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March 3, 2017
Leaving Zimbabwe has actually been the one of the most challenging things for me on the race. It was a place where God overwhelmed my heart for the people to where I had some weeping messes. The compassion for these people so overtook me at times, I didn’t know what to do with myself it was so overwhelming! Also being on the race with 39 other people with different doctrine beliefs and coming from different church’s I didn’t realize how very few believe like me. Making me feel like the odd one out or the one that’s crazy. Not only that people’s fears, doubts and negative talk have really tried to influence me.
I have been trained since I have been saved in my authority in Christ so since I’m in God’s image, I’m a speaking spirit and can speak to certain things and situations and they were created to obey our voice. I believe in Psalm 91– in the divine protection of God, and Mark 16 that even if I drink something deadly it wouldn’t harm me. And Luke 10:18 that I have power over all the works of the enemy and nothing shall hurt or harm me. I’ve lived it and seen the power of it so I know it’s real. So being in my bubble of community I assumed all Christians operate and believe in their authority in Jesus. However after traveling around the world going into different countries and working with people from all different church’s I realized there are very few that believe and walk this way. My heart has been grieved and I have this new desire to teach people faith.
I’m so thankful for the training, and so blessed to be a part of a community that is seasoned in prayer and faith and that are undergirding me with prayer and the authority of Christ while I’m on this trip. Being thrown into the world with people that have different beliefs I really had to resist the temptation to believe the lie that I’m the crazy one!! And had to really resist the temptation to fear because of others speaking a words of fear and doubt.
Also having convictions that others don’t have–I really had to resist rejection when people wanted to look at me weird and didn’t understand where I was coming from. Our relationship with God is personal and He will have us do different things to keep us on course.
When I got to Zimbabwe I got changed to the best team ever who encourages my walk with God, celebrates my faith, and tells me that I have raised the bar for them to draw closer to God. They encourage me to never stop being me and stay radical and that they are learning from my faith and it has been a huge blessing to have a team that supports me!! Thank you Jesus!!
Not only did I have the most amazing host. I believe it was another prayer I prayed that I was walking in. I always believed for friends that would have the same passion and zeal, same convictions and standards, same faith and kindred spirit. And here was answered prayer right in front of me. I felt so connected immediately like we’ve known each other for years!! Love those connections!!
My pastor has always taught me…. it matters who you run with, who you hang out with, who you do life with. There are combinations that when God puts certain combinations of people together it unlocks something in the spirit and ohhh how I see it more and more!!
We fueled each other, strengthened eachother in our faith. Not only did she mentor me, but she claimed I was mentoring her. She was such an example for me to be a wife that adored her husband and a loving, affectionate mommy who trained her children strictly in the Word and didn’t tolerate sin with them. It gave me such vision for how I want to treat my husband and children!! Somebody who understood where I was coming from and even spoke my love language– constantly speaking words of affirmation and being the most loving, affectionate and best hugger on the planet– maybe even better then my hugs…haha!! Point being I felt like I could really connect with someone at my level. I don’t mean for that to sound haughty I’m actually being super vulnerable about what has been a challenge for me on the race!! And sharing my weakness of leaving Zimbabwe to come to Zambia. So please don’t think I’m greater than thou cause trust me I’m not!! I got plenty of imperfections and flaws and God is always dealing with my sinful pride. Especially on this trip!! LOL!!
Point being for the first time on the race I felt like I could really connect to someone at my level. And it was glorious!! Being at a different stage of my life, being one of the oldest on the squad not only physically but spiritually as well. And most of my closest are 50 and above. So I have not really even had friends my age after walking with God. So it was definitely comforting having someone older then me to connect to!!
Not only that the ministry set-up was everything I love do to!! I was working with an evangelist in going into colleges, mental institutions and police departments just preaching the gospel with all my being which is what I was born to do, not only that just being spurred on by my host to evangelize and love on people everywhere we go is something I needed to grow in boldness, and I have tremendously!!!
So Zimbabwe definitely had a huge impact on me more then any other country. I thought I was being wrecked by God for the people in every country, but wow than God really wrecked me last month. I have been invited back by my host to stay with them for three months. So please pray for God’s perfect will and timing.
It’s so cool when I told my earthly daddy he said he knew it!! By the blogs that I was writing from there and the flow of the Holy Spirit that was coming out of me from there, he knew I would be back, love when your own earthly father confirms something like that!! Then again he is my biggest fan and our relationship is a whole other testimony of the restoration of God!!
