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Friday, September 19, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Exercising Spiritual Authority, Part 2
August 29, 2014
After the large number
of responses to last week's Coffee Break, I realized that much of what is
happening currently here in the Yakima Valley, as well as other places around
the country, really should be included so as not to leave this simply as an event
that took place years ago. Sometimes I start swimming with all of the
reports that come in and lose track of certain specific details, but it seems
appropriate to at least include things that are happening here in Sunnyside, as
well as Toppenish, Yakima and surrounding areas.
That
said, let me lay a little more Scriptural foundation for this kind of Kingdom
authority.
Matthew
28:18-20
(RAC Translation & Amplification): Jesus [keeping his appointment with the disciples] drew near and
laid out His designed plan and purpose to them, "All authority and power
to rule in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Go then and make disciples -- disciplined ones -- of all the
nations, baptizing and immersing them into the onoma (the very character, makeup and essence) of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit,
Teaching
[and imparting to] them to guard and fulfill everything that I have charged you
with; and consider this: I am with you throughout all the days perpetually,
uniformly, and on every occasion, to the consummation of the age." Amen.
There's
another part of this imparting and delegating of authority that we need to
fully understand and get hold of. Paul,
writing to the Ephesians, puts it like this:
Ephesians 1:18-21 (NASB): I pray that the
eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope
of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the
saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who
believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His
might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and
seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above
all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named,
not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all
things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things
to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.
Ephesians 2:4-6 (Amplified
Bible): But
God—so rich is He in His mercy! Because of and in order to satisfy the
great and wonderful and intense love with which He loved us,
Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and
trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with
Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with
which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did
not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of
Christ’s salvation).
And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down
together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue
of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
By
now, it should be very clear that our authority comes by virtue of (1) ALL
authority and power to rule having been given to Jesus Christ; (2) Jesus being
the head of the whole body -- the Ekklesia; (3) our being IN CHRIST and having
His very life, His makeup and the essence of Who He is being in us; and (4) our
having been seated with Him in that same place of rulership in and from the
Heavenlies.
When
He speaks into our spirits and our inner beings with a command or some
instruction or desire of His heart, He gives to us the full authority to carry
out that instruction, along with the backing of Father and Holy Spirit so that
the following evidence provides the proof of His Word to us.
Walking
the streets of the neighborhood where I lived in Long Beach, California, along
with the area around the church fellowship, day after day, week after week,
month after month took consistency and faithfulness. It didn't bother me that I didn't see any
results after the first week, or the first month, or even for many months. I didn't have to see immediate results; there
was a mandate in my spirit to stay with it.
We
had neighbors on either side of our house, neither of whom had any kind of
relationship with the Lord. The
neighbors just to the west of us were about as loud and foul-mouthed as anyone
you've ever heard. I honestly don't
remember the time frame between when I first started walking the streets of our
neighborhood and when change took place in their home -- and it seems like it
was easily two years or more -- but one day the lady of the house opened up her
side door when I was trying to till the ground right next to the fence that
separated our homes.
She
expressed her thanks at the faithfulness in praying over them and said that she
and her (formerly very foul mouthed) husband were now attending the local
United Brethren church just a few blocks from us, and that they had accepted
Jesus Christ. It didn't matter to me
that two years or more had passed since the prayers had begun. It just mattered that this family was now a
part of the Kingdom of God.
The
folks that lived on the other side of us continuously fought like cats and dogs
with each other and we didn't need the windows open on that side of the house
to hear them cursing at each other. The
day came, however, when things seemed to quiet down. I didn't really know what had happened until
one day when the phone rang. The wife
called me to say that her husband had been in deep depression. She came home one afternoon to find that he
had put a gun to his mouth and blown his brains out in the bathroom. Paramedics had been called by another
neighbor and taken him to the hospital barely hanging onto life.
She
had seen me day after day after day after day stretching out my hands toward
the house and praying over them, and she asked me if I would go to the hospital
and pray for her husband. I did so
immediately. When I walked into the
hospital room, the nurses were just pulling the sheet over him after his being
pronounced dead. I asked them if I could
pray over him and they stepped aside.
