JAPAN? How could it be? This is my personal testimony about how God took me to Japan. I wanna share this because I want everyone to know how great is our God! It’s started in 1997. I like to watch Japanese movies and dorama. Many positive things I could learn from there. I love when they said the word “Ganbatte Ne!” I think it’s a powerful word! When they say to people it’s just encouraging them. It’s like believing in yourself, you can do it! Do your best! And that’s true! From their collapse, they can rise again and get their power back. But... I saw they just lean on their own understanding and their own strength. NO GOD! I was so sad to know that. Because I remember in the bible that said: “"Cursed [is] the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. Jeremiah 17:5” That’s why from 1997 – 2007 I always pray so that all Japanese may know Jesus, and have their personal experience with God. I bought Japan Map and put it on the wall of my own room. Every day I lay my hands on the map and I pray for Japan. Because I have fallen in love with Japan, and I do really want all of Japan covered by the blood of Jesus. Sometimes I was thinking, “why japan? Why not the other country?” But I learn to obey God’s voice and keep praying for Japan. And then... on April 2007, God allowed me to be sick and was dying. So I start to pray... “God, if this is Your time to take me to heaven, I still have 1 (one) request for You. If it’s true that You love japan, and that You are the one who gives me a passion for japan, please give me a chance to step into japan. So that all the places in japan where I step my feet on it, covered by the blood of Jesus, and all the people who are walking on that place be healed and know Jesus. If You allow me to go to japan, anytime You call me home (Rest In Peace), I’m ready. In the name of Jesus, I pray... amen.” GOD IS SO AWESOME!!! As soon as I said “amen”... someone came over to me, and said, “Hey Arnie, He told me that you wanna go to japan? Pray again, ask God, when He wants you to go, I will prepare all the money for you.” Wow! I was so surprised... and everything by God’s grace... going well.... and finally, I was there in Japan from October 2007 – January 2008. October 2007 – January 2008 Finally, I was in Japan. I did prayer walking. And I was with my great new friends from Youth With A Mission (YWAM) – Hawaii. Together we did prayer walking in Osaka. And we also did prayer walking around AMEMURA. Praise the Lord! Some people open their hearts and received Jesus and got healed and also baptized! God is sooooooooo amazing... And so many many miracles that God did to us and to all the new believers. God also took me to Tokyo in His Miraculous way for a Countdown 2008 in Tokyo. I was with Pastor Abe-san and her wife ‘Naomi san’, their little baby ‘Israel chan’, and also with Daisuke (a Japanese singer). We were in the same car on the way to Tokyo. God is soooooooooo amazing.... God knows that I really wanna see snow. Because here in Indonesia we don’t have SNOW. And what a surprise! There, in Tokyo, God allowed me to meet and know new friends: Akane Kobayashi san (girl) and Yosi Hara kun (boy) who took me to see the snow and slide on the snow in Fuji Ten. WOW! What a miracle! Fujiten Snow Resort
The resort extends over the foot of Mt. Fuji Not just that, God allowed me to meet Atsuko Megumi san who is the reporter for Japan Revival Times (www.revival.co.jp )and then I got interviewed and the newspaper published in Japan. WOW! There’s a picture of me in that newspaper when I was singing a worship song as a Worship Leader at Izumi Kirisuto Eikou Kyoukai God is so amazing, I remember this song: "And now... let the weak say I am strong.... and let the poor say I am rich... because of what the Lord has done.... for us.... give thanks...“ OBEY GOD! STEP IN FAITH! OUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THAT WE NEED EVERYTHING!” One last important thing: I’m totally healed by the Holy Spirit when I keep singing praises to God in Japan. Praise the Lord!!! GOD HAS A PERFECT TIMING FOR EVERYTHING. LEARN TO WAIT ON HIM. THIS BRINGS HIM HONOR, AND IT BRINGS YOU PEACE. (PSALM 27:14)
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