onething’09 Tuesday Recap
onething’09 welcomes Loren Cunningham
One of today’s highlights was welcoming Loren Cunningham, the founder of Youth With A Mission (YWAM), recognized by many as the premier statesman and father of the modern-day missions movement. Celebrating 50 years in 2010, YWAM has 25,000 full-time staff worldwide. It is an honor to have Loren with us. He was stirred by the Lord last week to come and join Mike Bickle and the IHOP–KC leadership and will share tomorrow morning (Wednesday) on the significance of the growing partnership between the missions movement and the prayer movement—a very significant development in church history.
What happened today?
Both Wes Martin and Corey Russell spoke this morning, sharing their hearts on what the Spirit is saying in this hour. Wes opened up, stressing the reality that the Lord had this specific generation in mind when He prophesied through Isaiah that His house would be called a house of prayer for all nations (Isa. 56:7). We each have an active role in partnering with His heart to see the release of His purposes. Corey spoke on Jesus’ teachings from John 13–17, developing the ministry of intercession as it pertains to the Church in this hour, highlighting the need to understand the Father’s heart and to be stabilized in His love so that we might remain unshaken as trouble looms on the horizon. The session gave way to a time of ministry as many were healed of spiritual and emotional wounds.
The Lord is awakening in His people an earnest desire to be vessels of His supernatural power. During the afternoon Mike Bickle exhorted us that as His sons and daughters part of our inheritance is this very reality—that all would prophesy, heal the sick, and manifest His gifts. Mike shared some very practical principles of the supernatural ministry, touching on receiving words and giving expression to gifts and impressions. Whatever the gift, whether in small or large measure, all that the Lord gives us is to be pursued and valued as we seek to live out lives of obedience and partnership to Jesus.
Why are we here? What’s it all for? What does life consist of? Tonight, Misty Edwards examined the purpose of life, existence, and our future as eternal beings. Our lives are to be centered on the reality that is found in the life, death, resurrection, and promise of the return of Jesus. We were made to bring God pleasure and feel His joy within us. Misty called us to live from the heart before God’s eyes alone, as living examples of His love. The message of Jesus’ commitment to redeem and sanctify us, we who He loves with a desperate passion, leaves room for only one response: total abandonment and lovesick worship until He returns!
The Holy Spirit descended upon the children’s meetings today with clear and powerful revelations. As Lenny LaGuardia led the ministry time, the Lord came into the room with His tangible presence. It was a powerful time of encounter in which many young children were undoubtedly marked for life with the love of Jesus Christ, some for the first time.