It
was a rather strange way to pray. I
didn't do a "Lazarus, come forth" kind of prayer. What I said to the Lord was this:
"Father, in Jesus' name restore life to this man so that he has an
opportunity to accept Jesus Christ into his life before he steps into
eternity. I know he blew his brains out,
but restore enough cognitive ability in him to hear the truth of the Gospel and
respond. Give him his life long enough
to get to know the Lord Jesus Christ."
Immediately
the sheet began to move as the man stirred.
The startled nurses grabbed it and pulled it back to see the man's eyes
open and seeing. I lifted up my hand and
said quietly, "Thank you, Lord!" and left the hospital. It was quite some time before I heard that
the man had been transferred to an intensive care unit, and then to an extended
care facility before being released to go home.
His wife had sold the house next to us and they had moved to the San
Fernando Valley to be close to the extended care facility.
She
later reported to me that her husband had lost a lot of the motor
abilities. He could barely feed himself,
and was wheelchair bound, but his ability to see, hear and respond had been
restored. During the eighteen months
that followed the attempted suicide and the prayer over him, a minister came to
the extended care facility and shared the Lord with him. He accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and
Saviour and finally passed on into eternity a year and a half after blowing his
brains out. I marvelled -- and I still
marvel -- at the faithfulness of God to restore life into the man after he had
died and give him enough time to come to know Jesus Christ.
The
house just on the other side of this one (two doors down from our house) was
occupied by a family who had a daughter who was between the age of my oldest
daughter, Debbie, and daughter #2, Melodie.
The girls often played together and would be in our back yard. This girl (I'll call her Karen, for the sake
of this story) would sit at the dining room table while her mother was having a
very early morning cup of coffee when I was doing my walking and praying and
declaring Kingdom authority.
It
was many years later that Karen connected with me while Della and I were in
Texas. She somehow tracked me down and
told me how they would watch when I stretched out my hand towards them and
prayed over them, and then walked on to the next house. She said that first her mother accepted the
Lord, then she, then her brother, and finally her father. At the time of this conversation both she and
her mother had been baptized in the Holy Spirit and were speaking in tongues.
Let's bring things a little more current and up to
date. Throughout the years, Della and I
have been prompted by Holy Spirit to walk the streets where we have lived and
pray over the area. When we came back to
the northwest in 2006 and began the fellowship here in Sunnyside, we occasionally
walked the streets to pray over certain areas as we felt specifically
instructed. The then-police chief was a
gentleman I'd met years before and had gotten to know reasonably well. The gang activity in Sunnyside was at an
all-time high, and it wasn't uncommon for us to have shooting on our
street. Three houses at the end of our
block were shot up at different times.
I called the police chief and asked him for the
names of the gang leaders in the area.
He provided me with the names of the leaders of 13 different gangs. We began to pray over them every day. Periodically we would hear news relating to
one of the names on the list. Della and
I frequently prayed that the presence of the Lord would so fill this valley
that when people tried to take drugs, it would be impossible to get high --
that they would have to leave the valley in order to experience drug highs.
A year from the date that the chief gave me those
names, we had this report: four or five (or six -- I don't remember exactly) of
them had accepted Jesus Christ. The rest
of them were either dead or in prison.
Chief Ed Radder retired and his deputy, Phil Schenck -- a committed
believer in Jesus Christ -- stepped in.
Today, gang activity in Sunnyside is at its lowest point since
2006. The once-frequent shootings are
almost completely non-existent.
But there's more!
Lawrence and JoAnn Goodnight have been part of our fellowship for some
time. The Lord has really made them a
part of our family! Lawrence is one of
these guys who can walk the streets and minister salvation to perfect strangers
at the drop of a hat. More than that, he
has a vision for this kind of ministry.
He joined forces perhaps eighteen months ago with Don Pirozok from
Spokane, who has a similar vision. They
began walking the streets of Sunnyside together, as well as streets of Yakima
and other places here in the Yakima Valley.
Day after day, they've walked the streets, even having the boldness to
knock on doors and lead (in some cases) entire families to the Lord. Lawrence and Don began to report daily
conversions and house ministries began to pop up all over the valley.
