Sozo Life Brazil 

December 2024

A Ministry Newsletter of All Nations Intl. Association

Jesus came to save, heal and deliver!

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We want to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

We are incredibly grateful for all our ministry partners. We bring you before the Lord and pray supernatural favor, presence, provision and protection over you and your family, in Jesus mighty and powerful name!


This e-newsletter is packed full and we are sure that you will be blessed to read through it, and be encouraged by all that the Lord is doing. 2024 was spectacular!!! We saw many people saved and born again into the kingdom, healings, deliverances and a lot of victories in the ministry.


At the end of the newsletter we will share the latest updates about the SOZO MOUNTAIN project in Brazil. We want you to be part and participate!

Renovo Church

November

28 Salvations


This was our 2nd time at this church this year. The pastor invited us back because he felt there was still more the Lord wanted to do as a continuation from the last time we had been with them. There are few places that operate in such a high level of excellence. This church is one of them. They are fully committed to teaching God's word in depth, reaching people with the saving message of the Gospel through evangelism and to hosting and giving room for the Holy Spirit to be welcomed and operate. This was a really powerful weekend! The church has outgrown their facilities and they announced to the church during this conference that a new location was secured. Praise God!

Don't Leave Till You Receive Power From On-High.

The level of expectation and faith was truly electric in these 3 days of meetings. Saturday night we

had a time in the service for people to receive a baptism of Fire and for an impartation of spiritual gifts. After the preaching of the word, all the chairs where cleared out to make room for whatever the Holy Spirit wanted to do. What followed was out of Acts 2.


From the church's instagram page the following was described about these meetings....

Presence, Transformation, Gratitude, Miracles, Surrender, Activation, Anointing, Supernatural, Grace and Healing. Isn't it just amazing how the Lord can minister in so many different ways to meet the needs of ALL present.


The Pastor told us that a couple drove 6 hours to be at the Saturday night service because they heard about the previous night's service and were desperate and hungry for a move of God in their lives. Thank you Lord for those who pursue you out of a hunger, and thirst for more of you.



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Generation Arise...

When you see the children weeping and being touched by the presence of the Holy Spirit, it begs the question, "What is God preparing this new generation for?". It's a marked generation to carry the authority and revelation of the Lord. It's a generation set apart and equipped to walk in authority and power. It's a generation that loves the Lord and is preparing for His coming. 2024 was a year we saw an extraordinary defining move of the Holy Spirit on children and youth in all the places we ministered at. It's been exponentially greater than what we have witnessed in the all the previous years.

Some Testimonies....

Baptized in the Fire!

This man who serves in the children's department shared what happened to him when hands were laid on him to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.


He said, "I fell 3 times. I could not stand, I tried. The first time I fell, I was crying so much. The second time I fell I laughed uncontrollably with so much joy, then on the third time that I fell I was speaking in tongues."


He said, "I'm so happy!, I just can't put into words to tell you how I have been impacted."

On Friday night ,the first night of 3 days of meetings, before the preaching of the word, we had a word of knowledge about sinuses and specifically someone who could not smell.


Several came up to the front. This woman struggled to breathe as a result of her sinus issues. She testified that she was completely healed.


Another women came forward and said she had lost 100% of her smell as result of COVID and hasn't smelled anything in 3 years. The Power of God healed her there on the platform in front of all to see. Someone brought up a bottle of essential oils and she could smell it! Oh the joy and tears that flowed. Amen!

At the Hotel we were staying at, the breakfast attendant came up to Michel. She said, "you may not remember, but the last time you were here, you were with a group of other pastors and you all prayed for me and I asked you to pray for my uncle and we all prayed together."


;"My uncle's leg was going to be amputated. But God did a miracle and his leg was completely healed." Praise God


Thank you Lord for the power of prayer and the application of your precious blood!


By his stripes you are healed."

Isiah 53:5

"I will not Fall..."


As we shared a meal together at a restaurant with the pastor and another couple, what happened at the table was amazing. The 2nd man on the right said to us while sitting at the table (in reference to Saturday night's service the day before). "I told the Lord I refuse to fall down. I will fight it will all my strength, and guess what, I didn't fall". At the exact moment he said that, he fell backwards off his chair right there in the restaurant. LOL, God has a great sense of humor. Love it!

This is so Powerful!. The parents told us afterwards that they had to restrain their 10 year old son during the service because he had such a strong urge to run up to the altar. The parents told him he had to wait for the altar call and prayer time. When that moment came, he ran to the front and BAM!!! the power of God hit him.


Some 30+ young children where on the floor being ministered to by the Holy spirit.

