My family!
I am so privileged to be writing to you from the beautiful country of Mozambique on this wonderful continent of Africa. I wouldn't be here today at this moment in time if it weren't for all of you. And truly, with everything that God is doing in my heart and in me and through me, I can say, "For such a time as this." His Kingdom is coming. I am proclaiming, not only the gospel of salvation, but the gospel of the Kingdom, of His restoration, of His redemption for all of mankind. We get to be apart of it! His method is a man. We are His way to redeem others to His heart. He uses us to transfer tribes from the domain of darkness to the Kingdom of Light and life everlasting. What a blessing it is to be alive. Amen?
The past month and a half has flown by. Some days are longer than others in this summer African weather of 110 degree days and 90 degree nights. It rained for the first time yesterday and it was totally welcomed by all of the Iris student's hearts as we sang in our school hut, "Let it rain, let it rain. Open the floodgates of Heaven!" We spend every Monday through Friday morning and sometimes evenings in that little school hut of ours, and the ocean is visible from it, and it's completely open for the Indian Ocean wind to blow right through. The school of a little over 100 students consists of 21 nations with beautiful hearts totally set aflame for the heart of our Daddy, passionately in love with Love.
My time here so far has been so busy and yet I've never spent so much alone time with my Husband as I have here at this school. My favorite spot to meet with Him is under this HUGE African tree on the Iris base at night with the Mozambican stars illuminated in ways that I didn't know stars could shine. My days consist of school from 8am-1pm and then a medley of activities, like the hip-hop dance group I'm apart of here, going to the local prison, preaching and dancing, or holding the babies at "baby bedtime" and putting them to sleep, or hanging out with the older "orphan" girls on the base, who are no longer orphaned because they are in love with the One who promised to not leave them as orphans. The teenage girls have been teaching me so much about unconditional love. They know how to love so well. We go to the local hospital and lay hands on the sick and the hospital is emptying! Praise God! Jesus wasn't kidding when He told us to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead and to cast out demons. How different would the world look like if the Church took the Bible literally?
We feed 500 village kids, who are kids in Pemba who don't live at the Iris base, everyday at the "village feeding". They steal ALL the time. It's so sad, the poverty of spirit here. But I know the LORD is not done with Pemba and Heidi's vision is coming to fruition and will continue to until the good work God has started in her is complete.
I just got back last weekend from a village outreach with my color group to a remote village in the bush, where we camped out for 3 days and evangelized and started relationships with people who had never heard of Jesus before. Two more people were healed from their blindness, physically and spiritually. God gave me the opportunity to pray for 2 blind men my first 3 weeks here who were healed and saved. He restored the vision of their eyes and hearts. Praise God! About 30 people came to the LORD at the village and came to Church the next day with us. Heidi married 3 couples in that village and it was so beautiful to be apart of another culture's wedding. It was totally spur of the moment; flowers in coke cans, village orphans singing Makua (Mozambique's heart language) worship songs, paper links strung from one side of the mud hut church to the other. It was so beautiful.
Also, God is growing me in gifts that I never knew I had and is also revealing the next step of my life, which was confirmed in a prophetic word on Wednesday by Heidi's personal assistant who is a prophet. I'm in an Elisha period of my life, a time of seminary- receiving and growing under the best of the best in preparation for my own mantel of the apostolic ministry God has for my husband and I. She said that I don't know where I belong and feel as if I don't have a home but God is going to use that to be a cross citizen of many tribes, cross pollinating and not being apart of just one ministry, but the best of the best-Lou Ingle's prayer movement with Heidi's heart for the poor and Bill Johnson's healings -God wants to use me in all of them with my husband. And that this is my coming of age, stepping into the fulfillment of the training for my ministry. God is leading me to Bethel Church in Redding, California, where I'll be going to school come September. God is so good! He's really convicted me to DREAM BIGGER. We need to dream bigger, and with that, trust Him so much more. He's totally capable of it. So why not ask for more? Ask for AIDS to end, for a million children to be fed everyday in Mozambique, for abortion to end in America and for Obama to become the godliest president we've ever had. He can do anything! We just need to ask.
So to conclude this long rantings of just a fraction of what God is doing here in me on this African soil, I just want to thank you from the deepest part of my heart for keeping me in your hearts, for trusting our Daddy enough to know that He can do so much more with my life than I can even dream. His thoughts are so much higher than ours. I just feel like He is saying to you, in your giving in this trip and trusting Him in this Harvest, thank you. Thank you for seeing His daughter through His eyes and for trusting Him in that His work is just beginning. Thank you for seeing the Kingdom come in a mustard seed of faith and for sowing into it. He loves you and blesses you and desires nothing but good for your life. He DELIGHTS in you, His beloved!! More to come. Thank you for your continual prayers. I love you all and think of you often. But not an ounce of me wants to go back to America. The only thing drawing me back is that I'm excited to be on this journey with my Husband, and I know the next step we have to take is in America. So I will see you all in the new year! God bless you abundantly! I love you!
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so i read your entry last night. i love how the spirit of God can transfer from one person to another. i know we have the same spirit ... but the passion and power that we can share is amazing. and yet again i am drawn to tears thru this post. i was just sitting here, crying ... desiring so much of what you are experiencing. wanting the miracles to become reality for the first time in my life. you are living out the things i had always wanted myself. so i left to my bedroom and opened up Gods word. began to read. walked out after a while, layed on my husbands chest ... as he kissed me on the forehead ... knowing i was emotional :) i told him i was going to bed ... for what you wrote exausted me emotionally in a possitive way. he came into the bedroom to tuck me in ... and as he sat staring down at me i began to tell him things you wrote and what i desire for the both of us (me and him together) but knowing how real god is and what he can do ... i am no longer ok with just sitting around. so he said we can start bible dessert. so every night after we have dinner, we will dive into some dessert ... the word!! and starting there! :) he figured thats the best place to start. just michelle. just know that what you are doing in africa is effecting what we do here in america. a blessing in so many ways ... you are encouraging my husband and me to really seek after the lord. so thank you. love you much.
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