Many evangelists and pastors want to reach out to the unreached people groups
We had a great gathering of evangelists, pastors and church planters the day after the leadership seminars, and I was very excited to hear their testimonies and the burden they had for different unreached areas and people groups in South Sudan. Several of them are already going, and we are trusting God for more support graduates-nov-2012to send more. Paul is telling us: “How can they preach if they are not sent”, and we want to raise up senders that can do that. Our burden is to finish the task Jesus gave us!

More preachers want to start farming
I have been urging pastors and leaders to start small scale farming them self and encourage others to do the same – both for their own health and also for getting food for themselves and even for sale. The last day in the seminar I got very excited as one of the preachers came and gave me a bag with vegetables that he had been growing in his own garden, and he was telling how it had blessed him! I hope many will follow his example.

Three good days at the coast of Kenya before leaving for Norway
The last weekend I spent at the coast of Kenya, preaching there in the service on Sunday and having some time of working and coming up to date with reports and writings. It was good to see many people seeking salvation and great testimonies of healing. We are starting up the Volume II of Million Leaders Mandate training there next year, and I am looking forward to that.

Live the life of Jesus and let
His fire burn in you!
Jesus is soon coming back – we believe it and we preach it. The signs of the time is clearer than ever and it has never been as important to be ready as today! The serious thing we always should remember is that the Bible tells us that many Christians that think they are ready – they are actually NOT ready. We read about the people knocking on the door and saying Lord, Lord, let us in! But he answered and said: Truly I say to you: I have no knowledge of you! He also tells that many will come and tell that they had prophesied and done miracles in His name, and he would tell them: I have never known you!

I do not want to be among these – and Jesus told that we should know them from the fruits. We read about the fruits in Galatians 5,22-23: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, gentle behaviour, control over desires”.

Jesus did not come with a better religion, but he came with the new life of the Spirit! That is why Romans 8;14 tells us: “Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” It is the life that flows from us as believers, that is important. James is very clear when he tells that “faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.” in James 2;17 and in James 2;26 he says: “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.”

Let your life shine today – let the fruits grow and let Jesus be revealed through you, Ronald! It is so important to watch and pray in this time and be ready and waiting for Jesus to come back. Paul tells the Corinthian church in 2nd Cor. 13;5: “Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you – unless, of course, you fail the test?” It was not their confession of faith they should check – but if Jesus was alive in their life and did his deeds through them. Let your own die, and let Jesus get full freedom to work in your life! Jesus died and paid for our sins, but we have ourselves to receive him and give him full control of our life! He is the only one that can forgive and cleanse us, but there is no forgiveness without repentance and the new life! Now is the time to seek the Lord as never before and be ready every day, waiting and expecting Him!

    Greetings

   Jan Ernst

I also had the privilege to have a gathering there presenting the opportunity today of earning money through internet. I have been very blessed by different internet business, and I was presenting the opportunity to a large group of people on Saturday in Embu.

Equip leadership training continue in Juba.
From Kenya I travelled to the capital of South Sudan, Juba, and met the group that I am taking through the Million Leaders Mandate training. The group there where now going through the Notebook 5, and we plan to have the graduation the 26th and 27th of November this year.

This time I had Pastor Geoffrey Muthinja (picture) with me to help in the leadership training, and he was a great blessing both to me and to the pastors and leaders. He has followed me and often interpreted for med in Kenya, and knows the teaching well. He also has a long and fruitful ministry himself and a lot of experience in leadership.

Visiting a newly pioneered church
on Dokabu island.
Sunday me and my co-worker Pastor Fermo Ogilla, went together with Pastor Wilson Mori to the new church he has opened on this island, not so far from Juba.  We went together with some other young brothers and sisters from Juba and James, the Mission Director of the Juba Christian Centre. It was a fun ride in the boat on the river Nile for half an hour to one of the villages on this island. It is about 50km long and 5 km wide and there are 9 villages on it with about 3000 households all together.

If you want to see the island on a map, you can click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/8k6ju9t

Wilson has really done a good job planting a church here, and we had a good time 5 young people received Christ in the service. I was sharing the Gospel of Jesus with them, and many also came to receive healing. It was exciting to see the intensity of their prayers, and it really touched my heart. In the picture you see me praying for one of the young men receiving Jesus. You can see a inspiring video of the young people singing outside the church building after the service here:
http://youtu.be/3x1Qw1wakEk

We are now working with the church to start a small agricultural project here on this fertile island together with my friend Svein who also came to visit this church some weeks ago when he was in Juba. In the picture you see Wilson outside the simple church building they have constructed.

Million Leaders Mandate also in Norway.
I have been asked by a Christian organization in Norway to do the training in the second largest town here, Bergen. This training has not been done here before, and it was a great joy for me to do the Notebook 1 there this weekend. I travelled there almost straight from Africa and there were such an excitement by the participants.

