We are getting excited about Christmas break and our visit with Sharley, Janey and Zeb.  They are very important to us and we are excited about what God is doing in there lives.

In early December we were visited by David Hogan.  Hogan is another one of God’s generals.  He leads a ministry in Mexico.  His ministry has seen over 500 people raised from the dead.  He spoke to the students.  He is very powerful and to say the least someone who is not swayed easily.  He has been shot twice and has actually died twice but brought back to life by God thru prayer.  He is driven for the gospel and the amount of healings he spoke about gave everyone an excitement about what God wants to do in all of our lives. 

During the month we helped and attended Bethel’s Holiday Feast.  It was a wonderful event and very powerful.  The church invites over 1000 homeless people off the street and provides them a wonderful meal with the best fine china and entertainment.  They also have people from the church donate new clothing, shoes, toiletries, sleeping bags and tents.  Each person who attends gets an opportunity to pick a huge plastic bag with any clothes they want.  Some got new sleeping bags and a few got tents.  I have never seen so many people blessed and who actually felt blessed.  We saw over 250 people give there hearts to the Lord!!!  It was very powerful to us – Dave was part of the security team and actually got to hug about 90% of the people attending as they got off each bus.  What an honor!!  This event deeply touched both Dayna and myself.  She had attended the day before and took part in making over 1200 meals.  God is so good!!

Bill spoke to us during one session and again told us that the Lord has given complete promise for every situation in life – right now.  Those who are satisfied with lack can’t set our boundaries. He always rewards growth with pruning. He takes off the junk and keeps the authentic.  He wants us to carry the weight of the anointing.  God has set us up to make it!!  If we can make it thru the trials we will do very well. Bill warned us to weather seasons of tribulations and betrayals.  We need to stay away from bitterness and unforgiveness.  It is all in how you handle it. If we don’t live by the praises of man, we won’t die by there criticism.  He reminded us that if we are never opposed by the enemy, we may be going in the same direction!!

On Thursday – Dec. 8^th Banning spoke on community and the value of it.  He taught that we cannot do anything without being in community and it is exactly what Jesus wants.  We need to finish strong and stay strong thru it.  Community is big to God and community is a choice each of us has to make.  Banning told us that when we submit our lives to someone, it is an act of humility.  The fruit is not always evident but it will eventually be seen. Banning cautioned that as a leader isolation is a killer!  Discouragement means that we are disarmed of courage!  Christianity works best within community.  A disconnect with community, can lead to disconnect with God.  In Mathew 5:23 while having communion with God – we are told if there is a disconnect with someone then we are to go and make it right and then return and finish with God – in other words, community matters to God.  Community works and brings – Strength, Safety, Speaks in and thru community and encourages all us. 

Dave attends a Home Group on Friday afternoons. They go downtown and love on people, evangelize and have seen many healing miracles.  Last Friday three of them went downtown and walked into the middle of the Redding 99 group.  The group that is protesting across North America as they feel they are being ripped off by the financial industry.  It was very interesting to speak with the 4-5 people in the tent.  They were very radical socialites.  They wanted nothing to do with God and one lady actually screamed at the group.  By the time they finished one guy who had severe pain and little mobility in his back allowed them to pray for him.  He was healed and was doing all kinds of bending exercises without any pain.  The lady who screamed at us gave us a big hug when we left and invited us back to visit.  

We learned that if He is an all consuming fire – we should always be on fire.  We need to seek heaven so heaven can transform us so that the world around us can be transformed!!

We are being taught that we need to be confident and walk in confidence for God.  That he is confident with us and we need to be confident.  That too many churches have gotten people to feel guilty for being confident and teach people to walk in false humility.  Subsequently most people walk so squashed and lowly that they cannot accomplish half of what God has called of them.  Arrogance says what can I get out of this? Confidence says, what can I give to this situation.  Confidence and Arrogance can look very similar and can walk side by side. Confidence will look different on each person.  We are learning that God trusts in me and God trusts me more than I trust myself.  We must not limit the anointing to what we think we can do – God has given each of us so much more!!

