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- Dec 03, 10
Giving my life to full-time missions to see a generation awakened to the beauty of God. Prioritizing His presence above all.
I am back in the states after an AMAZING outreach in Cape Town, South Africa. For the next few months i will be traveling to the mainland (the United States). I will be in Knoxville, Tennessee in April, and back in Oklahoma in June. I am excited for Gods plans this summer! It is going to be an exciting season!
Im part of a community in YWAM Kona called Community Transformations (more info at www.commtransdts.com) The heart of this movement is to see lives transformed through the presence of God. As the Community Transformations family, we have a deep value for seeking to know Jesus and have the presence of God manifest in every part of our lives. In abiding in the vine (John 15) and being with Jesus (Acts 4:13), we see ourselves transformed and partner with Jesus to see the nations transformed.
From September 2011- April 2012 I will be staffing the Community Transformations Discipleship Training School. 100 students will be attending this school. I'm a part of a staff of about 20 that will help facilitate and lead this hungry bunch of students into radical obedience and desire for JESUS!
I am so excited for what God is doing, not just in YWAM, but all over the body of Christ! THis is truly a historic time to be alive!
"MORE FIRE ON YA"
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Steven Conant75-5851 Kuakini Hwy #174Kailua-Kona, Hi 96740EMAIL:
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- im excited to worship with the DEEPER crew tonight! THeres just something special about returning to the place where i find my roots in encounter, worship, and the presence #doitagainGOD!
- OOOOOOKLAHOMA
- Community is simple; the only complicated thing about it is the lack of it.
- Its my last day in Knoxville! It has been such an amazing month! I love this family and community! Now off to Nashville to hang with my bro! And then to Oklahoma on Saturday!!
- Just finished writing a bio for a youth conference in Denmark; writing about revival gets me STOKED! Come on Jesus! He's in the business of REVIVING hearts!!
- You took my soul and You breathed it to life I had no idea I was dead till that night When You reached down Your hand, told me no lies And I learned what it was to be loved by the Son
- I just had an encounter with the word of GOD
- Friends make the world go round- #skypeglory
- Happy Easter! Woke up this morning to an Easter basket from the amazing Ketterers! Now I'm watching cartoons with the little ones... Thank you Jesus for family! (I miss being a kid!)
- Rolling thunder, rain, the smell of freshly cut grass, and some folk tunes. Ohhhh how I've missed the south!!!
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- Edmond, OK, USA
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- Apr 23, 12
Hello friends and family! I am currently in Knoxville TN and I am so amazed at all God is doing in this city!
I came here on word of the Lord after I met the people of United Pursuit in Kona in October of 2011. They came to the YWAM base to lead worship. I immediately connected with the group through their desire for authentic community.
So here I am 6 months Later in Knoxville, doing life with these AMAZING people. I’ve been here about a Month. It has been a a restful month coming off of staffing community transformations DTS. This community is held together by passion of expression. Musicians ,artists ,photographers , businessmen, and mothers all find their place in this family. Expressing the gifts that God has given them in a variety of ways. This variety can be simplified to one word: WORSHIP . I’ve been so blessed to see the freedom within this community! I believe this family is carrying foundational keys for starting and sustaining community centered around Jesus.
As my time here is coming to an end,and cannot help but thank the Lord for letting me be a part of all He is doing here through these people! I know the friendships I’ve formed here will last much longer than my short stay.
Current wave: John 16
Friends. Community. Family
- Oct 23, 11
So Community Transformations DTS (www.commtransdts.com) is officially in FULL SWING . The school is now headed into its 4th week and I am so blown away by the amazing things God is doing! Here’s a couple testimonials/revs:
Week 1:
80 students arrive in Kona, hawaii HUNGRY to know Jesus. Some of them knew exactly what they were getting into, others didnt even know how they got on the plane, much less knew what was in store for this season. During the first week we saw MANY of the students commit their lives to Jesus. Radical commitments were made, they were ready to go anywhere and do ANYTHING for the sake of the Gospel. JESUS REVEALED HIS LOVE TO THE ENTIRE GROUP!
