Hi-
I realize this has taken longer than I expected qras and for that I ask you to forgive me. The weekend was awesome and yet I faced serious opposition. My health has suffered, things flew out of control and for some reason today is the first day that I have felt "up" to writing this. Tina and I experienced severe attack and many things are "on fire" right now. I would ask you to keep me in prayer. This morning it took all my strength and energy to get out of be. I have been expereriencing severe muscle, joint and tendon pain. This morning it felt like someone had placed heavy weights on my shoulders and elbows and the pain was bordering on unbearable. (I have since been to the doctor and have a lot of things to change in my life-I WILL BEAT THIS! Their thoughts do not lend to much of a future.)
A couple of very cool things. I have received many good words and response about this past weekend and I am grateful to all who wrote and told me how much this was a blessing fo them.
The other thing was that Tina and I attended a meeting in another church and we each received a very good word. If she decides to share hers you will get it from her. My word I received iterated the Gideon type of call and the fact that I would have faithful people surround me and us. The prophetic word also outlined the apostolic connections that we would see in the NEST and how we would be an apostolic organization. We would see miracles, signs and wonders, healings and the raising of the dead. So, it just confirmed the God of this weekend and the direction.
A review of the weekend.
Friday night-
Aaron G. led worship after a very nice dinner( We should all be thankful for Tina and all the planning and getting the food together.) that Tina and Cathyann worked on. The presence of God as Aaron led worship with Ken G. was very intimate for me. Chris A. shared a scripture from Isaiah 6 and Cathyann A. shared from the last few verses of 2 Corinthians 16. She also gave me a percussion shaker in the shape of an avocado as a first fruit of what was happening. Mike K. received this...
Heavenly Heart-
Father reach our hearts, heaven connect to the heart. The portal we are looking skyward for starts in the heart. The cure, the calling, the the desires, the ministry is already layed on your hearts. A broken heart is an open heart. Heartaches and pain is me reaching you. Follow your hearts. All hearts connect-I am the connection with all of your hearts. Give me control of your heart-let it melt in my hands, my bloodstained hands. Follow your heart. Trust it-it is I who control it. You keep following your thought, your mind, your desire. It is all heart-it is all consuming. There was more fellowship before the close of the evening.
Saturday-
We began with fruit, bagels, juice, etc. that Tina had assembled. The after a time of food and fellowship, we opened to a time of meditation and reflection or meditation. Mike K. brought forth the scriptures from Haggai1:1-11. He felt the Lord impress upon him, that NEST had to do with rebuilding the temple (This is an apostolic mandate.)-that we have done our "stuff" and now it was time to do God's stuff. Tina brought forth
verses out of Zechariah 4:1-14 and that we must take on the spirits of deception, legalism and religion. That it was not by flesh and might but by God's spirit. I noticed that the scripture verses have all been OT. Luanne shared that she was thinking that much of this had to do with judgement and that we must judge not lest we be judged. She spoke of the unsaved as a key purpose for us. That the unsaved were to be looked at through Jesus' eyes as He did the thieves on the cross. Se also saw lots of purples and reds and bright lights. I said that we did not have to wait years and years on our future that we could begin calling our future into now. That brought up a conversation where people mentioned that they would like to have homes where they could provide respite and bless others.
We had a great lunch and lots of fellowship. We spent time outside just drinking in the creation of the Lord. One of the topics that came up was the Jesus Freak Racing Ministry of Jim and Luanne and the Lord. PCF Ministries will be taking them on and helping them with the final stages of the race vehicle. Aaron S. will be putting together their website shortly.One of the methods of raising funds will be that of donations and the donors receiving a hat or a shirt depending on the donation. Please pray for this ministry as Jim has been pretty much doing this as a one man show. We will be praying for a driver to replace himself and a pit crew. This is a great example of where the church gets to "invade" a place that much of Christianity has avoided.
One of the greatest times when the presence of the Lord just engulfed the meeting was when Vanessa prayed for Tina's ankle. The smell of the oil and the presence of the Lord brought quick healing to her ailing ankle.
After our final presentation, we had a Q&A time. Some of the questions were "what do you see happening?" "When?" Mike K felt we were going back to the beginning of a life filled church.
Quarterly meetings-Our first quarterly meeting will be in January. Others will be April, July and October. This is when we will open our strategy up to the "rest of the world" inviting leaders and ministries, etc. I am feeling strongly that each meeting has to have a theme that allows leaders to take something home. For instance if the meeting is about relationship, we would gear the meeting with ideas and things that would bring people together in such a way that relationship prevails on their mind when they leave and they want to model it to their people. We will have other themes and thoughts as we get closer to the date.
We are planning a NOVEMBER Meeting of NEST at Lake George at the Silver Bay Camp. (silverbay.org) This will be a time of fellowship and strategy. It will be by invite only and will be adults. This will be a great little "vacation". We will begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday after lunch. Tina will notify you of the date shortly. We also have another strategy meeting coming up in September and for those of you who are part of PCF Local we will be having a meeting at Lake George similar to what was just described. If you consider yourself a "member" of what we are doing locally you are invited to this as well. It seems that with only 4 months until our first "public" meeting we need to get in gear. If you want to enjoy a time of worship, food, strategy and good times this is it.
For those of you who were in attendance would you please do me a favor and post something about the weekend on the blog. It would be helpful to me and helpful to others. It would mean a lot to me.
A final thought-The last few days have been very rough for me. I have had a lot physical things go wrong in my being. Add that to the emotions and spiritual stuff and I am feeling pretty weak. And as I talk to Christians I find the number one lack is relationship. It is not money or peace, but not having a deep relationship. The evidence of being a Christian was described in the book of John. "They will know we are Christians by our love." Am I the only one sitting in this boat? I think not. Conversation after conversation leads me to believe there is a great desire for this missing ingredient. It also tells me few know how to get there. And the question is not "why?" but "who?" Who will lead this breakthrough of relationship? How many just in this small group can look around and say "I want relationship and I want to be relationship." I have been thinking about this love ministry called Deeper Relationships. I am thinking hard about it.
Bless you!
Lee & TIna