Bill finished our Christmas week talking about living in the fear of man.  He told us that one of the greatest obstacles that we will face on earth is fear of man.  Fear of man often masquerades as wisdom.  If you live cautiously all your friends will call you wise – you just won’t move any mountains!!  We need to remember that the bible says that the enemy moves around like a roaring lion but it doesn’t say he has any teeth…  We need to remember that the fear of man will mess up our capacity to lay foundations on earth as God put his Word in our mouths.. Bill finished by telling us that as Priests today in this world we need to be real, accessible and relatable to people.

Kris Valloton spoke to us about false prophets, what they look like and how to deal with them.  Some false prophets carry the Spirit of Divination and some have simply fallen away from God, however, there anointing simply comes from somewhere  else other than God.  Kris stressed some thoughts on how to deal with False Prophets when we lead ministries. 

Wow, it is hard to believe that we have now been there for three months.  God has done some incredible work in both Dayna and me. We stand in awe of what we are learning and know that we will never be the same.  We will not stand any longer for the same old!! God has called us to a much greater path than we ever imagined and we intend on honouring God for the rest of our days.  We have had so many prophetic words spoken over us by Senor staff here.  The message is becoming very clear to us.  We are so pumped about the future and find it hard to take one day at a time.  In order for us to learn what we must – we must remain focussed on each day and thank the Holy Spirit that He has us in exactly the right spot that we need to be at this moment.  We are so excited about the next five months that lay ahead.  

Danny Silk spoke to the church about what leads to breakthrough.  Pressure – increasing pressure. When we live in a place of pressure or resistance we can work thru the breakthrough and get to the next level.  There is a intensity or an exposing of what’s inside when the pressure starts to do its work.  Danny said that we don’t want the pressure to go away or we will never see the breakthrough.  Seems human nature that when things get uncomfortable, we want to stop and go back to the old way – where we feel most comfortable. The common denominator for the resistance in life is a new venture or risk and opportunity.  He reminded us that previous to our last breakthrough our current safe boundaries were once an unknown frontier.  We need to constantly remind ourselves of our former testimonies of breakthrough in our lives. 

During the last week of November, the school had purity week.  The singles were separated from the married folks and they received there own messages on purity, dating and boundaries. Bethel teachers were very frank on the topics.  The married folk received teaching on marriage, communication and being connected in all circumstances.  It was a wonderful but tough week for all.  We need to realize that when love leaves our relationships, fear is the spirit that is left over. If we bring love back into the relationship the fear subsides. 

Dave has been taking Sozo (Inner healing) training.  Dawn De Silva who leads the Transformation Center at Bethel taught on the Spirit of Entitlement.  It seems that we all develop that.  The spirit that says we are entitled to things – things that only God can choose to give or take.  When we don’t receive those things in our time we tend to be offended by God and we can develop an unhealthy relationship with our Father.  We really need to ensure that we don’t get offended when we don’t get what we asked for (healing, favour etc).  The tactics of the enemy will always be the same – 1) challenge the word and 2) stands in your experiences and mocks at the failure of the Word coming to pass - i.e. healing.   We need to walk past anger and offence to see the miracle that God is doing or is about to do.  We have learned that our job is to believe that God – can, wants and will do it!!  Amen

Bill spoke to us about the word study of “help mate”.  He reminded us that Paul was really talking about Christ and His church. He spoke about the bible sometimes being interpreted by people who really aren’t in love with Jesus.  People cannot be punished into purity – we need to approach life and all its issues consistent with someone in love with Jesus.  Bill reminded us that sometimes it is so easy for people to be caustic when they teach but they will teach differently if they love Jesus.  If they have that good relationship with the Father they will teach differently.  He suggested that we don’t sit under a teacher that is not in love with Jesus.  God is the rewarder!  That is why two trees were put in the garden – you can’t give a reward without an option!  Discipline trims us so we can hold up under the weight of blessing so we can extend that blessing to someone else.  The enemy works so hard to remove dreams, by causing worries (especially finances).  The more stress and worries the less the dreams. We need to remember that because of the blood we are qualified to stand face to face with the King!!

