Thursday, 7 April 2011
England
Again it's been a while :/ But here is an account of my time spent in England... We left Israel on November 9 and landed in London that same day.... We spent about a week there in the city to get acclimated to the new lifestyle of a western culture. I was very very sick the first week we were there in London... I had some sort of stomach flu or something it was not pretty... After that we went to the south of England to a county called Cornwall and I stayed there for about a month ...it was an amazing place... it was right by the ocean and it was just beautiful. It was very small town and if any of you know me I'm not really a small town type of guy. We got plugged in with the local ministries there in the City of New Polzseith and we had a worship and prayer night every Friday with a family that we had met in the states. The prayer night was called Fire Night... and we would get together and pray and worship God and prophecy over each other. I got bored reeeal quick there in that small town. So i started praying about what the Lord wanted me to do. I felt strongly that while I was on a Nazerite vow that i should go and serve in the house of the Lord and the one I knew about was IHOP-London so i called them up and said that i wanted to get involved there.. So a few days before Christmas I left for London... I stayed at the house of prayer In north west London for about 3 months. IHOP-London is in a corner building that used to be a Pub a Club and hotel ...they turned the pub into a restaurant and the club into the prayer room and the hotel in to apartments. I stayed there at the house of prayer and acted as a staff member there playing and singing on their live worship sets and during there Sunday services. I was playing on 7+ sets a week and they were all 2 hours sets.. so I had a lot of practice playing with worship teams. On Sunday afternoons we would go down to a place called Wembly Central and do street evangelism where we would pray for the sick and would speak the word of God to them... I personally saw Several people get physically healed and delivered from depression. One guy who's name was Greg he was from Poland came to me for prayer with years of back pain and deep depression from a broken family... I prayed that God would just show him His love and He did... God healed his back right there on the spot and delivered him from his depression ! PRAISE JESUS! we also went and did a life siege where we would put read tape on our mouths and stand in front of an abortion clinic and pray for life.. that was a great and heart wrenching time... Jesus saved 2 babies that day and the mothers gave there hearts to Jesus! GLORY...other then that it was just a day to day of sitting before the Lord and ministering to Him in His house. I got to know so many great people there in the HOP and I pray for them all the time... I also got to go around the city a few times and see all of the historic sights . That was amazing... then my family came to visit for Ethan's 18th birthday and I got to show them the places that I had seen and they loved it all. I went back with them to south England this time to a place called Christ Church... and we helped start a church with our friends Andy and Sharron MacCluland. Greenhouse Fellowship... a small church in a community that was deemed a disaster... we set up shop right in the middle of it... the very first night the Lord blessed us with His presence and showered us with His love and freedom... I then left there and went back to London for about a week and then I left for America ... I have been here for about 2 weeks now and I'm settling down and trying to get used to a "normal" life again...
Monday, 28 March 2011
Wow .....life
OK so i'm super sorry that I haven't updated you all lately... I'm really bad at this. Just a quick one cause I don't have much time... I am back in the States... I'm in Kansas City. I'm staying with my sister. I'm praying about going to Vermont to help start a SSPC (self sustained prayer community) I'm not feeling the release of the Lord on it so I think I'm just going to get plugged in here in the House of Prayer for a while ... Try to find a Job or two and start Loving the Lord in the Day to Day life. Anyways it's super expensive to live on my own I'm thinking of getting an apartment with a very close friend of mine and learning to live on my own ...this time with Jesus as my focus rather then Parties and Girls :) Well that is all I have for now please pray that the Lord bless me and help me to make the right decision. Blessings Christian James
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Part #3
Ok so just a little warning ... I am a little under the weather so i might be a little loopy sounding. I'll do my best.
