Sorry I haven't had time to write a new post lately! Thankyou so much for reading the previous ones, lots of people told me that they were reading! I pray that what God is showing me is blessing all of you and that you are touched by Jesus' love. I pray that He fills you with a deeper revelation of His ways and a deeper knowing of His character. God is so good.
These last couple weeks I have had the privilege of having Loren Cunningham speak to our class. We were joined up with the YWAM ships DTS for a week while Loren was speaking on the future of the medical missions movement. It was a pretty crazy week. We started the week in the prayer room here praying for a ship that was given to YWAM ships. God spoke to many people the same verses and the same pictures, I love that!!! I love paying attention to what God is doing in a group of people and how He speaks. I learn to understand the ways of God more when I am paying attention to how He speaks and what He is doing corporately. Listening to Loren speak and tell different stories this week on listening to God and obeying His voice just skyrocketed my faith level and my boldness on stepping out in what He speaks to me. A few weeks ago there were a bunch of people in my school that needed money for our outreach deposits. I was really reluctant to give because I am trying to raise money myself for our outreach and I was thinking to myself, "Lord I need money myself, I don't want to give to some of these kids who maybe didn't do any support raising or just decided at the last minute to come and didn't have any funding." I know so selfish huh. I very clearly heard God tell me to give a certain amount to one person and then heard Him tell me to give another amount to another person. So I said yes to the Lord and gave. I felt joy immediately when i gave! I kind of then forgot for a couple weeks that i gave a certain amount. Then one of my friends from back home deposited the exact amount into my paypal account!!!! hahhahahhahahha I love Jesus! He is so faithful. I'm pretty sure He just wanted to see my response. I wish I had given more now :) God is so good.
Loren spoke on a bunch of stories like this. Stories of stepping out in faith on what God spoke to him. That is pretty much how YWAM started and now it sends out more missionaries than any other ministries in the world. All from listening to God and obeying. So simple but so hard at the same time, to step out in faith and go for it. I don't say all this to say we always have to "do" things for God in works but rather to share what God is highlighting in my own life right now. I am totally feeling the desire in my heart to jump in the water and do full time missions.
It is a wonderful thing to be in the place where you hear about all God is doing in the nations of the world. It's provoking me to ask God more and more where He wants me and what He wants me to do. I am falling more in love with Jesus. My perspective has shifted so much off of myself and onto the lost and onto Jesus. This may offend some but God has personally shown me that it is not so much about my fruitfullness but its all about intimacy with Jesus. Out of intimacy comes healing for the nations and fruit through Jesus working through me. So phew, it's really just all about Jesus. YWAM stresses this sooooo much, which is wonderful because really looking at bringing the gospel and healing to the lost world appears like a very large task, but if it's all about intimacy with Jesus, out of intimacy comes strategies and blueprints from heaven. It's actually on God's heart to touch the lost more than it is on our hearts, so He knows the best way.
So on another note, I lead worship for my class Friday morning. This would make some people very happy to hear since I have been harassed to do this before. I had so much fun and the Spirit of God came and totally it was awesome. YAY God!
There is a lot going on with my outreach that I cannot really put on the internet but please be in prayer for us. God is opening doors that no man can shut! But we definitely need prayer coverage to get into places and do the things we feel God wants us to do. I also am still raising funds for this portion of the trip. I need another 2500 so if God places it on your heart, you can find my paypal account on this page.
Also pray for my room. God is doing a lot of healing in a lot of people here and I have been praying and counseling a lot of girls here and I love it but I have had some sleepless nights and been getting migraine headaches a lot. Which is not completely uncommon for me but this is an area I want victory in and I believe God wants to heal me! Thankyou so much!
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