We had a really great guest speaker, Tevita, he is Tongan but he is from Shanghai, China. I really enjoyed his style of teaching, he really makes you think and process what he is teaching instead of just spoon feeding it to us. My knowledge and spiritual understanding has tripled in the last week! So on Tuesday we had intercession as a school which is just a time of praying for countries that are outside of our reach here in Mazatlan. we had a time of just waiting on the Lord to speak to us about what we should pray about and then we all shared what we got from God. there were several different countries that were listed that i have a heart for, all except for China. we were split into groups and were given a country to pray for...my group got China. I was complaining to the Lord because i love intercession and i was feeling like it was a waste of my time to pray for China cause i didn't have a heart for it. we began to intercede and before i knew it my heart had changed, my heart went out to all the people of China! This was really cool but i didn't really think much about it after until Thursday night when we had churches from Mazatlan come to the base to hear more about YWAM and missions. Tevita shared some of the things that are going on in Shanghai and the vision they have there. He challenged us to come to the front if we were willing to make the commitment of going or being a part in some way with the missions of the world. God was really working on my heart during this time, I had NO desire what so ever to go to Shanghai, but he was telling me he wanted me to go and that i needed to trust him, because the biggest reason for not wanting to go was fear. God revealed to me that night that the best place for me to be is in his will, whatever it may be. That is all i want to do for the rest of my life, is be in God's will! it is pretty pointless to be anywhere else if you think about it. I went forward that night, finally just letting go of all the places i would prefer to do missions and going where ever God calls me, I know that i will someday soon go to Shanghai, I don't know exactly when or for how long but i know i'm going!
Yesterday was our last class with Tevita and at the end we had some application time and reflection and confession time. It was really amazing! I saw God moving in everyone's hearts and saw some of my fellow DTS students breakdown, ones that haven't broken down yet, just weeping before the Lord and us. God is really doing some incredible stuff here and it is hard to fully explain what is going on in words let alone in print with no emotion. I don't even know the sixteenth of what God is doing here but i know what he is doing in my heart and i can't express how over joyed i am! please pray that God continues to break down walls we put up and that he would become more and more the reason why we live and that we want to serve him with every part of us! Thank you, Love you all! :)
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