OK let me tell you guys
about my Eastern- Europe - mission-trip, and let me begin
this last summer2008 really,
I was teaching Protestant's
Religion in public schools, last year i had 6
schools and 20 hours to lecture each week. From 6 year olds to
18 year olds,
the whole scale really, i can work with any age group :)) even 80 year olds if
needed :)).
I loved this job, back in Switzerland when i was with P. Silvia,
Prophet Gamal
from Egypt came to minister to us and he prophesied that i would get a
new job and that i would work with young people in different
locations. I went back to Belgium
like i had in my heart to do, and then they asked me to start
teaching. I really loved this teaching job
and was responsible during these years for the teenagers in our church
and i have been so blessed as well in that our church leadership gave
me the opportunity to preach at least once a month.
Now this last spring a lady preacher Roeline Hessels
came to preach in our church and later in the hallway she told me,
david, next year you may not teach anymore, it´s time for you
to get
into your calling. I taught to myself, well we will see, if
that is
so, God will show it to me. This summer we went to Lakeland
Florida, my parents and a good friend Philippe and we had a wonderful
time and during this time we saw a lot of miracles even in our church every sunday
people came to the front spontaneously to testify of what God did in
their life. In Lakeland
i fell in love with Dessy
Todorova
a young woman from Bulgaria, 33
like me, and a lot of seeming coincidences and stuff, like the Holy Spirit
had spoken to me that i had to change hotel, and then she was in this
hotel as well, i mean a lot of other things happened, that it really
seemed like God wanted us to meet, and we spent two wonderful days
together but it felt like a whole week, and then later Dessy
writes me that she also fell in love with me but she can`t pursue this
relationship because of the several prophetic visitations she had
during her life in which God made it clear that He wanted her single
and serving Him in this state.
So this summer i was like a ship lost at sea, i felt like dying really
:))
Then
early in august i was invited to preach in the church of Roeline
and i told her that i was planning to continue the teaching job as no
other door had opened to me. She said well if God does not
open any
other door then this is the right thing to do.
That week everyone was gone parents and brothers and sisters all of
them in Switserland,
and i had two weeks of intimate time, me and God :)) i felt a
hand on my shoulder the whole time, coming and going, the Holy Spirit
So
i consented, and the moment i made this decision, such a load fell of
my shoulders, such a release, the stuff that i thought had to do with Dessy
all the heaviness left at once, it was so strange, and then i realized
that God allowed all of this to bring me to the place of surrender to
His will. That night God confirmed this step out of Hebrews 3 and
4.
And later on a prayer evening, God confirmed this step again through a
prophetic word.
Our elders did not agree with my decision, my father
did not agree. They believe that i´m out of line
but i have to do what
God showed me, i cannot go and consult people like Paul said.
Ten will
always have a bad report and only two a positive one!
Not to have any program or a boss who tells you what to do is the most
difficult thing
i believe, so September and October where difficult months for
me. I
had it in my heart to go and visit the church in Switzerland again,
Pastor Silvia invited me to come, so i went.
We had a wonderful conference there in the house-church together with
Anita Pearce and Laetitia Marcq.
After
they left we continued to meet together and God gave us songs and then
He told us to stand on the chairs as a prophetic act taking our new
apostolic position, it was amazing, then that week i left for the
conference in Ljubljana, that was so powerful as well, the Holy Spirit
was heavy on us there, it reminded me of the first days of the Toronto
Blessing
in 94, and it made me long for more and more of His wonderful
presence, i have to get into soaking by the way, it is a million dollar
key as they say. One day i fasted and ministered deliverance together
with Aleksandra
Belsak
we prayed for a lady who was struggling with a lot of issues, and one
night was also special, i got to preach and we ministered deliverance
to a lady that came running in with again a lot of issues,
OK, you get
the idea, i can´t tell it all, its going to take too
long. Then i
drove towards Sarajevo in Bosnia, and on the way there i saw that i was
rapidly losing hydraulic oil from my car, this was so stressful, i was
on the brink of driving back to Austria.
But decided to drive on towards Sarajevo, although i did not have
anything else but a name, no phone-number, no address :), on the way i
drove by so many houses that were totally destroyed and bombed, it
looked like driving into a war-zone, and this so long after the war; on
the way i had something done about the hydraulic leakage and then in
the dark i arrived in Sarajevo,
there i went to Hotel Sarajevo and the hotelier arranged the contact
with Elvira Vego,
she came to pick me up, it was special; Elvira is an elderly
missionary who does work with kids and she told me all these wonderful
miraculous stories, she is so full of joy and temperament,
she showed me Sarajevo, we did spiritual
warfare and intercession and it were two wonderful
days. Then i drove to Sofia, and there i met a lady from Norway
and her mother on the streets, they arranged a good hotel for me and
showed me an evangelical
church. That evening i gave my testimony in a pentecostal
church in a youthgathering, and then some
lunatic threw a stone through the glass door, the entrance of the
church, i never had this happen before, satan does not like it when the
word is proclaimed :). The next day i went to attend the 80
year aniversary
of pentacostalism
in Bulgaria. I did not meet Dessy there, which is ok, for
me it is just sort of a way to finish this akward chapter of my
life. Sunday
afternoon i drove on towards Rumenia, and there was a corrupt
police agent who on seeing my belgian licenseshield
decided that i was driving to fast. And so i had to pay him
50 euro's
there and then. I felt very bad about that as you can
imagine, but to top it all, the next day in Rumenia, another corrupt agent
wanted me to pay again, for some offence that he thought i had commited
:) so i refused for like 2 hours, but he kept threathening
me that i was going to wait for my carpapers for 30 days in Bukarest,
so i decided maybe i better pay thim the 50 euro's
and drive on, that afternoon i arrived at the missione pacea,
where my uncle who has a teaching ministry had just arrived.
I spent
two great days there, and i went to enjoy the mountains together with
my uncle we did a pass of 2000 meter and ended up driving around lakes
for what seemed hours and hours, but we had loads of fun
together.
Then last wednesday
i arrived here in Romosel,
i'm
reading books now, like the book of david pawson, the road to
hell, a great book, everyone should read! but it is out of
print now.
At the moment i am enjoying the peaceful calm here at the missionstation,
and learning a lot about Hebrew way of thinking.
Dirk
the missionary he speaks Hebrew fluently, and he teaches me a
lot
about Hebrew thinking as compared to Greek thinking, and how
to
degrease the bible :) and about the Holy feasts of Israel
which are also our feasts and about keeping the
sabbath. And how the
church through the centuries has gotten away from the
biblical
feasts. There are so many religious things we apparently do
as a
church that are totally un
- biblical :)
God
told Moses in Leviticus 23:4 , these are My
High Holy days (King
James), talking about the feasts, meaning
that we cannot just say
these feasts are for the Jews only, because they are Gods. And
consequently if we claim to be Gods people then those days are also
holy to us.
OK
there are so many things that we can say concerning these matters, and
also there are many questions still to be answered :).
OK
i'll
leave it here, congratulations for those of you that read it all!! :)))
Bless you all, and reach for the kingdom of heaven! Don't
ever forget,
if you are not living on the edge,
you are taking up too much space!!
Be abundantly blessed!!
david merlevede