Introducing DicipleshipGuy

I have loved SquawkTalk, it’s been great! However, after a brief home here we are packing up and moving. I have had another Blog for a while, something that never really took off for me, but I already own the domain name, so we are moving. Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten anything and the transition has already be made. When you go to our new place you will see many familiar things, although it will look slightly different, you should be able to find yourself around the place pretty easy. So, weather you started following me all the way back during the Xanga.com days, followed my move to mparrott84.blogspot.com, followed our family on parrottpeople.wordpress.com, or just recently found us on SquawkTalk.DiscipleshipGuy.com (the web address is a hint to our new home…), all content will now be found at…

DiscipleshipGuy.com

Introducing SquawkTalk!

First of all, I would love to thank everyone for all of their support at parrottpeople.wordpress.com. This has been a great place to keep everyone up to date. I have also, in the past, used mparrott84.blogspot.com for posts in the past. However, starting today, I will be doing everything from a new site, it’s called SquawkTalk! I had planned on purchasing the SquawkTalk domain name, but just haven’t gotten around to it yet. I also have some work to do on the new site, it doesn’t look perfect. I have been having an issue with the banner, and I want to finish the second part of the site (to be reveled later).

Many people will want to know why I am changing things up. There are many reasons for this, but it comes down to flexibility. WordPress.com is a great host (plus it’s FREE), everything is simple and done for you. However, when I want to start doing specific things, the host begins to get in the way. I have limited control on how the site looks, what features can be implemented, and how it can be used.  So, without further ado, SquawkTalk!

Please click on the Parrot to go to the new site!!!

 

Notre Dame Football!!!

This blog post is very simple in nature.  I want everyone to know how PUMPED UP I am over the begining of Notre Dame Football Season!!! Saturday will be the first game, the Irish will be playing Purdue.  I have also looked at the schedule and checked it twice, I should be able to only miss one game this season due to ministry related commitments.

Here is a copy of their schedule for those of you who are interested: 2010 ND Football Schedule

Date Opponent / Event Location Time
09/04/10  vs.   Purdue Notre Dame, Ind. 3:30 p.m. ET
09/11/10   vs.   Michigan Notre Dame, Ind. 3:30 p.m. ET
09/18/10   @    Michigan State East Lansing, Mich. 8:00 p.m. ET
09/25/10  vs.   Stanford Notre Dame, Ind. 3:30 p.m. ET
10/02/10   @    Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass. TBA
10/09/10  vs.   Pittsburgh Notre Dame, Ind. 3:30 p.m. ET
10/16/10   vs.   Western Michigan Notre Dame, Ind. 2:30 p.m. ET
10/23/10   @    Navy East Rutherford, N.J. 12:00 p.m. ET
10/30/10  vs.   Tulsa Notre Dame, Ind. 2:30 p.m. ET
11/13/10   vs.   Utah Notre Dame, Ind. 2:30 p.m. ET
11/20/10  vs.   Army Bronx, N.Y. (Yankee Stadium) 7:00 p.m. ET
11/27/10  @    USC Los Angeles, Calif. 5:00 p.m. PT

Every year since 2005 I have become more excited and drawn to Notre Dame football, the past two years I haven’t been in Indiana during the season, and as a result I have had less and less friends who are fans to watch the game with.  This being the case, if any of you feel like calling me during the game to celebrate a huge play, that would be great.  I fear I may be the only person in Orlando wearing my ND shirt watching the game!

GO IRISH!

Promise Keepers…

This past Saturday was a FREE Promise Keepers in Orlando, FL.  Several weeks back Promise Keepers asked OHOP if they would be willing to set up some Prayer Booths as well as be in charge of the Prayer Room.  These were two very distinctive rolls; the Prayer Room was downstairs, behind the scenes, and was predominantly a place of intercession over what was going on at the conference.  The Prayer Booths  were located right behind the auditorium, and almost everyone at the conference saw these Prayer Booths.  I briefly talked about this event in my last post here: Upcoming Events at OHOP

Prayer Room

The only people that knew about us or saw us were other people that were working behind the scenes and a few of the speakers that we prayed for.  I can’t possibly go into everything that happened in the prayer room, but I can tell you it was one of the most transforming times in my life.  We were suppose to arrive at 9:30 AM 7:30 AM to check in, pick up our shirts and wrist bands for lunch.  First thing in the morning we walked into our room and you could just tell that God’s presence was on the room.  We spent some time praying for the conference before it began and began to ask the Lord if He had any words for us to pray about.  Immediately God began to give us direction in how to pray.

The second or third speaker of the day was the founder of Promise Keepers, Coach Bill McCartney A.K.A. Coach Mac.  Before he began speaking he came into the prayer room, got on his knees, and asked us to pray for him.  He said that he needed us to intercede for him and keep the enemy busy while he was speaking because God had given him a message that he needed to deliver.  The humility on this man was incredible, immediately as I began to lay my hands on him to begin praying for him I felt like he should be praying for me instead.  Then just like that he was called out onto stage to speak and the message that he gave was very much a Forerunner message.  The next speaker was Anne Graham Lotz (Billy Graham’s daughter) and she really brought the message as well.  It was very cool to be in the background, I was able to see her in person, see two of the worship leaders, Coach Mac, and a couple of other speakers as well.