Week 3:
The speaker for the week was Jeff Reid (www.followthereids.com). Jeff carries an amazing authority when it comes to Life With Jesus. The everyday pursuit of advancing the Kingdom. The natural response to listening to such a message is falling more in love with Jesus. This happened. but in quite and un-conventional way. In thursday of the week, through the simple repentance of one girl, an explosion of joy and LIFE washed over the class. The result was a JOY-FILLED dance party leading to a group baptisms! We baptized about 60 people at the pier in downtown Kona.It was a glorious day!
The theme for our school is John 15. Abiding in the Vine. This is the Gospel. Christ made a way so that we live life through Him, not distant from him. I am learning to live in a way that reflects this. Leaning into Christ in all situations. and living FROM his love, and not FOR his love . Christ has LOVED us first. and we just RESPOND! this is GOOD NEWS!!! God is doing amazing things in my heart. and i am experiencing HIM on a whole new level! i pray that you experience God’s love today. it will change your life.. FOREVER
ABIDE.
- May 06, 11
it has been such an amazing time in Oklahoma! reconnecting with friends and family and hearing about all that God is doing around here! i am filled with so much faith, hearing testimony after testimony of the Lords goodness and faithfulness. I will be in OKlahoma for 2 months! the second month will be focused mainly on raising monthly support for what the Lord is calling me into. A lifestyle of missions and obedience through ywam and other various ministries. Im working right now to help bring vision and clarification as to excatly what i need and how people can partner with me! If you are interested in giving, please email me by clicking the “CONTACT” tab on the left side of the page! or if you would like more info about what I will be doing in this next season please send me a message and i will get back to you as soon as possible! thank you for the prayers and support!
JESUS. IS. ALIVE
- Apr 10, 11
A little over 4 weeks ago I embarked on a journey with my sister Lindy, that would take us across the globe to a small city in Mozambique called Pemba. This trip, from the beginning planning, to the final plane landing back in Kona, was a journey centered around hearing the voice of God, and leaning in on the faith and friendship that has been established with my saviour Jesus over these past years. Lindy and I left Kona, HI on March 9th and the following weekend we found ourselves in a church service in the middle of Africa witnessing the power of God through the simple words of a woman named Heidi Baker (http://www.irismin.org/).
Mozambique was trip that will forever have an impact on my life. Somewhere between seeing the simplicity of the gospel lived out in the most powerful ways, and playing in the dirt with children, my heart came alive! I can’t even begin to explain it. Literally, there arent words. It was a transaction that happened in the SPIRIT! Through Christ. While in Mozambique, we had the oppurtunity to go on bush outreaches. These little trips consisted of sharing the Jesus Film in a village, praying for the sick, and often seeing MANY lives transformed! MY own eyes were opened to the reality of HEAVEN invading EARTH!
We were on the ground in Mozambique for 2 weeks. It was 14 days that I will never forget and I am so grateful for the prayers and support that Lindy and I received through this whole process! I am back at the YWAM base in Kona, hawaii with a trip to OKLAHOMA on the itinerary. I will be heading home April 19th for 2 months. While home I will be focusing on connecting with friends family, and building even more friendship with those interested in partnering with me in what the Lord is doing through me in YWAM.
I am planning on comming back to Kona June 19th where i will be a part of a new school we will be running here on the base.
THE SCHOOL OF THE CIRCUIT RIDERS (http://fireandfragrance.com/locations/school-of-the-circuit-riders/)
It will be a 5 school with an optional outreach. It is open to ANYONE (regardless of YWAM affiliation) and I feel such a stirring in my spirit about the things God is going to do through this school! Check out that link for more info!!
be blessed!
current wave im riding: John 3
Beautiful. Transistion
- Feb 21, 11
today is a day to celebrate! i will call this birthday the best birthday ever becuase i am more in love with God then i ever have been. we are closer to his return then we were last year, and honestly, i feel so blessed right now, i dont know what to do with myself other than thank the Lord! On this day that some also call “presidents day” i choose to seek Gods face and give this day a new name.. “PRESENCE DAY” for today God’s mercys are new. He is still faithful, and He is jealous for my heart. Ever since i joined YWAM in 2009 my life has been radically transformed by the POWER of God’s Love! so Today i would like to honor the lord as the one who is truly responsible for this day of birth that we celebrate!
be blessed in all you do .
current wave im riding = Psalm 84
BEST. BIRTHDAY. EVER
- Jan 11, 11
this week is going great! God is doing something.. we are going somehwere we’ve never been. i believe this with my whole heart. the key.. leaning into HIM. well im going to go medidtate on that. seriously it’s key!
psalm 27
- God’s love isn’t based on human performance. His love came before humans could even perform.
