He is faithful! 

YWAMERS ON THE FIELD...THEY NEED YOUR SUPPORT 
From :Laura Petroff October 11, 2008 at 4:23am Some of you know what I've been up to, some don't, so briefly... I am in Redding California in my 3rd year at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (check out www.ibethel.org). It has been a wild ride and I thank God for the journey He has me on. For my 3rd year I am interning in the 1st year class for a first year pastor named Barbara. Barbara and her family are from Hawaii and have hearts for the islands like myself. Every year a part of the school is a missions trip. This year I have the opportunity to go back to French Polynesia. (I was also there 4 yrs ago on a missions trip with Youth With A Mission, Island Breeze team). Briefly about the trip...prophetic worship and intercession will be the focus to ignite a fire amongst the youth of the islands. We will be partnering with church leaders and releasing revival with an emphasis on fruit that remains. So I am just putting it out there to see if anyone would like to partner with me. Being Canadian I can't work in the States so I am in need of some miracles. If it's on your heart and you would like to be a part of this mission, either in pray and/or finances, please let me know. Love and Blessings Laura If you would like to give, this is how that can be done... Send to: Bethel Church, Attn: Laura Petroff, 933 College View Drive, Redding CA, 96003. In order to receive a tax-deductible receipt, please make the check payable to Bethel Church and leave the memo area of the check blank. Include with the check a separate slip of paper that includes the student's full name and their specific trip location. This will ensure your gift is designated for this particular trip and person. This gift is non-refundable, and if for any reason a team member or team does not go, the money will support another mission trip sponsored by Bethel.

ChanGE 

Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation! A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.

Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says, "Absolutely Mom, I love your cake."

"Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers. "Yuck" says her daughter.
"How about a couple raw eggs?" "Gross, Mom!"

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?" "Mom, those are all yucky!"

To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by
themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!

God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!

God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.  Whenever you want to talk, He'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.

So take some time today and NOTICE HIM. He is waiting to hold you close to Him and set your feet dancing for joy.

Thanks Tammy for this sweet reminder

Leadership Shift Pt. 1 
by Loren Cunningham

One of the biggest changes in history is taking place right now and many have hardly noticed. When a major shift of thinking happens it's called a paradigm shift. Such a shift occurred when Columbus discovered the earth was round, not flat. Another paradigm shift was when Peter received a vision of unclean things which he was commanded to eat. God was changing the way things had always been done. Gentiles were to be a part of the Church! It was a radical, unnerving idea. It took the early church awhile to adjust their thinking. The leadership shifted forever from Jerusalem. Never again would it be an all-Jewish club.

Now God is again making radical changes. The leadership of the Church, particularly world missions, is shifting. Christianity is exploding all over Latin America, Africa, and in parts of Asia. We need to see what God is doing and adjust our thinking and the way we do things.

Did you know...

*that just 90 years ago the majority of born again Christians were in North America and Europe--yet today two-thirds of all believers are in Asia, Africa and Latin America?

*that 90 years ago there were only 50,000 evangelicals in all Latin America, from Mexico to the southern tip of Chile--yet today there are 40 million believers in Latin America?

*Seven hundred are being saved every hour in Latin America?

*The second largest church in the world, with 160,000 members, is in Santiago, Chile?

I went to Chile recently for a five-week, 20-city tour. We covered 2,000 miles of that long finger of land, from Arica in the deserts of the north to Punta Arenas, the world's southernmost city (about 600 miles from Antarctica). It is a stunning country, with mountains like the Swiss Alps, fjords like Norway, and glacial beauty like Greenland. It is a land rich with minerals and farmlands.

(to be continued)
[Reprinted with permission from Ministries Today July/August 1993. Copyright Strang Communications Co., USA. All rights reserved. www.ministriestoday.com]

The Water I Love 

I
need it, want it, crave it, will do anything to get it. Ahhhh  privacy!
Solitude! Away from every other person! Secret! Quiet! Or the kind of
noise
I want! Freedom to wear what I will, dance when I want to, eat what I
please. When I want to.
Holding me is like holding fire. I will burn your hands. I push people
back
and I lead them on. I need to learn how to let things go. I need to
start
living without fear. I need to be willing to fall down. I need to be
set
free but

the journey is difficult.

