I had a chance to be only at one evening service. The previous evenings I was in helps ministry. The anointing was so strong; I felt more hunger and thirst, for God. My faith was lifted up. I feel I got in my spirit more compassion for souls. I have strength, confidence, faith and I have strength to go toward and not give up. I have more peace now in my heart, I felt that now. This year is heavier than RBI 1 ( except of course my English language). Now it is better, but I need to learn more. Because the way becomes more narrow. I felt that and I can see that. I’m waiting for this answer yet from embassy for my visa extension and I’m grateful for every day that I can spend here now. Because sometimes some thing are tough.
Now, after the Minister’s Camp meeting I have had some small answers, but I need to know what to do and how to do it when I will go back to Latvia. In my Christian life (12 years) I have never known what will come. Yes, Jesus gives me strength for every day, yes there is some things which God is speaking in my heart… But my flesh must died, then I can bear much fruit. I know deep in my spirit what God’s dealing with me about, but it is not easy. The RBI 1 and last year when I was in Latvia, God taught me more about humbleness. This year is different; it is more about Gods love ( that I like so) and how to trust HIM without support and income and how to live daily. It is not easy, but I know…it is about my future.
God spoke to me “I will never forsake you, never..”, and He is always providing me, ravens coming always.
My cry for God and my hearts desire is for a new touch and fire from heaven. It is the one way how it is possible to live for God and be on Fire for Him. I’m hungry, desperate and I believe and know I will get direction from Him for my life in perfect time. Patience. I so thankful to God for this ministry, all the pastors, staff, and school because it is a big privilege from God that I can be here. It is a big blessing for me and for all the world. I wish you the best, God’s strength and His wisdom for every each day!-Vija P
Great is lord Jesus I am native American every time I watch I can feel the presence of god what a blessing to feel his love for his kids and I continue to share that with all who deny he is real I dance for him every time I go to visit other first nations peoples and gathering I were the cross so others can see who I represent and tell them he is coming it’s time for prayer and seeking our creator who has come to tell us of a better way of life and he made a way for all to come to him glory thank you lord.
Linda G.
Hi Pastors – just want you to know Angie and I are back home safe and sound in Massachusetts and that Angie is feeling better tonight. I read Isaiah to her on the plane – about the camels – and the Word came ALIVE! Praise God! Angie wanted me to thank everyone at the River Church for all the love they showed her at the Winter Camp Meeting. It was an awesome time in the presence of the Lord. She says keep winning souls – the time is short! Love ya! Linda Gosselin and 92-year-young Angie Foley from MA
Linda Gosselin FIRE! Just want to add that I am sending out the script to all my FB friends – let’s see how many respond to the Lord’s tug on their hearts tonight!
“There [the Lord] made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He proved them, 26 Saying, If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord your God and will do what is right in His sight, and will listen to and obey His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases upon you which I brought upon the Egyptians, for I am the Lord Who heals you.” Exodus 15:25b-26 AMP
“You shall serve the Lord your God; He shall bless your bread and water, and I will take sickness from your midst.” Exodus 23:25 AMP
Father God made a covenant of healing with Israel. This covenant applied also to those who desired or chose to come under this covenant and who committed to its commandments. There are two parts to this covenant: the commands and the promises.
The Commands:
Diligently hearken to God’s voice
Do that which is right in His sight
Give ear to – listen to and obey – His commandments
Keep all His statutes
The Promises:
I will put none of these diseases upon you
I am the Lord Who heals you
I will take sickness from your midst
This covenant was made a part of the New Covenant, because Jesus fulfilled Isaiah 53:4 when He Himself, “took our infirmities, and bore our sicknesses” (Matthew 8:17).
“Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.” Isaiah 53: 1-12 KJV
“Who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness — by whose stripes you were healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 NKJV
When you did not know God and were ignorant of His word, you expected that sickness and disease were inevitable. When you became ill, you went to the doctor, or took medicine, or perhaps you just let it have you. Without knowledge of God’s word, most people expect to die of sickness. God says, “No!” He has provided for His obedient children to walk in divine health. For God’s part, He has done all that He can, in Jesus, and simply awaits our response. In order for us to walk in the blessing of this healing promise; this healing covenant; there are four things we must do: 1) familiarize ourselves with God’s promise to us and the conditions attached to the promise (meditate in His word until it becomes real to you); 2) take it personally (believe it’s for you): 3) walk in obedience to the conditions; 4) act on the promise (claim it as yours).
It is not enough for you to sit back and to say that you believe God’s word. You must believe that it is written TO YOU and FOR YOU! You do not need anyone else’s faith or gift. YOU can speak it, act on it and walk in it!
