Acts 29 E-Book

Günther Kunstmann

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• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Deutsch

Seitenzahl: 144

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Ein Buch beschreibt in verständlicher Form, wie Jesus im Leben von Menschen Wunder tut. Und zwar heute noch! Erstaunliche Berichte, die begeistern und motivieren, zum Staunen und Hoffen bringen und den eigenen Glauben an Jesus neu entfachen. Persönliche Erlebnisse und Lebensveränderungen werden Mut machen, die eigenen Situationen in neuem Licht zu sehen und sie in der Kraft Jesu anzupacken und zu verändern. Fragen, Argumente, Hinderungsgründe für das übernatürliche Wirken Gottes werden ebenso beleuchtet, wie die einfache Erkenntnis und Aussage: JESUS ist nichts unmöglich!

Leseprobe

The exciting journey into the dimension of God

Reports about the works of Jesus today

Dedication

I dedicate this book to the three people, who have affected my life with Jesus the most: my parents and my wife Andra!

To my parents

They have given me a safe and happy childhood and introduced me to Jesus and faith early on. Because of them I got to know Jesus and the Word of God and I learned to love it.

They encouraged me again and again to go on with Jesus in his way. To still believe, even if I could not understand some things yet or did not know how to put them into practice.

Their own life became an example to me in so many areas. During my years as a child and a youth, they always tried to put blessings into my life and a healthy awareness of the fact that Jesus loves me, that HE is always there for me and that my life has an importance and a calling. This awareness already showed up in an early class test, which I finished with the words:

“Through grace I am what I am.”

It is such a huge present of God to have You as my parents.

Thank You very much for everything You have invested into my life.

Thanks for all the prayers, advice, support, warnings and tears for me and because of me.

The Lord Jesus, our mutual savior, richly bless you and offer you a lot more happy years. Your reward in heaven will be big.

Thank You very much, I love You!

To Andra,

the love of my life!

God brought us together, so that we would go through life together, grow with each other and with HIM. To discover faith in previously unknown dimensions, to serve God and the people and to win a lot of souls for Jesus, setting them on fire for HIM.

Thank you for your patience and support, when I did not understand some things, did not want to understand or rushed ahead.

Thanks for all your prayers that accompanied me in my job as a policeman, during my daily life and my spiritual ministry. Thank you for more than 34 years of marriage now with increasing love and joy for each other.

Thanks for all our journeys and adventures with Jesus,

I know it was not always easy for you with me.

You are a wonderful woman: strong, direct, a visionary and with strengthening faith.

Thank you for encouragement and support for this, my very first book. Somehow I have the suspicion that it will not be the last one.

My darling – I love you from the bottom of my heart!

Preface

In this book I will tell you something about my life. Just a normal life.

It is not a theological study or classical teaching book, but a personal testimony.

For that reason, I tell it as I have experienced it.

I will tell you how God managed to make me an active coworker by his side. There were obstacles and blockages, but more and more victories became visible, as well.

I will tell you how I personally experienced healing, and how my wife and I got to pray for people worldwide, with amazing results.

Today we experience more and more miracles in the area of healing and God stepping in, so we want to spread this all around and explain it to the people for God to be honored.

All the reports told in this book have been personally experienced by us. We just left out the names for the people's privacy. That is why we only mention the gender and possibly the age at the time of healing.

If no other locations are mentioned, all the healings and incidents happened in the Jesus Gemeinde, Bamberg/Germany.

Under the headline “Report”, Andra and I will tell you about the healing and miracles we experienced without mentioning unnecessary details.

When the word “Pastor” (or “wife of the Pastor”) is used in a report, it is talking about my wife and me as the Pastors and leaders of the Jesus Gemeinde Bamberg.

Individual’s reports are told from the first-person-perspective, because they were described like that to us.

I am writing this book because I am excited about Jesus again and again. And also about the things Jesus is still doing today, because I recognized that we don’t get to hear about them often enough.

I am writing it because I am thankful that Jesus has lead me into the dimension of supernatural works. The things I had thought to be impossible years ago, are happening more and more in our life and through our ministry now.

To Jesus be all thanks and all honor! It is about HIM, not about me. Jesus is the savior, healer and the rescuer, not I.

I can and want to display his great works and his wonders.

