Dear blog readers, supporters, family and friends,
I was reminded recently about my experience in Australia. Australia was a hard month with many tough moments. We were working in Mossman Gorge with Aboriginal people who didn’t want us to be there. It was truly an unsafe place for an all female team to be in. Our second night, staying at the little church, there were drunken men surrounding the church. Men always wanted to talk to us, and the women always stayed away from us. Children only began to talk to us because they found out that Casondra could braid hair.
It was one of the hardest months for me, because I could not see God’s hand upon us due to the fact that we were struggling with our ministry. We kept getting spiritually attacked so many times and then finally we realized the enemy didn’t want us to be there. God told me personally to pray and our team decided to do 24/hr prayer. During our time in prayer I knew we were breaking off Satan’s strongholds over this community.
In this moment, God started to put a new fire within my soul. I remember praying out of a window of the church and staring at a mountain before my eyes saying, “God you say I can move mountains with a little faith. I ask that you will move this community and shake something fierce in this place.� Our team found out two weeks after we left that there was a revival in our little town of Mossman and God began to do some amazing things through healing and salvation. Praise the Lord.
You see this is not a one-time travel the world mission trip for me. This trip has changed and saved my life. I have seen things that have broken my heart and brought me to my knees in prayer like the situation in Australia. I have been able to break out of my mold of selfishness and love those who I would not love before. I am learning to submit to my leaders and those who are in authority and the rebellious spirit in me has been broken off. I have been so tightly wrapped around a team of people that love me, accept me and pushed hard for the best in me. And the most important thing is I am doing the Lord’s mandate.
Second, I could not do this 11-month journey without your spiritual and financial support. The concern is that I have $911.51 to still raised. I am urging you to prayerfully consider partnering with me for the advance of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I have three more months and I would like to be completely funded before I go home.
Also, you need to know that I believe that this is not the last time the Lord will call me to the nations. I feel strongly that this is a life long calling and I need prayer warriors, speakers of truth to encourage me, and those who will stand in the gap financially to support me.
I am personally taking steps in prayer and asking the Lord to swing wide the doors of finances, so the money can come in and I urge you to do the same.
The Lord loves those who show faithfulness and I believe the Lord will honor your action and your prayers.
Today is the 5th and I am personally putting a deadline for the money to come in on September 26, 2010.
I believe my God is big enough to honor this decision and bring in what I need.
Thank you, thank you, and thank you!
