Hearts United Women's Ministry

KNITTING HEARTS CAFE
with Ed & Patty Garner
July 9, 2016
Written by Sue Sanders

Knitting Hearts Women’s Ministry hosted The Summertime Revive Conference with Ed and Patty Garner, gifted leaders with Outpouring of Lancaster, a ministry whose goal is to equip, teach, train, empower and activate believers into their God-given destiny, to bring transformation through Jesus Christ. The women and guests fellowshipped together as they enjoyed a breakfast prepared by the hospitality team.

Advertisements issued a proclamation that this event would be a time of refreshing, renewal and restoration. Guests arrived expecting, so they did not leave disappointed.

After Joyce Sanders welcomed guests and opened our meeting in prayer, Lisa Salyards sang “Let’s Go Down to the River to Pray.” Lyrics from the song became prophetic as they declared, “You will leave changed. You will never be the same.” The worshippers definitely arose as the praise and worship team led the group in singing “Let the Worshippers Arise,” “I Will Sing of Your Love Forever,” and “I Just Want to Bless Your Name.” Praise dancers danced with joy as they carried the weight of worship. As we sang the lyrics, “It is by Your will, for Your pleasure I exist. You are worthy, Lord. To worship You I live,” we were alive in His presence, and all things became new. Our desire became “To worship You I live. I live to worship you.” The praise opened up the windows of Heaven and set the stage for the message.

Patty Garner encouraged the saints of God by reminding us that we are seated in Heavenly places. She exhorted us to ask ourselves the question: “What are you most aware of—the kingdom of Heaven or the kingdom of Satan?” She stated that we have the Word of God, and it is so rich with the promises of God. When we spend time in the Word, it builds our character and also reminds us of who He is and who we are as His royal sons and daughters. We can change history. Song of Solomon 4:7 and 8:10 let us know that we are flawless, and that God is totally in love with us. We have to let Him in and receive Him into the depths of our hearts. In Esther 4:14, Mordecai suggests that Esther came to the kingdom for such a time as this. As women, we are influencers, cheerleaders for our spouses, children, and friends, and glory displayers. We have to be faithful where He has each of us at the moment and grow in Him. Then He will continue to open the next door for us.

Ed shared aspects of their ministry, His salvation experience, and the calling and unction on His life to share God’s Word, to flow in the Holy Spirit and His anointing, to share prophetic words, and to pray for healings and deliverances. He blessed us with his declaration: “Because of technology, our society as a whole is more disconnected, but God will open up authentic relationships for this group.”

We all have choices. We can choose life or death, love or hate, but in Christ we have new life. We are nation shakers.

After becoming saved as an adult, he longed to explore the new things of God. He and his wife have seen miracles across nations. He declared, “Jesus has the last word over each situation.”

Ed testified, “I am hungry for more. His fire is love, and it is so supernatural that it is intoxicating.” In the new covenant we as His children call God “Abba”—daddy. He hears our cries. Zephaniah 3:17 states: “He will rejoice over thee with joy. . .He will joy over thee with singing.” We have to remember that we are seated in heavenly places; therefore, our view is from heaven to earth. We have an upper call.

To illustrate his points, Ed used 3 chairs. He labeled the first one the chair of slavery, and it represented each one of us before Christ. The second chair, the sonship seat, shows that we belong to Christ. Our address has changed, and we now have a heavenly seat. We are joint heirs with God. That means that Satan is underneath our feet; consequently, he has no power over our lives. Access has been denied. Our hearts are knitted together with His heart. Still using the chairs, he put a line between the two chairs demonstrating that the chains and bondages have been severed.

Ed identified us as people who are longing for revival. “What is revival?” he asked. “It is a revelation of how much we are loved by God.” As we embrace this revelation, we are constantly renewed by hearing the Word of God.

He suggested that many of us walked into the fellowship hall carrying offenses. This is the orphan chair. While a son or daughter sees the promises of God and lives out a life of faith, the orphan mind lives in negativity and with feelings that they have been hurt. An orphan isolates himself or herself.

We who know Christ must choose. We have to move to embrace our sonship seat. Sons and daughters love intimacy. We hang in His Presence.

Ed asked us to think of individuals who have influenced us with the Father’s love. Ed shared that before he met Christ, he was so angry with his earthly father. His father was not only an alcoholic and abusive, but he had also abandoned his family a number of times. After Ed got saved, God led him to forgive his father. After personally visiting and forgiving his father, he then hugged him, and together they wept together.

We all have daily choices. We have to obey those Holy Spirit promptings to make that phone call, cook that meal, visit that unlovely person, write that note, send that check, etc. God will lead us to acts of kindness, and He will cause us to release forgiveness to others. We have to remember that we are seated in heavenly places; therefore, we are praying from heaven to earth.

Sons and daughters of the kingdom celebrate others and pull out the best in them. On the other hand, the one with the orphan spirit thinks only of himself or herself.

We must constantly submit to God and not entertain conversations with Satan. We have the choice whether to listen to Satan’s thoughts. We must go to war with our thought life. We tell Satan, “Get behind me, Satan.” Submission means being under God’s mission.

After Ed got saved, he was so hungry for God. He went through four years of inner healing. God also used Promise Keepers to minister to him. He got delivered and healed, and he still remembers the man who hugged and blessed him. He admonished, “Many of you are carrying answers to someone else’s prayer. Tune in and listen to those promptings.”

Reviewing, he declared that as sons and daughters we live lives of worship. We live from supply because our Father said that He would supply our every need. An orphan puts demands on others, while a son or daughter is desperate to be used. We need to be mindful of those promptings from the Holy Spirit which interrupt our lives but open doors of higher callings and opportunities.

The Father says to each of you, “Lay down your net and follow me.” Ed asked each one of us: “Do you know His voice, His heartbeat?” Before ministering, he left us with this thought: “Those who are led by the Holy Spirit are the sons and daughters.”

Following his own admonition, he stopped throughout his message and ministered according to the leading of the Holy Spirit. He ended by praying over each individual and speaking prophetic and uplifting words over each one.