News from Out of Our Minds Banners

Raising the Standard

March/April 2014

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We have a wonderful mix of people coming on the tour.

Don't miss out!

If you have a heart for First Nations people this tour is for you.

We have an awesome combination of Spirit-filled Australian Aboriginal leaders joining us on this tour. It will be unforgettable!

See the video below to get an overview of the tour.

This tour is guaranteed to change you!

David Stanfield's Irreligous Tour of Israel

David Stanfield's Irreligious Tour of Israel

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David's Blog... and the Terror!

I Took a Wander into the Valley of the Shadow of Fear This Morning

Two days before I left on the exhilarating journey of obedience outlined to the right of this column, I awoke in a state of concern.

I watched my mind shoot off down a rabbit-hole of fear, so I decided to follow it and learn about the valley of the shadow of fear that so often stops us from stepping into our destiny by radically obeying the Lord.

Here is what I wrote that morning:

I'm grappling with fear again today.

Oh, most Christians would not call it "fear." They would say I was being reasonable. They would pat me on the head and say,

"It's normal to be concerned."

"It's good to think it all through."

"It's good to prepare for every contingency."

"It's wise to plan for the best but expect the worst."

They would try to comfort me with denial, with a false comfort, with another layer of the deception of the religious structure.

The structure would have us believe anxiety and worry is the normal state of man. We're easier to mold and manipulate if we're afraid!

They comfort us in our anxiety; they shoe-horn us into a perpetual state of doubt.

"Yep slip it on, it's a comfortable fit!! It looks good on you, does it feel good? Let me see you walk in it," they say.

But Lord...I am grappling with FEAR.

When You said go to the Pacific Region, I didn't think it would look like this. The trip is taking a few days longer to get it done ... It's costing a lot more than I expected.

Well Lord, I actually didn't think about it at the time. I just heard Your instructions: "Go, and set my people free," and I was excited!

But now, I'm going...

...and there is no ministry opportunity planned.

...no meetings, no workshops

...not even a banner in sight.

This will be the first time in 13 years I'm leaving Australia without banners.

It's just empty space...unknowns...LOTS of unknowns.

I just didn't think it would look like this...

BUT I"M THINKING ABOUT IT NOW!

What if...

no one turns up?

we miss each other?

if they don't hear from you?

What if...

I look a fool.

I will FEEL a fool...

It will mean I didn't hear from you.

It will mean I don't hear from you.

It will mean I'm an idiot with an overactive imagination

...and no discernment.

What will others say?

What will they NOT say?

And now I've roped Carol into it too!! How awkward it will be, sitting there with her and no one appearing.

This was not such a good idea after all...

I'm not going to enjoy it now.

I'll do it, 'cause I paid for the tickets and I have to.

...What a waste!!!

We can't do the rest of the region anyway! We have no time.

And there is so much more I could have done had I stayed home: printed banners, the Boxes book, the retreat and workshop with Claudia, getting ready for Claudia's visit, the trips to Israel.

...And I could have saved the money or used it on so many other things.

What was I THINKING??? It is not a logical thing to be doing this.

How can God use me ever again?

How can He trust me if I even doubt it when He speaks to me?

IF He speaks to me...?

Why would anyone want to support me?

This one trip will prove I'm useless, unreliable, and don't hear from you.

I'll go, but I'll lower my expectations so that I'm not disappointed

...so I don't disappoint the others or You.

I'll feel guilty the whole time so that I can agree with them when they question the wisdom of going.

This sounds like it should be a fun trip!!!

Bring every thought captive...

To Jesus!

Meet the OOOMB team

Nikki Phillips, United States

Hello, I am Nikki and I'm based in North Carolina in the USA. I met David at a conference in 2004. I had never seen banners before and was totally blown away by their beauty and the anointing for worship that they carried.

At that time I signed up to become a intercessor and volunteered to help David edit his book on wielding banners. Fast forward a couple of years and I became the intercessor coordinator for OOOMB, produced the prayer guide with David each week and eventually became the newsletter editor.

As OOOMB has expanded my role has also, working on publicity for international conferences and sometimes attending them as well.

One of my most precious memories is that of standing in a meadow in Switzerland on Pentecost morning, worshiping with banners in a large group of people from many nations. God has truly given me opportunities beyond anything that I could ever have dreamed of!

We have restructured again in the last few months, with the prayer guide and intercessor coordination handed over to Bedie Post, whom you will meet later, so that I can help David with publication of his teachings.

David's ministry encompasses so much more than using banners. He has a great deal of wisdom and insight into changing the modern church back from the hierarchical Constantinian model into the church that Jesus wanted from the beginning. These insights need to be made available to believers. Currently we are working on ideas for blogging and a series of books and booklets to get these teachings out.

My passion is to see people set free from the hindrances that hold them back from achieving their destiny in God, to see them loosed to do the works that Jesus said we would do - heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers and cast out demons!

If only we could all realize what a grand adventure awaits when we throw ourselves wholly into absolutely believing what the Lord has called us to do, and knowing that we really do have the ability and authority that we possess in Him to make it happen!

David's 2014 Itinerary

March 31- April 9

Aglow Israel Tour

May 26-28

Aglow Australia South Pacific Conference

Caloundra, Australia

September 19-22

St. Maurice Worship Celebration

St. Maurice, Switzerland

September 24 - October 12

David's Irreligious Tour of Israel

Currently booking events for 2014!

Contact us today to reserve your dates. David is available to speak, support worship, facilitate meetings and lead workshops.

Dynamic worship and intercession with banners at your event, both inside and outside
Basic banner training
Advanced banner training
Leadership training
Facilitation to help your organization go to the next level
How to Hear from God
Men and Banners
Leading People to Freedom
Jesus Wants His Church Back!

