Weekly Praise and Prayer Requests

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Updated: October 13th, 2008

See Also: New Bus Prayer Request

Worship and praise and exalt and magnify the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, our God! All glory and honor and praise be to God for His perfect timing in answering these prayers!
Hope in our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who answers prayers in His perfect timing, in ways that maximize His glory! Please pray with us for these requests to God:
  • October 13, 2008. While in Texas, God provided a blessing of two subwoofer speakers, that give Jezreel a fuller sound! This was God's timing to answer this prayer request from 2007.
  • October 13, 2008. While in Dallas, TX, Norm needed three new tires for the bus. He was quoted $1,863 for the tires, but that was much more than Jezreel Ministries could afford. So, Norm explained to the tire company that Jezreel was a faith-based ministry and asked if there were used tires available. The next day, God worked through the tire man to provide the three tires to Jezreel for a total of $426 - tax, installation and labor included!
  • October 2, 2008. While in Longview, TX, we’ve had some surprising, wonderful blessings! One day, as Marlynn went outside and Tinkerbell went after Marlynn and Norm went after Tinkerbell, who ran in front of a truck. As Norm apologized to the driver, they talked for a few minutes about what we do. The man left, but returned 15 minutes later to ask if we were having electrical issues with our bus. When Norm said “yes,” he handed him a cheque for $500 and said God told him to give us that money to deal with our wiring issues (the only way he [a stranger] could have known was through God). A few days later, after a concert in the evening, a guy walked up to Jonathan outside the bus and said God told him to give away $100 to someone, but it didn’t work out for the person he intended, so he said he knew why – it was supposed to be for us!
  • October 2, 2008. Kolten Vike rejoined Jezreel as a vocalist and keyboard player!
  • August 30th, 2008. Since FIVE new band members joined Jezreel recently, we REALLY needed a trailer. God provided us with a trailer that perfectly fits our needs and in His perfect timing! Isn't God good! Praise God for this wonderful blessing and answer to our March 8, 2008 prayer request: "Now that we have new band members, pray for funds to purchase a trailer to attach to the bus, as we are running out of sleeping quarters, since some of the bunks are being use to store clothing. A trailer would greatly facilitate added storage space."
  • August 20th 2008. God provided be good weather for the outdoor Chinese student outreach in St. Paul, MN.
  • August 19th, 2008. God provided a new drummer to join Jezreel! His name is John Ans
  • August 15th, 2008. God provided a very smooth border crossing into the USA on August 15th!
  • August 2008. God provided a digital photo frame to use as a ministry tool on the Jezreel display table at events, to augment the current Jezreel display board. Such a digital photo frame needs to work with both batteries and electric outlet and allow photos to be loaded into the photo frame, for use. God also provided a video monitor for song word projection on stage.
  • July 2008. God provided wisdom regarding the February 19, 2008 prayer request whereby we needed funds to register the bus. And wisdom regarding the bus inspections (March 8th, 2008 prayer request).
  • June 4, 2008 God provided safety on roofs, as Jezreel worked to replace roofs on several houses
  • March and June, 2008. God healed our sicknesses: flu, colds, cough, chest, throat.
  • April 2008 From the Feb 17, 2008 prayer request, God raised up $1,600 to pay for airline tickets from Seattle to Denver as part of the trip to minister as praise and worship servants at the Josh McDowell event in Oklahoma in March.
  • March 23, 2008 God enabled us to cross the border from Canada into the US!
  • March 23, 2008. Erin's lung infection is much better! This is God's answer to the March 8th prayer request.
  • March 22, 2008. God enabled the bus power steering problem to be fixed. This is God's answer to the March 17th prayer request.
  • March 17, 2008. God enabled the bus compressor problem to be fixed.
  • March 8, 2008. After four years of prayer, God has provided for us a new lead guitar player: Lyndon Froese. He is 17 years old and has already joined the band.
  • February 26, 2008. God enabled the legal papers to go through and Norm was able to drive the bus across the border into Canada. This was how God answered our February 23 2008 prayer request: "Our legal papers for the bus are still sitting at the Canada/USA border until Monday at the earliest. Pray that they would go through and that Norm would be able to get our bus into Canada."
  • February 23, 2008. This is how God answered our February 19, 2008 prayer request "We will be crossing the border into Canada on Saturday, Feb 23rd, a change from our original Monday, Feb 18th planned crossing. See the February 18, 2008 blog entry. Pray for a smooth border crossing." After some scrambling around, Jocelynn Coty decided to drive us and all our equipment across the border to Aldergrove, BC in the GBC's bus.  She did not have her CDL (Airbrake's ticket), so it was a drive of faith!  And the 21st was the day God wanted us to cross; The border guard did not ask about her CDL (or even look at her license), didn't check our passports, and didn't even ask to see anyone in the back!  God slipped us right through, as Norm says, "Like butter on a hot knife."  So, here we are, back in Canada.
