May 28, 2017
Wow Romania has captured my heart. I’m on day two and we nearly started ministry but the people, oh the people. God usually wrecks me by giving me His heart for the people, but just like Zimbabwe wrecked me in a deeper way, Romania is hitting that same spot….
For those not on Facebook I mentioned our ministries…working with a church ministering to the homeless gypsies and and going to the ghetto to minister to the gypsies’ kids and also bringing them back to the church for a service and games.
We are staying in the church. There is a huge room upstairs which used to be the old sanctuary that we sleep in. I found a closet up there so I can sleep in peace when everyone else stays up late being loud. 8 months of sleep deprivation because your in such tight quarters–wow to be able to sleep in quiet is such a gift!!! You’ll do almost anything to find a quiet place..
With having a closet to go in I feel more freedom to yield to Romans 8 prayer– those groanings and travails to deep for utterance. Wow the intimacy with Holy Spirit when you are behind closed doors and stick a pillow in your face!!!! I have had to fight for this all year!!! Just like a married couple would hopefully not have intimate relation on the front lawn, so it is–that there are places we can go in Him that are not meant to be before men, but in the Secret Place just you and Him and ohhhhh how glorious it is that only cause me to weep in thanksgiving!!!
No place I’d rather be then here in His Love here in His Presence and as you leave this intimate place you are marked and carry this glory everywhere you go, and people are drawn to you. Even Romanians that are supposedly very closed and oppressed and don’t smile on the streets. I joined a gym this month and the first day someone came up to me and introduced themselves. I figured she worked there but she didn’t. The second day another girl kept looking at me and finally came to me and said, “your eyes are they real?” Like I say, I know they are green and beautiful, but come on I know they are responding like this because the Light of Christ shining through. It’s Him!!
The eyes are the gateway to the heart and I know they are seeing much more then the color of my eye. Believe what you want I’m telling you it is supernatural the way these supposedly closed off people are acting like they are magnetized. And I have witnessed this many times before. It is out of the ordinary. It is Him!!
Our first day they picked up the gypsies’ kids from the ghetto and brought them back to the church so we could do a service with them. When they came in I opened my arms and they dove right in. As soon as we started worshipping they started dancing and singing like I do full of life praising God in Romanian and tears immediately flood my eyes as I felt so at home and connected and was amazed at God’s beauty in this!!
Same when we went to the village to a church service and I shared my testimony, gosh the people!!!! God’s love for these people!!! ????
And different homes prepared food as we split up and I went with the pastor kids to one family and even know I was the only American–the whole time my heart was so full and overwhelmed I just wanted to cry the whole time because of how I felt so connected and loved and one with these people.
May 30, 2017
Holy Spirit is the best orchestrator!!! I went with the pastor I’m working with downtown to where the homeless gypsies hang around to encourage them to come to the gathering and service we were having at the church that day for them.
As we were walking Pastor then leans over and says I’m about to introduce you to the leader of the pack. So I shake their hand excitingly saying hello how are you?–in Romanian. Of course they got a kick out of it and we all start laughing. Totally got on with them right away cause of course I relate to street people!!
His wife says to me, “we need to talk after the church service about what you eat.” She said she is big and needs to lose weight. I was so overwhelmed with the encounter, I felt like I already had a relationship with these people. I was secretly having a heart, melting, praise attack (meaning overwhelmed in thankfulness for God’s goodness) and holding back my tears of joy. Ya know-trying to stay calm, cool and collective. I was totally satisfied that we just ran into the kingpin of this group of gypsies. Not only that, I find out he’s also working as a pimp trafficking some of the girls including his wife. I was like man Lord you just got this whole thing set up!!!
So this leader spreads the word to his people and they show up later at the church and I plop myself down right next to him and his wife at the table and eat and talk with them. Time comes to do the service and I’m the one sharing, and the Holy Spirit of course just flows right out and this man is hanging on every word intently listening!! I just remember looking straight in his eyes and telling him the plan that God has for him, how I see so much potential in him, how he is such an influencer and God wants to use him to make a difference in this world and I can’t even tell you the expression on his face–priceless– looked like he was totally surrendered to God. I shared my testimony and how the life they are living is not the plan of God and that God has a plan and it is so good and hurt and abuse from their parents doesn’t have to stop them from fulfilling it.
God is so amazing he reminded me and brought me back to these moments of prayer and things I declared before this trip–that I would encounter these pimps and head ganstas and that they would be delivered and God would transform them. And when you see things unfold that you feel like you’ve walked in already, it is so humbling and so overwhelming and so surreal, but a dream come true!!!
It’s like I know God is real, He is real in my life but He just keeps manifesting more and more, like only God can do this!! And really that’s all I want in my life that everything that happens people will see that surely only God can do this!!!
Please pray for this man!! I won’t give you his name but we call him papa and his son! His son’s arms are all cut up from cutting himself. We take authority over those demons that would influence him in the Name of Jesus!!!
Thanks ya’ll for your support, you are as much as a part of this as we who are physically here!!
