Jonathan Brenneman

About Jonathan

Jonathan Brenneman was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Pennsylvania. Although a very troubled child, he was at the same time very religious. He read the Bible from cover to cover when he was seven years old, all the while questioning and wondering about the existence of God.

When Jonathan was nine years old, he woke up one morning with bad back pain. His mother prayed for him, and to his surprise, he felt something like a hot ball of energy rolling up and down inside his back. The pain melted away! It was shocking, to say the least, but it convinced him God did exist! He later told his friends, “I know that God is real. I felt his hand on my back.”

In spite of this experience, however, Jonathan still had no peace. He prayed the “sinner’s prayer” but with no change until two years later when he had a “born again” experience. It felt like heaven opened and unexplainable joy and peace descended upon him! He was different and knew it! The things he had felt so guilty about that he tried unsuccessfully to change were simply gone.

After this time, Jonathan dedicated his life to the Lord as a missionary, going on his first mission trip at age fourteen. As a teenager and young adult, he continued to travel and learn languages. Then, when he was twenty-one and during a time of desperation, Jonathan went to a Christian conference where he was very encouraged and touched by the Lord. It was the start of a supernatural lifestyle and growth in spiritual gifts during which time many amazing miracles and healings began to happen.

Jonathan worked in construction, but in between jobs, he began to visit churches in the United States and Canada as well as in Latin America and Eastern Europe. His ministry journeys have included Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Canada, Mexico, Belize, and Brazil. In these places, Jonathan has encouraged believers,  shared testimonies, and spoken with unbelievers, gaining opportunities to pray for them. He also worked with children and seniors. He dedicated a lot of time to talking with, praying for, and encouraging people wherever he went. In the meantime, he experienced an expansion of love for people that is beyond understanding, for it is God’s love. Jonathan believes it is a wonderful and tremendous privilege to be able to serve the people for whom Jesus gave his life.

Jonathan now lives in Rio de Janeiro Brazil with his wife Elizabeth and daughter Rebekah. He loves people very much, enjoys being with them, and rejoices at seeing what the Holy Spirit does in their lives. He likes to minister in the role of caring for people, laying hands on the sick, visiting the elderly, and working with children–always with the intention of loving them so they, in turn, will learn to love others with the love of God.


Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

—1 John 4:1-4 (NIV)


Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

—1 John 4:7-18 (NIV)


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