  • February 23, 2008. God SO blessed our stay in Bellingham WA. We stayed at the Coty's (the man and his family who owned the autoshop) for three nights, and had a wonderful time fellowshiping with them. On Wednesday night we played at their church (Grace Baptist) for a family concert. It was a wonderful night of fellowship, new friendships, and new bookings! Thursday morning we woke up and sensed that we had done what God had wanted us to do in Bellingham. We felt the release to leave the States. This is how God answered our Feb 19, 2008 request to pray for "whatever it is God has prepared for us here in Bellingham WA --for bookings, or for people He wants us to minister to"
  • Feb 16, 2008. The new CD final mixing in the studio went well.
  • Feb 16, 2008. God has enabled Jake and Andrew to adjust to life on a bus and find their individual roles in the ministry.
  • Feb 16, 2008. Erin, who's lung infection from late summer never left and was bad since mid-January, is much better.
  • Feb 16, 2008. God provided healing for Laura who had pulled a leg calf muscle.
  • Feb 16, 2008. When we had no money, God provided funds to fill the bus with diesel fuel, prior to crossing into Canada, where the fuel cost is significantly higher!
  • Feb 10, 2008. God provided two people to share the cost of the monthly $130 cell phone bill that we depend on year-round. The cell phone is a vital tool for the ministry: it is used to schedule events, ministry with people that we minister to; and to stay in touch with supporters of the ministry.
  • Feb 3, 2008. God provided safe travel to Washington state
  • January 30, 2008: God provided a quality digital camera, to replace the old Jezreel camera that took fuzzy pictures. We will now be able to post clearer photos on the website.
  • January 31st, 2008. God provided safe travel to Wyoming, Montana and Oregon through treacherous wind and snow conditions, through Montana, Idaho and Oregon.
  • God provided many anointed ministry opportunities at worship services, youth outreach and an adult rehabilitation center: in Wyoming (Guernsey, Torrington, and Lingle) and in Colorado (Denver, Westminster). See the January 2008 blog update.
  • God provided an opportunity to lead worship at youth group and Sunday services at Northhills Baptist Church in Lingle WY. The youth group was great. Lingle is a town of just over 500 people, and there were at least 40 youth that night! We also had the amazing priviledge of leading two teenage girls to Christ.
  • January 2008. God provided an opportunity for us to lead worship and for Norm to preach for the first time at Set Free Church in Denver. That was an annointed service. We were able to minister in the heart of Denver, and to see what God is doing through the servants of Set Free.
  • January 2008: God led Andrew Flieder and Jake Smolders to join the Jezreel ministry team in God's perfect timing.
  • January 23rd, 2008. At the Denver Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center, the Holy Spirit worked powerfully in the lives of 25 or 30 men and women that came forward for either first time commitments to Christ or recommitments to Christ.
  • January 23rd, 2008. God provided a battery charger for the bus, for use when the bus battery becomes uncharged when inside lights are left on accidentally.
  • God provided safe travel for Norm as he flew to Seattle on December 3rd to work on mixing the new CD.
  • God provided safe travel to Colorado on December 2nd and 3rd.
  • December 1st. God worked through a believer at a church in Texas to provide for repair of the bus (which would not start this morning): a top-of-the-line starter, new batteries and new tail lights so we can drive at night! God enabled us to work eight hours to repair the bus, drive to Lancaster TX and then setup for the December 2nd worship services. Hope in God! God was definitely magnified and glorified during this bus breakdown!
  • God brought us safely to Texas.
  • God enabled Lanie (whom Jezreel was staying with in TX) to recover from her illness along with the rest of Jezreel.
  • At the Tuscon Salvation Army Adult RecoveryCenter (ARC), God was so present in our evening chapel there. The room was packed with men who know they're sinful, and love God with every fiber of their being because of what He's saved them from. It's an awesome thing to see grown men weeping and yelling "I am free" at the top of their lungs. They have a childlike faith, absolute adoration of God, and genuine humilty. An altar call brought more than 3/4 of the men forward, so that they filled the front of the building and lay kneeling all down the center isle. It's impossible to explain the feeling of watching God work that night, but we were challenged not to live in the "Christian box", and also to encourage other Christians to seek passionately after God.
  • God provided a very nice projector that we can use do powerpoint slides at venues that don't have a projector!
  • God brought us safely to Tuscon.
  • God enabled us to drive safely to Phoenix AZ, while escaping the nearby forest fires in California.
