Testimonies and photos
Photos, messages of thanks and encouragement and a few testimonies, from our Autumn Cornwall Kingdom Gathering with Steve Backlund from Bethel, Redding, CA.
Thanks so much for organising for Steve Backlund to come and speak - an excellent message, interspersed with wonderful humour! (KT)
What a really lovely conference with Steve Backlund! My only complaint is that it was all over too quickly and I didn’t want to come home! I came back feeling so encouraged and spent last night making a start on my 100 declarations and got to 50 with ease – it was fun, and what a great tool for transforming the mind! I’m excited to see what a difference it’s going to make. No limits (MR)
Thank you so much for all of your hard work in putting on this event. I was very blessed and will practice some of Steve's exhortations. (CA)
It was very professionally done and I found it very inspiring. The worship was great and I liked Steve's style of talking to us all. Thank you and I look forward to more gatherings like this. (FF)
The conference was great. Thanks so much for organising it. (AM)
Thank you for the Steve Backlund event it was really encouraging (MR)
Loved the event last week (PG)
Thank you for hosting such an excellent time this week. The 2 days provided opportunities for meeting friends and making new friends. Perfect. Thank you for leading the worship with such sensitivity and yet taking steps into new ways of worship. It was so good to move into the heavenly realm during the worship. Feel free to go off-piste any time! We are all in it together. Experiment and explore. (CW)
Thanks for the event, it was great. (CW)
Thank you so much for the amazing time we had hearing Steve Backlund speak. My husband and I had a wonderful time. And I had a personal breakthrough on Saturday. God broke a stronghold in my life that I had struggled with for years which had sent me into a cycle of exhaustion. Not any more.
Praise God for all you did in hosting and everything leading up to the event. We are both so encouraged. (KW)
Thank you so much for hosting such a wonderful conference. It really was a privilege to be a part, thank you again! (EP)
FANTASTIC meeting – sadly was only able to make the Tuesday evening but I have passed on some of the information & books that I bought, to a couple of friends and THEY have had breakthrough in their relationships! HAD THE MOST AWESOME TIME that totally prepared me for what was coming!!!! Love, hugs, laughter & MASSIVE blessings to you (JB)
I really enjoyed it. (GP)
Thank you for organising the Steve Backlund event at Kingsley village. It was such a blessing and an open channel that allowed God to speak and move freely. God bless you and all involved in the organisation. (CB)
Steve Backlund was amazing and such a humble man; thank you for inviting him. (SH)
Thank you so much for such an incredible couple of days. What an honour and privilege it has been to join with you to see God's kingdom come in us and in Cornwall and beyond. It has been a pure joy and pleasure being with you all. (SG)
At last we've managed to get to an Open Heaven event and what a cracking time we've had! Thanks for all your hard work. Amazing team too! Worship was fab and deep! Can't fault it, except it wasn't long enough!!! (GT)
Thanks so much - so blessed by your dream! (MT)
I am glad I was in your dream, Yvette. Thanks again for hosting such a marvellous time, and thanks for your heart to bless your region and be a blessing to us here at Bethel. (SB)
Felt very privileged to have been a part of your dream too....it was an awesome couple of days...and there is sooo much more to come. Well done and thank you all. Through the laughter God began a real deep healing work. It's a new day….a new exciting chapter. Thank you. (CS)
You did so well in hosting this and pursuing the dream. I agree that it's another seed of things to come that will continue to open and change a whole region and beyond! (AL)
Was a great time and learned loads from the couple of days and am still laughing!! (AB)
Thanks. It was a wonderful event. Very exciting for the county. I feel a load of gratitude to you both for pushing ahead with your dream in the face of - well I don't know what, but I'm confident there's been opposition. Bless you both. And keep going! (AE)
Just got home from a really brilliant and significant conference with Steve Backlund and team, hosted with excellence by Jeremy & Yvette Britton. Thanks too to Roy & Sarah Maguire and all those who served so well to make it a ground-breaking conference for Cornwall. A deposit of things to come! (AL))
It was indeed brilliant! Thank you to all those who worked so hard, and to Steve Backlund for a great message! :o) (SR)
A Truly Awesome Time...in His Presence and with each other....Life Changing...through release from previous preconceived mind sets...deliverance and healing; massive encouragement....JOY and equipping.....A massive THANK YOU to you both....Jeremy and Yvette and to all that worked so hard to organise such an event xxxxx (LG)
The end of significant couple of days in Kernow today! Bless you guys massively for making this happen! (TD)
Great evening meeting, very powerful worship and I never laughed so much ever in church! (JM)
My testimony would be coming away from the meeting with a renewed sense of hope and freedom and joy. I felt there was also something happening in the spiritual realm as we gathered together from different churches, advancing the kingdom.
