PATIENCE BRINGS RESULTS

Believers from every corner of the world began the day with praise and prayer, creating a beautiful atmosphere of gratitude at the Synagogue, Church of All Nations Thessaloniki, recognizing that each new day is a result of God’s boundless grace in our lives!

The message that followed by evangelist Katerina Otamere titled, “PATIENCE BRINGS RESULTS”, provided answers as to why it is so important to have the virtue of patience, as children of God. The evangelist began by analysing how, from the beginning of our lives, impatience rules our decisions, while everything in this life requires our patience. Even the answer to our prayer requires patience because God’s response is not for those in a hurry!

By reading from the book of 1 Samuel 13:8-14, “Then he waited seven days, according to the time set by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him. So Saul said, ‘Bring a burnt offering and peace offerings here to me.’ And he offered the burnt offering. […] ‘You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you. For now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever. But now your kingdom shall not continue. The Lord has sought for Himself a man after His own heart, and the Lord has commanded him to be commander over His people, because you have not kept what the Lord commanded you,’” the evangelist used the example of King Saul as a common example of human impatience, as she compared how, in the same way, most of us receive God’s silence as a denial of our requests and thus take matters into our own hands, instead of waiting for God’s time.

She added that as Christians, we are commanded to follow these small steps of faith with patience in Christ Jesus for there is no shortcut to spiritual maturity! Then she advised that we must not avoid the situation by using alternate solutions when God is trying to teach us patience. God often seems like He is taking a long time, based on our own time, and we rush into decisions that prove to be negative for our life. She encouraged the people of God to be patient by reassuring them that God’s silence is not a denial nor a rejection of their prayers and that even when God seems like he’s silent, he is still saying something!

Closing this insightful message, evangelist Katerina Otamere highlighted the dangers of impatience for the people of God, by saying that impatience is a tool that satan uses to lead us to the wrong tracks, wrong decisions, and wrong choices because when we are impatient for tomorrow, we will not be able to differentiate between God’s blessings and satan’s bait as we face some difficult circumstances. As children of God, we have been called to wait patiently for God’s time in everything that we are facing. God’s time is the best because in God’s time everything is beautiful.

GOD CHANGED HER LIFE 360 DEGREES

Jesus Christ never said goodbye, He is Αlive and continues to work and change the lives of people. Ms. Despina Christofi, in faith that someone, somewhere needs to hear her testimony to change their life, did not hesitate to share with the people of God very personal aspects of her life. God’s intervention in her life was so intense that she had to thank Him before the congregation.

Taking a journey into her past, she began the story of her life, describing how she grew up in a family with divorced parents. From when she was little, she remembers tension and fighting between them, which used to frighten her. As the years passed, all communication with her father gradually seized and she lived a financially comfortable life with her mother. She had even reached the point of becoming a “spoiled” child.

Later, in school, she and her friends used to have platonic relationships with boys through Facebook. That was something very common during that time, and very soon, this way of living led her into a serious 4-year relationship with the most popular boy in her school. The storm of jealousy and aggression that she received because of that boy, from the very people that she used to call her friends, made her change schools. Unfortunately for her, the rumors had already reached her new school and everyone used to looked down on her and thought of her as a person of low morality!

As if that was not enough, she would receive daily abuse from the person she had a relationship with for 4 years. She would speak to no one about the things that she was going through until she couldn’t take it anymore. She connected with her father and, after explaining everything to him, they went to the police together and filed a restraining order against him. After some time, she received a message from him and, ignoring all sense, she was convinced by him to be with him again, since she had no one else close to her. Unfortunately he treated her the same as before…

When she finally managed to escape that toxic relationship, her vulnerable psychological state and intense need to find the love that she lacked in her family environment, led her to yet another relationship, which she described as “paranoic”. Their relationship was not normal. One time, her then partner made her kneel down in front of other people to “punish” her, just because she forgot to bring some eggs along with them on an excursion. In another instance, he sprayed her with the garden hose and would not allow her to go home and change…

As a result of the bad treatment she was receiving from her peers, she ended up with a feeling of inferiority and would no longer believe in herself. Even though growing up she was an excellent student with goals and dreams for the future, everything changed. Her life was full of anxiety, she did not know what would happen next in her life and was full of fear. Every time she had an issue, even a simple headache, she used to think that she had a very serious problem and that it would mean the end of her life!