This blog is about my time in Israel. It will be a little shorter because a lot of it seems unimportant to the normal person... Ok here we go. September 3rd my brother Ethan and I arrived in Israel. We then met up with the rest of the family in Jerusalem. We lived there for about 2 weeks. During this time we learned the culture the way of living in that area. It was mostly Arab background people. It was a great experience. Then we moved to Bethlehem for the rest of the two months. There we lived we developed relationships with the locals and we just did normal day to day things like home schooling and shopping for food and watching films and reading books. We developed some very close relationships with some local shop owners and with some of the local business men. They were some of the most hospitable people that i have ever met in my life. I also had the opportunity to lead worship at a few houses of prayer there in Israel and in the West Bank. Life there was great. I think that the Lord created me to be a warm climate person. Like Florida , southern California, Israel the lot! We also had the opportunity to see and to visit some very important biblical sights. We went from the extreme north to the extreme southern tip of the country. We got to see The mouth of the Jordan river where John the Baptist Baptized Jesus. We got to see Copernaum where Peters mother in law lived. We got to see Galgatha where Jesus was said to have been crucified we also got to see the garden tomb where Jesus spent 3 days. we got to see the dead see and we floated around for hours ... we got to swim in the sea of Galilee and also the Red sea... We got to visit some glorious sights.,.. we also got to celebrate in En Ghetti and it was amazing. I learned soooo much while being there. I want you all to know that America is totally close minded about what is going on in the world. I mean a lot of us assume that all Arabs are trying to kill Americans and that they just automatically hate us case we are Christians . it's not true... I have never been more welcomed as in Arab culture. Other then in Brazilian Culture but we will get to that later :). So to sum it all up we lived we ate we bought food we did school 9or the kids did school) we prayed we laughed we cried we developed relationships with the locals we "shone like stars in this dark generation". We are called to be the light of the world. Jesus himself commissioned us to be as lights. So we developed relationships with the locals in full knowledge that we were Christians.and it was amazing. It's life changing to see the places that you read about in the bible. so read your bible ... and if you want email me and ask me questions... i'll answer to the best of my ability . That's all for now.
This blog is about my time in Israel. It will be a little shorter because a lot of it seems unimportant to the normal person... Ok here we go. September 3rd my brother Ethan and I arrived in Israel. We then met up with the rest of the family in Jerusalem. We lived there for about 2 weeks. During this time we learned the culture the way of living in that area. It was mostly Arab background people. It was a great experience. Then we moved to Bethlehem for the rest of the two months. There we lived we developed relationships with the locals and we just did normal day to day things like home schooling and shopping for food and watching films and reading books. We developed some very close relationships with some local shop owners and with some of the local business men. They were some of the most hospitable people that i have ever met in my life. I also had the opportunity to lead worship at a few houses of prayer there in Israel and in the West Bank. Life there was great. I think that the Lord created me to be a warm climate person. Like Florida , southern California, Israel the lot! We also had the opportunity to see and to visit some very important biblical sights. We went from the extreme north to the extreme southern tip of the country. We got to see The mouth of the Jordan river where John the Baptist Baptized Jesus. We got to see Copernaum where Peters mother in law lived. We got to see Galgatha where Jesus was said to have been crucified we also got to see the garden tomb where Jesus spent 3 days. we got to see the dead see and we floated around for hours ... we got to swim in the sea of Galilee and also the Red sea... We got to visit some glorious sights.,.. we also got to celebrate in En Ghetti and it was amazing. I learned soooo much while being there. I want you all to know that America is totally close minded about what is going on in the world. I mean a lot of us assume that all Arabs are trying to kill Americans and that they just automatically hate us case we are Christians . it's not true... I have never been more welcomed as in Arab culture. Other then in Brazilian Culture but we will get to that later :). So to sum it all up we lived we ate we bought food we did school 9or the kids did school) we prayed we laughed we cried we developed relationships with the locals we "shone like stars in this dark generation". We are called to be the light of the world. Jesus himself commissioned us to be as lights. So we developed relationships with the locals in full knowledge that we were Christians.and it was amazing. It's life changing to see the places that you read about in the bible. so read your bible ... and if you want email me and ask me questions... i'll answer to the best of my ability . That's all for now.
Saturday, 26 February 2011
Something Like That.........
