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
Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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.
Friday, 31 October 2008
Trees
This past week's topic was on "Sin & the Cross". The thought of the Sin & the Cross felt heavy. I imagined having deep sessions of crying and repenting for hours.... the typical things I've experienced during youth retreats at church. However, it was so much more and different than what I had imagined.The very first thing we did on Monday morning was Scripture Prayer. I didn't know what that was, but as Yolanda explained, it was basically reading verses at a time and re-phrasing those verses to make it my prayer. We learned to proclaim and declare using God's authority. It was some powerful stuff!!As the week progressed in learning about Adam & Eve, the tree of the knowledge of Good & Evil, The Fall, etc. there were many new concepts that I never perceived before. But I continued to question, "So where does the cross come in with all this?"Then Wednesday came and I had the biggest revelation. I believe the church has thought me this before, but the revelation wasn't big enough and it never really sunk in deep enough. The speaker explained that there is a difference between the act of sin(s) and being a sinner. When we accept Christ into our lives, we put our old self on the Cross where Christ died on. We are born again as Saints - meaning we are NO longer sinners. We may still sin, but Christ already died once, so He does not need to die again for us! God knows us from beginning to end. He understands that habits are not easy to break. God is not a condemning God with a clip board and waits us to screw up so He can mark us down. We don't have to try to be good all the time and feel shameful when we do fall short. He understands that it's a journey to be righteous and obedient. When we repent for the acts of sin, he doesn't expect us to change instantly. All He wants is for us to allow Him to be part of the process, part of the journey so we can walk without shame and guilt. Once we are Saints, it becames a journey of growth, not a repeated process of feeling shameful that I let Him down again. After this week, I feel so relieved of many stones I've been carrying with me most of my life. God truly revealed that He is the source of all things. I know that I will continue to make mistakes and make poor choices at times. But, I know that God doesn't stand over my shoulders and says, "You bad girl!" He reaches out His hand, picks me up and says, "Let's try this again." This Friday, we got a day off, so I took a nice long walk down the river to soak all of this in. God is truly amazing... and I'm in awe of His faithfulness... and grateful of His love and grace. I found so much peace during this wonderful walk and spend the rest of the day with lots of quality time with my fellow YWAMers. More exciting stuff next week! Many blessings,Adeline Kim
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Relationships
Hey everybody,
This week was about relationships, it was a lot of fun and we learned a lot! The first few days we talked about sexual- and non-sexual-intimacy. We noticed that we (YWAM’ers) go to a very deep level of relationship in a very short time and that sometimes we should spend a bit more time getting to know each other on a more basic level. Further on in the week we talked a lot about SEX, how God made sex so beautiful and how he intended it to be etc etc. Just amazing how everybody opened up and we had really honest conversations about sexuality. Jo is a counsellor so she has this amazing gift of listening to people and we’ve learned a lot from her. Also she had a lot of creative ways to talk about this subject such as group discussions (either small or big groups), games and stories. But the most I’ve learned from here own life story, she was so open and honest about her own struggles in life. This taught me how to be honest and open in relationships and how to accept other people there differences.
Friday Jo left and we went as a group to Scotland, there we went to a Buddhist temple. This was a huge experience for me because I never went to a Buddhist temple before. This place didn’t look like Scotland at all only the bad weather reminded me that we really where in Scotland. We learned a lot on this day about the culture of the people we’re going to meet in Asia and we could experience a little bit of how it is going to be living around people who believe in Buddha. All the monks and nuns wore red robes and they had bold heads, and our guide explained a lot of the symbols behind the traditions and attributes in the temple. Overall this was a great week, we’ve learned a lot and we have become closer as a group. I think we all look forward to the coming weeks and to our outreach! I hope my English made a little bit of sense… and I’m sorry if it didn’t make sense at all. But the key thing is that Gods love you and that he made us to be in a great relationship with Him and with each other!