We show the people who do not know Jesus yet, that HE loves them, that he is interested in them and also demonstrates that. We want to help them to come into a relationship with Jesus, setting them free, so that they can receive forgiveness and that their lives will get new meaning, help and strength. A life for eternity. A life here on earth with the possibility of experiencing this help and supernatural power themselves and also to give it to others.

I tell you: Jesus is so amazing; it will blow you away!

We want to encourage and challenge Christians to reflect on the conviction of their faith by means of the Bible and to ask and allow the Holy Spirit to lead them into new dimensions.

So that they are or become followers of Jesus who touch their surrounding with the Word of God and his power, who do signs and wonders to honor the heavenly Father, the almighty God, and to represent HIM in a way that is worth of HIM.

Because that is

what you and I

are born for

and called to!

Let's go

Auf geht's – Pack mer's

Vamonos

Günther and Andra Kunstmann

Bamberg, 2015

Table of contents

Dedication

Preface

It all started with hay fever

The sun will not harm you by day

Healing report Part I

“Prayer for healing”?

Healing report Part II

Demons flee

Reports of liberation

Unknown and silence

Healing report Part III

The Great Commission

Healing report Part IV

Amazing development

Do you know Jesus?

And everything comes different at once

Epilogue

It all started with hay fever

A dreadful discovery

You are around 30 years old, are thankful and happy that you have a strong, physical condition, you are making plans, you are ready to conquer the world and strong enough to pull out trees.

Who or whatever should be able to stop you?

And then my view of the world like this was completely turned upside down because of one incident:

Hay fever because of the grass pollen season!

The realization of this hit me like a ton of bricks, because I could not explain where it suddenly came from. I had never had an allergy before, I loved the scent of grass and hay, helped when the hay was reaped and I was feeling really good doing that. For me personally, spring time was one of the most beautiful times of the year.

Suddenly everything was different!

Burning, itching, swollen eyes; a scratching throat; a nose that kept running like a waterfall and no chance of healing. Medicine could only relieve it a bit.

So welcome to the club of the allergy sufferer!

This was a shattering prediction for my future.

Every year the time of the grass pollen season was horrific for me.

14 days’ sick, spending time in a dark bedroom with the windows closed, eyes covered with Chamomile wet wipes – yeah great!)

Yearning for the pollen season to be over, so I could go out again. Into nature, back to my job, activities, friends and outings.

The mood at home with my wife was quite strained, tense, irritable during these 14 days – not what I had thought of as spring time.

You can surely imagine that in my head my thoughts were spinning around like in a merry-go-round. I knew plenty of people with various allergies and that they did not manage to get free from it, but had to get used to it their whole life.

Sometimes it was so bad that I wanted to live at the North Pole because the grass pollen didn’t exist there. But then I realized that except for ice and snow nothing else existed there either! And so even that was no real alternative.

During this “time of suffering” this terrifying future was painted as clear as possible into my thoughts. I could twist and turn it, I did not see another solution other than to ask God to help me.

I knew: if anybody had a solution for my problem, then it was HIM!

“God is good” - uhm, excuse me?

As a child I grew up in a family with parents who frequently and joyfully went to a protestant independent church, and who loved Jesus Christ, God the Father and the Word of God with all their hearts. I went with them since my earliest childhood, it was absolutely normal for me to go to church and I happily grew up with it.

In early years (at the age of 13) I gave my life to Jesus. So prayers, promises of God and answered prayers were not strange to me. The church and faith were my usual surrounding. The Word of God gave me power and direction, especially during puberty. Till this day I am thankful to my parents, my brothers and sisters in faith and the church at that time for having taught me the “way of the LORD” and to have accompanied me. It helped me go through life quite stable.

Nevertheless, my way was not always straight and in my life I had done plenty of wrong things that made repentance, turning back and forgiveness necessary. Thank God, HE always forgave me and most of the people did too.

It was crystal-clear to me that God could heal.

Logical – HE was God and not just anyone. My conviction was that HE could do and not do whatever HE wanted to. Still, HE would be just in all these things. At least, that was a bit of consolation. This was how I had been taught. Of course I was praying for healing very intensively but it hardly changed anything. I thought “Well, then you will probably have to settle for that, maybe God does not want to heal you. Only others. It will be good for something somehow.”

But I did not know for what it would be good for and I realized, that deep inside of me there was already a kind of inquiry to God - “and YOU are a good God?”

I did not want to question God but this little voice inside of me was not silenced.

