Kathryn Marquis
Kathryn Marquis travels itinerantly ministering in conferences and various events, in Canada and the US, and soon in the United Kingdom. The daughter of a military father and musical mother, an anointed psalmist, worship leader and prophetic voice, Kathryn’s heart and passion is to facilitate the corporate bride into Rev. 4:1 worship, engage heaven, open atmospheres, release corporate and individual destiny, and bring shift.
Kathryn’s rich vocals and brilliant range have been compared with the late Eva Cassidy, and JoAnn McFatter.
In person, she is both genuine and professional, accessible and warm, delighted to take the time to get to know you over (good) coffee, and swap the stories that make Jesus famous.
“For me, worship is about passionate love, desperate hunger, listening and releasing. It is about seeking out Jesus though it cost us everything; it is releasing corporate, unified adoration from earth to Heaven; and it is releasing the sounds, songs and declaration of Heaven on earth.
True prophetic worship is not spontaneous song, but sound and music that is heard in heaven, and released on earth. It’s the latter that contains the DNA of the Father, the presence of Holy Spirit and the Creative Word Himself. Resting on that sound is life, anointing for the release of destiny and Kingdom purposes, and the invitation to come up into new realms with God. Prophetic song is not the exclusive gift to the musician, but to the desperately hungry for Him!”
-- Kathryn Marquis
Kathryn Marquis’s ministry has been birthed out the inevitable God-lover’s journey through the soul’s dark night and learning to worship in the secret place. The daughter of a military father and a rich musical heritage through her mother, her sound is a fresh edge of warrior authority and intimate love. An anointed psalmist, worship leader and prophetic voice, her passion is releasing "on earth as it is in Heaven", and her heart is to facilitate the corporate bride into Revelations 4:1 worship, open atmospheres and Glory encounters, releasing both individual and corporate destiny, healing and shift.
Kathryn’s debut CD release, “THE DOOR IS OPEN” has been featured by the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, The Elijah List and in Spread the Fire Magazine, and is now distributed in Europe and the UK under the Integrity Europe label. She travels itinerantly ministering in conferences and various events, both in Canada and abroad, with worship, prophetic ministry, teaching and impartation. Kathryn lives with her husband and sons in Stratford Ontario, Canada.
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Kathryn's Music: "The Door is Open"
Endorsements:
Kathryn reminds me of the kind of minstrel who Elijah was calling for when he wanted the hand of the Lord to come upon him. 2 Kings 3:15 "Bring me a minstrel and I will hear from heaven." As you listen to Kathryn's soothing and profound worship you will experience 'the hand of the Lord coming upon you!
-Bill Yount, Blowing the Shofar Ministries
“Kathryn Marquis is a gifted and anointed worship leader and song writer. God has gifted her with an amazing ability to lead the congregation into deeper levels of worship. Don't think of her in the traditional worship leader’s role; that is too limited. What Kathryn brings moves between worship and intercession; it is hard to distinguish where one stops and the other starts. If you are hungry for the presence of God, and long for a deeper revelation, I would highly recommend Kathryn.
-Rachel Carroll, Pastor, Greater Chicago Church, Oak Park, IL
“Kathryn is an anointed worshiper who literally carries the heart and abandonment of David. She is a true psalmist and has the ability to hear and discern the voice of God, and the move of the Holy Spirit. She is able to ignite the heart of man to enter into a higher and more intimate level of worship and love for the Father. Kathryn’s worship carries a purity that causes heaven to respond. Whether she leads worship for a congregation of 10 or 500 people, she has the ability to engage every single person in worship, causing a very powerful corporate anointing to fall in the room. She has a powerful breakthrough anointing that leaves a deep deposit in the lives of the people attending, and in the church itself. We greatly endorse Kathryn’s heart and ministry, and without hesitation encourage leaders to bring her, so she can impart what she carries in their midst.”
-Ivan and Isabel Allum, Forest City Destiny Church, London, ON
Pure Worship - Kathryn Marquis
I am part of the administration and the primary worship leader for a city-wide, multi-denominational event in my home town called “The Response Initiative”. RI is a monthly night of worship dreamed into being for the purpose of providing a platform for lovers of Jesus, without regard for divisions, generational, cultural or denominational differences, to come together and engage God as a unified congregation in the corporate worship dynamic. We called it The Response Initiative because we liked the concept of God’s people initiating worship, instead of waiting for our expressions of worship to be a response to something God says or does – even though our worship truly is in response to Him - there is nothing in Him that isn’t worthy of worship!!