Holding God is like cupping water. It gets hard to hold all of Him in.
But
there is love inside of Him that I see and feel. He never
pushes
me back or holds me down, but He chokes the words inside my heart in
light
of his Holiness.

He is within me and my heart chockes to surrender to His will

refresh me, fill me , cleanse me with one of your drops

the journey is difficult

A radically different kind of leadership 

 
Luke 22:25-27
Leadership

From its central plaza the Romanian capital of Bucharest appears to be one of the richest and most magnificent cities in the world. Everything is built on a grand scale, calculated to impress even the most widely traveled visitor. But a closer look reveals a tragically different reality. Behind the facade of its grandiose public buildings are crumbling slums and crushing poverty.

Nicolae Ceausescu paid for this “movie-set” city by enslaving his own people and robbing them of their dignity. As Romania’s communist dictator, he ruled for decades, becoming progressively more obsessed with his own power and reputation. Eventually, his people overthrew his government and executed him. Ceausescu’s leadership style represents an extreme example of “the kings of the Gentiles” whom Jesus refers to in Luke 22:25.
Thankfully, most of the excesses of leadership that we see today aren’t so harsh. But all leaders are susceptible to the same human tendency to put pride, position and power before the good of the people they lead. Jesus observed this disposition in his disciples and countered it with strong correction. He taught them a radically different style of leadership, and, more important, he modeled it for them.

Although Jesus possessed awesome power, he didn’t use it to impress or lord it over anyone. He lived in quite the opposite spirit. Day after day, Jesus sacrificed his own comfort and desires to serve the people to whom he was sent. He wanted to show his disciples that leadership in God’s kingdom was all about servanthood, and not about power.

Yet after nearly three years of living with Jesus, the disciples still hadn’t fully absorbed this important principle. As they were eating their last meal together (John 13:1-17), Jesus humbled himself to stoop down and wash their feet. This act was dramatically inappropriate for the culture of the day. It embarrassed the disciplesèbut it helped Jesus finally get his message of servant leadership across to them. He concluded by saying, “Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.”
We also will be blessed if we do these things. Those of us who have leadership responsibilities now should be continually modeling our leadership after that of Jesus and other godly Biblical leaders. For those who are not leaders yet, the study of the principles of servant leadership could be part of God’s preparation in their lives.
When God does move us into places of leadership, we need to be constantly on guard against the sin of pride. There is something of the dictator in all of us, and it surfaces when we begin thinking of leadership in terms of position, power and recognition. Those who lead with this kind of spirit will soon stir up jealousy, division and all kinds of abuses.

By contrast, “Jesus-style” leadership is humble, loving and focused on the needs of others. When we follow God’s model, he makes us channels of his blessing to our families, friends and neighbors.

Updates 2008 : THE KINGS FOUNDATION 

Over the years, I have seen this company invest amazingly into the lives of people and currently as I sit as a Board Member for the Kings Foundation, I would like to thank them for all the hard work that goes into changing the lives of other. Please invest in this project, it is changing the lives of youth and adults across Africa

We are committed to working in Africa until at least 2010. Despite huge volumes of aid over many years, Africa remains in desperate need; it has the highest rates of poverty, disease and conflict and its children remain vulnerable. We aim to improve the quality of children’s lives in Africa by using sport programmes and development programmes to address their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.

How it started

From an initial short-term visit to Botswana by a team of sports coaches and children’s workers in 2002 (Rachel's Story), our outreach programmes have developed to benefit many people in Africa.  Rapid progress has already been made and the outcomes have vastly exceeded expectations.

Our Purpose

Our purpose is clear; to help develop indigenous individuals and organisations that work with children and young people, so that in turn they can use sport to share God’s love in words and action. Our development programmes include modelling sports ministry and leaving essential equipment and resources so that sports ministries can be established and sustained.

