Netherlands September 09
September 18 – 28, 2009
“Empowering The Body of Christ.”
Our Hosts
Our hosts and conference organizers are Joshua and Sandra Wienbelt, Pastors of United In Christ Ministries, Gorinchem, Netherlands.
Our Focus
The focus of this conference is reveal to the body of believers how they have been empowered by the Holy Spirit to represent Jesus and His kingdom. We will focus on the following principles of apostolic authority:
* Every born again believer is sent as an authorized representative of Jesus Christ and His kingdom
* Every born again believer has an area of authority to operate their unique gifting in.
* There is a proper way to operate or demonstrate apostolic authority.
* The right mindset to overcome the strongholds that hinder the believer from demonstrating authority.
* Saturday afternoon, we will also have a session for leadership dealing with the need and benefits of apostolic structure.
9/18/09
Tonight was the first service of the conference. During worship there was a wonderful presence of the Lord. Even though the songs were mostly done in Dutch, you could still flow with the spirit of worship.
Our message was on defining apostolic. Faith to demonstrate the power of the Kingdom needs to be based on the correct understanding of what it means to be sent. The truths presented were empowering to the people, showing them that it is not for a select few, but each born again believer has been empowered, commissioned and sent to manifest the power of our King and his kingdom.
Tomorrow is a leadership session, our topic will be “The Necessity of Structure.” We will explore the biblical concept that if there is a proper ministry structure, we can expect there to be power in the church which will allow the ministry gifts to operate. When this happens, there will be the manifestation of the nature and image of Jesus.
After the leadership session we will minster the second session of apostolic authority: The Right Mindset.
9.20.09
Sunday was a powerful day in the Spirit. In the morning session our message was “Finding Your Metron.” Each born again believer has been gifted to minister. Their ministry gift has a place of optimum effectiveness. When we each know our gifts, know where God has placed us in the body and submit to that place, we become ministers of His grace. The challenge of the spirit this morning was to submit your ministry gifts to His structure of the body.
The evening service was “How To Operate In Apostolic Authority.” It was in this service that the Lord sent the believers to demonstrate His kingdom. By the end of the evening there were those who the Lord healed of various problems: knee, ankle, and back pain and limited mobility were among them. More important than the miracle works was that they believer’s were empowered by Jesus to become His representative to this world.
Update:
These testimonies of God’s healing power were given after the Sunday evening service:
W – the doctors had examined her for rheumatoid arthritis in her hands, knees and feet. Sunday she spoke to the conditions herself. Instantly her pain and stiffness was gone. Still gone a week later.
F – could not bend over or stoop down due to back pain. After exercising authority, her condition was gone.
E – the doctors had also been examinig him for rhumatoing in his hands, feet and back. Chronic pain and stiffness. Sunday he was touched by the Spirit. A week later, the pain was gone and the stifness was decreasing.
H – chronic hand pain. After Sunday, significant decrease in pain.