It was a sight to see, the weeping, worship, prayer and hunger from such innocent lives. Unrehearsed and with no pattern to copy. When God moves on children's lives, its authentic!

Sunday Night we had an opportunity to minister to the children apart from the service. We had a prayer tunnel and taught the kids how to declare the word and lay hands on each other.


We also had a time to hear from the kids as we asked them about the Saturday night's service and the move of the Holy Spirit that they experienced and witnessed. If they had questions or wanted to share experiences.


The children said they have never experience this before and how they could not stand up, but only fall to he floor under the weight of the Lord's presence.


One very analytical boy who wants to be a doctor said, "I just can't explain it, I'm still trying to process everything."


Another said, "It was a peace II've never felt before. It was supernatural."

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A "Spirit of Fear" is not from Lord.

I did not give you a spirit of fear, but of power love and sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7


During one of the services there was a word of knowledge about those gripped with a fear of death. About 35 people came forward. We had a time of prayer to give it all to the Lord and to take spiritual authority and break off this spirit. This is a tormenting spirit and it's not from the Lord. The Lord's presence brings peace, hope and joy.

Comunidade Vinhedo Church

Pastor Ordination Service


Raising up a new generation of leaders...

We had the privilege to be part of dedicating and praying over 3 young couples being ordained as pastors at the Vinhedo Community Church. This is a church on fire!. God is using them so powerfully in their community. They are experiencing revival as well as, preparing to sustain it with the raising up of a new generation of leaders.


São Paulo?

2 salvations



When the Presence is Present


Praise God for the Two salvations.

With about 45 present, the service went from 7 - 11:30 pm and no one left early, but one woman. We worshipped, shared the word and prayed for healing. The man on the floor (pic below) was visiting. He sat in the back row and at the beginning of the service we released a prophetic word to him. "You will encounter the Lord and know he is God. Your life will change in the moment you surrender to God." During the entirely of the service I watched him in the very back row. The presence of God was over him in a very strong and observable way. He was under the weight of God's glory (Kabod) and was clearly overwhelmed in the Presence. He came forward at the altar call and gave his life to Christ! HALLELUJAH!!!!


The Demonic Manifests

Remember when Jesus was preaching in the Synagogue and a man possessed with a demon manifested and Jesus cast the demon out. In the atmosphere of divine presence demons manifest. Church, we must be presence focused in our meetings to encounter the Lord. Often we can get into performance driven meetings where we neglect the most important focus of all, the presence of the Lord. If you pursue his presence, the result will be lives that encounter Jesus.


The woman in the black sitting in the chair manifested during prayer. 4 people struggled to restrain her as she was inflicting harm on herself. Then the Lord came and brought peace. In a meeting, you can't give the devil the floor and attention, if you do, it will become a spectacle celebrating evil. Jesus deserves all the glory, honor and focus. I had a sense in my spirit that there was a practice witchcraft in this woman's life and that with counseling and more prayer there would be ultimate freedom for her life. The other picture is a baby that needed prayer. The mom seemed very simple and uninformed as the newborn had not eaten in days. Lord do a miracle in this baby's life. The other picture is dinner at midnight after the service with the pastors. Our hearts have a lot of love for these two, as they remind us of ourselves early in our ministry pastoring at All Nations.

Positioned Women's Conference

Porto Seguro

20 Salvations - PRAISE GOD!!!


This was a 4 day conference, (Thursday thru Sunday)

Débora preached twice and Michel preached twice.


We had 4 days of encountering the power of God! The 2 churches were full of women (and men) seeking God's presence and hungry to go deeper. The theme of the 4 days was "Positioned Women." We spoke about...

1. Having a positioned mind.

2. Being positioned as a Proverbs 31 woman

3. Being positioned in the presence of God

4. Being positioned with the Holy Spirit.


It is hard to put into words all that happened in those 4 days. We had many testimonies of deliverance, healing, salvation and a new revelation of what it means to live a life that is positioned in what God has for us. We cannot say enough good things about the Aviva Church and pastors Erles and Adriana. They have truly become some of our favorite people in Brazil. We love to see how God is moving and changing lives through churches that are committed to being the hands and feet of Jesus on the earth. What a privilege we have to be part of the body of Christ!

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If you were the only one that sinned, Jesus would have still gone to the cross for your salvation.


This was a powerful moment. On the last night (Sunday) the service was coming to a close and it was communion time. I struggled in my flesh knowing we had gone past time and that additional time would be consumed for an altar call for salvation. We gave the invitation for salvation and I'm happy for that! The room was silent, you could hear a pin drop. Time seamed to pass by as the room was in a hush. Then in the very back last row a single hand raised. This young woman got up and walked all the way to the front by herself. She was the only one to come forward to give her life to Jesus.

