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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