As you might have guessed that the DTS for 2008 is over. We had a great time in Asia... It tested us all in many ways. We found out when we were actual plugged into the God or the World. When things would happen around if we reacted or responded. People started to spend time in the early mornings drawing closer to God, and crying out for his heart for the people we were ministering to and getting ministry from them. God is alive and very active in Asia. We were grateful to spend the amount of time we did. Allot of us didn't want the time to end. We were impacted by the love the people had for God the Nations and us. It was a blessing we will never forget.
Now I say, were do you want to go? What do you want to do? Well who's stopping you?
lets just do it...
Jenean.
Monday 18 May 2009
Thursday 4 December 2008
The WIND Up... The Pitch!!!!
So here we all are in the last week of Lecture Phase in Carlisle. It's been an amazing 13 weeks of teaching, revelation, impartation, and all around discipleship, and we've enjoyed it. I've seen growth in everyone here through this time: God's really moved!! His amazing awesomeness has shone through so powerfully and we're all finishing this time in awe and wonder of Him. This week we've had Richard Mayers come down from Scotland to teach about Worship and Intimacy, and to comission and send us off on our outreach. So far it's been a powerful week. We've seen God and experienced him in fresh ways, through various aspects of Worship, Intercession, and Ministry as well as recieving a lot of wisdom from Richard's teaching.
We're planning on having the big sendoff tonight after dinner, then tomorrow the first of us disperse to our various airports to fly to Asia. If all goes to plan we should all be out there by the 9th. We're all getting mad excited to see what God's going to do, and that makes us all the more eager to get out there.
Thanks ever so much to all of you who have been keeping up with us and praying for us! It makes a massive difference.
Blessings----Benjaminitis Rowllech----
We're planning on having the big sendoff tonight after dinner, then tomorrow the first of us disperse to our various airports to fly to Asia. If all goes to plan we should all be out there by the 9th. We're all getting mad excited to see what God's going to do, and that makes us all the more eager to get out there.
Thanks ever so much to all of you who have been keeping up with us and praying for us! It makes a massive difference.
Blessings----Benjaminitis Rowllech----
faith & Finances, Renewing the mind
So this week was about faith and finances, with renewing our minds...
we had a great time with a buddding new speeker... Emma Wagner.
She was a great youthful fresh breathe of air.. hot air... just a joke. She Was great.. It was a chance to take a step back and evaluate what our rooted beliefs were.. Its crazy that we have so many distorted truths in our lives, were we have left things linger and getting balled up and became a place were no matter what God or others say we believe our truth and don't let the truth flow. so we evaluated these things and put the truth in the right spot.
Emma also shared her personal faith in finance stories.. They give off a mind set were you feel That God can do any thing can happen with a God who Provides for his people..
We even Had a American Thanks Giving... We had a big fest played some games and gave an offering for our outstanding school fee's... We all watched God provide for all our needs right there..
... JM
Wednesday 3 December 2008
The Father Heart of GOD...
Well you would think that its a pretty easy subject, but its more intricate yet so easy it as easy as saying yes God come and be my Daddy... that's it come be my daddy and fill me with your love....
This week was a fast fun new crazy time with God the Father, Jesus the Brother/Redeemer, & Holy Spirit the councilor and joy giver... and he likes to give out the Joy of inner restoration.. with many laughs and tears...
Andy Glover was the one bringing all this to us.. he was full of Wisdom and first hand experience on the things that keep us from being real with ourselves and how we stop ourselves from receiving the Fathers heart because we are ashamed at whats deep down in side of us...
In the course of the week we even had a time of getting freed up from the strong holds in our lives... with a joy session, we went to have lectures at time but then the Holy Spirit would start moving again and half the group would be laughing with the Joy, God did some major inner healing with in us...
We ended the week with a whole weekend of Abba's Touch. A seminar where Andy shared his personal journey of coming into the Experience of the Fathers amazing love. That's where we ended up with a 2 1/2 hour "Love tunnel" a place where people can get filled with Joy and A impartation of the fathers love upon their lives we spent that time praying over people and sharing words and pictures from God to them...
The teaching from Andy is a Message that i can't fully write about it hits every one differently. and that's our God he won't give all of us the same outlined picture of what his love must mean its a individual thing for each of us personally with our Daddy God...
This week was a fast fun new crazy time with God the Father, Jesus the Brother/Redeemer, & Holy Spirit the councilor and joy giver... and he likes to give out the Joy of inner restoration.. with many laughs and tears...