  • God worked powerfully at an outreach to homeless people in a downtown LA park.
  • See the Jezreel November 7, 2007 blog for many, many praises to God! God provided many ministry opportunities during bus breakdowns; ministry opportunities in LA; God's protection in downtown LA when we heard a series of gunshots; police were eveywhere and there was a helicopter circling with a searchlight. A murder had been within a block of us. God was definitely protecting us there.
  • God enabled us to safely drive to LA
  • God's hand at work was evident during the lot's of outreach that was done for His glory in Las Vegas.
  • Instead of providing a van-like vehicle to utilize for the group of 8 band members when ministering at various cities, God provide a newer bus that will sleep 12 people in bunk beds! The new bus is called "Incue". We call it our "God-bus" because it is so perfectly suited to what we need and so beyond what we ever expected. He is so good to us.
  • God provided spiritual fruit as a result of the ministry that took place at the Highland Baptist Spiritual Renewal weekend in Westminster, CO.
  • God enabled Daiton, Nathan, Jonathan, Norm, Erin, Shandell, Anna, Laura and Marlynn to finish recording their tracks in the recording studio. God answered the praryer for group dynamics while recording a new CD at Life Sounds Studio in WA. Aug. 30 - Sept. 10. It was hard, yet God provided strength, encouragement, perseverance, patience, in the midst of spiritual attack. God answered the prayer for the rehearsal time, for everyone to know their parts, good attitudes and against Satan's attacks. God answered the prayer for unity in Christ, inspired by God's word, and that we will sing and perform with joy in our hearts, for God's glory to be magnified through this CD.
  • God enabled the starter to be fixed on the old bus.
  • God provided safe travel to Colorado.
  • God enabled Norm's sinuses, numb right thumb and back to get better.
  • God showed great favor by enabling all the instrument tracks to be completed for the new CD.
  • God provided work and housing for Shandell and Nathan as they looked for work and housing in Fort St. John BC
  • God enabled Erin's lung infection to get better, however, keep praying for Erin's infection to totally be healed.
  • God enabled Shandell and Nathan to safely fly to Seattle and smoothly crossed the border.
  • God enabled the bus brakes to be repaired. The brakes had leaky wheel seals.
  • God showed great favor by enabling and empowering Kolten to lay down the drum track for all 12 songs for the new CD recording, at the studio, in only four hours! This is a process that normally takes a month, even for seasoned recording artists.
  • God enabled the replacement starter for the bus to arrive Tuesday August 28th and to be installed.
  • God provided powerfully for the Biker outreachs in WA state. There were 100 to 200 people in attendence at the truckstop rally. The Lord worked through Norm for powerful, Spirit-led preaching. The worship times were very good, too. To see a video of this event, navigate to Media > Video Clips > Worship Services > Washington > Truckstop Rally.
  • God enabled a smooth border crossing on August 14th into the United States!
  • God has carried us through various trials and is taking care of our needs.
  • God provided for safety during the recent roofing jobs.
  • God has enabled Marlynn to get back on track on her dieting.
  • God provided a laptop computer as a new ministry tool!
  • August 30th 2008 Prayer Update. Pray that God would bring glory to Himself with the perfect buyer for our old bus and trailer and that they would both sell soon. See the For Sale page. Please pass the word to others that the old bus and trailer are for sale. Thank you and God bless.
  • Pray for the music to come together with all the band member transitions
  • Pray for continued health, safe travels, unity, and passion for spreading the gospel.
  • We are trusting God to provide the remaining funds for the new bus so we can pay back the loan.
  • We are trusting God's financial provision for production of the new CD, which will cost about $3000 to duplicate the quantity needed.
  • Pray for the two teenage girls in Lingle WY that were led Christ in January 2008. Pray for them as they begin their walk with Jesus.
  • Pray for the ministry of Set Free Church in Denver, which deals with drug and alchohol rehabilitation, as well as discipleship and regular church services.
  • The new dynamics and adjustments that will be happening in the next couple months.
  • God's provision to purchase new microphones.
  • Pray for Ahmad, a Muslim, by birth, whom Norm was able to share Christ with, while we were in LA. He is not far from Christ.
  • Many Vegas youth that we ministered with would submit to Christ.
  • God's continued guidance and provision.
  • God's power in this ministry so the world may know his love.
  • The Holy Spirit to fill us as we bring the Word & Worship
  • God's provision for the van to be repaired when we return to BC.
  • Group brain-storming on new ideas for concert settings.
  • God to grant Marlynn His strength as she prayerfully books concerts and ministry opportunities for this fall and winter 2008.
  • God to provide wisdom and discernment regarding the future direction of Jezreel
  • God to help Nathan and Shandell adjust to a different way of living

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