This is the beginning of my great adventure. I'm going to be rushing through the beginning parts cause i know how everyone wants to know what I'm up to today and they are less impressed with where i came from and how i got there. Even though the story is one amazing story of restoration and commitment and love.... OK to start with i think it be best for me to describe to those of you who don't know about the house of prayer in Kansas City. The International House of Prayer in KC is a organization that is set up fr 24/7 worship and prayer to the God of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the spirit of the Tabernacle of David in the old testament. They have been going 24/7 for just over 11 years and some amazing things have been happening. There is a bible school that is there that teaches young adults and older adults to study the word to be prophetic missionaries and to be preachers and to be evangelists and a list of others...they also have a music and a media school that teaches all who want to know how to be professional in there fields and have a center on a life of prayer and worship. I did a 6 month internship there at the House of prayer where i took classes from teachers at the bible school and spent 6 hours a day in the prayer room every night. I did what is called Fire In The Night ...which is from 12mid-6am every night it is also called the Nightwatch. It was the greatest time that i can remember in my recent past. I met some people who are after intimacy with God and at the same time realizing that we are becoming a sinful people. We as a group learned how to be as lights in a dark generation so that we will not be swept away with the judgment of God. Needless to say i went from no knowledge to seemingly more then i could handle in just 6 months! ....Then after i was in the internship I just lived around the KC area with family and with some friends. Going to IHOP and praying during the day or night whenever i wanted to. I worked at a clothing store for a while, but during this whole time I was developing a YES in my heart to do whatever the Lord wanted of me! From when i was little like 11 or 12 i have had a heart for Africa ...anywhere in Africa really just the whole continent really. But i never ever thought that I would get to go there cause i have just never really been blessed with money in my life . So i kind of put it in the back of my mind where i would just maybe meet someone from Africa and think "oh that's what God meant, I would just be ministering to Africa from here in the U.S." . but alas God had better planes for me. It was about January 2010. I was feeling that i needed to go to Florida for a season and to just help with a house of prayer there and to see where the Lord was taking me. I had no idea why the Lord was taking me to Florida and then while i was praying one day and the Lord said to me ... " I will use Florida as a stepping stone to Africa". So i was sold on going to Florida ...not to mention that i love the beach and would love to be there even now! But alas I am not. The Lord is amazing first of all because before i even move to Florida I was asked to go on a missions trip to Tanzania , and to Zanzibar for about 3 weeks for planting a house of prayer and doing some street type evangelism. I was invited by a team of missionaries from Florida. So, on May 24 i packed and moved to Florida and on May 28th I was off to Africa!! While i was in Africa we started in Zanzibar an Island right off the coast of Tanzania and we were there for about 2 weeks having information meetings on what Harp and Bowl worship is and how to run a house of prayer (for more information check out IHOP.ORG
) So we were there for 14 days and had meeting with pastors and teachers in the area. A little history as best i remember but Zanzibar is 98% Muslim and the other 2% is Christian , Hindu, Atheist and Witch Doctors. So it's a very oppressive land. But the Believers took to it like a fish to water. They are sooo hungry for the Lord that it's amazing. While I was there I slept in a tent and my shower was a bucket and a towel... my toilet was a hole in the ground. Food on the other hand was AMAZING the family that we lived with both the Husband (pastor Khelfan) and his wife (mama Dija) (i'm not sure of the spellings and I'm sorry if they are wrong!) the both went to cooking school for a while ! so we ate like royalty. The landscape was amazingly beautiful and the beaches ...oh dang! beautiful white sand and crystal clear water... we had the privilege to go to a 5 star resort that was a friend of a friends and spent the day there ... the sad part about the African culture is that there will be a 5 star resort on the beach but 100 yards in there is a mud hut where they don't own a pair of shoes for the whole family! I fell in love with the African people even more while i was there. We had wonderful times together we had amazing times with the Lord we had amazing teaching and learning experiences all around! then we went to the main land Tanzania where we went into the Morigoro Moutains and lived for about a week. Where we were doing door to door and street evangelism and where around 50 people in one night excepted Jesus into their hearts! it was an amazing time. Praise the Lord. Ok moving on After Africa i went back to Florida because i had given a 3 month commitment to the House of Prayer there called Open Door House Of Prayer. There are amazing people there that are wise and love the lord with all of their heart soul mind and strength even when they have no strength they still love Him! I played and sang on prayer sets there in the HOP and learned a lot .We had a Children s camp called God Camp where we has 6-12 years old come for a week and we taught them the basics of the Bible from genesis to revelation. It was great children are soooo smart. Then after my 3 moths in Florida were over I was talking with my Parents and they told me that they were feeling that the Lord was calling them out to the nations and feeling the release to go to Israel and to Europe! That is where i am at now. in Europe but I will tell you next time on my Israel experiences and then finish with Europe and then we shall see where the Lord leads this Blog ! I feel that He is going to lead it from an information blog to a blog where i share my thoughts and experiences with Him. ok love you all until next time.......
