Tiller Update / Tour Schedule

On the Tiller case:

Friday the jury found George Tiller "not guilty" on all 19 criminal charges.  Appears as though we lost a battle in the natural; God, open our eyes to see what was accomplished in the spirit.  We can still stand in prayer, believing that our prayers were and are effective in ending Tiller's practice.  In light of the outcome of the trial, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts just filed a complaint against Tiller's medical license on 11 counts, closely resembling the ones that were just dismissed.  They too have authority to revoke his medical license.  So we can keep praying!

This Week's Ministry Schedule:

Our ministry schedule began yesterday morning at the Epicenter in Sugarland, TX.  Besides the fact that I slept in and got there 30 min before 'go' time, and therefore didn't get to use my uber-cool new keyboard setup, it was a great service.  The testimonies that we heard spoke of profound repentance and new hope and vision.  The altar time at the end was about the Lord being our Rock and our Salvation.  It was sweet.

That morning was followed by an afternoon bbqing in the blazing Texas heat in Nik and Adrian's new backyard, and then we headed to Cut-n-Shoot to do a concert (concert = evangelistic worship and ministry) with our friends and family at The Father's House.  We love those guys.  It was awesome.

Still to come this week:

Click here to find details on our myspace page.

Back to Wichita

I'll be heading back to Wichita in the morning to stand at the courthouse again.

Tiller's main defense is scheduled for tomorrow,

so we'll be standing on the wall in intercession outside the courthouse from 9am-3pm.

Please pray for strength and stamina for our team,

and above all, that righteous judgments would be passed

and the stronghold of abortion would be broken in the heartland of our nation.

Update: 10:10pm

It was a good day.  As we stood and prayed we began to receive good reports from inside the courtroom.  Tiller was beginning to stumble over his words and contradict himself a little bit, and the jury was taking notice of the inconsistencies.

At this point the lawpeople inside the courtroom are saying the case could still go either way.  But we are believing that God was weighed this man in the balance and he has been found wanting, and that his kingdom is being divided and taken from him, just as in Daniel 5:25 with the writing on the wall.  And that his house and the house of abortion are being broken into bits, as in Amos 6:11 (or 12?).

Please over the next few days continue to pray for the jurors in this case.  Pray that their hearts would be turned toward righteousness and that they would judge in favor of life and truth.  Pray for mercy for the man Tiller, that his heart would be changed and he would see the value of a human life and repent and not come under judgment for the shedding of so much innocent blood.  Pray for the prosecuting attorney, Disney, that he would have divine wisdom.

Love you guys!  

Next blog: back to Texas for ministry with Radiant.  Leaving this Friday!

Prayer for the Tiller trial

Well, today was an intense day.  We went with our JHOP (also Bound4Life) friends to Wichita, KS (about a 3 hour drive).  There we stood "on the wall" of intercession, with LIFE tape on our mouths, and prayed from 8am-5pm for God to bring forth justice in the case of a man named George Tiller.  Tiller is responsible for tens of thousands of abortions, many of them late-term and partial birth abortions.  He's one of the most well-known abortionists in our nation.  He has been charged with performing 19 abortions without proper signatures.  Minor technicalities, say we who know the real crime is the murder of so many innocent lives.  But the fact is that if he is convicted on these 19 counts, he could lose his medical license and receive anywhere from 19 years to life in prison.  His clinic would be shut down, and lives would be saved. 

His defenders are claiming he is innocent, and are now pleading with the judge and jury about how compassionate a man Tiller is, and how the medical field needs such a good and benevolent doctor.  And truthfully, people who interact with him describe him as kind and compassionate.

What we are praying against is not the man, George Tiller, but the spirit of death that is working through him.  God, give this man a revelation of the value of a human life.  We have a window here to see his practice ended and many lives saved.  

The case will be in court this week, ending as soon as Monday, but possibly as late as Friday.  Please pray with us that the judge and jury in that court would be bound to issue the judgments that God is issuing from His throne.  Pray that God would release faithful witnesses in the courtroom, who cannot speak lies but will expose every dark and truthful thing.  Pray for mercy for this man, and for America.  And that righteousness would be the victor in this battle.

I encourage you to research George Tiller for more information on his trial.  Stay informed so you know how to pray.  :)

Worship with the Word

Richy and I got to lead our first two-hour set in the JPR (Justice Prayer Room - the smaller, untelevised IHOP prayer room) on Thursday, with a team of friends we have found here in Kansas City.  (Some of them will be permanently on our JPR team, some were just subbing)

Worship with the Word sets are times devoted to singing the Scriptures.  It combines music and worship with meditating on God's truths.  What you do is take a portion of Scripture (we did Psalm 27) and break it down into sections (2-3 verses).  For each section, a singer will sing the section through, verbatim, to introduce it.  Then the singers and the prayer leader will begin to take it phrase by phrase, meditating on each word and building on each idea by repeating it, rephrasing it, and referencing other Scriptures that pertain to the same idea.  

It really is a beautiful way of meditating on the Word and renewing your mind.  And the feedback we were getting afterward from people on the team and in the room was that the anointing and the flow were remarkable.  People love the presence of God.  We are trying to do what Radiant normally does (creating an atmosphere of the presence of God), even as we fit ourselves into IHOP's structure.  And we're excited to be able to serve the people here and IHOP in this way.