In the Kingdom – everyday is:

Every day is the day of Jubilee

Every day is a day of rest

Every hour is Happy Hour!!! 

Hi everyone – November and December has been very busy months for us. In October we attended Janey and Zeb’s wedding in Ventura California.  It was a fun and beautiful time.  This year, we have had the fun of celebrating two (2) Thanksgiving’s – US and Canada.  It was a fun time and we had turkey dinners with many different friends from all over the world.  School continues to be a blessing in our lives.  The pace continues to be intense but the Spirit is teaching so much to all of the students. November was a tough month as the homework continued to increase and we are into month three (3).  I think all the students are looking forward to the three (3) week break at Christmas.  God is good and we are continuing to learn so much.  Every time you feel your capacity to learn is at maximum more nuggets come!! God is really renewing all of our minds and hearts to understand the calling He has for each person.  His love is intense and we are really seeing that the field is ready for harvest. 

In November, we continued to work on our identity in Christ.  It’s about God’s presence, building on it and walking in it all day long. We are beginning to understand that signs that make us wonder are good!!  We need to think about finishing this race well!  We need to embrace the season and thrive in the process.  Dayna and I are determined to embrace each day and each week with the thought of finishing this journey well.  We are all in a process our entire life and we have determined that like Nehemiah we need to build the wall that God has placed in front of us – don’t look to the right or left but just deal with the wall in front.  It is so easy to get distracted by someone else’s wall. We have seen in our past how the enemy wants us distracted from our wall by putting someone else’s wall beside us that seems to be bigger.  Human nature gets us focussed on that wall. We are learning to deal with the wall in front and letting our creator deal with the rest.  We are constantly reminded that we cannot rush the process and recognize the season we are in.  Seems like we all want the end but we do not like the process.  In Bethel, with all the prophetic words spoken over us it is easy to look at the end (prophetic declaration) – the problem is that there is a process that you have to go thru to get there.  A good example of this is a truck pulling a trailer and the driver goes too fast around the corner.  The trailer jack knives and actually ends up going faster than the cab out of control.  God’s process allows us to be in control and not miss being able to carry and lead what God is giving us. 

Bill continues to speak to the students about the value of thankfulness. It is the most undervalued trait.  Thankfulness is humble in nature.  Thankfulness is such a Kingdom principle. It is confidence in who God is and His nature. Thankfulness can break the Spirit of Division amongst the churches and I believe break issues over a Nation. 

Chris O spoke to us about evangelism and spoke about the world population of 7 billion people.  He said that there have been several recent prophetic messages that God is getting ready for a 1 billion soul harvest.  This means that the body of Christ must work together.  That the evangelist must embrace the church and for years the evangelist was a long ranger and not really tied to the churches.  Evangelists must embrace the world and the church at the same time. 

In late November, Bill spoke to us about family life.  He said that God was number 1 and there was no number 2! God takes all we do personal.  He said that pastors have always struggled with doing so much in the Kingdom but allowing there families to be stretched and strained.  He told the students that this is unacceptable.  That we are to do unto the Lord with people in our church but also our families and when we spend time with our spouses or kids it is being done unto the Lord.  Everything we do then becomes an expression of love to God.  Bill stressed to the students that they need to capture their lives and make it (all of life) an offering unto the Lord.  We always need time to rest in ministry and that becomes a priority.  If we don’t rest we will loose everything.  He told us that when we come home from our jobs we need to say a simple prayer – “you are not off work yet” (good advise for all of us).  We need to remember that we are loved by God and we are the apple of His eye and not His PC!!  We need to speak words of affirmation, love and destiny over our spouses and kids!!  John the Baptist’s destiny was spoken over him when he was 8.  He didn’t know it but the words were spoken and He walked into that destiny.  Don’t wait for your kids to know the Lord to teach them – show them how to pray and worship before they come to know Him.  

