulfill His
call. Yet, God is greater and taught us how to fight,
that’s why we want to encourage all of our readers
Practical Ministry
On Sunday, 20th February I had the
to fight like God taught us. We should take on opportunity to minister through preaching
the full Armor of God. In Ephesians 6:10-18 it is the Word of God to a small but lovely
described how we can wear and apply the Armor
church in Neulußheim. God put it on my
of God. We do not just have the armor for our
protection, but we also have the sword with which
heart to preach about forgiveness and how
we are enabled to fight. The sword is the Word of not to allow bitterness to come into our
God on which we should rely on. Prayer comes hearts. It is always a blessing to see how
along with this, because when we are praying faithful small churches are. Mostly these
with the might Jesus gave us, then the evil has are churches with elderly members but
no chance to attack us. Whenever we are getting strong and courageous in prayer. It was a
attacked, no attack will be to strong that we would very nice experience for me to learn from
not be able to handle it with the help of the Holy my older brothers and sisters and I am
Spirit. Our encouragement to you is: Pray and be looking forward when I can minister to
ready to fight! them the next time.
The New Semester The new semester has started a week ago and
literally, I am already completely into it. This semester I am going to write two different papers
about Brazil, one is about the counseling methods of free churches, the other one is about con-
textualization in a suburban region of São Paulo. Both papers will be very challenging, but I will
face it together with my great fiancé Deise.

“ When he comes, he will convict the world…

John 16:8 ”
Prayer SHOCKWAVE
On Friday, 4th March the youth of the church
Thanks in Leimen organized the Shockwave prayer
•For God’s guidance night. It was originated by OpenDoors and is
•For God’s provision actually a weekend of prayer which is going
•For God’s faithfulness around the world like a big wave. In this way,
and peace many thousands of Christians came together
in different places all over the word to pray
Requests for persecuted Christians. This year we were
• The trip to the praying for our brothers and sisters in Iran
Middle East but due to the latest happenings in the Arab
• A summer Job world, we also ensured that we were praying
(June/July) for them. God is able to work through prayer!
• Wisdom and strength
If you want to get further information about
for this semester
Shockwave go to www.odshockwave.org.

God bless you! Manuel Voigt

God loves without measures

The month of February was the time to come back to hard work. As the students
came back to the music school after two months of summer vacations, my work
increased a lot. I had the opportunity to finish two important projects and also
to coordinate the group who made an amazing work at the 18th edition of the
most traditional Brazilian Music Festival in the country. That was especially
important because while I was working 17 hours a day, I should fight against
attacks and keep my spiritual life in strong conditions. In those moments, the
distance between Brazil and Germany seemed to be trice as big... But I found
that no matter what is the unit you use to measure your problems, miles, hours,
liters or kilos, the shortest distance between it and its solution is the distance
between your knees and the floor. The power of prayer gives the certainty that
God comes for us, all the time. That is why I would like to ask you all to pray for
the group of missionaries. Be vigilant and ask God for health, strength and that
they can do an amazing work for God. Prayer gave me power to work on my
church and to help them to prepare the twelve hours worship. We are praying
to have a great time on May 14th, where Christians from many different free
churches from my city and also the region are coming together to worship.
I am still inviting one friend each service and God is working strongly on their hearts. They are getting touched with
God’s Word and are realizing that one of the greatest things is that
the true measure of God’s love is that He loves without measure.
While I am counting the days for Manuel’s arrival on July 14th, I
am also preparing the details for our wedding. The civil wedding DONATIONS
is scheduled and also the ceremony is in its final preparation. As I Manuel Voigt
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God bless you.
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