Breakforth Canada | Kelly B. Wiens

I have returned from Breakforth One conference in Edmonton and I want to tell you a little bit about my experience there this year. As always I enjoy being on the prayer team. and the joy of ministering to the Lord Jesus in worship together as a team and in the large gathering of the body of Christ. We were reminded again we are a part of the Isaiah 61 mandate that Jesus began to us in His 3 year earthly ministry and continues through us to bring beauty for ashes, forgiveness, restoration, healing, in His name. Before I began praying for people this year I had the privilege of going to a one day intensive learning workshop called Healing Discipleship the next move of God by Pastor Ken Dyck from Vancouver. I was very impacted by his presentation and the great need there is for the church to receive healing on the inside and be a conduit of healing to others. But first it must begin with us. And so the long and the short of it is Kelly wants to go through a discipleship journey called Freedom Sessions soon and invite others into it with him:). If anyone has experienced this already I would appreciate hearing about your experience good or bad. Private message me on messenger or email me at kellyb.wiens@gmail.com. Thanks!

As I mentioned last year we continued to pray for people in the prayer room, pray in main assemblies for the ministers and the worshipping community there to receive from the Lord through His servants, and we continued doing treasure hunts aka roving prayer ministers throughout the Shaw Conference Centre. It never ceases to amaze me the intimate knowledge our Father has of each one of us and His love for us and desire to encourage, comfort and strengthen us. This year seemed to be a year of further growth in learning to listen to the Holy Spirit and learning to deliver what He is saying to others for their encouragement. I saw the Lord Jesus time and time again work so beautifully through members of the prayer team to see healing come to broken hearts and hurting bodies, burdens lifted, and believers exchanging lies for truth about our Father and His great love for us.

I also receive from the Lord often from members of the team and this year without fail the Lord was encouraging me to move forward to share deeply from my heart what He has put there and be unafraid to share it. So in keeping with that invitation from the Lord that has not only come through my siblings in Christ but from Christ to me directly many times I am going to share some things with you my readers that I hope will also bring freedom, courage, comfort and strength to you in your ministries. One is I want to begin to share my journey with Jesus with you one piece at a time, secondly I’m going to share some raw videos and recordings with you so you don’t just see polished finished songs and things but you get to see raw and unprocessed Holy Spirit moments. In doing this I am hoping to encourage you to be more authentic, and vulnerable in your ministry for the sake of encouraging and building up others and I want to encourage creativity. Thirdly, I am going to be developing some training materials in the coming weeks in February to begin sharing the training with you in the coming months starting in March God willing. One of those I hope to be is a slightly modified prayer training called Hands On Prayer Ministry by Mary Kassian of which I received her book as a thank you gift from my prayer team leads Art and Lorraine this year which seemed to confirm to me it is time to start giving away this training and multiplying the number of confident Spirit filled prayer ministers. The second training I want to do is in the area of training worship leaders to cultivate the prophetic gift of the Holy Spirit within them and their teams so that we have more bold and courageous worship leaders who sing the song of the Lord over His people, and the release of greater creativity in the church related to music in particular but also in all the expressions of art in making His praise Glorious and also communicating His heart of love to His people and those who have not yet tasted His love nor heard to good news!

On that note I want to share a little bit about a little chorus I started singing and recorded on my iPhone at Breakforth. This morning I listened to the 30 seconds I recorded at Breakforth and thought I would sing it again and see if more came. The perfectionist side of me would normally prevent me from sharing any such recording especially since I’m practicing a lot of chest to head voice flips in the song some of which are quite bad but for the sake of encouraging the creative Spirit led process in you I will let you the hear the raw heart and expression before the refinement comes. Have an enjoyable rest of your day! Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbour like Jesus has loved you!

Kelly

Here’s the song I started working on from a little melody at Breakforth. You are Mine

And here is a private video of spontaneous worship in key of G from this morning! Worship in G

Until next Monday, have a great week.

