Treasure Hunt: Double Treasure

This video chronicles the last treasure at our November 2012 conference. We learned many lessons on this hunt plus had the amazing opportunity to pray for a person twice in two different locations!

Future of Worship

Most of my church experiences have been superficial in that they were mostly acquainted with a "feeling" or an attempt to get something from God by my praise and worship, rather than the simple joy of being in His presence for fellowship and His pleasure. My experiences were also diminished because there was never a tangible place or symbol of His presence, just people and pulpits or stages that were the centerpiece of my attention during worship...We have gone from the priests being the only ones who understood the liturgy to black stages with colored strobe lights and smoke, from quiet non-participatory services to lively energetic services that are governed by the countdown clock. We have gone from the Lord's house to houses of worship, places of refuge to places people refuse to come to any longer. We still are divided on the activity of Holy Spirit in the body of Christ...and all of these divisions divert from the PURPOSE OF OUR CORPORATE GATHERINGS TO--WORSHIP THE FATHER IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, FOR THE FATHER IS SEEKING SUCH TO WORSHIP HIM. Nathan Byrd

The Lord was quite clear when we started the Furnace that the emphasis was worship of Him for however long He wanted and 1 Cor. 14:23. Sometimes we go and He wrecks us with His presence, angels, signs, and wonders. And we are like little children playing in His love. Other times, we have a teaching or prophesy to one another or someone brings a song. But there is no clock. There is no human agenda. We simply hunger for Him. That is why He shows up in our hidden room in the back of a building. He found us who are desperate for Him and that is the people He is seeking. There is coming a future wave that will change the face of the church and how we worship and why we gather. It will challenge everything we believe and some will adjust to His ways and others simply won't know how to be willing to. The question every leader, worshiper, and believer must ask is are we willing to shift our entire way of "doing church" so we can have His manifest presence.

Song in War

The Furnace MP3: Song in War

In this strategic teaching, you will learn that every season of warfare has a musical strategy from God! What is the sound He is releasing over your life? Listen to this MP3 and then seek the Lord for that sound! Click link below.

Song in War

September Conference Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt Part 1

Treasure Hunt Part 2


This treasure hunt was the most amazing and special of any I have been on. I highly recommend watching these videos to see God's amazing love, focus, and intention on revealing His love to all!

Broken Foot Healed & More!

In this video, I share my testimony of my broken foot being supernaturally healed and the correlation between two prophetic words I received when prayed for. I also share a couple of testimonies from The Furnace as well as info on the upcoming conference season & Worship and Prophecy School. Don't miss this "must see" video!

Soaking Prayer by Wendy Backlund

Soaking Prayer

I am passionate about encouraging people to add "soaking prayer" to their pursuit of God.

Soaking prayer adds a new dimension to our relationship with the Father. It is not about talking to Him, but about listening, and experiencing Him. Soaking prayer is based on a belief system that God is supernatural and wishes to relate to His children in supernatural ways. Soaking prayer is about receiving supernatural impartation, revelation and visions.

This is not a time for correction from the Holy Spirit. It is a time of intimacy. Come by the blood of the Lamb, knowing that He can talk to you later about issues needing to be taken care of. He desires a time to love on us and strengthen us with His Presence. Human relationships need this also, where we get together just to have fun and fellowship. Problems or issues are shelved for later, at the appropriate time. 

The goal is to get over our addiction to words and allow God to speak to us, "Spirit to spirit."

There should be no striving or begging for Him to come. By faith believe that as you sit in His presence, He is there. Receive - just like you do at the gas pump (filling up on an unseen substance that is valuable). Whether you "see or hear" something is not necessarily important, but by faith believe that you "soaked" up the substance of His Glory.

Our bodies are like the anointed handkerchief in Acts 19 that healed people. We soak-up His substance and it permeates our physical body.

I recommend worship as a gateway into His presence. As you worship, feel free to use your sanctified imagination to picture the throne room, heaven and the unseen realm. Allow yourself to "go with" any vision or thought that is from the unseen realm of God's Kingdom.

Hab. 2:1 "I will watch and 'see' what the Lord will 'say.'" Unconsciously we limit God from speaking to us because we are straining to hear words. Habakkuk understood that God wasn't limited to speaking with language.

I believe that sitting quietly is key for building a relationship with God. In the stillness of our soul, His presence speaks. While we are waiting for Him to speak to our mind, He is waiting for an opportunity to speak to our heart. 

Often I have to verbally take my thoughts captive unto Christ and actively receive the substance of His presence and peace to flow through my soul and spirit. Experiencing peace, not having Him tell me is what peace is. It is in this place of rest that my spirit receives revelation rather than information.

To grow into maturity, we must know God the Father more intimately. Our highest call is to not teach about God but to reveal Him.

Unless we experience and soak up His presence our relationship becomes cerebral rather than actual. We know about it, but we can't live in it.

Beholding the Presence by Bill Johnson

BEHOLDING THE PRESENCE

      by Bill Johnson

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"I will bless the Lord who has given me counsel. My heart also instructs me in night seasons. I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. You will show me the path of life. In Your presence is fullness of joy. At your right hand are pleasures forevermore."

                                                                                                Psalm 16:7-8, 11

            "For David says concerning Him, 'I foresaw the Lord always before my face.'"
                                                                                                            Acts 2:25

David is saying, "I set the Lord before me." How did David do this? He set the Lord before him by recognizing His presence. We can do the same as we learn to adjust our hearts until we realize, "He's here." The ongoing realization of the presence of the Lord—the awareness of God being in us, upon us, and with us—is one of the most vital elements to the Christian life.

David became the great leader over Israel by leading them into prosperity, blessing and their greatest military victories. They finally received all the land that was promised to them, all those years from Joshua onward. David came and brought them into their inheritance. David was a great leader because he was the greatest of worshippers and the greatest of warriors. David wasn't even a Levite, but he was the ultimate priest. I believe he was so effective because of this principle. I have sought to pursue this principle every day in my own life. I set God before me by becoming aware of the presence of the Lord who is with me.

Our confidence levels skyrocket when the presence of the Lord becomes manifested to us. The clearer the manifestation of His presence, the greater the dimension of faith. To live by the theory of His presence is wrong. To say, "Well, I know He's always with me" is not good enough. That truth must launch us into an experience, or we're violating the truth. Truth is given as an invitation for divine encounter so that we would know by experience that God is upon us and God is with us.

David's entire life as a warrior and a priest was focused on this one thing: to daily take time before Him until we can see Him. Since we can't imagine a place where He isn't, we might as well imagine Him with us. The imagination is a tool that God uses to express Himself in and through us. The imagination is to be harnessed and yielded to the Lord so that in the process of yielding it becomes sanctified, and the sanctified imagination is positioned to perceive Him. The Bible goes so far as to say, "Having our senses trained to discern good and evil." Through this process of training our senses, we become able to recognize the presence of the Lord. David gives us this key, the absolute heartbeat of his life, as if he is telling us, "This is how I made it. Every day I beheld Him with me."

I feel that David's experience is a summons to the same privilege and responsibility to turn our awareness towards His presence, and in doing so, we invite the increase of that manifestation. As a result, when we behold the Lord, we have far greater success and far greater joy by ministering not out of principles but out of His presence.

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