Letter to Friends in Bermuda
1/28/09
Dear Rev. Conway and Joan Simmons and all our friends in Bermuda:
It was such a pleasure being with you in Bermuda earlier this month. You all treated us so well. It was a very refreshing time. Thank you so much for your hospitality. After just two visits we feel like we are with family. We recorded some of the messages of the conference, unfortunately I was new to the ipod and so a few of the sessions did not get recorded. We do have a the message I spoke on Sunday at Randal Road on “Blessed are Those Who Mourn,” the two sessions by Rev. Dr. Barbara Lucas on spiritual gifts and the short but powerful prayer for Bermuda by Rev. Conway Simmons.
I have also taken the time to briefly write out the dream that my friend Karl Wallace had regarding Bermuda.
Blessings,
Ted and Sandra
Messages from Conference
Ted Hahs
Blessed are those who mourn
Rev. Conway Simmons
Prayer for Bermuda
Rev. Dr. Barbara Lucas
Session 1
Session 2
Dream for Bermuda:
Prior to our trip to Bermuda, my close friend and one of the apostolic leadership team of the church plant we are currently involved in, Karl Wallace, had a dream about the islands. In this dream he saw a lot of people in a boat with a glass bottom. Sister Joan was there, I was there and several other people presumably Bermudans. As we looked down into the crystal clear water at the bottom was the beautiful glorious city shining with light. Then the city began to rise up from the water. In the dream, Karl asked the Lord, “Lord, why did you show this to them?”
The Lord answered, “Because they asked.”
The people in the boat are the praying saints of Bermuda. The city coming up from under the water is God’s new Bermuda, Bermuda transformed into what he created her to be, radiating his glory.
Ps. 2.8 says: “Ask of me and I will give you the nations as your inheritance.” Bermuda will be transformed by God, through his grace, because he chose us as his children, not because of our efforts or great strength, just because we asked. Jesus already died to see Bermuda become all she was created to be, so we can just reclaim was has already been redeemed.
Is. 61:4 says: “They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the cities long devastated.”
This is our destiny as disciples of Jesus, to rebuild the ruins and restore devastated cities.
In Isaiah 62, the prophet writes: “As a young man marries a maiden so will your sons marry you [Zion].”
This can also be taken as a promise for Bermuda. Your sons will marry you. From the inside out will come the definition of your identity and divine purpose as a nation island. Then you will fulfill the design God wrote for you, not just the purposes of whoever come to the island to get from it what they want or feel they need.
For this to happen though, the saints must fall in love with and marry Bermuda, make a public and irrevocable covenant of commitment to your land, because of the redemption of Jesus. When you the disciples of Christ, marry the land, the spiritual climate will change because God will extend the canopy of his blessing your land.
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