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TRANSFORMATION / FORVANDLING
Rhonda Mathisen, pigenavn Rhonda Hughey, bor i Norge og deres tjeneste hedder Fusion Ministries / Fusion Norway.
"...... og hvis mit folk da ydmyger sig i bøn, søger mig og vender sig fra deres onde handlinger, da vil jeg høre deres bøn i Himlen, tilgive deres synder og genoprette deres land."
2. Krønikebog 7:14 BDAN
Rhonda Mathisen, maiden name Rhonda Hughey, lives in Norway and their ministry is called Fusion Ministries/Fusion Norway.
".....And My people, who are called by My Name, humble themselves, and pray and seek (crave, require as a necessity) My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear [them] from heaven, and forgive their sin and heal their land."
2 Chronicles 7:14 AMP
We have made a transcript of a part of Rhonda Mathisen's teaching from 2 places on the earth, where people prayed and sought God and then HE stepped in and brought tremendous change in those communities. She is referring to Fiji, and also to Guatemala. She is talking about how the situation came to be and what it looked like back in 1999!
Here is a transcript in English. Please scroll down for a translation to danish.
And in 1999 I visited Guatemala. And when we drove into this community I came under a canopy of the presence of God, and it felt just like the revival conference in Argentina. The presence of the Lord was there. But it wasn't the power it was a sweetness, divine sentiment and a joy that I had never felt before, but what was confusing for me, I was outside in the streets of this community. There was no conference, there was no worship, there is no meeting of any kind, just families walking down the street. So, I started looking around me and everybody I saw you could see the glory of the Lord on their faces, and every shop and business was named after one of the names of God. Jehovah Jirah Bakery, Jehovah Nissi Toyota. You know, they had renamed everything in town after the Lord. That's actually in Scripture. Ezekiel says in that day it will be called my or the Lord is there. The atmosphere was filled with the presence of the Lord and you could hear worship all over the city.
And I thought in my spirit, or, I had a revelation. I thought oh, this is what God has in mind. Not ongoing revival conferences where He visits for a weekend, but a lifestyle in a community. Well, he doesn't just visit us, but he stays. The revival in Almolonga happened 10 years before I got there. I'm not going to tell you the whole story. But it was a real confrontation. There was one large Catholic church and any evangelical that came in was literally stoned and ran out of town. There it was filled with poverty, idolatry, domestic abuse, a lot of violence. There were five jails, and they were over running all the time. People were laying drunk in the streets, there was garbage everywhere. families were destroyed and the land was barren. And people started to pray, and The Lord started to come and there was a lot of confrontation between light and darkness. But within a couple of years 92% of the community gave their hearts to Jesus. Amen. Every jail was closed.
By the way, leading people to Jesus is a really good crime prevention strategy. In the nation of Fiji, they made Jesus their crime prevention strategy, because they noticed when they sent criminals to prison, not only did they come back out, but they came out worse. They learn more bad things in prison, and they came out worse than they were before. But they realized very few born again Christians were committing robbery and murder and things like that. Doesn't that make sense? We met with the national commander of the police department, and they were explaining their strategy. The police department in every province of Fiji started partnering with the local church, holding evangelistic crusades, marching to the streets, in their uniforms, worshipping Jesus, having a campaign, and evangelizing the community. Their crime rate dropped 30% in a couple of weeks. It's incredible.
Let's go back to Guatemala. So, the Lord saved 92% of the people. All the jails were closed. The Lord healed the families. But then he did something else that nobody had seen before. He healed their land. Now that's actually all through Scripture that we read it. As Westerners we don't pay attention to it. But in Second Chronicles 7:14 that's the prescription for transformation."If my people will humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and repent for their wicked ways", then I am going to do something The Lord says. The promise is, I will hear you, I will forgive you ever been here and I will - what? Heal your land. And I never knew what that meant. I thought it meant The land of my heart.
But in 1999 we saw what God meant by that. He started supernaturally transforming all of the vegetables. Their productivity increased 1,000%. Go to our website or our Facebook page you'll see.. I'm starting to post photos, because it really is hard to believe; you have to see it. There is a picture from Fiji on our Facebook page I think. The lettuce is this big around (holds her arms out in a circle). The carrots in Almolonga are this big around (makes a circle by setting her index fingers and thumbs together) and that long. They weigh about three kilos. And do you know how long they last?
