"We Are the Champions" was the theme for this weekend's Iron Sharpens Iron conference in Portsmouth. What a good day it was, as we gathered together with about 1500 men from churches all over Northern New England to praise God, hear some good preaching, and participate in workshops on all kinds of topics.
I was really excited about this weekend as we took 16 guys with us, over a 500% increase from last year (we took 3 last year). Dr Ken Canfield was the main speaker in the morning, and Bishop Wellington Boone was the afternoon's featured speaker. We took the following guys from The Journey: Rod Kesselring, Chuck Green, Tim DeBenedictis, Floyd Harris, Joe Johnson, Ralph Johnson, James Smith, Ed Cormier, Dave Gibson, Andy Becker, James Smith, Jeremy Greib, Lee Thompson, Ron Bennetter, Ben Chamberlin, and me.
If you went with us on this one-day conference, please add your comments about the day.
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It's difficult to summarize a day like we had. The Lord laid so much before us.The worship was so much more than just singing songs.Especially the morning kick off session.The Lord began to manifest His presence and that is always wonderful.
For the morning seminar I attened the study called "PRAYER 101"and subtitled, "can a man have intimacy with God? Dale Schlafer from Bradenten Florida was the teacher and it was actually more of a work shop than a study as he had us put into application what he was teaching. I think we need more of that in the body.Become a doer of the word as soon as you hear it. Take a step of faith in that direction or we end up deceiving ourselves and the seed of that word we just heard doesn't go deep enough to take root,so the birds of the air or the hot sun or the weeds(cares of this world)choke it out. Dale is a spirit filled man with a teaching annointing. I drank in all I could and was very disappointed when I realized that our time was up.He spoke to us about sensing the presence of the Lord and hearing the voice of the Lord in our own spirits.He then had us sing to the Lord and then sit silently before HIM. It was awesome! He said that for those who didn't sense anything to keep practicing in waiting on the Lord.It doesn't come naturally just like a baby doesn't start walking and talking a month after it's born. We must excerise our spirits in these things. God is Spirit and we are people of spirit that inhabit a physical body so He's given us what we need to talk to Him and more importantly,to HEAR from HIM !! wow ! Thankyou Lord, thankyou ! Well I've rambled on long enough.I'll save some space for the other guys. Oh, that was excellent too ! Being with the guys for the day and adding to our connection in the spirit,I'm very grateful for the opportunity.Our time with Dale stirred up an even greater hunger in me to wait on the Lord and to commune with Him and to have Him commune with me.
May the seeds of this weekend go deep into our hearts and bear much fruit for His Glory and His kingdom! Ed
Considering this was a first for me, I felt overwhelmed with the energy in the room and now understand why you were so excited going into the seminar this year.
The one thing I regret is not introducing myself to more people, as a business owner I have to talk constantly and introduce myself to new business associates daily but i find my personal time I retreat into a shell.
I attended seminars on how to discuss christianity in a work environment and it not being an affront to the individual. I hope to put the seminar to good use in the coming months, and I also spoke one on one with Drew Crandall of Christians at Work. We seemed to connect, as business owners we get caught in a lot of situations that require you to make a decision to either move forward with business, yet put your ethics and beliefs aside because the company you are working with is not dealing on the up and up, or pass on the opportunity. Not only do I have to worry about myself and my family but I also have to worry about my partner and Rod and his family. Over the last 2 weeks I have turned down business because I had my doubts about the ethics of the organization and how they did business. That decision becomes more difficult with additional "mouths" to feed.
I realize that in the end I will be a better person for it and that I may change the way the company I just turned down the business from may look upon their actions in the future.
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