I went down to LA for a night to go to a conference, and I went down for prayer and a man stopped me and said…. “I can’t help the Lord prompting me to tell you that He is going to give you new vision, and unexpected joy from an unexpected source.”
During that night during worship the Lord revealed areas in my life that I had ignored (killed, thought were dead, thought I killed them for the right reasons, you know.) that He wanted to bring back to life. Unexpected.
Was spoken over regarding my worship, how I sing to the Lord….and how He’s going to release a sound in me, a roar, that will bring Him glory and He will use that gift to touch crowds.
I got pulled up in church Saturday night and received a prophecy through Harold Eberle. Incredible word….aligning with my current vision and calling me up to more.
Verses of the Bible I’m reading and rereading are coming to life in all new ways, specific for where I am right now and what I’m walking through.
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This last week has been hard work! With the California heat and wildfires, moving, having garage sales while ash rains down on us, people calling the city code enforcement on my house, challenging work days etc etc…. I am grateful for the progress we’ve made!
Whenever one moves forward with God there is always resistance. I choose not to post or focus on the resistance because that’s not what I want to glorify. And honestly, I know that the annoyances, roadblocks, and challenges are several things:
1. Nothing compared to the persecution people in other countries face for simply proclaiming Jesus. Like, my life is not at risk right now. Chill. Stop complaining!
2. Nothing compared to the challenges I am preparing to face on the field.
3. Welcomed! How am I going to grow if I am comfortable?! The stretching and testing reveals my heart, and shows me where I need to let the Lord in. I’m seeing my limitations and submitting them to the Lord. Refined by FIRE. Not gumdrops and cotton candy clouds y’all. It’s not supposed to be easy.
There has been serious physical, emotional, and spiritual challenges these past two weeks. But JUST AS MUCH OR MORE the Lord has spoken to me CLEARLY, DIRECTLY, AUDIBLY. Isn’t it good to know His heart? When I’m too stretched and challenged to maintain my normal routine or seek Him at my normal capacity, He makes His will for me known EVEN LOUDER. It’s beautiful and incredible and I am so overwhelmed by His love, all the time.
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I leave for Zimbabwe in two weeks! I will be doing a medical outreach in Mudanda, Buhera, with Jewish Voice Ministries (JVMI). This is the same location I went to in July of LAST year….when this fire in my soul got started and the Lord revealed my call to missions. I will be staying with my friend Julie Ann, a nurse I met in the clinic last year, and her daughters and new son for a night before heading out to the clinic, where I will be reuniting the miracle patient, Privilege, who was paralyzed, and had developed bedsores down to her bones. She’s walking now. Lord knows I will fall on my face when I see her….
After the week long clinic with JVMI, I will be spending 4 weeks in Chidamoyo, at a Christian hospital volunteering. I am not sure what exactly I will be doing there, but I know there are lots of mother/baby patients and HIV clinics.
In October I will meet up with the JVMI team in Ethiopia, and help with the last two clinics of the year in the northern part of the country.
Lastly, I am going to be in Israel for 8 days! I will be backpacking around the country, staying in hostels and wherever the Lord leads. Israel is a cheap, 4 hour flight from Addis Ababa and I won’t have another opportunity like this to go!
I’m very excited. I’ll be back in the States late October.
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Read this, and get wrecked. The Lord brought me to this…and I read it with fresh eyes in several versions. INCREDIBLE. Thank you Jesus.
Christ Our Pattern
8 I speak not by commandment, but I am testing the sincerity of your love by the diligence of others. 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
10 And in this I give advice: It is to your advantage not only to be doing what you began and were desiring to do a year ago; 11 but now you also must complete the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to desire it,so there also may be a completion out of what you have. 12 For if there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what one has, and not according to what he does not have.
13 For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; 14 but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality. 15 As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”
xoxo
Love you all. Thanks for reading.
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What I’m reading: 2 Corinthians, James
What I’m listening to: Joey Spurgeon and Aaron Ferrer 7/18/17 Gospel.House on Soundcloud
What I’m watching: nothin’ right now….no time! <3