When she finished high school, she started hanging out with girls that had no moral compass. Following their example, she started smoking, drinking to the point of being unable to remember anything, she would come home late from the nightclubs that she used to party in, and was constantly having relationships with people of the opposite sex.

As she continued this lifestyle, she started feeling a big void inside that she could not cover, no matter how hard she tried. Tattoos, piercings, monthly hair color changes, healing, meditation, yoga, and other eastern culture and philosophy techniques, did not fill the void that she felt. In contrast, they made her worse. She started having mood swings and anger. When her mother wanted to get close to her, Ms. Christofi used to see her as her worst enemy. She would talk to her in a very bad manner, using many blasphemous words and her temper even made her physically aggressive. She also started experiencing sleep paralysis… While asleep, something would tell her to wake up, but it was beyond her power. She could not speak or move, which made her worried and scared. She felt trapped! This situation led her into having paranoid thoughts. She was thinking that she would end up in some psychiatric ward and she soon realised that something abnormal was going on.

Through a friend of hers, Ms. Christofi learned about the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica, and as she listened to the man of God’s sermons, she decided to move to Thessaloniki permanently! His words started to gradually fill the void of her soul. Next, as she would never miss a service, she would receive solutions to her problems, see big changes in herself, and the void she used to feel was replaced with the joy and the peace of the Lord.

She started seeing that there is a future for her and she started having dreams about her life again. The rejection, inferiority, and fear that she previously felt, disappeared, her relationship with her parents had been restored and she is now a whole new person, as she confessed!

Her advice is for everyone to seek Jesus Christ, for He is the solution to every problem. She joyfully promised that she will play her part so that He will always be praised through her life.

When God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which will continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed. God’s purpose for all of His children is for Him to be glorified through their lives.

THE DEMON ENTERED HIM THROUGH A WEBSITE

Mr. Devin Miles from the USA experienced salvation and redemption on Sunday, as he traveled from the USA to seek the face and power of God at the Synagogue, Church of All Nations Thessaloniki. Having experienced great darkness, he was certain that only God’s light could expose the darkness within him.

The prophetic word he received was highly revealing and gave important lessons to those present because it exposed another technique of destruction used by the devil. The touch he received from the man of God was indeed divine, as he felt an intense peace of mind, a relief and a force that controlled his body and pushed him to let go. Unable to control it, he fell down and freedom came at once! Shortly afterwards, the man of God said to him, “Brother, Jesus Christ has set you free! You should be careful of the websites you visit on the internet. One of the sites you entered was a demonic site and has possessed you! A demon entered you. It was a picture of a very ugly monster, something very strange. But that thing kept coming to your mind, you kept thinking about it, the picture has been following you, even in your dream you started seeing that thing. This was the spirit of darkness, of satan, because it was a satanic site, showing things about satanism. Be careful! The internet is a tool, but you must know how to use it. There is much information, but just as there are many good and useful things, there are also things that can destroy one’s life. You are now disconnected from it! You are free! Follow the way of Jesus Christ, read your Bible, pray, forget whatever your friends are doing! You have now seen both light and darkness. Which one do you want to choose?” Now a free man, Mr. Myles answered with determination, “I choose Jesus Christ!”.

Later, Mr. Myles confirmed the words of the man of God and shared his story, which was very revealing and a very good lesson for all young people and people of all ages. He started by saying that it all started when he was 19 years old and he started to wonder why there is evil in the world, if God truly exists. So he started questioning everything! At that time he had many problems, he had pains all over his body, because of the drugs he was taking from a very young age. More specifically he was addicted to drugs, marijuana, pills, alcohol, he was fired from his job and he felt that his life was too difficult. So he decided to focus more on spiritual matters in order to find some relief and solution. One day, under the influence of drugs, he visited a website that was satanic and taught people how to become satanists. Although he got involved on what the website presented for a very short time, it was enough to ruin his life…

This page presented the devil as the good father and Jesus Christ as the exact opposite. The page urged readers to initiation, using either their blood or saying a few words. The site also promised that if readers did what was instructed on the page, they could ask and get anything they wanted! He himself slowly began to follow the instructions on the page, after he began to meditate on satan and ask him for good health money and women! The message on the page was that if you start getting involved with this, you will not be able to get rid of it. So, before Mr. Myles fully understood it, he was already in the realm of darkness and it was clear that he could not escape so easily.

