Bill Johnson, Sunday March 31, 2013

What Jesus Paid For

Prayer for families to be put on track

• Whenever we pray, there are always testimonies of God’s goodness because as we agree corporately Gods power is released.
• I believe the Lord is going to restore entire family lines that are just off track or families who never succeed.
• Joshua 1:9
• Success not according to world standards but by God’s kingdom values.
• The Lord is going to restore entire family lines.

• John 19:31-37
• I have a special affection for the gospel of John. He was a david of the new covenant. He was a warrior, but he also set the high water mark for the love of the heart of the Lord and passion. God called John a son of thunder.
• We are going to walk through the story of the crucifixion but we are going to start in a strange place.
• These prophetic words were not given to represent the messianic prophecies, but they were woven into prophetic words for the generation. Woven into their prophetic words, was a hidden word about Jesus.
• It’s amazing to me how close we are to miracle breakthrough.
• It’s extraordinary how often we’ve leaned into the possibility that God might be saying something and found out he is. For me whenever we break into extraordinary realms of breakthrough, it rarely comes with fanfare. It’s usually a passing thought and when you lean into what he is saying or doing, you discover it was God.
• Many people lay back and let life happen to them, but when you lean into what God is doing, breakthroughs become a common occurrence.
• We have an unusual story. They went to break the legs of the men who were crucified but because a prophet had spoken that his bones would not be broken, he was already dead.
• It’s no wonder that Christ died so quickly because we all know the affect of sin in our lives.
• When the priest went into the holy of holies, they washed with blood and water. In christ’s death, in the same way that a wife was made from adam’s life, a bride was cleansed by the blood and water that poured forth from Jesus’s side.

• I read through all the conversations that Jesus had between his resurrection and when he went up to be with his father.
• When Mary looked into the tomb, there were two angels, one at the head, and one at the feet. When you look back at the ark of the covenant/testimony, on both ends were two cherubim. She walked in and saw heaven’s mark. It was the mercy seat of God.
• None of the disciples understood the significance of the resurrection at first.
• This story is so extraordinary if you can go back to where jesus was born. The first person to touch Jesus at his birth was Mary, his mother, a virgin. But this time, the first person to touch him was another Mary who had been freed of many demons. It’s appropriate that she found the mercy seat.
• Mary was mourning the end. But Jesus came and told her that this was only the beginning.
• What is it about the passion of people that can stop God’s time clock? Jesus was on his way up to heaven with many of the resurrected saints, and he stopped to talk to Mary.
• v30 “and truly Jesus did many other signs…”
• All the conversations Jesus had could be summarized to pertain to the kingdom of God. He wasn’t talking about where they would go when they died. He was explaining to them the present day reality of the kingdom that had been made available to them through his resurrection.

 

Jesus wanted to communicate two things to his disciples before he left:

1. These things were written that you would believe. It’s hard to have great faith if you lay back and let life happen to you. There is something about leaning in, believing and anticipating, that makes thing possible. Nothing is impossible for those who believe. Jesus wanted us to believe. A believer becomes a witness, a witness becomes testimony, and testimony translates to the word maryter. It means that you verbally give witness to something that you believe with your life. “I am born again because the spirit of the resurrected Christ lives in me” and that is something that we are willing to die for.
2. Love. Peter denied christ three times so Christ asked him 3 times “do you love me?” He gives everyone the opportunity to step into freedom and redemption from anything they’ve ever done wrong in the past.

Kris Vallotton, Wednesday March 27, 2013

Irrational Fears 

• Kings Elijah has just defeated the prophets of Baal, he’s done incredible things and he went to Jezebel to tell of his accomplishments (1 Kings 19:1)
• He just killed 455 of the prophets of Baal, outran a chariot, watched the fire of God consume an alter that was soaked in water… he’s done it all. Then he caused rain after 3 and a half years of stopping rain, he turned all of Israel towards God in one meeting. And now he’s running from a woman. He’s afraid for his life.
• I want to talk to you about irrational fear.
• Then Elijah sat under a tree and asked God to kill him because he didn’t want her to kill him. He became suicidal.
• v5-8
• God had him eat and sleep. This is off topic, but sometimes pure exhaustion can open the door for a Jezebel spirit.
• This is like the Monday morning blues. It’s like when a pastor speaks a great message and the next morning wonders how he has done.
• It’s common after a great victory to have another battle.
• in v14 Elijah has all of these irrational fears, because he was actually the one who just killed all the prophets of Baal and Israel was turning back to God.
• So God replied … I have 7000 people who have not bowed a knee to Baal.

 

Symptoms of a Jezebel spirit:

1. Irrational fear
2. Feeling alone
3. Your problems look bigger than they are

 

What is the solution?

1) Meeting physical needs.

• Are you resting? Lots of things are called the devil but they are actually the result of not enough sleep. And if you lack sleep for too long, you open the door to the enemy.
• Are you eating well?
• Are you carrying stress?
• Are you getting enough sunlight?
• There are a lot of physical symptoms that can feel like demonic attacks. The demonic may attach it’s self to these issues, but often they aren’t the cause.

2) Meeting social needs

• Find a friend.
• God gave Elijah a mandate to pass on his mantel but it was going to take a few years. So Elisha became “the man who washed Elijah’s feet”
• Making sure you have things socially in order is important. Make sure you have friends. 1 can send 1000 to flight, 2 can send 10 000. (Some of you need to get married)

3) Don’t believe all your thoughts

• Don’t believe all your thoughts. (not all my thoughts are my own)
• As americans, we don’t generally believe in demons so people attract them accidentally. But in some other cultures, people actively worship demons. So if you are going to these places, put your armor on. Don’t be afraid. God’s sent you there, he will protect you.
• You generally have 3 seconds to decide if a thought is going to become an attitude.
• Sometimes when I have a fear filled thought, if I accept it the anxiety will remain with me long after I’ve forgotten the initial thoughts.
• IF I lose my peace, I go back to where I lost my peace, and I deal with where I lost it.
• Thinking “I hope that doesn’t happening” believes that it is possible for it to happen. And from this place, lies can grow rapidly and cause problems.
• If you get an email and you know in the first few lines that it’s going to be negative, throw it away! I have out of curiosity read the whole letter, so that instead of spending the day with God, I’m developing a defense as if I’m in an argument with that person.
• The same thing happens in your thought life. If you have a thought that begins with “you are a dirty rotten…” I don’t want to read that d-mail. Because it’s a long letter full of facts and statistics to mess with your mind. If you don’t decide to not open it, it will open by it’s self. In seasons of warfare, you have to be proactive.
• When you aren’t in warfare, it will be automatically sent to your voicemail, but when you are in warfare, it will play it’s self out and you will have to work to get rid of it. This is a really bad plan.
• All spiritual warfare has an element of truth to it in the second line. But think of who sent you the letter.
• The facts are not the truth if they come from the wrong sender.
• The devil tempted Jesus with scripture.
• So guard your mind.