One of the speakers there was a native American, he was dressed in his full outfit with feathers and stuff.  One of the things God did was use him to provoke our team to stand in the gap, and repent for the actions of the original settlers in America to the Native Americans.  As a result we had a lady on our team that had Native American ancestry and a guy on our team that didn’t, they both prayed and asked forgiveness from each other for all the blood that was spilled between us.  This prophetic act broke things in the spirit, and I believe started a domino effect of what God is doing all across the nation and will do as we approach the end times.  In addition, the prayers and forgiveness brought the lady to tears with much sobbing.  I believe God is reconciling His Body to each other, Jew to Gentile, Black to Whites, Native American’s to Settlers, one denomination to another, etc.

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The Prayer Booths

These were places that people could go to for individual prayer.  Many times this would lead to God giving a word of encouragement or sometimes it involved prophetic words for the individuals being prayed for.  In the Prayer Booths they prayed in teams of 2 or 3 people over whoever needed prayer.  They were located right behind the auditorium, and almost everyone at the conference saw these Prayer Booths and many asked for (and received) prayer.  This team was made up from primarily from the prophecy team at OHOP.

The Conference

One of the highlights of the day came from one of the conference speakers.  The pastor from the church the conference was held at was speaking.  He talked about how they had given a lot of money to missions in the past but that God confronted them because they weren’t reaching the people in their neighborhood.  There were two ladies who attended the conference that were fairly new believers (less than a year) but had come from very oppressed background, and were local ladies.  The pastor from the churched asked forgiveness from them for not reaching them, and then asked forgiveness as a man for the oppression she had suffered at the behalf of men.  I think this was also a very humbling time.

Next Coach Mac asked a leader of a group of Messianic Jews to forgive him as a Gentile for not standing up for the Jews.  He then proceed to vow to stand up for them (And Israel as a nation) from here on.  I think God is really working on reconciliation in His Body.

Personal Experiences

God did so much in me while I was at the conference, truly it was like a coming out party for me.  God began to speak very clearly to me on numerous occasions, in addition He brought out the leadership qualities that He has given me, without me having to worry about leading (sounds strange, but when God is directing you, you don’t have to direct…).  Many people there were excited to be with me that day, and told me how cool it was to see me blossoming into my calling.  I was just ecstatic to be there and be able to be a part of everything.  There were many, many things God did in the midst, but I don’t feel as though it would be a good thing for me just to list everything that happened.  If your wondering you can ask me though.  I will share this though, it’s amazing how God continues to confirm to me that I am exactly where I am suppose to be.  It has been a constant struggle in my mind to figure out the finances, but God consistently tells me that I am where He has me and He will provide.

I don’t really know what else to say, except that the last two weekends, first with Kirk Bennett and then with Promise keepers, have been two of the most influential weekends ever.  Top 10 for sure (4 kids, 1 wife, probably all up there )

Upcoming Events at OHOP…

There are several upcoming events at OHOP.  Several of them were posted in my last blog, and there are several more coming.  First of all I will talk about an event that is not happening at OHOP, but that OHOP is involved in.  That event is being produced by Promise Keepers.  Apparently whenever Promise Keepers holds an event, they chose to have local churches pray and intercede on the behalf of the speakers, the attendees, and the event over all.

When Promise Keepers found out about OHOP they asked us to pray and intercede on their behalf.  On Wednesday, one of the leaders at OHOP asked me to be a part of this intercession team.  Basically what we will be doing is gathering at 9 AM on the day of the event and we will be praying for specific speakers and issues.  We  will also be watching the event via live stream so that we know what is going on during the event.  This way, if there is something going on at the event while a speaker is talking, we can be praying and interceding on that issue in real-time.  We will be able to just mute the event and go into intercession right then and there.

Let’s talk about a practical example.  Let’s say the speaker is talking about healing and then he starts praying for healing within the conference.  At OHOP we will know exactly what is going on and we can begin to pray for healing for people at the conference, there may even be specific people who are brought up to the front or something that we can be specifically praying for.  When the Conference speaker starts having an altar call, we can be praying for the people in the conference that need to come forward, or pray for specific people who have already come forward.  It’s just a very awesome opportunity to be a part of the conference from behind the scenes (plus we get a free meal and t-shirt…).

The Children’s Equipping Conference is going on September 3rd through the 5th.  This conference is for kids age 6-12 and is an opportunity for them to learn how to flow in the supernatural gifts.  Autumn and I had been thinking about whether or not we wanted to sign Becka up for this (since it was $35 for OHOP’ers to register).  Then someone from the church approached us and told us that she had felt burdened to sponsor Becka to go (that means she want’s to pay for Becka to go!).  So, we asked Becka if this was something she was interested in or not and she was very excited to go, so we registered her.  This will be her first kind of teaching/conference/classroom setting of this kind.  I am really excited to see what God does!!!