Dear Reader,
It is 8/14 I am starting this blog post because I have a huge prayer I am asking of God. I want to be fully funded before I leave the states. I am so scared to pray this prayer. What if he doesn’t provide? But, I am going to use this post as a way for you to witness a MIRACLE. I am about to step out in faith and do some crazy things. I’ll update you as I go. But right now I have 18 days to raise the rest of the money. I can’t do this but GOD can.
THE START OF A MIRACLE
8/14/2014 12:24 PM
I am confident the Lord will be glorified and that he will provide because of his faithfulness in the past.
God Creating The Support System: Prior to this Blog
1. The First Letter: I mailed over 200 letters to friends and family. About 50 people responded and several families began to have pretty regular conversations with me. They freely offered me prayer and encouragement.
2. The Churches: God set me up to have weekly communication with the head pastors of three small churches and two college ministries. These Churches and ministries honestly came out of no-where. Several of them felt let to meet with me once a week and mentor me in my preparation.
3. The Jobs: I was working a part time job and then once accepted to the world race God gave me the blessing of 2 more part time jobs along side of the one I already had.
4. Tribes Fest: I put together a music night with four bands at a local coffee shop and around 50 people showed. God blessed me and the bands played for free as a contribution to my trip.
5. The T-Shirt: I designed a t-shirt during a time of spiritual searching. I produced it a few months later and God let it take off. Music night was where my t-shirt sold the most. I was able to be blessed in using my art abilities God gave me in a time of need.
I am speaking and visiting a church Sunday about my finances… will update on that soon.
HE HEALED A WOMAN IN ATLANTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8/17/2015
I drove down to speak at the church I spoke about a few days ago. When I got there the Lord gave me a word for the church and for the first time, he used me to speak to a congregation about the topic of spiritual warfare and children. I was given the microphone and had a plan of speaking about training camp. But, God stopped me, I had to obey in what the Lord was resting on my spirit. The Church then blessed God’s ministry with a great blessing of money for my trip.
After my time there, I drove to another church to attend a worship service with a squad-mate (someone going on the world race with me). I was so blessed by the morning… I did not expect the Lord to continue to bless me. I was introduced to three people from two of the countries I will be doing ministry: Nicaragua and the Philippines. The two men, from Nicaragua, were staying with a woman who buys, sells, and displays Christian art. I happened to have some of my glasswork in my car. The woman followed me out and bought several hundred dollars of work. I kept thinking, “Wow, the Lord is providing in such abundance”… But here is where the story plot twists.
A homeless woman appeared out of no-where in the parking lot. She started speaking to us and I asked if I could pray for her. She said yes, so I began to pray with the Nicaraguan missionaries and the lady who was buying my art. I spoke what the Lord laid on my heart. What the Lord was saying to her began to make her weep. She flung her whole self at me and put her head in my hands. I asked God some time ago, if I were to be used in the healing of a person, to bring them to me and give me a clear understanding in that healing. I began to pray for the thing she rested in my hands. Her head. Which is confirmation in something I believe the Lord has put a calling on in my life.The Lord directed me to pray for mental and spiritual healing in her life. I asked for God to cast out anything not of him and as I did she began to wail. She wept for some time and I felt her tears cover my feet. She then began to pray loudly herself, rededicating her life to the Lord, and promising God she would speak of him for the rest of her life. She then got up raising her arms above her head and prayed a blessing over us. She was healed from her strife. My world and surroundings felt so surreal. I couldn’t believe my Sunday was so amazingly enriched with the Lord’s greatness. We dropped her off later and she left us with joy and smiles I did not see before. As I pulled away she blew me kisses and I broke. God touched her. God healed her. God has more miracles and proof that he is LORD than just fundraising. I have never been used by God in a healing and seen anything happen. In the past I have doubted my own faith in healing…and he used this moment to prove his POWER to me. There are miracles that need to be heard. Miracles I will continue to share only because HE IS GLORIOUS!… I want to see the LORD heal more! I WANT TO SEE MORE PEOPLE KNOW JESUS! I asked God for one miracle and he plot twisted my life to show me his POWER! God can do whatever God wants to do. If he wants me to be fully funded before I leave… I will be! AMEN AND AMEN!