4) Guard your emotions.

• Don’t let your emotion dictate your attitude, let your attitude dictate your emotion.
• Sometimes feelings will take a moment to leave. So if you cast out hopelessness, ignore the feeling for 15 min. If it still feels there, focus on hope.
• Take testimonies with you and keep them close. If you start to feel hopeless, read over yourself the testimonies and prophecies that you have for you.
• Actively fight it the moment it starts. Don’t let it gain root.
• Don’t talk about how you are feeling all the time. If you need help, inform your friend without drowning them in your hardships. Give them the readers digest version, pray into it together and move one.

 

Steve Backlund, Wednesday March 27, 2013

5 Life Changing Beliefs

 Laughed off some lies

• Your missions trips are going to be a giant killing expedition, and many of the giants will be the ones inside of you.
• When it says take up the sword of the spirit, how many of you know that the purpose of a sword is to kill something. Often times the things to kill are inside of us.

Romans 5:2 says we are to be renewed by the renewing of your mind. It’s impossible to renew your mind and not be transformed.

1. There is always a solution.

• There is never a situation that is too challenging to handle.
• This belief leads to hope, which provides us with permission to look for a solution.
• God’s solutions are not always logical. Don’t believe all your eggs are in one basket. You have lots of options. Hope realizes that even if I don’t see anything happening, God is doing something.

2.   I will always know what to do.

• The fear of not knowing what to do is a bigger problem
• James 1:5 says “if anyone needs wisdom, he should ask God… and it will be given to him… but let him ask with out doubting… if he is doubting, he should not expect anything from God” We have to believe that we will have wisdom, and then we will have wisdom.
• “When I run out of good ideas, God always gives me more” Kayden, gr 5 student.
• Develop the belief that you will always know what to do and what to say. That’s a core value that we can grow.
• “I am a great decision maker”
• A poor decision made in faith has a greater likelihood of success than a good decision made in doubt. The whole art of decision making is essential because God wants us to be powerful. How we make the decision is more important than the decision you make.

3.   I will always be successful in everything I do.

• Success is a state of being not a goal.
• My placement in life doesn’t determine whether I’m a winner or not. I am a winner because of who I am. It doesn’t matter if other think I’m a winner.

4.   I will always have the provision I need to do what needs to be done. 

• The bigger your vision is, the bigger your needs are.
• Philippians 4:19
• We can only receive what we believe we are worth. So we need to believe that we are worth everything God paid for us.

5.   My past is always turned to good.

• Romans 8:28 (the devil hates this verse)
• Here is a great bio for the devil: It backfired again.
• There are a lot of things the devil doesn’t understand, he doesn’t understand us.
• Oops, it all worked together for good again.
• Everything you’ve done has the grace to be turned for good. And it’s going to create incredible backfire.

If you don’t have any other beliefs to think of, just these 5 will probably defeat 95% of the enemies lies. 

 

Steve’s interns Jarred, Julie and Jazz.

Jarred

• There is always a solution, how big is this!
• Get rid of entitlement. It’s poverty.
• We are known as problem solvers.

 

Julie

• I will always know what to do.
• Many of us are in this place of asking what comes next. Jesus told me to be faithful with what I was doing until March 1 and then I could think about what is next. By being faithful with what I am doing now, I am stewarding promotion and acknowledging that God will give me the wisdom to know what to do.
• Believe that you will have a next step to take.
• There are things that you can steward right now which will bring blessing tomorrow and in 100 years.

 

Jazz 

• You will always have the resources to do what needs to be done.
• Colossians 4
• Hope is knowing that something good is coming. Hope is believing in the goodness of God. So whatever you need, all you have to do is hope for and know that you will receive. Because that opens up the door for him. When you know that you know that you know that he’s good. The faith and hope will spring forward for solutions and provision.
• So reach up and open the faucet of hope.

 

Q&A

How did your passion for declarations develop?

• Jehova sneaky came. While I was pastoring a tiny church in Nevada, I was exposed to the word of faith movement and it transformed my life because I realized that I didn’t believe that God would do what he said he’d do.
• And I got a cassette from Joyce Myers where she said she spoke 10 declarations over herself every day and now they are all true.
• We are working on a book called Declarations that will explain 30 reasons why declarations are important.

How did you decide to start writing a book?

• While I was in Nevada, I started writing a weekly article that went into the newspaper and I really enjoyed it. Then I got a prophetic word that I would write a book.
• I started to declare that I was an author before I ever wrote a book.
• There is a difference between perfectionism and excellence. Don’t be disappointed in the day of small beginnings.

In a culture where there are lies and wrong beliefs that seem so prevalent, like in Zimbabwe where it seems like death and hopelessness are so visible, how do we bring truth to that?

• It’s like Ezekiel speaking to dry bones.
• A lot of times it happens through process. Leaders always have to think higher than the environments they are in.
• For something to change, somebody has to believe it will change and make a proclamation.
• Understand that you are a part of a chain reaction of events. Do what you feeled called.

I read an article saying that there are two ways to break off lies, through laughing and music. How does music do so?

• Music can be a gateway for truth to be received more easily. Just like laughter it opens the heart for truth.

When we are church planting, Kris said yesterday that we should bring people with us from the outside instead of using local people on your leadership. How do you see that?

• If you are doing a church plant, it could be very beneficial to bring people who have been steeped in the beliefs you have.
• You’ve gotta do what you’ve gotta do. There are ideal scenarios, but God doesn’t rely on those.
• If Noah had been too concerned that nobody wanted to build a boat with him, we wouldn’t be here.
• You’ve gotta know what you are called to do and stay true to that.
• I’d want a team if I could get one.

When it comes to teams, could you explain how that works in marriage?

• I don’t think there could be two more opposite people than Wendy and me. We scare each other sometimes.
• I’m more of a truths guy, and she’s about encounter. We’ve both said “what’s wrong with you?”
• The fear of having to marry someone who is exactly like us is a problem.
• When I get a team, I don’t want people exactly like me, I want people who are exactly the opposite in some ways because they bring us balance.
• We’ve struggled, but we are supposed to be together, and we love it.
• Don’t put the pressure on each other to look a certain way. The best thing you can do for each other is unconditionally love each other.
• You don’t have to do anything for me to love you.
• That can be scary, giving people permission to be who they need to be. But this liberates people.
• For those of you who aren’t married, I break off the spirit of perfectionism or fear. Our generation has such an advantage, we had so many issues it’s ridiculous.
• God took it and still made us work it out. He is able to work in the midst of imperfection.

