Succoth 2011 in EHOP

Wednesday 12 October we prepared the Succa for the celebration week. Poor us, we had Dutch rain drops that day instead of Israel’s blue skies….The major reason we choose to build a Succa with canvas and not only green branches. We erected the Succa next to the EHOP building and used it mainly to lunch and have tea & coffee…

Organising Succoth was exciting! We planned to only use the new EHOP building as accommodation for worship & intercession, seminars and devotionals. The maximum number of people EHOP can contain is around 45 persons. We had no idea how many people would show up:) God is so perfect in planning! He spread our visitors over the seven days Succoth. Everyday was visited by 20 to 25 people and the whole group was replaced every 2 days. We never had to dismiss anyone and the times together were ‘in the flow’.

The cool thing was to sense that God brought people together with a specific purpose. One day we had intercession time and the subject moved to praying for the calling out of Holland from the European Union. Europe as the revived Roman Empire was limited in The Netherlands by the Rein River, so we pressed in that God would recover this spiritual wall against the influences of Europa. Turned out that one of our visitors for (only) that day was a researcher who dove deep in to the historical facts concerning this river and her spiritual meaning for this time. He gave a ‘briefing’ of what he knew and helped us to pray more specific and with more faith!
Another day we went praying on a hill close by Zelhem. From that place you have an overview of ‘De Achterhoek’. This is the area where EHOP is located. This area is known for witchcraft and liberalism. We worshipped Jesus on this high place and took time to bind the plans of the enemy and release the purposes of God on this geographical area.

We could sense that there was joy and breakthrough in the heavenly realm and that change is on the way! We are expectant for the near future:)

Another highlight was the last evening of the feast. God spoke that day of a release of living waters. We felt Jesus inviting again as He did in John 7: “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.” This is so profound, but yet so powerful: drinking of Jesus! The good thing is, when we drink His water, He turns in in to wine the whole time. Together with our guest we drunk, and laughed, and fell, and danced:) Great way to end a party that God ordained!

We look back on intimate worship, deeper relationships, fervent prayers, delicious meals, aromatic coffee and loads of fun. We’ll do this definitely again next year, so…..when you missed it: have patience!