Plunder Hell, Populate Heaven: From Prayer to Harvest
By Daniel Ziedins · · 7 min read
There is a line the evangelist Reinhard Bonnke made famous, and I have never been able to shake it: plunder hell, populate heaven. It sounds like a slogan. It is actually a summary of the Gospels.
This post is about how that line and God Heal Our Land belong together — and about an invitation. Katie and I are stepping further into the work God has called us to with e3 Canada, and I want to ask you to come with us. Not as spectators. As partners.
Jesus used the word first
“Plunder” is not a word I would have dared to use about ministry if Jesus had not used it Himself. When He was accused of driving out demons by the power of the devil, He answered with a picture:
“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man's house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.”
— Matthew 12:29
The strong man is bound. The house is open. And the possessions being carried out are not gold — they are people. Every soul set free is something taken back from a kingdom that has no right to it. Paul says the same thing from the other side: God “has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves” (Colossians 1:13). Rescue is a transfer. Someone leaves one kingdom and enters another.
And notice what Jesus says about His Church: “the gates of Hades will not overcome it” (Matthew 16:18). Gates do not attack anyone. Gates are defensive. The picture is not the Church hiding behind its walls while darkness advances — it is the Church advancing, and the walls of darkness failing to hold.
Where God Heal Our Land fits
Everything on this site is built on one verse. “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
So here is the question I keep coming back to: what does a healed land actually look like? Fewer problems, yes. Restored families, safer streets, leaders with integrity. But a land is made of people, and a land is not healed while its people are still lost. The deepest healing a nation can receive is its sons and daughters coming home to God.
That means 2 Chronicles 7:14 and the Great Commission are not two different callings. One is the kneeling. The other is the going. And Jesus Himself joined them.
The prayer that turns into a sending
There is exactly one prayer request Jesus gave His disciples about the lost. Not “pray that they would come to church.” Not “pray that the culture would change.” This:
“The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
— Matthew 9:37–38
Now read the very next verses. In Matthew 10, Jesus calls the twelve together, gives them authority, and sends them out. The people He told to pray for workers became the workers. The answer to their prayer was them.
That is the whole pattern of this movement in one page of the Bible. We pray for Canada — and then God has a habit of handing the answer back to the people who prayed. Isaiah heard it in the temple: “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And he said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8).
We pray for the harvest on our knees. Then we bring it in on our feet.
What “going” has looked like for us
In 2014, Katie and I did not launch a ministry. We just started showing up. Love on Hamilton began with the two of us walking downtown with coffee and one question: “Can we pray with you for anything?” No stage, no strategy, no budget.
God took that small yes further than we could have planned. It grew into more than twenty weekly outreach teams of ordinary believers who now go out every week on their own. It carried the same heart to more cities through Love on The World. It became Overflow, a Sunday evening service launched in 2022 where the Holy Spirit is given full permission to move. It became the Jesus Festival, a free gathering where a whole city comes to worship and hear about Jesus.
And it became a partnership with e3 Canada — together with I Am Second — whose whole focus is equipping believers to evangelize and establish multiplying, life-changing churches. Not one-off events. Churches that make disciples who make disciples.
The next assignment: one hundred
Here is where the vision is going. We have set our hearts on helping establish one hundred multiplying outreach groups — anywhere and everywhere around the world. Groups of ordinary believers, equipped and activated, who go out week after week and raise up others to do the same.
One group is a light. A hundred groups that multiply is a fire. That is what plundering hell and populating heaven looks like when you stop thinking in events and start thinking in generations.
“After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.”
— Revelation 7:9
That multitude is the goal. Heaven populated with people no one could count. Every one of them reached by someone who went — and every one who went was sent by someone who prayed and someone who gave.
Why partnership is biblical, not optional
Paul did not reach the Roman world by himself. He wrote to the church in Philippi thanking God “because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now” (Philippians 1:5). They did not travel with him. They prayed, and they gave, and Paul counted them as full partners in every life that was changed.
Romans 10 lays out the chain plainly: people cannot call on someone they have not believed in, cannot believe without hearing, cannot hear without someone preaching — “and how can anyone preach unless they are sent?” (Romans 10:14–15). Sending is a link in the chain of salvation. When you partner with someone who goes, you are in that chain.
And Paul is careful to say what partners actually receive: “Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account” (Philippians 4:17). Partnership is not charity. It is shared fruit.
Three ways to stand with us
- Pray. Genuinely the most valuable thing anyone gives us. Pray for the hundred groups, for the teams already going out each week, and for the people they will meet this week who do not yet know Jesus.
- Go. Join a team, or ask us to come and equip your church. The training is built for ordinary believers — including people who have never shared their faith before — and it ends on the street, not in a classroom.
- Partner monthly. Monthly partners are what let us plan and go further. Giving happens through our e3 Canada profile, and we pray for our partners by name, daily.
You can read the whole story, meet our team, and find every way to get involved at KD-Ziedins.com. If God is stirring you to partner, the link to our e3 Canada profile is right below this post.
A prayer to finish with
Lord of the harvest, the fields of this nation are ready. We ask You, as You told us to, to send out workers — and we offer ourselves first. Bind the strong man over our cities. Open the doors no one can shut. Heal our land by bringing its sons and daughters home. Let heaven be fuller because we prayed, because we went, and because we gave. Here we are. Send us. In Jesus' name.
Plunder hell. Populate heaven. Heal our land.