What was the most dramatic God encounter you’ve ever had, what are your 5 favorite books, and when you read books?

• God encounter: While I still pastoring in Nevada, I came here for a visit and I had an encounter in the upper room.
• Books: John Maxwell, The final Quest, Destined to Reign, Ordering Your Private World, Passionate About Jesus…

Kris Vallotton, Tuesday March 26, 2013

Being a Part of the Body

• Being part of the body means that when you feel like giving up and letting go, they are still hanging on to you.
• When I feel like I’d like to run into a cave an hide they hold on to me because we are fitted.
• This is my cry for being part of a family and part of a team. Before you graduate, you need to be connected, not through a title. You need spiritual authority in your life.
• 1 Corinthians 4:14 It is important that there are people following you, and you need to make sure that following you, they are also following Christ. When people imitate you, they should also be imitating Christ.
• This is part of spiritual warfare.
• The demographic and the people you are ministering to will affect the way you do your ministry. So Paul instructed Timothy to imitate his ways. Still being in Christ, but doing so in a certain way.
• We need to be able to submit to authority in a way that doesn’t make us powerless clones. But we should still have individuality and be individuals together.
• The concept is a church without walls. We should emphasize something with the other side still understood.
• I’m trying to bring this balance. We’ve been telling you all year “You’re amazing, go after your dreams, lead your life…” but we have so emphasized dreaming that sometimes individuality has taken the place of corporate dreaming.
• Do you actually know how to interact in authority?
• You are going to go places and the next stage for many will be submitting to someone else’s ministry. It’s really important that in the midst of all this freedom we are learning how to serve and submit.

 

What is the difference between a pioneer and an apostle? And where do pioneers find accountability and covering?

• Pioneering isn’t always apostolic because you might not be transforming culture. But there are apostolic pioneers. And not all apostles are pioneers.

What does it look like to be a daughter of a good father? And what does it really look like to be a good dad?

• It looks like having relationship with people you respect as leaders who you allow to speak into your life and bless you.
• Also when you disagree, you appeal to them.
• With friends or sons, you can bring correction, but towards a father, you should appeal.

How do you navigate being in an environment where nobody is looking to father you?

• It seems natural for older men and women to find people who they can pour into.
• I had a man 84 years old who was struggling with some things, and I asked right at the beginning if he could teach me some things in the areas that I’ve been learning about. And at the end, I was a prophet to him, and he was a father to me.
• It’s not hard to do. Sometimes you can just ask someone, “could I meet you for an hour every 2 weeks and ask you some questions about life?” and that’s a simple way to start.
• Valuing people is huge! Nebraska is one of the best places I’ve been in my life because of the value they had for every message I shared.
• It just takes someone who is hungry enough and bold enough to ask in your life.

I have a heart to plant a church, and I need accountability. What advice would you give to me?

• Do you understand why we don’t plant churches? We don’t plant because whenever we have, the other churches in the area haven’t wanted to relate to us anymore. That’s their own deal and we won’t be competitive, but since we want to influence the world and bring our values to every movement.
• We want to keep relationship with students who go to plant churches, but we don’t put our brand on them.
• I would suggest that you start with finding a leadership team and building a community…

What should you do if you feel called to go but don’t have a covering?

• I wouldn’t go. I wouldn’t want to go without a sending. Does that mean you shouldn’t? No, you asked what I would do, and these are personal convictions of mine.
• The question is, “What does it mean to be sent?”

What are the telltale signs that we should be watching

• I don’t like any message that separates you from the body of christ, takes away personal responsibility, teaches that you can’t sin, or teaches that you shouldn’t go to work anymore, or that there isn’t any hell, or that takes away the will of man. Those are themes that are flowing through the body of Christ that are wrong.
• I don’t have an axe to grime with a person or a specific ministry. And if I do have an issue with something someone is preaching in the church, I go to them individually and talk to them first. I think as a father, I should do that because many people preach against us without knowing us.
• Students who have graduated from 3rd year have gone out and preached revelatory ideas that simply aren’t true. So I want to make sure that people take responsibility for their teaching. People make mistakes, and I don’t have problems with that, but I do have concerns for people who don’t take responsibility or have accountability.

What are you passionate about lately that we haven’t talked about lately?

• I think you know most of my passions.
• I am very passionate about influencing government with the Kingdom. I dream about that
• I dream about sitting in a room with G12 leaders, parliaments and leaders and giving them prophetic vision for their countries.

What prophetic books do you like?

• Graham Cook is super smart. Bill Hammond is very similar. So if you want an intelligent look at the prophetic from a father, these two men are incredible.
• If you like the mystical. The book “the Modern Mystics” by John Crowder is quite good, I don’t agree with every single line in most of these books, and I don’t like all of Crowder’s books… but he has a lot of good stuff.
• Rick Joyner’s books are incredible. I think I’ve read all of those. They are more mystical than I am so sometimes I find it hard to follow.
• It’s all about what you’re into.

What advice do you have for woman apostles?

• Be a woman apostle.
• I’m concerned for women who take positions but lead like a man would lead. Heidi Baker is incredible for leading as a woman.
• It wouldn’t be good for a woman to lead like Bill does.
• I’ve seen the difference from Bills and Heidi’s leadership.
• Heidi is incredibly intuitive, compassionate and nurturing. Bill is too, but it looks different on Heidi. She leads as a woman beautifully.
• Btw, you don’t have to be a dominant personality to be a strong female leader.
• Strong leadership is not a personality type.
• Strong women are not the ones who love to dominate, but are the ones who carry strength in the spirit.
• The DISC tests and stuff like that are great tools, but they aren’t culture. Let’s not define people by those things.

Eric Johnson, Monday March 25, 2013

Q&A With Gabe Valenzuela

 

How do you prioritize between family and ministry?

• The stance that I’ve taken is that I don’t have a missions statement or a organized way to prioritize time with my family or getting work done. The approach I’ve taken is that if I steward my hear really well, I’ll be a good leader, husband and dad.
• When it comes to ministry, I don’t define ministry by what we do here at Bethel.
• Ministry is not what you do, but it’s who you are.
• If you can take care of who you are, then whatever you touch in life will be your best ministry.
• Any time a sacrifice is made, my kids have to pay a price or my wife has to pay a price. For example, Sunday I work from 5am to about 10pm so I don’t really see my family. So I rarely schedule meetings in the evenings. They are generally free which is big for my family. Then if I’m home for the weekend, I spend time with my kids. That’s when I pour into them.
• As far as traveling and scheduling my year, I don’t have a grace to be gone a lot. So Candice and I pray into what we should invest into and we will go on trips spread throughout the year so that I’m not consistently gone, or we will travel together.

