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Breakforth One

The mission of Breakforth One!

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

A Minstrel’s Missionary Call

I hope you have had a good week. I have been a little consumed with mud and tape this last week as I am pursuing to get the renovation to the painting stage as quick as I can and sacrificing quality time with My King and my kids more than I’d like but it is the vision of the finished house prepared for the Lord to use for His purposes that moves me to push so hard. It has been a long journey of over 2 years. My mission is to see the house restored to it full potential by going through it from repairing it’s structural problems, it’s plumbing, it’s electrical system, it’s food preparation area, it’s indoor and outdoor lighting systems, it’s covering, and it’s heating and cooling system and finishing off with it’s inner appearance so that it’s future occupants can have a safe, comfortable environment to raise a family in and carry out the mission God has given them. As the people of God we are God’s house, we are the temple that He lives in by his Spirit. We are His bride that one day our Father in heaven will say, Son, go get your bride, it’s time, everything is prepared for the wedding feast of the Lamb. So what does a house reno, and the fact that God’s people are being prepared to be a dwelling place for the Father and Son and Holy Spirit and the topic a Minstrel’s Missionary Call have in common? Well let me try to put it together.

The great commandment is this that we would love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. The great commission is that we would go into all the world and preach the gospel, baptizing those who believe in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and to teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded. The big command being love each other as Jesus says in John 15. I believe these two things are encapsulated in the heart of every believer, but for the minstrel we have a leadership role where our job is to inspire, to paint a picture, to cause the people of God to remember and connect with both God’s character, and His actions that he has done for us to show His love for us. So our job is to lead people to love God above all, in response to His great love expressed to us through His Son who loved us and gave His life for us to bring us back into relationship with our Father in Heaven. The songs we sing both inspire and give expression to the love that God has put into our hearts for His Son and for Himself through the Holy Spirit. The songs that we sing can also be used to remind and remember the commands and teachings of Christ as the songs we sing act as a discipleship school reminding and teaching the bride of Christ of who He is and what we need to believe and practice. The songs we sing with the Bride of Christ give expression to her love for the one who first loved us. These songs give expression to our commitment and our love.

Now as we go into the world, I believe the minstrel is to go into the world proclaiming the gospel, preaching it through musical words and pictures of who He is and what He has done to show His love for every human being on the planet. We are evangelists who proclaim there is a God who made you and loves you like a bridegroom loves His bride, like a Father or Mother loves their child. Not just any Father or mother, not just any bridegroom, we are loved by a perfect Father and the perfect Bridegroom who is capable of meeting all our needs.

Our greatest need is for true love, that will cover over the multitude of our sins, and bridge the justice problem that is there because of our sin. God is a judge who must punish those who have rebelled against Him. God is also a loving Father who wants to save His wayward children who have rebelled and broken His commands showing contempt for Him and all He stands for. He brings His mercy and love and perfect justice in sending His one and only Son to become sin and be punished as a sinner and rebel on a Roman cross so that we might be covered over by an intercessor’s life who never sinned and therefore could pay the price for our rebellion once and for all. Punishment is dished out and at the same time a way to be merciful to every lawbreaking human being that has every lived because the sentence of death for sin has been served.

We have a love story to write about as singer songwriters like none other. The ministry of worship is part of our mission, and the ministry of reconciliation both between God’s children and God’s yet to be adopted children is the other half of our mission. The unity of God’s children is a huge strategy of our Father according to Jesus prayer in John 17 showing the reconciliation and love is His heart and that unity and love between us as believers in Christ will be a key to removing the blindness of unbelief in a world shrowded in the darkness of hate, indifference and selfishness.

I wrote this post over a week ago, but lost my zeal to finish it.  So here it is as part of the series on what is a minstrel.   As I have been writing these posts I realize that I am writing what I believe my call is from our Father and our Saviour Jesus as a minstrel.  It is good to reflect on what I believe not only for my call but also for the many others God is calling and has raised up and have gone before me as minstrels.

Here are two songs that reflect both the evangelistic call and the hunger that is in every human heart for love.

Do you know that Jesus Loves You – written by Lani Wiens my wife

Known by You – written by Kelly Wiens

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