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  • Wisdom Falls on Ardmore!

    I'm sharing a blog from the Burn Wagon site about the Midwest team's visit to Harvest Fellowship.  Pray for this team over the next days as they travel to Arkansas, Illinois and Wisconsin.

     

    Wisdom falls on Ardmore!
    Fire on you all!

     

    We just finished the Sunday morning service in Ardmore, OK and it was INCREDIBLE!  God came!  He moved!  His fire fell!  His glory suffocated us!  [Insert fiery word here!]

     

    This morning the Lord gave Ryan and Kristy VanMeter a word about the spirit of pride that existed in the area and how we needed to handle it.  Kristy said that she felt we needed to handle it by "coming in a spirit of humility."  Becca Smith also received a word about not keeping in a box.  It seemed we were all hearing different things, but they all came together in one big glory explosion!

     

    During the service, there was a moment when the worship team got extremely quiet.  While we were waiting on the Lord, you could feel the air in the room begin to get lighter.  We began to sing, "Lord, we want You...Lord, we want You" very softly.  Before you know it, we were welcoming the King into the atmosphere just as we did the night before!

     

    As we continued to wait on Him, Ryan VanMeter had a word for the body in Ardmore.  While he was giving his word, things began to intensify.  The Lord's presence blanketed the room and He began to speak in such a heavy way.  Ryan was speaking about coming in the spirit of humility to deal with a spirit of pride.  Thinking that we know it all, feeling like we know exactly what God wants to do, can hinder what He wants to do.

     

    After his word, the Lord began to tell me that He wanted to release perfect wisdom and fresh revelation from heaven, strategy over Pastors Andy and Jami, for the future. So I began to shout, “Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom! Fresh bread, fresh bread, fresh bread!” Little did I know, Ryan told me that just before I started shouting that, he had seen a blue light fill the room. If you didn’t know, the color blue in the positive represents WISDOM! He was pouring out the river of wisdom flowing straight from the throne into the hearts of the leaders of this body. He was doing a new thing!

     

    Ardmore will harvest in the goodness of the Lord!  Stay tuned for a video!

    -Josh Cotts

     

     

     

  • Days of Breakthrough Part 2

    I am so thankful for the move that the Holy Spirit continues to orchestrate in South Central Oklahoma.  I wrote previously about Steve Lincoln's visit in Ardmore and the good fruit it produced.  Steve is the BURN Director for the UK and the founder of Eagle's Wings Ministries. 
     
     In addition to ministering at local churches, Steve joined other worshipers, intercessors and psalmists for powerful times of worship and prayer during the weekend of January 22-24.  On January 22 Steve and I joined Norma Woolery at her monthly Prayer Watch in Love County which she hosts in her home.  Norma has been hosting this 'Watch of the Lord' from 9pm until Midnight for several years now.  She is faithfully joined by believers in the Ardmore area as well as worship teams from Glory of Zion in Denton, TX and intercessors from International Breakthrough Ministries.  It's always a wonderful event worshipping and praying with this group, and this night may have been one of the richest times we had ever experienced in the Presence of God together.  I believe the faithfulness of this group to pray is laying a foundation for the manifestation of the Kingdom of God in Carter and Love counties.
     
    The next day was a day of contending together at the monthly BURN Ardmore gathering at Ardmore Christian Center for 12 hours of continuous, fiery worship.  It was a day of breakthrough with one of the many highlights being ACC's own Tino Estrada and James Vincent from Glory of Zion joining Steve for an incredible set of non-stop drumming.  BURN is not only a tremendous tool to see breakthrough in a region, it promotes unity among churches and ministries as well, something every city needs.
     
    On his final day in Ardmore, Steve ministered at Harvest Fellowship.  I was incredibly challenged by Steve as he told us as a ministry that we had a mandate from the Lord to bring unity to the churches in Ardmore.  Honestly, that's something I'm not sure I wanted to hear.  That is never an easy task!  However, as the BURN Director for Ardmore it seems like a logical thing.  Anything that brings a blessing I want to pursue, and true unity among believers is certainly one of those things.  As Psalm 133 states, "Behold, how good and and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity!...For there the Lord commanded the blessing - life forever."  
     
    There is a blessing God commands for those who will humble themselves and pursue unity.  May God use all of us to pursue that end.      
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