Our team leaves on Sunday. I'm really excited and feel ready to leave Kona. I will definitely miss this warm sunny weather though. :( At this point in DTS, I am feeling so full and ready to go out on outreach. All my roomates are leaving today for Haiti and the Philippines so this has been a sad week saying goodbye to everyone as they leave for the nations. I love this culture of everyone preparing to go out to the nations, like an army. I said goodbye to friends leaving for Ghana, Mozambique, Cambodia, South Africa, Israel, and India so far. It will be so encouraging to know that while I am on the mission field, my friends are co-laboring in other nations along with me.
I am so happy for the time I have gotten here in Kona. The training and discipleship and speakers have been really good for me. I have definitely been dwelling on how much the Holy Spirit loves unity. Unity in the church, unity in the christians around the world, unity on our team, and unity with me. We as a team are praying a lot for unity. I really believe satan hates a unified spirit. He likes to work in conflict and dis-unify the church and teams. Please keep my team in your prayers that we would be unified, like family, moving in one mind, one vision, one heart as humble servants unto Christ.
Thankyou for your prayers. I won't be communicating while outside of the US for safety purposes. I want to keep our contacts and the places we go safe, so I will probably not write any more blogs until I return to Kona. There is a lot going on that I cannot say online at this point, but please pray for our safety and that we would hear the voice of God very clearly. Thankyou, and bless you!
Marianna
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Sunday, March 18, 2012
These past two weeks had their fair share of ups and downs. This past week I had this crazy stomach flu that is passing around campus. So I didn't get a chance to do much which was a bummer but in a way if I'm gonna get this bug I'm glad I got it now instead of when I am about to leave the country. The week before we had a speaker from Bethel Church in Redding, CA. He so inspired me to step out in boldness and pray for others. He told many testimonies of people getting healed and it got me excited to pray for sick people.
I have been thinking a lot of what God wants to do in our outreach team. As I prepare to be in another country for 2 months, I am really sobered about what is going on in these places and I am taking time to pray and seek God for wisdom and clear thinking while I am there. I'm excited about my team, it is mostly women and precious people. I am praying for us to have unity which is a big weapon against darkness. I can't wait to serve and love people. I want to put so much more on here but I can't for safety. Please pray for us as there is a lot going on and pray that I would be totally clear minded and hear the voice of God clearly.
God is so good and faithful. He loves us so well. I am feeling so much delight from God. I lead worship again for class this past friday and just was reminded of how Jesus paid it all by dying on the cross for me and all of us. I was brought to tears as I sang the hymn:
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless Babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand
I just love that song. I pray that God touches you with the truth of the cross today. That you would know the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of God's love for you.
I have been thinking a lot of what God wants to do in our outreach team. As I prepare to be in another country for 2 months, I am really sobered about what is going on in these places and I am taking time to pray and seek God for wisdom and clear thinking while I am there. I'm excited about my team, it is mostly women and precious people. I am praying for us to have unity which is a big weapon against darkness. I can't wait to serve and love people. I want to put so much more on here but I can't for safety. Please pray for us as there is a lot going on and pray that I would be totally clear minded and hear the voice of God clearly.
God is so good and faithful. He loves us so well. I am feeling so much delight from God. I lead worship again for class this past friday and just was reminded of how Jesus paid it all by dying on the cross for me and all of us. I was brought to tears as I sang the hymn:
In Christ alone my hope is found
He is my light, my strength, my song
This Cornerstone, this solid ground
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm
What heights of love, what depths of peace
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease
My Comforter, my All in All
Here in the love of Christ I stand
In Christ alone, who took on flesh
Fullness of God in helpless Babe
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones He came to save
Til on that cross as Jesus died
The wrath of God was satisfied
For every sin on Him was laid
Here in the death of Christ I live
There in the ground His body lay
Light of the world by darkness slain
Then bursting forth in glorious Day
Up from the grave He rose again
And as He stands in victory
Sin's curse has lost its grip on me
For I am His and He is mine
Bought with the precious blood of Christ
No guilt in life, no fear in death
This is the power of Christ in me
From a life's first cry to final breath
Jesus commands my destiny
No power of hell, no scheme of man
Could ever pluck me from His hand
Til He returns or calls me home
Here in the power of Christ I stand
I just love that song. I pray that God touches you with the truth of the cross today. That you would know the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth of God's love for you.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Week 8
The time here is going by wayyyyy too fast!!! This past week we were joined together with the YWAM medical associates. We prayed one of the days about what God wants to do with the medical DTS in the future and what it looks like right now. I love hearing what God speaks to people and when people hear the same thing is so cool. I truly believe God is raising up the christian medical personelle to bring healing to the whole person throughout the nations. I'm excited to be in that circle, although I hope that more young people catch the vision for this.
