Hey Guys,
I want to let you all in on what’s happening right now as we are now switching gears and will soon be out on the field! Thank You Lord.
First off we just recently finished another amazing Real Life training camp with a whole new group of students. There were four teams with some strong new leaders, many from previous world race squads and even some familiars from my FYM team last year in Africa. To see them at work was definitely a blessing.
The teams are now off to Swaziland, Nicaragua, Kenya, and India and your prayers for the teams to really hit the ground running and for their leaders to be strengthened are greatly appreciated.
Training camps can be challenging for students. They come from many different denominational backgrounds and are mixed together, stretched, poured into, tested, taught new things and put to work. Its a bit of a ride.
Some kids are hungry and go for it, while some hold on tight and can miss what the Lord would have for them but its all a process and this last camp was definitely a good one for all of us. The teams really bonded and for the most part went hard for it all week long.
We experienced some real power, stuff I simply cannot explain outside of The Holy Spirit doing what He does.
I was able to meet a girl named Brittany, who is now in India who has been thankfully following my blogs for the better part of a year.
“Thank you Jesus.”
For the Kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.
It’s (prophecy that is) one of the most challenging things we ask the students to step into. We de-mystify it and then we listen to what the Lord says to us (HE is speaking!) and we speak that over people we have never met and the most amazing things happen.
It is completely counter to everything we as, shall we say, “monkey’s and worm food”, have ever been taught.
So now, as I said I am switching gears and I am once again headed to the nations (Mexico, Monday morning) to follow The Lord and walk it all out.
look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself
from being polluted by the world.
I will be there for 8 weeks doing really, two frames of activity each day with the students.
The first of which is really spiritual teaching, learning and discipling. This would mean teaching times including but not limited to that of theology, church, Bible history and origins, book studies, spiritual disciplines such as prayer, fasting, simplicity, study and also community, statements of faith and so on.
It’s about hearing from the Lord, getting Him out of the tiny box we think He fits into, and struggling, (A lot trust me), and growing and loving….
to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will
is, his good, pleasing and perfect will.
It will include things like child care, organic gardening, construction skills, relational ministry, VBS, networking etc.. and it will all be learned and lived each in its own focus week. Each team will focus specifically on one adopted Mexican family in a local community and this is where they will apply what they learn.
It will be exciting, challenging and surely exhausting. Which is good. I want to receive it in fullness.
Pray that the pain of the world would break us and that the Love of The Father would fill us deeply……..Ask the Lord what you should pray for and then do it.
Cover us in power and grace, this is the next generation.
1st Timothy 1:12,13
I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was shown mercy…
Amen.
