In Thailand, aka Jesus Land :)

So it was a great flight, even with 5 kids everything went extremely smoothly! Praise God it was awesome! We are all so thankful that God put his spirit inside of us, and that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, and that we always have the holy spirit inside of us. That means that by faith we always have those things! And as we continue to walk in a life led by the spirit and not by the flesh, the Holy Spirit will manifest (show forth) all the time.

It was a great first day! We went on a treasure hunt around the area of the YWAM base that we are staying at. We were able to meet a girl in a divine appointment at a bookstore, and able to find someone at a local university who spoke English and wanted a bible to study it and learn from it! Praise God!

God really showed me that if we don't know what to do or where He's calling us to go, all we really have to do is just walk outside. As we just pray for our location and for God to give us his heart, we will be given so many things that could happen in that place! God really is so good that all we have to do is just be around the people that He loves, pray for them, and obey Jesus's teachings and the voice of the Holy Spirit.

Another thing The Lord showed me today is that He really did put each one of us in the individual countries we were born in for a reason. I am so glad that God has allowed me to be an American. No matter what the world thinks and says about America, and no matter how bad some things are, God is just so good that He wants even my American citizenship to be used for His glory! By the way, most of the kids here are very excited about meeting Americans and practicing English. Praise God!

Whats next?

So in case anyone is wondering what God has on my plate after Thailand and Cambodia, I still strongly feel the Lord leading me to go to Haiti. Despite being distracted by so many different options in YWAM, the Lord has been relentless in telling me to go to Haiti. So as soon as possible I hope to apply to be on staff at one of the YWAM bases in Haiti, either at St. Marc or Port-au-Prince. Please pray that God opens the doors to do that, and also just pray for Haiti anyways!

He will always outgive!

At the beginning of this DTS, I was reading a really good book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan and the Holy Spirit. In it is a direct challenge to increase your giving, in faith that God will increase His giving. The passage he used is powerful: Malachi 3:9-11: ⁹ You are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you are robbing me. ¹⁰ Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. ¹¹ I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty

God spoke to me through this passage, and since that day He consistently told me to give away little portions of my savings to friends for their outreach money, or maybe to congregations for an offering. Now I want you to realize that this was all His money anyway, that He was just letting me borrow it. So He tells me to give all of it away bit by bit. I came to DTS with about $600 in my savings. So then I literally have such little money in my bank account that I can't even take it out because it is so small, and for about a month I've had to trust God for everything. I trusted God for laundry money, for contact solution, for the money for my infection medicine. He always came through, by working miracles through friends and just taking care of every single need that I had the whole time!

Now, at the very end of lecture phase, I have received $1,256 from the extra money given to me for outreach. That is more than double what I came here with! It is so cool to see God let me borrow His money, and then after I put it where He tells me, He gives me back more than double! You guys the God's promises are legit! Praise God!

In case you're wondering, The Lord told me to take $200 on outreach, and then to specifically keep $1000 for the trip to Haiti that I hope to go on in the future.

Goodbye Hawaii!

It is now the end of the 11th week of lecture phase. We are leaving Hawaii on Monday June 28th at 6:15 AM! Thank you all for praying for me and the team!

God is so fun

This is just a little tribute to our staff, We love them so much and are so thankful that God has allowed us to partner with them in this time! I hope you love this movie!
The Classroom- a spoof off the office and our loving staff

Time flies!

It is so exciting to live life with God isn't it? It seems like I was just packing getting ready to come to Hawaii, and now I'm packing to get ready to go to Thailand! Its amazing to think that for the rest of my life on earth I am going to be doing 2 things: Loving God and Loving People! What a simple life to live right? I just thank God that we have an awesome retirement plan! I am constantly reminded of James 4:14: "What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes."

So I'll be flying to Thailand in 6 days now, and I just so thankful for every that has faithfully been praying for me and supporting me this whole time! I pray that the Lord pours out on you what you have been pouring out on me.

By the way, it will be very easy to communicate with everyone back home from Facebook (Nate Uttley), E-mail (tadmordrummer@gmail.com), or Skype (thenuttley). I hope to update my blog as often as I get the chance!

God cares... He really does :)

Its just been an amazing journey following God and actually trusting him for every single thing. Jesus says not to worry about any of your needs ever, to just seek him and He will take care of every one of your needs. That is so true! I didn't have the cash to buy contact solution, but after praying to God and giving that need to him, He radically provided through a friend just giving me some!
Over the past few days my feet have been infected, and right after praying and seeking God's will to find the cheapest solution, a friend comes and tells me that there is actually a doctor walking by that can make prescriptions and everything! So then I go and talk to the doctor and he fills out a prescription... free of charge! Then one of my other friends completely gives up 2 hours of time, takes me to Walmart, gives me $20 and now I'm all set! Just because she was moved by the love of Jesus!
So that just goes to show you that God is always there, and He will always take care of every single one of your needs. In fact, He's already taken care of your biggest need, salvation!

A gift of abundance

Just a little note of thanks to all my supporters! I hope to contact you all through the phone, mail or email. I also wanted to just thank all of you guys! Because of all the amazing donations, I have been able to help out the leaders of our outreach with their funds as well! Its quite amazing, because if I hadn't received as much money as I did, our leaders wouldn't be able to take us on outreach! Its just amazing how God will give some an abundance to fill the need of others! Thank you all and God bless!

God is so rich!

We're at the point in our DTS right now were we are paying all of the final funds so that we can go on outreach! At the end of week 4 we needed about $60,000 over the past 4 weeks, and especially the past few days, we've seen God provide even more! God is just getting us to trust Him even more right now!

Its awesome to see everyone just worshiping God for who he is, not as a reaction to the money that they got. God is so good that if we just focus on who he is and what he's like, we can have complete faith that He will provide. And with faith, God will move mountains for us!
Praise God for his faithfulness and provision! Everyone will get to go on outreach because He's so awesome!

By the way, the teams are going to:
1. Afghanistan for 12 weeks
2. Philippines for 6 weeks, Singapore for 6 weeks
3. Thailand for 3 weeks, Cambodia for 9 weeks (That's the team I'm on)