Knitting Hearts Presenting
The Outpouring of Lancaster
with Ed & Patty Garner
Written by Sue Sanderstting
July 8, 2017
The morning began with compounded praise as Shelika Daniels and the flag team danced passionately. Surely they did dance, sing, and praise like David did. Joyce Sanders opened in prayer, and then Lisa Salyards gave the announcements. Liz Gorski led us in the declaration of the Word.
The praise team led us in anointed worship that prepared our hearts for the message. We sang and decreed, “I know He rescued my soul. His blood has covered my sin. I believe. My shame is taken away. I believe. I’ll raise a banner. My Lord has conquered the grave. My Redeemer lives.” Then as we sang “No One Higher,” we stood amazed in His Presence, our hands lifted in surrender, astounded by His mercy and love. As we declared that there is no one like our God, our cry was “Let my life forever praise the glory of Your name.” We sang with confidence that God can break every chain through the power that is in the name of Jesus.
Dalana Barnett prayed over the offering, and then the praise team shared the song “Clean.” We can all give praise in God’s Truth : “There’s nothing too dirty that You can’t make worthy. You wash me in mercy. I am clean. Oh, I am coming alive with joy and destiny cause You’re restoring me piece by piece.”
David Magnum gave a word of knowledge. The picture he saw was a dark cloud, a coming flood, and then suddenly a bolt of lightning followed by thunder. The release was the bolt of lightning and then the hearing of the seven thunders of God. The interpretation is that Today is a Suddenly Day.
Ed and Patty Garner and a team of young spiritual royal daughters ministered to those gathered on Saturday. Patty’s word for today’s gathering was FREEDOM. We can be free because of what Jesus did on the cross. We were all encouraged to receive what the Lord had for us with open hearts and to listen to hear His voice.
Pastor Ed explained that their ministry was covered under Pastor Satishe’s ministry. Their calling to Pennsylvania has led them into the enemy’s camp, but they are so blessed to be an extension of Pastor Satishe’s ministry and to receive his and his team’s counsel.
Pastor Ed led the group in affirming, “I came to receive.” He asked the question, “What would it look like to let go of your past?” There would be no grave clothes. Those who are saved are seated in heavenly places with Jesus who is sitting at the right hand of the Father. We live in victory.
“Who are you? Why are you here? What purpose has God placed you on earth for?” Pastor Ed asked. Genesis 1:26-27 says that we are made in His likeness. We have a His-image because of the blood which changed everything. We are secure in Christ with right standing in Him. We received the free gift of righteousness. We are seated at the right hand of God. Knowing our purpose begins to change our focus. He has got good news: It is finished. How does God view me in this moment? Isaiah 9:6 states, “For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Pastor Ed affirmed that the government is upon His shoulders, and we are called to take dominion and occupy. He asked, “Are you ready to take up occupancy?”
Pastor Ed mentioned Carolina Leaf, the Christian neurologist. When we wake up in the morning, there are 300 million neurons ready to be fed. Our mind is moldable. The brain is waiting. As Christians, we wait before the Lord. The first fifteen minutes of each day are significant. As we read our Bibles, we grow, grow, grow. We are feeding our minds. We renew, redo, resync, restore our minds. In seven days the daily cycle begins to make a habit. It etches in our mind the mind of Christ. It takes twenty-one days to develop habit. Only three cycles of twenty-one days or sixty-three days will form and mold permanency. After just sixty-three we become mirrors of His Word. The Kingdom of God in inside/outside/upside down. We have our roots in Heaven. If we have a healthy root, then we have healthy fruit. Joy comes from an overflow of the root. What is the strategy to battle a storm? It is peace. We are often committed to the boat of comfort instead of walking to our destiny. Jesus said one word to Peter, “Come.” Peter’s relationship with Christ caused him to step forward. The boisterous wind was not bigger than God.