 

What are you passionate about?

• My family and my kids are my passion. We’ve always been focused on our family, but right now it’s a little more emphasized because they are in their formative years.
• Growing as a leader is another passion of mine. I need to grow in some areas, so that’s what I’ve been going at personally.

 

You are a little bit competitive. How do you think this helps you? And does it hurt you, if so, how?

• It’s my drive. I like winning, I like being successful… I usually don’t do things I’m not good at. People invite me to do things and I won’t if I’m bad at it because I won’t enjoy it.
• My wife has added to my life the fact that it’s not always about winning, so I’m learning.
• I like to give everything to whatever I do.
• It hurts me when I lose sight of people. I’m not always competitive, but I’m learning to let it fuel me instead of causing problems.

 

How have you learned to deal with making mistakes when you are giving your best effort?

• It’s going to happen, whether it’s speaking, parenting, coaching… anything in life, you will make mistakes. So I try to learn from them instead of going back to the concern about the mistake.
• If it’s a tough emotional mistake, I will learn not to trust the emotions, especially when I’m stressed out or tired. I get into a place of balance and then make decisions.

 

Is there anything that bothers you about our students?

• We have been pouring into our city for years, and I don’t like it when messes are made with students who don’t compose themselves as they should.
• That’s probably the toughest one to chew, but it does help us learn.

 

You’ve modeled pursuing healing for yourself while ministering healing to others with your hearing problems. How do you cultivate faith and keep faith in the midst of discouragement?

• I don’t get discouraged now as much as I did when I was younger. Maybe once or twice a year.
• My responsibility in this journey is to take care of my heart. When you are part of a movement where there is high expectancy, it is important to keep myself from striving or conjuring up faith.
• When I hear a breakthrough, I just think “I’m one day closer”.
• And I have a list of things that I will do when I receive my healing.

 

Do you set vision for your life, do you know where you are headed? Do you feel called to Bethel your whole life?

• Of course it’s something I think about but I don’t expound on it too much.
• Candice and I don’t have geographical locations attached to our heart, we aren’t wired that way, we have things that we love to do.
• It also depends which season you are in. Sometimes we aren’t in the same one. How do you navigate when one feels in their place and the other does not? That’s a tough one. But when we’ve been able to hear what we are called to together we follow that.
• We don’t have plans, so right now we are here and this is where we are at. That could change tonight, but my approach is that I’m here until God calls me elsewhere.
• When we were in Weaverville, I didn’t want to stay there forever, but I approached it with the mentality that if I was I would do it well.

 

What was it like when you inherited the lead pastoral role at Bethel church?

• It was made clear that the job did not become my own because of the last name Johnson, but because I had a firm foundation and strong shoulders to stand on.
• Candice and I made sure that as long as there was complete freedom for us to be who we are in this role we would give it two thumbs up, but if we were expected to fill the shoes of another, we wouldn’t be okay with that.

 

Many of the students who have come here have left spiritual fathers and will be going back to them. Do you have any advice as a father for how to navigate that?

• Make sure that you have a ton of grace. If you don’t, you need to get it soon.
• There are spiritual, generational and emotional differences, so it’s often work for people to live in fatherhood, but it releases a lot of life and there is great fruit.
• We now have sons and daughters who are becoming mothers and fathers.
• Everyone’s responsibility is to have a lot of grace, and be willing for it to look differently that you expected.
• When you want to disconnect, that’s probably when you need to lean in the most.
• There are a lot of challenges, but that adds value to relationship.

 

You have a very high pinnacle of leadership here at bethel. So what are some of the challenges for you, and how do you address them?

• I don’t do what I do because I know how to do it, I do what I do because I have the grace to do it.
• Those are two different ways to function.
• One of the things that helps is that I’m naturally very confident in me. Very rarely do I need encouragement from someone else. I like it, but I’m strong on the inside.
• So when something comes up, I think “I can totally do this” which helps a lot. If you don’t have that, you need to find a way to get it.
• I always keep the word of the Lord before me that I read when I need to to remind me what I’m called to and what the Lord has said about it.
• The moment you step across that line into what you’re called to, the grace will be there. Don’t wait for the grace before you cross the line.
• I’m also good at receiving feedback without becoming defensive. Receiving feedback is taking in what they’ve said and looking for ways to improve instead of being defensive or justifying what you’ve done. I have maintenance guys giving me feedback because they have my permission. In leadership, don’t have yourself be your only form of feedback.
• If someone is 5 layers back from me who has an issue with what I’m doing, my door is open to feedback. It takes guts to keep your door open to that. But it helps us to grow.

 

A big part of what you do is preaching. How do you prepare for that?

• In my early twenties I hated preaching and speaking. I just didn’t want to do it. My issue wasn’t a fear of public speaking, but I just didn’t have any desire to do it.
• So I prayed, God this is what I do, so please give me a fire for it.
• Judah Smith came on a sunday morning and preached on clay pots. When he was done, I was catching people he prayed over, but then he called me up and said “the Lord’s going to show you what to share and give you the desire to do so”
• The next morning I woke with a desire to preach for the first time. I still had to learn how, but I now had the desire.
• You need to learn how your mind functions with information, and how your heart processes information. Often times you will have a message on your heart, but when you go to share it’s unsatisfying.
• I’m not a linear thinker, so I can’t think in an outline process when it comes to revelation naturally.
• Banning is more linear and I tried to prepare like him and it was frustrating. I am more of an ideas, thoughts and concepts guy. So then I sat down with a note pad and wrote a thought in a bubble, drew a line and connected it to the next. It worked much better. I only write down the lines that trigger thoughts for me so that I can flow. This didn’t fix everything, because I would tend to go on rabbit trails. Over the years I’ve learned that if I go off on a trail, I have to connect to the main trail soon because I can get lost.
• I avoid teaching new revelation. Don’t let your excitement drive you into a new teaching.
• We might not have enough respect for the people who teach and preach, because they shift the way people think. So we should not put pre-mature teaching out there.
• If you do preach new revelation, preface it with “I’m still processing all of this, so I might not agree with everything I say at the end of the day”. But if you don’t say this, you’re playing with dangerous territory.
• Sometimes I will say “I do have some convictions on this, but I’m not ready to present them”

 

What advice can you give any leader?

