June 16, 2007
Awesome update and end to my last blog, Anointing:
The night when we anointed everything (Wednesday), we prayed that God would not only remove the bad dreams but replace them with prophetic dreams.
Before I went to bed I asked God to give us 10 prophetic dreams. I didn’t care if I personally had them or not, but I wanted to see God use our sleep as a time to speak to us. I was so worked up the next morning because I had had that bad dream attacking the character of a World Racer. Later that night I was talking to a fellow racer and she told me that two of them had the same prophetic dream the night before. Did you hear that? Two people had the exact same dream in the same night! I won’t go into detail but they dreamed about fields filled with wheat ready to be harvested. God revealed to them separately that the vast wheat fields represented the many souls that are ready to be harvested for the kingdom.
That night (Thursday), I didn’t have any bad dreams (woohoo!) and in the stillness of the morning, as I was returning from the dream world into reality, God whispered “Psalm 43:3” in my ear. I woke up, grabbed my Bible and found this:
Send forth your light and your truth, let them guide me;
let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.
I can’t say the bad dreams have gone away completely, but it is building my relationship with God through prayer, and for that I’m grateful. I know that dreams can be a powerful way for God to speak to us and I’m hoping that my sleep soon becomes that quiet place for him to reveal new things to me.
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Team update:
We have a team name! Well, we have a “working” team name. We’ve been thinking along the lines of
perseverance and
strength but couldn’t come up with anything in time for our commissioning ceremony. Then Silas jokingly said we should name ourselves Team Lego. We thought it was a fun name and represented us fitting together to build something great. We even found a verse to validate it:
In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.
Ephesians 2:21-22
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Ministry update:
We’re leaving Tuesday the 19th to go work at an orphanage in another part of Swaziland. It will be my team, Team Lego, and Team Salt (January racers). They are hoping to get us in town once a week to blog but that’s not certain. I’ll blog as often as I can, but no guarantees. We’ll be working there until the end of July, after which our whole June team will probably meet to do ministry in Botswana. In Botswana, we might be staying alongside a river in one of the best game reserves. The only thing I know for sure is that on August 27th we’ll be leaving Africa and flying to Bangkok via Hong Kong. We should arrive in Thailand on August 28th. That’s all I know for now so keep checking back here for updates.
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We had a lot of fun on the safari. The internet is slow so i can only post this one picture but we saw elephants, lions, giraffes, rhinos, impalas, and some other random animals. All the animals were laid back and didn’t do much other than eat or sleep but I heard that the first group got charged by a rhino!
Training is over now so yesterday we had “team day” and my team decided to have lunch together in town. Last night we watched the rough draft of a documentary on Sudan. A guy named James Harrison (in his 20’s) had spent a few months working with Samaritan’s Purse in Southern Sudan. When he came home he felt led to do something more. Him, his dad, his sister, a pastor and a country singer, all went to film a documentary in Southern Sudan to raise awareness in America (and hopefully the world) about the terrible plight of these people. Bill Clinton has agreed to do the introduction to the video and Denzel Washington is going to do part of the narrating. The Harrison family is staying at the same hotel here in Swaziland as many of our leaders, which is how we met them and got the opportunity to watch the unfinished cut. They want to do a series of documentaries around the world and they are hoping to do the next one about the Swazi people. We were able to pray with James after the video and it was a powerful time. We made a great contact and I’m excited to see the final copy of the documentary. When it’s finished I will find out where you can watch it.
Today we have a cultural training session and tonight we are watching a movie called “Human Trafficking.” It will give us some insight into the human trafficking issues that we will be faced with when we travel to Asia.
Thank you for your continued prayers and support. I love you all!
