WIND IN CONCERT

Wind in Concert

May 1, 2, and 3, 2015

May 1 @ 7p for First Friday

May 2 @ 7p for Vineyard Recovery Church

May 3 @ 10:30a for our Sunday morning Worship

A "WIND" WEEKEND in the forecast

WIND is coming the first weekend in May. Nori and Barbie and the guys will be playing First Friday. Then on Saturday night at Vineyard ReCovery Church and leading worship Sunday morning at Gadsden Vineyard.

Are We Leading Or Following?

If Christians have God in their lives and God is naturally creative then why do Christians end up being followers? There are probably many factors but on the surface we don't look like leaders or very intelligent. Look at these performances and see if you see a difference. One photo is from a Jesus Culture concert, one from a Pink Floyd concert, and one from a Trent Vineyard U.K. concert. Can you label the three?

A.

B.

C.

Not saying the bands aren't good. Not saying anything but bless these young people. I am saying true creative leading can be lonely, misunderstood and ridiculed. Real leaders aren't afraid to take a risk and the church is in a desperate need for someone to model risky leadership in every area of church life.

Rather be safe and make a little money? Then get into selling lighting systems with smoke machines.

ANSWER: A. The Trent Vineyard, B. Pink Floyd, C. Jesus Culture

Ugandan Thunder Children 's Choir

Ugandan Thunder is coming March 10th. Concert starts at 6:30

John Wimber

Speak the words.

Do the works.

See the wonders.

- John Wimber

Josh and Regine Brady

JOSH AND REGINE HAVE COME TO WORK ALONG SIDE OUR CREW. Welcome guys!

Josh and Regine Brady

  Josh has previously worked in youth ministry at UrbanPromise in Camden, NJ for 13 years.  Camden has been reported to be the poorest city in America and once again ranked the most dangerous city in America in 2014.  Josh brings his years of experience working in the inner city and seeing powerful moves of God.  

  During Josh's time working at UrbanPromise, he attended Palmer Seminary (associated with Eastern University)  and graduated with his Master's of Divinity.  Josh's background in working in ministry and being mentored and influenced by Bruce Main (President of UrbanPromise) and taught by Tony Campolo (Christian author and speaker)  gives him a tremendous heart for the poor and marginalized.  He has also been influenced and prayed for by many great pastors and ministers who move powerfully in the Holy Spirit including Bill Johnson, Randy Clark, and Heidi Baker and believes the impact of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross is meant to transform all who invites Jesus Christ into their lives and ask the Holy Spirit to heal them.

  Regine worked as a teacher at classical Christian schools in Arizona and Texas and has an extremely creative style of teaching her students. She has also attended and graduated from the Global School of Supernatural Ministry associated with Randy Clark.  She has a variety of gifts and callings in the areas of faith, healing and prophecy.  As She ministers to women she has seen many who have different addictions and strongholds experience God move powerfully and do some amazing miracles in their lives.  Regine is also amazing with youth and helps them realize who they are in God and models what it means to pray bold prayers and experience God's miraculous power.  Regine also loves power evangelism and is known for her boldness in praying for people and seeing God show up in healing and delivering people.

  Josh and Regine believe it is impossible to hear the voice of The Lord or experience God's presence and not be changed.  They are excited to help people come into an intimate relationship with God and learn to hear and obey God's voice and value God's presence in their lives.

Power Evangelism

  This class is designed to encourage and train people in how to step out in faith to see miracles, signs, and wonders in their daily lives.  We will teach a Biblical model for healing and prophetic ministry and continue to press into greater encounters with God. In this class, the time will be divided between learning about healing and prophecy and then going out to the streets and praying for people as well as being challenged to pray for people throughout the week.  The Berean call says, "May the lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering." These were missionaries giving their life for the Gospel so people would encounter God.  This class will help believers step out in faith to see people healed and delivered through bold prayers of faith, which is what Jesus paid for on the cross.  John Wimber spelled faith: "R-I-S-K" and we will experience God's delight and encounter His goodness as we share the Gospel not just with words but signs and wonders and miracles.

You can always tell the size of a man's faith based on the size of the problem that it takes to discourage him.

Our assignment is to invade the impossible – those things that cannot be accomplished WITHOUT God!!

Remembering my plastic watch

What's the big deal?

You say Jesus is alive again, so what?

That was a long time ago.

What's your proof there buddy?

