M16 Ministries

Well, it's hard to believe, but this is the last day of 2009! And what a year it has been! All the Glory goes to God for these incredible spiritual warfare battles that were fought and won. M16 Ministries has witnessed amazing physical healings, inner healings, and deliverance from demonic oppression and possession. It's been amazing, the amount of miracles God let our ministry witness and pray for. The M16 Ministry intercessor team has proved themselves time and time again in spiritual warfare. The team went to battle this summer a prayed for the deliverance of a young man whose will was completely compromised by the enemy. Now he is set free. People with spiritual attacks at night, who experienced them for years are now sleeping. Spirits of fear walking peoples homes have been evicted. And the people in the homes have been trained to fight. Houses with demonic activity were given peace by the authority of Jesus Christ. We thank God for all the protection he has given us ...

On Thursday December 23, 2009, I tagged along with Bill Boehner to be part of a Christmas outreach in San Francisco. We were participating in a “residence” hotel outreach, in San Francisco on Mission St. Which right in the middle of the neighborhood we minister at on the streets in our Night Strike ministry. I never really heard of “residence” hotel ministry before but it was the neighborhood we minister in so I figured it would be good to go on this and see what it was all about. Residence hotels are literally cramped one room apartments, barely big enough for a twin bed and nothing more. It's basically the size of prison cell, with only a sink and a community toilet in the hall. Sister Terry Lawrence has operated this ministry, on her own for the past 4 years. She has focused on one particular hotel on Mission St. in San Francisco. Bill and I rendezvoused with Terry at her house to pick up all the food and presents she prepared for the Christmas party. Terry's residence is...

We had approximately 80 people participate in this year's Christmas Night Strike. Seven teams were setup and sent out into the city from the UN Plaza. Seven leaders, wow, that's a cool prophetic number, and they were, 1.Jason & Becka 2.Ellssya 3.Bill 4.Morgan 5.Ellen 6.Leah 7.Me With this many teams going out, and each with ten or more people we had to plan not to saturate the Tenderloin. And Leah's team we had to intentionally keep under ten, just because the nature of the ministry and witnessing to the prostitutes as well as the homeless. On my team, I had lot's of my family, which was fun. Sue and Jake Wooldridge, my Son Matt and his friend Brandon, Diana Garnhart, and three people from Pleasant Hill, Sean, Havier and Nella. To purposely avoid team congestion I led my team higher up the Tenderloin to O'Farrell. Allowing the two other teams assigned to work the higher and lower part of Bodeker park in the Tenderloin. On our way up to O'Farrell,...

Tuesday December 15, we were fortunate to host a house fellowship for Tim and Cindy McGill of Hope for the Harvest . Cindy is an energetic and dynamic speaker with lots of great testimony on her adventures in prophetic evangelism. Cindy shared with our group (mainly Bay Area Dream team and City Ministries Night Strike members in attendence) some stories from Burning Man and her dream film project, titled Dreams . View the trailer here: Cindy usually takes a team out to the Sundance film festival as a dream interpretation out reach. She tried to enter her film project into Sundance, but there were over 9800 entries and her film project wasn't chosen. Less than a hundred were chosen this year. HOWEVER - the Dreams film is entered in overseas film festivals, at the International Film Festival Ireland, June 4-11, 2010, African Enterprise (AE ICFF) Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: June 1st-5th 2010 and a film festival in Egypt. It's some very exciting times for Cindy and her min...

Now I am about to open a whole can of worms and turn your Ghost Hunting world upside down. America and the world is captivated by the paranormal reality shows on television. We don't have to go farther than the Syfy channel web site or hulu to see evidence of spirit activity streaming to our very own computer. If you are a Christian and part of a ghost hunting or paranormal organization, it is time to listen up. There is no such thing as a human spirit ghost! Casper is a demon! When you are taking an evp on your digital voice recorder, you are recording demons! The digital voice recorder is the new ouji board. What you are capturing are demonic voices. When Jesus completed His work on the cross, the deceased either go to Heaven or Hell. End of story. There are no lingering “human” spirits roaming the earth seeking to be set free and sent towards the light. Jesus is perfect, He doesn't make mistakes and leave people behind for someone with a video camera and a K2 meter to se...

As I start researching angels for another writing project, I started in the book of Jude. There is an interesting curiosity in the book of Jude. Jude, the brother of James, presents some incredible revelations about angels and then quotes the prophet Enoch. If you recall, Enoch was mentioned, BRIEFLY, in the book of Genesis. Genesis 5:21-24 21 When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. 22 And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters. 23 Altogether, Enoch lived 365 years. 24 Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away. In verse 24, we see that God took him away. Very seldom is Enoch mentioned again in the books of the Bible. Now in Jude, we have a quote in the book of Jude from the prophet of Enoch. Jude 14-16 14Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones 15to judge everyo...

The one thing that keeps me coming back to Night Strike is that it's never the same night twice on these Holy Spirit expeditions into the city. What made this particular Night Strike evening more interesting to me is the that I am going through a season right now with God. The prophetic and the words of knowledge are turned off. The Father loves for us to seek him and not the gifts. Right now God has me in a seeking season, which is pretty cool. It's weird not having the transmissions. It's like turning the dial on the radio tuner and there isn't even static noise. God was with us the whole night and revealed himself to the people we encountered. I hardly ever get to work with team leader Ellen, from Vacaville. So we paired our teams up together. Ellen brought 7 people. I sent 3 of Ellen's people out with birthday boy, Bill. I merged Ellen, and the rest of her team, Jennifer, Jay, and Matt, with my son Matt, and there was Tom and his friend Samantha. Tom and Sam b...

