Gail

Since Covid and with tough times anticipated ahead I recognised that I needed to deepen my personal walk with Jesus. For some time I had also been seeking for Discipleship material which would help new believers understand the whole Bible not just the New Testament and the spiritual roots of the Christian faith. So when I heard about the New Beginnings Discipleship Training School I immediately knew it was right to do.
Although I did Alpha and Freedom in Christ courses many years ago, in my 35 plus years as a follower of Jesus this was my first structured Discipleship programme. From my early Christian walk I had struggled with the sins of pride and judging thoughts and so when we did the heart blocker sections on these areas I was surprised when I was prompted by the Lord to revisit my school reports. I spent time re reading each one and quickly the Lord graciously showed me that I had misinterpreted many of the comments and believed some lies about my ability and potential. Those lies were in fact restricting the way I saw the Lord working through me and in my mind I had been comparing what I did with the actions of others so trying to make myself somehow more than average. It was a light bulb moment.
As the school progressed I recognised too that the current idols in my life were the very opposite of the calling God had given me. Whilst I was used to the concept of taking every thought captive I didn’t really know how to do it. So having renounced lies and associated thought patterns I found and am finding using Philippians 4:8 transformative as a standard to test every thought.
When we studied the Believers baptism in week three I was in for another surprise. I was christened as a baby and was quickly convicted now that I needed to be baptised for one reason….obedience. So recently I was baptised in a river in Wales together with my husband and the Lord gave me an opportunity to share my testimony with a passerby.
The cover of the New Beginnings workbook shows the transformation from a chrysalis to a butterfly. Now free to be the person the Lord created me to be and to reach my full potential in Him I am so grateful for all that I have learned and continue to apply.

South Wales

Jo

New Beginnings Discipleship has helped me an enormous amount. I feel like a new person! I believe God’s hand is on it and that He will use it to ‘preach good news to the poor, bind up the broken hearted and proclaim freedom for the captives’ (Isaiah 61:1).

Shetland Isles

Irene

The Resurrection plant normally grows in desert lands and spends much of its life cycle waiting for the right conditions in which to reproduce. For long periods, even up to 100 years, it is curled up and seems dead. It may be blown along by strong winds but when there is water beneath it and the heavy rains come, it unfurls and opens itself to the refreshing rains. The plant germinates rapidly and heavy rains wash each seed out of its place onto the ground around. Tiny seedlings soon become mature enough to reproduce when the conditions are exactly right.

New Beginnings Discipleship offers such refreshing rains, washing out each dormant seed in our lives, enabling us to reproduce disciples as we are called and equipped to do under the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the great love of Father God Himself.

Somerset

Dave

I had an awesome time in my Individual Prayer Appointment this week and am recovering from the spiritual surgery. God has impacted in me that He wants me to have the best life now, not at some point in the future. New Beginnings Discipleship has so much potential…

Cornwall

Doug

Having worked through New Beginnings Discipleship I can thoroughly commend it to anyone who is seriously seeking to deepen their faith life and come closer to Father God. It is both fulfilling and challenging.

Somerset

Sally

God is using the New Beginnings Discipleship material powerfully in my life. It’s awesome just how often when doing the next week’s study it has addressed an issue I have been grappling with and shed light and life onto it. The material is challenging but there’s great blessing with it.

I thank God for this new material and sense that it is just what is needed for such a time as this in our nation.

Cornwall

Margaret

I am finding working through New Beginnings Discipleship a great blessing. How true we have to take captive every thought that is not from the Lord. In the middle of last night I woke up and my mind was going round on a negative thought and I suddenly remembered this and after putting it into action I soon went back to sleep.

Somerset