We were bringing them home to the United States all the time. It was so funny we got to the Houston Airport, and we'd be sneaking in all of these supernatural vegetables. The security guys that open our suitcases, they see the carrots, and they say Oh have you been in Guatemala? Go ahead!
I brought a carrot home one year. It lasted for five months, it never got old, it never died, it never got old at all. But a friend of mine juiced it and killed it, that's what happened. He wanted to juice it so bad, and I said Don't you touch that carrot. Because I was bringing it to cities. It’s so funny – here is what I did in Chicago. I was meeting with a lot of pastors in Chicago, and I showed them an American carrot. And I said they are not as nice as yours. It was about this big around (makes a circle with thumb and index finger), and after a week they get rubbery you know, they get the white stringy stuff on them. So, you know they last about a week, maybe two.
So, I asked him a very simple question. Is this a carrot? Yes. Is this God's idea of a normal carrot? They looked at me kind of funny, and I brought out this carrot from Guatemala up from underneath the table and then something hit the room. People started laughing their heads off. Because your eyes are looking and they're telling you that's a carrot, but your brain says no that can't be a carrot. But here's the question: What did God create? Really, what do we have now? Is that the best God did? Or are we living in the effects of the fall? Romans 8 “Creation is groaning under the weight of sin”. When it gets free, not only free, it gets really free. And then we know what redemption looks like. It's glorious. People in this community are rarely sick. This pastor has a congregation of 1000 members. He said they prayed for one or two sick people every month.
I mean, it's just amazing what God's done there. There's documentaries, it's all over the internet. My point is until Jesus comes to our community; we don't know what normal is.
Og i 1999 besøgte jeg Guatemala. Og da vi kørte ind i dette samfund, kom jeg under en baldakin af Guds nærvær, og det føltes ligesom vækkelseskonferencen i Argentina. Herrens nærhed var der. Men det var ikke den kraft, det var en sødme, en følelse af det guddommelige og en glæde, jeg aldrig havde følt før. Men hvad der var forvirrende for mig var, at jeg var udenfor, i gaderne i dette samfund. Der var ingen konference, der var ingen tilbedelse, der var intet møde af nogen art, bare familier der gik ned ad gaden. Så begyndte jeg at kigge rundt omkring mig, og på alle ansigter jeg så, kunne jeg se Herrens herlighed. Hver butik og virksomhed var navngivet efter et af Guds navne. Jehova Jirah Bageri, Jehova Nissi Toyota. De havde omdøbt alt i byen efter Herren. Det er faktisk i Skriften. Ezekiel siger, at på den dag, vil det blive kaldt min eller Herren er der. Atmosfæren var fyldt med Herrens nærhed, og man kunne høre tilbedelse over hele byen.
Og jeg tænkte i min ånd, nej, jeg havde en åbenbaring. Jeg tænkte åh, det er hvad Gud har i tankerne. Ingen igangværende vækkelseskonferencer, hvor han kommer på besøg for en weekend, men en livsstil i et samfund. Altså, han ikke bare besøger os, men han bliver. Vækkelsen i Almolonga skete 10 år før jeg kom der. Jeg vil ikke fortælle jer hele historien. Men det var en rigtig konfrontation. Der var en stor katolsk kirke og enhver evangelisk, der kom ind blev bogstavelig talt stenet og løb ud af byen. Det var fyldt med fattigdom, afgudsdyrkelse, vold i hjemmet, en masse vold. Der var fem fængsler, og de var overfyldt hele tiden. Folk lå beruset i gaderne, der var skrald overalt. Familier blev ødelagt, og jorden var gold. Og folk begyndte at bede, og Herren begyndte at komme, og der kom en masse konfrontation mellem lys og mørke. Men inden for et par år gav 92% af samfundet deres hjerter til Jesus. Alle fængsler blev lukket.
Forresten, at føre folk til Jesus er en rigtig god kriminalitetsforebyggelsesstrategi. I nationen Fiji gjorde de Jesus til deres kriminalitetsforebyggelsesstrategi, fordi de bemærkede, at når de sendte kriminelle i fængsel, kom de ikke blot ud igen, men de kom ud som værre forbrydere. De lærte flere dårlige ting i fængslet, og de kom ud værre end de var før. Men de indså, at meget få genfødte kristne begik røveri og mord og den slags. Giver det ikke mening? Vi mødtes med den nationale chef for politiet, og de forklarede deres strategi. Politiets afdeling i hver provins i Fiji begyndte et partnerskab med den lokale kirke med at holde evangelistiske (missionerende, oversætter anm.) korstog, de kom marcherende på gaden, i deres uniformer, de tilbeder Jesus, de har en kampagne, og evangeliserer (missionerer i, oversætter anm.) samfundet. Deres kriminalitet faldt med 30% i et par uger. Det er utroligt.
