October 21

So this post might be a bit longer than the others because I want to give a summary of my time here so far. First I would like to testify how amazing God's faithfulness is, when He calls you to do something, and you obey, He provides and does more than enough to make sure you get to the place He calls you! God overwhelmed me with his faithfulness in finances as I obeyed the call He has for me to come out here, I've been blessed to say the least!
He has also given me so much grace to make this move away from family and friends, I have been so blessed with an amazing family of friends here in Kansas City. It was like I was supposed to be here all the time, I fell right into this amazing group of friends and God has bound us together through times of prayer and worship with each other. It's just been amazing to see God move in all of our lives as we go after him.
Now for the tricky part, trying to give a summary of what God has done in my heart since I have been here. So for the first few weeks, God pretty much did surgery and removed so much religion that was caked on my heart. My first module (a three week class focusing on one particular subject) was called Way of Intimacy which was amazing. I began to see God in a new light as I learned that He delights over me, that when I say "yes" to Him in my heart it's enough for Him. When I say "yes", He smiles and is so happy. That class just really hammered out the thought that I had to be right before I tried to come into communion with God, which had prevented me from coming to Him so many times before. We focused alot on the Song of Solomon which I encourage you to study in the light that Jesus is our lover and we are His beloved. It was just a continuance of Jesus showing me how much He loves me, I still don't even know how much He loves me but He keeps sweeping me off my feet everyday and all I can say is I'm in love with Him. My next module was called Excellencies of Christ which was again so amazing. I had just recently read through the Gospels right before the module and so I was all familiar with the life of Jesus, but I really had no idea what I didn't know. This class brought me so much closer to a fuller understanding of how great Christ really is, the power of His cross and resurrection, and the redemption that is found through Him. In this class we saw a number of healings and salvations, God loves to fascinate us more than we know! Right now I get excited thinking about it, I just want to go meditate on His goodness all over again!! So now I am in my third module, hard to believe because time flies by. This module is called Eschatology (end times) which has been very interesting and challenging so far. I have been deeply motivated and driven back to my purpose as a forerunner to proclaim the coming Lamb in these last days. Really it's been a drive to holiness and to walk in diligence so Christ finds His bride spotless and without blame. I'm through one week and I've just been driven to my knees and the word so many times.
So at the end of every module we have a week here at IHOP that is called Global Bridegroom Fast. The first three days of the week, everyone on the mission base (IHOP staff, students, and interns) fasts. This is a time where we cry out for our nation, lost souls, healing, other nations, abortion, and freedom, basically we do alot of interceding. I love this week, God refocuses me in that I can still be a sponge soaking Him up but I also need to contend on behalf of other people.
I also want to share a few testimonies as well, wow this is going to be long but it's hard to keep things short when your talking about the goodness of our Lord! So recently I was praying for healing over a person while in the prayer room and I felt the Holy Spirit challenge me in my belief for whether or not God would really heal this person. So I held onto the fact that He wants their healing more than I ever could and just spoke that over that person. So a few weeks ago, I along with a few other girls, prayed over this girl in the prayer room who had stomach pains and delt with depression. The next week she came in and told us that she was completely healed! That very night I prayed over a girl who had gotten in a wreck which was causing her neck and back pains and when we were done praying for her, she was healed and free of pain! Wow the Lord is so amazing, He simply has more zeal to heal than we do and when we get a hold of believing that His word is more true than the situation around us, He moves!
I want to ask you all if there is anything at any time you would like me to be in prayer for you about, please email me and let me know. God has shown me how I move heaven and earth when I pray and I want Him to show you that as well, so let me agree with you in whatever there is in your lives! I love you all and am so excited to for what God is doing right now!