To give you guys an update on Central View, they have decided to send all the girls home for a week while things get sorted out. Please keep praying over that situation. Pray for freedom for the superintendent, that his eyes will be opened to what he is doing. Pray protection over the girls and everyone at that school who could come under their attack. We are still not allowed in and we are hoping this step taken is actually to sort things out and not to keep the girls away until we leave. We are asking you to stand in the gap with us, not only for this school but for another children’s home that we are finding things out about. Our friends here need all the prayer they can get.
In the past few days I have gone whitewater rafting down the Nile River, taken a “casting out demons” seminar from an expert, cast out demons in one of our good friends here, gone bungee jumping and saw our once possessed friend overflowing with the Holy Spirit. It has been an intense couple of days!
One of the coolest things happened the other night when we were casting demons out of our friend. She had a very strong demon who was sent to her by witch doctors working directly against her because she was hindering all of their plans. But anyways, the demon was taking a long time to go and being very stubborn. Towards the end, it started screaming because it was seeing the angels coming down and it recognised the archangel, Michael. It was very upset by Michael’s appearance. I wished so badly at that moment that God would give me eyes to see what was going on in the spiritual realm! Michael was there! It’s so awesome because He really doesn’t leave us and He really is fighting and sending His angels for us. As crazy as it is for us to be seeing how real all of this is, it is always such a blessing to see the power and love of Jesus shine through at the end.
About the only thing I know anymore is that Jesus still reigns. It seems like everyday I experience something that shatters everything I once thought to be true. The other night I finally came to the place of wanting to go back to my ignorance. I kept asking, “How did I get here?” and, “Why can’t I go back??”. I know the devil is using things I am seeing to instill fear and I have to fight that spirit of fear a lot more than I used to. But I realized there is no going back, I know way too much to ignore the spiritual world and the battle that is raging there. I have seen and experienced too much.
God is continuing to provide for us every tool we need for this season of our lives. From books to sermons and podcasts to videos to the people we are surronded by, He has been giving them to us in His perfect timing so we are never left out to dry. He is so faithful. And although we are already equipped, He just keeps highlighting all of these things that are pertinent to what we are going through now.
I have no idea what God is preparing me for but I know now more than ever before that this world is not my home and I have never been so excited to leave it one day. We have been learning that to be most effective in the spiritual world, we have to live clean lives. We can’t leave any room for the devil to gain a foothold. So that means we have to be set apart. Christian churches always talk about being set apart, but I think there are few who truly do this, I know I never did. It’s hard for me to finally be at a place where I know I have to do it.
Today, I went through and started deleting music, and let me tell you, it was almost physically painful! I know this just has to continue into all other areas of my life, especially in my use of words. Every time I think about how much this all sucks, I recall the images of my new friends writhing on the floor, being consumed by evil. If I want to be someone who can help them, someone who is stronger than darkness, someone who fights in the name of Jesus, I have to be ready. I can’t profess and bow to Jesus one minute and bow to the world the next. I hate that is has taken all of this for me to finally just obey what the Bible says we are to be. I am still trying to figure out what exactly being set apart looks like by I am trusting God is going to continue to perfect His good work in me like He says in Philippians 1:6.
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