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Global Banner
Photo Project
Entries have begun to come in to our artistic and prophetic gallery. Our first is from Nubia Jenith Mazenett Caicedo, pictured here standing above the city of Bogota, Colombia.
She has called the photo "New Heavens and New Earth." It was taken by Deif Valbuena on Monserrate, a mountain that is the highest place in the city; from there you can see all of Bogota.
While there she prophesied that Bogota is a city that shall be free from every yoke, and that everyone will know and fill their heart with Christ.
Nubia says, "Today my nation, especially Bogota, is going through difficult times in the political, social and environmental, but I know God has a great and wonderful purpose, and will make Bogota a city with "new heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness."
(2 Peter 3:13)
YEEHAH! Thanks Nuria!
How can you participate? We are looking for creative photographic art that shows how banners can be used prophetically to shift atmospheres over people and nations around the world. To stimulate your creative juices, we will randomly draw a name out of every 20 participants who meet the criteria and give them a free banner of their choice. Click here to read all the details.
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OOOMB Banner
Give-away!
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This year we began a new banner give-away project. Each month we will randomly draw a name from our database of newsletter subscribers and give them a free banner of their choice.
Be sure to check every month to see if your name has been drawn.
This month's winner
of a free banner is
Franco Torres
of Puerto Rico
Franco, click here to claim your prize!
Redeemable until the end of July.
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Check it out ... Banner Videos on the Web
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Flames in Worship
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This video is by Grace Singh. She writes, "These flags are made with cheap voile material. The fire you see is the supernatural fire of God - you cannot buy it. It's the anointing you can see, the same fire like what was at the burning bush. Remember Moses saw the fire but the bush was not burning. He is the same God yesterday to day and forever."
Send us links to your videos so we can share them across the globe!
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Where David is going
to be in 2011
There are some dates where David is available to train around these 2011 events.
Contact us now to arrange a booking for your workshop, conference or worship event.
Sarnia, Canada
July 19-24
Workshop
Puerto Rico -July 26-30
ICDF Conference
Suriname - Aug. 4-6
Banner Conference
Spokane, Washington, USA
Sept. 20-25
Healing Rooms Conference
Jerusalem
All Nations Convocation
Sept 28- Oct. 12
&
Feast of Tabernacles Oct. 12-18
Perth, AUS
Commonwealth Heads of Gov't
Oct. 20-28
Switzerland
Nov.15-30
New South Wales, AUS
Dec. 5-23
Bookings have already begun for 2012. Contact us to arrange for David to come to your area!
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the use of banners
around the world?
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as a volunteer !
You can join with a great group of
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From David's Desk...
Greetings!
It's good to touch base with you again and be able to share more stories about what real people are doing with banners around the world.
I am preparing to travel to Canada, Puerto Rico, and Suriname over the next few weeks. The more I travel the more excited I get that God is indeed doing a new thing across the nations. This week we have also continuing planning for tours trips to Canada, the USA, Israel and Switzerland this year and two tours through Latin America in 2012. If you would like me or one of our OOOMB coaches to come to your region, please click here to let us know.
On the left you can see the first entry we have for the Global Banner Project from Nubia in Bogota, Colombia, making a declaration over her city. I was pleased to recieve such a powerful image and would encourage you to send us your artistic and prophetic images to go in our gallery.
We have also continued the series on Banners Outside the Christian Context to help ensure that what we are doing with banners in the Kingdom is done with understanding and discernment.
The biggest assignment I have agreed to take on thus far with banners was working with Peter Wagner in Santiago de Compestella in Spain, where 50 Spanish young people and 120 banners surrounded a plaza where a major worship and warfare event was taking place.
The next biggest will be in Perth in Western Australia towards the end of October this year. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) will bring together the leaders of over 50 countries. Christians from across these nations will be rallying in prayer and practical service during the event and the week leading up to it.
I will be leading a contingent of 80 strategic banner wielders during these events. If you are able to come, please consider joining us from the 20th through the 28th of October in Perth.
