A true friend and fellow minister
„„Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?”” (Proverbs 20:6).
I met Pastor Daniel over Skype, in a miraculous way, as an answer to my prayers. During the last several years, I have been fervently praying to the Lord to surround me with faithful people. Besides this, I have always dreamt to see the Holy Land and have prayed for the Lord to make that possible.
I thank the Lord with all my heart that He had me meet this person – he is so humble and full of the love of God! His first coming to Bulgaria was during November 2008, and the people here were really touched by his ministry. After that he invited me to Jerusalem and during March 2009 my wife and I visited the Holy Land. During April 2009 Pastor Daniel visited Bulgaria for the second time.
During his first coming to my house, I asked Pastor Daniel to become my spiritual father and he started crying. I did too. We prayed together and then he told me: “I will never control You” These were his first words, without him knowing that I hate to be controlled by people. I realized this was indeed a God connection.
We all have a spiritual Father in Heaven, but we also need spiritual mentors on the Earth. That’s why I am very thankful to the Lord, that pastor Daniel not only mentors me, but is also praying all the time, for me and my house, as well as for the Church. I am happy that there are people like him, who can always be trusted.
Pastor Daniel is helping the church very much – with his messages and prayers, as well as with his reproofs and corrections – both when he is in Bulgaria and when he is abroad. I believe that this anointed person has been sent to me by the Lord, to take care of me and of Life in Holiness Reformed Church.
After his coming, some of the brothers and sisters from the church shared with me: “Iliya, many people have come to our church from abroad, but there is something different about Pastor Daniel. We have the feeling that an angel has visited us”
We really had a great time with him. I can’t describe with words everything that the Lord is doing for us and on the inside of us. It’s so important to be with the right people at the right place and time!
With love: Iliya Panov
Apostle Ivo Koychev is from a Gypsy origin. He has been married for 23 years and has two sons. In the end of 1995 the Lord calls him in the ministry with the word from Joshua 1:8-9
„„This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.””
Through this word the Lord has called him to lead the community of believers entrusted to him, into His inheritance. During 1996, apostle Ivo Koychev establishes “Life in Glory” Apostolic Christian Center. Today, together with his wife, he is building a mature, multiethnic community (Bulgarians, Gypsies, Turks and Ukraininas), which is prepared to enter into its inheritance. Apostle Ivo Koychev has a great heart for the Hebrew nation and loves Israel. He believes that the Lord is doing something new among the Gypsy and Hebrew nations.
I am from a Gypsy origin and am not ashamed of it. The Lord has desired that I be born a Gypsy, and not an American. Neither do I regret the fact that I am living in Bulgaria. The Lord is perfect and He has not made a mistake, choosing for me to be born exactly in this country and to be exactly of this background.
I believe the Lord is doing something in my nation, as well as in the nation of Israel. Years in a row I have wondered why the devil has destroyed so many Gypsies and Jews through Hitler. Why these two nations? The Lord often chooses the small things, the simple, rejected, to shame the great and high ones. Years ago I was with my whole family in a Church in Germany. When they found out that we are Gypsies, the pastor asked us to come forward and all asked forgiveness from us, because their fathers had killed many Gypsies in the concentration camps, during World War II. The whole Church had knelt and all were crying. I didn’t even imagine that later I would meet Jews, and even be in Israel.
I love the Hebrew nation and know that the Lord is doing something between the Jews and the Gypsies. It is not a coincidence that the Lord had me meet the Messianic Pastor Daniel Rozen. Our connection is a new beginning – a bridge between Gypsies and Jews, come together in the name of Jeshua, so we can manifest God’s Glory.
