Daniel Dessinger

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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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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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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