  Hello everyone! Id like to post some information about our Mission trip that we will be going on in March 2012. We have been chosen to be part of a team of 40 individuals going to New Zealand  and Tahiti. We have never been there and quite honestly, among the 60 places we could have gone, this was not at the top of our list. We wondered what God was doing in putting us on this team, but since we have had a team meeting with our leaders (John and Barbara Kealiinohomoku- He's Hawaiian and has a heart for the Polynesian people) and have spoken with some New Zealanders that are at Bethel as students, we have such peace and are completely stoked!
 
So, what on earth could we be doing in New Zealand/Tahiti you might be asking? The answer is...ALOT!
First of all, Auckland New Zealand has the largest population of Polynesians in the world. This is where we will start our journey on March 22. We have been told that the Polynesian people are very 'tribal' and although they love to dance and sing, it is not Jesus that they are necessarily dancing and singing to. While in NZ we will be partnering with a Bethel church plant in the Northern region and ministering to the Tribal (Maori) people and their leaders. We will also be able to visit schools, preach in other churches and do some street evangelism. We will be there investing into the communities for two weeks.

 Our next stop will be Tahiti where we will be part of a leaders advance for 3 days and breathing God's love into their hopelessness, their poverty and identity as a people. After that we'll be going to the Island of Moraa where we will be able to do some activities in their community, like worship and art. This may be the biggest challenge of the entire trip because this place, we have been told, is very dark and demonic and where witchcraft is still practised. 

 As we prepare for this trip, we'd like to ask for your personal prayers for safety, good health and through us, a release of God's Kingdom and love over NZ/ Tahiti. Bethel also has encouraged all students going on Mission trips to send out support letters. We are in the process of putting that letter together and it will include much of what I've written here. If you would like to partner with us financially as we sow into this area of the world, you can do so by sending your gifts to our home address here in Redding listed below:

Financial gifts may be made online at ibssm.org.  This gift is tax-deductible and you will receive a statement at the end of the year for your tax records. If you wish your gift to be anonymous, please check the anonymous box. This will still allow you to receive your end of the year tax statement.  If on line payment is not an option, cheque donations can be made payable to Bethel Church and mailed to: Bethel International 915 Twin View Blvd., Redding California 96003.  Please include a note with the donation designating it to Dave and Dayna Deimling Mission Trip - New Zealand/Tahiti. 

Dave and I are so thankful for this incredible opportunity and we appreciate your prayers as we continue on this journey! If you have any questions you may also send us an email at davedeimling@gmail.com or call our California cell # 530-710-6573.

Well, we have had a good October and November.  It is hard to understand that we are now three months into the nine (9).  Seems like we will be done and home before you know it.  At the end of October we went to Ventura to attend Janey and Zeb's wedding.  We had a wonderful time with my family and friends.  They were beautiful and thanks to Cindy Mash from Nanaimo that came and took some beautiful photos of the event. 

Our school time continues to be very good and we are learning and growing.  God is good and He always knows exactly what He can and cannot give you and how fast He can accelerate your journey.  Kris Valloton did a week teaching Prophetic prophecy.  He taught for 8-10 hours on the do's and do nots and what scripture says about the gift of prophecy. Kris taught on the five fold ministry and how the job of the 5 fold is to build up the body. We are called to bring the gold nuggets out of each person we meet and deal with.  He prayed and anointed the students for more of the gift and more dreams and visions. 

For our activations, Dayna has been working in the Ladies Drug Rehab - building relationships and preaching the word.  Dave has been in a healing activation group moving thru the city meeting and praying with people.  We recently started our new Tracks which will run the remainder of the year -Dayna is in International  Transformation and Dave is into the Sozo - Inner Healing track.  Inner Healing is so important to understanding and receiving the full love that the Father has for each of us.  We have all been offended in our lives and the roots of bitterness and anger often grow deep.  We must get rid of these before we can hear the voice of the Father and the Holy Spirit to attain all that He has called us to be.  Dave will become part of the Transformation Team at Bethel until the end of the year helping people to find that healing. 

One of the things we are realizing is that sometimes we have a season where the Spirit touches us in different ways. Sometimes it is in Inspirational thought?  Sometimes the Lord gives us something different - it may be a deep process in the heart and mind.  These are divine moments and we need to make sure we catch them.  All increase comes from stewarding well what we were given.  Bill has cautioned us to go deep and not build wide but make sure we go deep. 

