Father was asking for us to take a different tack. You know we all want to run on a fair wind. Isn’t that right? We just want to put the sail up and go. But when the opposing forces come at us, what He is asking us to do is to find each other corporately and learn how to tack into the wind and make the change that’s coming.

I personally believe this present financial crunch is designed to help us find each other.”

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“When I am no longer independently wealthy I am then relationally dependent.”

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“If we learn how to put our sail and learn how to turn this thing, we will see light in Goshen while there is darkness in Egypt.”

“It isn’t A to Z line. And that’s a skill of sailing. And that’s why we need fathers, why we need leadership, why we need each other.”

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“God does not tease. If He has given you a hunger for something He will bring it to pass.”

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“‘At minimum, 500 million tongue speaking believers in the world.’ That’s in my lifetime.”

“What we’ve got to do is become global Christians.”

Bob Mumford (2009): Secrets of the Fathers Conference — “We are entering the most serious, complicated, undefined period in church history.”

[video] John Wimber: Gifts of the Holy Spirit

By Jeff Fenske

On January 22, 2011

In Doctrines Demystified, Filled with the HOLY Spirit, Pray Perfectly in Tongues!, Prayer, Real History

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8x_l3KOKEk]John Wimber – Gifts of the Holy Spirit (1/3)

PreachersNetwork | August 04, 2010 | 6 likes, 0 dislikes

This is from a Vineyard conference of 1985

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Shelley Hundley: Set free from sexual abuse / Understanding Jesus as the judge who fights FOR you! — "We can forgive and we can forget because He never will."

By Jeff Fenske

On December 29, 2009

In Forgive & Be FREE, Freedom, FreedomQuotes, God's Love Revealed, IHOPKC International House of Prayer, Lust Freedom!, No Enemy

“We can forgive and we can forget because He never will.”

— Shelley Hundley

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52S2DhUApzQ]Jesus the Judge/set free from sexual abuse, by Shelley Hundley

From “Fascinate 09” conference. For more info go to www.ihop.org

U2 — 'Magnificent' Live on Letterman!!!!!!! "Till we die, you and I will magnify The Magnificent!"

By Jeff Fenske

On March 20, 2009

In Music Videos, Revival, Worship

One of the greatest songs of all time—just out, on the album, No Line on the Horizon! Lyrics by Bono and The Edge.

I was born to be with you
In this space and time
After that and ever after I haven’t had a clue
Only to break rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue …

I was born to sing for you
I didn’t have a choice but to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice
From the womb my first cry, it was a joyful noise

…only love can leave such a mark
…only love can heal such a scar*

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…only love unites our hearts

Justify, till we die, you and I will magnify
The Magnificent

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcvOWunC4N8]Low-Fi — with Dave’s intro and closing remarks

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_xBl-TlJa8]Live Fordham University [HD – High Quality]
Good Morning America
To watch in HD, click on the video to open it, and then click on the HD symbol, which then becomes red when the video re-opens, bigger.
To watch either version in full-screen, click on the rectangle-within-a-rectangle icon.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0FIN7tMEIA]Live in London [HD – High Quality]
BBC Rooftop

* Question?

Such a scar* that only love can heal: is it the mark of the calling to sing and play for God, the alienation and put-downs from fallen man, the tremendous pressure to play something juicy? Or is it the black and blue heart caused by the foolishness of breaking rhyme with the Creator?

I was thinking the latter, but I’m not so sure now. I’m wondering what Bono and The Edge were thinking when they wrote the song. Imagine the struggle they’ve been through. Both attended a charismatic fellowship, called Shalom at one point with Larry Mullen. I’m really glad to see that Adam Clayton seems to also really like the song!!

Any ideas out there?

Incidentally, Bono has talked about how they could always count on God to show up when they would play live: Where the Streets Have No Name. God is in the house.