Andy Glover was the one bringing all this to us.. he was full of Wisdom and first hand experience on the things that keep us from being real with ourselves and how we stop ourselves from receiving the Fathers heart because we are ashamed at whats deep down in side of us...
In the course of the week we even had a time of getting freed up from the strong holds in our lives... with a joy session, we went to have lectures at time but then the Holy Spirit would start moving again and half the group would be laughing with the Joy, God did some major inner healing with in us...
We ended the week with a whole weekend of Abba's Touch. A seminar where Andy shared his personal journey of coming into the Experience of the Fathers amazing love. That's where we ended up with a 2 1/2 hour "Love tunnel" a place where people can get filled with Joy and A impartation of the fathers love upon their lives we spent that time praying over people and sharing words and pictures from God to them...
The teaching from Andy is a Message that i can't fully write about it hits every one differently. and that's our God he won't give all of us the same outlined picture of what his love must mean its a individual thing for each of us personally with our Daddy God...
The BIBLE yes thats the book for me!!!!!!
Yea!!! So how good of a book is that? it's the most brilliant book i have every picked up and yet when we were going through it with a brilliant man named David Painting, things were popping out that i have never seen before... How Can this be you may ask. Well let me tell you some little Revies that came out to me...
(a)That we had the Authority from when Adam was in the Garden of Eden...
(w)That we gave it away to Satan....
(e)A wole lot of years past by.... many things happened...
(s)A priest Named Zacharias was the first man in 400 years to here from God, and he doubted that God would give him and his wife "Elizabeth" He is God... But his wife did conceive a son and he was "filled with the Holy Spirit" from Conception....
(o) That a young Girl named Mary had a choice to carry the son of God... And She Said yes... although She could have been put to death , Because her and her betrothed were not yet Married...
(m) That Joseph Accepted this and said yes to being Jesus' earthly Father.. and raised him as his own, despite all the shame and disgrace that fell upon them in the situation and time..
(e)That Jesus' first miracle on the face of the earth in his life time was returning honour to a family during a wedding feast.. They had ran out of wine on the first few days of the feast that would have ended it early a could have been very shameful on the family of the bride..
and that all equals AWESOME... and that's just a little bit of it if you want more feel free to join YWAM Carlisle and sign up for the 2009 DTS its not to soon....
See ya ,
Jenean
(a)That we had the Authority from when Adam was in the Garden of Eden...
(w)That we gave it away to Satan....
(e)A wole lot of years past by.... many things happened...
(s)A priest Named Zacharias was the first man in 400 years to here from God, and he doubted that God would give him and his wife "Elizabeth" He is God... But his wife did conceive a son and he was "filled with the Holy Spirit" from Conception....
(o) That a young Girl named Mary had a choice to carry the son of God... And She Said yes... although She could have been put to death , Because her and her betrothed were not yet Married...
(m) That Joseph Accepted this and said yes to being Jesus' earthly Father.. and raised him as his own, despite all the shame and disgrace that fell upon them in the situation and time..
(e)That Jesus' first miracle on the face of the earth in his life time was returning honour to a family during a wedding feast.. They had ran out of wine on the first few days of the feast that would have ended it early a could have been very shameful on the family of the bride..
and that all equals AWESOME... and that's just a little bit of it if you want more feel free to join YWAM Carlisle and sign up for the 2009 DTS its not to soon....
See ya ,
Jenean
Monday 17 November 2008
the eyes of Ken Lowe
Blog 2nd -7th November YWAM DNA Conference The King’s Lodge Nuneaton UK
This was an extraordinary week. Instead of our usual programme of lectures, small groups, intercession and work duties in Carlisle we all climbed aboard a minibus, driven by Richard the Base Leader, and headed 200 miles south to Nuneaton near Birmingham. It is here that YWAM have one of its largest UK Bases called the King’s Lodge. The whole team travelled down in order to attend one of YWAM’s week long DNA Conferences. The Carlisle DTS were assigned a church hall to sleep in which was interesting! Sleeping on mats on a wooden floor is possibly good preparation for outreach. The standard of catering was excellent all week and we only had one work duty for the entire conference which was washing up after lunch on the Monday. A diminution of work duties was appreciated by all!
So what was the DNA conference about? Who better to explain than Youth With A Mission’s founder members themselves - Loren and Darlene Cunningham. They wrote of the conference: "We have a growing anticipation in our hearts regarding the dreams in God's heart for this time! Our sense is that this is to be like a family reunion, with all the extended family members coming together to meet with the spiritual fathers. What a wonderful, faith-filled gathering we're going to have! During this time, we will focus on Jesus and His call to us as a Mission and as individuals. As you are probably aware, we as a Mission (especially Loren!) are not known for focusing on the past. YWAM is a visionary, forward-looking movement! But the New Zealand Maoris have a wise saying: "you walk backward into the future." By that, they mean that you must understand and embrace your past in order to be productive into the future.