I got tickled at their boldness one day when they
decided to walk into the school administration office and met several
secretaries. Lawrence had been in the
office a couple weeks prior and had prayed for some of them for healing. On this occasion, however, they led four or
five of them to the Lord. And it continues. Walking the streets has turned into more than
just prayer over the houses, or the businesses, or the various churches, or
even local city officials.
Della and I still walk the streets periodically and
pray over specific houses or families, but it is a real blessing to see that
the vision for this has been picked up by so many other folks. Other pastors and church leaders in the
community have also picked up the vision and are seeing demonstrable
results. Two or three of us have
occasionally gone together and walked into the city offices to pray over the
City Manager, or the police department or other individuals. Our entry into the various offices of city
officials has always been welcomed and we have periodically prayed with them
over specific issues.
Sevy and Nancy Barajas are a couple in Yakima with
whom we are connected who have picked up this vision and have run with it
nonstop. They walk the streets in stages
in order to cover a much larger area, and from what we've seen, there's not a
day that goes by that people get led to the Lord, healings take place, folks get
delivered from evil spirits, etc., etc.
Sevy and Nancy have a home fellowship that has grown by leaps and bounds
and actually has turned into multiple home fellowships as a product of their
daily consistency and faithfulness.
There is one thing I'd like to point out before we
wrap up. Don't take what I'm sharing
here as a reason for you to get out and do the same thing -- NOT unless you
have a specific prompting from Holy Spirit.
We have a bad habit of seeing the miracles, the blessings and the results
that take place with other people, and then trying to duplicate it
ourselves. It doesn't work that
way. It is important for us to act --
not react -- to what the Lord is saying to us.
What works for me, or for our fellowship is not necessarily what God
wants you to do. He may well have a
different method of operating entirely for you -- and one that wouldn't work
for us. Don't try to can what God is
doing. It doesn't take any time to
become stale and lifeless when we become copycat Christians.
That said, I receive emails from folks in India, in
Pakistan, in Kenya, in Nigeria, in Ghana -- and a fistful of other places --
where the Spirit of the Lord has prompted them to walk the streets of their
towns and villages, declaring the Kingdom of God and the rulership of the Lord
Jesus Christ. In some cases, I've heard
of whole towns or villages turning to Jesus Christ. What God has done with us is not new. It is happening worldwide. This is an early stage to a harvest of souls
the likes of which the world has never seen.
America is on the threshold of an awakening that will make the previous
"Great Awakenings," such as the one that birthed this nation, pale by
comparison.
You see, the Lord intends to have a full
house. I know there are many prophecies
floating around about the judgment to be visited on this nation because of its
sins and the falling away that has taken place -- and I'm not ignoring those
prophecies. What folks need to realize
is that in the face of judgment, there is a fire that cleanses and
purifies. Let's not forget that the very
first of the Seven Spirits of God (Isaiah 4:4) is the Spirit of Judgment and
Burning. That judgment is not for the
destruction of a people: it is for their cleansing and their restoration!
There are millions of believers who are crying out
for the cleansing and restoration of this country -- and there are Christians
worldwide who likewise cry out for their nations. We are on the verge of a transformation of
this nation like you can't imagine! We
are going to see a massive change of administration over this country -- and a
return to our covenant status with the Lord Jesus Christ: the same covenant
status our nations forefathers and founders bled and died for -- and unless my
hearing from the Lord is dulled, we're going to see spectacular change before
2014 has come to an end.
I finished the last Coffee Break with a statement
that Della and I heard Keith Moore make in one of the Southwest Believer's
Conventions we went to that I've never forgotten, and it applies to what I've
just shared.
When you want what God wants for the same reason
that God wants it, you become unlimited and unstoppable!
YOU Become the Unstoppable by being in agreement
with Holy Spirit! That’s SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY in motion!
Let me remind you that
if you are in need of healing or deliverance from any kind of torment, please
join our prayer conference calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at
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opens the call up for everyone, hit *6-1 on your keypad. Let us minister to
your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
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Sunday, August 24, 2014
Another
Coffee Break:
Exercising Spiritual Authority
August 22, 2014
I'd really intended to
get back to our series on Dealing With Fear today, but just felt to continue
the break a bit longer. During the past
three weeks we've talked about the Eskdale Miracle. Consider today's sharing somewhat of an
extension.