One of the taglines for The Response Initiative is, "PURE WORSHIP; GOD'S GOVERNMENT; TAKE THE INITIATIVE." I love this statement, and it's inspired by the book of Revelation. All through the Bible's last book this pattern can be found; simplified and paraphrased it reads, "Every created thing everywhere worships; God does stuff in the earth. They worship more; God does more stuff." The 'stuff' He does is purposeful, righteous, full of justice, and mercy.
It's governmental. He is enthroned on our praise, and the throne is a government seat. AWESOME.
When I talk about ‘pure’ worship, I mean worship that is singular, motivated only by who God is and what He's done… not what we want from Him. Some of the dictionary definitions of "pure" are these: not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material; without any extraneous and unnecessary elements; wholesome and untainted by immorality; involving or containing nothing else but; sheer (used for emphasis). Jesus said to the Samaritan woman, on worship, that God was seeking those who would worship in spirit, and in truth. “Truth” in this context, I believe, speaks to the concept of purity. If we're coming to offer "pure worship", it's not about technical perfection or a certain structure, liturgy, style or genre. It's like the definitions - unmixed and unadulterated, nothing unnecessary or added, singular, SHEER WORSHIP.
Let’s think on that for a moment.
Sheer WORSHIP. What is worship? As much as we love to sing the songs that speak to our relationship with Him, our need of Him, how much He loves us, and how good His Presence is, and petitioning Him to pour out in the earth, I would challenge you for a moment to consider this: those songs are not worship. They are true, and it is necessary song ministry as we commune and engage with God, it is scriptural – “speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs”. However, worship is something else. Worship has many definitions throughout scripture, but I would venture to sum it all up in this statement: Worship is to ascribe unto God what is due Him. The word “ascribe” means to “put on, or assign to”. That means we use our words to clothe God in who and what He already is. Simply put, it’s "holy, holy, worthy, worthy" directed at who He is and what He's worth… casting aside needs, petitions, self-based motives - including the motive of receiving from Him. This doesn't mean we don't receive during worship - it just means we're coming without regard for that. We're coming purely to give to Him what is due HIM. We decide not to judge it 'good or bad', or value, or de-value worship based on our preferences, on genre, or our subjective experience. In fact, we don't judge it at all. It's HIS to value and it's MINE to give. He's worthy, and all heaven is doing it, always. PURE, SHEER, UNMIXED WORSHIP. I'm not going to wait for Him to ask for it…. I'm going to take the initiative. Will you?
Kathryn Marquis
www.kathrynmarquis.com
www.responseinitiative.org
Experiential Truth - Kathryn Marquis
It is wonderful, in our lives, when our experience of God and of life lines up with the promises of scripture. It is an amazing thing to know and live out the goodness of God in the land of the living. However, there are seasons and circumstances in life for many of us, when this is not our experience.
I am a kinesthetic learner. I learn most effectively when I am provided hands-on, sensory, tangible processes that will back up whatever concept or theory is being presented. It was never enough for me in school to be fed information; I needed to process it experientially in order to truly understand and retain.
The human brain is a remarkable and miraculous organ…divinely designed with amazing intricacies. One such intricacy has to do with experiential learning… when we have an experience, particularly if we have it consistently, the brain’s chemical response is to form a 'truth' around the experience. Truth learned by experience is powerful. There are scriptures that reference this; Job 42:5 says, "My ears had heard of you by now my eyes have seen," and Psalm 34:8 exhorts us to taste and see that the Lord is good. Truth by experience changes mere information into revelation. Information informs, but revelation establishes. Information about God teaches us…but revelation about Him CHANGES us.
What happens, though, when our circumstances and experience are bad? Difficult? Traumatizing? When we suffer - repeatedly? When we are consistently disappointed? When we experience a quality of life that is in opposition to our desires? What about when we experience (or don't feel we've experienced) God? What if the "God of my experience" does not line up with the God of scripture?
It's easy to crank out an answer to that problem - just believe, make a choice; He is who He says He is. Yes, He is. But, now my soul is at the mercy of a set of experiences that have taught me a 'truth' that has become revelatory to me; and whether it is actually true or a lie, unfortunately, in this situation carries little weight - because by my experience, it is true for me. Revelation establishes.
I am a firm believer in truth breaking the power of lies. I believe that scriptural truth, the Word of God, contains within it a holy and supernatural power to break chains and strongholds off of people on a spiritual level, and it is critical for us as followers of Jesus to fill our minds and our lives with His living and active word. But, at the level of the soul - that is, the mind, will and emotions - rising above learned, experiential 'true-for-me' truths is a challenging process. Without positive experience to replace the negative, we must decide whether we will trust in the God of our experience, or the God of "I am that I AM."