Going into this month in Zambia our teams have been split for just this month since they are separating the men to be all together for Man’s month! So now I’m with new people. It was hard at first to leave my team but my team for this month has been amazing because they all love and celebrate me and are learning from my faith!! They are even starting to speak to things and declare things like I do since they are seeing God just manifest and respond!!
Leaving Zimbabwe I had to hold back tears even let some out!! We took a bus to Zambia and were held up at the border for a few hours and because of that, that was going to get us in late to our hostel booked in Lusaka, however these bus drivers have policy not driving after 9pm because of so many accidents which praise God that’s awesome! BUT that means we would have to sleep on the bus!!
Somehow I secretly thought this sounded so cool, we get to sleep on the bus in the middle of nowhere in Africa–just sounds like a movie or something!! So we parked the bus in a gas station and had to sleep on this bus that was infested with cockroaches! I am telling you the grace of God is so supernatural I slept so good about 9 hours and woke up at 730am with the sun shining bright in my face, the bus driving through these gorgeous fields and God’s Presence just absolutely overwhelming me!! And I had some beautiful time with Him. Like seriously only God could make me wake up in His Presence like that after sleeping on a roach infested bus!!!
We arrived to our destination and didn’t really have a place for the whole team to stay so I started speaking that God has a place for us to be together and He knows. Within a few hours we had our own house with a flushing toilet and shower! Praise the Lord!!
However I really had to fight this week to stay present in Zambia feeling homesick from Zimbabwe haha! Thankfully we have a 3 mile walk to ministry and then back and it is the most glorious walk through creation, through corn fields surrounded with mountains and palm trees and lots of talks with Jesus. So I was able to adjust my focus and purpose that I am in Zambia now for this time!
As I walk and run through these dirt roads taking authority over aids and malaria commanding it to die in the Name of Jesus because death and Life are in the power of the tongue. I thought it would be good to teach the kids here to operate in their authority in Christ!! So we had some free time with the kids at the school we are ministering at and the Word is always burning in me to bring it forth! So I started having them confess and make declarations like I always do with myself speaking the words of life into existence because we were created in God’s image–a speaking spirit, and that He gave us dominion over creation. And that our faith is…I believe therefore I speak, that just like God we call those things that be not as though they were. It’s all in the Bible so that’s how I roll. It was awesome this little voices shout and declare the Word, even my teammate said she got all stirred up.
I realized part of my purpose here is I want to teach them their authority in Christ realizing that most people don’t know this or walk in this. Many people profess they are Christian here, but have no fruit in their life. And sure it’s great if we pray and lay hands on them and they get healed of aids or malaria, or give them money to buy food and clothes, but what happens when we leave? They end up in the same spot. I want to teach them how to believe God, how to use there faith and to exercise their authority! How to believe God for supernatural provision and how to use their faith to walk in divine health, that they too can speak things into existence and have dominion over their domain. I want to teach them how to be single focused on Jesus, sold out that they don’t listen to anything else that would contaminate their faith through doubt and fear, but so consumed with the Word of God going into their ears and eyes that it would produce fruit in their lives. Teaching them that whatever they listen to, watch or speak that will affect their heart and belief system.
I have had to guard my heart with all diligence on this race because of how much people speak fear and speak doubt and they don’t realize. And that has tried to influence me, so I’m constantly declaring the Word, listening to the Word and mediating on the Word so that I would stay free from doubt and fear because that’s what cuts off faith and what you fear will be attracted to you. Fear kills people and that’s why Jesus always rebukes His disciples for their lack of faith and commanded us to “fear not!!” It’s so dangerous, but yet people are flooded with it and wonder why destruction is working in their lives.
March 13, 2017
So we only have been at this particular school for a week in Chongwe than took a 13 hour bus ride to another city up north to Kasama. Not having any idea where we were staying because the main hosts weren’t sure what our accommodations were. We couldn’t see ahead so we had no choice, but to trust God. Thankfully we arrive and the pastor picks us up who is a man of faith on fire and last team was with him they casted out demons!!! My type of host!! He brings us to his beautiful home that has two separate rooms for our team and we have beds to sleep in, flushing toilets and a kitchen to cook in! Again God’s favor is on us everywhere we go even in Africa!!
Again I have liberty and freedom to teach and preach the word of God in the school that this pastor heads, and the first class I took for the week found out not everyone was saved even know it’s supposed to be a Christian school sure enough I did an altar call and they all made Jesus their Lord!! Keep bringing them in Lord!!!
