Are You Giving? Are You Receiving?

When Scott wrote his review of "Together on a Mission 2007" he bemoaned the lack of Dave Holden's contribution to the preaching ministry last year. He had a fair point. I love Dave Holden! He is very practical and down-to-earth in the way he imparts truth but that truth is life-changing. I spent a quiet Sunday afternoon re-visiting some of the past "Together on a Mission" DVD's that I have got in my library and was taken by this point.

It is far too easy to get caught up in the politics of arguing which speaker would be best to speak at a conference but we can forget why conferences are actually of benefit to us. Yes Mark Heath wrote recently that they can be "feasts of the Word" when Mark Driscoll comes to visit. But I prefer to see conferences as Rob Rufus instructed Mobilise in July. They are high points of encountering God - where the opportunity is available to "learn the address of the Holy Spirit". To be able to go back to our homes, towns, cities and nations and remember how we can encounter God in power. Why is that important?

Dave Holden had one answer:



Yes it is vital that we encounter God for our own personal walks with Him. We must get to know Him as "Abba!" - our intimate and loving heavenly Father who has so much to pour out and lavish on us. But we also must get to know Him because there is a lost and needy world out there who are just as desperate to encounter reality. And what greater reality than the Living and awesome God - Creator of the Universe!

Are you receiving the Holy Spirit in power? Are you "be being filled"? If so - are you giving out? Are you ministering the Holy Spirit in power? If not, why not? Am I being filled with the Spirit like a wind filling my sails so I am moving? Am I ministering the Holy Spirit in power? If not, why not?

Prophecies from Together on a Mission 2007!

Here are the links of the God-honouring awesome prophecies that were given from the main platform at TOAM 07. I must admit I was surprised not to have seen more considering how many there were last year. The Scriptures say there should be 2 or 3 per meeting but at some sessions there was one or none. I did wonder whether it was because the anointing of God was so heavy on the meeting and He had come simply to bless His people and make His Presence known - surely sometimes He can do that and not bring direction every meeting! He is Lord however - and what was brought was fantastic;

Prophecies from 1st Session TOAM 07! - Dave Stroud and Julian Adams.

Prophecy from 2nd Session - TOAM '07! - Dave Holden.

Prophecies from 3rd Session - TOAM 07! - Guy Miller and Julian Adams.
Two Prophecies from Session 6 at TOAM 07! - John Lanferman.

I will add more as I get to them and when Newfrontiers make the audio recordings available I will try and transcribe the appropriate ones! God was truly among us!

Two Prophecies from Session 6 at TOAM 07!

There were two significant prophecies during the worship just prior to David Devenish coming to speak. The first one was from a man who I didn't know but he prophesied;

"This is a prophecy for fathers. It is a crossing over time. The elders must first go into the water of the river Jordan. The tendency is to let the crowd move in and across but it is time to demonstrate supernatural life - that has lived on the anointing of others. You fathers must demonstrate to them the power of the Holy Spirit! If you would cross into a new land, will you step into the water? As you do this there will be a tremendous crossing over behind you!".

John Lanferman - the father of Newfrontiers churches in the USA - then came up and prophesied along a similar theme. Once again God brings the same thought from different prophets;

"God will allow us to touch a new generation! He has prepared the earth for a massive great ingathering. The Lord will release a spirit of compassion and mercy upon us as we prepare to receive this great ingathering - the Lord loves the lost! We must too".

William Branham Videos!

During his sessions at "Together on a Mission" Rob Rufus made reference to the somewhat controversial William Branham. I know something about Branham through Ern Baxter's friendship with him. I have found two key videos on You Tube about Branham. The first is one that demonstrates Branham's incredible manifestation of the Word of Knowledge. Nearer the end of the video Branham accurately diagnoses the woman's disorder then her name and her address and then goes on to pray for her healing. It is quite breath-taking! Note ... it is Jesus Christ who is declared as Lord and therefore glorified. According to the Bible doesn't that make Branham genuine at that time?



The second is a more personal one where some pastors get to sit down with Branham and interview him personally. I am not denying (as neither did Rob Rufus) that Branham ended his life falling into error. Ern Baxter said it was because he did not stay within the gifting that God had given him. I didn't know that Kenneth Hagin had prophesied his death as Rob Rufus told us though. But the reason I post these videos is to try and continue to keep our faith raised. It is the desire and will of God that these giftings are restored to the church!

Prophecies from 3rd Session - TOAM 07!

There were two prophecies in the evening session - one from Guy Miller who is the lead elder in Bournmouth and also fathers the Wessex region in Newfrontiers. The other was from Julian Adams - who by then I was increasingly beginning to love and look forward to what he had to say. He has such a vivid pictorial view of what God is saying and was saying through him and his passion runs through everything he says.

