Thursday, January 31, 2013
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Toronto United Rally
February 1st will mark the first of a series of monthly rallies that will be held across the GTA. Rooted In Love Ministries, along with many others, will be partnering with Catalyst Ministries in these 'worship and prayer rallies'. We will be involved with leading one of the worship portions of the rally.
Come and be involved in the change of a city, a province, a nation and the world.
Come and be involved in the change of a city, a province, a nation and the world.
Sunday, January 6, 2013
David Wagner - 2013 Prophetic Insights
(We copied and pasted this from our friend David Wagners page concerning 2013; You can check out his website at www.fathersheartministries.org)
Happy New Year to all of our friends and family around the world! Over the next 5 days I will be posting some of the prophetic insights the Lord has been giving me concerning 2013. Here is the first little bit... Blessings! David
I hear the Holy Spirit saying:
“I AM awakening an army of end time worshippers and warriors who will usher in a Kingdom culture and mindset. The stage has been set as I have released the anticipation of heaven into the atmosphere of the earth and My church for the New Year ahead. Ambassadors of hope are being called to the forefront to advance My Kingdom.”
“Brace yourselves for the greatest days the earth and the church have ever seen. This is the season to hear bounce back and breakthrough to go beyond where you have ever been before. Be bold as I AM ready and able to bring to you all that I have promised.”
“This is the year that I desire My people to stay in a place of continual contact with My presence. Call on Me and I will answer you. Do all that I command you to do and you will see Me complete all that I have committed to do on your behalf. My Church is about to release the winds of change. You have been called to serve as conduit of continual love and power in the earth. I AM calling forth the courageous to come forth and cross over into unchartered territory. 2013 is a year where Kingdom Convictions must overrule personal comforts. Children have been chosen to release and lead an unprecedented revival and reformation in the year ahead.”
“Dreams that seemed like they have died are about to come back to life. This is going to be a year filled with defining moments. You are about to defy the odds and defeat the enemy like never before. I AM releasing a supernatural defense system that will destroy demonic dysfunction. Deny yourselves, delight in Me and I will give you the desires of your hearts. This is the year of deliverance and delivery. I AM setting people free and I AM delivering the title deeds to all of My promises.”
“Enter into 2013 with expectation. I AM expanding your territory as I eradicate the enemy from your midst.”
Happy New Year to all of our friends and family around the world! Over the next 5 days I will be posting some of the prophetic insights the Lord has been giving me concerning 2013. Here is the first little bit... Blessings! David
I hear the Holy Spirit saying:
“I AM awakening an army of end time worshippers and warriors who will usher in a Kingdom culture and mindset. The stage has been set as I have released the anticipation of heaven into the atmosphere of the earth and My church for the New Year ahead. Ambassadors of hope are being called to the forefront to advance My Kingdom.”
“Brace yourselves for the greatest days the earth and the church have ever seen. This is the season to hear bounce back and breakthrough to go beyond where you have ever been before. Be bold as I AM ready and able to bring to you all that I have promised.”
“This is the year that I desire My people to stay in a place of continual contact with My presence. Call on Me and I will answer you. Do all that I command you to do and you will see Me complete all that I have committed to do on your behalf. My Church is about to release the winds of change. You have been called to serve as conduit of continual love and power in the earth. I AM calling forth the courageous to come forth and cross over into unchartered territory. 2013 is a year where Kingdom Convictions must overrule personal comforts. Children have been chosen to release and lead an unprecedented revival and reformation in the year ahead.”
“Dreams that seemed like they have died are about to come back to life. This is going to be a year filled with defining moments. You are about to defy the odds and defeat the enemy like never before. I AM releasing a supernatural defense system that will destroy demonic dysfunction. Deny yourselves, delight in Me and I will give you the desires of your hearts. This is the year of deliverance and delivery. I AM setting people free and I AM delivering the title deeds to all of My promises.”
“Enter into 2013 with expectation. I AM expanding your territory as I eradicate the enemy from your midst.”
Thursday, October 18, 2012
Hope For Justice
This is a video posted by a friend in the UK that we felt to repost. Justice.
Hope For Every Girl (Anti-Slavery Day) from Hopeforjustice on Vimeo.
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Spiritual Pregnancy
The process of having a baby has got to be the most amazing journey that someone can take. My wife and I have only 2 months until things become completely different from what we now know and every step of the way I can't help but be reminded of how spiritual pregnancy is much the same. It is so unbelievable to think that my baby is not even born and yet God has found things to teach me through this little one.
I never quite understood at times what was going on in the Spirit, in regards to our personal life, until we found out we were pregnant. All of a sudden some things started to make more sense, we were spiritually pregnant. If you have never been expecting a baby before then let me fill you in on some of the journey we have been on that has made some sense of our spiritual journey.
As excited as you are to meet your baby, you still have to wait 9 months. When we dream with God and He reveals things to us it is so exciting that we feel we can jump to the moon. That feeling of excitement is good and ok to feel but it is also important to understand that what God showed you might not happen right away. Just like a baby in the womb those 9 months are so so so important because in those 9 months that baby develops from the size of a poppy seed to the size of a watermelon. And you can't rush it. You have to wait. This leads me into the next stage that follows the initial excitement.
After finding out you are having a baby you expect things to totally change over night and for the outward manifestations to match the joy inside. I thought that I would literally watch my wife's belly grow as I stared at it. But guess what? No matter how hard I stared I didn't see it grow. At times it felt as though nothing was even happening. It was a faith season. You will find that following a season of great revelation over the future and destiny there comes a season of faith. You may not see the belly growing yet but you believe that there is a baby in there. The faith season is such an important season because you are going totally on what was told to you.