What
I’m about to share with you has been shared before in bits and pieces in
previous Coffee Breaks, and if you've seen or heard this before, pardon me for
the repetition.
During
my years at Long Beach Christian Center with Dwain McKenzie, I found a house
for the family on Harding Street in North Long Beach, perhaps a mile and a half
or two miles from the church. It was in
this house that the Lord stirred me to begin fasting at least once each year
for forty days.
Following
one of those early fasts, I just felt in my spirit to begin walking the
neighborhood each morning. In
Deuteronomy 11:24, we read of Moses’ prophesying in part to Israel prior to
their entrance into the Land of Promise, “Every place whereon the
soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours.”
That scripture went through me like a shot! The emphasis of the Holy Spirit was that I
should “possess” the territory where I lived – not by buying up all of the
houses and property, but by exercising the authority of the Lord in a tangible
way.
As my walks began, I started one block at a
time. Each morning, I would walk the
complete circumference of the block, praying over each home on that block,
occasionally stretching out my hand toward a home as I was directed by the Lord
and speaking something like this, “Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I
establish your Kingdom authority in this home.
Raise up righteousness here.
Bring salvation, healing and deliverance. I claim this home and this family for the
Kingdom of God.”
Over a period of weeks and many months, the
practice continued. I began to enlarge
the territory. For awhile it was simply
one block. Then it was two. Then it increased to three, then four, then
five, then six, and so forth, until I was covering a pretty large territory.
The practice was always the same. As I walked, I would pray in tongues. Sometimes I would pray with my understanding,
saying, “Father, I agree with your Word, and I take this territory for your
Kingdom. Everywhere the soles of my feet
tread, I take this territory and possess it for your Kingdom.”
I frequently extended my hand towards homes,
towards the public schools, toward businesses, praying over the occupants, the
school children, the school administration, the businesses and their
owners. There wasn’t any visible effect
from my prayers for perhaps as much as two years. One by one, I began to hear of or meet
families in the homes I was praying over.
Very few of them actually came to our church, but I began to find that
many of these families were coming to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and
Savior.
Frequently, as I met the families, they would tell
me where they had begun to attend a church or become involved in some
fellowship. In some cases, I actually
met their pastors. People began to be
saved, healed of various diseases and afflictions, and set free from evil
spirits – all as a direct result of simply consistently walking the territory,
praying over them and extending the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ as I
walked and prayed.
One day, about a block south of our home, I
happened to see the Long Beach police conduct a raid on one of the houses I had
prayed over. It was a house I had really
felt strange about, but was new enough to this kind of prayer and intercession
not to recognize what I was sensing. It
was a house I consistently proclaimed the authority of the Kingdom of God
over.
Turns out the house was being used for the
manufacture and distribution of drugs – heroin and cocaine. The police shut it down and put the drug
dealers out of business – at least in my neighborhood. I knew it was a direct result of the prayers
and the consistent walking of the area.
A few months later, a house on the opposite side of
the street and down a half block from our home was raided by the police and
shut down. Because of the red light
above the front door that used to come on every evening, I suspected that it
was a whore house. It was. Again, Holy Spirit made clear to me the fact
that it was because of the exercise of spiritual authority taking place.
I became emboldened. I called up Dick Parrish, who also served on
the pastoral staff of Long Beach Christian Center, and asked him to join me in
some of these walks. Then Dwain McKenzie
(who had been my lifetime friend, brother in the Lord, and was the senior
pastor at LBCC) began to join in the walks.
We began to walk the territory near the church.
About two blocks from the church was a home where
some bikers lived. Every time we walked
past the place, I stretched out my hand toward the home and proclaimed the
establishment of the Kingdom of God.
Nearly twenty years passed after we had walked that
territory when the Lord orchestrated an opportunity for Della and I to meet the
bikers who had occupied that home Dwain, Dick and I had walked past and prayed
over. Della and I were in Atlin, British
Columbia sharing and ministering with friends from Anchorage.
