Hearts United Women's Ministry

KINGDOM BUILDERS CONFERENCE
Hearts United, September 14, 2024
Written by Barbara Castro

The Hearts United meeting opened with a beautiful Dance and Art presentation by Amanda Baily from Freedom Fellowship, Florence. The art she produced while dancing was of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

DEVON COKER – FATHERING A GENERATION
Pastor Devon Coker, “Pops”, led the speakers with “Fathering a Generation of Builders.” He stated that our culture is full of negative influencers “influencers” on social media but has few fathers as spiritual leaders. He said the Holy Spirit is saying it’s time to step up to fulfill God’s call on our lives as builders of the Kingdom. He wants leaders to create an atmosphere of love, acceptance, and security for young preachers to come back to after ministering in the streets. Devon listed the five stages of spiritual growth as: Dead, Infant, Child, Young Adult, Spiritual Parent. He wants the spiritual parent to forget about themselves and encourage maturity in their foster children by blessing them, saying often ” I am so proud of you”, and “God has anointed you for this task.”

Devon also challenged us at the end as seasoned and mature Christian’s to step up and not be afraid to be spiritual parents. He admonished us about competition and insecurity as being two main barriers to Christians being willing to be used by God in the Kingdom. 

DANNY BAILEY – BUILDING ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN
The next speaker was Pastor Danny Bailey from Freedom Fellowship, Florence. Pastor Danny who spoke on “Building According to the Pattern.” Pastor Danny said in the beginning that building started with us.  “I am the first board in the blueprint!” It starts with me. To build healthy builders He must first build in your life. He must put the Kingdom in you! Mark 1:16-18 is the Call. “As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.” God had to put it in them, to be fishers of men, to be Kingdom-minded.

Pastor Danny said we are to erase preconceived ideas of what we are building because rather than our vision, the Blueprint and Vision must come from God. He exhorted us to empty ourselves in surrender and give God the gift of a BLANK SLATE for God to create His vision. We are to remain teachable, formless, and obedient on The Potter’s Wheel indefinitely and keep building as Noah did for 75 years not knowing the outcome of building his Ark in a desert. Then in one moment everything made sense. He encouraged us to keep building and God will use our efforts to save humanity.

KYLE MYER – THE WARFARE BEHIND THE WORK
The third Pentecostal preacher to speak was Pastor Kyle Myer from Dominion Church, Florence. Pasto Kyle spoke on “The Warfare Behind the Work” began with Nehemiah and the building of the wall. He also said when referring to building, “not everyone wants to see the work begin or finish.” Learn what to say no to. He gave the example of the three men in Nehemiah and the wall. Sanballat was an enemy in secret, Tobiah represented the goodness of God (he was in the middle) and Geshem means “filthy storm.” He also talked about the significance of the ‘unsealed letter’ and how you must be careful where you get counsel. 

He demonstrated using a hammer to build in front of you and a sword to do warfare behind you. He stated that whenever you build there is dust and that our enemy Satan was cursed by God to crawl on his belly and eat dust. Man was made by God from the dust and Satan eats dust, so we are his natural prey. We must build with one hand and battle Satan with the other. Our hands are full with the hammer and the sword. But we must cry, “If God be for me who can be against me?” and build and battle simultaneously. Kyle told us Satan wants to distract us and call us away from the God’s work and we must be quick to say “NO!”

Pastor Kyle said building while battling requires persistence not power. We must stick to our mission and not become weary in doing good. Kyle said if the enemy can’t stop us, he’ll slander us which caused several pastors to call out “Amen!” He encouraged builders to allow the Holy Spirit to be our Counselor and not trust every voice but learn to discern your Judas and Jezebel. Judas will hang himself and Jezebel will be destroyed by her Jehu. Keep your eyes on God and stay persistent. He reminded us that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. He said UNITY can put 10,000 to flight. He said we are each to build our portion of the wall fighting for our homes, spouses and children while keeping our eyes on Jesus.

TJ GROOMS – KINGDOM COLLABORATION
The fourth speaker, Pastor TJ Grooms, from Unity Church, Alcolu, spoke on “Kingdom Collaboration” – A fish net that catches everything, cast your net to the other side. He quoted Matthew 9:37 “The harvest is plenteous, but the laborers are few.” He said the harvest is in the wilderness and wastelands, but we want to stay on our pretty islands. He said the homeless, hungry, and sick in the street need us, but we pass by them as people passed by the lame man in Jesus’ time at the Gate Beautiful. Jesus spent most of his time meeting needs, not going to church. He said Christians are complacent not connected, but we must collaborate to serve others as Jesus did. We want to be with people who look like us, but Jesus ordered the disciples to cast their nets on the other side and told them he would make them “fishers of men.”

We are to minister to the poor, broken- hearted and blind. He spoke how when fishing with nets you bring in all kinds of creatures and we are to save them all, then let God do the work in them. The different species have their own ministries, but the Foundation is Jesus. If we minister in the Spirit, the person we are ministering to hears in their own language as they did at Pentecost. Pastor TJ also said that in our catch of the various species God will send us angels unawares who will undergird us to get us to the next place. We need to ask for discernment to value the God moments.

DEXTER CHANDLER – WHAT WE ARE WORKING FOR
The fifth speaker was Pastor Dexter Chandler, from C.U.R.E. Church, Florence. Pastor Dexter spoke on “What We are Working For.” Pastor Dexter began with the scripture Matt 24:14, “The gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all nations, then the end shall come.” New nets are being released. Step out in faith. God will fill it up His way. He admonished us to cast our nets to the other side and be a church who goes to the fish and not stay on dry land. We can’t fish in the church! We need to go to the need, heal in the hospital, find the lost after dark. As End Time warriors we are already saved and have the authority to speak into existence “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” We need to be fully awake for opportunities to win souls, not sleeping till The Rapture. God transfuses us with the Blood of Jesus Transfusion and has sealed us for such a time as this. We are to submit to Jesus and do spiritual warfare on our knees as we are poured out for His use. A tsunami of souls is on the way! We are to speak with the voice of Kingdom Authority so that hell trembles! We are to step on fear, cancer, intimidation and make the enemy flee back to the abyss. We are to speak: THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND!!!

We need to be raising sons & daughters to build the end times – the Kingdom “end time move!” We must speak it. Heaven must invade earth, do a new thing. Unpack your bags for heaven and start building and working. Build His kingdom without borders. Quit being complacent, step out in faith. Be producers in the spirit, not the flesh! Start a revolution like Jesus did. “Kingdom Entrepreneurs” – Create Kingdom! The Apostle Paul found the Kingdom on the road to Damascus. WILL THE REAL ECCLESIA STAND UP AND GET TO WORK!