Thank you so much again for going for it. (LR)
My Dad who has been in church all his life and is in his 80's, came at very short notice. He had always been curious about more charismatic/modern meetings and had wanted to attend one, and this was his first in all those years! He did enjoy it and despite his painful leg and left foot which is now half dead he stood for the hour of worship time and even clapped along! He is very knowledgeable and has studied and searched in his journey of faith. And Steve he thought, had some very "pithy" ways of putting the message across with great joy. So this was quite something.
My Dad felt he didn't want to go forward for prayer for his leg and foot, it being quite an exposed and public situation so I do ask if you would hold him in your prayers because all of this is quite remarkable, and caused us to go for a coffee after and discuss and for him to give one of Steve’s books to my daughter, which in turn I pray will create a domino effect. So there you have a brief version of a testimony!
Thank you for all the efforts gone into creating and making this happen! (DR)
Thank you so much for hosting the Steve Backlund conference. What an absolute treat to have such an anointed and famous leader as far down as this! There was no hanging around for, or working up to the Open Heaven atmosphere! It was immediate and a joy to be part of. I was really blessed by the prophetic word given by Sarah Maguire at the beginning about the limpets and the little crabs. It was a real encouragement and summed up the whole 2-day encounter and beyond. Needless to say, Steve's message was belief transforming and my thinking has certainly changed. It is though a light has been turned on to spotlight wrong thoughts and beliefs. It was lovely to hear being unrealistically optimistic is legal! I have known about the importance of declaring but am now doing it!!! (SE)
Prophetic Words
There's a painting in Truro Cathedral of a map of Cornwall with all the parish churches lit up. God's overlaying it with another map...the whole county is on fire with all the other small group fires that are burning and are going to burn! Boom! (GT)
On Tuesday morning (the day of the conference) I was reading my bible sitting in my bedroom window and could see a glorious sunrise taking place. I kept glancing up from my bible to watch this huge, orange, glowing ball rise up from behind a headland. It was stunning, with St Michael's Mount castle in silhouette and the colour of the sunrise spreading over the bay.
Every time I looked back down at my bible I had a dozen orange globes dancing before my eyes and over the pages, illuminating different words. It became something of a game in my quiet time with Papa, looking at the sunrise and then watching the globes dance over the pages (very bad for your eyes – don't try this at home!).
I was excited about the conference later that day and I gradually became aware of God speaking to me about it through this experience with the sunrise. Here in full is what I felt God gave me:
- He wants to encourage us that, whatever our circumstances, it's a new day, a new season that we're entering into and the 'Sun (Son) of righteousness is rising with healing in his wings,' Malachi 4:2
- He also wanted to encourage us that, as we spent time at the conference seeking his face and gazing at its radiance, then as we leave, we'll still have that image before our eyes to take back into our homes, places of work and communities.
- Finally I felt he specifically wanted to bring breakthrough for those who struggle in reading his word. If it's currently something that's dull and lifeless for you, then he wants to illuminate it for you and light up the pages as we read it. (MR)
Ruth Fitzpatrick and Bethel students at Fraddon Village Hall
January 2014
176 Believers gathered at Fraddon Village Hall on Saturday 11th January at a “Kingdom Gathering” with Ruth Fitzpatrick from Bethel Church, Redding California and a team of students from BSSM (Bethel Supernatural School of Ministry) hosted by Open Heaven. Believers came from many different churches from all across the county and beyond its borders, hungry to hear what God is doing and to be encouraged for what He is still to do. Feedback from the event has been that all who attended were blessed in their faith, some were healed, all were encouraged and excited about what God is doing and is yet to do in Cornwall! Truly God is on the move in the earth!