We were invited to come over for dinner to the home
of an artist and sculptor who lived in Atlin with his wife and teenage
daughter. Sitting around the dinner
table that night, we happened to mention Long Beach. The artist perked up his ears, as did his
wife.
“You were in Long Beach, California?” he
asked. “When was that?” I responded that I had been there for about
five years in the early and mid-1970’s.
“Wow, what a coincidence,” he exclaimed. “So did we!”
I asked him what part of Long Beach he had lived
in, and he described the street where Dwain, Dick and I had walked. Now it was my turn to be amazed. He and his wife went on to tell us that they
had been a part of the biker crowd, living a pretty wild, hippie kind of life.
I started to laugh.
“We never met during those days,” I said, “but you were surely some of
the people we prayed for as we walked the neighborhood.”
He almost came out of his chair. “You!
You! I used to watch you stop in
front of our house and stretch out your hand toward us. Never could hear what you were saying, but we
figured you must have been praying or something like that. That’s when my wife and I experienced the
Lord Jesus Christ coming into our lives and convicting us. That’s when we came to know the Lord for the
first time in our lives!”
I continued to walk the neighborhood where I lived,
gradually increasing the size of the territory where I walked until I was
walking portions of Atlantic and Long Beach Blvds.
One day as I was walking Long Beach Blvd., I was
shocked to see an X-rated porn theater that had just opened up. Something rose up inside of me in anger that
Satan would attempt to so brazenly encroach on territory I had been claiming
for the Lord. I walked right up to the
front of the theater, put my hands on the building and began to proclaim the
establishing of the Kingdom of God in the place.
Despite the fact that folks were standing out front
of the place and staring at me like I’d lost my marbles or something, I began
to speak out loud, “Father, in the name of Jesus, I establish your Kingdom
authority in this place. I shut this theater
down!”
It was several weeks later that I was driving down
Long Beach Blvd. and decided to check on
the porn theater. Not too surprisingly,
it was shut down. All of the billboards
and placards were gone and the theater marquee was empty. I thought to myself, Wow, this is too good to pass up.
I parked my car and walked over to the front of the
building, and again I placed my hand on the outside of the place and began to
proclaim the Word of God. I said,
“Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I again establish your Kingdom in this
place, and I raise up righteousness. Let
this building become something that will serve your purposes and be to your
Glory.” Then I got back in my car and
drove away.
Again it was some weeks that passed before I
thought of the theater and decided to go and check on it. As I drove towards the building, I saw a man
standing on a ladder putting letters on the theater marquee. I pulled over and parked and watched him
spell out the following, one letter at a time:
E – V – A – N – G – E – L T – E – M – P – L – E.
Brother, did I ever let out a war whoop! It had worked! What was once an X-rated porn theater was
shut down, and a church and worship center opened up in its place. I’ve no idea how long that church functioned
in that building, but years later when I came back to Long Beach for a visit,
it was still operating.
Naturally, I wasted no time in sharing it with the
folks at Long Beach Christian Center.
Dave Dobbs, who was also part of our staff, happened to be driving with
his wife in the San Fernando Valley some months later. They came across a huge construction site
where a large number of construction workers and a lot of equipment were busy
building some very elegant appearing structure.
Dave drove around the place out of curiosity to see
what was being built. A large sign with
an artist’s rendition displayed a future Buddhist temple. Dave remembered my experience and sharing
about the theater and thought, This is a
principle we need to apply here.
He and his wife parked their car, got out and
walked to the chain link fence that surrounded the property. They stretched their hands towards the
partially constructed building and proclaimed, “Father, in Jesus’ name, we
establish your Kingdom over this place, and we shut down this project now!”
It must have been two or three months that passed
before they happened to be back in the
Valley and thought about the incident.
They drove back to the construction site of that building, and – to
their astonishment – saw weeds grown up around the place. Construction had ceased almost from the day
they had spoken the word of authority.
Seems like it was almost a year later that Dave was
back in the Valley and thought about checking on the place one more time. The Buddhist trappings of the place were
gone, and it had been redesigned into a nice office building.
