Freedom Fighters Conference Recap. It’s been a few days now, of me being back to my normal routine. I’ve struggled with finding the words that could justify, or express the powerful move of the Lord that took place last weekend. Being part of a ministry team is something that I never thought in a million years that I’d be doing. Yet, there I was. The teachings were on point, every single one of them. The way the presence of the Holy Spirit filled the room was the most beautiful experience I’ve ever been a part of. The worship was simply amazing. There was no rush, there was no agenda. There was the undeniable flow of the Holy Spirit through the Burkett’s gift of music. There were multiple times the Holy Spirit hit me in a way that buckled my knees and dropped me to the floor. It was simply amazing.
Friday evening was a teaching on forgiveness that led into a mass deliverance service. It’s not every day that you walk into a church and see multiple garbage cans lined up along the altar. It’s even less frequent to see that they would all be used. I have a hard time logically describing deliverance. I didn’t understand it’s necessity until I experienced it myself, being down on all fours last fall, gagging, feeling choked and practically throwing up on my floor. You never really know what’s hiding in you, until you revoke its right to be there and begin to kick it out. Demons don’t want to manifest, they want to remain behind the scenes. They want to manipulate your thoughts, they want you to be angry, suspicious, fearful, anxious, traumatized, addicted, depressed etc. There were probably close to 10 or more of us that were on the ministry team, and every one of us was in the crowd helping someone at some point. If you’re one of those people that read my posts thinking this stuff is baloney, I’d highly suggest you attend a deliverance service yourself before you write this off. You might end up experiencing things affecting and leaving you that you never thought were there to begin with.
Psalms 107:6 - Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
Psalms 50:15 - And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Saturday morning was a teaching on intimacy with the Lord. You can have the most dramatic, life altering deliverance and end up right back in bondage if you don’t have a personal relationship with the Lord. There is freedom to be found in the words of the Bible. There is a new perspective, a new hope, a love like you’ve never experienced, all right there in that book you all take for granted. Dust it off, open it and read it. I can’t say that enough. You can’t get a weekly 20 min sermon from your pastor and wonder why you’re still having issues. Live the word, breathe the word, read the word. It will change the way you act, react, and live. I didn’t make this drastic change in my life on my own. I couldn’t go from an anger ridden maniacal ahole who sprinkled the f word into my sentences like it was sprinkles on a cake, to a woman who’s no longer offended, anxious, depressed, angry or wounded on my own. I couldn’t be who I am today if I’d have experienced deliverance and gone right back into all of my sin. I had to make a change, a lot of them. I had to take the Lord seriously, He deserves respect. I had to want my freedom more than I wanted my sin. None of that was easy, but all of that was worth it. The Lord will help you, but He also wants you to do all that you can to help yourself.
Romans 10:17 - So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
2 Timothy 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
There I stood, at the altar, in a line with everyone else on the ministry team. Standing side to side with people I admire, people I respect, and people that are so close to the Lord. Everyone in the crowd was coming up for prayer. It’s amazing the way the Lord shows up at these altar calls. I’m always fighting my flesh, I’m not going to lie. I’ll wonder how I’m sounding, if I’m making sense or if I’m missing it. When someone comes up to you and tells you what’s on their heart, you can’t help but take it seriously and feel their pain or their feelings as your own. You simply take their hands, take a breath and wait on the Lord. I never really considered myself prophetic, but the Lord has shown me otherwise time and again. Everyone I held hands with had a word from the Lord and a different vision or picture that the Lord would show me for them. I usually experience visions when the Lord has something to show me. This was the first time I’ve experienced having them one right after another because the Lord had something for them. I’m truly blessed to be a conduit for the Lord.
Philippians 1:6 - Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 3:15 - But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
The afternoon included a teaching on breaking down strongholds along with a prophetic teaching from Terry Smith that included visions of angels all around us. I was blown away by the way the Lord speaks through this anointed group of leaders. Blown away.
The evening service was led by the movement of the Holy Spirit. The Worship was one of the most powerful and gloriously anointed experiences of my life. Everyone was down at the altar singing, dancing, kneeling, crying, laying before the Lord. There were times that I was so overwhelmed it brought me to tears. Many came up for healing and many were experiencing continued deliverance. The presence of the Holy Spirit was so strong. There was a small child about the age of 8 that was so overcome by the spirit that she was weeping. It was intensely moving. As Kevin was praying for a young lady with stomach issues, it was clear that the Lord wanted to use this child as an intercessor. He called the small girl up and she put her tiny hand on the young lady's stomach. She was weeping and began to pray in tongues through the tears. Then she simply said “touch, touch” and the lady she was praying for began to feel the healing power of the Holy Spirit. She eventually went down to the floor coughing. A few days later the young lady sent Kevin a testimony that she was able to try new foods and was not having the severity of the issues she had before. It was beautiful. It’s amazing the way the Lord works through the body when the body is willing and surrendered. (There’s a link to the video of this intercession in the comments)
1 Timothy 2:1 (NLT)
Instructions about Worship
2 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.
Instructions about Worship
2 I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.
Matthew 18:19-20 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
There was only one vision that came to me over the course of the conference but it was pretty intense. As we were worshiping Friday evening, I saw the outline of a horizon. Standing there were hundreds of people. All I could see where silhouettes. They were dark and outline with a color similar to the way things glow in the dark. As I looked at them, I began to see other glowing outlines within them. Outlines of every step of their life. From childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Then I saw the Lord calling them forward, the small child size silhouettes ran out to the Lord. He called them forward, healing their hearts, alleviating their pain, all abuse, all hurt, gone. They changed from being dark and outlined with light to being fully lit and consumed by the shining love of the Lord. Then He called forward the teenage silhouettes. Loving them, holding them, accepting them as they are, taking away the pain of rejection, fear, taking away the pressure of who they are told they are supposed to become. They also lit up and were rejoicing in tears. Each child and teenager walked back to the darkened silhouette of their adult grabbing both hands and leading them to the Lord. Jesus simply put his arms around them, loving them, accepting them, forgiving them, with a promise to comfort them and lead them if they LET Him. The adults that accepted Jesus lit up and feelings of elated joy were overwhelming them, shining brightly through them. Some adults turned away, as they turned they remained darkened, and as they began to walk away, the child and teenager within them cried out in pain. With each step away from the Lord, both the child and teenager darkened again. It was like the inner child that knows Jesus, the pure heart of the Lord, was devastated and sentenced to eternal damnation by an adult who’s let the world harden their hearts to the point of no return. My heart broke for those children. They are the children we all once were. Full of hope, full of love, full of joy and a Spirit closer to the Lord than we could ever be.
I beg you not to turn away from the Lord. He is calling you. Every one of you. Do not let your heart be heartened by this world to the point of no return. I beg you to reconsider, I beg you to have faith.
Titus 3:5 - Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost
Ephesians 2:8-10 (NIV)
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Intercession Video Link
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