I'm sitting in Arby's drinking coffee and watching the rain. I'm remembering different events in my life—the morning I was in Waffle House and I looked at my plastic Casio watch. (I found a blog entry I wrote about it):

'Wednesday July 25, 2007 after our Vineyard service, Patsy and I were to take Tammy and Clay R. to see the backyard at the house we hope to buy. (The view was nice at night.) We're waiting with them at the skating rink parking lot with two of their boys. The boys are there to meet some of their friends. Charlie R. is 11 (I think) and out of the blue he asked me, "Mister Jim has God being doing anything lately?" Patsy says, "Tell him about your watch." "Charlie, late in June I'm reading a book one morning at the Waffle House. (The book was Tortured Wonders) I stop and start to note the date in the margin. I look at my old Casio DataBank watch, which is digital, and it reads '6-40- -' (no year). Man, my watch has finally had it. I'm able to reset it and it corrects itself to '6-20-07'. I tried to make the watch show '40' again or '- -' for no year. It only showed real dates. I make a note in the margin listing both dates. I try looking up anything I can in the Scriptures that would involve 6:40. I had counted 40 days from June 20th. Nothing seems to connect. I call my wife and tell her about it. She thinks it is spiritual and wished I had brought the watch home and showed her. 'Sorry. It didn't seem that important only interesting."' Charlie and S. P., 14, start working on a meaning. A few minutes later S.P. says, "Mister Jim, I think it is exactly what the watch said: June 40th. Let's see... That would be... July 10th." Patsy leans up in the seat and says, "Isn't that the day you saw the cloud on top of the mountain and drove up there and the house was for sale?" "Yes, it was." She leans up again. "How about photocopying the passage in the book you were reading when you dated it 6-40- - ." I checked the book the next day. In the next paragraph after I had dated my first reading for the day with 6-20 and also 6-40- - author Rodney Clapp writes on page 170: "...Our real home is a destination, the renewed heaven and earth." He continues to write about home here and our heavenly home.

What do you think?

I think that after 19 months of asking for direction 'validation' came. It comes after we had moved on what we thought and felt was the thing to do. We had peace but no noticeable word from the LORD. But He had spoken. He had already giving a token sign on June 20th about July 10th. 

In the Bible donkeys talk and axe heads float. In my life plastic watches give prophetic words.'

You say Jesus came back alive and ate some fish with his disciples—that seems so normal in this supernaturally natural life.

- Jim

Work While It Is Today

My earthly father crossed over in March 2013. He lived to be 89. This was his candy jar that our grandson broke. I filled it with candy this morning. It reminds me of many things.

1. That as much as we want a perfect world with everything clean, safe and in place that is not the way it is. Things happen, people do stuff to us, we do stuff to others. A wooden duck loses it's head from time to time. 2. That time for each of us is very short. A few hours to work and play and serve others. A few perfect days if we are so blessed. Maybe a few years with a mind, emotional heart and body that works. 3. That God knows we are dust and is pressing us toward a deeper, stronger relationship with Himself. Moses wrote a song about this. It's Psalm 90:

1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place
in all generations.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth,
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

3 You return man to dust
and say, “Return, O children of man!”
4 For a thousand years in your sight
are but as yesterday when it is past,
or as a watch in the night.

5 You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,
like grass that is renewed in the morning:

6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;
in the evening it fades and withers.

7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.

8 You have set our iniquities before you,
our secret sins in the light of your presence.

9 For all our days pass away under your wrath;
we bring our years to an end like a sigh.

10 The years of our life are seventy,
or even by reason of strength eighty;
yet their span is but toil and trouble;
they are soon gone, and we fly away.

11 Who considers the power of your anger,
and your wrath according to the fear of you?

12 So teach us to number our days
that we may get a heart of wisdom.

13 Return, O Lord! How long?
Have pity on your servants!

14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
and for as many years as we have seen evil.

