MISSION TO THE NATIONS

Colin Dye reports

Since stepping aside as Senior Minister last October, I have undertaken two major missions continuing to impact nations in South America and the Middle East.

Moving Forward in Brazil (November 2021)

In November I took the next steps in the KT’s long-standing missional involvement in Brazil by visiting three major cities,  Niteroi, Nova Friburgo and Sao Paulo. Sword of the Spirit Schools are developing in different regions and I graduated a number of students from the UM.Church in Friburgo. The SOTS training is making a difference many churches as they adopt this training programme. The PULSO Youth Programme is also influencing how churches reach out to the new generations of Christ-seekers.

New opportunities are presenting almost every week as seeds sown long ago through our KT Bible School (IBIOL) are blossoming in Brazil, Japan, USA and Latin America. It was good to be with Leyff Wenderson an IBIOL graduate of 25 years ago. He now leads an apostolic ministry throughout Brazil and beyond.

Up-lifted in the Levant (December 2021)

The Bible School Training programme centred in Lebanon attracts student leaders from across the Middle East and North Africa. They pay a high price as followers of Jesus in their nations but are fearless in their dedication and hungry to know more about the Bible.

In December, I  taught Knowing the Father to 44 students, the maximum number for the size of the room made available to us. I set a short written exam followed by an oral test with each of them. I also examined the students who had done previous topics. I was amazed at their understanding of the material I had been communicating. Very rewarding.

During one of the exams, I was questioning a lady on her understanding of the Theology of God. She answered by telling a story.

Travelling hundreds of miles in a van from their Middle Eastern nation, they were stopped by militants. They were all lined up by the side of the road ready for execution. But they cried out to the Lord and prayed in line with my teaching on Effective Prayer. After two hours of threats and physical mistreatment, the fighters suddenly drove off without explanation, and the believers were freed to continue their journey. It is sobering to realise that these beloved brothers and sisters risk their lives daily and especially when they travel to come to the school.

I’m pleased to say this lady passed her exam. She certainly knows the Father!

TESTIMONIES

Boy 12 years old – “I was was sick and in pain and I closed his eyes to pray. I saw a white light. I saw a cross. I saw Jesus. He touched me and when I opened my eyes, I was completely better”.

Bilal “These 5 days of teaching has been like Peter when Jesus told him to ‘Go deep, there are a lot of fish there’. 

Kurdish man, student of the Bible School – is helping 100 families in his own region, leading them as ‘pastor’. And he is helping 32 families in Lebanon. He cannot read and write. He serves God day and night, evangelizing the  Kurdish people in exile.

Older lady – “I will teach as I have been taught in this school, You have answered many of my questions without me even asking. You answered in the teaching all the questions I had written down before. Through the Holy Spirit, you answered, and you gave me everything I needed.”

Persecuted man in hiding  – “When I first came to the school 2018, I had sin is my life, and I had problem with God. I didn’t care about God the Father because I had a problem with my own father who abandoned me and my family. ‘Knowing the Father’ has taught me to love and to know God and speak about Jesus to others. I had unforgiveness, but now I know I cannot live like Christ without knowing and loving the Father and going through the difficulties like Jesus did.”

Mature believer –  “These five days were too short. God is Father, and he wants to be with us every day. My understanding of the Trinity became clear. The teaching about Grace was very clear. I learned legalistic and true gospel obedience.”

An evangelist – “I learned the names and characteristics of God how to talk about the trinity to unbelievers. I can call God Father.”

WATCHMAN PRAYER MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL

JANUARY 2022

Many churches, denominations and ministries begin every New Year with prayer. My own church KT/LCC has just launched a 40-Day programme of prayer and fasting called, ‘Building the Spiritual House’. For more information see www.kt.org My denomination is also hosting a National Day of Prayer on Friday 7 January see www.elim.org

I am also launching a new prayer ministry called, Watchman Prayer Ministry International WPMI. This is to complement the efforts of local churches and denominational prayer initiatives. Prayer at every level is necessary. I encourage you to support the prayer ministry of your local church and your denomination or church network. But I also urge you to participate in the wider prayer ministries that reach out across the walls to the worldwide body of Christ.

WPMI is a new ministry that looks to the broader global prophetic, apostolic and missional issues that go beyond official church structures. This is a forum for sharing prayer and prophetic material, and for joining intercessors from across the world, as we take our stand upon the high walls of intercession over our cities and nations.

I will be hosting this ministry on my website and will soon launch a 24-Hour, 7-Day continuous chain of prayer. On January 15 I will upload an interactive page so that you can login and register your commitment to the WPMI. You can choose your hour or hours of prayer each week and alter them as you choose. We will register your prayer slots according to UK time, but you prayer at the time that corresponds to your location.

As a beginning, I am believing God for 1,000 intercessors from around the world covering prayer around the clock each week. I will also be offering Intercession Insights gleaned from my Intercessory Ministry over the last 50 years. I have been personally influenced by many great intercessory leaders such as Derek Prince, Suzette Hattingh, Reinhard Bonnke and Denis Clark, the founder of Intercessors For Britain.

Over the years I have been inspired by the words of Charles Spurgeon, “Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of omnipotence.”

WPMI is based on the Watchman Call Isaiah 62:6-7:

I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth (NIV).

This Call and Ministry continues today under the New Covenant in which we all have direct access to the throne of God and are called to “watch and prayer” in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.

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