Monday, May 26, 2008

Fresh Love

check this site out

http://www.kvministries.com/

and then go to media, and then infusions. I have just been watching them. They are so powwerful. God is so powerful.

School is going well, surprisingly fast. But the biggest thing that God has been teaching me is just to move from knowledge to true faith. Faith without works is dead. I want to know Christ more than anything else. Get back to simplicity. Get back to Love.

I listened to a message by Heidi Baker this morning on the year, faint, cry. Podcast and she was talking about the crazy trials they have been going through. About their pastor Sithole, who was one of their main pastors and the syncretistic muslims came and yelled "You be quiet! Quit speaking about Jesus!!" and they cut off his lips, and then they cut off his tongue. "We will silence you and your church!" Eventually they completely cut him in pieces as a message to shut up about Jesus.

This man's brother konyada hears the terrible news about what happened to his brother and goes back to that exact village that killed his brother. With all of these Muslims there and he calls them together and he yells out "I want you to know that we are the church that loves! And we love you, and we bless you, and we cry out for mercy upon your lives." And hundreds and hundreds of syncretistic muslims bowed their knee to Jesus that day.

The power of Love

God is love.

And if we know God we should be known as Lovers. There is something powerful about love that shakes the darkness.

I just wanted to leave you with that. Pursue Love.

Monday, May 12, 2008

Fresh Worship

Hey Guys,

The new trimester has just started and things are going really well. Yesterday we actually had the police come to our house because we were praying so loud the police came thinking there might have been a fight. God has really been stirring hearts here and giving us a new level of hunger and love for him. I think every day of last week at least one class was taken over by the Holy Spirit as either just a wave of intercession or holy joy would sweep over the class.

This trimester God is calling me to a deeper level of faith in certain things and just surprising me with his goodness.

I want to share just one testimony from this last break. Some of my friends and I decided to go on a Treasure Hunt. This is where we pray for a bit and ask God where he wants to send us and who he wants to send us to. We write down Names, Locations, Appearance, Unusual, and Prayer Items that we feel like God is telling us. Then we go out and find them. It is ridiculously fun and adventurous. I love the way God moves.

So we are driving and after a lot of cool little miracles we go for one more treasure before I drop everybody off. We are looking for a white house in North Central Regina, and of course there are a whole lot of white houses but as we come near one with the number 13 on it I feel like this is the house. So we get out and my best friend Tim leads us up to the house. On his list he has for appearance that they will be a big person, they will struggle with depression and broken relationship. So he opens with "Hi there, we're just some friends going on a treasure hunt. And it looks like from our map that you are God's treasure... then he asks "Do you struggle with Depression?" and this lady doesn't really answer but when we ask if we can pray for her for anything she says "Yeah, my husband and I got a divorce in January and now we are fighting over our four kids and it is just ruining me. I went to the hospital for depression later on in January and it's still tough." She just starts totally opening up her heart with these strangers she had never met. So we pray for her and we could just feel the peace and the presence of God. Then she says "thanks so much, you guys came at the exact right time." And we walk back to the car in awe that God would choose to use us like this and his goodness.