In our case, that means we must rehearse the Words of the Lord, identify and understand the values and principles that embody our unique call as a Mission, and make sure that they stand as the firm foundation for what we build into the future. That's why we're calling this a DNA Conference: "DNA" refers to the essential genetics of our missions tribe that we believe God wants to multiply into successive generations of YWAMers for health and fruitfulness.
During this time, we're expecting God to ignite new passion in our hearts for the things on His heart. And we're expecting that together He will speak new things to us for the future. We are looking forward to a wonderful time together of fellowship, networking and hearing from God."
Another key person associated with the conference was a man called Maged (I was sure his name was Maggot until I saw it written down…. Oops! No offence!) He wrote of the conference: "I remember a year ago Darlene asked me "what is on your heart?" I said "for the family in the UK to get together to hear about the vision, values and the journey so far, in this wonderful tribe called YW AM." It's a time where we are going to refresh old friendships and hopefully build new ones. It's a time to listen to the stories of our history so far and glean from the lessons that have been learned along the way. We are looking to build for the future – bringing pleasure to God’s heart, in the dream for YWAM in the years ahead. I hope we are going to have great fun laughing and worshipping together, eating and catching up with one another. We want to hear the Lord and dream into the future to see his will be done and his kingdom come through our obedience. So let’s enjoy His presence and remember His goodness, provision, protection and anointing over the years."
I think in all areas the conference was a great success and for the 250 or so who attended it was very challenging and worthwhile. It was great to see and hear Loren though Darleen had to remain in the States to look after her mother and her teaching was via Genesis which is YWAMs video conferencing system. It was also good to be able to hear the many amazing stories associated with the foundation and development of YWAM from the people who where there from the start and who have pioneered so many different kinds of work over the years.
So after 18 teaching sessions, great worship times many meals and a 25th anniversary celebration for the King’s Lodge we quickly demolished a packed lunch on the Friday and set off back to Carlisle arriving back around 5pm.
This was an extraordinary week. Instead of our usual programme of lectures, small groups, intercession and work duties in Carlisle we all climbed aboard a minibus, driven by Richard the Base Leader, and headed 200 miles south to Nuneaton near Birmingham. It is here that YWAM have one of its largest UK Bases called the King’s Lodge. The whole team travelled down in order to attend one of YWAM’s week long DNA Conferences. The Carlisle DTS were assigned a church hall to sleep in which was interesting! Sleeping on mats on a wooden floor is possibly good preparation for outreach. The standard of catering was excellent all week and we only had one work duty for the entire conference which was washing up after lunch on the Monday. A diminution of work duties was appreciated by all!
So what was the DNA conference about? Who better to explain than Youth With A Mission’s founder members themselves - Loren and Darlene Cunningham. They wrote of the conference: "We have a growing anticipation in our hearts regarding the dreams in God's heart for this time! Our sense is that this is to be like a family reunion, with all the extended family members coming together to meet with the spiritual fathers. What a wonderful, faith-filled gathering we're going to have! During this time, we will focus on Jesus and His call to us as a Mission and as individuals. As you are probably aware, we as a Mission (especially Loren!) are not known for focusing on the past. YWAM is a visionary, forward-looking movement! But the New Zealand Maoris have a wise saying: "you walk backward into the future." By that, they mean that you must understand and embrace your past in order to be productive into the future.
In our case, that means we must rehearse the Words of the Lord, identify and understand the values and principles that embody our unique call as a Mission, and make sure that they stand as the firm foundation for what we build into the future. That's why we're calling this a DNA Conference: "DNA" refers to the essential genetics of our missions tribe that we believe God wants to multiply into successive generations of YWAMers for health and fruitfulness.
During this time, we're expecting God to ignite new passion in our hearts for the things on His heart. And we're expecting that together He will speak new things to us for the future. We are looking forward to a wonderful time together of fellowship, networking and hearing from God."
