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My Favorite Supernatural Testimony
Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by Daniel Dessinger.
Skip ahead to the 16 minute mark and you’ll hear the testimony that most makes my heart sing. I ache to know this level of holiness and the Holy Spirit and fire that bring it.
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The World Washed White as Snow
Posted on 11. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Dessinger.
It’s amazing what the biggest snow storm in memory can do to bring a sense of newness to one’s life.
This is Dallas / Fort Worth, where just a month ago it snowed for the first Christmas in 80 years and is now more than four inches deep. We could reach nine inches by the time this weather is through.
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Looking Forward to the Amber Rose Conference
Posted on 09. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Dessinger.
I was just informed last night of this year’s Amber Rose Conference at Shady Grove Church in Grand Prairie, March 4th-6th. Some men from my home group are planning to attend and participate in the healing rooms.
We want to see people set free, healed, restored, and experiencing the goodness of our God! What better way to bless others, increase our faith, and practice the gifts of God? Who’s in?
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The Power of Your Story and Simple Choices to Participate
Posted on 26. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Dessinger.
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It’s been a whirlwind of activity and sleep deprivation these past few days. I took the day off from work on Monday because I’d barely slept and was desperate to catch up. By the time Monday evening rolled around, it was easy to want to stay home and sleep. But Monday nights I meet up with a handful of guys from church and hang. I chose to go because we normally call or email in advance if we’re not going to make it.
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Call Forth the Pastors of Online Ministry
Posted on 09. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Dessinger.
It is time to call forth social media pastors, healers, and evangelists!
Have you noticed that the larger churches have made some serious upgrades to their website in 2009? Churches now have Twitter accounts, Facebook fan pages, and blogs. Their members who are getting it done in the workplace are stepping up and bringing their local churches kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
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What Is Your Experience with Prophetic Ministry?
Posted on 28. Dec, 2009 by Daniel Dessinger.
As I continue to “fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of (my) hands”, I find myself wondering what the majority of you have experienced in regards to prophetic ministry. If you’ve attended any churches like mine, you’ve probably encountered it at least once, where someone believes they have heard the Lord speak to them about something regarding you.
Maybe it was a word of healing. Maybe a caution. Maybe it was a word of encouragement during a dry and dusty time of your life. Or maybe it was bizarre, off-the-wall, and completely offensive or confusing.
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98 Times God Mentions Dreams
Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Daniel.
Listening to Jim Goll today, I was reminded that in whatever are we want to grow, we should meditate on Scriptures about that subject. We’ve had a flurry of meaningful dreams lately, but we aren’t yet very confident in our abilities to interpret.
If you’d like insight on dreams, read through and study these passages of Scripture where God speaks about dreams. Remember, God says “Study to show yourself approved.
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Paul Charges Timothy to Disciple Others
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Daniel.
On the subject of discipleship, there is no example better than the letters from Paul to Timothy. Through his letters, we glimpse the premiere apostolic standard of mentorship and spiritual fathering.
2And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
2 Timothy 2:2
What a remarkable command! Let’s look at this deeper.
Paul gives us a glimpse at a four generational approach to mentoring. Paul mentors Timothy, then instructs him to teach reliable men who not only will learn and receive his instruction, but who will ALSO be qualified to teach others.
Do you remember that famous cliche:
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Paul takes this wisdom a step further: Teach men to teach OTHER men how to fish and you feed an entire people group.
If we teach other men, we equip a single generation to live well. If we teach those men how to teach, they not only learn how to live, but they learn how to replicate. Then those people they teach will teach others, who will in turn teach others, until the end of time.
This is true discipleship. We need a multi-generational view of the Christian life. If your vision ends with your children or your immediate disciples, your vision is too small.
Moses discipled Joshua. We read throughout the Scriptures how Joshua was present day and night. He learned from “the man.” But the one thing he didn’t learn was to teach other men. Take a look at Judges 2:7 and 10-12:
7 The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.
10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel. 11 Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals. 12 They forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them.
Where Joshua had been discipled, the generation after Joshua apparently had not. They knew not God or His mighty acts on their behalf. Moses taught Joshua to fish, so to speak, but it doesn’t look like he taught Joshua how to teach other men to fish. So the discipleship dies out after a generation.
Let us adjust our vision and embrace the multi-generational view of discipleship which God intended when He told us to teach our children and our children’s children about His goodness, His character, and His mighty deeds.
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When What God Speaks Doesn’t Seem to Be Happening
Posted on 05. Dec, 2009 by danielthepoet.
One of the clearest things God ever spoke to me was “study to be a writer.” This has been the bane of my existence as much as anything ministry related. Let me set the story for you.
The Background
It’s 1999. I’ve completed all I can do at community college. It’s time to pursue a Bachelor’s Degree. The two universities I seriously considered were SMU and DBU (I wasn’t as familiar with TCU, UTD, or UD at the time). I desperately wanted the credibility that SMU offered its alumni. But the cost was too high.
I desperately wanted to avoid Dallas Baptist University. It was only five minutes away from my parents’ house, but it was Baptist. To me, that meant “judgmental.” I was a charismatic Christian who hadn’t kicked my pack-a-day smoking habit. I just knew I’d be an outcast there. It’s one thing to be looked at as unpopular. It’s another to be considered a bad person.