Lad os tage tilbage til Guatemala. Så Herren frelste 92% af folket. Alle fængslerne blev lukket. Herren helbredte familierne. Men så gjorde han noget andet, som ingen havde set før. Han helbredte deres jord. Det er faktisk noget vi kan læse gennem hele Skriften. Som vesterlændinge er vi ikke opmærksomme på det. Men i Anden Krønikebog 7:14 er opskriften for transformation. ”Hvis mit folk, som mit navn er nævnet over, så ydmyger sig og beder og søger mit ansigt og vender om fra deres onde veje” - så vil jeg gøre noget, siger Herren. Løftet er, ”da vil jeg høre dem fra himlen og tilgive deres synd.”, og jeg vil hvad? ”helbrede jeres land”. Og jeg vidste ikke, hvad det betød. Jeg troede, det betød mit hjertes land.
Men i 1999 så vi, hvad Gud mente med det. Han begyndte overnaturligt at forvandle alle grøntsager. Deres produktivitet steg 1.000%. Gå til vores hjemmeside eller vores Facebook-side, der kan du se.. Jeg er begyndt at indsætte billeder, fordi det er virkelig svært at tro, I er nødt til at se det. Der er et billede fra Fiji på vores Facebook-side tror jeg. Salaten er så stor i omkreds (holder armene ud i cirkel). Gulerødderne i Almolonga er så store (holder venstre og højre hånds tommel- og pegefinger sammen i en cirkel). De vejer omkring tre kilo. Og ved I, hvor længe de holder? Vi bragte dem hjem til USA hele tiden. Det var så sjovt, vi kom til Houston Lufthavn, og vi ville snige os ind med alle disse overnaturlige grøntsager. De sikkerhedsfolk, der åbner vores kuffert, ser gulerødderne og siger Åh, har I været i Guatemala? Bare gå videre!
Jeg bragte en gulerod med hjem et år. Den varede i fem måneder, den blev aldrig gammel, den døde aldrig, den blev aldrig gammel overhovedet. Men en af mine venner juiced den og dræbte den, det er hvad der skete. Han ønskede så meget at juice den, og jeg sagde Rør ikke den gulerod! For jeg tog den med til byerne. Det er så sjovt - her er hvad jeg gjorde i Chicago.
Jeg var til et møde med en masse præster i Chicago, og jeg viser dem en amerikansk gulerod. Jeg sagde, den ikke er så fin som jeres her. Den er så stor i omkreds (holder en hånds pege- og tommelfinger sammen i en lille cirkel), og efter en uge bliver de gummiagtige, som I ved, de får den hvide klistrede ting.
Så I ved, de holder omkring en uge, måske to. Så stillede jeg ham et meget simpelt spørgsmål. Er det en gulerod? Ja, det er rigtigt. Er dette Guds idé om en normal gulerod? De kiggede mærkeligt på mig, og jeg hentede denne gulerod fra Guatemala op fra under bordet, og så ramte noget rummet. Folk begyndte at le over hele hovedet. For dine øjne ser og fortæller dig - det er en gulerod, men din hjerne siger nej, det kan ikke være en gulerod. Men her er spørgsmålet: Hvad skabte Gud? Tænk rigtigt over det, er det den gulerod vi kender nu? - Er det det bedste Gud lavede? Eller lever vi i konsekvenserne af syndefaldet? Romerne 8 "Vi ved at hele skabningen endnu sukker og vånder sig sammen". Når der kommer frihed, er det ikke kun frihed, det bliver virkelig frihed. Og så ved vi, hvordan forløsning ser ud.
Det er herligt. Folk i dette samfund er sjældent syge Denne præst har en menighed på 1000 medlemmer. Han sagde, at de bad for et eller to syge mennesker hver måned.
Jeg mener, det er bare utroligt, hvad Gud har gjort der. Der er dokumentarer, det er over hele internettet. Min pointe er, at indtil Jesus kommer til vores samfund, ved vi ikke, hvad normalt er.
Kind regards, Daniela Skov & Lars Krøgholt