By now, you are beginning to understand what I mean
when I talk about Spiritual Authority.
That is the authority of Holy Spirit working in folks who are submitted
to the Lord and sensitive to His voice and leading. We don't get to do these things just because
it seems like a good idea. We do them at
the prompting of Holy Spirit. He plants
a rhema in our being and a holy boldness to
go with it.
That’s the kind of authority that brings
healing. That’s the kind of authority
that brings deliverance to people in captivity to Satan. That’s the kind of authority that tears down
the thrones of spiritual rulers – the apostle Paul refers to them in the Greek
text of Ephesians 6 as kosmokrator: world rulers of darkness – demon princes
who exercise power and influence to execute wickedness.
What is so fabulous is that Joe everyday Christian
has access to that authority, if he can simply grasp it. Folks get cheated out of living and walking
in this realm because of false teaching, because of screwball doctrines, and
mostly because of fear, doubt and unbelief.
If Christians would begin to exercise this kind of authority right in
the neighborhoods where they live, we would have a radically different world
today.
I shared a fair portion of the above with a group
of young folks at a fellowship in Barnwell, Alberta when Della and I were there
three or four years ago. The pastor and
his wife had a young son, two-year-old Timmy, who had club feet and had never
walked. Hearing the story of the healing
of the child in Eskdale spurred their faith and they asked if we could pray for
young Timmy. The Lord had already told
Della that He was going to repeat that event that day, so their request was not
unexpected.
We saw Holy Spirit repeat the miracle as little
Timmy walked across the platform in front of everyone for the first time in his
life. There wasn't a dry eye in the
place!
Shortly afterward, four young men in the group
suddenly got up from their seats and rushed out the back door. Remember the Eskdale experience I’ve talked
about? Barnwell is nearly 100% Mormon,
and like Eskdale has a population of about 350 people. Right next to the building where this
fellowship was meeting was the local Mormon ward.
These four young men went over to the ward hall and
stood on the sides of the building. They
placed their hands on the building and began to pray, “Father, in Jesus’ name,
establish your Kingdom and raise up righteousness in this place.”
No sooner had they gotten back to the service that
was underway when four young women decided to follow suit. They were frustrated that the guys hadn’t let
them know what they were doing, and they were determined to play their part in
whatever the Lord was going to do.
Naturally, they headed over to the ward, and each one of the four stood
at one of the four corners of the building.
They essentially duplicated what the four young men had prayed.
While they were praying over the place, the Mormon
bishop came out and saw them. He walked
over and said, “What’s happening here?
Can I help you?”
The girls sheepishly said, “We’re, uhhh….we’re just
praising the Lord and declaring His righteousness.”
The bishop kind of scratched his head and said,
“Uhh, OK. I guess that’s a good thing to
do on the Sabbath.” He got in his
vehicle and drove around to see the other girls standing at the corners. When they saw him, they beat a hasty path
back to the fellowship hall.
It was both amusing and an enormous blessing to see
young people respond so instantly. What
comes from it remains to be seen, but one thing is sure. When folks respond to the quickening of the
Lord, seeking to broaden the scope of God’s rulership in a practical dimension,
He always comes through with signs following.
Keith Moore made a statement in one of the
Southwest Believer's Conventions we went to that I've never forgotten, and it
applies to what I've just shared.
Eskdale, Long Beach, Barnwell…..they’re all examples of what happens
when you apply this principle.
When you want what God wants for the same reason
that God wants it, you become unlimited and unstoppable!
And that’s the absolute truth! That’s SPIRITUAL
AUTHORITY!
Let me remind you that
if you are in need of healing or deliverance from any kind of torment, please
join our prayer conference calls on either Monday or Wednesday of each week at
7:00 PM Eastern. Once again, the number to call is (805) 399-1000. Then enter the access code: 124763#. To get into the queue for prayer, when Randy
opens the call up for everyone, hit *6-1 on your keypad. Let us minister to
your need for healing!
Blessings on you!
Regner
Regner A. Capener
CAPENER MINISTRIES
CAPENER MINISTRIES
RIVER WORSHIP CENTER
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
Sunnyside, Washington 98944
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