Together at East of England (Part 2)

The sermons from all the main sessions have been made available online for free, I have downloaded them and will upload them to Youtube (with a link from this blog) when I get a minute as they will likely disappear at some point in the future for their current location.

The Saturday evening meeting was awesome, Terry Virgo continued from 1 Kings 17 and Elijah. Call to trust God. Faith. Obedience. Elijah modelled a life very much like Abraham. God says, follow me and I will make you live better, part of a culture that believes what God is saying. Pharisee's were moral but didn't believe in Jesus. God is the thing that makes sense of your life. Model of Faith. Leaves the choices to God; matter of faith & obedience. Elijah obedience based on humility.

Elijah; Go hide yourself (first), Go show yourself (later). Part of Terry's preach which I found really encouraging. Don't despise the secret seasons, the training seasons. Elijah's Faith; first go the brook.. Seasons of foundation. Dealing with things. Be Patient. Don't faint. Sometimes we try to take the wheel back ourselves. Leave choices to God. "I've commanded the ravens to feed you there..". But we will get there. When Elijah got there something supernatural. Don't allow anxious thoughts to project into where grace has not arrived yet. Get to the place where revelation is. God doesn't speak to me ? Try the Bible first. i.e .."the machine doesn't work !... have you tried plugging it in ?.." Walk by faith don't worry about the exit strategy.

The sermon was followed by a call to respond, in faith and for more faith, when many went forward for prayer and ministry, myself included. The brother who prayed with me and laid hands was surprising as it turned out to be Peter, the father of Owain(see blog entry on Owain's Journey) and I hope were both blessed by this. It was definitely in my mind a God moment and no mere chance. I was so pleased to be able to just encourage him also, having been through some very difficult times with Owain's cancer treatments over the last year. The whole family was at the conference and I did meet Owain on the Monday morning tucking into his bacon for breakfast, I didn't really know what to say, but just felt I wanted to say God bless you guys. The Saturday evening worship was really great, I felt the Lord's manifest presence in the room, we were sitting toward the back this time and from a little way behind us a sister opened up with a Tongue which was followed by an interpretation from Julian Adams that really took my breath away in it's content. I know for sure I was not the only one with tears in my eyes as we stood in awe of a God who loves so much to hear our voices and to receive our responses to his great Love, it really was an amazing session.