MISSION REPORT ADOLA & TORE, ETHIOPIA SEPTEMBER, 2022
Dear friends! In August we had another two evangelistic campaigns in Ethiopia. First we were in Adola. Our campaign was the first in seven years and was held on a huge area of meadowland. Owing to Covid, the churches had not been able to meet properly for two years and now they were delighted at this first opportunity. It was cold and rainy, but on Sunday thousands came to the service. There was great joy and the pastors were excited about all that God did in the course of the week. They asked us to come back again next year. Then we went to Tore, where there had never been a preacher from overseas before. We had wonderful meetings and heaven confirmed the preached word with signs and wonders. All manner of diseases were healed. In the most remote areas, in the furthest places, we often experience the most glorious miracles, such as here in Tore. The last will be first. We saw blind eyes being healed, deaf ears opening and much more. Jesus said the fields are white for harvest. God is seeking workers who will go and bring in the harvest in these last days.
For November we are planning a large-scale campaign in Oyo, Nigeria. The budget for this campaign is $50,000. We are still lacking $20,000.
In September I am going to the 40th Holy Ghost Convention, led by Bishop Waleoke, president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. I will be preaching on two evenings there in the stadium in Ibadan. This will pave the way for further evangelistic campaigns in Nigeria.
Very warm greetings to you!
She was blind for many years and had followed the sound of the loudspeakers to the event. Here we are testing her.
In October and December we’ll be in Ethiopia again. Owing to the increasing prices we had to cancel two campaigns in Ethiopia this year. Perhaps someone feels moved to pay for an entire campaign. One evangelistic campaign in Ethiopia costs us around $15,000. Recently a good friend of mine, through whom I got to know Reinhard Bonnke many years ago, died completely unexpectedly. We never know when it will be our time to go and we should always be prepared. The most important person that everyone should get to know is called Jesus. Those who do not know him have lived in vain. Those who have Jesus, have life. We are living for eternity and storing up treasures in heaven. Everything else is transitory.
Ekkehard Hornburg
HEALING TESTIMONIES ADOLA & TORE, ETHIOPIA
One eye was damaged. The other eye was blind.
The blind eye can see again.
Both ears had been deaf for four years. His mother is standing next to him.
She had suffered from asthma for four years and was healed.
She had been suffering from constant coughing for six years. After prayer, the coughing stopped.
She had been suffering from bleeding for seven years. During prayer, the bleeding stopped.
For many years she had been deaf. There was a popping sound, she said, and her ears opened. Her joy was great!
Walking in the footsteps of faith! Romans 4:12-21
Romans 4 verse 12 talks about Abraham’s footsteps of faith.
1. God spoke to Abraham: I have made you a father of many nations (verse 17). From God’s point of view, this was already the case. From Abraham’s point of view it was not, since Abraham and Sarah were childless and too old to have a baby. God calls those things which do not exist as though they did. From God’s point of view I am already healed, already righteous, already blessed. Abraham believed that what God says IS. If God says it, then that is how it is, irrespective of whether my five senses agree. There is the voice of our bodies – feelings! There is the voice of our minds – reason. There is the voice of God – the word. God’s word is the highest authority and we should put his word above our feelings and our reasoning. God has not promised that he will heal us. He has said that we have been healed through Jesus’ stripes. Abraham believed that he was what God said – a father – long before he held his son in his hands. What you can see does not need any faith, because faith is being convinced of things you cannot see. First comes faith, then sight. 2. Faith means that I imitate God. I talk like him. I act like him. Children copy their parents. If God says it, then I say the same. What he says, I say too. What he does, I do too. If he says I am healed, then I also say that I am healed. I call those things which do not exist as though they did. In this way I change the status quo. Let the weak say: I am weak? No! Then I would confirm the status quo. The weak say: I am strong! The sick say: I am healed! The poor say: I am rich! But is it not a lie if I speak like that? No, because God has spoken so that we can speak! I am only saying what God says! And God cannot lie, so I am not lying! I am speaking in agreement with God’s word. God said: “Light” in the face of darkness! We would probably have said: “It’s really dark out there” and nothing would have changed. Your mouth will get you from A to B. Your mouth changes your circumstances. God gave Abram a new name: Abraham = father of many nations. And from then on Abraham called himself as God called him.
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3. Abraham did not take the circumstances into account! He did not look at his “dead” body and at Sarah’s womb that had already died. He did not listen to the voice of feelings or the voice of reason, but rather looked at God’s word only and spoke only what God said. He did not grow weak in faith. If we listen to other voices and take the circumstances into account, we will be weak in faith. What God says IS, even if my mind and my feelings say something different. Faith made Abraham and Sarah young again and they had a son. The Israelites needed to look at the snake that had been lifted up, not at the snakes on the ground or the snake bite on their legs. The Bible says we should look at Jesus, the originator and perfecter of our faith. On the cross he carried my sicknesses and I got his health. On the cross he carried my sin and I got his righteousness. On the cross he carried the curse and I got the blessing. 4. Abraham did not doubt through unbelief but became strong in faith, giving glory to God. When Jehoshaphat and his army started out with singing and praising, God intervened and they got the victory. “He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me; and to him who sets his way properly I will show the salvation of God”, it says in Psalm 50:23. Abraham thanked God and gave him glory, long before he held Isaac in his hands. 5. Abraham was completely convinced that what God had said was how it was, and even if he were to sacrifice his son Isaac, God would have to raise him from the dead because God cannot lie.