Report from the Forks-June 2007
16/01/08 10:40
By:
Ruth Wall
Winnipeg
To provide some background and context for you, I should tell you that on July 5, 2006, I was blessed to be part of a welcoming protocol gathering for and subsequent conference with the Fiji Healing the Land Team, eleven guests who came to Canada (Winnipeg, Nunavut communities, and Ottawa) to minister God’Äôs reconciliation and blessing to our nation. The Team came with the help of Canada Awakening Ministries.
Further, following their ministry in the nation’Äôs heart and northlands, last October 26 ’Äì 28, I joined with Ojibwa, Sioux, and other North American leaders and intercessors at Sisseton, South Dakota, the headwaters of the Red River, to repent of past enmities, to be freed from the curses of the past, and pray for peoples’Äô reconciliation with God and one another, as well as for the healing of the land. Soil from various massacre and other significant sites was mixed with new Canadian salt and new Israeli olive oil representing our sin and pain and God’Äôs mercy and restoration. Prayers and the mixture were cast upon the waters and over the watershed. At the same time we were in South Dakota we had a group of people at the Forks of the rivers in Winnipeg praying and Carolin Sadler had a group at the mouth of the Red River. We talked on our phones and synchronized our times so we threw into the waters and prayed at the same time at all three sites. At the end of the ceremony we had each been given some of the soil to take home to do with what we felt the Lord led us in.
Winnipeg
To provide some background and context for you, I should tell you that on July 5, 2006, I was blessed to be part of a welcoming protocol gathering for and subsequent conference with the Fiji Healing the Land Team, eleven guests who came to Canada (Winnipeg, Nunavut communities, and Ottawa) to minister God’Äôs reconciliation and blessing to our nation. The Team came with the help of Canada Awakening Ministries.
Further, following their ministry in the nation’Äôs heart and northlands, last October 26 ’Äì 28, I joined with Ojibwa, Sioux, and other North American leaders and intercessors at Sisseton, South Dakota, the headwaters of the Red River, to repent of past enmities, to be freed from the curses of the past, and pray for peoples’Äô reconciliation with God and one another, as well as for the healing of the land. Soil from various massacre and other significant sites was mixed with new Canadian salt and new Israeli olive oil representing our sin and pain and God’Äôs mercy and restoration. Prayers and the mixture were cast upon the waters and over the watershed. At the same time we were in South Dakota we had a group of people at the Forks of the rivers in Winnipeg praying and Carolin Sadler had a group at the mouth of the Red River. We talked on our phones and synchronized our times so we threw into the waters and prayed at the same time at all three sites. At the end of the ceremony we had each been given some of the soil to take home to do with what we felt the Lord led us in.
By:
Ruth Wall
Winnipeg
To provide some background and context for you, I should tell you that on July 5, 2006, I was blessed to be part of a welcoming protocol gathering for and subsequent conference with the Fiji Healing the Land Team, eleven guests who came to Canada (Winnipeg, Nunavut communities, and Ottawa) to minister God’Äôs reconciliation and blessing to our nation. The Team came with the help of Canada Awakening Ministries.
Further, following their ministry in the nation’Äôs heart and northlands, last October 26 ’Äì 28, I joined with Ojibwa, Sioux, and other North American leaders and intercessors at Sisseton, South Dakota, the headwaters of the Red River, to repent of past enmities, to be freed from the curses of the past, and pray for peoples’Äô reconciliation with God and one another, as well as for the healing of the land. Soil from various massacre and other significant sites was mixed with new Canadian salt and new Israeli olive oil representing our sin and pain and God’Äôs mercy and restoration. Prayers and the mixture were cast upon the waters and over the watershed. At the same time we were in South Dakota we had a group of people at the Forks of the rivers in Winnipeg praying and Carolin Sadler had a group at the mouth of the Red River. We talked on our phones and synchronized our times so we threw into the waters and prayed at the same time at all three sites. At the end of the ceremony we had each been given some of the soil to take home to do with what we felt the Lord led us in.
On June 3rd and 4th this year, I was privileged to take part in the Breakthrough Manitoba Conference (Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg) led by some of our Manitoba First Nations pastors who had been part of these events. They wanted to deal with some of the offences and curses on the land that occurred through the First Nations People before the arrival of the Europeans in Canada. It was a very powerful time and the Lord came into all the sessions and brought revelation to many of the items. Those revelations led to some powerful times of repentance and prayers for God’Äôs restoration.