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
AHHH
Just a couple corrections and disclaimers from the last blog....first i am not the greatest speller! second i am not that great at proof reading, in fact i didn't proof read it at all, thirdly Somewhere in the blog i meant to say were instead of where or something like that and another thing it sounded like I was one of 3 children when i am in fact one of seven children. and the final sentence means that my great adventure has happened over the past three years not that the story of my first 23 years happened in 3 years haha.... anyways that is all for now . More to come soon . it''s going to be a great adventure for us all. Maybe i should put it in a book and sell it on Ebay
Monday, 14 February 2011
My life Till My Great Adventure Started!
So this is my first ever Blog and i promise they will get better and I am very sure that they will not be in order alll the time! Ok so i'm going waaaay back right now and going to tell a little bit about me and my life till me great adventure started.
My name is Christian Klopfenstein... I was born in Lincoln Nebraska on June 23, 1984. I lived there in Lincoln with my parents and older sister Davina. when i was around 7 we moved to a town called Wichita Kansas. The Family lived there for around 2 years while my Father (Tim) finished his school and my mother (Darla) worked as an interpreter for the deaf. during the two years we were there my sister and i attended a elementary school called Riverside elementary. When i was about to turn 9 the family had a great surprise .... I was going to have another brother!!! On February 26 he was born (the only one to be born outside of Nebraska but we still love him!) Soon after that the family moved back to Nebraska to a little town called Henderson...it was a quaint little village of no more then 1000 people .... At this time my mother and father decided to homeschool there children and so that is when a great adventure of home education started ....but that is another story for another time. I lived in Henderson for about 9 years. Then i was off to the big time Collage... well that didn't last very long at all! I was not a fan of school and I'm still not a fan. OH! i missed a very important detail... I was raised in a Christian home were we went to church every sunday and where we had a pretty good home life... yes we had our ups and downs but we made it through. My parents loved the Lord Jesus Christ and they still do and serve Him with everything that they have and even some that they don;t have... but we will get to that. Well back to me cause this IS my blog... I went out on my own and fell HARD right on my face and then i would get up and fall again... and again. I fell soo many times and was wondering who was pulling the proverbial rug out from under me ... then I realized that somehow I was the one who was on a path of self distraction that was leading me right to the gates of hell! I was heavy into drinking and to drugs to the point where i would not have food sometimes but i would always have money for a drink or for that next high! it was in my opinion a great life .... then i realized that I was missing something that there was something else that i was made for.. I would always say to my friends " someday i'm going to grow up and stop all this start going to church and stop doing drugs settle down and have a family" well i said that for about 6 years and every time i said it it was my "five year plan" haha. This whole time i was greatly blessed I had all i "wanted" but nothing I "needed". I didn't find this out till later but its better that i tell you now so that you understand how someone who had all that he wanted to change his mind and to so drastically make a move in the other direction.... During this whole time my mother was praying for me ... she would fast she would pray for me day and night with out stopping " JESUS BLESS MY SON!!!!" she would weep for me she would cry out for he son to come back home! Then one day she was praying and she changed her prayer from Blessing to "God anything it takes , just DON'T kill him". So in less then a month I lost my job that i had had for 4 and a half years I lost my friends, my roommates stole all of my things and sold them i lost everything that I had made up as an excuses to not change my life to not turn back to God.... So on october 5 12:03 am 2007 i was with my parents cause it was an easy place to be excepted and to get a hot meal. We were in the basement of the house they were staying in and we were just talking and they were asking me. " Christian why don't you move to Kansas City to be with the International House of Prayer (IHOP-KC). My responses were always an excuse ...I have a job or I have a house and a girl friend or something like that and we were talking and i just would make excuse after excuse. Till about midnight then My Crown of Excuses my reign of being the King