Orphanages, schools, churches, street ministry… we’ve done a lot this month. Never did I expect this much to happen in the first month. The Lord has used me to bless others and show them the love of Christ but HOLY COW BATMAN he has blessed me far beyond anything I could have imagined. I have cried tears of joy, brokenness, gladness, sorrow, pain, and some BIG TEARS OF FREEDOM. Coming into this month I expected to see the Lord move in so many lives of the people here in Guatemala- and He did- but He moved HUGEEEEEEE in my life this month.
These past few weeks have been a struggle for sure but the Lord has been so so faithful and moved some major mountains in my life.
Two weeks ago I started getting really sick. The enemy was definitely at work but my Daddy is so much stronger and was walking with me hand in hand. The Lord sometimes brings us to a total place of abandonment and while its hard and hurts- its so beautiful!
Week three on the race and I heard the words spoken to me that were probably the hardest words you can hear while on the World Race- especially when there is no way you would let it happen when you are a fighter like me when it comes to doing the Lord’s work. Week three and not doing so well physically our host came up to me and said if something doesn’t happen soon you will have to go home.
Standing in the kitchen cooking for the squad, I dropped the spoon I was cooking with and went straight to a squad leader- I began telling her what had happened and that there was no way I was going home! The Lord has called me to this journey NO DOUBT and I will not fall for any of satans traps to stray me from the path that the Lord has for me. My leader assured me that I wasn’t going home and for several days after , she walked me through tons of medical grossness to try and have things physically worked out. Through these days and her walking me through all this jankiness the Lord started revealing some things through her and dreams- some really big things- things from the past- things I thought were okay and weren’t.
For four days the Lord brought many things to mind from the past and I was able to spend countless hours with him in prayer, worship and just spending sweet time in the word.
In this He called me to 3 days of fasting. Im telling y’all- there is major power in prayer and fasting!!! I’ve never seen the Lord do so much in such a short amount of time and bring so much healing! While in the process of the medical issues of things I had to drink a really nasty drink and I literally couldn’t take one drink of it without it coming back up. My teammate had been fasting for me and looked at me and said do you believe the Lord can make this not taste and I looked at her and was like WELL YEAH!!! So she took the cup from my hand, prayed over it and handed it back to me and didn’t say a word…. I looked at her,took a drink of it and I am not at all kidding.. THAT DRINK HAD NO TASTE AT ALL… I looked at her with huge eyes and all but screamed… IT WORKED! The Lord made this not taste so I could drink it!!! I think we were both so in amazement of what the Lord just did that we were speechless but wanting to scream at the same time… He cares about the little things too. So amazing!!!
Part of this process of healing and fasting – the Lord called me to write letters to some ppl and read them out loud- there is healing and power in verbally speaking things!! After reading these letters I went out behind the hospital here in Guatemala with my squad leader and burned the letters. Before burning them she had me read them out loud one more time, then right after we burned them. I know it was just burning letters written on a page but it was one of the most beautiful pictures of redemption and freedom I’ve ever experienced in my life.
The freedom that this brought was AMAZZZZZZZZZZZZING! I wanted to jump up grab her and squeeze her and scream with the joy that I felt inside but I reframed from doing so……
As soon as these things were taken care of and I experienced true healing from these things, the sickness was gone and I’m completely fine.
The Lord is sovereign! He is good! He is mighty! He is all about some healing and restoration business!!!
Needless to say this month has been rocky and hard but my God is Mighty and He is very much at work!!! SO thankful for what the Lord did in my heart here in Guatemala this month and all that He did in these precious ppl here!
Pls continue praying for the people of Guatemala and the Strong Tower Church. The Lord is ding many things through the pastor of Strong Tower and his school and church.