Since I had no clue I would be going to a cold climate, I did not bring cold weather clothing. Thank God there is a lot of people here. I got a few items from others that will be essential for my outreach trip. We are preparing to leave the country and meeting with our outreach teams a lot. I'm feeling pretty bittersweet about this since it means leaving friendships I have made and grown close to these past 2 months. It's so fun to prepare with a team to go out to the mission field. It's like an army preparing for war. The whole campus here is preparing to leave for different countries all over the world. Just in my room alone girls are preparing to go to Haiti, Philippines, Israel, and South Africa. I love other countries, peoples, and cultures. I wish I could go everywhere and tell people how much Jesus loves them and care for the sick....one day perhaps :)
Please keep my outreach team in your prayers as we are going into 2 pretty intense countries that are not open to the gospel. Thankfully as medical workers, we can interact with people. We are praying for more opportunities to have medical clinics or go into the hospitals in these countries so we can interact more with people. I know for sure we are going to orphanages which is my favorite thing ever!!! So I'm definitely bringing a soccer ball for this crew. I have gone to two other countries bringing a soccer ball and it is an easy way to play and then tell kids about Jesus and run medical checkups and teaching with kids. So I'm pretty sure I'll be in charge of this aspect of our trip. I have also somehow become the team worship leader, not sure how that happened.
There is a lot to figure out and prepare for these next few weeks prior to leaving. We are so lucky here in America. It's a challenge to think about how to talk to people carefully and making sure the people you talk to are not bad. Listening to the voice of God will never be so key to me as it will in this season of my life. It's not just for leisure, its my life. I'm confident God will go before me and come after me and I will hear Him clearly and step out in faith. I'm reminded of how bold my dad always was to share the love of Jesus with others. He lived his life in light of eternity and wanted others to have the same hope he had. I hope one day to be on the mission field with my family together...hint hint siblings :) It's our inheritance!
Thankyou for your prayers and support, I feel privileged to serve God in this way. I feel like all the training and love I have received from God and others has prepared me for this time in my life. I feel so at rest also knowing that this is exactly the place I am supposed to be right now. I pray God blesses your day!
Since I had no clue I would be going to a cold climate, I did not bring cold weather clothing. Thank God there is a lot of people here. I got a few items from others that will be essential for my outreach trip. We are preparing to leave the country and meeting with our outreach teams a lot. I'm feeling pretty bittersweet about this since it means leaving friendships I have made and grown close to these past 2 months. It's so fun to prepare with a team to go out to the mission field. It's like an army preparing for war. The whole campus here is preparing to leave for different countries all over the world. Just in my room alone girls are preparing to go to Haiti, Philippines, Israel, and South Africa. I love other countries, peoples, and cultures. I wish I could go everywhere and tell people how much Jesus loves them and care for the sick....one day perhaps :)
Please keep my outreach team in your prayers as we are going into 2 pretty intense countries that are not open to the gospel. Thankfully as medical workers, we can interact with people. We are praying for more opportunities to have medical clinics or go into the hospitals in these countries so we can interact more with people. I know for sure we are going to orphanages which is my favorite thing ever!!! So I'm definitely bringing a soccer ball for this crew. I have gone to two other countries bringing a soccer ball and it is an easy way to play and then tell kids about Jesus and run medical checkups and teaching with kids. So I'm pretty sure I'll be in charge of this aspect of our trip. I have also somehow become the team worship leader, not sure how that happened.
There is a lot to figure out and prepare for these next few weeks prior to leaving. We are so lucky here in America. It's a challenge to think about how to talk to people carefully and making sure the people you talk to are not bad. Listening to the voice of God will never be so key to me as it will in this season of my life. It's not just for leisure, its my life. I'm confident God will go before me and come after me and I will hear Him clearly and step out in faith. I'm reminded of how bold my dad always was to share the love of Jesus with others. He lived his life in light of eternity and wanted others to have the same hope he had. I hope one day to be on the mission field with my family together...hint hint siblings :) It's our inheritance!
Thankyou for your prayers and support, I feel privileged to serve God in this way. I feel like all the training and love I have received from God and others has prepared me for this time in my life. I feel so at rest also knowing that this is exactly the place I am supposed to be right now. I pray God blesses your day!
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