In Mid February, we had what we called deployment week.  Bethel has started Global Legacy to help with deploying students from the school into the ministries that they have been called to.  Many churches across the world are now associating and tying into Bethel.  Paul Manwaring heads up the ministry.  We had Steve Whitt come and spend the week with us.  Steve is a powerful speaker and prophet.  He leads a large church in Cleveland as the Senior Pastor but also has spent many years as a business coach.  Bethel will soon be sending out approx. 1000 people per year into various parts of the world.  They provide the covering for any student once deployed.  Nothing happens in the bible without a seed – we were all started with a seed.  Unfortunately, we buy into what others say about us and let them shape our lives.  Steve had a large puzzle and he threw the pieces into the audience and then held the box behind him.  He had us pick up one or two pieces and told us that this is what happens to our lives – we begin to put the puzzle pieces together and frequently God flashes the box at us with the picture on it!  It was a great analogy for the students.  The Lord draws us in by mysteries. Sometimes we create God in our image instead of realizing we were created in His image.  Steve had us do a eulogy on our lives as if we were 85 looking backwards.  It was very interesting and very powerful to each of us.  It is basically a declaration of where we want God to take us.  

We are excited about what God is calling us to.  We have realized that it is intoxicating to sit beside the fire (Bethel) but he is calling us to carry the fire elsewhere.  

Bill Johnson spoke to the students about being intentional about creating a momentum for another generation to step into!!  We need to sow and live for the next generation that we cannot see.  Enduring faith brings answers and builds character at the same time.  God does stuff in the natural that will show you His character and we need to continually watch for that. Bill believes we are entering a season where God is answering His promises. We need to die to God and really need to pay the price of sacrifice (obedience).  We need to yield every day.  If the Lord doesn’t defend me then what I am fighting for is not worth it.  He really stressed to the students that if we live our lives in excellence, we will get an opportunity to stand before leaders as leaders look to excellence (Prov 22:29)  Excellence is the key to promotion in every instance.  Bill posed a question to us – what’s more important – influence or being known for something important.  It is the one thing that has so impressed me with Bill Johnson.  He is so humble and strives for excellence to be an influence in this world without being known for importance!!  The cornerstone of logic and reason is the eternal.  If we don’t keep focussed on the eternal we forget we will live for eternity it will shape our decisions differently.  True success is what your descendants will accomplish because of you.  Honour is the atmosphere of which the people of God become their best.  

We spent a couple session in dream interpretation and that was very interesting. A lot of the students have been experiencing many more and much more vivid dreams since being here.  Dayna has had some exciting dreams. 

Well, we just turned the calendar into March.  It has been a whirlwind.  We have been so touched by seeing so many healing miracles.  At Bethel last weekend a homeless man who attended was wearing a brace which he needed to walk.  He was prayed over and the leg was instantly healed.  His brace was removed and the strength came back into the leg and he walked out of the church (actually skipping and jumping)… yeah God – He is so good!!!

We have seen many miracles concerning student financing.  Last week a younger couple here received an envelope with $16,000.00 in it.  They needed funds to help pay for there Van which was in dire need of repairs and had been praying for it for months.  God responded – they had no idea where it came from but they are thankful and giving thanks to God for it.  

Bethel has teams that go into the community every week.  The teams are designated to certain neighbourhoods that they grow in thru the year and get to know and develop relationships in their specific area.  This year Bethel used 2^nd year students to actually take out apartments in each of there areas. They have now started home churches in each area and they are growing and expanding and many are being saved.  It is really neat to see all of this progressing.   

We as a class have officially moved into the conference center here.  It is another growth step for Bethel.  Next year they are expecting another 500 students (1500) which shows God’s faithfulness to the church and school.  We are getting ready for our Missions Trip to New Zealand.  We are leaving on March 22 and we are so excited to see what God is going to do with us there.  We have really enjoyed the year but to be honest, we are ready to head home and begin to put into practise what God has done in our lives over the past 6 months.  We miss our friends and am looking forward to May.  

Well, February has come and gone as fast as it arrived.  Before we know it we will be heading to New Zealand for our missions trip.  To all those that have supported us we love you and pray for God’s richest favour falling on you and your families.  During January and February, I, (Dave) have been involved in the healing rooms. It has been a wonderful time to see God’s hand and miracles work.  I have seen so many healing miracles over the past two months.  Metal dissolving from backs, legs and arms.  Diabetes, head trauma’s, necks, back and arms all healed by the grace and mercy of the Holy Spirit.  Many stage 4 cancers as well.  God has been so faithful to His word.

