Hello

As soon as I returned to the internship we traveled to Boston for a youth event called Presence. The youth were transformed from wounded kids without hope to young ministers of the gospel. We have two more events planned in Boston where the youth will invite their saved and unsaved friends and minister along side us. By the third event the youth will be running the event with our supervision.

I also have two more events scheduled: Seattle and Virginia. Along with these two scheduled trips I have the opportunity to travel to several other conferences for ministry as well as ministering at Salem, Massachusetts and other New Age events.

I have been brainstorming ideas for a book I have begun. I will be talking about personal experience, scripture, and wisdom I have gained from other people. The book focuses on bringing the Presence of God to transform the world around you.

I have been ministering on our prayer mountain as well. My pastor, Scott Evelyn, has asked me to help create an atmosphere of prayer and intercession. He also desires for me to travel with him and on my own to equip the Church. I will continue with the ministry in New Hampshire until the Lord releases me.

My trip to Virginia is totally paid and some of my living expenses are taken care of, but I need several thousand dollars more. Last year I received all the finances I needed. I appreciate your continued prayer and financial support as the Lord leads you.

Thanks,

Matthew Ryan Keating


Checks should be made out to "Streams School of Ministry" with a note "for Matthew Keating" and mailed to:

Streams School of Ministry
c/o Matthew Keating
33 Baker Hill Rd.
Bradford, NH 03221

You may also deposit in my pay pal account. The account is m.ryankeating@live.com

603-763-9034

Hello everyone, here is an update about some events during the summer.

I was working for my Dad and Mom in their food concession again and there was a big storm that blew over us. It began to rain and Mom was upset because we began to lose business. Mom and Dad are not doing well financially so I began to get mad. Then I had faith rise up in me and I went outside the food trailer in the rain and began to take authority over the storm. It immediately stopped raining. So I thanked the earth for submitting and the Lord for giving me authority. We made lots of money that night.

After a couple of days a another storm blew over us. The fairboard warned everyone that there were 90 mile an hour winds headed for us. The sky was covered in BLACK storm clouds. My mother asked my cousin and I to go to our camper and take down our Easy-Up tent next to it. As we were running back to the camper my cousin said, "It is gonna storm bad." I said, "No... its just gonna sprinkle." He laughed and I felt really stupid. Everyone of the venders was bringing their truck near their tents to tie down to and putting in extra tent stakes. One vendor who was a Gypsy and psychic said, "We're in for it! It's gonna pour down rain and blow our tents over!" I said, "No its just gonna sprinkle a little," and then thought "Oh crap, I said it again!" My cousin and the Gypsy laughed at me.

We took the Easy-Up tent down and I looked up at the sky. I saw a funnel cloud forming right above our camper. So I said to my cousin, "Look up there. You know what that is?" He said, "@#$&, its a tornado!" I said, "Sure is. Watch this." I pointed at the cloud and said in a calm but firm voice, "Stop blowing." Immediately the funnel stopped. But soon right next to it another began to form. My cousin said, "Another one!" So I pointed and commanded it to stop. Again it immediately obeyed and I said, "No high winds or tornadoes!" The winds died down to a reasonable level and I looked at my cousin and his mouth had dropped wide open and he was trembling a little. But then he said defiantly with a sneer, "It's still gonna storm. Look at those clouds headed right for us." I said, "Hmm, watch this. You see that flag pole and those clouds. I command the wind to change direction and the storm to pass." Immediately the flag blew the other direction and the clouds moved that direction too. I looked over at him as his face was ghost white and he was speechless and trembling. But soon he said, "Those other clouds are headed straight for us. Its still gonna rain!" I calmly said "No it isn't," and smiled. He said, "We'll see!" I then looked up at the clouds and thought 'man, I am gonna look like a real idiot soon.' Then the seer realm opened to me and I saw in the spirit the clouds part and move around the fairgrounds on both sides and blue skies above us. So I looked at my cousin and said to both the sky and him, "Those clouds are gonna part and travel around us and we will have blue skies for the rest of the evening." Immediately the sky obeyed and the clouds parted. My cousin began to tremble even more and I said, "What do you think of that? I want to mentor you." He said, "What? In your weather man powers?" I said, "No, that's not weather man powers... that's Christianity... See you still think Christianity is about good and bad and striving for morality. I am telling you Christianity is about power and the power to live a moral life."

