• Bhutan – a small Buddhist monarchy to the east of Sikkim State.
• Rajhastan – a State far west from us.
• West Bengal – we have students from three different parts of this State.
• Sikkim – two students from another local church here in Sikkim.

This year the quality of our students has really gone to a higher level than ever before. We’ve been able to jump right in to the flow of the Holy Spirit together and I can tell this is going to be a very powerful session of training.

Please keep us and our students in your prayers. This is a very busy time for our ministry team and we will be completely dependent on the grace of God – the best way to live anyway! I’ve mentioned before that for just $60 you can fully sponsor one of our students, and if that’s something that is on your heart to do, let us know!

God is doing amazing things here and it’s such a joy to be a part of it!

With love,
Mike Van Buskirk

For the believer, this just fortifies what we already know. It’s simple, Jesus is Lord and the Bible is God’s Holy Word! For the unbeliever, it is our prayer that such evidence would help you know these things too.

Here’s just one of the things Gods’ Word says is coming…

Zechariah 14:9 AMP

“And the Lord shall be King over all the earth; in that day the Lord shall be one [in the recognition and worship of men] and His name one.”

That day is soon approaching. The day Jesus reigns as King over every nation, and what a glorious day that will be. If He is your King now, then you’ll get to rule with Him in His Kingdom. If He is not your King, one day your knee will still bow, and you’ll only wish you had made that decision before it was too late.

Jesus is coming friend! Are you ready?

Jyoti has been an amazing wife these past eight years and she has been an equally amazing mom for the past five. My family has been blessed with the best!

God wasn’t joking when He said, “He who finds a wife finds a good thing…” and the rest of the verse is true too, “…and obtains favor from the Lord.” (Proverbs 18:22).

I certainly found a very good thing and she has brought great favor to my life! Thank you Jesus!!!

Zechariah 4:14 AMP

“Then said he, These are the two sons of oil [Joshua the high priest and Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, the two anointed ones] who stand before the Lord of the whole earth [as His anointed instruments].”

In this scripture it’s written that these sons of oil stood before the Lord of the whole earth, and in that I believe is a great key to receiving the anointing of the Holy Spirit. To be a son of oil I must stand before the Lord. I must make a conscious effort each day to stand before Him, to be in His presence, and to receive His anointing.

If this “standing before the Lord” isn’t a part of my daily agenda, His anointing will slowly wane and I will find myself no longer an anointed son, but a son that was once anointed.

Refuse to be a once anointed one and be an anointed one! Be a son (or daughter) of oil!

Zechariah 6:12 AMP

“And say to him, Thus says the Lord of hosts: [You, Joshua] behold (look at, keep in sight, watch) the Man [the Messiah] whose name is the Branch, for He shall grow up in His place and He shall build the [true] temple of the Lord.”

The true temple does not consist of bricks and mortar, timber, or any other natural building material. The true temple is made up of lives. Precious people connected and united together through faith in Christ, that is the true temple. Jesus Christ is building His temple, and He’s doing it one individual at a time. To be a part of this spiritual house is a blessing beyond compare.

Every Christian is part of something so much greater than mere religion. We are not propagating an earth-o-centric cause, it is something that Jesus Himself founded and continues to build to this day. It is a spiritual house, an eternal temple, something precious and it will endure forever!

Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone for those of us who embrace His cause and join His eternal building project. He, however, can quickly become the Stone which the builders rejected if we get our eyes of the true temple and on to the temporal. (Matthew 21:42).

Isn’t it an honor to be a part of the true temple!? If you’re not in, you’re missing everything!

So far we have confirmed students coming from the following places: Bhutan, Nagaland, West Bengal, Rajasthan, Assam, and possibly from Manipur. It’s going to be a powerful time of training in the Word of God by the Spirit of God!

Please keep us and our students in your prayers. This is also a good time to invest into our ministry if you have it in your heart to do so. During our Bible School there are many added extra expenses, some of which will be off set by student tuition, but many of our students will be unable to pay the full amount.

To give online visit this link.

It costs us about $20 per student per month, and our training lasts for three months. That means a student can be fully sponsored for just $60! A very small price to pay for training a saint to fulfill the great commission.

The guys and gals that we train go further and farther than we ever could on our own, they take the gospel to the unreached corners of villages and districts all over the great nation of India and beyond! This is the answer to reaping the harvest and taking possession of Christ’s inheritance – LABORERS!

Now back to the post: Access to His Presence! As a believer, I should never take this access for granted. It is a wonderful privilege that must be held in the highest of esteem.

Zechariah 3:7 AMP

Thus says the Lord of hosts: If you will walk in My ways and keep My charge, then also you shall rule My house and have charge of My courts, and I will give you access [to My presence] and places to walk among these who stand here.

Take note that access isn’t granted for nothing.

Sure, even as a half-hearted Christian (whatever that means), I can pretend to enjoy the presence of God. I can dabble around the holy courts of the most high like a pharisee if I want to; putting on an outward show of piety, but inside full of nothing but myself. I can live a lukewarm version of what should be a burning passion that consumes my entire being. But make no mistake, access to the presence of God is granted only when I walk in His ways and keep His charge!

If I want to possess in this life the most prized treasure available to mankind, which is the presence of God, and by they way His presence is available in increased measure; if I want what can only truly satisfy – His Presence! – all He asks of me is to walk in His ways and to keep His charge, which basically means to do what He has called me to do.

That’s it:

• Walk with Him
• Obey Him

Keep walking, keep obeying…access is granted! Enjoy the presence of God!

Zechariah 2:8 AMP

“For thus said the Lord of hosts, after [His] glory had sent me [His messenger] to the nations who plundered you…”

The glory of God has a life altering affect, it has the power to transform the most unsuspecting soul, the one you would never imagine, and turn that person into a messenger with a message that cannot be silenced. I feel like someone who fits that bill. His glory did it to me.

I can honestly say that I am who I am, and I do what I do for no other reason than this: His glory has sent me! And the more I encounter the glory of God, the more it marks me. There’s no looking back, there’s no second guessing, there’s no plan ‘B’. He’s touched me. His glory has sent me.

I guess all that’s left to say is this: Get into the glory of God for yourself, and then GO in His glory and don’t look back!

Haggai 2:19

“…From this day on I will bless you.”

It simply depends on the heart of an individual. God wants us blessed, there’s no doubt about that, and His word to the people of God through the prophet Haggai is just as real today as the days it was uttered.

From this day on friend. Regardless of what has been, or  how it has seemed. From this day on you can walk in the restored blessing of God. On your life, in your marriage, as a parent, as a minister. From this day on. Choose to walk in the renewed blessing of God. Choose to make the neccesary heart adjustment you need to so that God can bless you.

Sometimes we just need to hear it, sometimes we just need someone to say it…”From this day on…”