Here are some of the details we have received from those who attended.
Testimonies
· “Me and my friend felt really ignited during the day.”
· “Great event on Saturday; I feel re-energised and inspired by meeting with God. I particularly responded to the teaching, it was spot on, and reflected again at my local church on Sunday”
· “THANK YOU SO MUCH for facilitating Ruth & team last Saturday. I personally was ‘springing' when Holy Spirit came. That was a new one on me but was very meaningful especially when we sang the last song. It’s Springtime again.”
· “Really enjoyed the day with you...greatly blessed...by everything. Especially appreciated was the care/welcome/prayer both on the way in and on the way out!”
· “During the worship I had picture linked to words from Isaiah 6.... and His train filled the temple. The picture was of the train of the Lord Jesus and we were dancing upon it...it was like a river...as we danced and worshipped on His train.”
· “Several (of the team) were so helpful with their words, many of us would like to receive more training with them more often”
· “Special day we had with Ruth, the team and all the wonderful Open Heaven folk....it was such a prophetic day it was coming at me in every direction. I was truly blessed, receiving confirmation on some recent decision. I came expectant and I was not disappointed. I came along with my friend who could not believe the words I was being given. Life has been full on since Saturday and I feel really well and full of energy....went I got home and just before the end of the session I was completely drained. Like a car battery. I came home, climbed into bed as I needed to process and almost stay in the place of peace. I needed to hold everything and didn't want to talk with anyone. I was just in a state of total thanks. Thank you so much for organising the event and I really hope I can get to more of your meetings. I feel bursting with something, so exciting and very big but I don't know yet how it will manifest!“
· “Thank you for the weekend! What came out of the meeting is just so awesome. Before we left, a couple of ladies from my church prayed for me over an issue at church, a word I was given from them said "I had a voice and I had to use it" just moments later I was going to go though the fire tunnel. I was so fearful, the first lady there pulled me aside & said "I had a voice & I had to use it". She did not know me or had no idea what was said moments before. Amazing. Church yesterday things were sorted but God saw the bigger picture. Just amazing”.
· “Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into yesterday, you will never know how much it is appreciated by so many.”
· “Just wanted to say thank you again so much for this weekend - what an amazing time! Don't think any of us will ever be the same again”
· “I heard a throng/chorus of angels whilst Jamie was singing towards the end of the meeting today. What a glorious time!”
· “Words cannot express what my heart and soul feel...my gratitude is deep and I will stand stronger, far stronger, far more joy filled than ever...for our loving caring Papa. Thank you for you absolute obedience....it is such a gracious pleasure meeting you and all the other saints.”
Healings
· “The pain was much less from my Rheumatoid Arthritis and I undid that bottle which I couldn't do before. I came home feeling so, so filled with God's love, so full of joy and very little pain! Just like Ruth's diagram I was so filled up with God's love there just wasn't room for anything else, sickness, fear, depression. All I wanted to do was dance, I even danced with my earphones in at 5am the next morning in my living room while everyone else was asleep in the house. I danced for days“
· Significant reduction of pain and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
· A sporting injury which left a foot unable to be moved was instantly healed.
· Three healings of back pain were testified to.
· A gentleman who couldn’t lift his arm above shoulder height suddenly found he had complete movement restored.
· A lady with a very long-standing verruca found herself able to stand on tiptoes for the first time in 38 years – something she had been totally unable to do!
· We think there were several other healings but don’t have specific testimonies to share.
Prophetic words
· “Revival is coming to the UK from the SW. Wells are being unblocked, we will witness it. Arise and shine for His light has come and His glory will come upon us. It will begin in this region, it will go from Glory to Glory. There will be an increase of His presence.
· One of the lads from Bethel said that every time he thought of Cornwall got drunk in the Lord. Lies will be broken, mind sets will change. Cornwall is known to be sleepy, but wells will be unblocked, people will be re-awoken. Wakey Wakey!
