Today we had 3 teams leave... its hard to say goodbye but this is the beginning of something God is longing to do...send us out to burn for HIM. Whether we feel ready or not God is going to rock our worlds. He is longing to set our hearts ablaze and delight in us as we choose to GIVE IT ALL away! Thats my deepest heart cry... it almost hurts.... I long... I YEARN to OPEN my MOUTH, to give all that I am away for Jesus because of the Love that he has poured out into our hearts. Oh to Love JESUS with all our hearts, minds, souls, and strength. God has spoken so many crazy things he wants to do through us, but our main goal is to run into his heart. Fall in love Jesus and move out of that place; reaching the people were encounter. I long for us to so abide in Gods heart that as soon as people look into our eyes they see and fall in love with Jesus. Here is a video with my team and Chase my co-leader explaining a little bit of what we are looking forward to. Please be praying for team unity, a passion for Jesus where we CANNOT keep silent, divine encounters, and that we will be sensitive to the Holy spirits leading, go where he says go and speak when he says to. Love you all. Excited to share with you what God does when we come back December 11th.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Unto you Be all the GLORY
Hiedi Baker was here about a week or so ago over a weekend to and come speak to us. She shared so many stories. I loved it. Shes known for being consumed by the Holy Spirit and seeing miracles and healing happen as a normal part of life in Mozambique, Africa, where she is a full time missionary. I honestly want to be like her. She gives an example of what it can look like to truly abide and commune with God in every moment. Although I didn't have a crazy encounter with the Holy Spirit, He is teaching me a whole lot through that. I guess you could say that is an encounter but its just not what I thought it would look like. He wants me to seek his face. He wants me to seek him not what he has to offer even though that just comes with who he is, but He wants to be known. The first commandment is Love the Lord your God with all your heart! I think I lost sight of that for a moment. This entry will be short and sweet and Ill update right before you leave on outreach, which is next week by the way. Ill upload a video just to give you a glimpse of what a night looked like. God is so much bigger and I hope that everything that I have ever said over these blogs and through emails have spurred you on to run after Jesus with all that you are. I hope that you see Jesus through it all. Keep looking into His Eyes that Burn.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Full of worship
"God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." John 4:24 Recently I have been praying for new perspective and revelations. I love that God is faithful and he answers prayers! :) I don't fully have this figured out but something that has been stirring in me is the idea of worship.How do we worship God? The automatic thought is we all get together and have "a time of worship." We organize a few songs, maybe mix it up a bit. Put together a format to worship the lord...not necessarily bad, but God has called us to worship in spirit and in truth. What does that really look like? When I am singing a song I want to make sure that I am truly focusing on him and WORSHIPING him and not thinking about I how feel when I am singing or what I look like but giving him glory. What did it look like for Abraham and the men of old to worship God? Did they put together a program? Did they just sit and sing a song they made up to Him? These are just some of the things stirring inside of me. I do not want any religion in my being... and its a process to fully get that out and just have a true genuine relationship with God.
We leave for India September 24th! That's in about 3 weeks! Its coming so fast! I am learning a lot while putting together this outreach with my co-leader. We will be flying into Mumbai and staying there for the first week possibly working on Bollywood sets and then we will then be taking about a 10 hour train ride to a village where we will be able to do some church planting and sharing about Jesus. We then are planning to go back to Mumbai and do some ministry in orphanages, slums, and possibly the red light district ( with prostitutes). My heart cry is to see God have his way. I do not want any dullness in our hearts but to be fully alive with the BOLDNESS of Christ. We believe God has placed on our hearts that he is going to physically heal people! This excites me very much. Many people in India what have diseases are unable to go to a doctor because or money or transportation. When they have diseases for instance like leprosy they are then considered untouchables and are basically no good in the eyes of the people their. Imagine you coming down with a disease maybe even as simple as having acne... this may not be the case but I'm just painting a picture. Your seen as dirty and cast into a village where people never touch you or love on you because you are now vile. I keep seeing this picture in my mind... I am praying for a woman that has leprosy and has lost her fingers... as I pray her fingers immediately grow back!!!! God has healed her leprosy and and restored her body! It changes her life completely. Now she can live Life More ABUNDANTLY! What freedom that would bring! What life restored back to her! And in that she will finally know God has he is to be know and follow him! It just breaks my heart. It breaks God's heart that people so dear to his heart have to suffer and are treated less than when they have just as much value! So we are expectant that God will work through us.
This past week was about world view. How we as Christians should view the world. Our perspective. We desire to have Heaven Perspective. Keeping our eyes on the King and knowing what is on his heart and what is on his mind. What is he saying? I see our students growing and learning and drawing closer to the Lord everyday. I desire to see and believe that God is raising up a generation of people that are going to be so madly in love him that are not afraid of anything and are going to desire nothing... NOTHING of this world and be completely abandoned to him. I desire to be a part of that people! I will soon be putting up a few testimonies on what has been happening in their lives since they have begun DTS.
If you feel compelled to partner with me and what God is stirring you can be praying and interceding for our unity, for boldness, God would always be the center and reason why we are doing what we are doing, and favor. You can as well donate using the paypal donate button on page or by sending checks to the address in my contact page. If you have any questions please feel free to ask and if you are in need of prayer don't hesitate to ask.
We leave for India September 24th! That's in about 3 weeks! Its coming so fast! I am learning a lot while putting together this outreach with my co-leader. We will be flying into Mumbai and staying there for the first week possibly working on Bollywood sets and then we will then be taking about a 10 hour train ride to a village where we will be able to do some church planting and sharing about Jesus. We then are planning to go back to Mumbai and do some ministry in orphanages, slums, and possibly the red light district ( with prostitutes). My heart cry is to see God have his way. I do not want any dullness in our hearts but to be fully alive with the BOLDNESS of Christ. We believe God has placed on our hearts that he is going to physically heal people! This excites me very much. Many people in India what have diseases are unable to go to a doctor because or money or transportation. When they have diseases for instance like leprosy they are then considered untouchables and are basically no good in the eyes of the people their. Imagine you coming down with a disease maybe even as simple as having acne... this may not be the case but I'm just painting a picture. Your seen as dirty and cast into a village where people never touch you or love on you because you are now vile. I keep seeing this picture in my mind... I am praying for a woman that has leprosy and has lost her fingers... as I pray her fingers immediately grow back!!!! God has healed her leprosy and and restored her body! It changes her life completely. Now she can live Life More ABUNDANTLY! What freedom that would bring! What life restored back to her! And in that she will finally know God has he is to be know and follow him! It just breaks my heart. It breaks God's heart that people so dear to his heart have to suffer and are treated less than when they have just as much value! So we are expectant that God will work through us.
This past week was about world view. How we as Christians should view the world. Our perspective. We desire to have Heaven Perspective. Keeping our eyes on the King and knowing what is on his heart and what is on his mind. What is he saying? I see our students growing and learning and drawing closer to the Lord everyday. I desire to see and believe that God is raising up a generation of people that are going to be so madly in love him that are not afraid of anything and are going to desire nothing... NOTHING of this world and be completely abandoned to him. I desire to be a part of that people! I will soon be putting up a few testimonies on what has been happening in their lives since they have begun DTS.
If you feel compelled to partner with me and what God is stirring you can be praying and interceding for our unity, for boldness, God would always be the center and reason why we are doing what we are doing, and favor. You can as well donate using the paypal donate button on page or by sending checks to the address in my contact page. If you have any questions please feel free to ask and if you are in need of prayer don't hesitate to ask.
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