• Do what you love to do.
• You must have the ability to say no and set boundaries, otherwise your ministry will run your life. At the end of a person’s life, people only talk about your relationship with God, and how you were as a father, sister, friend…
• Don’t compare yourself to other leaders. It’s destructive, poisonous. God knows what you can handle, so that’s what he gives you. When you compare yourself with others, you are stepping out of grace. So stay in your own lane and grow where you are planted.

 

What is your DISC personality?

• High DC

 

In the strength finders test, you have a zero under relator. But you have managed to build family and community that is very strong, which is something you value but don’t have as a natural strength. How do you actually do that well?

• I married somebody. A lot of the family feel that we have in the leadership of Bethel comes from Candice. I love people, but it’s not my first gauge in all honesty.
• We gather people and love people. So if you come on my team, you will meet a group of people who wake up in the morning and think “How can we build family and community”. For me that’s not my emphasis so I have people around me who think that way.

 

What does a successful 2nd year graduate look like to you?

• Someone who knows how to thrive in any situation or location. This goes back to stewarding your heart.
• There is a group of students that we’ve developed relationship with in Norway and we set aside a whole afternoon for the alumni in this area. And we’ve noticed that it usually takes about 2 to 3 years for a student to feel like they are thriving. And they get there by getting really close to God so that they can hear him really well, and staying close to people who are burning.
• If you can get into that place where your heart is thriving, we will be hearing stories of all your exploits.

Crystal Stiles, Tuesday March 19, 2013

Deliverance and Strongholds

Partner up and give your partner a prophetic word about their trip. 

We are going to make some declarations over your trips:

• I am a spirit being. And I am meant to interact with the spiritual world.
• I was created to have authority over the demonic realm.
• Jesus said I would raise the dead, heal the sick an cast out demons.
• The HS inside me knows how to do it.
• Nothing can stay in my life if I don’t want it there.
• Nothing can stay in others lives if they don’t want it there.

• If you and Jesus both decide something, there’s nothing else you need.
• There are some things that you are running from but you are called to.
• Who here has a fear thing when demons manifest and you don’t know what to do about it? You are called to deliver people, and the enemy knows how powerful you are so he has tried to put fear there. So you will carry a new spirit of boldness for deliverance.
• Strongholds are mindsets that get created over time. They are false beliefs that create false realities. ie) I get rejected easily, I can’t live in wealth…
• We are walking in continual deliverance.
• When the Israelites were in their promised land, they took the giants out of the land little by little.
• You can either love it out, cast it out, starve it out or glory bomb it out.
• Glory bomb is my favorite because it is when we are in the presence of God so heavily that it releases freedom everywhere you go. So expect that.
• Loving it out is loving someone until they are free.
• Starving things out is often used when you are dealing with long term strongholds we are fighting. So by feeding yourself on the truth and choosing to stop thinking about your problem, you can starve the demonic out of your life. We can pray right now and cast something out, or we can feed ourselves on the truth every day and starve it out. But if you don’t change your thought processes, you won’t change your mindset.
• You are a powerful person. You are never a victim to a demon in your life.
• If you or someone else wants to be free, there’s nothing anyone can do about that.

Power Deliverance:

• Casting it out is when you just take the authority you carry to remove it from someone.
• So when someone is at the point of manifesting, it’s on it’s way out. This is the last-ditch effort for the enemy to drive you into fear and keep them from deliverance. That thing has been there all along but now it has exposed itself. So this is good news. It’s like a kid throwing a tantrum.
• Freedom is a simple process, but basically when someone is manifesting you need to quiet the demon down so you can talk to the person and get them free.
• Some people have a power anointing on their life. Randy Clark almost always creates an environment where demons begin to manifest.
• When people are in extended amounts of time in God’s presence, things just get stirred up.
• Sometimes there is just an anointing for deliverance in the room.
• Recognize those times because then it’s really easy because that’s what the Lord is doing.
• The demonic realm wants your time, focus and emotion. Don’t give it that.
• Core values for our deliverance:
• love and honour. Love always protects. So we should deliver people in a way that honours them but also gets them free.
• God is always bigger. Don’t let the enemy look big to you.
• Peacemakers restore the government of peace. So I have authority to bring peace to anything that is out of line.
• James 4:7-8. Mark 16… You will cast out demons.
• Know that God is in authority. Recognize that he’s given it to us.
• Authority increases out of relationship with God and out of intimacy.

How to get past the heebie geebies:

• Push past fear into the peace of God.
• Remind yourself who you are in Christ.
• Remind yourself that you are called to interact with the demonic and cast it out.
• Fake it until you make it. You do actually have to engage with that authority, but sometimes your emotions say “I have no authority” so it’s more like you just have to step up into the authority God has given you and fake your mind and emotions out.
• There is an alfa male in every dog pack that every dog knows they trust.
• When you interact with dogs, you have to know that you are in charge because they will respect you.
• You are the alfa male in deliverances. Step into what is true and it will listen to you!
• If you tend to want to avoid interacting with the enemy, ask the Lord to stir up a holy anger in you. Be mad that the enemy is robbing from people.
• Ask the spirit of God to give you a holy passion and anger for justice in your life.

• When you see a manifestation, it’s either God moving, the flesh moving or the demonic moving. So as a prophetic person in the environment, you have to figure out what is going on.
• So I use my holy spirit radar to help out. Sometimes I will be worshiping God and hear a sound that sets off my radar. So I will go find out if that is God or if they are manifesting something that they want to be free of.
• Eagerly desire spiritual gifts.
• When something manifests, that’s good news because it means something is going on. So I go over to where I can see it and assess with the Holy Spirit. But never assume you’re right. It doesn’t feel good for someone else to tell you how you are feeling. So I will pray quietly blessing the Lord and telling the enemy to leave if he’s there in Jesus name. So that’s my first step is to engage in the spiritual realm and gain authority. If I’m praying and taking authority and it stops, that’s interesting and later I will ask how they were experiencing that. If it doesn’t stop, ask the person what is going on. People are really good and sensing their own feelings. If it feels positive to them but negative to you, defer to them. You can ask them to leave if it’s disrupting the flow of the service in a loving way. Part of your job to govern peace is to make sure that what God is doing in the room or the authority flow is given priority. But then sometimes God brings something into the room through a crazy manifestation.
• If they say that something is wrong, get down on their level because the enemy is going to run away. Speak with a gentle, firm and loving tone. People don’t want your sympathy, they want you to know what to do. They are out of control and afraid, so they want someone to take authority on their behalf. Find out their name, you want them to feel like a person to you. Engage with them and pull them into stability. Then ask them, “do you want this to stop?” They will usually say yes. If I am going to talk to the spiritual realm I will tell them that I’m talking to the spirits, not them. The most powerful person in the deliverance is they themselves, so often I will get them to tell the manifestation to stop. When people realize they are in control, the devil is done.
• Then once it’s done, sometimes the enemy will come back to knock on the door, but they need to know that they have the ability to say no with authority.
• The Holy Spirit knows how to deliver people, so be asking him the whole way through.
• When I feel like I’m a victim, I won’t try to fight, but the minute I know that I have a choice, the enemy loses.
• Sozo is deliverance without manifestation.
• When you do a deliverance, just quiet the demonic down enough to sozo them.
• You can call it out in Jesus name, but then you may have to lead them through inner healing.
• Demons like to camp out in places of fear, unforgiveness, lies, self pity… So get rid of that.
• If you see an open door to the demonic that they have, it’s probably not good for you to tell them, instead ask them “do you feel like there are any doors that you’ve left open to the demonic?” and the holy spirit will often show them.
• Often ask the Lord to break soul ties, heal them … invite the holy spirit.
• If you start to feel like you don’t know what to do, just pray over them for a bit.