I find in my own life that I am continually looking for God to replace my bad experiences with good ones; for Him to redeem my pain with blessing, to turn my mourning into dancing, to change my ashes into beauty. To make restitution. To bring justice. And, it is true, all of this is who He is…whether He performs it or not. He IS Redeemer, even when He chooses not to redeem. Is there room in your theology for unanswered questions, for unresolved issues, for uncompensated disappointment? Is there room in your revelation of the I AM if He should choose to leave your issues open-ended, and let it be enough that through Jesus, your relationship has been resolved? Will you accuse God? Job did not accuse, but chose to trust in the God of I AM, rather than his own wretched experience, before experiential redemption and restitution ever came for him… but it DID come.
But, it doesn't come for everyone. Consider John the Baptist. Jesus Himself said that no one born of woman was greater than John. And, of all people, no one had more human grounds to accuse God than he. His life was completely set apart. He took a Nazarite vow and denied himself comfort, convenience and soul satisfaction, living wholly, completely and sacrificially dedicated to God and the purpose for which he was born. He suffered hunger, poverty, harsh living conditions, friendlessness, criticism, misunderstanding and the loneliness that comes from being singularly called. He lived to fulfill his destiny, baptizing the promised Messiah and watching heaven's transaction of love and approval poured out on Jesus. And then, for John - wrongful, vengeful imprisonment. Scripture doesn't tell us, but leaves us to wonder… there, in prison, with his experiential 'truths' gnawing at him, did John finally become discouraged and out of that wavering place - despite what he had seen - send his own disciples to ask the question of Matthew 11 verse 3: "Are You it, or do we look for someone else?" And the answer? Paraphrased, it was, Go tell John that the blind, the lame, the deaf, the lepers and even the dead are experiencing I AM…and blessed are you if you are not offended. OUCH.
No one was more deserving of the experience of redemption, or of restitution, than John. Not Job….certainly not me. However, even as John went to his brutal death, no experience came for him. Jesus did not visit him in prison. He was not offered an explanation, or any sort of compensation for what he endured. John was invited, by the I AM Himself, to not become offended for the absence of personal experience, but to make room in his theology for something difficult to bear: SOVEREIGNTY.
We will not always understand God's ways. We will not always appreciate His hand - or our perceived absence of it. We may never, like John the Baptist, receive relief, resolution or restitution - at least not on this mortal shore. How will you and I respond to this facet of His sovereignty? Do we know His character enough to be satisfied with who He is, and even when we are not satisfied, to trust? Of all things, to LOVE? Blessed is he who is not offended.
Treasures of Darkness - Kathryn Marquis
Recently, a friend commented to me about her disappointment when a dire situation suddenly arose in her family; that she had “just learned to live life without expecting the ‘other shoe to drop’ and then it did.” You must understand that this was not a casual or superficial complaint; this friend has faced her share of circumstances that would have many of us take one look, and run quickly in the opposite direction. She was widowed very young by cancer, and then just as suddenly this newly single mom’s oldest son faced a cancer diagnosis of his own – and that’s just the beginning of her journey. Her life story, meant to be a testimony of joy coming in the morning, has not yet seemed to have reached the light of dawn; and now, most recently, a new set of “challenges” has reared its ugly head, just as, in her mind, she could begin to trust in things not completely falling apart at every turn.
My heart aches at her situation, and at my own, as we have faced seemingly innumerable losses and reasons for tears in the last couple of years – years which we had hoped would mark the end of our own season of weeping and mourning – only to replace the chronic pain and sadness I had lived with up to that point with the acute pain of raging circumstances; almost losing our marriage, walking through my mother’s brain tumor diagnosis and her death a year later, the loss of jobs, a bankruptcy, the loss of our home, dealing with an immobilizing injury, and living homeless for 3 months. And yet, in the midst of darkness, a treasure forms.
Isa 45:3 "I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden wealth of secret places, so that you may know that it is I, The LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name.”
One summer morning a few years ago, as I walked with the Lord, I found myself sitting on a park bench, weeping, and out of my heart came this prayer, “Lord, how is it that it feels like the first 30 years of my life have been about grief and tears?” In that moment His inexplicable love surrounded me, and filled me like warm and healing balm. I heard Him whisper, the way that only He can, to my innermost being: “Kathryn, though your weeping has endured for a night, the rest of your life will be about carrying My glory.”