HE. IS. COMMITTED. TO. ME
- Jan 04, 11
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Last night, January 3rd I arrived back in Kona, Hawaii after a 2 week Holiday break! I traveled back to Oklahoma for the Christmas season where my family was all together for the first time in 3 years! Because of Dts outreaches lindy and I had missed the past couple Christmas’s! It was a great time to rest and enjoy the community of family. During the break my family traveled to Kansas City and attended the Onething Conference hosted by the International House of Prayer – KC . It was an amazing time where 30,000 young people from all over the world gathered to confess and agree that Jesus is the answer! Jesus is the ONE THING that we chose! THERES POWER IN AGREEMENT! I could almost tangibly feel the shift in the atmosphere over the city, as a generation came into alignment with the Word of God, declaring we WILL love the Lord our God with all our, heart, soul, mind, and strength! It was indeed a powerful week! Leadership from IHOP-KC brought messages that stirred up hunger while the worship teams from IHOP lead the company to a glorious place of adoration during the worship times. I felt so blessed to be a part of the event! Thank you to all who prayed for the conference! The conference lasted through the night of New-year’s eve.
And now I am here, back in kona, Hawaii, ready for next wave of young people to flood this campus. Excitement and expectancy fills my spirit as i think about all the things HE has done in 2010 and all the things He WILL do in 2011.
THE REV:
This morning while seeking the Lord I was lead by the spirit into a time where i began confessing my hope in the Lord. My hope and dependance on HIS love, HIS way, HIS word. It got really intense really fast as the Lord began to speak back with revelation about my affection toward Him. I felt the Lord say “Steven, when you think you’re stuggling with things of the world, you’re not. You’re actually struggling to cultivate a deeper place of intimacy in me.” and as i began to process what He said to me, i realized that all the times i spent crying out to God about my struggles, it was never about the struggles themselves, it was actually about a lack of hunger, revelation and desire for intimacy with Jesus. If i am truely born-again. Then it is no longer i that live but Christ in me. the Hope of Glory (Gal 2:20) So here is my prayer now… “Lord i am hungry for wisdom and revelation about what it means when you spoke through Paul and said “CHRIST IN ME”. I am hungry to know what this looks like. Give me revelation Father of Glory of the relationship between you and your children” thank you God that your mercies are new everyday (Lam 3:23)
INTIMACY INTIMACY INTIMACY! God is so good us!!
NEW YEAR. NEW REVELATION. SAME GOD.
- Dec 07, 10
This past week was the 50th anniversary of YWAM. I believe it was a HISTORIC WEEK for the body of Christ. The theme of the week was “the flame goes forward”. Throughout the week i felt an urgency in my spirit! as the Older generation is ready and WILLING to pass on the torch, it is our job, as the arising generation ,to take it! we must fight for the mantle !! i feel this is so strategic to God’s plan all around the earth! To recieve and acknowledge the blessing from the older generation! Aligning ourselves with the past generation is key to seeing an outpouring like never before, God is doing something, but for my generation to declare its a NEW THING is inaccurate. the older generation has been pioneering for many years and even decades, just so we can walk out in the fullness. and for that. i thank you. parents, pastors, elders, thank you. now to my generation… are you ready to burn? are you ready to take the torch?
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
LET.IT.BURN
- Dec 02, 10
this week has been a HISTORIC week for YWAM. as thousands have gathered in Kona, Hawaii to thank God for the past 50 years, new DNA, strategy, and faith is being released all over this campus and company of lovers.
