It was May 17, 2008. The location was Schleyerhalle, Stuttgardt, Germany. There I was standing on the same stage of Benny Hinn and his ministry team. He had just called for all pastors and preachers to come for an impartation. Hundreds had ran to the stage waiting in que just to receive a touch by this man of God, Benny Hinn. I was able to squeeze through the crowd and find a good position. I waited and waited. Pastor Benny was imparting four at a time. Two on one side and then two on the other. People were dropping like flies from the power of God and then being picked right back up.
I have received impartations by Rodney Howard-Browne, Todd Bentley, David Tomberlin, and other not so well known preachers who were also very anointed. All these were very special and very powerful. But I can honestly say that I have never before nor since ever felt such a powerful prescence of God as I felt standing there on that stage with Benny Hinn in Stuttgardt, Germany, May 17 2008.
Prior to that conference my wife and I had been through a some difficult season here in Finland. We had a few dissappointments, as well as having a child and one on the way which were a blessing but nonetheless more responsibility, more demands, more change and adjustment. In addition we were seeking God for direction for the next season in our life. It was a bit of a dry season and we had been very much looking forward to the Benny Hinn Crusade. I had never before been to any of his meetings but God was using him to bring me deeper and closer to Him. I had read “Good Morning Holy Spirit”, as well as “The Anointing.” Those two books gave me deeper revelation of the Holy Spirit and The Anointing.
And so after waiting my turn, there I was standing on the very same stage of Benny Hinn. I looked out and there I saw thousands of people. I stood there, barely able to stand. The power of God was so strong. The prescence of God was so strong. The anointing was so strong. I had never felt such a strong anointing in my entire life. I had been in many anointed services before but nothing like this. The closest thing I could compare to was when I was in Toronto in the fall of 2004. There was definitely a strong prescence of the Lord there. But this, this was something else, it was different.
Then it happened, the ushers took me forward with another person to Pastor Benny Hinn. Two more people on the other side fell down under the power of God and then he turned and walked over to us. He put his hands on our heads and said something (I don’t remember what he said) and the power of God knocked us to the ground. There was no courtesy dropping going on here. It hit me like a Mack truck.
Like I said before, I have felt and experienced the power of God many times before for many years before, but this was something else. It was strong that I could feel it even before I walked on the stage. It was like a fire and the closer you got to it the hotter it got.
Since that day God has begun opening doors and giving us new vision and passion. God has given our ministry a new name with Kingdom Glory Ministries. We have purchased a complete sound system that we plan to use for outreaches. God has blessed us with a new website, new friends and new ministry contacts. God has done a deeper work in our hearts and continues to prepare us the coming might outpouring of His Spirit. To God be the Glory!
There is something that when you get into the glory of God, you realize that everything else you were trying to do was just preparation. The breakthrough comes when the anointing comes. Without it there is no breakthrough. I decided something ever since that day. I will commit the rest of my life to the anointing, the power, and the glory of God.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” – Isaiah 10:27
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