Sons of Thunder

06-16-09 Uganda Pastor Simon reports

Hello Brother Robert ,

Choice greetings from BUTYABULE CHURCH here in Uganda. Am sorry for the delay in communicating to you but it has been power and internet challenges as the network has been on and off for several occassions,so we couldn’t access services.

We appreciate so much for the conference we had with you while in Kenya (Feb) and at this moment we also request that we invite you to come and extend that message to our Church here in Uganda because we want People to reach in Heaven and also expand the God’s Kingdom.

Attached is the photo of the Orphans and Widows,I was in the middle holding a book.

God bless you so much (Revelations 1:8 - 12).

Yours in Christ
Pr. Simon.

 
06-15-09   Sisters Ministry wants to be involved with FBF

Dear Servant of Lord.
Receive greetings from Kenya.I am anew born christian,Saved Jesus is my lord. i live in western part of Kenya where i serve my Lord with my family I have a ministry with ten churches here in Kenya that have been laid on solid christian foundation..I managed to get your contacts from pastor martin m. of malaba uganda. I heard of the good work you are doing for our Lord.and was touched to communicate and requiest you to have Godly relation ship and fellow ship.I request you kindlly to reach us and minister the Gospel to Gods people when you happen to come to uganda. The bible clearly say that go y e into the world and preach the gospel to all people. despite of race

I am trusting God to hear from you soon.God bless you all
Sister Connie

06-14-09 Fellow preacher and servant in US.. encourages

Brother Robert,
Good to see you are busy in the Lord. Just got home from preaching north Hollywood and man am I fired up!!. Just wanted to drop you a line and let you know I was thinking about you.
A Fellow servant in The Lord Jesus Christ
Chris Apedaile

06-13-09 Pastor Isaac has more orphans dropped off at his home

bwana asifiwe Brother Robert,
it is at times like these that God really carries us, I believe He would say to you at this time :… “rest in me Robert, I have put my Spirit in you and I can and will accomplish all I have purposed in my heart for you to do, I will show you the way forward and make all things clear to you as you walk through each moment of each day with me. Lean heavily on me at this time and I will be everything you need.”
You brother and your friend, Jesus.
Proverbs 3: 5-6

Our love and prayers are with you and the whole and all your ministry.Thank you for wonderful testimonies from Africa and india.Spiritual father ,we love you and your teachings.Am now uplifting through your teachings and your prayers. Continue to pray for us we are also praying for you.Pray for the orphans which i have last year my brother left me four kids and now another brother left me three kids.plus my family and the ministry.I believe in God is going to care of them and supply every need.

Yours spiritual son and daughter,
Isaac and Eunice

06-12-09 Update missions report

DEAREST BELOVED MAN OF GOD

BROTHER ROBERT,

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27

Greetings to you in the holy name of our Lord Jesus Christ coming soon King. Thank you very much for your holy prayers and mail to us.

We do daily praying for you, your family, Church family and work in Christ.

YOU ARE IN OUR HEARTS AND DAILY PRAYERS.

We are giving Heartfelt Thanks to our Living Lord Jesus and to you for your loving and kindness towards our ministry in India. We are remembering you daily in our personal prayer. All our fFBF pastors, Bible women, Orphan children and poor widows, churches and family praying for you in the presence of God.

These are some of picture I am sending to you. Please keep your holy hands and pray for us.

“He who is kind to the poor, lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.” Proverbs 19:17.

Widows are well clothed and receive a goodly supply of rice

The Orphans are fed The Word, given shelter and good meals

Open Air meetings… entreating and encouraging with the Gospel…
Many, many faithful preachers and pastors work hard to win souls
to Jesus!

As it was in the days of Jesus… Lepers! No toes… no fingers..
These ‘Brothers’ get fed, loved and supplied…
You think you have needs…
Come and embrace our Brothers with us!

We thank you for your holy prayers… they are needed.

Your brother in Jesus,

P.Prasanna Jeevan

06-12-09 Bro Peter from Mission to Sudan–reaching the Un-reached!

This peter I thank GOD for his mercy he was with us when we were at sudan we saw him woking in the lives of his people. Many souls turned to God, healing of the sick, blind and delivarence from demonic forces were set free.
One thing funny the sudanees were asking us among you who is Jesus this means they are not yet reached with Gospel lets pray for them.
peter from Webuye Kenya

 
06-12-09       WHY AMERICA (The Western World) HAS PROBLEMS WITH GOD!

Most U.S. Christians Don’t Believe Satan, Holy Spirit EVEN Exist!

The majority of American Christians do not believe that Satan is a real being or that the Holy Spirit is a living entity, the latest Barna survey found.

Nearly six out of ten Christians either strongly agreed or somewhat agreed with the statement that Satan “is not a living being but is a symbol of evil,” the survey found.

Forty percent strongly agreed with the statement while 19 percent of American Christians somewhat agreed.

In contrast, about 35 percent of American Christians believe Satan is real. Twenty-six percent strongly disagreed with the statement that Satan is merely symbolic and about one-tenth (9 percent) somewhat disagreed.

