Every year Kingdom Faith runs 'Faith Camp', a week of meetings at an agricultural showground. Most years we go along to one or two of the evening meetings, this is a brief account of a session at Faith '11.
Donna and I went with two friends to Faith Camp's evening session on Wednesday (see also Kingdom Faith's website).After parking and buying our admission tickets we wandered over to the food and drinks vendors where we chose light snacks and something to drink - in my case a freshly cooked doughnut and a coffee.
Then we headed for the meeting and found somewhere to sit. As usual the music was loud; my coffee was certainly not needed to keep me awake! But I felt more free in praise and worship than in previous years. I think this was simply because only one or two songs were used but the words were simple and were played over and over so I didn't need to keep reading. There was a rhythm and flow culminating in spontaneous singing in tongues, and I felt I had the space and time to dance and shout and be filled with a sense of Father's presence and holiness. It was good, very good!
As the music came to an end Steve Uppal (from All Nations in Wolverhampton) began to speak to us and he had some very helpful things to say. I jotted down the main points that particularly impressed me.
- We're called to be like Jesus; he's our highest role model.
- Like a tree, get the root right and the fruit will follow. We absolutely need to plant our roots in Yahshua.
- We have to want to respond to everything the way Yahshua himself would do. We need to willingly go through whatever he wants us to go through. He doesn't offer an easy or comfortable journey, nor was his own journey an easy one.
- We need to learn to live in the resting place of the Most High.
- When we are close to him we grow, when we're distant we shrivel.
Steve told the story of Smith Wigglesworth and the Welshman called Lazarus. It's a story of faith and healing. You can read Wigglesworth's own account of it online if you like (read pages 16 - 20).
And then Steve read Colossians 1:15-20 where Paul writes about Christ's supremacy over all things.
After all this, we were able to spend more time in free praise and worship. It was a great evening, time well spent indeed!
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