October 11, 2000

 This evening we had an awesome service and the Lord was truly moving.  Some of us were on our faces before the Lord crying rivers of tears and worshipping Jesus at a level and intensity I have not experienced in a long time.  I believe that in the spiritual realm a major breakthrough had taken place.

     I came out of this service totally refreshed and very determined to go right back to the front-lines of this warfare.  My heart has been fixed upon the Lord, my commitment to serve Him renewed.

David Berkowitz

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 October 12, 2000

  In the past several weeks my prayer life seems to be growing stronger, and I have been led to make intercessory prayers for other nations at a level greater than ever before in my walk with the Lord.

     The world is in such upheaval now.  Surely any Christian can feel the “birth pangs” of the earth.  At times I could almost feel the fear, anguish and pain of many troubled hearts.

     We have such a wonderful, awesome and “eternal” message of hope to share with others, the gospel of Jesus Christ.  How we need to share the story of our Savior and the story of redemption more than ever before.

 David Berkowitz

October 13, 2000

 Mike T., a young man in his 20’s from Carbondale, Illinois, wrote to tell me how my testimony has been an encouragement to him and how that he had been delivered from his drug addiction.  He told me that he has been “drug free” for almost three years because of what Christ had done in his life.

      My testimony had nothing to do with his salvation.  He was already a Christian when he came across my testimony and wanted to write to encourage me.

     When I wrote back to Mike to thank him, I exhorted this young man to continue to follow Christ no matter what.  I know how strong the pull of the world is on Christians, and Satan waits around every corner, so to speak, with a new temptation.

     I also told mike that America’s prisons are filled with men and women who have been overtaken in their addictions, and who seem unable, this far, to break free from their addictions.

     I likewise told him that I can see the destruction that alcohol and other drugs have on people because a majority of the men in prison are in for drug related crimes and for being vilest while under the influence of booze.

     Fortunately for him, Mike was set free from his addiction without having to come to prison.  He told me that he found his way into a “spiritual treatment program,” something like Teen Challenge.

     He is so fortunate not to have experienced imprisonment!

 David Berkowitz

 October 21, 2000

“And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.

“But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest."

                               Matthew 9:35-38

     I thank the Lord for all He has been doing in the prisons.  I thank Him also for Christians who’ve been faithful and willing to answer the Lord’s call.  For when Jesus was walking on this earth, He went everywhere touching hurting lives with the love of God.  His heart was moved with compassion when Jesus saw the scattered multitudes…a multitude of people with a multitude of problems!

     And in this passage the Lord said something which touched me deeply.  He looked at His disciples and said that they were to pray for more workers for  the harvest field.  To me this was amazing because, as the Lord, He could have done it all Himself.  He could have called battalions of angels to come forth, appear on the scene, and then go out into the world to carry on all these works of compassion.

     Instead He looked upon his human disciples (like He is looking upon us today) and told them to do the work of reaching out to hurting humanity, and to pray for still more workers to come along.  How humbling this is to realize that God has chosen weak man with all man’s sins and failings to carry out such awesome tasks.

David Berkowitz

October 22, 2000

     Yesterday’s Saturday evening service was awesome!  I received a wonderful filling of the Holy Spirit.  The Lord really moved in our midst, and it was one of the most anointed services we’ve had in a long time.

     The message was about Paul and his apostleship and how the Lord used him to evangelize the Gentiles.  Anyhow, at the end of the service the minister from New Jersey was told by the Lord to call some of us up front to the altar to receive prophetic words.

     I was the first one they were led to call, and of course I had no idea what would be spoken over me.  The message from the Lord was that I was to start writing, and that the Lord was from this moment going to begin opening many “great doors” for me to share my testimony via writing.

     Terrific!  I was jumping up and down in my spirit.  This was a very happy moment for me after such a long journey through the wilderness of disappointment and discouragement.

     The minister asked me to lift my hands in the air.  She then anointed my hands with oil and told me to “start writing.”  She said that the testimony was to go “throughout the world.”

     Well North Pole here I come!  Ha!  I left the chapel so energized.  I still feel wound-up and I could hardly sleep last night.  Now I know how Elijah the prophet felt when he ran from Beersheba to Mount Horeb in forty days on only one meal  (1 Kings 19:7,8).

David Berkowitz