Mauritius is one of the nations whose leaders are coming to Australia for CHOGM. As a ministry OOOMB has committed to pray for these leaders in the run-up to CHOGM. You'll find some information about this below; please join with us over the next 90 days to pray for this nation and its leaders.
Finally, let me encourage you to continue to become who God has made you to be. I recently received a card with a little saying from Max Lucado that I found inspiring. I would like to pass it on to you for today, this week, this month, this year, this life!!!
"You do something no one else does, in a manner no one else does it. And when you do, when your uniqueness meets God's purpose, both of you will rejoice... forever."
Find it, stick with it, ...Rejoice!
David S
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Banners Outside the Christian Context
Banners in war
We continue our series on understanding banners outside the Christian context. We believe that as banner wielders in the Kingdom we need to worship and war both in spirit and in truth.
In ancient times, combatants in war used field signs on their clothing to mark the difference between them and their enemies as well as between them and civilians. To do this they wore various kinds of sashes, bows, badges and cockades. They also carried emblems on poles.
An example of an early field sign is the Roman Eagle Standard, a figure of a bronze or silver eagle with outstretched wings attached to a pole and carried by a legionary known as an Aquilifer. Each legion had its own standard. The Romans considered it a point of honor to preserve their standards, and a wounded or dying standard bearer would make every effort to deliver his standard into the hands of the general from whom he had received it.
The Assyrians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Romans, as well as armies in Asia, used military ensigns. These early flag-like field signs were suspended from a crossbar instead of a pole. 
During the Iron Age flags came into use as field signs and became common during the Middle Ages, when the colors and coat of arms of a lord would be displayed on tabards, shields and flags. 
Foot soldiers in Japan would carry an ensign known as a sashimono. In the photo at right you can see the flag attached to the soldier's armour. Today most nations use their national flags as war flags, though there are some who have special variations for use by their military forces, such as the one below, a Chinese War flag. 
Our war is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
It's important for us to be as clear as possible in what we do in using banners in a Kingdom context. It is important to know the background of banners in warfaer. However, it is of greatest importabce to take the time to let Holy Spirit show you what His plans are for you in the realm of spiritual warfare.
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Praying for Mauritius The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is a biennial summit of the heads of government from all of the fifty four Commonwealth nations. Held every two years in a different member state, this year it is being held in Perth, Australia. David is taking a central role in taking banners for the first time to the Christian Assembly held before the event and also to the streets in the lead up and during CHOGM itself. He has a vision to line the the entry for the national leaders to some of the major CHOGM meetings. David will be leading a contingent of 80 strategic banner wielders during these events. If you are able to come, please consider joining us from the 20th through the 28th of October in Perth. Out of Our Minds Banners has elected to pray for Mauritius as a nation in the run-up to CHOGM. Please join us as we pray for this nation.
Mauritius is a tropical island nation located off the southeast coast of Africa, about 900 km (560 mi.) east of Madagascar. The first people to set foot on Mauritius were Arab sailors and merchants who named several small islands off the coast.
The first European visitors were Portuguese explorers who found no indigenous people living on the island, but it was the Dutch who were the first settlers to come in 1598, naming it after Prince Maurice of Nassau. They introduced sugar cane, which became a major agricultural commodity.
 After the Dutch left in 1710 Mauritius came under French colonial rule with French planters establishing sugarcane estates supported by the labor of slaves imported from Africa.
The British captured Mauritius in 1810, giving up sovereignty when Mauritius became independent in 1968. Mauritius is a democracy with government elections held every five years. It remains part of the British Commonwealth and its leaders participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
The British abolished slavery but brought in nearly half a million indentured workers from the Indian subcontinent to work on the sugar estates. Hindus now make up over half the population; of the balance sixteen percent are Muslims, 28 percent are Roman Catholics and other Christians make up about 9 percent.
Mauritius is known as the home of the dodo bird, which cannot fly, and became extinct less than eighty years after the initial European colonisation.
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