So this past week we have settled on outreach teams, and I get the privilege to lead a team in Haiti! It is so exciting as we are literally living in a time and place where things are moving quite rapidly in the spiritual realm. Over the past four weeks since the school has started, we have seen many amazing things happening, including people getting healed and deciding to follow Jesus, students getting set free, and a church getting planted.
I'm leading the team with two other amazing woman of God, Dani and Jesselyn! Dani is from Texas and has been here a year already and Jesselyn is from Canada. There are both amazing and I'm so excited to be leading with them!
The Students on our team are Stephen and Katie who are both from America and Widline who is from Haiti.
At the same time this path is marked with lots of unknown things, and the teams could be morphing and changing all the time! Because we are trying to get everyone to go to another country if possible, we need to get many passports and visas so that at the very minimum we can go to the Dominican Republic!
So if you could pray for our teams to get all the passports and visas that we need it would be amazing!
Please ask the Lord to pour out his spirit and give us the fruit, gifts and power of the Spirit! We also really need direction so if you could pray for that as well it would be amazing!
Hey Everyone! God has been some amazing things through our community outreach in the past week!
This is an awesome testimony from our student and my good friend Stephen Davidson-
Last Tuesday during our time of ministry my team went to the tent city. We met a guy named Edma and talked with him for a little while. He didn't have Jesus in his life and we asked him if he would like to accept Jesus as his Savior. He didn't want us to help him do that, but he let us pray for him. His entire body was in pain and we prayed for healing. We asked him if we could come back and see him and if he wasn't healed we would pray for him again and he agreed. This Friday we went back to see him and he was so excited to tell us that he had been healed the morning after we prayed for him. He then wanted to accept Jesus into his life! Praise our Father in heaven!
-Stephen Davidson
Then I asked him: “How did you feel Stephen?”
“So happy that we had the opportunity to let God heal through us as a testimony so that he would come to Jesus, because if he wasn't healed he would've accepted Jesus, and now he wants to attend the church service in the tent city!”
Also, we've been able to have a church service at a tent city that is a four minute walk from our base, and just today there were 11 Haitians that decided to follow Jesus and be in a relationship with Him! Thats amazing! God is so good!
So now we get the incredible privilege to disciple them even more in the ways of God, and to help them grow deeply in love with Jesus!
Please pray for us that God would continue to bring many people to himself in intimate relationship, and that he would give us the guidance, time and resources to do our part in there lives! Thank you so much!
Hey everyone!
Because there is an awesome blog that is constantly getting updated with all kinds of updates from the school, I would love to share it with you!
Here is the link: http://portauprincedts.wordpress.com.
I hope you enjoy it!
Here we are on arrival day! Thank you God! Jesus this is so good! Thank you so much for bringing us all to Haiti for a time such as this! Thank you so much that you have fulfilled the words that you have spoken to me. Thank you that you said that I would come to Haiti with YWAM, and that I would lead a prayer movement starting in Haiti and going to America with a banner of intimacy and love. Jesus I thank you so much that you're so much more committed to me than I could ever be to you! I ask God that you would continue to give me such divine revelation about your will during this time Jesus! You're so good God! Father of glory would you show me even more the way that you love me and the way that you love these students. Thank you Jesus that every single student has been bought with a price, that you loved me even before I knew who you were, and you love them even before they love you. Thank you that they've come to this DTS and are here for such a time as this! Jesus its so exciting to be alive right now! Thank you so much that we could be the generation to which you return! Father I ask that you would continue to show us what's happening worldwide Jesus! God we want to get caught up in the global fiery movement of your spirit bringing the Church to greater levels of glory!
Father I thank you that we have been given such an amazing opportunity to disciple these amazing students, and I know that the staff is going to learn so much more in the process! God I ask that we would be filled with your spirit even more Jesus! Fill us up God with such an amazing encounter of your presence Jesus, show us the way of love, that we would die to ourselves every single day so that would be able to live in us! Jesus we really do love to be dead, because its then that we are truly alive! God make us alive by being dead!
Jesus thank you so much that you're so good! I thank you that there is none like you! I ask that above all that you would give us yourself! God we really do need to have dove's eyes for only you Jesus! I ask that you would help us Jesus just to be so fixed on you Jesus! God show us the way of love, show us what that looks like Jesus! Father of glory let us be so consumed with you above all else God! Let us be consumed by you Jesus! Lets us be consumed by your eyes of blazing fire! You are the one we want, you are the one we need, Jesus would you let us see more of who you are God! Thank you Jesus!
Life is all about intimacy with Jesus.
God keeps teaching me that again and again. The reason we were
created was for intimacy, and at the end of the age God will come and
make his dwelling among men, and we will see him face to face!
God is doing something world-wide from
what I've seen and heard. He is calling His bride to intimacy, to
seek His face and His heart as our chief pursuit, our one thing like
David said (Psalm 24:7): “One thing have I asked of the Lord...
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord... to gaze upon the beauty
of the Lord.” This is radically changing the way we do missions,
and the way we live our lives. God is stirring many people to give a
large majority of their time solely to seeking the Lord with prayer
and fasting, and the results worldwide are amazing!
I've recently heard so many testimonies
of people getting set free, delivered and saved as a result of prayer
and fasting, worship and just flat out passion for the tangible
presence of God. My friend was just telling me of a major awakening
at Lee University because of lots of prayer and fasting, and the
awakening resulted in many people turning to God in a greater way at
the Christian university. She told me that students were so hungry
for God that they wanted to come together and worship every single
night!
