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Dear partners,
Recently I've had the joy of working with someone I've known since grade school. Doug Graham and his wife Sharon invited me to visit their kingdom company in the Seattle-Tacoma area called Continuant. Their company maintains communications systems for businesses across the US. They have been and are continuing on as an example of the church in the workplace. After graduating from West Point, Doug became senior pastor of a fellowship. Then the Lord brought him into establishing and pastoring companies for the Kingdom. Continuant is a rapidly expanding company that is thriving even more during this recessionary period. They have their own on site counselors and also bring in people to minister to their employees. I believe kingdom companies like the Grahams' are on the leading edge of the restoration of the apostolic church.
I am consulting with them where I can be of assistance and at the same time experiencing a real kingdom company in action. I was honored to be invited to an executive leadership meeting in which Doug shared the latest directions that the Lord had given him for their company. He followed this by praying for all of the managers in the company. Whoa! That didn't happen in any companies where I have previously worked. Christ died to give us freedom. This is why the Lord's will is to put his followers in positions of leadership in the marketplace, education, media, and politics and in all areas of society.
My Dallas partner Joe and I are still working on our second small book titled 'Kingdom Business Transformation: Practicing Strategic Intercession in Your Business'. This book helps the church, wherever it is operating, to walk in the power of God by setting up a listening network to keep from missing the Lords direction. Then we can petition, proclaim and walk out those directions. I also was able to spend some time with listening intercessors in the Dallas, TX and Eugene, OR area. It's always inspiring to see how the Lord moves when hungry and thirsty people come seeking God for their sustenance.
I made another trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina. My sister Diane's son Opie spent 10 days with me. We did some communing together with the Lord while each of us gained insight on another generation's way of thinking. Spending time with him was another confirmation that the church must return to the biblical basics. We need to reach the world using everyone in the body in their unique God given callings, assigned tasks and gifts. Either that or the church will lose out especially on the huge benefit of the energy and passion of the upcoming generation who are not going to be satisfied with spectator Christianity. The old clock tower in Buenos Aires that my nephew is standing next to reminds me that we've each been given a slice of time to do our part while sowing the seeds for the next generation.
I'm getting directions and confirmations that international ministry will again be part of my job again soon but resources aren't there now. God has no unfunded mandates so that is presently on hold. In the next few months I will be doing more writing, working with intercessory groups in the US and making a short trip to Argentina in June. One of the things I will do is help set up some strategic intercession networks such as the ones that we speak about in the book that we are now writing. The Lord is restoring his house, "the church", to be a house of prayer for all nations (Isaiah 56:7). In order to do this, we must know exactly which path to take and what we are supposed to petition and proclaim. This is the only way we will do everything by the Spirit of the Lord and not by our own force or strength (Zechariah 4:6). The Lord wants to build a giant protective prayer net that will tie his children together as one by His Spirit.
Please cover me in prayer. I humbly examine any words of wisdom or knowledge that you send my way. The Lord is putting together equally yoked partnerships for those trying to stay on His pioneering path. Intercessors please pray for correct connections and open doors as priorities on your prayer lists.
Thanks to all of you who are, in one way or another, working as part of this body to expand the Kingdom of our Lord and Christ. Those who have helped financially are more appreciated than ever right now. All financial contributions are tax deductible and will directly support the work the Lord leads me, in cooperation with this team, to do. Our Employer Identification Number is 04-3623802.
May the multiplication be 100 fold in anything that you give to others in accordance with the Lord's directions. In the King of Kings, Greig Detering www.amormi.org contact@amormi.org
"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15 NKJV
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