Thursday, February 11, 2010

I can hear the sound of the coming King

OOOOOOO MY GOODNESS!!!
To try and sum up today on here would never do it justice! This week we are being taught by Brian Brent from Tacoma. Let me tell you he is anointed by the Lord! We have been talking about and being set free of different areas in our lives that we have been rejected and then reacted to that rejection. Such as : fear, shame, pride, passivity and others! The week has been amazing and so freeing but today we began class at nine just like every other day. We had announcements and then Brian got up to speak he began on the topic of fear and then the Holy Spirit hit in a huge way! Brain began to speak about the anointing of our school and the power that we carry in the Lord. He challenged us to give everything away, to truly be willing to die for this love and the salvation of this world. Soon the whole class was in tears at the sheer majesty and fear of the Lord. For the next six hours we stayed in that room, no one ate no one left. Spontaneous worship and words from the Lord would arise but a new generation was born. The sound of the coming King is coming through us! A new sound was raised and it was amazing! We had to go to our work duties but at six we reconvened for corporate worship. It wasn't long before the Spirit invaded that too! It was better then any concert and truly what I think heaven will be like! I can not explain the joy that was in the Ohana Court ( our gym) tonight. For the next three hours people form 2 years old to 90 were dancing, shouting, crowd surfing ( including one of the leaders of YWAM!) and ridiculously praising the Lord! Anyone that says our God is not a fun God does not know him! hahaha He is sooo good! I cannot begin to tell you! He is alive and his return is just around the corner we are seeing miracles and wonders everyday. Even tonight a cloud rested over us in the Ohana Court! He is real, He is love, and he is completely what I am living for. I know too much to ever turn back now!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Support

Good Morning!!!
It's a beautiful day here in Kona. The oatmeal was exceptionally good this morning and the Lord is so good! In this post I thought I would talk a little bit about what my outreach is going to look like.
There are eight teams in total going out to the nations to spread the love of our Savior; two to Afghanistan, two to Europe, one to China and Japan, one to Haiti, one to Guam and New Zealand, and finally one to the East Coast of America. I will be going to the East Coast with ten other amazing lovers of Jesus. At first I really struggled with the thought of just going to the US but I know that that is exactly where the Lord is calling me. He has been teaching me so much about his heart for America and the hurting people here.
On our outreach we will be going to a number of different states. First Kentucky,then Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, and Kansas City. Our primary focus will be on churches and Ivy League schools. A team went last year to pioneer the East Coast and we will be following some what in their footsteps, to watch a video about their journey go to, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQXOyXdb-zU . We will be leading something called Burns. Burns are 24 hour prayer and worship movements to see revival come to this nation. For me this means getting to sing and sing a new song for the Lord of this Universe. Here I have been singing about four hours a day and the Lord has begun a real work in my soul about singing a new song to him. I am so excited to see the ways he is going to move and set hearts freed. Our team is confident in one thing, we serve the God of the Universe and we will see hearts and lives changed in unimaginable ways.
In order to go on this outreach I need six thousand dollars. I need about $2,500 dollars more and I would ask that you would please pray about supporting me. I realize that not everyone is called or in a position to leave there homes and jobs to go out in the nations but this is where the Lord has called me. Please pray about being apart of this movement in our nation to see heaven come to this earth by supporting me and my team.
Thank you for your continual prayer and support in just loving me and sending me little notes or phone calls. God is good all the time! Life here is amazing and beautiful but also extremely stretching for my faith and my devotion to this man Jesus. I love him and my life is devoted completely to him. Sometimes its hard to understand what we are going through here and experiencing, not being here but know that the prayer is so worth it and life giving! I can tell you that after this I will never be the same again. I am my beloveds and he is mine!

Sunday, February 7, 2010

YWAM

Hello!
Welcome to the first of many posts that will make up a summery of my adventures with Jesus! As many of you know, I am off on one such adventure on the beautiful island of Hawaii in a town called Kona. Here I am doing a program called Youth With A Mission. I am involved in a Discipleship Training School entitled Fire and Fragrance.
For me the Journey began about two and a half months ago when the Lord called me to apply for the school while I was attending Seattle Pacific University. I began the application and was told the school was full. While I understood that this meant that I was most likely not going to be going to Hawaii, I still believed I had received a clear word from the Lord. Then the night before I left SPU for Christmas break I received a phone call from YWAM. A man proceeded to tell me that, though I had been told the school was full, he had seen the part of my application that was finished and felt the Lord was calling me to Fire and Fragrance. He took my application to the leaders they prayed over me and said that I was excepted. I didn't even need to finish my application!
So, after Christmas break I packed up my apartment in Seattle, sent my things home with my brother and got on a plane for Hawaii with no idea what laid ahead for the next six months of my life. All I knew was that I wanted to learn so much more about this God that I had loved sense I was young and to share his love in what ever capacity I could.