I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing. John 15:5 AMP
When you become a child of God, you are grafted in to the Vine, you become a branch of the Vine – Jesus is that Vine. You have a new nature and a new identity in Him. You no longer function as a wordly, carnal person, because His life and nature have been imparted to you. Those who continue to operate like the world they died to in Christ, are obviously ignorant of this great new life they have been offered in Him. It is necessary for them to have their minds renewed to the truths of God’s word.
We (the believers) each and all represent Jesus Christ to the world and, as such, are ministers of the Gospel and ambassadors of Christ. Some are called as five-fold ministers, given to the Body of Christ for the perfecting of that Body for the work of the ministry. These five-fold ministers will be judged by a higher standard than the rest of the Body. That is why it is not wise to seek an office to which you have not been called by the Father, Himself. We should not seek an office or a position or a title, but each of us should rather just be content to do only what the Spirit of God leads us to do even as we fulfill Mark 16:15-18. Here are some requirements for those who want to be used by God.
True ministers of the Gospel are those who are:
1. United to the Vine (John 15:5)
2. Chosen and ordained by God to the work of ministry
John 15:15 AMP – I do not call you servants (slaves) any longer, for the servant does not know what his master is doing (working out). But I have called you My friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from My Father. [I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him.]
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 NKJV – Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
1 Timothy 1:12-13 NKJV – And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry.
3. Laborers to bring forth fruit, not idlers or lazy wasters of time and opportunities
John 15:16 AMP – You have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and I have appointed you [I have planted you], that you might go and bear fruit and keep on bearing, and that your fruit may be lasting [that it may remain, abide], so that whatever you ask the Father in My Name [as presenting all that I AM], He may give it to you.
John 6:27 TMB – “Don’t waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last.”
4. Goers to the work, not waiters for the work
Acts 1:8 NKJV – “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Mark 16:15-18 NKJV – And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Matthew 28:19-20 NKJV – “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
5. Prayers that get results (John 15:16)
James 5:16b NKJV – The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
1 John 3:22 AMP – And we receive from Him whatever we ask, because we [watchfully] obey His orders [observe His suggestions and injunctions, follow His plan for us] and [habitually] practice what is pleasing to Him.
6. Lovers of all men (1 Corinthians 13)
John 15:12-13 NKJV – This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
1 John 3:18-19 NKJV – My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before Him.
1 John 3:22-23 NKJV – And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. 23 And this is His commandment: that we should believe on the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, as He gave us commandment.
The Lord started to prepare me before the conference, knowing that I would have to serve. He showed me this last year when I was being stretched beyond normal thinking. He took me to scriptures to bring me comfort and confirm His word. And every waking moment stay in His word. This year is no different!
The Lord showed me how to yield to Him and get into his presence by worshipping Him and praising Him. Even though I would come into service all the time after worship. He made me close my eyes and get into His presence. The Lord would reveal things to me while I would meditate on Him and no one else. The presence of God had already been ushered in because of the “Worship Team”, and everyone worshipping. I could “so” feel it. Every message that I received would help me to help Gods people. That is all I think about night and day, is the lost and the nations, “everywhere”. God showed me that I am here to be trained, and then he will decide.
What impacted me the most was when Phil Smithurst talked. I have a heart for the people in the villages that have never herd the Gospel. He revealed this to me. I started to weep. During this conference He made it more real this time. Keep focused on my vision, not anything else. He said to stay humble so I would be teachable. Walk in Love. It like I don’t remember what everyone was talking about. God kept me focused on what he had for me. Keep on track with school.
Then Saturday night my son came to church! He had driven up that morning from Fort Myers. I didn’t ask him to come, he came on his own. I had come back for evening service, when he called and said he was here. I came out of where I was sitting and little to my amazement he was in the building! That was a highlight of my week. My son gave his heart to the Lord, but does not have a total relationship with him.
Lord always told me just to show him and I will set the example for him. My son has seen what the Lord has done in my Life and finally a light bulb came on. I know it is because I listened to the Lord and he told me to get in His presence at the meetings and he would minister to me, I was obedient. My son saw something different in me. He saw the “peace of God I had, and to be obedient to the Call, and knowing what it meant to be sold out for Jesus. The Lord showed me to let him do the work in me so he could do his work through me! I was totally refreshed and on a new level, because of these meetings. All I can say is I was in a Holy Ghost place where he was doing surgery on me. I was set free with a new boldness. Praying for people to receive. I would pray and they would receive, like being baptized in the Holy Ghost. I wouldn’t go into a long explanation. I would say it simple and boldly and they would receive!!!