We also have been involved in taking the “Love After Marriage” course.  It is designed by a couple from Bethel and it is a very powerful course that has seen many marriages resurrected and continuing in a healthy and happy direction.  The course runs for 18-20 weeks and deals with the most intimate parts of the marriage including teaching people how to communicate and how to handle difficult and stressful situations.  It is certainly a course that we would like to bring home.  We have realized that God is intending to bring His bride home without spot and healing marriages is high on His list!!

In February, we had many great topics and teachers once again.  Eric Johnson spoke to us for the first time and he spoke about stewardship. It was a powerful session and he cautioned us to understand that God knows exactly what we can handle in our lives.  In the middle of temptation there is always a way out.  He taught on the verse out of Matthew 25 about the talents.  He said that God always knows who can handle one, two and five talents.  His message was to be careful about our hearts as it always seems that if you are the person with 2 talents, He always seems to put the person with 5 beside you and in most occasions you wonder how that person got there.  God wants to see how we handle it from a heart situation.  What do you do when the Lord gives something to someone else that we have been crying out for??  Learn to steward well what He has given you at the moment.  Eric believes that this generation is about to experience something no one else has. Will we remain poor in Spirit and how will we steward something we did not pay a price for?  We need to set a new foundation for the next generation that we will not see. 

Don’t ever limit the anointing to only what you think you can do!!   Sometimes Jesus works on our character first before giving us power and authority – sometimes he gives it right away and works on the character as we go!!! 

During the month Mario Murillo came and spoke to us.  He is a prophet and pastor from the East Coast.  His message was on recognizing when we have new wine coming and as a result we need to ensure that we get a new wineskin. Hugh Ross came and spoke to us about creation.  Hugh is an astronomer who loves the Lord and gets into many high level debates with atheists.  His ministry is so detailed and it has such a place today in our age. 

Steve and Wendy Backlund  came to speak with the students.  Steve travels the world helping pastors to set up churches and get the right structure and movement to the church. He is very anointed and a very powerful speaker.  He spoke to us about declarations and how they need to be spoken out be each of us everyday.  Declarations go to the heavens and they really do come to fruition.  God is in the process of releasing more revelation to the church. We as the body need more revelation.  God uses people with issues – cause frankly there is no one else to use on the planet!!  We need to look at our lives and decide – what do I need to believe differently?  We need to stop calling it failure and call it learning.  The secret to our strength is our JOY. Every area of our life that isn’t glistening with hope means we are living with a lie and that area is under the stronghold of the enemy.  Success is a state – not a goal.  If it’s a goal then it is only sustained by work.  We are not called to be realistic – we are called to be SUPER NATURAL…we can alter our lives and our destinies by the things we declare. 

Bill Johnson met with the students and spoke about Kingdom principles. He cautioned us about being careful not to reduce Kingdom principles to natural stuff.  Since God is not a God of waste – why would he give us everything?  God gives us what we are capable of managing and then He can promote them into our destiny.   There is a difference in what is in my possession and what is in my account.  The Lord will reveal stuff to us that we can’t find on our very best day naturally.  When he reveals it, it becomes very clear.  In Luke 12 it says that it is the Fathers good pleasure to give us the mysteries of the Kingdom!!  If we move in proper stewardship that we have been given then things get increased.  The Lord continues to teach us process.  Jesus said that He is giving us the world and it is a shame that everyone seems to be waiting for the world to come to an end. 

Anytime you visit the past apart from the blood of Jesus – you are subjecting yourself to the Spirit of Deception because you are visiting a lie!  The past is not ours – it was bought by the blood of Jesus..

We had a visit from Bobbie Connors. He is a prophet and he was very powerful.   He really pushed us to be committed to the word and getting the word out.  He believes we are in a time like never before.  We are to prepare ourselves to begin to see and feel the awe of God.  We will see Him like we have never seen Him before.  It will be something that we as a church have never experienced before.  Bob told us that half hearted obedience is really cloaked rebellion. He told us that:

- We need to expect an outpouring

- Expect – Let your works appear

- We are to make an impact on the nations

- Deliverance is about to come on the house of the Lord

- God is going to release the Spirit of Evangelism

- Maintain simplicity

The whole earth is trembling and shaking waiting for the Sons of God.  The Kingdom of God is dragging behind.  The whole world is groaning waiting for us to step up!  Sceptism is really moving thru the body of the church right now.  Bob cautioned us to guard two gates – the eyes and the ears.  It sends stuff to our heart and what’s in our heart then ends up in our hands…  God always calls someone ordinary and puts an extraordinary call on him so God gets all the glory!

Kris Vallotton spoke to us about accountability and being accountable to someone in our lives.  He told the students that you need to have a mentor that when you mess up you are embarrassed to tell that person – anyone else is not suitable.