Invictus England
Hello! We are Margaret and Bernie Andrew. We live in Colchester, England, which is the oldest recorded city in the British Isles and was once the capital of Roman England. We are core leaders in Invictus Prophetic Global and help head up Invictus England.
We have been married forty-six years (wahoo!) have three grown, married kids, one granddaughter and a grandchild on the way in December.
Invictus England holds Zoom meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, providing a scheduled opportunity for group members to connect and participate in teaching and discussion on various topics.
We are excited about the teaching on aspects of New Age practices. This is so timely for all of us but particularly for those involved with prophetic ministry. In these days of great mixture around the church, it is vitally important that we can clearly distinguish what is New Age and demonic and what is the truth of God’s word in these areas where the enemy seeks to seduce the body of Christ.
Invictus is blessed to have clear teachers of the word, particularly in Rebecca King and Heather Clayton, who can bring correction and challenge into these areas. Please do join in with this and make others aware of it too. We see it as an appropriate response to the command to be ‘as innocent as doves and as wise as serpents’. (Check out the link in this newsletter for more information on the upcoming teaching on the Third Eye.)
In the interests of forming connections as widely as we can, we continue to meet periodically with Transforming Essex, an alliance of churches in the Essex area who seek to help other churches in mounting events in their own localities. Although their ‘lane’ is more in the realm of evangelism than in the prophetic, they are very happy to have Invictus around, especially as we are in north Essex, which is the area they have been wanting to connect with for some time. It is all about building the Kingdom together, so none of us are pedantic about which of the fivefold ministry gifts we operate in!
On a more personal note, it is a year since an informal fellowship group arose in our home on a Tuesday morning based in our village of Rowhedge. Starting with just four of us we have regularly seen as many as fourteen people cram into our lounge. What is also remarkable is that most of those now come from the village. It’s been an absolute joy to be involved in all that’s happening.
We said right from the beginning that our house is HIS place, and if it’s His place, He can do what he likes; and we certainly like what He does! We place a strong emphasis on worship, and we have some extraordinary times in his presence. It must be a place where God can rest among his people – habitation, not visitation. A place where He has all the glory, all dominion, all authority its His place after all – so he can do whatever He wants.
A stand-out day deserves a mention. In response to a prompting from the Holy Spirit we took a small group with us to St. Peter’s Chapel at Bradwell on the coast. It was the place where a Lindisfarne monk landed in AD 653 to bring the Gospel to this area: a gateway place. We worshipped, we prayed, we prophesied… and then other visitors started to arrive. We prayed and prophesied over a mother with her two teenage children. And then a couple came in. Some of the group talked to and prayed with them, resulting in the man giving his life to Jesus! As we keep saying, ‘Something is happening!’ Oh yes!