Freedom reigns in this place.
Not only for the people here
in Thailand, but for the work that the Lord is doing right now.
There is freedom reigning.
There is redemption
happening back home in my family.
Since I left for the race in
July, so many people have spoken over me that the broken relationships with my family
members will be restored while I am gone.
Month 3
in Nicaragua I doubted what God spoke to me about the restoration.
Month 4
my dad said hello to me for the first time in five years on my birthday.
Today in Month 6, my aunt (my dad’s sister)
talked to me for the first time in about 10 years.
REDEMPTION!
Relationships with my family are being restored.
My teammate, Christina told
me tonight that I am the glue that holds my family together.
It’s true. I am the glue.
She may have also stated
that my life is like a sitcom, yep I’ll agree with that.
My aunt also knows Jesus.
I thought I was the only
Christian on my dad’s side of my family.
My aunt also reminded me
that my great grandma that passed away probably 12 or so years ago was a
Christian.
Tonight she told me, “You have a GREAT-grandma is Heaven dancing
and praising God right now with the joy she feels for your choices you have
made.”
My great grandma knew the Lord.
She has been watching over
me every single time the Lord has led me on a missions’ trip.
She watches over me every
single day.
I have two angels in Heaven, my grandma and my great
grandma.
I am watched over.
I am loved.
I am protected.
I have angels!!
He is redeeming my family
and putting them all back together and I am simply one piece to this crazy
puzzle.
Sure this is all super cool and all, but I don’t think it
hit me until tonight how crazy this all is.
Month 5, aka last month in
Bulgaria I felt freedom
from the Lord.
I spent a day alone with the
Father digging into the depths of why I was being short with people.
I was able to break free
from some things that happened to me when I was a child.
Things that I have never
told some people back home about.
Being sexually abused as a
child.
Feeling unwanted in my
family.
Feeling unloved.
Breaking off generational
ties of my family always being broken.
I casted off each of these
things.
They have no attachment to
me anymore.
I prayed for forgiveness for
each pain.
I prayed for each person to
forgive me.
Most importantly, I prayed
for the salvation of each person I had bitterness towards.
For one of the first times
in my life I experienced freedom.
Freedom that only the Lord
could give me.
Freedom from the things of
my past that were pulling me down.
Freedom.
Out of that freedom, my team looked at me and saw lightness
in the way I walked.
They saw a different Brandi.
A Brandi that was
experiencing freedom in Christ for the very first time.
A Brandi that was gentle.
A Brandi that loved like no
other.
A Brandi that just carried
herself differently.
A couple days later during
out nightly team time we were talking and our time together turned into
worship.
I literally was sitting
there and on the tip of my tongue I felt like I was about to speak in tongues
for the very first time.
I didn’t know what to do, so
I shared with my team that I thought I was about to speak in tongues, but I
didn’t know what to do.
As soon as I was able to utter
those words from my mouth,
My team started interceding
for me,
They started praying for me,
They encouraged me to utter
words to my Father.
Then I got on my knees and
prayed.
I prayed long and hard.
Then it happened.
I spoke in tongues for the very first time.
I uttered words that spoke
of true intimacy between my Daddy and I.
I spoke in a language that
only He and I know.
Raw intimacy.
I knew I was going to speak
in tongues during my month in Bulgaria.
It took me to actually sit
with the Father and work out my crap before it could happen.
It took me to go deep with
my Heavenly Father to experience His gifts.
It took me to study
scripture like 1 Corinthians 14 before I could speak in a different language.
It took me to break these
chains off to see the restoration to happen in my family.
Here I am in Chiang Mai,
Thailand sharing Jesus to University students that live across the street and
the Lord is doing work at home.
He is showing off of what
His plans are for me by His work.
He is showing me that He is
in control and that if He is speaking restoration, you better guess that He is
going to restore.
He is showing me that having
a mess sucks, but going through it will give me freedom.
He is showing me that He
wants raw intimacy between us.
I can safely walk around Chiang Mai shouting, “Freedom reigns in this place.”
Too bad it is not culturally
acceptable to be loud in public here.
They might boot me out of
the country or something. Haha
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST:: My papaw (mom’s dad and
recent widow) has been placed in a nursing home for therapy for the next 20 or
so days. Pray for him as he feels alone right now and for the Lord to heal him.
I found out that my grandma who I also have not talked to in about 10 years has
stage 2B breast cancer with an 80% chance of survival. Pray for healing in her
life and for her to come to know the love of the Father.
I’ll have a blog coming up very soon of the ministry that
I am involved in this month in Thailand, so stay tuned. To get the latest blog
updates sent right to your mailbox click here and enter your email address.