My cousin is a church goer but does not really follow the Lord. He said a girl at college he likes "is really cute but she is one of those Christians like you Matthew... very extreme." I laughed at that. My cousin got angry after this for a couple of days but then began to ask me alot of interesting questions. This whole storm deal would shake everyone. My cousin's reaction to the fear of the Lord was anger and shaking. I walked away from him feeling the fear too, but it moved me into communion with the Lord. He spoke very intimately for several hours to me. A pastor friend of mine said I responded to the fear of the Lord and miracles as Moses did and my cousin responded like the people of Israel. The Gypsy man said, "See I told you it would not rain... only a sprinkle." He said this in a joking manner. I thanked the earth for submitting to me, a son of God and I heard the Lord say, "The Earth does not submit to you because you are a son, it submits to you because you are a servant." I understood that to mean that by me learning to submit, I received authority.

I asked the Lord to tell me what blessing He had to offer the region. He told me, "The region is called to great authority... but the people here have not learned to serve and so they will not walk in authority. Observe the people." So I began to watch the people as they threw their trash on the ground when there were many empty trash cans everywhere. I asked several men for a hand lifting heavy ice chests and got angry reactions. I then found out the welfare rate was high in the region. People seemed to expect others to serve them but did not want to be servants themselves. I wept intensely over this and finally the Lord asked me if I would pick up their trash as a prophetic act. I was a little offended at first but then began to pick up trash every night after I got off work. I began to have major spiritual battles after this that I thought were personal but after talking to a pastor friend realized I was disrupting the spirits ruling the area and they were not happy. He prayed for me and I was fine.

Mark 9:35

Know Your Future for Free

I was working for my Dad and Mom in our food concession selling sausage sandwiches and french fries for several weeks. My cousin and a friend of his were working for us. One day as I was walking to the restroom I saw a tent at the fairgrounds with a sign that read "Know Your Future for FREE". At first I thought it was a psychic tent. Then I looked closer and saw 3 person teams ministering and figured it was prophetic evangelism. So I went over to the tent and was approached by a man with a I love Jesus hat. I thought "oh boy... here we go." He asked if I knew what they were doing. I said I saw your sign and wondered what it was all about. He said, "well we are talking about your eternal future." I said, " well great... I do this type of thing too... but I interpret dreams." He said, "How do you do that?" So I told him, "we follow the biblical model of dream interpretation." He said "you mean with Jesus?" I tried not to laugh and said yes. Then he asked if I would interpret 2 of his dreams. I told him I was on the clock and it would be low character if I interpreted his dreams while I was being paid to do a job but I would be back when I was on a break. His mouth dropped open and he said, "well that makes sense."

I asked my Mom if I could take a break and she gave me the night off so I headed back to the tent. The man had two simple training dreams that I interpreted. Then I asked the leader of the outreach if I could minister to their people. After I had permission I began asking people about their dreams. One lady said, "I have alot of dreams but I interpret my own." I almost laughed out loud. So I moved to the next person. She said she didn't dream but would like to dream. So I began to impart. Pretty soon I began to "read her mail" real good. She was fighting back tears as I spoke words of healing and destiny to her. Her husband came over and he had questions about his handicapped daughter. I answered his questions and began to prophesy to him as well. He then had questions about ministry. I began to teach them and soon all the ministry people gathered around as I taught and answered their questions for the next several hours. Even the lady who interprets her own dreams came to hear.

The next day at work my cousins friend asked what I was doing all night at that tent. He is a Christian so I told him, "I was ministering to the people by interpreting their dreams." He said, "how do you do that? Isn't that pretty subjective?" So I quickly taught him about the biblical model for dream interpretation. He said, "sweet could you interpret one I had last night?" I love it when a plan comes together. Hahaha! I interpreted his dream and he said it was right on. The I prophesied and taught him as we made french fries and sausage sandwiches.

I was able to partner with the Lord in all of the above because I have learned to "see what the Father is doing." My hope is that your eyes will be opened to see even more.

Snowboarding Jump

Here is some video of my second time on a snowboard... I was a little uneasy of that steep of a take off...

Courage is not the absence of fear... it is feeling fear but acting anyway and overcoming that fear.

king or ranger

weeping...


do i give my heart away knowing full well i will be hurt... do i love and show kindness letting people in again?

do i become the king or stay the ranger? rangers are alone in the wild... hardened by trials... kings are about their people and weep alot.


do i trust knowing my trust will be broken... love and pain or protect myself... what does it matter anyway? they are here today gone tomorrow... i thought there was friendship... instead of more acquaintances... someday maybe... at least we are kind of close.