of Excuses came to an end and i had nothing i had no job i had no house no friends no reason to stay where i was! So i said " I GIVE UP!" i'm done living for me it's all stupid anyways..... So i looked at my Father and said ok what do i have to do I have said the "sinners prayer" when i was 8 yrs old but this is different this is surrender this is a prodigal standing at the gate of his fathers house wondering how to get back in .... and so my dad says well Christian you have to pray to God and ask for forgiveness and commit your life not just your heart or your body but your life ... everything that you are you have to give it to Him. Side note I was high on Mary Jane and hungover from the night before...and back.... So i had not prayed for about 6 years at this point but i had heard that it's like talking to someone who wants to be your friend ,....so i said " God i am yours from this day forth till my mortal body dies ...i give my life to you and i will follow you from this day on" and i started crying like a little baby girl who had her doll stolen from her. My mom was crying my dad was crying i was crying everyone was crying I think even God shed a tear for His son Returned. I open my eyes after like 3 or 4 minuets and the room was sooo bright ...I wasn't high i wasn't hungover I was sooo full of life sooo full of grace and mercy from Jesus . I was instantly delivered from addictions to drugs and Alcohol and to cigarettes. Jesus set me free ..I tapped into the gift of the Cross . Then the next month was hell we stayed in the town where i lived in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and it was hard ...cause it was all my old haunts and it was all my old memories and all my old friends ...it was hard...then around Thanksgiving of 2007 I moved to K.C. and it was hard at first from a popular drug dealing party animal to sitting in a basement in a town where you knew no one and you didn't know how to have fun other then getting high or drunk ....so i made up my mind and said I will commit 2 hours a day to you God in the Prayer Room at The IHOP missions base and we will learn together cause i have no one else i have no friends i have no girl i just am all alone... The First thing that God told me was " Be my friend, Be my bride and then rest will come." He also Gave me Isaiah 43:2 ." When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you." through Christ we are unmovable..... Then I went to a youth conference at the end of December 2007 called One-thing and it changed my life I then sighed up for a night time internship at the IHOP-kc missions base. it was a six month internship where we learned the basics of a what it means to be a Christian in this generation and how to pray and study the word and to be fully in the service of the King of Kings......well that is all for now ...i hope i didn't bore you and that you will read again soon.
This is only the beginning of my Big adventure and it's all happened in the past 3 yrs.
My name is Christian Klopfenstein... I was born in Lincoln Nebraska on June 23, 1984. I lived there in Lincoln with my parents and older sister Davina. when i was around 7 we moved to a town called Wichita Kansas. The Family lived there for around 2 years while my Father (Tim) finished his school and my mother (Darla) worked as an interpreter for the deaf. during the two years we were there my sister and i attended a elementary school called Riverside elementary. When i was about to turn 9 the family had a great surprise .... I was going to have another brother!!! On February 26 he was born (the only one to be born outside of Nebraska but we still love him!) Soon after that the family moved back to Nebraska to a little town called Henderson...it was a quaint little village of no more then 1000 people .... At this time my mother and father decided to homeschool there children and so that is when a great adventure of home education started ....but that is another story for another time. I lived in Henderson for about 9 years. Then i was off to the big time Collage... well that didn't last very long at all! I was not a fan of school and I'm still not a fan. OH! i missed a very important detail... I was raised in a Christian home were we went to church every sunday and where we had a pretty good home life... yes we had our ups and downs but we made it through. My parents loved the Lord Jesus Christ and they still do and serve Him with everything that they have and even some that they don;t have... but we will get to that. Well back to me cause this IS my blog... I went out on my own and fell HARD right on my face and then i would get up and fall again... and again. I fell soo many times and was wondering who was pulling the proverbial rug out from under me ... then I realized that somehow I was the one who was on a path of self distraction that was leading me right to the gates of hell! I was heavy into drinking and to drugs to the point where