• Sometimes people can’t hear anything, ask the Lord what he is saying over them and prophecy into their deliverance.
• The goal is to get people totally delivered, but they are in their own process and sometimes I have to be ok with that, but then I need to leave them with hope. So I will prophecy into their destiny of freedom.
• Kris prays for people and has faith for them even if they don’t have it for themselves.
• People should feel loved, honoured and valued when you’re done.

Possible reasons to stop a deliverance process:

• If you ask them if they want deliverance and they say no. Their will is powerful, and if they aren’t ready to be free, I’m going to let them be where they are.
• If you feel you are going in circles, perhaps they have deeper issues than they know how to handle you can seal it up and prophecy over their total deliverance.
• If you are out of your league, then you can just close them up.
• When you’ve walked them through freedom but you feel they need something more, then you can lead them to other ministries or refer them to other people.

Q&A

When is it inappropriate to cast out a demon?

• When you are out in the marketplace and you see disturbed people, I often release peace, blessing and light into the world.
• You can still impact people with the reality of heaven without going into a full deliverance.
• We don’t have to pull down strongholds in order to release good stuff.

What do you do when the demon starts to speak to you and you want to have your attention on the person?

• The person is probably still there at some level, so I will take authority over that thing and keep talking to the person.
• I try to call the person back.
• I’ve had times where the person keeps going out, like fainting and so I call them back and get them to know they have a choice so they will partner with me instead of letting the spirit take over.

If you ask the person if they want to be delivered and they say no, how do you know if it’s them or the demon speaking?

• You might just pray a blessing over them. As more of the atmosphere of heaven comes the grace for them to respond will come out.
• Take authority inside of yourself.
• In the end of the day, God is responsible for the individual.

How do you manage it when the manifestation creates an atmosphere of fear over a group of people?

• This may depend on your leadership style. I might get everyone to take a moment to focus on God and clear the air acknowledging that it’s happened.
• Bill will tend to trust God that he will take care of it. So he will redirect people to God and that naturally dispels a lot. Kris is a little more confrontative. He will deal with it.
• Sometimes I have to learn to manage myself because I can get focused on justice, but other times I can just trust God.

How do you deal with people flocking to the manifestation? And if someone else who is trying to help tries to take over, what do I do?

• I usually ask most of them to leave. I’ll say “I’ve got this covered” and ask a couple to stay if I know them. This is not the moment to be worried about offending people, so I will tell them if they’ve gotta go.
• It’s easy for me because I’m a pastor here. If you don’t have that authority, you can ask them to leave or you can take the person and go.
• Priority one is the person experiencing the manifestation. So I use my discernment to find out who is going to be positive and who is going to detract spiritually so that I can be effective.

For dealing with people who are severely oppressed, like in mental hospitals… where do I start?

• I would just go in to release blessing, grace, peace… open an atmosphere of heaven so that God can work. I probably wouldn’t try to deliver them right away.
• You can grow in your authority over time.
• Ask Jesus.

What do you do when you feel the person is just looking for attention?

• I will bless them and close things up.
• Even if they are doing it for attention, they probably do need some. So you can get one person to go with them and give them attention, but you don’t need to be working deliverance over them.

Danny Silk, Tuesday March 19, 2013

Developing A Wealth Mindset

• I want to start off by reminding everyone that you have a mindset, you have a way of perceiving the world. How did you get yours?
• Some of you got yours by learning from great leaders.
• How you lived your life effects your world.
• I want you to realize you’ve been impacted and affected by what was seen as normal to you and your family, the people who set standards in your life.
• These factors don’t determine you, but they do affect you.
• Genesis 12:1 God showed Abraham that he wanted to change his mindset by transforming his surroundings and processing his identity.
• God had him leave all these things:
• Country = physical limitations
• Family = self concept limitations
• Father’s house = socio-economic limitations
• He left his family and then he took hundreds of people with him, including his dad. But what I want you to get is that even being here, when you go back to your family, you’ve changed and grown. Often your family will look at you and say “knock it off”.
• There’s a force that you deal with when you are around your family. That force is that they’ve learned to deal with you only in that template called family and so they can’t recognize who you’ve become fully.
• So God told Abraham to leave his family and his fathers house.
• There is a lot that you experience in the leadership of your home where you are surrounded by a class of people who have similar limitations, powers and norms.
• Remember this chart from Culture of Honour?

• You will know which class you are in by judging the other two as wrong. There is a challenge to how you live life because you will see it from your perspective.
• Poverty trains people to live for the immediate. The middle likes to prepare and plan. The wealthy is concerned about making history and understanding what has been done in history.
• One of the things I want you to recognize about the apostolic is that it often functions in the wealth column. You cannot spend all the anointing, or provision of heaven, but at the same time, you don’t waste it. You steward it well to create once in a lifetime experience and your life is an accumulation of those once in a lifetime experiences.
• The power in poor families is often matriarchal because the men go away. The female in a poverty authority structure is in control. The church is often patriarchal because it is very middle class and people have projected that worldview on the kingdom. The apostolic is not a gender based government, it is an authoritative, mantel based authority.
• You can tell a poverty class church when all they think about is themselves. Middle class is into affecting the nation and changing systems for themselves. Wealthy are aware of the effects their actions have on the world.