This made me run into trouble because on the one hand I absolutely knew:

God is good

he loves me from the bottom of his heart

he has good plans and intentions for my life

I can always trust HIM

he has given his son Jesus for me to be rescued

the Bible is full of healing wonders and promises

HE is almighty and very often we cannot understand him just with our brain

the Word of God is for me and it is very practical

…

but on the other hand I did not understand God and I wondered,

what about the whole thing

why me (I mean, I was his child)

I was trusting HIM

what did HE want to show or teach me by that

why his Word did not work when I was praying

and many more questions.

In the end I had to come to terms with it; I did it, had no solution, surrendered to my destiny – but I was not really happy with it.

An incredible realization

There are reports in the Bible you call the

Baptism into the Holy Spirit

or the

Infilling of the Holy Spirit

and which is available for all believers who have consciously invited and received Jesus as their Savior and Messiah and who live with HIM.

It does not come automatically but should be asked or prayed for!

So let's look at three scriptures.

So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts

to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father

gives the Holy Spirit to those who ask him.

Luke 11:13

Then Peter and John laid their hands upon

these believers, and they received the Holy Spirit.

Acts 8:15

On the day of Pentecost all the believers were

meeting together in one place.

Suddenly, there was a sound from heaven

like the roaring of a mighty windstorm,

and it filled the house where

they were sitting.

Then, what looked like flames or tongues

of fire appeared and settled on each of them.

And everyone present was filled

with the Holy Spirit and

began speaking in other languages,

as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability.

Acts 2:1-4

One day I got to receive this experience and it changed everything!

I will not explain how exactly I came to be baptized in the Holy Spirit - how it happened and what the first effects in my life were. That is another story that I may tell you at another point in time.

In any case, the infilling of the Holy Spirit always has to do something with new realizations too. Things you could not see or did not know before, are suddenly clear and understandable. It was the same with me.

When the Spirit of truth comes,

he will guide you into all truth.

He will not speak on his own but will tell you

what he has heard. He will tell you about the future.

John 16:13

Suddenly I knew that the truths of the Word of God, the promises and statements about what Jesus has done and expensively bought at the cross for us – so also for me (!) - were available for me. Jesus had done it for me! But I had no idea how to deal with that realization, let alone how to bring it into my life.

I started to pray and to ask Jesus to explain that to me, otherwise this realization would have been just for nothing! And HE did explain!

As an explanation I would like to mention that I did not start hearing voices or go into a trance somehow. But thoughts inside me recognized connections and understood what the Word of God expresses with certain scriptures, what it really means.

Sometimes there were these sudden thoughts I was wondering about, like “So where does this come from at once?”

Or it was like a dialogue on the inside. Very often it almost felt like suddenly I was right beside Jesus in a biblical report, experiencing everything as close as possible.

These thoughts and perceptions were connected with a big excitement, joy and expectation. Suddenly I knew what it meant to talk to God and also to get a reply.

I mean, I do know myself so I also know what and how I think. This kind of dialogue and these thoughts were new to me and were absolutely great. I knew this was God talking with me and inside me.

The infilling of the Holy Spirit had not really been taught in my church of the time. Speaking in other tongues, power effects, signs and wonders were known from the Bible (of course – it's written there in black and white) but there were plenty of people explaining why all these things were not for today or why it was not necessary. But there was also the occasional person I knew who had already had this experience with the Holy Spirit but they still seemed “exotic” in my eyes and a bit suspect.

So this experience with the Holy Spirit was the beginning of my journey in faith with Jesus, full of adventures, and it has changed my whole life.

First Steps

The first thing, God made clear to me, was as simple as:

“Have faith in my word and its power will be released!”

I said to HIM: “Since my earliest childhood I believed your word and have known a lot about it.”

HE replied (in the described way): “Yes, you know a lot, still you do not really believe in most of the things but just say yes to everything. You think this is faith but it is not. Faith or to believe means trusting in the One, who once said it and act like it has already happened.”

This was like a cold shower for me. And the same moment I knew: “HE is right!”

In a lot of situations, I did not act like God's Word wanted me to, I was a “Reichsbedenkenträger” (German, impossible to translate: a person who always doubts everything), I was searching for reasons in his word, that justified my behavior or doing nothing. I liked to take on so called faith statements such as “that’s not for today” or “you can’t know what God will do, you can’t expect that from God” or “come on, you can’t tell God what to do!”, “better not get too extreme” and much more. Or I just had not got anything.