It's been quite a while since I've updated you all. So much has happened since my last post over a month ago! Like I've said before, during the week we have a pretty tight schedule. We continue our outreach and evangelism every week, which is so awesome, I truly love and am so thankful for it. We have witnessed so many healings and just miracles happening in people lives. There have been blind who have been healed, crippled who can now walk, life circumstances improving, prayer requests answered, lives renewed, the list goes on. It still amazes me that God works through each and every one of us to show his glory. He heals, loves, comforts, restores and speaks to people through us!
Every week, our school gathers together and we have intercession. Intercession is a time of prayer. We pray for other nations and the current circumstances that are beyond reach. The only solution, really, is to give it to God and hope for a miracle. We usually pray and receive words, scripture and even visions from God. It's pretty amazing because it's nothing I have ever experienced before and it happens here everyday. God is so good and if we truly seek Him, we will find Him. I discover Him more and more everyday.
A few weeks ago we prayed for a former YWAMMER named Kenneth Bae. He was detained in South Korea for leaving a Bible in front of a government building. He was kept in a hard labour prison camp in Korea for two years! His wife, children and family had no word from him in all that time and they knew his health was failing him. Our school all gathered together and had intercession for Kenneth. We prayed that he would just feel Gods presence with him in all circumstances, that his health would not fail him, that even in these circumstances, God would continue to bless his ministry even if it were in a prison camp, that his family would find peace and that he would feel God's love and know people from all around the world were sending out prayers for his release. It still blows my mind thinking about it but the next week he was released! Crazy... This is just one of the examples of how God really hears and answers our prayers. Here is the article about his release: http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/world/asia/us-north-korea-detainees-released/
God had a purpose and plan for him and its hard to think he was put in prison for that purpose but he was able to fulfill God's calling there. I encourage you to research his story and read more about it. It truly is an amazing testimony I was able to be a part of, even if it was just to send out prayer for this man. I was able to experience how God hears and works through our prayers.
Last week we had lecture on freedom. We learned on how our ties to things we have experienced in the past, whether it be wrong that was done to us, things we have done that we are ashamed of, addictions, insecurities, etc don't define us as people. Life circumstances can really impact our lives and the way we percieve ourselves and others. There are a lot of things we will never understand as to why horrible things happen to wonderful people, or why we tend to find comfort in all the wrong places, in turn, sinking us deeper. At times we end up broken and shattered. It's hard to find a way out. How can we return to the wholeness we once felt before all these terrible circumstances occurred? How can we redeem ourselves for hurt we have caused others and ourselves? What I have learned is that God takes our brokenness aside and makes us beautiful. He restores us. Yeah, we have heard it over and over but it is true. We have to surrender all that hurt we have always set aside and not dealt with, all the pain that was done to us we have always kept inside, all the hidden struggles we face daily, and proclaim all the lies it made us believe."The truth will set you free!" That is not our identity. We just have to give it up, surrender it, proclaiming all the darkness within us is gone." For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord." Letting our ruins come to life in the beauty of God's name and letting Him redeem us, we rise up from the ashes and find refuge in Him. He reigns in our lives making us new. "The steps of man are established by the Lord when he delights in his way; though he fall, he shall not be cast headlong. For the Lord upholds his hand." He has a purpose and a plan for each and every one of us. No matter what our past circumstances may look like he has a plan for us far greater than the ones we have set out for ourselves.
"And all these though commended through faith, did not receive what was promised since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect."
"Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart!"
So many of us were able to do a freedom prayer and just get rid off all those lies, be free from them, be broken down by God, so in turn we can rise up in Him. He is building us back up little by little. If I thought God tore me down before, like I mentioned in my last post, I was mistaken. This is tearing me down in another level and I'm so grateful for that. He really is a faithful redeemer! (:
As most of you know I will be embarking on my missions trip to Nepal in December for three months! We are preparing for that every day but I am still short on the funds. I was able to raise all the money for my lecture phase ($4,000) and I am so incredibly grateful for that! I wouldn't be able to have this experience if it weren't for all my supporters. I do have another $4,000 due next month for my outreach to Nepal and still haven't been able to raise it. I am asking for support in this, If it be by a donation, prayer, or just sharing this link ! I have complete faith God will provide. I know He wants and has a purpose for me to be here. He has done this much, I don't doubt His faithfulness (:
https://www.youcaring.com/mission-trip-fundraiser/alexandras-missions-trip-to-nepal/263933
Outreach to the homeless in china town every tuesday night
Yard work every monday and wednesday
Lecture everyday
Family Feud/ Volunteering at New Hope Church- Halloween
DTS 2014