• When we take our earthly perspective and project it on heaven, we limit the kingdom to our normal.
• Romans 12:1-2.
• For many of you, when you left your family and came to Bethel you had a lot to get used to because that was not normal.
• When you are introduced to something culturally different, you don’t have a spot for it yet, so it takes time to practice. You have to carry the willingness to adjust.

To check your mindset, ask yourself:

• Am I creating my life, or is life happening to me? If life is happening to you, then you just have to endure situations, which is important, but it’s not the goal. Yes, occasionally you are supposed to endure, but in the meantime, you are leading your life and bringing benefit to the world around you.
• Am I playing life to win, or am I living life so not to lose? Do I have an offensive posture or a defensive posture?
• Am I a good receiver or not? Can kings give me gifts, or do I feel unworthy? A gift will display your sense of worth. When God wants to give you something, it will trigger in you your sense of worth. Wealthy people honour each other and receive honour from each other.
• Am I focused on opportunities or obstacles? If you focus on your opportunities, you will find a way around your obstacles, but if you look at your obstacles, they will get bigger in your eyes and paralyze you. A pastor of 4000 churches came to talk to me once and I asked him “how do you deal with all the problems, we can barely manage one?” “Problems? We don’t look at the problems, what you look at get’s bigger, we look at God”
• Do I admire other powerful people or resent them? You have to learn how to surround yourself with victorious, big people. If you are afraid of those people, you will surround yourself with yourself and lesser people so that you stay on top.
• Are you stewarding well, or mismanaging time and resources? Do you say “I’ll get to that.”? You are creating today what you will live in tomorrow. Pay attention to how you steward things today because you’ll dwell in that tomorrow.
• Do I think big or small? Are you aware of how much you need or what you have and how to deal with it? Do you think locally or globally? This is how you steward the options you have.

• The way you behave reinforces what you believe to be true. So to change these mindsets, we must be intentional about changing them and realizing we are wrong.
• Don’t live a small life that you can control. Dream big.
• The covenant of Abraham exists to this day (Galatians 3:29). This is the intent of wealth, to benefit everyone.
• Jesus left heaven and came to earth as a symptom of wealth.
• The benefit you bring to this community just by carrying a wealth mentality changes everything. By being here you’ve stepped into momentum and wealth, so your contribution while you have been here is incredible.
• There will be more and more benefit brought to this community because of an apostolic and prophetic template that is brought in this house. Everyone here has been brought to the belief that they can do anything, that nothing is impossible.
• When we were kids, the rich kid had an above-ground pool. We would go over and swim in it. Eventually some of the big kids would start pushing against the water and walk around the edges of the circle and the water would begin to spin.
• This is wealth, where you have stepped into a culture of wealth mindset and once you’ve stepped in, you put your foot down and you push, get your feet down and help us build this momentum.
• We have an internal reality that is much more powerful than anything we come across. Yes we may lose battles, but we are winning the war. And now something is happening that we never thought would happen, we are transforming the cities.
• 1 John 4:4.
• We are standing with the great one who makes our realities become stronger and makes our problems feel small.
• Yes it takes time and experience, but that can shift a lot.

Crystal Stiles, Monday March 18, 2013

Spiritual Preparation for Missions Trips

• I went to Russia last year. I was really excited about the trip until we started planning and suddenly I lost all the excitement for it.
• I had to press through.
• Later I got talking to one of my friends about what I was feeling and as I processed it with her I realized that I wasn’t feeling my own feelings about the trip, but instead I was experiencing the atmosphere in russia. It was like the lightbulb went on so I spent some time with the Lord.
• I realized that if I experienced the trip from a surface level, I would run into walls and get hit by them, but if I sat in God’s lap, I’d see from his higher perspective.
• I felt disempowered and grey about the presence of God, but as I prepared for the trip I began to see a picture of Russia with grey clouds. Then I saw us going around handing rainbow coloured papers to the Russian people, and angels shooting rainbow arrows into the atmosphere.
• When you are not excited for your trip, that’s a good sign that you are not feeling you.
• Often times we keep the focus on going, having fun, encountering God and sharing the kingdom. But we must know how to deal with negative emotions too.
• As you are preparing to minister, expect God to be good to you. Before I preach, I expect God to give me a dream the night before. I expect that if I have an assignment, he will give me the revelation I need to fulfill it. And I often do have dreams before I preach.
• God will confirm for you what heaven is doing when you seek him.
• Let God take you up into that place where you see from heaven’s perspective.
• Ephesians 1:20-22, 2:6-7
• We all need to make sure that we are not interacting from only an earth level. The name of this building is Twin View and I believe we have to have dual vision. Just like when you prophecy over someone, you should be paying attention to both the spirit and their face, we need to see our trips from natural and prophetic lenses.
• If you look for God to speak, He does.
• If your actual life doesn’t have fruit and you are just super spiritual, you’re not being successful. But I you have the spiritual and the character, you’re amazing!
• John 5:19-20, 16
• Jesus said, it’s going to actually be really good for you that I’m going away because then you will have the spirit and live in this place of total access that I’ve demonstrated.
• John 14-16 is the best section about you and the Holy Spirit.

Henrietta 

• A couple weeks ago I went on a trip with Krystal and a group of students.
• At first I was super excited and prepared for such a time with the lord, but one morning before the trip I was feeling frustrated and I realized that it was about to see some massive breakthroughs but it felt gross in the moment.
• Then the Lord spoke to me and said “I’m going to take your spirit with me ahead of you, keep your eyes on me… as soon as you get there you’re going to feel 100%”
• And then I went into a massive open vision and I saw the church we were heading to and the youth who would be there.
• Then it all happened according to the vision, as we got here I recognized the church, the youth and I ministered to them as God had directed me to.
• I am so amazed about the way He works. He trusted me, and sent those people to me so I could minister to them.
• God’s desire for you is that you will grow fully into your gifts, and he will chase you down to bring you into your destiny.
• I’m going to pray for you now because the trip doesn’t begin when you get on the plane, it actually begins now.

