Onething 08 - Day 2

DAY 2 – Dec. 29, 2008

9am Session – Mike Bickle

- First and foremost: to question and challenge what is being said.
- According to major news magazines (Times, Newsweek…etc.), 60 to 80 million American non-believers of Jesus believe in the book of Revelation. And 20 to 40 million within actually believe that the End-Time will arrive in their lifetime.
• The way you picture the future will affect how you live today.

- The Gospel of the Kingdom: what John the Baptist & Jesus were proclaiming. The church in America has been preaching on the Gospel of Grace (salvation) yet somehow leaving out the preaching of the Gospel of Kingdom.
• We are 10 to 20 years away for the Gospel of Grace to be preached to every nation.
• You can’t preach the Gospel of Grace without the Gospel of Kingdom.
• The Gospel of Kingdom is a declaration of a Kingdom that is to come and take over ALL governments.

7pm Session – Allen Hood

- The Good News: The struggle in darkness shall come to an end! And it shall come to pass! Jesus will finish what He started.
• God of peace will soon crush Satan’s head under OUR feet.
• We are in the wombs of eternity.

- Some churches leave the book of Revelation out of what they preach. You wouldn’t read 24 chapters of a book that has 25 chapters and be over with it, would you? Don’t leave out the final chapter!

- Revelation 1:3
• This book is mean to be READ, HEARD, and KEPT.
• The words from this book are prophecies that we ought to keep.
• We gotta take the pill & get out of the matrix. Shake off this world!
• Many have left out this book in the body of Christ so marketing comes instead of intercession.

- WHAT DO YOU BLUSH OVER?
• Will we blush when we tell our friends about this conference and the book of Revelation?
• We need to realize what we have been taught by this world. Why do we blush over the truth?

- We preach the message of repentance because we want Jesus to come back. Because we love Him and miss Him.
• One of the things blocking Him from coming back is that NO ONE WANTS HIM BACK. (I had tears in my eyes when I heard this.)
• The love of Christ compels me; I cannot hold it back.
• Our longing for His return reflects our relationship with Him!

Prayer Room:
I was asking the Lord to stir up my desire for Him. However, I fell asleep for about 20 minutes haha. It’s only the second day and I was exhausted. I woke up when Jon Thurlow was singing “I can hear the angels singing, Glory, Glory to God in the highest”. Suddenly something overcame and I started to tear up, and out of nowhere I started to say DADA like a little child calling out for Dad. And man was I messed up. I’ve got tears all over. It was not a pretty scene. I cried for a good 30 minutes. It was simply awesome.
He is so good and merciful. I see how empty I was inside & how I need to completely give myself to Him to see who I truly am.

Prophetic Room:
After being messed up in the Prayer Room, Tiffa, Sammy, and myself went to prophetic ministry where we were prophesied by Denise and Jim, 2 IHOP staff members. Guess what, as soon as we sat down and the music started playing, I started bawling AGAIN. This time was even more messed up than in the PR!
Denise first spoke prophetically to Tiffa, and she was tearing up (she told me that), but I was like “bwaaaaaahhhh…~~~”. It was not even my turn yet! Basically both Denise and Jim prophesied over Tiffa and Sammy first. And I got so messed up already... So finally it was my turn to be prophesied over…
Denise told me, in short, that I would go into the wilderness for the oppressed, and I have a tender heart for Jesus. I believe this word will definitely be helpful to me in the near future.
The first thing Jim said to me was, “John, I don’t know whether you’re a musician or not, I kind of have a sense that music is important…” And I just went BEZERKA. His words are a confirmation of one of my prayers about worship and music in the End-Time battle. Pastor David Tai prophesied the exact same thing over me earlier this year too that I will be in the frontline of the battle fighting enemies with music.
I got so wrecked that day. Never have I cried so much in such a short period of time. My eyes were so dried by my spirit was so saturated in His love. I certainly encountered Him in a new way, which is what I have been praying about.

Vision:
The crawling baby vision from yesterday came back to me again.

Johnny