Testimonies

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August 18, 2011

Hi team!

At our New Song Spring Hill Pastoral Community gathering recently we were able to share testimonies and stories of those God is bringing in to our path to minister to as well as places we personally are contending for breakthrough in. Jordan Roe encouraged us to stir up the gifts within us, but more importantly to see that our willingness to ‘go’ out and be available to minister/pray with others isn’t simply about the results but our obedience to ‘go’ and be bold. We have a testimony that we hope will encourage you to be yielded and open to the leading of the Holy Spirit as we wait and listen for what He is saying.

After our Pastoral Community gathering, Bryan (Robison) had sensed that he was to go to Target in Spring Hill and be open to the chance to minister to someone in the card section, more specifically he felt it was a girl and there would be a possible school connection. So as we were all leaving, he asked me if I wanted to go with him. As parked the car, Bryan literally almost ran his car door into a young couple’s car as they parked right next to us. He didn’t end up hitting their car thankfully and simply exchanged small talk. We wanted to be sure we hit the card section even when we saw our friend Ryan was working at the Starbucks inside. As we approached the cards, we only saw one young couple looking at cards. As they left, Bryan asked if they went to school, did go to school, etc. and they both said no and that they had just moved here from Florida. Bryan offered to pray with them but they declined. With no one left in the card section, we decided to go say hi to Ryan. Ryan was in conversation with the couple who Bryan had almost hit with his car door. We immediately were invited into the conversation with them and learned that they had come from a service at a Church of Christ congregation in Spring Hill. They’re 27 and live in Chapel Hill and Lewisburg and meet up for dinner and church in Spring Hill to connect since he works in Nashville. (They’ve been dating for 3 months.) As we continued talking to them the girl began to share that she comes from a Pentecostal background and went to Trevecca Nazarene University….my alma mater. In fact, she was there my senior year. So we immediately had the school connection with the girl. She was eagerly interested in us because not only had I attended Trevecca but because she’s not Church of Christ and its been an area of contention between her and her boyfriend. He does not believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit and they’ve had many discussions about biblical theology differences. Funny that it was the Holy Spirit that lead us to them to begin with. We’ll share that with him in time. We began asking them if they were looking for community and they both were so enthusiastic to give us their phone numbers, emails, etc. to hangout. I think they may have asked us 10 times to call them when we were doing something. She was so excited to meet other believers, their age, who believed in the Holy Spirit and lived in community. We stood there and talked to them for probably 30 minutes and carried the conversation outside.

It didn’t necessarily happen in the card aisle but it did happen at Target by the mere obedience to ‘go’, be inconvenienced yet open to the Lord to show that specific young woman that He’s heard her prayer for community and Spirit filled believers. We know there that God will continue to water and grow this relationship as we sow the seeds through our obedience. Let’s be in faith for breakthrough in our own obedience, that through that the kingdom may be advanced and the love of Christ demonstrated.

Thankful for each of you and believing for breakthrough!

Winter Liscano

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Hi all ~

We wanted to testify of God’s faithfulness/healing in our marriage and in our daughter, Gloria…

First of all, Mike and I have been contending/believing for breakthrough in our marriage in many ways over the past year.  It happened, PRAISE THE LORD, two weeks ago this coming Sunday.  We really could sense it coming when Gloria’s eye got healed (little over a month ago).  If you all remember at the NSN Gathering in Cool Springs on July 31, I shared our testimony of how Mike and I agreed in faith that Gloria would be healed of an eye deviation (cross eyed-ness) in her right eye.  This is not genetic on either of our family’s sides and most usually if it develops after three months of age, children need either corrective surgery or patches or both.  We (even Rinah Joy, our toddler) laid hands on Gloria and prayed for healing and it happened two days later!!!!!  Mike and I’s breakthrough came a few weeks later and the Lord showed me that He corrected Gloria’s vision so that our vision could be corrected of how we see each other… WOW!  There are a lot of things that Mike and I shared with each other that related to how we “viewed” each other.  We were not necessarily seeing each other in the Spirit and needed our vision of each other corrected.  And as I look back at pictures of Gloria, it was a pretty significant “eye change” which leads me to believe that only God could have brought that kind of change to a marriage.  I really sense this is a word for our leadership body as a whole.  Some of us are not seeing each other in the Spirit or being vulnerable enough to share our “issues” because we are in leadership (and the congregations can sense this), but I believe vulnerability is one of the very things that will allow God to miraculously breakthrough and demolish walls of offense, fear, shame, bitterness and guilt!  As leaders, we need to allow OUR vulnerability to breed vulnerability.

I know that a few of you were greatly contending for this for us, so thank you!!

We are believing for great things next week!  Love you all!

The Clingers