My stress level went through the roof. I couldn’t figure out a way to make SMU work. I wanted that credibility so bad, I could taste it. And I didn’t know of any industry where a degree from DBU was considered an advantage.
One Fall day, I’m at my parents’ home with John Mark, a close personal friend. I realized I’d been saying some very sharp and unfair things to him, and I apologized. I explained that I was overwhelmed with stress and didn’t know what to do. I’m not sure whether he suggested it or I did, but I turned on some sort of peaceful music and stretched out face down on the living room carpet.
I finally reached my breaking point.
“What do you want me to do, God? I’ll do ANYTHING!”
Instantly, words formed and were displayed before my mind’s eye.
Go to DBU. Live on campus. Study to be a writer. Study abroad.
And there it was. Suddenly, as clear as a bell, my stress disappeared. I had no more confusion. I had no more doubts. I even had no more resistance to DBU. I knew where God was sending me, and I finally found rest because I knew it was where I was supposed to be.
I had no idea that four months later, my family would be moving to Oklahoma and I’d have nowhere to stay. So even though it made no sense to my parents for me to live on campus when it’s cheaper to live at home and commute 10 minutes, it became evident by the time that they moved that God had prepared a place for me to live.
The Benefits
I met my future wife (again) at DBU. I studied English literature, philosophy, and biblical studies. I spent some time with and grew to admire students in the Pew College Society there (now called Paideia College Society). I experienced the love of learning for the first time in my scholastic life.
The humor’s not lost on me. The majority of my DBU professors would have completely balked at the news that God had spoken to me directly and told me to attend their university. Good times. Anyway…
But what am I supposed to think when God speaks something that doesn’t seem to be happening?
I wrote all that to say that part of that amazing directive was “study to be a writer.”
That was ten years ago. Since that time, I have been a janitor, an office clerk, a Web copywriter, an SEO, a blogger, and a Web marketing strategist.
No books.
No scripts.
Nothing but a bunch of journals and a blogs that aren’t a primary source of income.
Study to be a writer? Really?
Second guessing God is really fruitless. I’m speaking from experience.
But you were a Web copywriter? What happened?
I’ll tell you what happened. I realized I hated writing soulless content for brands I didn’t believe in. Most companies want to SOUND much more noble and innovative than they really are. So I was paid to lie for them. They would NEVER have admitted that, but that’s how I saw it. And that ultimately made me so miserable I quit writing.
So did God misspeak? Or did you only THINK you heard “study to be a writer”?
Neither. It’s just a much longer and more profound process than I anticipated. And, well, let’s be honest – I’ve let my fair share of years go by without seriously attempting a novel or book of any kind. As with blogs and domain names, I get tons of cool sounding ideas, but most of them I lack the passion to follow through on myself.
The truth is that I haven’t prayed and asked God for direction with writing until now. My history of faith involved more throwing out my complaints and questions and running off to whine elsewhere without giving God a chance to answer.
Now, when I have questions I really want answered, I get out my journal. I write down my question, and listen. I write the response that comes to me (obviously discerning whether the answer comes straight from my personal desires or bias).
The Moral of this Story
If you’re like me, you may have heard a promise or two from God. In this instance for me, it wasn’t necessarily a promise, but a directive (just wanted to point out that I recognize that). And if you’re like me, you might want an easy to distinguish path to the fulfillment of said promise/directive. But I was lazy and ignorant. I spent ten years complaining at God more than talking WITH God. He still may have waited 10+ years to show me why it was so important to study to be a writer.
But now that I’m journaling my conversations with God, I’ve experience answers that don’t take 6, 7, 10 years. He actually responds to many of my questions immediately. And as He does, He builds a sense of confidence within me. I trust Him more. I expect more. And I’m encouraged to believe that some of the hidden things will actually be revealed sooner rather than later.
That’s my take on it.
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My Grandfather’s Sermon Audio Now Online
Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by danielthepoet.
It’s been a long, drawn out process that I’m not at liberty to discuss with you yet, but I’ve finally managed to start posting my grandfather’s sermons in the form of a podcast.
As a healing evangelist, Lennard Darbee traveled the States and the world, preaching and teaching from his heart. I’m blessed to have the tapes from his radio broadcast, Rays of Faith. I’m converting them from cassette to digital one sermon at a time and posting them on LennardDarbee.com.
Stop by and check them out. His tone whe preaching was a turnoff to me in the beginning. But now I cherish it in all its historical accuracy.
There are several hundred 15 minute sermons to go. My goal is to post one each week.
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First Lennard Darbee Podcast Now Available
Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Daniel.
For those of you who have been asking for it, it’s finally here. I posted the very first Lennard Darbee: Rays of Faith podcast yesterday. You can check it out at LennardDarbee.com.
The goal is post one podcast per week, and also provide a transcription of the podcast for those who don’t have time to listen to the whole 11-15 minute session each time.
Your feedback is appreciated. Please leave a comment and discuss points you want to expound upon or disagree with. When you comment on something said, please note the exact time when it was said during the podcast so our other listeners can tune in to hear what you are addressing.
Example: “At 3:19, Lennard said XYZ. I’m not sure I agree with him….”
Thanks and God bless.
- Daniel
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