Gods zegen (God bless),
Vera Arents
This week was about relationships, it was a lot of fun and we learned a lot! The first few days we talked about sexual- and non-sexual-intimacy. We noticed that we (YWAM’ers) go to a very deep level of relationship in a very short time and that sometimes we should spend a bit more time getting to know each other on a more basic level. Further on in the week we talked a lot about SEX, how God made sex so beautiful and how he intended it to be etc etc. Just amazing how everybody opened up and we had really honest conversations about sexuality. Jo is a counsellor so she has this amazing gift of listening to people and we’ve learned a lot from her. Also she had a lot of creative ways to talk about this subject such as group discussions (either small or big groups), games and stories. But the most I’ve learned from here own life story, she was so open and honest about her own struggles in life. This taught me how to be honest and open in relationships and how to accept other people there differences.
Friday Jo left and we went as a group to Scotland, there we went to a Buddhist temple. This was a huge experience for me because I never went to a Buddhist temple before. This place didn’t look like Scotland at all only the bad weather reminded me that we really where in Scotland. We learned a lot on this day about the culture of the people we’re going to meet in Asia and we could experience a little bit of how it is going to be living around people who believe in Buddha. All the monks and nuns wore red robes and they had bold heads, and our guide explained a lot of the symbols behind the traditions and attributes in the temple. Overall this was a great week, we’ve learned a lot and we have become closer as a group. I think we all look forward to the coming weeks and to our outreach! I hope my English made a little bit of sense… and I’m sorry if it didn’t make sense at all. But the key thing is that Gods love you and that he made us to be in a great relationship with Him and with each other!
Gods zegen (God bless),
Vera Arents
WOW WHAT A WEEK! This week has been an amazing week for us all! God Brought us Yan Nicholls and now our lives will never be the same about evangelism ever again. Yan took evangelism to a whole new level. I think I speak for everyone when I say we all have a complete new hunger for evangelism. He shows us how we don't need to miraculously save people every time we go out there. But were getting people closer and closer god every time we step. Yan took the angle scale and just completely explained in a form in which if the angle scale was food we would've been scoffing it down. As were out in botchergate on Friday nights we will attempt to apply what we've learnt and its all about trial and error. You get the abusive people, the nutters, the nice old grandmas and then there's the people who are just hungry for god and need the mud wiped out of their eyes and that is why evangelism is so important! God is good! Amen – Ezra McIntyre
Monday, 6 October 2008
Another week bites the dust.
Week four of the DTS was Abrahamic Covenant weekThe first lecture week of the DTS we spent looking at who God is. The second week was spent looking at who we are. And this third week has been spent looking at what God is up to, and what his unchanging purpose is. Steve Sullivan took us through the Bible to show us that God really is 100% committed to his promise, which he confirmed to Abraham with an oath. God wants to bless us, and he wants us to be a blessing to all peoples! What a wonderful God he is! Going through the Bible confronted those of us that have gone to Sunday school with the fact that we often have ideas about the Bible which are not entirely true. And we found that Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, king David, king Solomon, the prophets, Daniel, Nehehiah, Peter, Paul, the writer of Hebrews and Jesus (to name a few), all had the Abrahamic Covenant in their pockets! This week we had quite a few young people turn up to the dry bar we put on in the city centre, on the Friday evening. We’re really enjoying getting to know the youth of Carlisle and hanging out with them.After having done a prayer walk down Botchergate in the morning we set out into the cold on the Friday night more equipped and more aware of what we’re coming up against in our evangelism there. We went out armed with prayer and lots of coffee, and were ready to bless people! It’s great to see people’s faces light up when they see us coming with a warm coffee for them on these cold October nights... and it’s especially nice to get into conversation with people and be able to talk with them about Jesus!Anyway, now that we’ve looked at what the family business is, we’re going to spend next week looking at getting really good at doing being a real blessing to people, and clearly communicating Christ to them!- Emma Wagner
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