Next Tuesday:  our first JPR intercession set.  Here we go!!!

:)

Radiant Weekend

I returned to Kansas City, closely followed by two strange fellows from Houston.  It was a bit disconcerting.

Kidding.  The two guys who followed me were our bass player and drummer.  Having the whole band in one city is very helpful when desiring to practice or minister as a team.  We spent Friday and Saturday practicing and helping our new drummer (enter Matt Traylor) get familiar with our songs.  We also spent time praying together and meeting to discuss where the ministry is going and the things God is emphasizing to us about the coming season.

We're getting ready for a quick week-long Texas tour at the end of March.  We'll be hitting Sugarland, Magnolia, Conroe and more.  For a schedule of events, go to www.radiantworship.com and check out the events page.

While the guys were up here in KC, we had the opportunity to lead worship for IHOP's youth group.  We really had a great time.  We have a vision for revival to break out among the youth here; Richy and Jess have both had dreams about a youth revival in this city, so we are honored to be able to sow into this by helping encourage passionate worshiping fiery young hearts.

Here's to awakened Jesus kids changing their schools and worlds!

All about how the conference in Houston went...

Well, I made it back to this great, though somewhat Missourian, city of Kansas City, driving the whole way with oil leaking out of the bottom of my car.  Thought I had a stripped oil pan plug, but it turns out the dude that changed my oil just didn't tighten it tight enough.  (No names to protect the Remm... remainder of innocence... ;) )

Kingdom Glory Conference

The conference we dance at in Houston turned

out to be explosive and sweet.  Just as we had

felt in prayer that the Lord was saying, the 

conference began with strength and aggression,

as people came in ready to be free from the 

weights they had been carrying.  trEd was able to present our piece "Payback" at the very 

beginning of the first night.  The piece is all 

about the Lord being the One who takes vengeance on our enemies and brings them down under our feet.  It is a powerful and aggressive piece.

trEd and another dance company (HIS Company) traded off dancing spontaneously during the worship set, which Julie Meyer (out of IHOP Kansas City) was leading.  Between worship and the message, we also presented a piece to "Holy" by Matt Gillman, a very "throne room" type of song, exalting the holiness of God.  

Over the course of the conference, there were many blessed times of joy, freedom, victory, intercessory prayer and worship.  The last night there was such an anointing of joy, that I danced so hard I was almost sick.  What else can you do but dance with all your might, when God is so good and the victory of the cross so complete?  

We had prayed and felt like the Lord wanted to kiss the people with intimacy the last night.  And, oh man, was it beautiful.  Pray for Leah, our "captain."  She and her husband Nate had been scheduled to do a very intimate piece that night about Christ and His Bride; it's a piece that brings people into a love encounter with the Lover of their soul and rarely leaves a dry eye in the place.  But at the end of worship, Julie was singing spontaneously, and the Lord gave one of our other dancers a spontaneous dance that released exactly that kiss of intimacy that we had felt would come.  It was a good thing, too, because as we found out later, the injury Leah had sustained to her foot (and was going to dance on anyway) was actually a very nasty fracture.  Please keep her in your prayers for a complete and speedy healing.

So all in all, the conference was a beautiful success.  God revealed His to His people His victory, His love, His joy, His might in battle, and His overwhelmingly sweet love and desire He has for us.  We had many testimonies of people who said they were "energized" to live as overcomers instead of victims; there were many who wept at the revelation of Jesus as One passionately in love with them; I was even able to pray for a girl for deliverance from various things, and healing for an injury in her back.  She said she felt heat in her back, but I haven't heard whether the healing was complete.  But I believe God was doing something there.

Thanks to all of you who give to help me be a part of a ministry which encourages the Church to reach her full potential, living the life Christ died to give us.

Back in Texas with trEd

It is good to be back where the sun is shining and there is water in the air!  Just want to say a thank you to all those who have partnered with me financially so far this year.  You are a blessing!  Here is another level of what your support is allowing me to be a part of:

trEd Prophetic Dance

The Lord gave me a gift about a year and a half ago:  the opportunity to be a part of a company of friends who seek God with complete abandon and have given their lives over to see His Kingdom come on the earth - - - and whose primary expression of this is dance.  

I am home in Texas to get ready to dance at the Kingdom Glory Conference this weekend at Encourager Church in Houston.   (http://www.celebrationministries.com/web/pageid/79052/pages.asp)  We feel that the Lord wants to release His people from spiritual and emotional bondage this weekend, and that we are to dance for their deliverance, so that afterward He can come to them and kiss them with sweet intimacy.  Pray with us that His will would be fully done in that conference.

"trEd is a company of intercessors that interprets music through the power of spontaneous movement.  Their unique calling is to see breakthrough and deliverance through an aggressive style of dance.  Unified in heart and mind, they desire to see God's glory manifest on the earth and to see a generation consumed by the fire of God."

Please check out the videos on our new website (still under construction):

www.treddance.com

trEd will be ministering across the nation and the nations this year.  Stay tuned for updates on that as well!

Blessings!