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.