Danny Silk spoke to us about the Fathers love and touch.  Bethel really builds the Fathers love into us.  We need to understand where we stand in the Kingdom and the royalty that we have been given.  We need to claim it and realize that our Father is there for our good - HE IS IN A GOOD MOOD and wants the best for us at all times.  He is not this big guy in the sky waiting to wipe us all out for any mistake.  One of the greatest needs we all have is trust. Almost all issues that people face are traced back to trust.  We are learning to trust all and to develop intimacy with the people around us.  These are critical to growing in the Fathers love, power and authority that He has given us. 

We have just had the American Thanksgiving off.  It was a wonderful time to spend with new friends and celebrate all that God has done for both Dayna and I.  We are so thankful to our Father for Him choosing us and giving us His mercy and grace.  We are so encouraged by what God is doing in our lives and look forward to the next six (6) months.

I decided it was time for me to write on our blog and give Dayna a rest.  It has been an interesting journey to say the least.  On Oct. 7^th we were visited by Claudio Freidzon who is from Argentina.  Claudio oversees a church in Argentina with 30,000 people.  There has been a revival in Argentina for 30 years.  Claudio has been the main reason for the continued revival. God lights the fire but it is the minister who keeps the fire burning.  He was very powerful and heavily anointed.  He used the analogy of the bamboo seed.  He explained how the roots grow downward for 7 years before it starts to shoot upwards.  Once it starts upwards it grows huge amounts almost daily.  He equated that to how 7 years to God was but a blink of time.  Claudio talked about our need to surrender our lives to God.  Claudio walked around the room and laid hands on all 900 students anointing each student.  It was a powerful event with the Spirit moving very heavily and many manifestations occurring.   

God is amazing and we are learning more and more every day.  The un-renewed mind is at war with the Kingdom. When we understand that we will understand how destructive that is. We serve a Master that is full of things that make you wonder and if you don’t see or have those things then you need to check the distance between you and the Master.  The Holy Spirit comes in full measure but we each have a measured portion.  He will only give us the measure of what we will guard.  Follow Kingdom laws to get Kingdom blessings.   God is looking for us to do something with what we have been given.  The power and presence of God will do more in a moment than we can do in a life time!!

On October 12^th we had John and Carol Arnott arrive to do a conference at Bethel.  John spoke with the student body the day before the conference and spent time ministering to all the students. He spoke on the Holy Spirit and told the students that it was up to us if we wanted the Spirit and how much.  That we needed to go get what we wanted.  We needed to be hungry and He (Holy Spirit) wants to give us all we want. The Spirit will say things that are golden in the right moments. In the Lords presence there is fullness of joy and we need to live a life built around being with the Spirit every moment of the day. He reminded us that Jesus came to bind up the broken hearted, preach the good news and set the captives free.  We need to soak in the Holy Spirits presence on a daily basis.  The Lord loves corporate and John encouraged all the students to be in corporate.  The Fathers will was to heal everyone and everyone that Jesus met He healed.  He really encouraged us to walk in the gifts and to know what our identity and authority was.  We have a tendency to make the devil too big –  John reminded us that ``Jesus said that ALL authority was given to us`` so how much authority was given to the other guy – only what we give him?  John reminded us that the enemy will exploit us if we are the least bit tentative?  Jesus said all authority in heaven and earth has been given to us so claim it and learn to walk in it. Don’t give ground to the enemy.  We need to have more faith in God’s blessings than the devil’s plight to deceive us.  John also walked around and laid hands on all 900 students.  It was a very wild event with the Spirit moving heavily as he moved thru the building.    John and Carol ministered thru the weekend and there message continued to work around the identity of who we are in Christ and the authority He has given us.  The Super Natural should be the Natural and we need to get to that point in our lives.  On the Friday night at the end of the night to the right of the stage – a cloud appeared and something that looked like gold dust started falling.  It was captured on tape – a gem was also discovered on the floor and it grew as people were watching it.  Thru the night many people got gold teeth and it was evident that the Spirit and the presence of God were very much present.  Later Bill Johnson spoke to all of us on these manifestations. There is no explanation and we should not try to explain away the Spirit.  He said that they really have no idea what is happening but he is amazed and thankful that God is showing himself in some very distinct ways.  Later that week Kris Valloton spoke to us about the leadership team and how they are really trying to figure out the cloud and dust.  It was very refreshing to listen to the leadership about there thoughts.  He explained that they really don’t know what is causing this and as a team they are trying to decide if it is something they (church) are doing or why?  He was honest and admitted that the leadership doesn’t know why this cloud and dust have been showing up in larger amounts over the past three months. 