The remaining eight percent of American Christians responded they were unsure what to believe about the existence of Satan.

Interestingly, the majority of Christians believe a person can be under the influence of spiritual forces, such as demons or evil spirits, even though many of these same people believe Satan is merely a symbol of evil. Two out of three Christians agreed that such forces are real (39 percent agreed strongly, 25 percent agreed somewhat).

Likewise, most Christians in the United States do not believe that the Holy Spirit is a living force. Fifty-eight percent strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is “a symbol of God’s power or presence but is not a living entity.”

Only one-third of Christians disagreed with the statement that the Holy Spirit is not just symbolic (9 percent disagreed somewhat, 25 percent disagreed strongly). Nine percent expressed they were unsure.

Interestingly, about half (49 percent) of those who agreed that the Holy Spirit is only a symbol but not a living entity, agreed that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches. The Bible states that the Holy Spirit is God’s power or presence, not just symbolic.

“Most Americans, even those who say they are Christian, have doubts about the intrusion of the supernatural into the natural world,” commented George Barna, founder of The Barna Group and author of books analyzing research concerning America’s faith.

“Hollywood has made evil accessible and tame, making Satan and demons less worrisome than the Bible suggests they really are,” he said. “It’s hard for achievement-driven, self-reliant, independent people to believe that their lives can be impacted by unseen forces.”

But a large majority of American Christians agree that a person must choose to side with either good or evil. More than six out of ten American Christians strongly agreed (61 percent) with the idea that a person must either side with God or with the devil - that there is no in-between position. Another 15 percent somewhat agreed.

Just one out of ten adults disagreed somewhat (10 percent) and a similar proportion (11 percent) strongly disagreed. Only a few adults (3 percent) did not have an opinion on the issue.

Barna explained that because of the “sheer force of repetition” many Americans “intellectually” accept the idea that you either side with God or Satan and there’s no in-between, even though this idea does “not get translated into practice.”

Other survey findings include a significant number of self-described Christians believing that Jesus sinned when he lived on earth, contrary to the core teaching of Christianity that teaches the divinity and perfection of Jesus.

More than one-fifth (22 percent) strongly agreed that Jesus Christ sinned when He lived on earth, with an additional 17 percent agreeing somewhat.

However, nearly half of American Christians (46 percent) strongly disagreed with the idea that Jesus sinned, and 9 percent disagreed somewhat. Six percent did not have an opinion on the statement.

Is it any wonder why America has a month (June) of HOMO SEX PARADES down Main St in every large town?! Why over 1/3 of new borns are out of wed-lock?! Why their is such a PUSH for HOMO MARRIAGE?! Why this nation has LOST THE DRUG WAR?! Why 6 out of 10 marriages fail?! Or why there was (is) a devastating CURRENCY COLLAPSE–from too much debt?! AND WHY MOST WHO PROFESS JESUS… ARE ASHAMED TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIS NAME IN PUBLIC… and NEVER give their testimony!?

“For they hated knowledge, and did not choose the Fear of the LORD! They took none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof… Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.” Pv 1.23-31 Bro Robert

06-10-09 Two Alcoholics get saved… Open Air Market Preach

Hello brother Robert! Greetings in our Redeemer, Amen. Open air
proclamation is going on well in Bungoma here. We are meeting people
from different places who normaly come to buy and sell. But when they
come and find us preaching on the mkt, they are convicted by the holy
spirit in their hearts and get saved. Like last week as we were
preaching i noticed 2 guys had something to say. When they moved even
closer, 1 of them told me that he is addicted to alcohol and he has
tried so many times to forget it but to no avail. So i led them in
receiving Jesus immediately. These 2 men had come to sell their cow
and from the time they came upto the moment we were praying, 3 hours
had gone without any one getting attracted by their cow but 10 minutes
after we had prayed they sold their cow, halleluyah.” Many other
people are out there and it is my prayer is that we reach out to them
someday with the gospel of christ. God bless you bro Robert and your
mission in Africa and across the whole world, Amen. Ben

06-10-09 The daily cross… a reminder to all–Bro Moses
Once and for all we take by faith the position God gives us of death and resurrection with Christ. To one who asked George Mueller the secret of his service, he replied: “There was a day when I died”; and, as he spoke, he bent lower, until he almost touched the floor. Continuing, he added, “Died to George Mueller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren or friends; and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.” Such is the beginning of a life of Christian victory–but it is only a beginning. This death-position once taken must then be learned. The life of the Crucified must be received moment by moment. There is the Cross once and for all, and there is the “cross daily.” It is a lifelong process. “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me” (Luke 9:23).

This matter of the Cross once-for-all and the “cross daily” is what Bishop Moule calls an “inexhaustible paradox: on one side, a true and total self-denial; on the other, a daily need of self-crucifixion.” We are followers of the Crucified. We must surrender to Him once-for-all. But there is also what has been called the “spread-out-surrender, a surrender which covers our whole sphere of action and lasts all our days.”

