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Northern
Connections Round Table Sharing Circle
Report written by Don
Brown
The Pas, Manitoba -
December 2007
 Early
in November of '07, after a redirected trip to Costa
Rica, Joel Molin had an urgency to gather like-minded
believers to share what God had been doing and also to
seek Him for future direction. Joel Molin contacted a
number of people who were all connected in some way and
asked them to pray and consider gathering around the
beginning of December.
Still Life Retreat Inn
, just north of
Toronto, was to be the meeting place. God worked out an
amazing number of details in short order to have about
twenty of us together for a most anointed and precious
weekend. Many other who couldn't be there were also
interceding for the weekend.
People arrived at various times on Friday evening and
Saturday morning. No one really knew why there were
there but all knew that they had to be there and the
Lord ministered to each one without exception. There was
such an expectancy. (like the believers in the book of
Acts). The word of God framed the direction for the
weekend along with people's stories of faith and
testimonies of God's grace.
It was Joel's desire that everyone had opportunity to
share what was on their heart. An amazing mosaic of
worship, ministry, revelation, exhortation and the
presence of the Lord developed. Unity in the Spirit
produced such a transparency and openness and we felt
like we knew each other forever. At one point, people
laid down their expectations only to find that God had
something much greater in store.
The underlying theme of the weekend was that God was
looking for a sold out people who would go to the
nations and labor with Him in the harvest field. It's
time to put your hand to the plow and not look back. And
as you go, there will be great power, great grace and no
lack. We are being sent out as ambassadors of the
manifold wisdom of God. It's also about relationship,
with the Lord, and with those we labor with and minister
to. Healing, deliverance, and signs and wonders come as
we step out and step into our destinies. Obedience is
key! “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and
the people whom He has chosen as His own inheritance.”
(Psalm 33:12)
The nations are waiting and expecting God to bring them
something. It is God who compels us to go and to love
and to give.
For some, this weekend was a refocusing and rekindling,
for others it was a confirmation of what God is doing,
and still for others it was a paradigm shift, a chance
to see the big picture. We saw something of the wonder
of God this weekend and the Lord ministered to everyone
in a unique way and God's grace touched every soul
present.
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Only ask, and I will give you the nations as your
inheritance, the whole earth as your possession.
Psalms 2:8
    
   
   
I will
say to the north, Give up and to the south, don not hold
them back; bring my sons and daughters from the
end of the earth; all who is called by my name, and whom
I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, yea,
whom I have made. Bring them back all who are
blind and deaf, though they have eyes and ears. Let all
my nations be gathered together, and let my peoples be
assembled: who among them can declare my Glory...
Isaiah 43:6-9 |
