Eastern Europe

The Lord has been confirming more and more in my heart He will bring a great revival in Eastern Europe in the years to come and it will start in Ukraine!!! But the price the enemy is making this land to pay is soooo expensive.

There has been a huge cloud of unbelief and dead religion floating over Eastern Europe ever since the spread of Communism after WWII.

I was born in the last years of Communism.

When I was around three years old I went on one Sunday to the village Orthodox Church with my grandma. You must know that she was the first one who thought me all the orthodox prayers to the angels, Virgin Mary and God. In the midst of the rigid religious life found in the Orthodox Church where there are many rules and with which I struggled for many years, I am forever grateful for my grandma that has planted a seed of faith from such an early age in me. Learning by heart all those prayers - it was amazing because it made me question later on what I was actually saying and who I was praying to. She had many icons on the walls with pretty chubby angels and Virgin Mary and Jesus the shepherd surrounded by many cute sheep (this was my favourite one).

On this one occasion- as little as I was - I was looking in the dark wooden church (full of old people) with beautifully painted icons on the church windows. It looked pretty but it looked sad. I remembered running out in the church yard - it was a beautiful sunny day and the grass was so green and the sun was so warm and bright. I felt happy. I remember looking at the sky and asking God where is He ? God cannot be in a sad place. I heard a little voice saying: I am here. And I smiled and continued to play in the church yard where I felt so much happier than inside. I think with my little child mind I just couldn’t understand why inside the church everyone was so sad and everything looked so dark if we are worshiping a God who is alive. This was probably the first encounter in my life with the real presence of God. It followed years of searching, reading and many questions but He revealed Himself with the fullness of His love in the sunshine, in the children smiles, in the songs of birds, in the green grass sparkling with dew early in the mornings, and then I understood He is everywhere. With all the respect for the Orthodox Church, but they need to make room for the presence of God, people don’t need religion, people need love. As we know the dominant branches of Christianity in Eastern Europe are the Orthodox and Catholic Church. And then there is a large number of atheists.

Anyway, hope this was a little helpful context to give you a clearer picture of the spiritual situation in Eastern Europe. Things have slowly changed in the past few years, but the dark cloud is still floating above this side of the work. I can see it and feel it every time I go back or I meet people coming from there. This cloud brought so much unbelief, sadness, heaviness, depression, sickness, poverty and evil since Communism took over.

Now as this atrocity of war in Ukraine is taking place, I believe- this thick dark grey gigantic cloud of unbelief is being dispersed slowly. I saw this picture of the cloud many years ago every time I was praying for Eastern Europe. This large grey thick cloud that brought atheism and no fear of God in Eastern Europe when communism spread, is finally disappearing. This religious spirit is being replaced through many many tears, while people are desperately crying out to God for help, with FAITH into the real living God. By the end of this war there will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit over Eastern Europe. People will experience the presence of the living God like never before. And it will start in Ukraine. In the ruins. Out of the dust. Out of nothing. He will win the victory against the evil one who only comes to steal, kill and destroy. But God is greater and He will heal and restore this land in incredible ways. He will do what no one else can do. He is already breathing faith into every single heart that is being shaken by fear. This evil will come to an end.

Revival will start in Ukraine.

Eastern Europe will flourish like never before after this tremendous storm.

Not long now.

Stop this war Lord.

Enough is enough.