Cleansing Stream
As Christians, we can often find that negative things from our past can cause baggage that can hinder our walk with God. Cleansing Stream is a series of teachings and ministry designed to help people identify and gain freedom in areas of struggle in their lives.
The course is also a great spiritual health-check for any Christian wanting to make sure they are on track; thinking, speaking and living in the best that God has for them. We encourage all our leaders and regular attenders sign up for it.
Attending the course
Cleansing Stream consists of five evening teaching sessions held once a month, with a two day retreat (normally Friday evening and all day Saturday). Participants complete homework from their workbook based around that month's teaching.
Our 2012 Course dates are:
- Cleansing Stream 1 - Tuesday 7th February
- Cleansing Stream 2 - Tuesday 28th February
- Cleansing Stream 3 - Tuesday 27th March
- Cleansing Stream 4 - Tuesday 17th April
Cleansing Stream Retreat: Friday 11th (7.30-10pm) & Saturday 12th (9am - 6pm) May 2012
- Cleansing Stream 5 - Tuesday 22nd May
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For more details please contact Carol Tye c.tye@kingsgateuk.com
Churches wanting to run a Cleansing Stream Course
We are currently working with Cleansing Stream US to rework some of the materials, the development of which will run into 2013 so we are unable to offer any Pastors Packs at this time.
We no longer stock any of the US materials, so if you would like to run the course using the existing US materials you can get in touch with them direct www.cleansingstream.org
Stories from Cleansing Stream
For a number of years I roller-coastered along in my walk with the Lord, gradually drifting farther away from God, the church, and even my wife. To be perfectly honest I didn’t know what was happening and didn’t really care. At Cleansing Stream God did a marvellous work in removing issues of abuse, rejection, mistrust and any smaller roots that were connected to the above... As soon as the word unforgiveness was spoken I knew that this was the biggy, and it needed to be rooted out. Needless to say after many tears I let go of all that had been ensnaring me, the mistrust of everybody because of the abuse and rejection, and more importantly the anger, bitterness and unforgiveness that was trying to destroy the spirit within me.
At Cleansing Stream I learnt it was not my fault all that happened to me, I can now love people and allow them into my heart fully, and I love myself. The most important change that has come from the Cleansing Stream Ministry; I have a most beautiful and meaningful relationship with God. I have been given a plan and purpose for my life, part of which is a desire to relate to other men what God has done for me, and help them achieve it too
On the Passage to Purity session a wonderful thing happened to release joy in me. I washed my hands and face as an act of cleansing, as I was being prayed for I felt so clean as if everything had been dealt with, and from deep within me laughter came bubbling up which took me totally by surprise. I continued to laugh and experience the feeling of pure joy for a considerable length of time. I felt like Psalm 34:5 “They looked at him and were radiant, their faces were not ashamed. Thank you Jesus!
Just wanted to tell you how blessed I was by the preach on fear at cleansing stream. You put it across so well and you helped me to give my fear a kick out of the door! Since I had been burgled I had suffered with a fear of sleeping alone in my house. Whenever my housemate was away I would find it very hard to fall asleep then eventually when I did fall asleep I would have a nightmare. I really dealt with this at cleansing stream and will continue to sleep as peacefully as I have since the retreat for the rest of my life.
All my life I had grown up being told that I would not amount to much, I was fat, I was ugly and would never have any man love me! After I was born my birth mother decided that she didn't really want a baby after all and walked out on me... My father ended up marrying 3 times, each time the stepmother would beat and verbally abuse me... I left home as soon as I could and ended up being sexually abused and finding solace in binge drinking a lot. I always came across as the life and soul of any crowd, big walls n all. I never really liked myself, never thought anyone could like me for me, and very rarely looked at myself in the mirror!
God did an amazing work in my life that weekend, allowing me to get to a place of realization that I was/am so loved, I am fearfully and wonderfully made in His image, and I know that God only makes the best. I realised that weekend that I never had to do anything I didn't want to do to please people again, because Jesus loves me for who I am and not what I am, or what I can give.
Rejection and dealing with the unforgiveness to my abusers was a really hard thing for me to do, it had been so much of my life, but with a lot of prayer I was able to let go of it and what a joy to look myself in the eye in the mirror and say out loud "God loves you!
The principles taught when applied daily have taught me how to be victorious over satan’s schemes to keep me in bondage. In whole I do not have enough words to express my gratitude at what God through Cleansing Stream have done in my life and I look forward to God and I dealing with a few more layers. Bring it on!
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