Bill spoke to us about looking for the deep secrets He (Holy Spirit) has already deposited in our hearts. Job tells us that He deposits those seeds while we sleep so we don’t get proud. They are deposited in our hearts and those seeds will eventually change how we think and see.  The Lord is building a company of people to move the Kingdom.  Sometimes we are put in a position to say or do something where we have no idea what the answer is, in order to keep us humble?  But, in a flash, it only takes a small shift for each of us to be moved to a position to counsel Kings.  We need to hear from Jesus and draw from the well He has created.  The Lord can give the Kings an appetite for who you are.  The Spirit can do something in each of us that makes them want to hear from us. Wisdom sees beyond the obvious - it just doesn’t see problems, it comes in with solutions and answers, however, we must remain filled and over flowing with the Holy Spirit to be effective. 

 It's been a while since my last post, so this one might be a little lengthy! Our schedules are getting busier with additional reports to write, books to read, Bible studies, and 'outside of school time' volunteer opportunities. It's all good but it is going to get tiring! Please pray for us that we will manage our time wisely, be excellent students and continue to soak in the Holy Spirit.
  So, last week we went on a retreat with our Revival Group. We stayed at a place called Springs of Living Water Conference Center. It is located in Chico, which is a town about 1 hour from Redding. A most beautiful place situated on 500 acres. The history of this place is that it was built in the 1920's and was a Hotel for the movie stars of that era. A place where they could 'get away' from the city life. It was then purchased in the 1940's by a wealthy SanFranciso christian business man, with the intention of turning it into a retreat center. This same man then donated it to YWAM in the 1980's and it has been operating as a YWAM base/ retreat center ever since. Pretty cool place with the COOLEST elevator I have ever been on! The time with our Revival Group was sweet and so was the food! Oh ya'....the Holy Spirit also came along and He treated us to His presence in a powerful way. It was also a great bonding time for all 65 of us!
 This week has been busy with the usual incredible teaching but we also started what the school calls AMT's, which stands for Advanced Ministry Training. There were several of these that we could choose from, but I wanted to focus on the Prophetic and Dave signed up for one on Healing. Our first class on these topics took place Tuesday afternoon. Incredible! Can't wait to absorb, practise and continue to learn from these very gifted teachers. We are also being broken up into small groups which we will meet with once per week. There are 5 girls in the one that I'm in and next week I get to lead it. I'm also 'testing' out the choir. There is a 'grace period' that I get as a student, so if in a couple of weeks I'm finding it's too much, I can gracefully bow out. Nice to know when you have no idea what your schedule might look like in a months time!
 These last couple of days we were taught on Purity by Kris Vallotton. This was a very frank, honest teaching on what the Bible calls Purity and how, we as christians, ought to be living this out. Believe me when I say, there was content that would have made people blush and feel extremely uncomfortable! I can also say, this was stuff that I wish I had heard 25 years ago. Kids need to know how God views sex, not as a bad, dirty thing but as a gift that He created and meant to be shared between One Man and One Woman within the confines of marriage. I know that concept seems rather 'elementary' to those of us raised in the church but how much do we actually teach it and teach it like we mean it?!
 The other awesome thing that we had to look at, was choosing where we might like to go on a Missions trip. These are not happening until March, but there are 60 places that Bethel takes it's students, so we had to read about each one and then try to make a decision. We had to pick our top five because there are no garantees we'll get our first choice. Dave and I spent some time looking at the options (which wasn't an easy task) and we both decided that Thailand was our first choice, then Mozambique, then Israel, then Lebanon and then New Zealand. Why was Thailand our 1st choice? Because it's a part of the world that suffers under huge amounts of sexual bondage often times selling children to satisfy the ugly, dark side of the sex trade. This is an area that causes our hearts to ache and it's an area that needs to know the freedom that exists in Jesus Christ. Jesus is the ultimate Bondage breaker and the devil doesn't stand a chance but we must be free of our own stuff and our own fears to really be effective. It is my prayer that our Lord will use us and that we will step into this arena and trust God for everything including the added finances to get us there.
 Every day spent here is another day filled with revelation, drinking in of the Holy Spirit, and the creation of new friendships. Some day I want to travel to Australia and Scotland and visit our new friends!
 Time to wrap it up for tonight. We leave shortly to go to SOZO training. SOZO is a greek word for inner healing and deliverance which we will definately need if we go to Thailand!