I went away from that encounter rejoicing at His words, seemingly a promise of better things to come. Only, those “better things” turned out to be the circumstances noted above; not exactly what one would expect restoration to look like. I was understandably confused, and disappointed. Not that there weren’t amazing, encouraging circumstances and miracles that also occurred during that time, but I too, like my friend, was looking for a quality of life without the constant expectation of bad things happening; “Lord, haven’t I suffered enough? When can I trust again that things are going to be ok??”
As it happens, I was asking the wrong question. I had interpreted His promise to me to mean a change of circumstances, but He was talking about much more than that. As always, He has the best in mind when I can only conceive of the crumbs. Hidden inside his words to me was a promise of the transformation of my very heart. My question to Him needed to be not, “when can I trust in better circumstances coming for me,” but, “Lord, what did You mean about carrying Your glory?”
Oh, if we only understood the nature of suffering. Christ’s suffering for our ultimate redemption was the greatest passion play, the greatest illustrated sermon ever presented on the very character and Person of the Godhead: “He who has seen Me has seen the Father;” (John 14:9) He is ultimate Love, in its purest, highest form. And, if we are very courageous, in the midst of great trial, we suddenly become the seat of conception for the greatest revelation that can come to the heart of man; I AM. The greatest treasure of darkness is that He is unchanging, He is still the same, He is on the throne, His name is Love, He never fails; though the light become darkness around me, though the mountains be removed and hurled into the sea, You remain, Your love remains, and my Jesus is still the same. He meant it, when He said through Paul, to count it all joy when we face trials of many kinds, for to persevere through painful trials produces the character of Jesus, and His character within us gives birth to the hope that does not disappoint; even His GLORY. Christ in me, in perfect, intimate, conjugal oneness IS the glory of God in its ultimate expression.
To carry His glory is His ultimate design and plan for humanity. Romans 8:18 says, “For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us,” and goes on to say that even creation is subjected to the frustrated groaning of waiting for the revealing of the sons of the Kingdom. In Matthew 13 we see that it is in His sovereign design to harvest out of us everything evil thing that hinders and causes us to stumble, “AND THEN” we will shine like the sun (with His glory!) in the Kingdom of our Father.
His ultimate design was and is to form and reveal in me a true worshiper; to give my life every opportunity to be a testimony and a pleasing fragrance, to reveal in me His glory, the treasure formed in darkness – the wealth in secret places. My place of suffering at the merciful hands of adverse circumstance, is the crucible for the glorious “AND THEN” of Matthew 13, revealing the pearl of greatest price. Pearls are fascinating gems. Natural, uncultured (that is, without human intervention) pearls are very rare, forming only when a microscopic parasite or impurity accidentally invades the safe, pristine environment of the soft tissue, or mantle of a sea mollusk. Being irritated by the invader, the mollusk coats the impurity with a calcium secretion in layer upon conjunctive layer. If one were to dissect a natural pearl, there would be no solid ‘centre’ visible, but a series of concentric “growth rings”. It’s not a stretch to see the allegory. (My middle name, incidentally, is Margaret, from the Greek, meaning, “A Pearl”. Trouble is literally my middle name.)
That summer morning when He spoke to me, He was giving me much more than a promise of better things to come. He was giving me a priceless key for life and having it abundantly. He was essentially saying to me, “Kathryn, I’ve chosen for you to endure; and where you have wept and thought it was ‘for nothing’, you will come to find it has worked to ignite to brilliant, raging flame within you, the greatest treasure concerning darkness. If you will allow Me, Your life will carry the very I AM.”
I long to be able to tell my friend that better days are coming for her, but they are not necessarily the better days of easier circumstances. I have no idea if more loss will come to her, but I do know that as she comes through this time of trouble, she will emerge radiant and shining, with a better revelation of the character and Person of the God who loves her, who formed her, who has called her by name. Often now, when I meet people, they look into my eyes and say something like, “Oh! I see Him! Shining there!” and I am reduced to tears for the honor of having been given the gift of an unveiled face, revealing His glory as a bright reflection in the mirror of my life. I have come to intimately know the truth of Psalm 84, that blessed are those who have set their hearts on pilgrimage, who pass through the valley of weeping, making it a place of springs – that the former and latter rains fall on them there. Rightly He promised me that there would come the day for me when I would “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you… Then you will see and be radiant, and your heart will thrill and rejoice; … for you will have the LORD for an everlasting light, and the days of your mourning will be over.” (Isa 60:1,5,20)
And, if He promised me, He has promised you.
Kathryn Marquis
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