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TESTIMONIES FROM WORSHIP, PASSION, POWER SCHOOL: HOLLAND

I've been to the Worship Passion and Power School in Drachten (the Netherlands) and I want to thank you guys, because this week really changed my life! You brought so much freedom through the worship, preaches, prayer time, workshops, etc. I came to receive some answers about what Jesus wants me to do, I got some of the answers (because Jesus is so full of love) but the most awesome thing is that He took away the questions! It doesn't matter what I'm going to do, I just love Jesus and he loves me, that's the most important thing I learned from Kamran and I can now say I can really feel it in my heart too! FREE!!

You all really touched my heart by just being who you are, it was not like you were pulling us to higher level but it felt like you allowed us to stand on your backs so we could get on the next level. It felt like everyday I had to make a new decision to accept the tools you were giving to me, but as I decided everyday to just let happen what the Holy Spirit wanted to happen to me, it really felt like I was reborn everyday (which was pretty hard for me sometimes but I really feel released/lighter/opener). The things Suzy, Kamran and the rest of the team shared really opened my eyes and my heart and changed the way I am in my relationship with Jesus. The things Kamran shared about being free, Molly and Paulette about brokenness, Andy about what's blocking your worship (very powerful words!), etc. they all felt like they were specially for me. After Molly and Paulette's "preach" there was time to pray and I went to the front because I really longed for that brokenness for so long, so a guy prayed with me and after a while he told me just to ask Jesus for His brokenness myself, I was thinking "what am I doing at the front of the church if I'm going to pray myself, I could have just stayed on my seat" (stupid pride :-), but I just did it and started "Lord, please give me your brok...." and I cried like I haven't cried in years. When I came to the word brokenness I heard a voice say "I love you", that was all but it broke me down completely (in a good way), I didn't see that one coming!

The worship was so awesome! I've been leading worship in my church for some years now but this week showed me worship/praise can be so much more and that God really wants us to go to the next level. God loves being praised but more importantly he want to have a very deep relationship with us, we all know that's important in our lives but do we know/feel it in our worship? Most of the time we are so busy with our worship that we forget that the Holy Spirit really wants to talk back, heal, release, get intimate, love us, strengthen us, prophecy to us, etc.

The Sunday of that week I was supposed to lead the worship in my church again but I really didn't know what to do for the first time, how could I go on leading worship like I was used to after this incredible week. So on Saturday during the school I talked to Guido about this (he is a worship leader in my church too and also attended the school), I asked him if he wanted to lead the worship together with me, he didn't know what to do either so that was great :-). So on Sunday, before the church started, I talked to the worship team how incredible the school has been and that I really didn't know how to continue but that we really want to trust on the Holy Spirit and that he has the answers...

That Sunday the worship in my church was so incredible!! the Holy Spirit just came so powerful, it changed everything around in one morning! I've been praying for so long for the Holy Spirit to come again with power in our church. That morning during worship the Holy Spirit just came so powerful, one of the leaders of my church did a call to come to the front if you wanted to come in the rain of the Holy Spirit, people came running to the front! our youth group started to pray with those people, which is incredible too. Everything came together; there was worship, prayer, healing, relationship, unity, etc. I never dared to dream that the Holy Spirit could turn it around like that in a moment! Guido and I were standing on the platform playing and just smiling at each other and going like "look what's happening man!"

I think it was the first time in our church our pastor didn't have any time left to "preach", but he didn't care he was so happy about what was happening, and he was just stimulating us to go on! So for me the school has been a life changing experience and what happened in church really showed the love of the Holy Spirit and that you can really trust that He has the answers and know what to do. I'm really looking forward to al the things Jesus is going to do around me, in my church, through me and through the people I love.

I will pray for you and your team and really pray that you will touch thousands of people the way you touched me!

       - Berry, Holland