What we do

As part of modelling effective sports ministry, teams reach out with programmes to schools, churches and orphanages in the very heart of communities in need.

Hundreds of local volunteers have been trained and developed in sports ministry; it is they that are the key to long term sustainable success (Mothusi's Story). Thousands of children have already attended programmes and now many attend weekly programmes run by these new leaders.

Mothusi is a teenager with an amazing story; he has difficult family circumstances and he was homeless. The King’s Foundation has been part of Mothusi’s transformation to a community leader and role model.

Mothusi is now training in South Africa to become Assistant Pastor at a church, he is a role model for the teenagers and children around him. During the King’s Foundation sports outreach programmes, he interpreted for the UK team to the younger children and led the local volunteers with great enthusiasm, showing maturity beyond his years.

At a volunteer presentation ceremony at the end of their development programme, Mothusi spoke about how much the programmes had enthused and equipped him to run future programmes and how he was looking forward to being a role model for his peers in Old Naledi Village. Mothusi now leads the “AWANA” sports outreach programme for 150 children every Saturday afternoon in Old Naledi.

There are many Mothusi’s throughout the world. If we can work with them, capture their enthusiasm, release their gifts and talents so that they can realise their potential, then the effect on them and on communities like Old Naledi will be extraordinary.

Jump.....He will catch you! 

Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried.
Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied.
I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate,
And the Master so gently said, "Child, you must wait!"

"'Wait?', you say, wait!" my indignant reply.
"Lord, I need answers, I need to know why!
Is your hand shortened? Or have you not heard?
By FAITH I have asked, and am claiming your Word.

"My future and all to which I can relate
Hangs in the balance, and you tell me to WAIT?
I'm needing a 'yes,' a go-ahead sign,
Or even a 'no' to which I can resign.

"And Lord, you promised that if we believe
We need but to ask, and we shall receive.
And Lord, I've been asking, and this is my cry:
I'm weary of asking! I need a reply!"

Then quietly, softly, I learned of my fate
As my Master replied once again, "You must wait."
So, I slumped in my chair, defeated and taut
And grumbled to God, "So, I'm waiting. . .for what?"

He seemed then to kneel and His eyes wept with mine,
And he tenderly said, "I could give you a sign.
I could shake the heavens, and darken the sun.
I could raise the dead, and cause mountains to run.
All you seek, I could give, and pleased you would be.
You would have what you want--but, you wouldn't know ME.

"You'd not know the depth of my love for each saint;
You'd not know the power that I give to the faint;
You'd not learn to see through the clouds of despair;
You'd not learn to trust just by knowing I'm there;
You'd not know the joy of resting in me
When darkness and silence were all you could see.

"You'd never experience that fullness of love
As the peace of my Spirit descends like a dove;
You'd know that I give and I save. . .(for a start),
But you'd not know the depth of the beat of my heart.

"The glow of my comfort late into the night.
The faith that I give when you walk without sight,
The depth that's beyond getting just what you asked
Of an infinite God, who makes what you have LAST.

"You'd never know, should your pain quickly flee,
What it means that 'My grace is sufficient for thee.'
Yes, your dreams for your loved ones overnight would come true,
But, oh, the loss! if I lost what I'm doing in you!

"So, be silent, my child, and in time you will see
THAT THE GREATEST OF GIFTS IS TO GET TO KNOW ME.
And though oft may my answers seem terribly late,
My wisest of answers is still but to WAIT."

-- Author Unknown

Emmunah 

Emmunah’s Journey

A walk of faith

By Jillian M Sigamoney

Introduction

Crawling

Leaping

Wall by wall

A Breaking Temple

Full Circle

Launch of book in 2009......promotions for the book will begin in 2009...request your copy from: theequipmentcentre@yahoo.com

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For more information about The Kings Foundation :

http://www.kingsfoundation.org/africa.htm