Wanting to give more precise details about how he was initiated, he said that one night, as he was lying on his bed, reading this page and having pains in his body, he said, “Satan, if you take my pain, if you give me money, women… You can have my sous!”. Soon after, an endless torment began which lasted 12 whole years!

His drug and alcohol addiction increased, he started to have a lot of fear and depression and suddenly those around him began rejecting him. He thought that everyone around him knew what he had done and were judging him… However, these thoughts, which had absolutely nothing to do with reality, led him to be diagnosed with schizophrenia. He would constantly have nightmares with demonic entities, see himself under water or in hell and various monsters.

Immersed in depression and despair, he was still searching for freedom. Some acquaintances of his advised him to return to God, but it was impossible for him, because he believed that Jesus Christ could no longer accept him. Even though he now felt remorseful, he was unable to do anything other than live the life the devil was now managing. His sleep was another area that was significantly affected, as every time he tried to fall asleep he felt someone hitting him and waking him up. When he would finally fall asleep again, he would see monsters, demons, himself under the sea, clowns engulfed in flames, goats and much more.

Violent anger was also a characteristic added to Mr. Myles after his visit to the site, as well as lust which increased too much and even if he met women he could not be satisfied. He also revealed that he once used this demonic power inside him to harm someone he thought was stealing from him! He went to a cemetery and, praying to satan, he cursed this man. Since then, he has been watching his life gradually deteriorate. Eventually, the cursed person was also initiated into satanism…

A life of disaster that began with a drug addiction at the age of 13, in the midst of sin and pain, was all Mr. Myles had to share. Mr. Myles did not stop seeking freedom and salvation and God Almighty led him to a living church where he received his complete freedom!

After the prayer line, he testified that he now feels joy, feels peace inside and stressed that the pains in his body have disappeared! Expressing his gratitude to his Lord, the One who gave him a new life, he promised to make the Word of God a standard for his life, to stay away from sin and to stay close to Him, serving Him for the rest of his life!

Always remember that whenever satan gives you something with his right hand, he takes from you something which your life depends on with his left hand. Be also aware that no matter how dirty you are, Jesus Christ can still cleanse you!

PROPHECY LIBERATES DRUG ADDICT AND RESTORES HIS DESTROYED LIFE!

Regardless of how serious the situation we are in is, no matter how much darkness each one has experienced in their life in their effort to fill the void of their soul, the answer and the solution was, is and will only be Jesus Christ! So, it is enough to put our problems in His hands and He is ready to bear every burden, to solve every problem and to put His peace in our hearts!

With this expectation, Mr. Boyan Mihalov from Bulgaria stood in the prayer line that took place on Sunday at the Synagogue, Church of All Nations Thessaloniki, and Jesus responded immediately! When the man of God approached him, he gave him the following prophetic word: “I see that you looking for something that will fill you, but nothing in this life fills you. You have tried everything, but you do not find joy anywhere. I have to tell you that Jesus Christ loves you and that He has a wonderful plan for you, for your life! What you are looking for to fill you is only in Jesus Christ! You should have been dead many times already, but at the last moment something would always happen and Jesus would help you! He was the one who saved you! The grace you had was up to here, up till this moment. When God takes His grace from upon us, we are already finished…”. Then, the man of God, commanding every chain that the devil used in the young man’s life to break, disconnected him from the darkness and set him free, in the name of Jesus Christ!

Later, Mr. Boyan confirmed the prophecy he received by giving details about his life, by shedding more light on what the man of God had told him. He explained that he was very unhappy, as his parents abandoned him when he was very young and, thus, he grew up in an orphanage and later in a boarding school. When he finally left the institutions, his life got worse! The people he hung out with went to clubs all night, used drugs, and as expected, he did the same. At the young age of 13, a classmate at his school recommended drugs which he started taking 4 times a day. Amphetamines, antidepressants, ecstasy, cocaine, various cigarettes were the substances he used to feel happy even for a moment… But the only thing the drugs did was to get him to drop out of school and later, he could not stabilise in any job, as he could never wake up on time for work.