i would not have food sometimes but i would always have money for a drink or for that next high! it was in my opinion a great life .... then i realized that I was missing something that there was something else that i was made for.. I would always say to my friends " someday i'm going to grow up and stop all this start going to church and stop doing drugs settle down and have a family" well i said that for about 6 years and every time i said it it was my "five year plan" haha. This whole time i was greatly blessed I had all i "wanted" but nothing I "needed". I didn't find this out till later but its better that i tell you now so that you understand how someone who had all that he wanted to change his mind and to so drastically make a move in the other direction.... During this whole time my mother was praying for me ... she would fast she would pray for me day and night with out stopping " JESUS BLESS MY SON!!!!" she would weep for me she would cry out for he son to come back home! Then one day she was praying and she changed her prayer from Blessing to "God anything it takes , just DON'T kill him". So in less then a month I lost my job that i had had for 4 and a half years I lost my friends, my roommates stole all of my things and sold them i lost everything that I had made up as an excuses to not change my life to not turn back to God.... So on october 5 12:03 am 2007 i was with my parents cause it was an easy place to be excepted and to get a hot meal. We were in the basement of the house they were staying in and we were just talking and they were asking me. " Christian why don't you move to Kansas City to be with the International House of Prayer (IHOP-KC). My responses were always an excuse ...I have a job or I have a house and a girl friend or something like that and we were talking and i just would make excuse after excuse. Till about midnight then My Crown of Excuses my reign of being the King of Excuses came to an end and i had nothing i had no job i had no house no friends no reason to stay where i was! So i said " I GIVE UP!" i'm done living for me it's all stupid anyways..... So i looked at my Father and said ok what do i have to do I have said the "sinners prayer" when i was 8 yrs old but this is different this is surrender this is a prodigal standing at the gate of his fathers house wondering how to get back in .... and so my dad says well Christian you have to pray to God and ask for forgiveness and commit your life not just your heart or your body but your life ... everything that you are you have to give it to Him. Side note I was high on Mary Jane and hungover from the night before...and back.... So i had not prayed for about 6 years at this point but i had heard that it's like talking to someone who wants to be your friend ,....so i said " God i am yours from this day forth till my mortal body dies ...i give my life to you and i will follow you from this day on" and i started crying like a little baby girl who had her doll stolen from her. My mom was crying my dad was crying i was crying everyone was crying I think even God shed a tear for His son Returned. I open my eyes after like 3 or 4 minuets and the room was sooo bright ...I wasn't high i wasn't hungover I was sooo full of life sooo full of grace and mercy from Jesus . I was instantly delivered from addictions to drugs and Alcohol and to cigarettes. Jesus set me free ..I tapped into the gift of the Cross . Then the next month was hell we stayed in the town where i lived in the Valley of the Shadow of Death and it was hard ...cause it was all my old haunts and it was all my old memories and all my old friends ...it was hard...then around Thanksgiving of 2007 I moved to K.C. and it was hard at first from a popular drug dealing party animal to sitting in a basement in a town where you knew no one and you didn't know how to have fun other then getting high or drunk ....so i made up my mind and said I will commit 2 hours a day to you God in the Prayer Room at The IHOP missions base and we will learn together cause i have no one else i have no friends i have no girl i just am all alone... The First thing that God told me was " Be my friend, Be my bride and then rest will come." He also Gave me Isaiah 43:2 ." When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you." through Christ we are unmovable..... Then I went to a youth conference at the end of December 2007 called One-thing and it changed my life I then sighed up for a night time internship at the IHOP-kc missions base. it was a six month internship where we learned the basics of a what it means to be a Christian in this generation and how to pray and study the word and to be fully in the service of the King of Kings......well that is all for now ...i hope i didn't bore you and that you will read again soon.
This is only the beginning of my Big adventure and it's all happened in the past 3 yrs.
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