I want to be with the lord... i desire to leave everyone behind and grow with him... but then i would kind of be missing the point... so i stay with the group and move through the wilderness slowly instead of running ahead... i love them... but sometimes thats hard.


and i weep...

large picture update

Here is a little glimpse into my life:)

Brandon being a goof

Superbowl Party: the Saints reign and rule this year!

David downhills with cross country skis

Jourdan borrows a sled

The train

Snow and ice in my beard

Liz says'Oh Ky-yul"

Happy Birthday Andy

Wonderful friends

I never seem to be able to escape food service

We are modeling

Applebee's with Elmer

making a ricebag... I needed a little help

A winter carnival on a pond

LOL

Airport Testimony

Hello everyone,

It's been a while since I've seen you all, so wanted to give you an update on all that I've been up to since I've been back in New Hampshire. All of the interns are getting back into the swing of things. The weight and intensity of the program has been building and in order to lighten the atmosphere we have been taking time for activities like sledding. This weekend we are all headed to Boston for a conference with Jim Driscoll about the seer gift.

I want to share a quick testimony. Because of recent events in our world I was concerned about the amount of time i would need to get through airport security so I gave myself several hours. The airport was nearly empty and I was ushered right trough the metal detectors and Homeland Security. I had quite a bit of time to kill before my flight. I honestly did not want to return to the internship so I headed for a T.G.I. Friday's to kill time.

I was mumbling an angry conversation to the Lord while looking at my lunch. A few minutes later a young man carrying a book about business negotiation came and sat next to me at the bar. I felt the Lord's presence and decided to start a casual conversation without any agenda. So I asked to look at his book and said, "Hmm... interesting." Then he asked about what I did for a living. I replied, "I am involved in a mentoring program and I am an intern studying to be a motivational speaker." That is what prophetic people do... motivate people. He asked if I spoke publicly and I told him, "sometimes to a small group of 10 to 20 people, sometimes to larger groups, and one time to over 1000 people." He then asked, "Does that pay well?" I said, "No not really... sometimes I will meet with people without agenda just to answer their questions... and once in a while they will cut me a large check afterwards... but I generally expect nothing." He liked that idea. So I talked about the difference between manipulation and encouragement... about the world system versus Kingdom princaples.

I began to tell him how we do a motivating exercise called "when I look at you I see" and then asked if he would like me to demonstrate it to him. He said, "Sure" so I prophesied over him. He was a little blown away and then asked what flight I was on... we were on the same flight, boarded together, and sat next to each other. For the next several hours he asked me questions about business and I quoted the Proverbs, the parables of Jesus, John Paul Jackson quotes, and revelation I received on the spot with no agenda of preaching at him. I simply answered his questions and used his language - business, not Christianese or New Age language.

When were about to land he said, "So you seem very spiritual." My spirit leaped... here was the open door I had waited patiently on for several hours. I said, "Well as a matter of fact I interpret dreams. I am a Christian but not like any Christians you have ever met." He said, "You're right, I will never be the same after this conversation. You interpret dreams?!? My wife has all these dreams that she believes are spiritual and can direct our lives! May I have your email?"

I gave it to him, and left the plane knowing that I had just partnered with the Holy Spirit to change that man's life. It was a divine encounter that could've easily been missed without having eyes to see and ears to hear what the Father was doing in that young man. I could have been so caught up in my own life that I would have missed what the Lord was doing in his life. I could have even pushed him away if I had a manipulative agenda. All of these things are things I could've easily done, but instead I just walked up to him and had a casual conversation with a new friend.

Now I'm back in New Hampshire with the internship with even more opportunity to influence people's lives while here at Streams. The Lord was so faithful to provide all my expenses for the last couple of months here. A couple people supported me incredibly generously as an absolutely spontaneous act; I didn't even expect those funds to come at all. I was so blessed by it, but now I am in need again. I do not want you to feel pressured... simply ask the Holy Spirit if you should help with my finances. Without support I can not continue in the work of the ministry.

Tax deductible donations can be made to the ministry to help with my ministry expenses. Checks should be made out to "Streams School of Ministry" with a note "for Matthew Keating" and mailed to:

Matthew Keating

340 Stoney Brook Rd.

New London NH 03257

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