Also, the drugs made him risk losing his life many times and he would be dead if God did not intervene to save him, just as the man of God told him. As he explained, one New Year’s Eve when he was in the apartment of a friend on the 7th floor, he wanted to end his life by jumping from that height. At the last moment, a voice inside him stopped him and so the fatal incident was avoided! Another time he was hit by a car, on another occasion a stone fell very close to his head while he was walking on the street! Finally, once again he was in danger of dying after taking an overdose of a drug cocktail… Immediately, he felt dizzy, had a headache and had a severe tachycardia. Everything indicated that he was going to die, but once again, God saved him. Daily drug use made him happy, however, this joy was not permanent. He had no interest in his life and future! As he confessed, he had started stealing at a young age, however, growing up he realised that this act was not right.

Peace could not come even in his dreams, since many times he would see himself arguing with people or seeing his girlfriend having relationships with other men. As his condition worsened, the girl he had been in a relationship with for three years abandoned him and this made him seek comfort various relationships… Until one night he had a dream that shook him. He saw his soul praying to come to the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica, as he did!

He is now a new creation and he testified that he is completely against the substances that ruined his life. After the prophetic word he received, happy and deeply grateful for what God did in his life, he shared that now he feels very well! Closing, he promised his Savior to always worship Him and to speak of Him and of all the miracles that took place in His life, so that other people might be helped.

The joy that this world offers is temporary and can never fill the void of the soul. But those who make God their source will see that He is Almighty and their joy will be permanent! Make God the source of your joy and this source will never dry out!

BITTERNESS AND UNFORGIVENESS WERE THE ROOT CAUSE OF HER SICKNESSES

Every Sunday, dozens of people visit the Synagogue, Church Of All Nations Thessalonica in order to receive a holy touch that will change their lives, through the man of God Harry. Mrs. Nyawade Mboya, a resident of the Netherlands, hence travelled many miles, so she can receive her own breakthrough, her own healing and blessing!

During the prayer line and while the Holy Spirit was guiding the man of God Harry, Mrs. Mboya felt an intense burning in her chest. Once he prayed for her, she felt her breathing quicken… Unable to control it any longer, she felt dizzy and fell on the floor. Right afterward, the man of God turned to her and said, “Allow the pain of the past to go. Do not keep bitterness in your heart because of what your family did to you. Forgive them and love them for Christ’s sake. If you do what I am saying, all this sickness will not come back to you. Many of this is a result of bitterness and unforgiveness in your heart, because of the pain. Whether they caused you pain or you caused pain to somebody, are we not all sinners? Hasn’t every one of us did something wrong? So, for Christ’s sake, I advise you to forgive and forget. Make peace with them because you do not talk.”

Surprised by the prophetic word she received, she gave thanks to God and confirmed His prophetic words. She mentioned that from a young age she used to hold bitterness in her heart towards people who had hurt and disappointed her without any particular reason whatsoever. The pain she felt made her unable to forget. On the one hand, she thought she was not keeping any bitterness towards them, yet she was always talking about the individuals who did her harm and she was complaining a lot!

The fact that people hurt her without a reason upset her so much that her doctor diagnosed her with a new sickness every week. Her health condition affected her job a lot since she is a geriatric nurse and this kind of profession requires a good physical condition. Hypertension, poor eyesight, skin diseases were only a few of her sicknesses, for which her doctor prescribed medication.

Furthermore, her relationship with her husband was not good! One time, she made the decision to fast for some days, and all of a sudden, her husband came home furious and asked her not to interfere in his life and stop what she was doing. Mrs. Mboya, equally angry at him, decided to call the police and report him, as she could not understand why he was acting this way. Hours later, he told her that he was not the one talking and that he never told her the things of which she was accusing him. This behaviour caused great frustration to her and the children, and eventually, the situation between them led them to divorce.

She realised that something was not right in her spiritual life because many strange things she could not comprehend were happening to her. Many times, she was seeing rats surrounding her in the natural, but she did not know what to do. Moreover, she felt small objects moving in her body and biting her. The one thing that was certain for her was that she needed to come even closer to God.

Now, she feels relieved, her chest pain and the fear of death are gone! She is joyful, ready to release forgiveness and forget. She knows what she has to do and her promise to God Almighty is to always serve Him, love Him more and seek to always be in His Presence!

How wonderful it is to see lives changed, how wonderful it is to see the children of God being empowered in the spirit! You will receive in a moment what you have been seeking for years, the moment you let go of offence in your heart!

The pictures below illustrate the power of God that delivers, heals and blesses, breaking every chain through the anointed prayer of the man of God Harry, and opening the way of salvation to those who came to Jesus Christ in faith.