Pray for the saints in Turkey.

Funeral & family of Tilman Ekkehart Geske, 46

From the Protestant church of Smyrna

Prayers for my colleagues in Turkey

Hey all you intercessors out there let's give God no rest on this one. Let's fill some bowls of incense on this one. And not just for a few days. Would some of you committ with me to pray for the church in Turkey for the next few weeks, months and years? I personally will be praying first for strength for the current believers that are there. And secondly I will be praying for a house of prayer to be birthed there. Obviously there is much prayer already because of persecution and spiritual darkness, but there must be night and day prayer to see God's kingdom advanced, to see God's speedy justice released on the earth. And His speedy justice is that millions of muslim Turks would come to know Jesus! That is the justice that we are asking for from the blood of these 3 brothers in Christ!

Father in Heaven, right now we lift up the families of those who were brutally taken from this earth and removed from those who loved them, and all the fellow believers in Turkey; Strengthen their hearts with might by your Holy Spirit, comfort them as they mourn, and let hope abound even more for the coming of your Son and the advancement of your kingdom. Let these 3 grains of wheat produce a 100 fold harvest Father, and release laborers for the harvest at this time, in the name of Your Son Jesus, Amen!!

Chick-fil-A Update

Yet, another Chick-fil-A blog update (at least for those of you at ihop) But to all my peeps elswhere here's the scoop.

Camp outside of resturaunt for 24hrs (or more) and be among the first 100 people to do that. You cannot leave the parking lot at all.

Winner get's to hug Chick-fil-A mascot, "Benedict Arnold" the cow (wait is he a traitor to cows everywhere by promoting "eat chicken," or is he a Animal Farm secret service agent who has infiltrated the chickens and is actually protecting the "eating of cows" everywhere???)

Winner get's 52 free combo meal tickets (and according to Steve's math this is valued at $540)

As you can see from the above photo, I got a bonus hug from the cow and the 52 combo cards. I was #5 in line arriving at CFA at 3:30am and leaving at 7:30am 28hrs later. Yes it was worth it!!

Side Note #1:

We went for the chicken but we ended up with much more. There was rich fellowship with those we pray with everyday. We had some good intercession sets and devos (and naps, hey just like ihop). We started the day in prayer. Dedicating this new Christian owned business (Chick-fil-A is a Christian company that is not afraid to show what they believe in, for one they are closed on Sunday's) We played games together. Asphault football and soccer, limbo, hoola-hoop (Christian was crowned champion of the hoopers).

But best of all was the worship. We gathered in the corner of the parking lot and began to worship and intercede for the 60-70 people who were not ihoppers (yes there were about 30-40 ihopper representing, and all 30-40 were the first ones there). Then as the worship continued people went out spontaniously praying for others and sharing the love of Christ. It was glorious! This was all while 2 loud speakers were blasting out music from a dj that the resturaunt brought for the special occasion. And of course most of those songs were not very Pro-Christ.

After this we all went to bed at around midnight and then like clockwork, some other ihoppers began to worship. So as everybody was asleep in their tents, the nightwatchers lifted up the name of God's only Son Jesus Christ!

Father, thank for Jesus and thank you for free chicken!

Sidenote #2:

there is no other sidenote (unless I told you about our attempt to talk the mascot into letting Zach Wood tackle him, while I videotaped and would later put on Youtube and the local sports radio dj was willing to do play by play of the whole event and throw in some free Chiefs tickets if we pulled off the whole event. Benedict Arnold the Cow responding by trying to kick me in the youknowwhere twice, luckily I blocked both attempts. We took it as a No.)

"Honey Roasted Bar-b-crew"

Check out Steve's blog

There is a movie coming out about the prayer movement, revival in America, The CauseUSA, IHOP, Morningstar, etc.

...and I am in this movie in a couple places. So check it out:


Steve's blog

Sweet Post Molly!! You Get like a 100 points :)

You have to go read this great post about driving shuttles on Molly Mosack's blog. Since I serve the IHOP Transportation Dept. as Coordinator I am totally loving this post. But this is more than partiality, this is a great description of fun facts about Shuttle driving at the IHOP Missions Base.

Back from Orlando

I got back from my trip to O-town. I was privileged to speak to the Remnant youth group. This is no ordinary church youth group. But this is the army of God being formed right before are very eyes. They are hungry for Jesus and nothing else will satisfy.

I preached Friday night to a couple hundred young people. It was so awesome to see the Holy Spirit touch some of them in powerful ways. Saturday I got to hang out at the beach with some of the leaders. Saturday night was their prayer watch from 8-10pm. This was the highlight of the weekend. This was one of those intercession sets that Heaven just broke in on. I was weeping throughout the night. The Holy Spirit was just striking our hearts with love for Jesus and a painful cry for more love for Him, all the while feeling His love for us.

Sunday the Easter service was awesome. A homeless couple that the church has taken under it's wings these last few months got married. A heartbreaking story of two people who had some bad breaks in life and were left with nothing and no hope. They came to the church food pantry a few months ago. Since that time they have been serving in that ministry, even while still homeless. They not only got married that morning, displaying God's resurrection power over broken lives. But the church gave them a car, and a place to live, with no bills for the next 6 months. The ushers were handing out a lot of tissue in this service. The goal of the church is to do this for 4 homeless families this year and 50 families a year by 2012. The people are discipled and led through deliverance, counseling and financial planning, etc. THIS IS TRUE RELIGION.

Sunday night we stayed up late fellowshipping. Eating sushi made in "Omy-daHomie's Kitchen."
And we all watched Napoleon Dynomite together. It was great to laugh together and get to know all those young people in O-town. We also played the Holy Spirit games taught at Morningstar and Bethel.

Monday for brunch we went to a really cool vegan tea house, called InfusionOrlando.com. Totally organic teas and coffees and foods. And I got to ride in Edwin's (building up THE House) Scion. Sweet ride Edwin!!

And I wanna shout out to PG. Thanks for all the love and the opportunity to hang with all of you! But not just hang but to provoke each other to press on way harder than we ever have before, not in striving but into "Knowing the Love of Christ." PG we are gonna go Deep Sea Fishing on the boat Sea Spirit (that was the name of the boat on the brochure...seeing in the spirit).

O-Town, I love you guys and gals, and will be praying for Christ to be formed in you. Until next time, Shalom!


Here is my quote for all of you in Orlando, KC, Ft. Mill and around the globe who are "wasting" your life praying and sitting at His feet:


The disciples once asked Jesus, "To what purpose is this waste?" They were referring to the woman who smashed the expensive alabaster box, and Jesus told them not to bother her for she had done a good work. It was the only time in the gospels that Jesus ever acknowledged anything done by man as being a good work. Her work was not only good, but wheresoever the gospel was going to be proclaimed in the world, that which the woman had done would be spoken of as a memorial to her. It was an extravagant acknowledgment of the uniqueness of what she had performed. Yet the very same act in the sight of the disciples moved them to indignation at the waste.

Some more great shots of Colorado/Grand Canyon

More Sweet Shots!

(just click on the photo)

Here are some trip photos

I am trying to keep a blog updated without wi-fi at home and without a laptop, (now the cord went out). So here are some photos of the trip:

Colorado photos

(Steve it looks like I will be making a trip to CompUSA to find a cheap power cord)