What an amazing Night Strike we had on Friday November 20, 2009. The day started off as a beautiful, autumn blustery day, the type where you expect Piglet from Winnie the Pooh to go blowing by your house. As the day went on, the clouds started to darken and the wind started blowing a little bit harder. The winds brought the rain by the evening. We headed into the city, expecting one of two climates, cold rainy and windy, or unusually nice weather. The city of San Francisco tends to have its own microclimate. Elyssa, her sister Natalie, and their friend Ashley, car pooled in with Matt and I, into the city for Night Strike. Riding in with a Night Strike team member is half the fun. It’s a time to catch up with each other on what God’s doing with their ministry. Many times, we team leaders cross over into each other’s ministries to help out each other. Elyssa has been a huge blessing in my M16 Ministry. So I got to catch up with her and Stealth ministry. With the threat of gloomy weat...

Monday November 9, we were blessed to have Prophetess Peggy Cole share an evening of fellowship and prophecy at our house. Peggy spoke to an audience of 35 guests. Peggy shared with us some great testimonies of healings she has witnessed in her ministery. Peggy also shared a message of the knowledge of the Glory of the Lord, which is miracles. She also shared a prophecy from a friend hers of the two angels of fullness (of time Luke 1) and overflow (Anointing & presence of the Lord, Joel 2:24). Peggy led a healing session and we had several people receive healings, in their back, ringing in the head, a toe was healed from pain. I vow to give all the Glory to God! It was an exciting evening and those of us wanting prayer and impartation in increase in gifts received it. Many people received good prophetic words in this session. Best of all, Peggy led my two oldest boys in prayer to receive their prayer language. It was an exciting night for all of us. We were all blessed by h...

Is the Westboro Baptist church a problem too big for God? I have heard nothing but outrage by Christians. I have seen my brothers call down the fire and brimstone on Samaria like Jesus us warned us not to do because we would be of the same spirit. What do we do with these people? We send missionaries to 3rd world countries but what happens when people are on a fast track to damnation in our own? Where are the missionaries invading the Starbucks where these people buy coffee. Is it true that these people are going to HELL? I think Jesus would have instructed us otherwise. Paul would have sent people to this town to quietly invade and change the hearts of people in Westboro Baptist. This is a miracle waiting to happen. The fact of the matter is we may have given up on the people of Westboro Baptist because we -MAN- couldn't solve the problem. Why don't we let Jesus take a crack at this one? The apostles were bold! Are there no bold apostles among us to hear the calling in...

Night Strikes are on the first and third Fridays of the month for November and December. Despite the threat of rain we had a rather beautiful evening in the city. Our youngest son had a sleep over party to go to so that freed up Lisa to come out on the streets with us. Diana came out with us and so did Matt’s friend Brandon. We had a full carload going out to San Francisco last night. A long time family friend from church, Marty Walker, gave us old blankets, clothes and thermal socks to hand out. So we arrived on the scene at the UN Plaza with bags of goods to handout to God’s people on the streets. We had a pretty good turnout for being an off night from the usual Night Strike schedule. Mark Neitz, brought Rolf and Morgan. Jason and Becka and Sam were out. Elyssa and Leah as we as Forrest and Ellen from Vacaville. And not to forget, Shulu, too. The teams were pretty much easy to divide up, since there weren’t large numbers, as was last Night Strike. Ellen and Forrest led a team on...

Below is an excerpt from a chapter of my book, Field Guide to Spiritual Warfare. I am posting this here because it is my response to several e-mails I received from individuals in deliverance ministry who believe being Spirit filled isn't a necessity. The argument has been made to me on several occasions where people believe they don’t need to be Holy Spirit filled to cast out demons and pray for healing. This is true, there is power in Jesus name and people can cast out demons on that authority alone. What is intriguing to me is that this argument was posed to me by fellow Christians. In the book of John, Jesus reveals to his believers that unless he full fills the Father’s request to go to the cross to defeat Satan, the Holy Spirit will not be released to us. Jesus needed to return to the Father to be glorified and then he sent the Holy Spirit. 7But I tell you the truth: It is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Counselor will not come to you; but if I go, I...

There are times when I just want to weep when Hollywood misses the greater story altogether. In Ron Howard's film, Angels and Demons, based on the book by Dan Brown, of the Da Vinci Code fame, one of the items in the great hunt is Bernini's magnificent sculpture, Ecstasy of St Teresa. In the film, the marble statue holds a clue to the Illuminati mystery. In real life, the statue depicts an event that is far more incredible than any Hollywood script writer could dream up. Bernini's sculpture depicts the transverberation event of St. Teresa. Transverberation is a church mystic term for a Seraph's assault. Where St. Teresa's heart is pierced with a dart of love by a Seraph angel. "It will happen that while the soul is inflamed with the Love of God, it will feel that a seraph is assailing it by means of an arrow or dart which is all afire with love. And the seraph pierces and in an instant cauterizes this soul, which, like a red-hot coal, or better a flame, is alr...