Krystal

• John 1:47-51
• It’s normal for Jesus to see people in the spirit and see them for who they really are.
• It wasn’t for Jesus’ benefit to display his talents, but it was for Nathaniel so that he would know he was seen and known by the father.
• What happened to me in Russia put me back into alignment for what is really going on inside of me.
• It increases faith for us, and God wants us to be living in faith.
• You can only do what you see the father doing so you have to know what He’s doing.
• Don’t speak indefinites until you’re definite.
• Don’t act more confident than your spirit is confident. Live in honesty and say “it might be” if you’re not sure. Then at some point you’ll be able to say “this is what God is doing”.
• Another thing to try is asking the Lord for scripture promises through the trip. Having a passage that you know God is on for the trip because that will help you navigate the options.
• Spiritual atmospheres: keep your focus on God, and his spirit inside of you so that you be a thermostat, not a thermometer. So it’s a given for the most part that we feel awesome, but now and again we feel negativity. So here are some tools: Go back to Ephesians 2, up in that atmosphere where you are aligned with what He is doing. Pray in the spirit. Praying in tongues is one of those sure fire things that always helps in challenging climate. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. Take every thought captive. Release truth into your spirit. Check with your team, press into unity and see how others are doing. If you are having trouble with something, check with your people to see what is going on and come together to feel great. Don’t go on a demon hunt, just deal with the issue and move on. There are times when it is good to see the enemies schemes so that you can speak against it. There are times when you need to address that. Other times it is better to stay in your drunken glory bubbles and just release the goodness of God. But we’ve been gifted with discernment so that we can be strategic.
• When I was in africa, I needed to drink a lot of water.
• Life and death are in the power of the tongue, so the more accurately we understand that, the more powerful we can become.
• Look at opportunities for hardship to be turned into intercession.
• Every nation has strengths and weaknesses, learn to recognize those and do your best to add your strength to their weaknesses and experience their strength.
• Don’t tease other cultures, because that won’t benefit you. It grieves the spirit. Come to leave a blessing, don’t curse the land with your mouth.
• It’s not just about not saying negative things, but what can you intentionally target with the grace of God?
• What can you release with your bow? You can target things with your words.
• The lord keeps a pretty tight reign on me because I’ve asked him to in this area, so I feel quickly convicted when I do wrong.
• Make sure your conversation matches the prayers you’ve prayed.
• Sometimes when I have that conviction, I have to clean something up and other times I just recognize the check and re-align my heart with the Lord.
• If I’m in a bargaining country, praying for poverty to be broken and yet I’m fighting for a dollar, I am creating a contradiction.
• It’s important that our actions partner with our blessings.
• Speak blessing into the negative areas.

Kris Vallotton, Wednesday March 13, 2013

Time with Kris

• We have the honour of hosting the former first lady Mrs. Laura W. Bush coming on Sunday March 17th at 3:30pm at the Civic. Follow formal protocol please. Many local statesmen and representatives will be present and we want to bless them.

Prophetic time.

How do you gain a reputation in hell?

• Destroy the works of the devil.
• If you preform many deliverances in a certain area, it won’t be long before the principalities of hell in the area know your name. It won’t be long before they start telling you your name as you throw them out.

Paul Manwaring, Wednesday March 13, 2013

Internship Information

 

Julie Peters

• We are adding a multimedia competition to missions this year so that you will come back with photos, videos and songs from the trip. Also be bringing back the testimonies. There are many competitions. The competition will begin on April 19th.

Time of prayer over trips.

• We want to give you a glimpse into what third year internships outside of Bethel look like. There are so many incredible opportunities that we are going to present to you today.
• So in order to explore third year opportunities, go to igloballegacy.org
• Then create a profile if you don’t already.
• You can explore all the opportunities under the third year column.
• International students are not able to get student visas for any off-site internships in the USA. So if you are an international student, you can check the box under the search bar for just local internships. You can intern in another country if it is your home country or if you don’t need a student visa to intern there.
• This past year, we had 30 off site interns, the year before we had 6. So we are learning to grow this department.
• This year we have 110 off site mentors who are looking for interns.
• Some are: the Banovs, Kelly Clark, Erica Grieve, Steve Witt, San Francisco Revive, Jen Tolito and Expression 58… there are 100 more.
• So get on there and check it out.
• You will be leaving the Redding area, but we are building a lifeline so that you are connected, have resources nearby. We want to keep you connected and fed.
• This has worked really well.
• You can have 3 internship requests pending at once.

• Once you’ve decided who to apply for, click on them and you will see more info on what they are doing. Then you click “Apply Online” and follow the steps. You will only fill the general questions out one time and then they will be repeated every time you apply to someone new.
• Then they will receive an email from you and be able to set up meetings but they won’t be able to confirm you until they have received a recommendation from your RGP.
• You need to interview your mentor just as much as they interview you. Make sure you know what it will look like.
• Then if you are invited by a mentor, you can accept their invitation.
• There are two tabs on the page. One is the Directory and the other is “My Applications” and this is where all of your application info will show up.
• Tuition is $600. $100 is due a month after you are placed to hold your place. The rest is due July 31 for internationals, Aug 16 for americans.
• BSSM internships are mostly in school on school hours. Other internships will look totally different depending on what they are like.
• BSSM internships will have Tuesday morning meetings all year where we fire each other up.
• If you aren’t sure what you want to do, just get on the directory, read through it and pray through it.
• Go to the current interns of the mentors you are considering applying for and ask them what it has been like for them.
• Questions make a really successful year.
• For questions about interning at school here email bssm3@ibethel.org

 Q&A

Can we intern for two people?

• That would be difficult.
• My experience here with sharing jobs is that it’s challenging because one person might get a lot of you and the other might not.
• All of us have got to learn how to manage ourselves and have boundaries for our time.

 

What should I do if I have two internships that I’m equally passionate about?

• Just work it out, that’s life.
• Be asking what opportunities you have, what the fathers in your life are like… do pros and cons. Evaluate and investigate it.

 

Can we intern and volunteer at the same time?

• You can, but I don’t advise it. I’ve seen people burn out in internships and if you get yourself serving two people who both need your help, you can but it will require you saying no sometimes and setting hard boundaries.

 

• Please go through the packet that I gave you some more and explore what is beautiful to you, what are the themes in your life…
• Try to process through this and find out what’s beautiful to you, what’s in your sphere and what you are good at.
• If you feel stuck, is it an identity issue? Is it a what I love issue?
• Do you have too many choices. Too many choices is sometimes worse than not having any choices.
• Sometimes when your stuck, reviewing your life, desires… will help unstick you.
• God wastes nothing. He will prepare you for your destiny when you keep your eyes on Him.
• Interning is unlikely to give you everything you need for the next leg of the journey, but try to find internship opportunities that stretch you in those directions.
• Doing nothing is never an option.
• You need a history. If you want to prophecy over government leaders but you have to take a year and be a stay at home parent, you could start scrap-booking and writing prophetic words for world leaders.
• 40% of you will go on and not do an internship, and I want you to know that you are sent just as much as anyone else. One of the biggest things we are building now is our alumni network. WE want to connect you with our leaders and make sure that you always have a place to connect with.