In remarking upon the “cross daily” Bishop Moule insists that it is “without intermission, without holiday; now, today, this hour; and then, tomorrow! And the daily ‘cross’ something which is to be the instrument of disgrace and execution … And what will that something be? Whatever gives occasion for ever deeper test of our self-surrender … whatever exposes to shame and death the old aims, and purposes, and plans, the old spirit of self and its life.” New occasions, fresh tests, difficult circumstances–all bring us up against the question of the will of God, or the will of self. If we are hungry to go on with the Lord, if we have an appetite whetted for reality at any cost, then we will set our faces like a flint Cross-ward.

Each of us will find “his cross” in his daily pathway–waiting at his feet. Providential circumstances bring us up against choices which cross self. These will become the instruments of death to our own wills.

Bro Moses/ North Nairobi

06-09-09 Bro Isaac and confronts Traditional funerals in East Africa

Praise theLord spiritual father Robert Ephrata,
Thank you for your prayer and encouragement as you know africa traditions through your teachings and prayer… we need to come out.

“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not…., but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” Luke 10:19,20
Jesus Christ says, in effect, Don’t rejoice in successful service, but rejoice because you are rightly related to Me! The snare in Christian work is to rejoice in successful service, to rejoice in the fact that God has used you. You never can measure what God will do through you if you are rightly related to Jesus Christ. Keep your relationship right with Him, then whatever circumstances you are in, and whoever you meet day by day, He is pouring rivers of living water through you, and it is of His mercy that He does not let you know it. When once you are rightly related to God by salvation and sanctification,remember that wherever you are, you are put there by God; and by the reaction of your life on the circumstances around you, you will fulfil God’s purpose, as long as you keep in the light as God is in the light. It is the word that God does THROUGH US that counts, not what we do FOR Him.
Please pray for us .

Regards,
ISAAC AND EUNICE

06-07-09 KING of KINGS ministry - Uganda Pastor

Greetings in the name of our Lord Bro.Robert and how is ministry?

Well am so happy to hear from you and to know about this ministry,for along time Bro.Masinde has been telling me about you and the ministry and am willing to be part of this, for this great ministry and fully involved it with all my heart.

And am sorry for the delay to respond to this mail due to same commitment in the work of God here in uganda but my payer is that this ministry may also be here in uganda, we welcome it in Jesus name and i really love to work with you in this ministry.thank you for the testimonies and photoes that have challanged heart.

God bless you
Bro.emmanuel

06-01-09 Bro Stanley encourages all saints from East Africa

I hope that everyone had a restful weekend, and I pray that all of you have a blessed week. I do have a challenge for all of you this week, and I hope is does for you what it has done for me these last two months. Here is the Challenge: Whenever a crisis arises this week. With a friend, spouse, boss, bill collector,a child, co -worker, whatever it may be. Remind yourself of this verse. It is better to be patient than powerful: better to have self-control than to conquer a city. Proverbs16:32 If you do this and stand firm. Holding your tongue, and letting Jesus go before you. You will be amazed at the peace you will have. It does not mean that everything will be resolved, but it does mean you will live with peace in your heart..secure underneath your Fathers wing. Have a great week and may God continue to bless you and your families. In Christ, Pastor Stanley.

05-27-09 FBF Elder from Butere, enlarges the Open-Air Team

Dear Brother Robert,
Praise the Lord! Thank youfor your message that i received. It was so encouraging. The Lord says that we shall encourage each other and pray for one another. Really the Lord is moving people appreciated so much for the money that you send to me. We used for transportation using bodaboda and they were happy. We preached at two different places which are Buhuru market and Musanda market. Buhuru market is 30 km from our home and Musanda is about 20 km. I was accompanied by 9 people who are; Harrison O, Jared O, Harrison A, Lydia O, Joseph M, Eunice M, Selina M, Henry S, John N, Wycliffe O, Wilson M and Joseph A.

Thank you very much for your support may God continue to bless you and God is opening many areas on which i believe that it needs many workers because the bible says that the harvest is plenty but the workers are few.
We are praying for you.
Yours Harrison Musula.

05-27-09 Faithful FBF pastor and wife team in Tulumba

Praise the Lord pastor Robert Ephrata,
Its indeed of great joy for me to testify for what God has done since you came to our Church. First of all before you came hear at Tulumba Church we were a few members in the Church but immediatley as you pray and teach thje word of God in our Church now the Church is full due to many non-beleivers and other outside who have decided to be born again.

The message that you taught us was very wonderful and other children they were growing very faster they are also speaking in tongues . We are meditating upon the teachings you gave us day and night and my church is eager to see you once again.

Due to your prayers in the Church two couples were not in peace but now there is peace in there also there were some church members who were demon possessed but were set free by the Lord.Also ten members were speaking in new tounges. We thank God who sent you to come to our church to change our people .God Bless you and if you want to send us a material, this is my address box; i hope to hear from you.
Pastor Isaac Khaemba
Hope to hear from you.

Pastor Isaac and Eunice