It was brave and it was powerful!


When she came up to front the presence and atmosphere of heaven was so prevalent and thick.


The scripture says... when one person comes to faith in Jesus, all the angels in heaven rejoice!

(Luke 15:10)


The church celebrated in such an uproar of praise!

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A Divine Appointment

On the first night this couple was sitting at the table in the green room after the service. We had never met them and knew nothing about them. The Lord gave us a prophetic word to speak to them. "The Lord is returning you, and establishing new roots. What was uprooted will be planted new. The heart will be healed and a new season will flourish."


It turns out they had left the church and were away from serving the Lord for the past 6 years. They had such a burden to go to church that week, that they couldn't wait til Sunday and so they both came to the women's conference. They are in a time of restoration and healing and this was a divine moment for them.


There was a woman that spent 3 nights during the services doing prophetic painting during the service times. When I saw her painting I couldn't believe it. Her painting aligned perfectly with the prophetic word we gave the couple the first night. We bought the painting from her and gave it to the couple as a gift to mark this moment of renewal, healing and restoration that God was doing in their marriage and spiritual lives. The woman from the couple then showed us her shoulder which had a butterfly tattoo on it. Amazing!


Look at the painting, see the roots, the heart, the butterfly and the flowering growth?

"Tudo Fala", which means "Everything Speaks", as our friend prophet Juda Bertelli always says.


Truly, the Lord has prepared a table for us and he will leave the 99 to go get the one lost sheep.


The description of the painting by the artist says this...

"Passing through the cross allows us to enjoy the garden

and receive a new heart and live a new life in Christ"

CHRISTIAN ENTREPRENEURS CONFERENCE

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

Our good friends in São Paulo are very accomplished realtors and helped to conduct this first time event for Christian Entrepreneurs. It was a very successful and full day! Débora and I were honored to be asked to participate and speak in one of the sessions. We spoke about evolving, growing and overcoming through seasons of adversity and failure as we shared many personal experiences from our lives. People were so responsive and many thanked us for being so transparent and open about our struggles and about our personal life.

Dunamis Movement

São Paulo Expo Center


We were invited to attend Zion Church in Campinas with some friends. We had heard good things about this church but had never had the opportunity to go there. After the service, we were invited to have lunch with the pastors and church staff in the green room and really felt a great connection. Zion is part of the Dunamis movement in Brazil. What an amazing ministry! They are impacting youth from all of Brazil with the Gospel.

A couple of weeks later was the Dunamis 2024 conference at the expo center in São Paulo and they gave us an open invitation to come and be part of the environment.


15,000 YOUTH gathered to worship Jesus. It was an incredible moment!

Video Recap of Dunamis Conference 24 click



Picture left: With Pr. Teo Hayashi one of the founders of the Dunamis Movement

Picture Right: Pastor Seity (far right) of Zion Church (Campinas). In the middle is a couple (Igor and Luma) whom we actually hosted in our home in Kansas a few years back. They were based in Hawaii and passing through Kansas. What a small world. They are now living in Brazil and are administrators of the Dunamis Farm (which is a center to train and equip youth and young adults in ministry.)

Celebrating Special Moments

Happy Birthday Débora.


Being in Brazil away from family in the States is a sacrifice. We miss birthdays, holidays and special moments together with our children and grandkids. The Lord sees this and has given us some amazing friends in Brazil that are always there for us to celebrate special moments together in Brazil. We truly treasure these friendships and hold them close to our hearts. For Débora's birthday we went to a Brazilian steak house in São Paulo.  It was so amazing!!!

SOZO MOUNTAIN BRAZIL

The latest...


Since the last month's e-newsletter we have made an official offer to purchase the property. Taking into consideration the amount of work needed to do updates, our offer was considerably lower than the asking price of 2 million USD. We were worried about offending the owner and thus ending the negociation process. The owner did responded with a counter offer 250K below list.


We are now making a second counter offer and will see what the Lord does with that. We would love to have a signed contract hopefully before the end of the year. With that said, we need the Lord to do a financial miracle. In the flesh we often can't see how things will happen, but in the spirit, supernatural movement in the Kingdom is activated by faith, having a Word from the Lord and acting on it.

That's where we are at now. It's exciting to see how this miracle will unfold.


I'm reminded of something Reinhard Bonnke said...



"We don't act on what is in our wallet, we act on what's in God's"


Let's see this vision of Sozo Mountain come to fruition!


THANK YOU for being part of the All Nations family and the Sozo Mountain Project here in Brazil.


A great harvest is coming in!

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