On an outreach to Iceland, a Fire and
Fragrance DTS outreach felt led to do 7 days of literally unbroken
worship and intercession. As a result, there was a lesbian couple
that came to the place where they were worshiping and both got so
encountered by the love of God that they gave their hearts to Jesus
right there!
In a Muslim country, there was another
Fire and Fragrance team that did a few days of unbroken worship and
intercession. As a result, about 4 of their Muslim friends came into
the places of worship and encountered the Holy Spirit and became so
excited that one of them gave their lives to Jesus right there on the
spot!
Amazing things are happening when we
make the manifest presence of God our primary pursuit, and biblically
and historically God's presence and Holy Spirit are poured out when
the church comes together for worship and prayer, seeking His face in
unity, just like in the book of Acts.
So we are pressing into God for the
fullness of His power to be displayed in this DTS, and I would love
for you to join us! I also want to encourage you to grab your
christian friends, find a time and place and just start engaging with
the God that loves you so much that He died for you! We can see the
glory of God cover the earth like the waters cover the see, and we
really could see Jesus come back in our lifetime!
Thank you so much for your prayers and
may God bless you in the pursuit of Him.
In the past year God has really been giving me such a paradigm shift that I just have to share. Especially during my DTS last April in Kona, God has shown me that He is so much more concerned about us being in love with Him and making Him a priority than He is about me doing good spiritual things.
He has been teaching me that really the first commandment is first for many reasons. When we fix our eyes on Jesus, and we're so consumed with loving Him, we will do anything with joy! We won't do good things for the praise and attention of man, to show off to everyone around us, we won't do good things because we're getting guilt tripped by other people. We will obey God and do what He wants simply because we love to make God happy! We love to please God and bring Him glory!
When we make our priority to be in love with God, everything that Jesus modeled for us to do simply flows out of our love for God. He said in John 14 that if will love Him we will obey His commands. He said in John 15 that if we abide in Him and His love we will bear much fruit, and that will give the Father much glory! This is good news, that the key to being an effective witness to the world and giving God glory is to be in love with Him!
Back in the garden, it all started with love and relationship. God created man on the 6th day, and then on the 7th day He rested, just to be with man. He said about all the other creation it is good, but about man He said they are very good, even before Adam started working. And later, when Jesus is coming out of Jordan river, having been baptized by John, the Holy Spirit comes and the Father says, so everyone can hear, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”(Matthew 3:17). Even before Jesus did any ministry, the Father was already pleased with Him! He made the Father happy just because of who He was and because of who God is!
Because we're united with Jesus through his death and resurrection, and we've been given His righteousness, we look like Jesus! Of course, we are only realizing that more and more everyday! That means that because of what Jesus has done, and simply because we have faith and repentance, the Father is pleased with us, even before we do any ministry! And at the end of this age, Jesus will come back to the planet and He will make His dwelling among us (Revelations 21:3). Its all about relationship!
And another paradigm shift that God has given me is that we're not making more workers who will make more workers, who simply perform, work and do the right things. We're making more people who will be with Jesus, who will love Him first and foremost, and then they will do anything He wants! And so actually my goal as a missionary is to connect people to Jesus, to love Him and adore Him.
So to connect people to Himself, God has really been giving me a heart for the house of prayer. Jesus said "for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.” I really believe that God is calling His bride to greater intimacy with Him, I've seen it happening in my life and am hearing about it worldwide. God is birthing a movement of prayer and worship like never before! There are so many more 24/7 prayer ministries on the earth than there has ever been! How this looks practically is a lifestyle of prayer and fasting, bible study, worship and intercession with a community of like minded people, and an overflow of outreach fueled by the power and love of God, where more disciples in turn fall radically in love with God, and the cycle continues forever.
Right now I am a part of a community that really carries those values called Fire and Fragrance. Headed up by Andy Byrd, Fire and Fragrance runs the prayer room on campus, as well as several DTS's over the past years with many more to come.
To give you more vision and insight, here is a video with Andy Byrd himself:
To be completely honest, I've been struggling. Mostly just struggling with my faith, as the attacks from the enemy come more and more as I near my departure for Haiti. Some days I wonder if there really is a God, or maybe everyone is just making this up. But every single time I begin to wonder, I begin to doubt, I seek out the truth that I've discovered again and again so many times: Jesus is alive!
I thank God that even in my unbelief and weakness He still loves, even when I question His existence after He has does so much for me! I thank God that we are able to seek out the truth, to question Him, because in the seeking and the questioning we will find Him. And I find that very reassuring. Especially today, when we celebrate His resurrection all the world, I'm reminded again that just when it seems that Satan has had the final say, and darkness has won, Jesus Christ will always win. He will always overcome. He did it about 1980 years ago, He's doing it today, and he will eventually have the final victory when Satan goes into the fiery lake of burning sulfur along with everyone else who has ever partnered with Him.
Jesus is capable of overcoming the enemy in any situation. He'll overcome in our finances. He'll overcome in our health. He'll help us overcome in times of suffering and persecution. He'll help us stand strong to the very end. He'll help us love Him more. And one of my favorite things to think about: He'll overcome Satan in the land of Haiti!
So please enjoy this short movie about Haiti, and remember that country in your prayers, because Jesus is capable of completely overcoming the darkness in the land!