Available dates:

April 23 - May 20
June 1 - 27
July 15 - September 2
October 27 - November 9

Click here to find more information.

Help us to spread the message of personal freedom and changing the atmosphere over nations!

Click here to find out how you can support David and his team.

From David's Desk...

Greetings!

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As we journey through life seeking to be totally available and radically obedient we will all come to points where we are taken to an entirely new level. We should not stay still. When we have been faithful with little.....

I have recently been "invited" to a whole new level, but I have not been free to share it with you until now.

In this month's newsletter I would like to share a story that has developed over the last six months, where my availability and obedience were tested

The story below tracks the ups and downs of this journey.

Within modern Christendom it is very tempting to only share the "ups" but, in my experience, where there is a mountain there has almost always been a valley.

I have tried to concisely share the exhilaration (and terror ) that comes from total availability and radical obedience. We need to manage the terror in order to experience the exhilaration.

One of the end products of this journey is that I will be participating in an Aglow event from May 26-29, 2014. I encourage you to attend if you can - particularly if you live in South Pacific region.

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Later, in September, I am also leading a unique tour

of Israel where we will be exploring The Land with some input from some amazing indigenous Australian leaders. This could be YOUR time! Check out the links and videos in the column to the left!

And in response to the great interest in the January special of a FREE POLE WITH EVERY BANNER ORDERED we are offering it again until the end April.

I trust my story encourages you on your journey into YOUR destiny - a journey which I am convinced can only be achieved through total availability and radical obedience.

God will not ask you to do something you can't.

What's the last thing he asked you to do?

In His grip,

David S

The Exhilaration of Obedience...

Over the last few years I have connected with Aglow International Australia in a support role. My assignment is to help Aglow walk more fully in their destiny.

Sitting in the Aglow International Conference in Orlando last September, I believe God gave me a strategy to accelerate the impact of Aglow into every one of the 23 nations in our South Pacific Region, seventeen of which currently have no contact with Aglow .

The strategy was simple. It involved a couple of us traveling to each nation, listening to the Lord and going to where He told us to go. We were then to sit 'by the well', as it were, for the Lord to send along the woman who is to be the contact for that nation.

I shared the vision with the National President and went through the correct protocols and the first trip was approved.

The Solomon Islands

An Aglow president from Sydney joined me on the initial trip. We arrived in Solomon Islands on the 4th of January. It was a Sunday and we saw many dressed as if they were going to or coming from church.

We asked the Lord where to sit and followed His lead. We sat in a small food court for a couple of hours and then the hotel foyer but no one approached us. I was beginning to feel that my fears were becoming reality (See "David's Blog... and the Terror" in the column to the left.) It was a little disturbing, but not as scary as I thought it would be!

Mr Wycliffe prayed for us
as we waited!

The next day the markets were open and we felt we were to go there to sit. Many people passed and smiled. One man called Wycliffe even came over to us, asked what we were doing and asked if he could pray for us.

But there was no woman... no contact.

I was disheartened, and we left for Vanuatu the next day.

Vanuatu

Upon arrival we felt to go to the food market straight away. There were no easy places for anyone to sit, so we felt we should walk on to the handicraft market.

Estella in her Craft Market Stall.

Within an hour of landing we were engaged in conversation with Estella, a vendor who had asked why we were in Vanuatu. When she heard our story she left the stall, asking us to wait.

She went to a stall about five meters away and brought back a woman, introducing her to us as Gloria, whom she thought we needed to connect with.

Gloria came to meet us

and we shared excitedly for hours!

Both women were involved with the Melanesian Prayer Network, 'Women Arise.' The network includes people from the five nations of Melanesia: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and New Caledonia.

We spoke with them for over an hour. Everything they spoke about confirmed we had found the women we had come looking for. The themes, their passion, their hearts cry - all resounded with the same heart as Aglow. We left this conversation with an arrangement to meet the next morning with Eileen Boe, the Intercessory Prayer Leader of Women Arise.

Heavenly connection with Gloria and Eileen in the lobby of the hotel!

The next day we spoke for over three hours with Eileen and Gloria. We discovered more and more connections. They had been praying for two years for better connections with their "big brother" nations of Australia and New Zealand.

It could not have been a more perfect fit. It just about blew our minds.

Then the Lord went further. It turned out Eileen and I had been together at a very significant celebration on another Island in Vanuatu seven years earlier. It was the 400th year anniversary of the declaration by Pedro Fernandez de Quiros of "The Great South Lands of the Holy Spirit."

I asked if she remembered a man who had repented in Spanish for the damage done 400 year earlier. Eileen did remember. When I told them, "That was me," they were excited!

We also spoke about the banners and Eileen said they had been wanting to find the banner person for seven years to ask him to come and train them in the use of banners. They were even more excited! .

You can see these three dynamic women in this short video.

Aglow Connecting to Vanuatu and Melanesia

Please come and meet the ladies and hundreds of others at "His Presence, Our Passion, Kingdom Purpose: A Conference for the South Pacific in Caloundra, Queensland from the 26th to the 28th of May this year.

Hosted by Aglow, this conference will change the way you look at yourself and your destiny. We will be there- and we would LOVE you to join us!

In the last hour before we left Vanuatu I had another special touch from the Lord. I had given up a career in community development to step into full time ministry. My specialty had been tropical agriculture in this part of the world.

Just before we headed off to the airport I was able to spend a while with some ladies at the markets sharing some ideas on how they could make their tropical cut flower businesses more successful. We then prayed together for their businesses and their families - and I caught a cab to the airport . It was a simple delight and a joy for me.

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