This week I have been a part of helping with sustaining the fire on the newly renovated Prayer Room on campus! For the 50th event, the Prayer Room staff felt an urgency to sustain night and day worship. creating an atmosphere where God’s presence is prioritized! The Prayer Room has become a catalyst where we can corporately come and agree with what God is doing in the the main sessions!
The morning session on December 1st was one of those times i will remember for the rest of my life. Joy Dawson, a keynote prophetic voice for YWAM, received a word of the Lord regarding the next season for YWAM. Because of illness, she was unable to make a personal appearence at the event, but i will tell you this, her authority was resounding through the enitre company through her word as Andy Byrd read/declared this epic message. Here are some inserts: TAKE THEM. EAT THEM. BE THEM.
entitled: OUR GREATEST GOAL, CHALLENGE, AND FULFILLMENT. “Being like Jesus”
Christ-likeness sure doesn’t happen overnight. it’s a metamorphosis as with a butterfly. It starts by being an unimpressive caterpillar hidden away in an even more unimpressive chrysalis. But in God’s perfect timing it emerges as a beautiful piece of God’s handiwork. As we release faith and thank Him that He is working in us, the Holy Spirit transforms us, and we discover we really are in the process of becoming more like Jesus. I’m so grateful for this refresher course and that He’s still working on me. The closer we get to Jesus, the more we realize how much more we need to be changed into His likeness.
“And we all with unveiled faces beholding the glory of the Lord are changed into His likeness from one degree of glory to another” 2 Corinthians 3:18
God sometimes offends the mind to test the heart!
“Jesus said, ‘I always do what pleases him.. (the Father) ” John 8:29
delayed obedience is disobedience. Partial obedience is disobedience.
presumption is one of the most prevalent sins.
we only speak with authority when we’ve chosen, in the fear of the Lord, to live as JEsus modeled for us. God is always faithful if we will trust Him to come through in His time table.
Jesus couldn’t tolerate hyprocrisy in any form and specially in spiritual leaders. Nothing made Him more angry. He showed holy hatred for it. What he taught, He lived, hypocrisy is giving an impression that we are something that we are not.
Is is not sufficient to know the truth when we teach the truth. We have to live the truth. And it’s only BEING the truth when teaching the truth that will cause God to release authority on our teaching that will cause others to live to receive and act upon the truth.
Do we honestly believe that God can live His life through us? Is it really our primary goal in life? Do we really believe and understand that the Holy Spirit’s main function in us it to reproduce the life of Christ through us? By our invitation, under the daily control of the Holy Spirit we can think His thoughts. We can Speak His words. We can love how he loves and what he loves. We can hate what He hates. We can act like He did. We can make His priorities our priorities.
We will never figure God out, so don’t wear yourself out trying. If we could, we’d know as much as He does. And we couldn’t worship Him like we do. We couldn’t get excited about Him like children. We couldn’t be in constant awe and wonder of His Being. And that would be boring. So let’s just decide to ask the Holy Spirit to keep molding us into the image of our lover, God.
-Joy Dawson
COME ON!
thats good stuff!!
praise God for voices such as Joy Dawson’s. Lord that you would raise up many more voice like hers that would speak with authority and truth!
- Nov 28, 10
my life.
a living sacrifice for a worthy King.
this week is the 50th Anniversary Celebration at the YWAM base in Kona, Hawaii. The hype and expectancy of this week has created an atmosphere of hunger in the hearts of many. I am expecting nothing less then a move of God that will once again commission people to GO. To give their lives for world missions, and see the task of the Great Commission fulfilled in this generation. We are expecting over 3000 people in attendance this week. Alumni, staff, students, and others who are coming here to give thanks to the Lord for what He has done through YWAM (Youth With A Mission) in the past 50 years, and also praise Him for the things He will do in the next 50 years.I am grateful for Loren Cunningham (founder of YWAM) and the sacrifices he has made. The dream the Lord gave him some 50 years ago still lives on to this day and will live on for generations to come.
This week will be a week of Jubilee. Community. and Glory to God.
o holy spirit. that you would rend the heavens.
your kingdom come, your will be done, on this earth as it is in Heaven
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