Guy prophesied;

"Can you smell it? A holy fire! A furnace has been stoked. It is 10 times higher than before - but it is a purifying fire. Swords that have been broken will be mended. Mighty swords - men refined in the refiners fire. We are to step in deeper to the Holy Spirit's fire. This is a time of blacksmith's forges. I saw 4th July fireworks over China, over Africa. I asked God whether these were the signs of celebration but He said no. As those fireworks over the Titanic were mistaken for celebration, so are these. These are distress fireworks. These are the signs of distress. People are burning! Our call is to go. What began as a purr ends in a roar. What began as a whisper ended in a shout and the nations wait; "Jesus Christ is Lord!".

I must be honest - I didn't manage to scribble down much of Julian's prophecy because I was tremendously affected by it and was busy awestruck by the wonder that God speaks today and to us for our situation! My only hope and prayer is that it is recorded and can be transcribed later when it is made available.

But he saw a picture of a beautiful book - it was the story of Newfrontiers. The history has been captured in snapshots and there is much to celebrate. However the pages began to turn and he saw that there were many blank pages still to fill. In fact more blank pages than full! God was saying through that it is our job to get up and make sure we act worthy of being recorded in this book. Let us not become consumed with the past that we forget the future and the mission ready and waiting for us!

Prophecy from 2nd Session - TOAM '07!

There was just one prophecy in the second session from Dave Holden but it was powerful and life-changing. He said;

"The glory of God is coming to us and will lift our heads and change our perspectives. As the Spirit of God moves us now, we will feel increasinly our heads being lifted up from our troubles and our trials and will lift our heads so we see things from heaven's perspective".

Even as he was prophesying I could feel the atmosphere becoming electrically charged in the room as the Spirit again began to brood over the gathered thousands and I could actually see heads lifting up and smiles appearing on people's faces. Yes we are not trouble-free. Yes we haven't wafted to Brighton on clouds of glory - most of us have trudged, crawled, struggled through the mires of the Slough of Despond - but now God was coming down and was showing us that this all had worth and value from on high!

Awesome God!

Prophecies from 1st Session TOAM 07!

The context of the first prophecy and it's impact on me was that on Saturday Scott and I were walking along the pier in Brighton and I was feeling quite low and worried about the future of the conference and whether it would be worth it. I had to pay for both Scott and myself and in my present financial climate £200 is quite a bit of money. I said it a couple of times; "Will it be worth it".

So David Stroud then got up and prophesied this (I kid you not):

"You asked "Will it be worth it?". I want you to know My children that it will be very worth it. I have new things to speak to you. Be assured - I WILL pour out My Spirit this week. My burden for the nations is such that I cannot miss out on this week! My Spirit is here and He will come upon you!".

Julian Adams then followed by prophesying;

"I see a picture of a vehicle being pushed up a hill - there are different vehicles, different license plates. But this week is going to be a week of the tipping point. We are nearing the crest of the hill. At present we are trying to push it to make it happen but the Lord is saying; "This week the surface will change and you will slide faster than ever before. You will gain a momentum this week. A holy acceleration! Get ready! This isn't about man control. This is a momentum of the Spirit".

I LOVE the prophetic! I am not saying that the Word of God would be not enough without it but by obeying the Word of God - I am amazed at the depth and fullness that the prophetic gift brings to the body of Christ! These two words meant for me that the conference took off with a holy awe declaring "God is among us!".

Back from Brighton and Working!!

Wowwwwww!!!

We have just arrrived back from Brighton and "Together on a Mission". What can I say?! I think Simon Brading summed the whole week up the best of everyone. He said;

"We haven't come to a conference - we've come to encounter God".

And encounter God we did! Luke Wood's prediction proved right - I was totally unable to blog. This wasn't so much an internet connection problem as much as I spent most of the week wandering around in a daze saying "Wow ... awesome" a lot. Right from the first session God came down in power and efficiently and ruthlessly dealt with all my doubts and fears and came and met us all in power. It was the most AWESOME conference I have been to - why? Because it wasn't so much about the information imparted in the sessions but it was because God was present.

So my sincerest apologies. I promised to blog throughout and I didn't. But I am back now and eager to go through each session somewhat like I did last year and present you with a weeks worth of reading material. I pray that as I do, the Spirit of God will fall on you as you are reading and you can catch something of the heavy anointing and Presence of God that was brooding over this week in Brighton.

Life on Wings is Broke ...

As many of you have noticed by now - and confirmed by Pete's post - for some reason "Life on Wings" has gone off in a bizarre, confusing and troubling way. I don't understand why this has happened as I have no understanding of HTML anyway. However I am at work on it as we speak and will do my best to sort out the problem. For now - keep coming back to this blog because this is where I will present the reports of sessions from Brighton. I promise you it will be worth reading! Every aspect of the conference - the messages, the prophecies, the worship - were all touched by heaven!

* UPDATE! *

It's fixed! I managed somehow (don't ask me how - it must have been the Holy Spirit!) to fix "Life on Wings" so hopefully business as usual there! I decided also to put a new template on this website. The prophets at "Together on a Mission" are prophesying a new day, a new era - so a new template is deserved! Hope you like!