April in Review!
- Sarah
- May 1
- 7 min read
The Forever Free Conference: What God Did Over One Extraordinary Weekend
If you weren't at the Forever Free Conference, I want to do my best to bring you into what happened, because what took place over these sessions was not just inspiring. It was genuinely life-changing. Speaker after speaker, session after session, God kept driving home the same powerful truth from completely different angles: the freedom you have been searching for is not something you need to go get. It is already on the inside of you.
Andrew Wommack — Eternal Redemption: Your Sins Are Gone. All of Them.
Andrew Wommack opened the conference Thursday night by Zoom, teaching from Hebrews 9 and 10. His message was straightforward: Jesus entered the presence of God once, and in that one offering obtained eternal redemption. Past sins. Present sins. Future sins. All of it. Dealt with. Once. Forever. Done.
He addressed the way most Christians actually live, not doubting that God can move, but doubting that He will, because of sin consciousness. That nagging sense that you haven't done enough for God to really show up for you. Scripture is clear: your spirit has been sanctified, sealed, and perfected forever through one offering. You are accepted in the Beloved, not in yourself. You are the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. That is not a confession to get you somewhere. That is already where you are.
Pastor Mark Machen — Beholding Him Changes Everything
If you were in the room Friday night, you know something happened that is hard to put into words. Pastor Mark came to the platform and did something simple: he talked about Jesus. Not steps, not keys, not formulas. Just Jesus. Walking through Colossians 1, John 5, John 17, and 1 John 3, he wove together one unshakeable truth: the Father has already qualified you, already presented you holy and blameless, and already given you the same glory He gave His own Son.
What followed was one of the most powerful moments of the conference. He sat down at the keys, read from Revelation 4, and led the room in worship. People were checking their bodies and reporting that pain had already left. Nobody wanted it to end. It was a room full of people simply beholding Jesus, and discovering that beholding Him is what changes everything. Throughout the weekend, Pastor Mark also led Q&A sessions that were some of the most raw and practical conversations of the conference, covering everything from persistent sickness and hearing God to fasting and struggling marriages.
Daniel Amstutz — Guard Your Heart Like Your Life Depends on It
Daniel Amstutz anchored his message in Proverbs 4, Mark 4, and Hebrews 4, building toward one non-negotiable truth: you are already fully equipped. Wall-to-wall Holy Ghost. Sealed. Complete. The problem is never a deficit in your spirit. It is the condition of your heart.
Using the Parable of the Sower, Daniel showed that the four soil types represent the varying conditions of the heart, and that the enemy doesn't overpower you. He simply waits for you to give place to stress, distraction, and the cares of life. The most powerful thing you can do is become a diligent steward of your own heart, because no minister can do that for you. Only you and the Holy Spirit can tend that garden. Whom the Son sets free is free indeed.
Jeremiah Johnson — Sin Is Not What You Think It Is
Jeremiah came in with a definition that reframed the entire conversation. Sin, from the Greek "harmatia," means to miss the mark, and it is far broader than moral failure. Every moment of fear, worry, covetousness, or comparison is missing the mark, not because God is keeping score, but because every one of those things pulls you out of the abundant life He designed for you.
Wide open about his own journey from addiction and atheism, Jeremiah made the case that his freedom came not from willpower but from identity. He was free on the inside before he was free on the outside. He closed with the pride of life, the tendency to derive your worth from comparison with others, calling it one of the most dangerous and overlooked forms of missing the mark in the church today. When you get free from it, you stop competing and start celebrating. Your value is settled in who God made you to be, and that changes everything.
Brian Essary — Stop Working. You're Yoked to the Wrong Thing.
Brian Essary opened with a declaration that raised a few eyebrows: "Healing is easy. Transformation is easy." His central point, drawn from Colossians 2, was that the traditions of men filter good biblical truth through a performance-based worldview until it becomes exhausting. Jesus said His yoke is easy and His burden is light. If it isn't feeling that way, we have come off the yoke.
The testimonies he shared were unforgettable. A pastor was raised from the dead in India while Brian experienced zero faith, and a woman with Parkinson's was healed after nearly 20 years simply because she gave God permission. Both carried the same message: you don't need great faith. You just need one willing step in the right direction, and grace will meet you there. Rest is not laziness. It is the posture of the new covenant.
Chad Gonzalez — Your Imagination Is a Spiritual Thing
Chad Gonzalez closed out Saturday evening by tying every thread of the week together in the most surprising place: your imagination. His central revelation was that considerations lead to meditations, meditations lead to imaginations, and imaginations lead to manifestations, and that this sequence is not just psychological but deeply spiritual. Satan's only tool is a thought or a suggestion. He has no authority to act directly in your life.
God's response throughout Scripture has been consistent: He gives a promise, then gives someone something to look at. Abraham counted the stars. Joshua meditated day and night. Why? Because whatever has your sustained attention will eventually have your faith and produce your reality. Your imagination is not a natural thing you casually manage. It is a spiritual doorway. The only question is which direction you have been aiming it. It is time to aim it toward Jesus.
So What Do You Take Home?
Every speaker this week said it in their own way: the Christ on the inside of you is greater than anything coming against you on the outside. You are not the sick trying to get healed. You are not the broken trying to get whole. You are not the sinner trying to get free. You are the healed, the whole, and the free, learning to agree with what God has already declared over you. If you want a rewatch, click this link below for the full conference!
Testimonies
I had been in a dry place because of the circumstances I had faced since returning from 3rd-year Bible school. I needed the word that was taught to put me back on track. Got the wisdom needed to keep on track regardless of circumstances. God is so good even when we stray. Feel so blessed and as in the scriptures, as Jesus is, so am I in this world. - Gerald
If I were to make a general testimony, it would be this: I came hoping for a dramatic change in the way by body is acting and left with a hunger for the things of God and more of Him, including a pruning in my heart of anything that is not of Him, because He has a purpose and a plan for my life and I WANT IT! - Cheryl
The conference was awesome. Furthermore, each speaker was amazing and did an excellent job of teaching the deeper truths of God’s Word! Thank you, Life of Faith Church. I was blessed by this conference! - Lisha
Mentorships
Take Off the Old Clothes
In the March Forever Free Mentorship sessions, one of the most vivid and practical teachings was built around three stories from the Gospels that all share a surprising common thread: clothes. The woman with the issue of blood who touched the hem of Jesus' garment in faith and was instantly healed, Blind Bartimaeus, who threw off his beggar's coat before he ever received his sight, and the prodigal son whose father ran to meet him and immediately called for the best robe to be placed on his shoulders. Each story is really a story about identity.
The contrast between Bartimaeus and the prodigal son is where the teaching got especially powerful. Bartimaeus made the decision himself to throw off the coat that represented his label, his limitations, and his past before he ever experienced the miracle. The prodigal son, on the other hand, had the robe placed on him by his father. And yet both pictures tell the same truth from different angles: the father's job is to clothe you in righteousness, and your job is to take off the old. God has already done His part. The robe of righteousness, the identity of sonship, the seal of the Holy Spirit — it is all already yours in your spirit man. But the old labels, the victim mindset, the identity built around sickness or struggle or failure, nobody else can remove that. That is something only you can do.
He anchored it all in Ephesians 4:22, where Paul says to put off the old man who grows corrupt in the way you think, feel, and talk. As long as you hold on to the beggar's coat, the new clothes cannot fully take over your thinking and your experience. But the moment you make the decision, the same decision Bartimaeus made before the miracle ever came — everything changes. You are not the sick one, not the addicted one, not the defeated one. That coat no longer belongs to you. Take it off and let the Father's robe do what it was always meant to do.
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