On My Way Home ...

I find myself sitting in one of the many lounges at Dubai airport. Tired but filled with a deep joy over what God did this past week and a new fresh love for Jesus. What an amazing week we had in Sialkot, Pakistan. What God did, goes so much farther and deeper that what we can see on the surface. 

One angle takes us back a century in time: the sowing and reaping principle.

There have been many missionaries that have worked and some even shed their blood in Pakistan. My parents gave ten years of their lives for this nation. They never saw a great breakthrough but remained faithful to the call of God. Maybe they had days when they "were not sure", days when they wanted to give up - but they stayed the course. There are so many more missionaries with untold stories that sowed, plowed and some that harvested. 18 months ago one of them, Birgitta Almeby, was martyred for the Gospel, as she was shot to death outside her house. But we need to go back even further to the turn of the last century…

John Hyde, aka The Praying Hyde

I am thinking about John Hyde (aka The Praying Hyde). He was born in Illinois in 1865 and departed for the Indian Subcontinent in 1892. He spent the next 20 years in Punjab (modern day Pakistan and India). He was instrumental in establishing the annual Sialkot Conference () and was known to spend days in prayer at a time. His body took a harsh beating from all the time in prayer and fasting and his heart moved from the left side of his chest to his right and in 1912 he was severely ill and moved back to the US, where he died later that year.

The people of Sialkot still speak about The Praying Hyde. The time he spent in prayer is still bearing fruit. God chose times like this past week to bring a great harvest in the city of Sialkot. We had over 115,000 people gathered in three nights and over 35,000 people gave their lives to Jesus. Countless miracles took place as the power of God was demonstrated before, during and after the preaching. 

Rom 1:16 says that the GOSPEL IS THE POWER OF GOD. That is what we preach and will continue to preach. Nothing else!!

Preaching the gospel

Our mission is clear - take the GOSPEL to every people group that has not yet heard the message of the cross. We will continue taking the gospel around the world. We will continue to preach SALVATION, BAPTISM in water, HEALING, BAPTISM in fire and DELIVERANCE. There is no other life.

Deaf ears were opened!!

Delivered from evil spirits!!

Salvation!!

We are to believe and pray. That is our task. However, when things seem to not go as we had planned it is very easy to get frustrated and in doing so we loose our focus. GOD IS IN CONTROL. 

This time our portable festival equipment never made it on the vessel that was to move it from Africa to Asia. Somehow, in the midst of everything, I found myself with perfect peace. We ended up having to rent all the gear locally and looking back, if our equipment had made it, we could not have completed the event. The authorities forced us to lower the volume and we had to really think outside the box and with the rented gear that was possible.

C u soon!!

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Hi, my name is Peter Almqvist and I am a minister of help. I work with setting up large outdoor evangelistic festivals all around the world, primarily in Africa. Currently we are on what we are calling the African Capital City Tour, or ACCT for short. We preach the gospel to those that have not heard or have yet to respond. The cry of the lost has been heard and we are responding to their SOS.