Wednesday, January 27, 2010

WISE School!

Hey so I realised that I never wrote an update about WISE school which it was about a month ago that God told me to stay in Mexico and do it after DTS. WISE school stands for Worship, Intercession, Spiritual warfare, and Evangelism. These four areas are what the school will be focusing on, a lot like DTS we will have speakers come form all over the world and we will spend three weeks on each topic (total of 12 weeks like DTS). The school I will be attending in early April will be at the Mazatlan base and I will be living on base for the duration of the school.

Now for the cool story of how this decision came to be. For the last few months I had been asking God what he wanted me to do after DTS. I knew this would be a huge life changing decision and so I was praying about it a lot. As Lecture phase continued I started to get convictions about what God really wants for my life, my purpose. I have had a call to missions for a long time and I’ve had a nagging feeling that I’m suppose to be doing more with my life and just waiting for that to happen. Part of me just wanted so badly to pack up and move to a third world country and start making a difference but the other part of me knew I wasn’t ready for that at this age and definitely not by myself. So I was torn, I wanted to start really making a difference, and I had known that before I even went to Mexico that I wasn’t going home right after DTS for a long period of time, but what was I suppose to do? Then Greg, one of the leaders of the base pulled my friend and I aside and told us they had changed the dates of their WISE school because they felt that God wanted some of the students on our DTS to do it. As soon as he mentioned it, I instantly felt a release in my spirit, a peace but I wasn’t completely sure what it meant. I spent the next week praying and thinking about it and I just continued to get more of a peace about it, but I wanted complete confirmation from God, I didn’t want to do something just because it appeared to be great. The next Monday morning during worship for the first time God gave me a heart for Mexico, but specifically Mazatlan. Usually in worship I feel convicted and want to go to another country and help those people but this time it was different. God gave me a vision of the difference I could make in Mazatlan, the light that could be shed, if only people were willing. I flat out asked God if he wanted me to stay and do the WISE school and he said “YES!” It was so loud and clear I thought I had just heard the audible voice of God but no one around me seem to react as if God just spoke out loud. Then if I was having any doubts, God have several people go up to the front and share scripture or something they felt God was leading them to say and it was all about marrying the city you are in, commiting to it for a certain period of time the time God has given you. This is what I was waiting for, I got my direct answer from God and it literally made me jump for joy. The Wise school starts on April 5th which will give me about three weeks between graduating DTS and the start of the school. In this time I want to go home See family and friends and speak to as many young people as I can about truly seeking after God and doing His will for their lives. However I do not have money for a plane ticket home and back to Mazatlan. Last time I checked a round trip ticket costs about $525 hopefully the prices will drop. The total cost of the WISE school is $2800 which if I can go home I’m sure I can raise a lot of that, if not all of that. Please be keeping me in your prayers and I hope to be seeing and hearing from all of you soon. I’m sure God will bless you!
Tasha

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