We recently attended a Desert Stream conference that Andy Comiskey and Dean Greer lead. My family & I attended, as well as two women from the ministry. Each conference we are able to attend is a little bit different, often with a slightly different style of teaching and a different focus. The theme of this conference was Mercy. Here are some testimonies.

I thought the conference was really great. It is encouraging to see other people in their struggles and at different times in the journey. The prayer times were helpful. I seemed more comfortable about me—where I am in this struggle at this point in life. Remember your heart matters to God. Mercy.
A female participant of Alive in Christ

I left the Living Waters healing conference this past weekend feeling more known and loved by God than ever before. I started attending Alive in Christ in February of this year; it's now been just over a year since my first acknowledgment of my feelings of same sex attractions; feelings I've been repressing and denying my whole life. I heard about the conference at our weekly Alive in Christ meeting and, desperate for more freedom and truth, I went expectant for just that. Freedom and truth is the least of what I experienced there; I received so much more.

Although the speakers at the conference only touched the surface of some really deep topics such as wounds from paternal and maternal relationships, parental neglect, and our need for mercy and the cross, I had significant personal revelation in each of these areas where God's still small voice set off a 4th of July fireworks display in my heart! As God spoke through Andy [Comiskey], my eyes were opened to the defenses my heart made as a young child to protect myself from being hurt emotionally by my family. As a result I grew up unable to emotionally connect with my parents because of the walls I put up; although developmentally I needed their love and affirmation. Through relating with the many testimonies shared, language was put to my painful experiences and as they were named I was able to lay them down and pick up the names God had for me. Through the teachings I had a revelation of God's nature and I was able to ask and receive forgiveness and mercy for myself.

As I received, I was then able to finally begin extending that to my parents. I laid my burdens down and sat humbly at the foot of the cross and received joy for my mourning and beauty for my ashes. Although I know this will be a process, God highlighted some significant things to begin with and go deeper with him in. Praise the Lord for his desire to make me whole. I realized that as I draw closer to him, I am healed. Praise the Lord!
Another female participant of Alive in Christ