Dear Friends,
We are progressing well with the building. All the big contracts have been placed that are needed to meet all the outstanding requirements for the Prayer House to open. We hope to have our first official inspection in the summer.
It’s been nearly 7 years since we started building. The diggers arrived on 21 August 2017. We were so excited! Just a few months before that, we heard the Father say, “Now you can start building!”, and our journey to build the Prayer House began.
Now we’re coming to the end of a 7-year building cycle. When we look at the building now and remember what it was like back then, we can only wonder at the miracle of how He did it! Thank you, to all of you, who have partnered with Him in giving the finances! Although the building works will be complete in the summer, we still have a way to go, to furnish the house and finish everything.
The plot of land in 2017 compared with the same view today.
My Journal – what God is speaking about Auschwitz-Birkenau
When I asked Father what I should write in this newsletter, He kept emphasising the vision, “Tell people the destiny I have for Auschwitz-Birkenau. It will become a wellspring of life.” I had to look up the word “wellspring”. It’s another word for fountain, a source, something that is naturally flowing. So, it’s a source of life, a fountain of life.
He repeated it 3 times, “My purposes for Auschwitz-Birkenau will stand, it has been decreed in heaven, it will become a wellspring of life”.
He continued, “I am the resurrection and the Life. Everything that lives is connected to Me, it has a measure of My Life in it. Everything that is disconnected or separated from Me is dead and abides in death. Death is the absence of Me, My Life. I am Life, and I am resurrection Life. I bring Life from the dead. Whatever is connected to Me becomes alive, because wherever I am is Life.”
And again, He said, “Auschwitz-Birkenau will become a wellspring of Life, that is its destiny for that is what has been decreed in Heaven. I will make the waste places, the barren places, green. The land will flourish, it will be bursting with life. Rivers of living water will flow through it. It will be a wellspring of life that will water the desert all around it. What the enemy tried to destroy I will rebuild. I will build my Kingdom in this place. Auschwitz-Birkenau will become a wellspring of Life for the nations.”
It reminded me of the River of Life flowing out from under the temple in Ezekiel 47:
Then he brought me back to the entrance of the temple and there was water flowing out from under the threshold of the temple toward the east… (Ez. 47:1)
Then he said to me: “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the valley where it enters the Dead Sea. When it enters the sea, its waters are healed. And it shall be that every living thing that moves, wherever the river goes, will live. There will be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters go there; for they will be healed, and everything will live wherever the river goes.” (Ez. 47:8-9)
It was quite a “wow!” moment. Although we’ve known it for years, God was speaking directly into my heart. It’s to do with the next season. The Father was saying, “Get ready – it’s coming!”.
The role of the Prayer House in the new season
The other day, I woke up at 5am and my spirit was completely fired up! This was so unusual for me as it normally takes me ages to get going in the morning… But this day was different. I got another download from the Holy Spirit. Here’s what He said about the Prayer House:
- “It’s a watering hole in the desert, a fountain of living water,
- a Goshen in the land of Egypt,
- an outpost of Heaven, to get refreshed and receive new vision,
- a place to get anointed, healed, and equipped for the next season,
- a fortress in the Kingdom of Light, in the midst of darkness, untouchable by that darkness because the light is always on and increasing in its brightness,
- a government, an authority to establish Heaven on earth,
- a node in a network of nodes that I am establishing on the earth,
- an equipping centre for the Kingdom (of God),
- a filling station to get tanked up and go out to fulfil your next mission,
- a friendly Inn, where the light is always on,
- a place where death is crushed under the weight of the Kingdom (of God) and LIFE is released.”
And then I did something even more unusual! I was so full of zeal and Holy Spirit that I got up and by my words and action, I crushed death and the fear of death under my feet. It was glorious! Here is what Paul says about that in the book of Romans:
“I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil. And the God of Peace will soon crush Satan under your feet”. (Rom. 16:19-20)
This is a place of victory that Jesus wants for all of us!
Getting prepared and ready
At the beginning of 2024, I felt Holy Spirit say, “this is a year of acceleration”. And it’s been busy! Not just with contracts and people and groups, but also with a sense of urgency to get ready for the next season. For the past 2 to 3 years, God had been taking me through an intense process of cleansing. I explained a bit about this in a previous newsletter, where I described how I completely lost my voice for 8 months.
The reason we’ve been going through this cleansing and preparation process, is because Satan will use anything to get at us. He will use brokenness, trauma, sin, fear, generational iniquity, lies, wrong mindsets, witchcraft, you name it. But if we’ve dealt with these things in our lives and know who we are in Christ, and if we know how to deal with these things when they come up, there is very little he can do to us. The following verse is true, and it’s taken quite a while for me to believe that it’s possible:
“Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven”. (Luke 10:19-20)
I don’t think the process is completely over yet, but it’s been awesome to see how thorough and systematic God has been. Perhaps it’s not for everybody, but for us here, living next door to a death camp, it’s absolutely necessary!
Cathy’s just interrupted me… “In all of this, taking authority over serpents and scorpions, we emphasise that we do this when Holy Spirit initiates and it’s within our authority and mandate to do it. And as the last part of the verse above says, we rejoice that are names are written in the book life and our focus is always the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Thank you, Cathy!
A new start, a new website, a new name
We don’t know when things will start to shift. All we are hearing from the Lord is that we need to get ready. When a season changes, for example from Summer to Autumn, it doesn’t suddenly change in an instant. It normally takes a bit of time for the process to complete.
Here are some things we are doing to get ready:
- God said we should give a name to the Prayer House. He said we should call it the “House of Life”. Actually, it makes sense because Auschwitz-Birkenau is (or was) a house of death. A name also underscores identity, and from what we’ve shared earlier, House of Life describes perfectly what it is.
- We’re going to create a new website. We’ve already taken out a new domain for it, which is “thehouseoflife.org”. We’ll let you know when it’s up and running. Cathy is creating the website, and she’s already started. Although it’s a lot of work, it means that we don’t have to place a contract with a person or company and we should be able to make changes and updates easily.
- Funnily enough, at the start of the year, we heard Father say, to go through our house and clear out all the things we don’t need or use. It’s amazing how much stuff you can accumulate over the years! We’ve only done 3 rooms so far, but the message is clear. God is saying – get rid of the old stuff in your lives and make room for the new!
- We are doing everything we can to get the building finished and approved! The platform lift is up and running and last week the ventilation system was installed and it’s also up and running. It runs non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. So, now we have fresh air circulating around the building. We’ve placed orders for other things that are necessary, but we can only go as fast as we have the finances.
That brings me to the end of this letter. I hope I’ve communicated adequately what God is saying.