onething’09 Wednesday Recap
What Happened Today
A Call to Missions – Mark Anderson
This morning’s session with Mark Anderson and Loren Cunningham of YWAM was inspiring. What a privilege to hear from men who have given their lives to taking the gospel to the nations. They have such an anointing for missions and spoke powerfully about how God is doing a new thing as he brings the prayer movement together with the missions movement for a worldwide release of the Holy Spirit’s power. Mark highlighted that we are now at the beginning of the greatest outpouring the world has seen. Acts 1:8 declares that “we will be witnesses” to the ends of the earth when we receive the Spirit. Whether we go across the street or across the sea, we are called to go and make disciples. It is time to take the message of Jesus to where the people live. God is redefining missions as reaching everyone in every culture, in every society, everywhere.
Mark encouraged us to trust the awakening and the move of the Spirit in our midst. He dared us to dream, to go, to be witnesses—everywhere and at all times. What would it look like if 20,000 people began to speak the word of the Lord as Peter did at Pentecost, when 3,000 came to the Lord in one day?
Mark shared about Call2All, a worldwide movement calling the global Church to reach the least, the last, and the lost, networking churches, missions organizations, and prayer ministries to work as one to complete the Great Commission. See www.call2all.org and www.uofnkona.org for more details on how to be involved.
A Call to Obey – Loren Cunningham
Loren Cunningham founded YWAM 50 years ago and has been to every nation and territory on earth as an ambassador for the Lord. YWAM has permanent bases in 150 nations. Loren spoke with faith and passion about the need for abandoned believers with fearless spirits who are willing to intercede, hear God’s voice, and obey without regard to comfort or safety so that the message of the gospel would reach all nations, including those who have never heard and do not have the gospel in their own language. God has given this generation the tools necessary to fulfill the Great Commission: the Word, His Spirit, technology, transportation, media, spiritual gifts, and understanding. We have everything we need to reach a lost world with power and clarity. For those willing to risk everything, God is willing to grant anything so that Jesus would be glorified in the earth!
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” –Hudson Taylor
A Call to Love – Mike Bickle
This afternoon Mike spoke on the first commandment. God is restoring the first and great commandment to first place as He calls His Bride to be equally yoked in love. The reality is that God wants us to love Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength because He loves us in this way. The ability to love God and feel His love is the greatest gift that the Holy Spirit can reveal to us. One of the core issues concerning the end times is the definition of love. There is no such thing as loving God without seeking to obey Him (Jn. 14:21). Jesus did not call it the first option but the first commandment; He is after love from us and the mystery of all of life is found in this truth.
onething’09 Welcomes International Visitors
As over 20,000 gather in Kansas City at onething’09, the Lord is drawing international communities. Many have traveled here from China,Taiwan, Korea, Spain, Mexico, and South American nations. Many attendees are receiving the ministry of the word of the Lord in their own languages (Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Spanish) as the Spirit moves in our midst. We have information meetings for four ethnic/language groups (Chinese, Korean, Arab, and Latino) where the heart of the Father is being shared. The spirit of prophecy has been prayed over individuals who will take the fire back to their homeland.