  So aside from the incredible school stuff that we experience on a daily basis, we have also met some great people from all over the world. We had 2 couples from Australia (Geoff and Christine and Rob and Deb) and 1 couple from New Brunswick (Jon and Kathleen) join us for dinner last night. It was such a wonderful time to relax and get to know others from our own country but also from a country many, many miles away. It's wonderful to hear everyones story about how they found out about Bethel, what brought them here and what they had to go through to get here!
 We also went for coffee on Saturday morning with a young couple from Scotland (Phil and Louise) They had just bought a car and we're thrilled to find something that was reliable and came equipped with an engine. I guess they looked at some real lemmons! There are still some students looking for housing. Some either came here with no idea where they might live, or others got here and the housing they were going to live in was not exactly advertised 'correctly'.
  This week we go on a retreat to a neighboring community called Chico. We will be there from Thursday to Saturday. Apparently, the camp that we will be staying at used to be an old YWAM base. Bethel has divided us into 'Revival groups', each group is about 65 students. We will be going on the retreat with our revival group and our leaders. Looking forward to that!
  We had Dann Farrely speak this week about how Bethel got started, how he got started with Bethel and the 'ebbs and flows' that Bethel has gone through over the years. Amazing story delivered in the most hilarious way I have ever heard! We laughed so hard it was crazy! It was good to hear that the Bethel we are attending today, didn't always look like this. They had very humble beginnings and went through some very tough stuff over the years. Pastor Dann put his 'funny stamp' on the content so we didn't even notice he spoke for 2 1/2 hours! It is clear that the leading of the Holy Spirit here is paramount. So often we tend to run ahead of Him or don't consult Him at all. I have come to realize that without His presence we are really missing out. Our christian walk is so much more abundant and meaningful with Him, than without.
  I'll post more after our retreat. I'm sure there will be great things to share!

  I think I'd like to share some of the 'nuggets' that we have learned so far. I'm sure there will be many more! To me, a 'nugget' is a piece of information that makes you say 'wow' or 'c-mon!' or 'thank you Jesus!' upon hearing it. I hope the nine items I've posted below make sense and that by reading them you will also say 'thank you' to the One we serve!
 1) A miracle is a tutor to teach you about the unseen
 2) We need to pray with God, not to Him
 3) Before we had a problem, He already had the answer
 4) We are working from Heaven, not for Heaven
 5) We are to be imitators of God...when we do this we are being ourselves!
 6) We honor the previous generation by going where they didn't have time to go
 7) It's never ok to be a spectator and only applaud at what God is doing
 8) Christianity is meant to be known for it's passion, not it's discipline.
 9) Our character is the platform that holds the weight of the responsibility He gives us

 I would encourage anybody that reads this to buy Bill Johnsons book 'When Heaven invades Earth'
It's mind-blowing and mind-changing stuff!