Another key person associated with the conference was a man called Maged (I was sure his name was Maggot until I saw it written down…. Oops! No offence!) He wrote of the conference: "I remember a year ago Darlene asked me "what is on your heart?" I said "for the family in the UK to get together to hear about the vision, values and the journey so far, in this wonderful tribe called YW AM." It's a time where we are going to refresh old friendships and hopefully build new ones. It's a time to listen to the stories of our history so far and glean from the lessons that have been learned along the way. We are looking to build for the future – bringing pleasure to God’s heart, in the dream for YWAM in the years ahead. I hope we are going to have great fun laughing and worshipping together, eating and catching up with one another. We want to hear the Lord and dream into the future to see his will be done and his kingdom come through our obedience. So let’s enjoy His presence and remember His goodness, provision, protection and anointing over the years."
I think in all areas the conference was a great success and for the 250 or so who attended it was very challenging and worthwhile. It was great to see and hear Loren though Darleen had to remain in the States to look after her mother and her teaching was via Genesis which is YWAMs video conferencing system. It was also good to be able to hear the many amazing stories associated with the foundation and development of YWAM from the people who where there from the start and who have pioneered so many different kinds of work over the years.
So after 18 teaching sessions, great worship times many meals and a 25th anniversary celebration for the King’s Lodge we quickly demolished a packed lunch on the Friday and set off back to Carlisle arriving back around 5pm.
Tuesday 11 November 2008
Spirit&Soul&Body
Spirit, Soul, Body.
This week’s speaker was Mariette Louw an awesome woman of God, originally from South Africa, who now lives in Seamill in Scotland.
Mariette introduced herself as more of a coach than a teacher and that she wanted to start off with prophesying over each of the DTS students. It was really encouraging to hear the prophesies and to get words or pictures for other people. Mariette was really helpful in guiding us through it saying to stay in tune with the Holy Spirit to see what it had to say to each person.
Another thing we looked at was 1 Corinthians 2, as a guide on how to use and be connected to the Holy Spirit. We also looked at how the soul is made up (Mind, Emotions, Will) and what part that plays on our personality. Then we looked at 3 parts that the spirit is partly made up of Conscience, Intuition and Communion. I can identify that my emotions is the stronger part of my soul and that although Communion is the strongest part of my Spirit there is still some work to be done in all three parts.
We also talked about Spiritual Authority. One of the main things that struck me on this topic passivity causes us to co-habit with evil, therefore we should have a passive attitude when dealing with Spiritual Authority and should act where we see the need to.
Something that I hope to be really helpful in the future is a technique for looking at the Scriptures. Instead of just reading through it, take a bible verse and write it out. Then look at which words speak out to you and why they speak out to you and right that down too. If questions have arose from what you have written, take time to listen to God to see what answers he has to give and allow a dialogue to build up with him.
The final day was on the fear of the Lord (Hating Sin & reverence/respect of God) and how we should fear him over man. We also looked at the blessings that we receive through fear of the Lord. The ministry night gave everyone a chance to choose to fear the Lord and to confess any fear of man that might be standing in the way. It was a powerful time hearing everyone being honest and a great finish to a really good week.
Craig Swainson.
This week’s speaker was Mariette Louw an awesome woman of God, originally from South Africa, who now lives in Seamill in Scotland.
Mariette introduced herself as more of a coach than a teacher and that she wanted to start off with prophesying over each of the DTS students. It was really encouraging to hear the prophesies and to get words or pictures for other people. Mariette was really helpful in guiding us through it saying to stay in tune with the Holy Spirit to see what it had to say to each person.
Another thing we looked at was 1 Corinthians 2, as a guide on how to use and be connected to the Holy Spirit. We also looked at how the soul is made up (Mind, Emotions, Will) and what part that plays on our personality. Then we looked at 3 parts that the spirit is partly made up of Conscience, Intuition and Communion. I can identify that my emotions is the stronger part of my soul and that although Communion is the strongest part of my Spirit there is still some work to be done in all three parts.
We also talked about Spiritual Authority. One of the main things that struck me on this topic passivity causes us to co-habit with evil, therefore we should have a passive attitude when dealing with Spiritual Authority and should act where we see the need to.
Something that I hope to be really helpful in the future is a technique for looking at the Scriptures. Instead of just reading through it, take a bible verse and write it out. Then look at which words speak out to you and why they speak out to you and right that down too. If questions have arose from what you have written, take time to listen to God to see what answers he has to give and allow a dialogue to build up with him.
The final day was on the fear of the Lord (Hating Sin & reverence/respect of God) and how we should fear him over man. We also looked at the blessings that we receive through fear of the Lord. The ministry night gave everyone a chance to choose to fear the Lord and to confess any fear of man that might be standing in the way. It was a powerful time hearing everyone being honest and a great finish to a really good week.
Craig Swainson.
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