General Articles’, ‘Throughout my life and most of my ministry times I have always done what I was good at. What I wouldn’t fail at. I had gifts and abilities with children. So naturally I thought that I was supposed to work with children and then when I was saved, it must mean that I was supposed to work in children’s ministry. So I did. I was told that I was very naturally skilled at it. I liked doing it. I felt like I could do it. But there was something missing. I felt like it wasn’t where I was supposed to be. My heart was not fully in it. Saying goodbye to that part of my life and moving into missions was difficult. It came with a cost. I had to admit that I had been serving to please men and not God. That I had taken the safe route. I had to let people know the real desires of my heart and trust that they would support me and understand me. But more importantly I had to trust God. This is something that I find in month four of the world race, I did not do and could not fully do. I had to stop playing it safe.
Trust would mean that I had to really stop getting my feet wet and dive into this life that He has been calling me to. I have desired to do missions for a long time. It was a hearts desire. I knew that being out here, I would most likely find the area that I was called to serve in and where my heart was at. And I have. In Thailand I spent many hours praying for the squad and the nation of Thailand. I prayed against the strongholds that were holding people in bondage. I wept and asked God for the release of people who were caught up in depression, anger, lies, jealousy, betrayal, unforgiveness and more. I listened to the heart of God and decided that I wanted to be one that would and could stand in the Gap. I have a passion and heart to help Christians who are caught up in bondage and pain to be set free. It was a month that blew my mind as God started to show me what the life of an intercessor looks like and as he started to teach me about how to pray and more importantly how to listen. He showed me that prayer is the foundation of any ministry and that without it we crumble.
I am now at debrief. Mike and Patti have come and we are having a little fun and some time to get built up again. It is a blessing to be poured into and loved on after a month of pouring out and loving on others. They brought with them a book to give to each team. It is called a Royal Priesthood by Dennis Weidrick. I can’t put it down (well I can long enough to blog out my thoughts) All month I was given revelation after revelation about the life of an intercessor and now I am confirming through this book and most importantly scripture what God has laid on my heart all month. Simply put, I am to stand in the gap and be the one that will intercede for ones that hurt. What was once such a burden to pray has become my biggest blessing. I used to struggle with talking to God and praying out my thoughts. I felt overwhelmed by the amount of people and the amount of burdens and everything that weighed on my heart. I would allow myself to lose track of thought. I realized at one point that it was all distraction to keep me from my calling. But God has been teaching me how to pray and what to pray for. I love our time together as I get to really know the heart of my father.
Many people would tell me that God is in control of things, and there is nothing we can do to change things. This is something that I can say is entirely untrue. He gives us revelations and dreams, visions and more so that we can be Nation Shakers. So we can pray truth, we can pray healing, and we can see him change the outcome. God simply has told us that we need to pray. It should be our first response and our last. We should have a heart for the people and a thankfulness on our lips when God shows up and does his thing. Prayer is powerful. He wants us to be the ones who will ask for Kingdom and to bring Kingdom. Prayer is needed.
All this being said. We need your prayers. We need people who will keep on praying for our ministries, our teams, our hearts, minds, wills and emotions, our health, our personal growth, our support to come through, our families to be safe and taken care of. We need people who will ask God to reveal the pain we are facing and help to carry that load. We have been so blessed by the number of people who are praying for us so far. We have had some big hits out here, and some personal attacks along the way, but your prayers and interceding for us has been a huge blessing. You don’t know what you do when you pray, but your literally shaking up the nations we touch and helping us to keep going on days where you want to give up. So please pray with us, pray for us. We are only as good as the foundation that we stand on. With your faithful prayers, you build us up on solid foundation. God bless each and everyone of you intercessors. We love you dearly.
