Saturday, October 14, 2006

I'm sick of thinking up titles.



I'll try and update you one what's been new lately. I find as I settle into the routine of here. That I don't feel like I have as much to write, which probably isn't true, but well, what can I say?

Lately we've been working on the ISD class (Institute for Spiritual Development) 102, which is called Adnvanced Prophetic Ministry. The ISD classes are all made by Streams, it's just kind of it's own branch.

The course is basically laying a foundation for prophetic ministry, what did it look like in the bible, and how does it operate in the church, as well as it includes some prophetic excercises.

What I really enjoy about the ISD classes, is that we often have different people teaching it from Streams. It's cool because everybody who teaches it has a different style and it's just really cool.

The lady who taught us the last few sections, Dawn Dube, liked to make sure we got our prophetic excercises. I'll list a few of the different excercies we've done to give you an idea.

-*-4 people will go up to the front and as people get a word for them, they stand up and give it to them.

-*-8 people in a circle facing outward to 8 other people who are facing inward. The people in the circle on the outside have 30 seconds to give a word to the person they are facing, then the person on the inside has 10 seconds to tell if they are on, and why it's significant. Then they rotate. After you've gone around the whole circle, the inside circle switches with the outside. I really enjoyed this one, it was cool as you went around, sometime I'd give someone a word, and they'd vbe like, wow, three other people gave me a word really similar to that, or it'd be right on, so it was really good.

-*-Another one, we made two long lines of people. The people on one sidw would keep their eyes closed while the poeple on the other side would mix up and go, stand in front of someone, and tap them on the shoulder. With your eyes closed, and no idea who was in front of you, you had to give that person a word. This was cool because it took out the element of using any previous knowledge of the person, you had to just go for it.

-*-The last one we did, I was one of the volunteers, and 4 of us stood in front of the class and practiced giving words to a crowd, so instead of a particular person, we'd give a word over whoever the Lord pointed out to us, or a corporate word.

So you can see, we've been pretty busy. What's really faith building and encouraging is doing all these different types of prophetic ministry, not just one form, but in all these different ways.

Probably the best thing about these excercises for me is that they have really helped me differentiate between what is myself, and what is God. It's really helped me distinguish the voice of God. It's super encouraging because God's really been showing me how easy it is to hear from Him, that He is always speaking, it's just a matter of whether I want to listen of not.

Besides the ISD courses, we've also been hearing about the Tabernacle from various second year interns, we've been getting amazing teachings from Ken Nelson, they've been recording them, because he wants to make a series of his Spiritual Linguistics that he's been talking to us, but us Interns get it free, so I'm going to be able to keep them which is such a blessing, because there is no chance that I could get half of what he's saying at the time, it's soooo good. So now I'll be able to go over them whenever I want, I am way too excited about that...

Let's see, we've already read "Prophecy, Dreams and Evangelism" by Doug Addison, and now we are reading "Needless Casualties of War" by John Paul Jackson, it's really good, it's all about spiritual warfare, not being stupid about it, knowing your boundries and authority.

We still have our impartation nights wednsday night when different couples from Streams mostly, come and share/impart with us. Last wednsday Ron and Cherry, an older couple from New Zealand who now work with Streams came and talked on the Power of God, well, they talked for about 15 minutes, then Ron and Cherry got tired of talking and just prayed for the power of God to come. And, simply put. It did. Most of us got rocked.

We were supposed to be working on Pinnacle Mountain today, a work day, but there is a conference this weeked that Streams is helping put on, so instead most of the students went, and we helped set-up, most of them are there today, I however, am going fishing. I caught a pike yesterday and am hoping for a big 'ole bass today.

Last night, most of the canadians, Luke, Caleb, Jamie and myself went to Eric Coopers to watch the Canucks game with Josiah Cooper, unfortunately, their pay-per-view was having issues, so instead we watched a movie. But we'll probably be over ther in the future for other games, so that will be just dandy. I heard the canucks lost anyways...It was game I could miss.

Well I'm getting pretty geared-up for Salem, it's coming up next weekend... It's going to be amazing!

What else to say? I don't know, but you can all check out www.streamsacademy.com it's the new internship pages, I must say, way better then when I applied...I think I got short-changed webpage wise...

3 comments :

  1. Kristall said...

    Dude, awesome post. I dunno, it was just a really uplifting read.

  2. Anonymous said...

    interesting...what kind of spiritual covering did all of you have prior, during & after going to Salem? And you mentioned that that there were some monks that helped your pastor settle down a conflict... who were these monks..Catholic? Did you notice what were they up to at Salem?

  3. Anonymous said...

    What did you think of Doug Addison's book? I really thought it was a great way to reach people.