     Greetings

     Jan Ernst

Many of them baptized with the Holy Spirit and 22 baptized in water.
We had 4 exciting days together where I was sharing from my heart about the urgency of finishing the task that Jesus gave us – making disciples of all ethnic groups. It was greatly emphasized by Jesus that the disciples should wait in Jerusalem until they had received the Power of the Holy Spirit, and it is just as important to us to receive our Pentecostal experience of Power today, as we have the same message to deliver. The task is not yet finished!

We experienced the Power of God falling on many of the participants in the meetings, filling them with his Holy Spirit and they were speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Some of the people were not yet baptized in water, and we walked to the shore of the Red Sea nearby, and 22 of them were baptized to Christ!

I also used some time to inspire them to count on God confirming their words with signs following, and expect God to heal the sick they would meet when they would lay their hands on them and pray for them. We also showed YouTube films for them from the experience that our son Ronald and his friend Torben Sondergaard has in Denmark and other countries. You can have a look yourself at  www.thelastreformation.com. We also practiced in the conference and saw many great healing miracles taking place. The participants got very excited and inspired to use it themselves as they are reaching out with the Gospel.

Missionaries from Egypt working in Sudan.
It was a great joy for me to be together with several Jesus witnesses on fire for God that has already been to Sudan and have been bringing people to Jesus there. This is a great answer to our prayers for many years, and we praise God for these people. 

I have mentioned before that we have had a couple from Egypt helping in Nyala, Darfur, and it was great to meet friends of them here in the conference. They have meant a lot for the work of the Gospel there – particularly when all the people from the south had to leave here. It has become increasingly difficult for people from South Sudan to work and live in Sudan, and many of them were pillars of the church work in Sudan.

God is calling more people from Egypt to help in Sudan, and we praise God for this. In October they plan to bring a team to Khartoum to be shining the love of Jesus there. These brothers and sisters has the fire of The Holy Spirit, His power and they have experience, and it is much easier for them to present the Good News of Jesus to the people there than it is for us or even for people from South Sudan. Pray for them as they prepare and pray that God will raise support for their outreach of love!


Witnesses from Egypt with a reach out to the Arabic speaking world.
We had the privilege these days to serve together with servants of the Lord that already have a great outreach to the entire Arab world. God does a great work these days in this part of the world, and even though the political situation is uncertain for the future, they love Jesus and want to share his love.

I do feel a great calling to stand together with these witnesses of Jesus, and we will lift them in prayer and support. They need a lot of help in many ways, but God is raising up support both from Egypt and from other countries, so that they can be well equipped for their work.

My tour to Libya was postponed
to September this year.
My plan was to visit the Union Church in Tripoli, Libya, the week before going to Egypt, but unfortunately my Visa was delayed to the Embassy here, and we had to postpone it up to September. I am looking forward to visiting Libya again, and be praying for this visit that the Lord will let my teaching and preaching be a great blessing to the church there. 

God has a word for you – just listen!
When I was praying for you today, I just felt urged to tell you to never forget your daily time with God! Prayer is communication with God, and God has always time for you. The question is: Do you take time to listen? Many times we want to have a word from God, and he is there, wanting to speak to us, but we do not take time to listen!
Make time in your agenda first thing in the morning – Listen to God! That is where the energy is for the day, and we all need that divine energy of the Holy Spirit to drive us. Psalm 5,3 says: “My voice shall you hear in the morning, Oh Lord. In the morning will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up!” Let every day become a divine day – a day where Jesus is revealed through your life! 

Your friend and brother in Jesus

Jan Ernst

Darfur calls!
The civil war in Darfur started more than 4 years ago, and this war was not a fight between Christians and Muslims. Here it was African Muslims who saw that the south of Sudan was negotiating with the regime in Khartoum about having partly a self-government, and they had experienced themselves being oppressed and exploited for many years. They rebelled and the authorities struck back in a cruel way. Together with militant groups from Arabian tribes - the so-called Janjaweed – one village after another got attacked, burned and destroyed. The inhabitants became exposed to cruel treatment with tortures, murder, rape and humiliation. The African tribes became exterminated from large areas, and today more than 2 million of these African Muslims live in refugee camps. They are kept alive by about 16,000 aid workers from numerous humanitarian organizations that work there together with the UN.

First Christian leader seminars in Darfur
When Gabrielsen visited Khartoum 3 years ago, many Christians came from Darfur and asked for help with getting teaching and leader training there as well. It resulted in the first Christian leader seminar in the history of Darfur, and 80 leaders came from all the Christian denominations. It turned out that many of them did not even understand what salvation is, and only a few had Bibles. After that seminar the Gospel experienced a fantastic breakthrough there. Thousands of Bibles were distributed and many experienced, Spirit-filled Christians from other parts of Sudan have devoted 3 months each to help the new Christians
in Darfur!