It has already been a month since we have arrived!! Whoa! It feels like its been so long but yet so short! I have thoroughly enjoyed being here.
God is on the move! He is doing so much in people and around the world it blows my mind. God is truly so much bigger than my mind can even dream up!!! In the past couple of weeks we have heard Mike Bickle and Lauren Cunnigham speak. They have been able to bring a bigger picture of what God is doing and going to do worldwide! HE'S not just a western world GOD! He is the King of KINGS and LORD OF LORDS!!! My mind cant even be wrapped around that thought! Hes soo big, soo powerful and yet so gracious! I have so many sporadic thoughts running through my mind, so I will try to narrow them down to the revelations and experiences I have been encountering.
Every Tuesday one of the schools on base have a specific time set out to spread Jesus in the community. I have been able to join them the past couple of weeks, but last week turned out a bit different than I was expecting. I was walking with 3 other people and we were waiting for the spirit to lead us in any direction that he pleased. We came across two ladies that were looking after their shops downtown, so we said hello. They were friendly of course because they wanted customers, but they knew already who we were and what we were doing. (YWAMER's tend to have that vibe about them.) They pretty much let us know that they didn't want anything to do with Jesus. I was trying to discern the situation and continue to linger and talk or to move on. We all chose to stay. We found out very quickly that one of the women was a "good" witch and had 9 children. This woman was very critical of anyone that walked by, filled pride and had false sense of power. This woman was very broken. We continued to listen to her talk about her family and what the tattooed pentagram on her arm meant. To be honest I had no idea how to respond to her. She didn't want anything we could offer her. So we just listened hoping that she would begin to see Jesus in us. She said that we were all very sweet and that she liked us but when someone in our group asked her if she needed prayer for anything, she very confidently said "no I dont need anything, I'm fine." This woman was very clearly deceived because she hasn't encountered the TRUE love and power of GOD! As we were about to leave she got up and hugged us and kissed us on the cheek. When she got to me she held on to me and began to curse me! It may have seemed innocent but it was very very demonic. She began to tell me how I was a closed off person, I dont trust people, Im a shy person, and that its ok for me to be cautious because I can't trust everyone. WOW I felt like firey arrows coming at me. I was almost in a shock sort of state. It was the most awkward situation! The people around me were trying to protect me but yet she just kept going. It was good to know and understand that Satan tries to use sensitive areas and slight truths and twist them to try and defeat us!
We walked away and immediately began to break off curses and anything else she tried to put on us while we were talking! I still was battling the idea that I was shy since Ive been told that for years. But I know God did not create me to be that way! So I kept reaffirming truth over my life! As I mediated on this, God began to give me revelation! He has created all of us with an original design and Satan is out to steal it away from us! God came to restore WHAT was lost! I may have come across as shy or closed off in the past but that was never what God has intended for me! Satan tried to STEAL my boldness and confidence through situations in my life since I was a baby!! BUT GOD IS RESTORING THAT!!! This revelation blew my mind!!!
Satan is a LIAR!!! Its so simple but yet so profound! I've heard over and over again how he came to kill, steal, and destroy. But I have never understood it this clearly! He is so evil! God would never ever say anything like that to his children! He knows who we are but Satan sees what he has stolen and declares those failures over us! JESUS IS GOOD!!! The SPIRITUAL BATTLE IS REAL!!! Wow! I am so thankful that God is in me!! Ive grown from this experience! If God wasn't working in me then Satan would have no reason to come and attack me! Praise JESUS!!
I am getting so excited what God has next! His plans far exceed what I can fathom! And I know he has something great for me! Although I am in Hawaii, it may seem like easy paradise but the battle is just as real as it is in the darkest places. God wants to set the Islands and this base on FIRE for him! He is doing a new thing! So we are singing a NEW SONG!
I have heard the insults of Moab and the taunts of the Ammonites, who insulted my people and made threats against their land. Therefore, as surely as I live," declares the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, "surely Moab will become like Sodom, the Ammonites like Gomorrah- a place of weeds and salt pits, a wasteland forever. The remnant of my people will plunder them; the survivors of my nation will inherit their land." This is what they will get in return for their pride, for insulting and mocking the people of the Lord Almighty. The Lord will be awesome to them when he destroys all the gods of the earth. Zeph 2:9-11
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