John 20:29 'Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and [a]to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believedand adhered to and trusted and relied on Me.'
One of the craziest moments for me was when I first heard my baby's heartbeat. There is nothing that can describe that feeling. I was overjoyed and excited. And while I listened something really funny came into my head, 'There really is a baby in there'. I had the same thing happen to me at our ultrasound. Coming out of the faith season you begin to see what was always and already is real begin to manifest to your senses. Its a lot like a movie trailer, a preview/glimpse of what is coming soon. When what we have been believing for begins to manifest itself to our senses it creates an atmosphere of excitement for the fullness of it to come forth. Its a lot like the children of Israel being promised the promise land, then walking through years of the dessert, then finally seeing it, then possessing it.
When you've gotten this point in the pregnancy you get almost nervous because the baby is coming so soon and you have to get things ready for the arrival. This is the next step. We must begin to prepare everything for the arrival of the baby. For the arrival of the promise. Much like John The Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus there are certain things that need to be done before the birth of the spiritual promise, personally in your own life as well as practical. When that baby comes they need a place to 'lay their head', they need clothes, food, blankets and the list goes on. And when that promise comes forth you need to guard it and take care of it. Joseph and Mary were entrusted with this responsibility of carrying Jesus in the womb, preparing a place and raising Him. In the same way you are entrusted to carry this spiritual baby and to see to it that it is carried to full term and protected.
As we near the final stages in the natural we do so with arms wide open ready to receive the gift that is promised. Each step of the way is a glimpse into something beautiful and breath taking. We take each step with care so that we miss not one thing. May you enjoy not just the birth of the promise but the process that it takes to get there.
Blessings!
I never quite understood at times what was going on in the Spirit, in regards to our personal life, until we found out we were pregnant. All of a sudden some things started to make more sense, we were spiritually pregnant. If you have never been expecting a baby before then let me fill you in on some of the journey we have been on that has made some sense of our spiritual journey.
As excited as you are to meet your baby, you still have to wait 9 months. When we dream with God and He reveals things to us it is so exciting that we feel we can jump to the moon. That feeling of excitement is good and ok to feel but it is also important to understand that what God showed you might not happen right away. Just like a baby in the womb those 9 months are so so so important because in those 9 months that baby develops from the size of a poppy seed to the size of a watermelon. And you can't rush it. You have to wait. This leads me into the next stage that follows the initial excitement.
After finding out you are having a baby you expect things to totally change over night and for the outward manifestations to match the joy inside. I thought that I would literally watch my wife's belly grow as I stared at it. But guess what? No matter how hard I stared I didn't see it grow. At times it felt as though nothing was even happening. It was a faith season. You will find that following a season of great revelation over the future and destiny there comes a season of faith. You may not see the belly growing yet but you believe that there is a baby in there. The faith season is such an important season because you are going totally on what was told to you.
John 20:29 'Jesus said to him, Because you have seen Me, Thomas, do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy and [a]to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believedand adhered to and trusted and relied on Me.'
One of the craziest moments for me was when I first heard my baby's heartbeat. There is nothing that can describe that feeling. I was overjoyed and excited. And while I listened something really funny came into my head, 'There really is a baby in there'. I had the same thing happen to me at our ultrasound. Coming out of the faith season you begin to see what was always and already is real begin to manifest to your senses. Its a lot like a movie trailer, a preview/glimpse of what is coming soon. When what we have been believing for begins to manifest itself to our senses it creates an atmosphere of excitement for the fullness of it to come forth. Its a lot like the children of Israel being promised the promise land, then walking through years of the dessert, then finally seeing it, then possessing it.
When you've gotten this point in the pregnancy you get almost nervous because the baby is coming so soon and you have to get things ready for the arrival. This is the next step. We must begin to prepare everything for the arrival of the baby. For the arrival of the promise. Much like John The Baptist came to prepare the way for Jesus there are certain things that need to be done before the birth of the spiritual promise, personally in your own life as well as practical. When that baby comes they need a place to 'lay their head', they need clothes, food, blankets and the list goes on. And when that promise comes forth you need to guard it and take care of it. Joseph and Mary were entrusted with this responsibility of carrying Jesus in the womb, preparing a place and raising Him. In the same way you are entrusted to carry this spiritual baby and to see to it that it is carried to full term and protected.
As we near the final stages in the natural we do so with arms wide open ready to receive the gift that is promised. Each step of the way is a glimpse into something beautiful and breath taking. We take each step with care so that we miss not one thing. May you enjoy not just the birth of the promise but the process that it takes to get there.
Blessings!
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Heart
In and out. In and out. In and out. People coming in and going out. The doors of Starbucks never seem to receive a break and I wonder how much longer the door can take before it simply falls off the hinges. With each person that comes in I wonder what their story is. And for each person going out I ponder my own story. This is the life of a wild heart stuck inside a western body. It's not that there is no room for a wild heart in the West, because it is needed, it's more that there's no room for the West in the wild heart. This is the point of conflict that all face but few overcome. This has been my conflict.
Albert Schweitzer said, "the tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives". To come face to face with your own heart in this day and age takes extreme honesty. To walk out the findings of your own heart takes courage. But the Man who never encounters his own heart is like a book with no beginning, only an ending.
Albert Schweitzer said, "the tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives". To come face to face with your own heart in this day and age takes extreme honesty. To walk out the findings of your own heart takes courage. But the Man who never encounters his own heart is like a book with no beginning, only an ending.
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