  We have been in class for 2 days but mentally it feels longer than that! We've had such wonderful instruction and total enveloping of the Holy Spirit that it will be difficult to put it all into words, but I'll try! For example, today we had a class with Kris Vallotton. He wanted us to partner with a total stranger for an 'exercise' in Words of Knowledge and the Prophetic. He led us in prayer and then gave us some basic instruction of what we should ask the Holy Spirit to reveal about the person we were paired with. When I say 'basic', I'm talking about a Word of Knowledge about their bedroom and what their Mothers name is.
As you can imagine, this exercise takes complete trust and a banishment of all fear. Since 'perfect Love casts out all fear', it is resting in that promise that allows the Holy Spirit to do His work. Trust me, I had my share of fear going into this but I can honestly say that that evaporates the moment you confess it and fall in love with Jesus. Does that mean we will automatically be perfect at imparting Words of Knowledge? No way! This takes practise, the realization that you could fail and total reliance on the Holy Spirits leading. But, what I can say, is that when you get it right, it ROCKS!! There is nothing more exciting than to see a persons face light up or tears stream down their cheeks when the Holy Spirit speaks to them through you and you actually heard Him correctly!!!
 There were several truths that were shared with us today that were mind blowing! For example, we are a Royal Priesthood of an almighty King that loves us SO much. We cannot 'do' or not do anything that will change it. His love for us will never shift. We have a built-in divine nature and that gives us the mind of Christ.
Bethel really cultivates a culture of Honor. It is an empowering environment that expects us to take ownership of our awesomeness in Christ but it also expects us to take risks. They spell faith R-I-S-K.
  You will only meet your full potential when you realize that God loves you immensely and He wants a relationship with you. He wants to capture your mind so that we can co-labor with Him. I love what Bill Johnson said... "We need to live out of presence and not principles'. So, I'll leave it at that tonight. We have some homework to do! Till next time.....D & D

  I forgot to add something pretty cool! As we were standing in the line-up waiting to register, a young man (we think he might have been a janitor) tapped Dave on his shoulder and told him..." I'm sorry to disturb you and I don't know you but I can feel that the presence of God is so strong around you.  Be prepaired because God is going to rock you this year". Isn't that just a little bit of confirmation as to why we are here?! Yippee!

  Hhhhmmmm, where to start?! Let's start with Sunday night service. Heidi Baker was here and she delivered alot more than the evening message! As some of you know, Heidi lives in Mozambique and oversees her Ministry called 'Iris'. She told us stories about how God has fed her 'children' against all odds when no food source was remotely available. But isn' that the God we serve?? He comes through against odds that seem impossible to us, when in fact, nothing is impossible with God! Heidi demonstrates a complete trust in our Father and she blessed us with her stories and brought the Holy Spirit and His annointing along with her!
  Today we had to be at Bethel to register, which started at 1000am. We showed up at 1230 and the line up was almost out the door! We had to stand in the International student line-up, which coming from Canada, seems a bit funny when your standing next to others from Switzerland and Norway! We had wonderful opportunities to speak with so many neat, interesting people...even a few youngsters from Calgary and Toronto :) There are 900 First year students, which made the registration process a wee bit slow, but nevertheless, they were highly organized and not ALL 900 students came through registration today. Believe it or not, there are still students that need housing! On Sunday they announced that 15 students have not found anything. That's a little 'too close for comfort' for me. Our first book report is due September 21st. I'm very thankful that we have read the book already!
  Our next door neighbours are two young guys. Daniel is from Canada (PEI) and Drew is from L.A. Daniel has done 2 years and Drew has just started his 2nd year at Bethel. We had them over tonight for BBQ burgers. It was great fun getting to know them and I'm sure there will be more dinners together. We have a sense that we could turn into the 'block parents' for some of these kids as this whole area seems populated by Bethel students!
  So, as we officially get started tomorrow, please hold us in prayer and ask this incredible God we serve to reveal Himself more fully, stretch us and remove fears and 'hangups'. Many thanks to you all for your love and support!

Welcome to our new blog!

Hello! We are very excited to be starting a new journey in our lives! Will miss all of our friends and family in Nanaimo - thank you so much to everyone who has loved us and been part of our lives. You will be in our thoughts and prayers. Check out this blog for information about what's happening in our lives as we attend the School of Supernatural Ministry at Bethel Church in Redding, California. You can always reach us by email davedeimling@gmail.com and follow us on Facebook! God bless!