16 Let your work be shown to your servants,
and your glorious power to their children.

17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands upon us;
yes, establish the work of our hands!  ESV

Danny Daniels Speaks of Vineyard's True North

Danny Daniels at Gadsden Vineyard

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•  "What God did on the mountain top, with committed, experienced practitioners who desired and expected Him to visit, He wants to do back home. History has shown that it won't happen through teaching and sermons alone, but through instruction, orientation, modeling, apprenticeship style training. And, not as random events, but frequent, on-going gatherings to be trained, equipped, and led into practicing in a high-risk clinic setting. The Word doesn't say, "Read and see", but "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Sermons and series won't do it, as valuable as they are. Jesus did all that he did while the disciples watched. He had them do it with him. He had them do it while he watched. He sent them out to do it. No shortcuts for those of us whom JRW [John Wimber] challenged back in the day, and no short cuts now. I pray that we will re-value and re-establish what made the Vineyard great and effective. It's difficult, takes commitment to the long haul, but pays off tremendously. Carve out the time, open the doors, turn on the lights, teach it from scripture, model it to the people, bring them alongside, determine to do it until Jesus returns. God is good." 
• - Danny Daniels, July 22, 2013 
• Used by permission of Danny Daniels - Facebook Post

LIVING SACRIFICES TEACHINGS

SESSIONS 4 AND 5 are now uploading at the Sermon Net site. Session 4 Danny Daniels teaches. Session 5 Danny Daniels, John and Marie Barnett, and Chris Lizotte speak on the Roots of Vineyard Worship.

Michael Bynum talks about Vineyard Recovery Fellowship

Outgiving God

Funny story (eh, sort of). My husband and I both happened to go grocery shopping on the same day without knowing it, and we knew we were out of cereal, so we both bought some. When we compared notes that night, we'd accidentally ended up with quite the surplus: 3 boxes of Cheerios, 2 boxes of Lucky Charms, and a generic cornflake-almond-vanilla something. If you're wondering, I bought the Lucky Charms. I know, I'm 32 years old, but you only live once.

Anyway, this morning, when pouring my bowl of cereal, I thought to myself, "I hope I don't get really tired of cereal before I eat all this." But then, another thought occurred to me. Right now, I'm not scrounging around looking for my next meal. I'm pouring a bowl of cereal that I decided to eat, before I go to the job I chose to work, and later I'll come home and choose some pastime like reading a book or catching up on laundry. The first feeling this realization brought to me was profound gratitude at all this freedom I've been born into. Then, I remembered something Danny Daniels had said about worship at last week's conference.

I'm paraphrasing, but he basically said that God gives to us, so that we can give it back to Him, so that He can give us more, so that we have more to give back, so He can give us more still, and so on. When he was saying this, I was picturing a game of Hot Potato. That has stuck with me all week and given me a new perspective on the gifts of God. Now, every time I experience gratitude, there's a companion thought that follows it: how do I give this back?

With the cereal, I asked God to reveal to me what He wants me to be doing with all this free time and brain power I have that I'm not spending on figuring out where my next meal or dollar is going to come from. I hope that doesn't sound trite. I often hear the old worn-out advice about appreciating what you have because others don't have it. That never helped me much. It just made me sad for those others and guilty that I wasn't able to share in their suffering...guilty that I didn't WANT to share in their suffering. Well, God's gifts aren't meant to make you feel guilty. Like any decent gift, they're meant to be enjoyed. And God's gifts can't be fully appreciated unless they're returned.

In Danny's talk, he suggested playing a game with God next time you find yourself in a worship setting. He said to try to outgive God; try to win the game of Hot Potato. Every time you receive a blessing during worship, turn it around and throw it back to God in the form of praise and honor as quickly as you can. Then see what He does in return. You'll always lose, but you'll have a great time doing it.

As an aside, I've also been playing with this principle in my marriage. I realized I was spending more time thinking about things I wish Chris would do than I was spending thinking on what I could do for him. In the very short time I've been trying to outdo his thoughtfulness (which he's WAY better at than I am), my attitude has done a 180. AND, I've noticed that, without even knowing we were playing, he stepped up his game as well. So I can tell you that this kind of competition really does bring out the best in people.

- Liz Wood, Worship Coordinator

Danny Daniels - Session One Teaching

The Living Sacrifices Worship Conference was great, no really, great! More than any of us expected. Many reported how special it had been for them. Thank you LORD.

The first teaching session is loaded on the Sermon Net Player on the side bar. Danny Daniels taught but we lost the last ten minutes of his speaking.

If you are using an iPhone or iPad then you won't be able to see the Sermon Player because it uses "Flash". Go to Sermon Net and search for Gadsden Vineyard Church.

A + B = C

[A]If healing is the children's bread[+B]John Wimber said,"The meat is in the street."[=C]Then the children should take their bread outside.
— Jim Bentley (@JamesDBentley) May 14, 2013

WIND CONCERTS were GREAT

      WIND

Nori and Barbi Kelley

Joe Pfau on drums and Doug Sturgill on bass

Last Fri and Sat May 10-11, 2013