· One of the team prophesied they saw angels waking up the people, the wells of revival need to be awakened. We are placed in Cornwall, do we dare to dream?
· A lady had the letters OH given to her by God and hadn't realised it meant Open Heaven until after looking on the internet and found out about this event very late the night before. She came along on the Saturday and shared the story!“
January 2014
176 Believers gathered at Fraddon Village Hall on Saturday 11th January at a “Kingdom Gathering” with Ruth Fitzpatrick from Bethel Church, Redding California and a team of students from BSSM (Bethel Supernatural School of Ministry) hosted by Open Heaven. Believers came from many different churches from all across the county and beyond its borders, hungry to hear what God is doing and to be encouraged for what He is still to do. Feedback from the event has been that all who attended were blessed in their faith, some were healed, all were encouraged and excited about what God is doing and is yet to do in Cornwall! Truly God is on the move in the earth!
Here are some of the details we have received from those who attended.
Testimonies
· “Me and my friend felt really ignited during the day.”
· “Great event on Saturday; I feel re-energised and inspired by meeting with God. I particularly responded to the teaching, it was spot on, and reflected again at my local church on Sunday”
· “THANK YOU SO MUCH for facilitating Ruth & team last Saturday. I personally was ‘springing' when Holy Spirit came. That was a new one on me but was very meaningful especially when we sang the last song. It’s Springtime again.”
· “Really enjoyed the day with you...greatly blessed...by everything. Especially appreciated was the care/welcome/prayer both on the way in and on the way out!”
· “During the worship I had picture linked to words from Isaiah 6.... and His train filled the temple. The picture was of the train of the Lord Jesus and we were dancing upon it...it was like a river...as we danced and worshipped on His train.”
· “Several (of the team) were so helpful with their words, many of us would like to receive more training with them more often”
· “Special day we had with Ruth, the team and all the wonderful Open Heaven folk....it was such a prophetic day it was coming at me in every direction. I was truly blessed, receiving confirmation on some recent decision. I came expectant and I was not disappointed. I came along with my friend who could not believe the words I was being given. Life has been full on since Saturday and I feel really well and full of energy....went I got home and just before the end of the session I was completely drained. Like a car battery. I came home, climbed into bed as I needed to process and almost stay in the place of peace. I needed to hold everything and didn't want to talk with anyone. I was just in a state of total thanks. Thank you so much for organising the event and I really hope I can get to more of your meetings. I feel bursting with something, so exciting and very big but I don't know yet how it will manifest!“
· “Thank you for the weekend! What came out of the meeting is just so awesome. Before we left, a couple of ladies from my church prayed for me over an issue at church, a word I was given from them said "I had a voice and I had to use it" just moments later I was going to go though the fire tunnel. I was so fearful, the first lady there pulled me aside & said "I had a voice & I had to use it". She did not know me or had no idea what was said moments before. Amazing. Church yesterday things were sorted but God saw the bigger picture. Just amazing”.
· “Thank you so much for all the hard work you put into yesterday, you will never know how much it is appreciated by so many.”
· “Just wanted to say thank you again so much for this weekend - what an amazing time! Don't think any of us will ever be the same again”
· “I heard a throng/chorus of angels whilst Jamie was singing towards the end of the meeting today. What a glorious time!”
· “Words cannot express what my heart and soul feel...my gratitude is deep and I will stand stronger, far stronger, far more joy filled than ever...for our loving caring Papa. Thank you for you absolute obedience....it is such a gracious pleasure meeting you and all the other saints.”
Healings
· “The pain was much less from my Rheumatoid Arthritis and I undid that bottle which I couldn't do before. I came home feeling so, so filled with God's love, so full of joy and very little pain! Just like Ruth's diagram I was so filled up with God's love there just wasn't room for anything else, sickness, fear, depression. All I wanted to do was dance, I even danced with my earphones in at 5am the next morning in my living room while everyone else was asleep in the house. I danced for days“
· Significant reduction of pain and symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.
· A sporting injury which left a foot unable to be moved was instantly healed.
· Three healings of back pain were testified to.
· A gentleman who couldn’t lift his arm above shoulder height suddenly found he had complete movement restored.