Kelly

Hope you had a good Monday! Mine has been a recoup day from something which I absolutely love doing. Which is why your blog post which is supposed to arrive Sunday or Monday morning has not arrived until now. I’m going to take a break from the teaching on being a minstrel and just share a little from my weekend at Breakforth. What pray tell might this singing, songwriting, worship leader love doing even more than those things you may ask. It is the priestly ministry of connecting precious human beings with our God and Father and Jesus our Saviour through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. I have now volunteered 4 times to be on the prayer team at a most amazing conference called BreakForth Canada in Edmonton, Alberta. It just gets better every year. Not only do I get to see people experience the love of God and healing and freedom for their souls, I get to go on adventures with God. And let me tell you there is nothing more satisfying nor rewarding as going on a Treasure Hunt with the Spirit of God being your guide!

What, you may ask, is going on a Treasure Hunt with God? Well, I’m not sure who coined the term, but this is how it went for me and my teammates at Breakforth. The first step is to pray and ask God the Father to show us a clue regarding someone He would like us to minister to. The second step is to wait for the Father to give us a clue through His Spirit who we are to minister to. In my team, two of the three of us received some information from the Father about how to recognize the person He wants to minister to. My sister in the Lord, Kimberly received a picture of a man wearing a cowboy hat. Her first reaction was, now that is going to be unlikely that a man wearing a cowboy hat will be at Edmonton at Breakforth but she had the faith to share with us what she saw. I received a brief picture in my mind of someone wearing a brilliant yellow shirt, and I couldn’t see whether the person was male or female. Both Kimberly and I haven’t had great experiences doing this before, this definitely is out of our comfort zone but we decide we are going to trust God and go for it. So here we go, three treasure hunters, Kimberly, mother of 13, Edna a Phillipino pastor and myself. As we began to look for the yellow shirt and the cowboy hat I also heard our Father say don’t fixate on trying to find these people just go forth and ask people as you come across whether you can pray for them. So we did. We prayed for volunteers we came across, shaw center staff who were serving as security or food services, registrants for the conference etc. It was rich and rewarding engaging with people and seeing God bless people through our intercessory prayers and short messages of encouragement the Holy Spirit would give us for people. Soon, much to Kimberley’s surprise, the man with the cowboy hat came on the scene. But it didn’t seem the right time because we were engaged in praying for another person and she felt some pressure so rather than try to make it happen right away she prayed and waited. We carried on and later in the day I heard a report back that she had come across this man and she determined she would just do what Father asked and the man was blessed by her prayers. She was excited that she had completed the assignment and found the treasure Father was wanting her to find and encouraged him. For me, the first day of the conference went by, and then the second and finally the third day the final session was all done and I had my last prayer appointment to finish in the prayer room and still no yellow shirt. Leaders expressed thanks to the team and we expressed our thanks back to our leaders by asking whether we could pray for them, which we did. It had been a great experience of seeing the Holy Spirit minister to so many people and we were tired but just enjoying each other and God, thanking Him for the privilege of co-laboring with Him in people’s lives. Then something happened I was not expecting, the directors of Breakforth Canada walked into the prayer room! Much to my shock and delight, guess what I saw…the yellow shirt. Sharol was wearing a brilliant yellow shirt and I ran over to Kimberly and said there is my yellow shirt! My emotional response was literally tears of joy, I couldn’t believe it! Kimberly makes sure I don’t chicken out and nudges me forward near this precious woman’s feet as she and her husband were being surrounded by our team to receive prayer and encouragement from our Father in heaven. But now the question was what was it the Father wanted to do or say in this woman’s life. So I prayed and I received my answer and it was quite simple. First I began by thanking my Father in heaven,”Thank you God that the treasure hunt is finally over, I have finally found the person with the yellow shirt.” Everyone had a good laugh at that point as we rejoiced in the faithfulness of our heavenly Father. The message I had was simple and I said something like “Sharol, I believe your Father in heaven wants you to know that You are His treasure, He cherishes you and takes great delight in you! I looked up and saw tears in both her husband’s eyes and hers as the Fathers loving words sunk into their hearts. God is so good! His love for us is so amazing! And now you know one of the many reasons why I love volunteering for prayer team at Breakforth Canada!

Have a great week and don’t forget to subscribe! This week’s song is There is None Like You! Hope you enjoy it!

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Treasure Hunting with the Holy Spirit