In the Parable of the Sower and the Seed, the focus is really on the soil. Jesus says, “He who has ears, let him hear.” We must have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to us. The same seed falls on the rocky soil, the beaten path, the thorn bushes, and the good soil; however, it only multiplies on the good soil.
Pastor Ed gave us a statement worth contemplating: What we think we are not holds us back. Satan comes to distract us and change our identity. He is subtle, so it is very important that we never dialogue with him. If we do, we allow lies to come into our hearts and distort the truth about ourselves. Scriptures says that the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. We water with living, good news. Satan, on the other hand, pulls us out of the will of God. The key to receive is hunger. We allow toxic neurons to flourish. Pastor Ed illustrated his point by wearing oversized pink rimmed glasses with green lens. We can have belief systems put on us and not even realize it. Like the glasses, they distort the truth about our identity. For example, a sponge stays soft when it is in water. Maybe we leave the sponge out of the water and let it dry out. We just need to submerge it again. It just needs the water of the Spirit. Then when we squeeze it, good things from the Spirit will flow out. The trap of the enemy is to cause us to be self-aware instead of Christ-aware. Romans 12:1 states that there is no condemnation in Christ. We develop a love relationship with our Poppa Father. In contrast, the spirit of religion squeezes life out of people. We just need to take authority in the name of Jesus.
John 8 tells the story of the woman caught in the act of adultery. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees who cast her at Jesus’ feet had a “get you” mentality. They were looking to accuse and condemn others. Words are like stones. One by one the leaders left as Jesus wrote on the sand. Jesus asked the woman, “Where are your accusers? Has no one condemned you?” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more.” Grace and Truth are one. Truth brings the light of the Gospel of hope. God gives us a choice, but He longs for us to choose Him.
Pastor Ed grew up in a shack in a very abusive home. His dad was full of anger and yelled and hit Ed. Satan planted lies in his heart, and he grew to hate his volatile father. The hatred led him to harden his heart; his heart grew murderous. When he was older and working on a farm, he even set out to murder his father, but he could not. Fear attacked him. Ed and his wife were in Niagara Falls, and Dr. Charles Stanley was preaching. When the altar call was given, Ed responded. He confessed Jesus as Lord and Savior. Immediately upon returning home, he noticed a change in his desires. He threw away his alcohol. It had been a trap. He found that he could not participate in some of the activities of the other friends on the construction work site.
Pastor Ed led us to add our names to the phrase from John 4: 7. It says, “as He (Christ) is so are we in this world.” Satan constantly tries to get us to offend others or to be offended. Offense builds up traps in our relationships. A wall develops between the offended and the offender. We can’t see it, but we can feel it. The trap of blocks is that it is a covenant destroyer.
In closing, he shared a true story about a beggar who was selling pencils on the street. A businessman purchased several pencils, but when we received his pencils, he spoke to the beggar with the affirmation, “You are a really successful man.” Three months later the businessman was attending a very formal event, and a businessman came up and introduced himself. The young man was the former beggar who heard the affirmative words and acted on them. Pastor
Ed said, “We need to put coat on and embrace the royalty we have in Christ. Whatever you are going through is a setup for a royal blessing.”
Before praying, he gave the following words and thoughts:
Anointed, Appointed, Called, Time of Recalibration, Reset, Reboot, No more delay to gifts and calling; Jesus Christ came to give abundant life, health, and wholeness and to restore marriages and relationships. We are worthy in Christ because of majesty.
Pastor Ed, his wife, and the young prayer members from his church prayed with individuals at the end of the meeting.
“Clean,” the last song the praise team sang, sums up the theme for today. We see our lives as shattered and broken, while He sees us whole and beautiful. He helps us to believe. We are washed in the blood of His sacrifice. His blood flowed red and made us white. He washed us clean. We give praise to our Redeemer as our hearts declare: “You are restoring me piece by piece. There is nothing so dirty that You can’t make worthy. You washed me in mercy. I am clean. What was dead now lives again. My heart is beating inside my chest. I am coming alive with joy and destiny because You are restoring me piece by piece.”
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