· A lady with a very long-standing verruca found herself able to stand on tiptoes for the first time in 38 years – something she had been totally unable to do!
· We think there were several other healings but don’t have specific testimonies to share.
Prophetic words
· “Revival is coming to the UK from the SW. Wells are being unblocked, we will witness it. Arise and shine for His light has come and His glory will come upon us. It will begin in this region, it will go from Glory to Glory. There will be an increase of His presence.
· One of the lads from Bethel said that every time he thought of Cornwall got drunk in the Lord. Lies will be broken, mind sets will change. Cornwall is known to be sleepy, but wells will be unblocked, people will be re-awoken. Wakey Wakey!
· One of the team prophesied they saw angels waking up the people, the wells of revival need to be awakened. We are placed in Cornwall, do we dare to dream?
· A lady had the letters OH given to her by God and hadn't realised it meant Open Heaven until after looking on the internet and found out about this event very late the night before. She came along on the Saturday and shared the story!“
Ruth Fitzpatrick & Grace Colledge at Fraddon Village Hall
July 2013
During worship, a woman was healed of rheumatoid arthritis which she had suffered with for 20 years. Her very swollen feet had shrunk back to normal by the next morning and her sandals were simply too big to wear!
A man's back pain was healed during worship. He had suffered for 20 years and had recently been off work for 6 weeks because of the pain.
A woman's knee was healed and her hearing made clear again.
One man received more of a dancing gift and also partial healing of a digestive problem.
"I think my biggest thing from the weekend was what felt like a healing of the heart. I've had several things going on in my life that have been really quite stressful, & it felt like God was just taking a load off my shoulders that I hadn't even realised I was carrying."
"I was healed of a debilitating pain during the morning but by the afternoon.... it returned so I kept rebuking it and it got worse until it left. I had to repeat this over the next few days and now I don't have it at all, praise Jesus."
At Open Heaven the following Friday, a broken toe was completely mended; a lady testified to a gluten and dairy intolerance being healed (she ate a biscuit to prove it); and a chilblain was 90% better!
I received a fresh anointing to heal. A few days following Ruth's visit, my son had a really bad stomach ache and got up. As I took him back to bed he said ‘Dad, will you pray for me’, and as I did so, asking Jesus to come and minister in His time and for the ache to be gone in Jesus’ Name I was aware of the power of God moving and my son settled down and I didn’t hear him anymore until the next morning. When he woke up he shared this testimony; "After you prayed I was able to lay flat (he had been hunched up with the pain) and the pain immediately ceased and I was able to sleep soundly." Thank You Jesus – the glory is all Yours!!
July 2013
During worship, a woman was healed of rheumatoid arthritis which she had suffered with for 20 years. Her very swollen feet had shrunk back to normal by the next morning and her sandals were simply too big to wear!
A man's back pain was healed during worship. He had suffered for 20 years and had recently been off work for 6 weeks because of the pain.
A woman's knee was healed and her hearing made clear again.
One man received more of a dancing gift and also partial healing of a digestive problem.
"I think my biggest thing from the weekend was what felt like a healing of the heart. I've had several things going on in my life that have been really quite stressful, & it felt like God was just taking a load off my shoulders that I hadn't even realised I was carrying."
"I was healed of a debilitating pain during the morning but by the afternoon.... it returned so I kept rebuking it and it got worse until it left. I had to repeat this over the next few days and now I don't have it at all, praise Jesus."
At Open Heaven the following Friday, a broken toe was completely mended; a lady testified to a gluten and dairy intolerance being healed (she ate a biscuit to prove it); and a chilblain was 90% better!
I received a fresh anointing to heal. A few days following Ruth's visit, my son had a really bad stomach ache and got up. As I took him back to bed he said ‘Dad, will you pray for me’, and as I did so, asking Jesus to come and minister in His time and for the ache to be gone in Jesus’ Name I was aware of the power of God moving and my son settled down and I didn’t hear him anymore until the next morning. When he woke up he shared this testimony; "After you prayed I was able to lay flat (he had been hunched up with the pain) and the pain immediately ceased and I was able to sleep soundly." Thank You Jesus – the glory is all Yours!!