On the last day of the conference we were to do some prophetic acts similar to those performed at the headwaters of the Red River, October, 2006, at the Forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg. I was very keen to do this as many of us had been together with many U.S. Native-Americans at the headwaters of the Red River the past fall in South Dakota. Also, we planned to use some of that same soil mixture we had brought back from South Dakota for our service.
As we were gathered on the riverbank and were praying, a young native man said, ’ÄúLook, there is Michaelle Jean, the Governor General of Canada.’Äù Sure enough, there she was with all her bodyguards. He ran up to her and told her what we were doing and she asked if she could join us. She came right down to the riverbank and stood beside me. Roger Armbruster and the pastors explained what we were doing and we prayed. I had two stones in my hand from Israel. I turned to her and said that these two stones were from Israel, from the valley where David slew Goliath and that Israel was very important to us as it still had the blood of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, in its soil. I told her that He died for us that we might be forgiven and have eternal life with Him but also that we might be healed. I said that we have been praying for God to heal our nation and the Aboriginal people in it and on the reserves. I asked her if she would like to throw one of the stones in the water with me and ask for God to heal our Land. She said she would be honored so she linked arms with me and on the count of 3 we threw the stones in the water and called out to God to bring healing to Canada.
My heart was overjoyed to see how God had brought her there as a representative of the Queen who is the ’ÄúDefender of the Faith’Äù in Canada and to see His heart for reconciliation and healing in Canada.
Winnipeg
To provide some background and context for you, I should tell you that on July 5, 2006, I was blessed to be part of a welcoming protocol gathering for and subsequent conference with the Fiji Healing the Land Team, eleven guests who came to Canada (Winnipeg, Nunavut communities, and Ottawa) to minister God’Äôs reconciliation and blessing to our nation. The Team came with the help of Canada Awakening Ministries.
Further, following their ministry in the nation’Äôs heart and northlands, last October 26 ’Äì 28, I joined with Ojibwa, Sioux, and other North American leaders and intercessors at Sisseton, South Dakota, the headwaters of the Red River, to repent of past enmities, to be freed from the curses of the past, and pray for peoples’Äô reconciliation with God and one another, as well as for the healing of the land. Soil from various massacre and other significant sites was mixed with new Canadian salt and new Israeli olive oil representing our sin and pain and God’Äôs mercy and restoration. Prayers and the mixture were cast upon the waters and over the watershed. At the same time we were in South Dakota we had a group of people at the Forks of the rivers in Winnipeg praying and Carolin Sadler had a group at the mouth of the Red River. We talked on our phones and synchronized our times so we threw into the waters and prayed at the same time at all three sites. At the end of the ceremony we had each been given some of the soil to take home to do with what we felt the Lord led us in.
On June 3rd and 4th this year, I was privileged to take part in the Breakthrough Manitoba Conference (Inn at the Forks, Winnipeg) led by some of our Manitoba First Nations pastors who had been part of these events. They wanted to deal with some of the offences and curses on the land that occurred through the First Nations People before the arrival of the Europeans in Canada. It was a very powerful time and the Lord came into all the sessions and brought revelation to many of the items. Those revelations led to some powerful times of repentance and prayers for God’Äôs restoration.
On the last day of the conference we were to do some prophetic acts similar to those performed at the headwaters of the Red River, October, 2006, at the Forks of the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Winnipeg. I was very keen to do this as many of us had been together with many U.S. Native-Americans at the headwaters of the Red River the past fall in South Dakota. Also, we planned to use some of that same soil mixture we had brought back from South Dakota for our service.
As we were gathered on the riverbank and were praying, a young native man said, ’ÄúLook, there is Michaelle Jean, the Governor General of Canada.’Äù Sure enough, there she was with all her bodyguards. He ran up to her and told her what we were doing and she asked if she could join us. She came right down to the riverbank and stood beside me. Roger Armbruster and the pastors explained what we were doing and we prayed. I had two stones in my hand from Israel. I turned to her and said that these two stones were from Israel, from the valley where David slew Goliath and that Israel was very important to us as it still had the blood of our Saviour, Jesus Christ, in its soil. I told her that He died for us that we might be forgiven and have eternal life with Him but also that we might be healed. I said that we have been praying for God to heal our nation and the Aboriginal people in it and on the reserves. I asked her if she would like to throw one of the stones in the water with me and ask for God to heal our Land. She said she would be honored so she linked arms with me and on the count of 3 we threw the stones in the water and called out to God to bring healing to Canada.
My heart was overjoyed to see how God had brought her there as a representative of the Queen who is the ’ÄúDefender of the Faith’Äù in Canada and to see His heart for reconciliation and healing in Canada.