My Christmas break was sort of hard. I really missed family
and friends. The biggest thing that I learned was that I need to work on
resting. Most of the time I had I had a hardtime understand how to relax and
just be with God. I also realized that I have been doing a lot of striving and
burning myself out. I have been neglecting spending time in prayer for doing
missions, but I realize now that prayer is the fuel for all ministry without
prayer I am not getting anywhere. We don’t have any power without the spirit of
God. The more time I with spend with God in prayer the more his presence is
going to be with me the more effective I am going to be and that is where the
lasting fruit will come from. God has calls me to bear fruit that lasts not
just do good works. I believe that
God gives us ministry for us to get to know him its not just about blessing
other people its about God doing ministry with us. That more what I have been
wrestling with lately. God gives us things to get to know him more whether its that
he is faithful or trustworthy or the provider. God wants us to know him and
wants to know our hearts. So in what ever I am doing in life I want to pray
constantly because I am going to be more effective and last longer if I stay
with him in his presence, but the greater things is knowing God, its all about
knowing more of God. The more we know him in the intimate times the more its
going to show on the outside and make real lasting fruit. That’s what I
learned. Over the break . take it or leave it.
An update with our dts we have 17 students in the new DTS
and they are going to the Philippines and Cambodia for outreach! Pray for the
lecture phase of the DTS for them is always intense because the student are
learning so many new things about God and being challenged in their faith and
wrestle with God. IT is a very anointed program that wrecked my life for
missions and falling in love with Jesus, but it is very challenging! We have
students for many different nations New Zealand, Switzerland, Malaysia, Norway,
and of course the USA. I know that the DTS is going to change their life
forever during this time! Pray that God will call them into missions longterm!
My SOME team is doing so well in Indo they are heavily
involved with many different ministries including prison ministries, ministry
to muslims, working with prosititutes and personal and street evangelism. Pray
that God gives them the strength to finish strong and continue to work hard to
see Indonesia reached! They are loving it. They are seeing amazing things
happen! They are wonderful! The DTS teams that are seeing great things happen!
They are in the Philippines, India and Sri Lanka.
The biggest things that I have been focused on is the The
School Of Missions and Evangelism
that I am running in April! I am getting a lot of speakers and I am trying to
think of greater strategies to recruit people into longterm missions and create
mobilizers to send people into the least reached people in the world! Our goal
as a school is to see the least reached places of the world have a gospel
witness. We want to see the world know Jesus. We are sold out because we know
Jesus is the greatest thing is this world and we need him more than anything,
and that people not knowing him is the greatest injustice on the planet. So pray for the school I have most of
the teachers lined up for the school, but we need lots of students! Pray that
God will send people to the school to get trained and sent out!
I am leaving
for home on the 24th! I cant wait to see everyone! If you want to meet up with
everyone. I would love it to meet
up with you im there for just a short amount of time, but I would love to have
coffee with you if you have time. I would love to share my story and what is
going on in YWAM. My hope in being home is to encourage people there and be
refreshed by my friends and family!
