Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.

"How beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news!" Romans 10:15

A week and a half ago God really opened my eyes and convicted me on some really key issues in my life. First of, He informed me that I don't do a very good job at loving the 15 girls that I live with...I have such a heart to change the world. Such a heart for the prostitutes down the street, such a heart for the homeless, the starving children in Africa...but what about the girls that sleep in the same room as me...What about the girls that I wake up and share a bathroom with...what about the girls that are having their hearts transformed by the same God i love and serve...what about the girls that i know nothing about...yeah those girls.

He told me that I was to set aside 7 days of fasting and prayer for these girls...and boy did i get to see how much He loves them...each and everyone in a VERY different way...its beautiful. They are beautiful..He is beautiful... Each day was one step closer to a foot washing ceremony He told me to hold for them. As I began to dream and hope about what this night would look like, God began to dream with me. He was searching for my heart to be moved, He was searching for my Obedient mindset, my servanthood actions and a Unity in the house that only a Father could bring.

And that is exactly what happened...As the week past and prayer came and went..the day arrived and God was with me every step of the way...from the prayer..to the writing..to the setting up. We worked together to bless the ones that I now loved as my sisters. I set up 4 stations for them really to experience intimacy with their Lover and Father.

From a mirror with verses where they were supposed to let Christ speak to them about their beauty and worth. A picture of nature to write a letter to their Father. A communion table and a feet washing table. As each one read John 13 and how Jesus washed his disciples feet, I waited patiently for them to sit in the chair. I then proceeded to hand them the note that God has spoken to me about them throughout the week and washed their feet....

I loved every second of it...during the breaks and in waiting for other girls to come sit down in the chair, I just listened to what God wanted to speak to me... in the still whisper of His voice I heard " I am so incredibly proud of you my Daughter. You are my good and faithful servant. Thank you for obeying me. I am SO proud of you."

For the first time in my life, I head My Heavenly Father tell me He was proud of me...I just cried. I doubted. I told God to prove it...then within ten minutes three of the girls came up to me on different accounts and told me that God has spoken that to them about me. I guess He really is proud of me.....

At the end of the stations we sat around for the next two hours and just spoke words of affirmation into each others lives. Thank you Jesus for all 15 girls in the house. We are all closer because you Love us and desire us to be relational beings.

God just showed me that you obey Him and serve others, it can be more rewarding for you than it can be for the ones you are actually serving. He showed me how to break down walls. To humble myself. He is maturing me. Growing me. Healing me. Saving me. Delighting in me. Its such a process. Every day is new. I can tell you that I never desire to go back to the old life that I was living. This is a live of serving the one true King. Its what I am living for. Love. Love. Love.







God is amazing. mind blowing. loving....

Sunday, May 2, 2010

its gonna be worth it.

so i have decided that its gonna be worth it all. Everything I have to surrender, everything I have to sacrifice..for the sake of knowing God and making Him known...its gonna be worth it.

Its amazing how He works. This weekend I have been fighting some spiritual warfare just about who i am in Christ and my worth..Just feeling super worthless..knowing that the enemy thinks he has the stronghold and trying to use that against me...good thing for me...I HAVE CHRIST. He has the Authority. Its amazing how he works.

Its amazing how when you get the opportunity to just get away with the Lord and truly seek Him, how you will find Him. How he speaks to you. How he desires you. Reveals himself to you. loves you. Today was really amazing. I went to church by myself at my favorite church here in Perth. God really took advantage of the time that I was using to just seek Him. As I was just asking Him to meet me in the sanctuary, He totally showed up. Bringing me to the story in Matthew 9 about the woman who reaches out and touches Jesus' cloak.

v.20-22
Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. She said to herself "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed."
Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

It was amazing because as I was praying into this, thinking about that my faith looked like with Jesus, thinking about my lack of faith so to speak, I just began to ask the Lord for more faith. He kept reminding me how Christ is the AUTHOR and PERFECTER of my faith.. PERFECTER!!!! Can you believe that? He wants to perfect my, our faith. WOW! That's all i can say...

As worship ended and the sermon began, the pastor started to speak on that verse. WOW. God was really preparing me to hear him today. God just kept speaking to me about faith.

Over and over he has been speaking to me about HEBREWS 11..He wants us to earnestly seek Him.

To live is CHRIST..to die is GAIN!

God is good. sooo good.

Prayer Requests:
Casey's Brothel- that God would be fighting for these women. That they would accept our love tomorrow when we go to bring flowers to them.

Leeander- a boy we met outside the brothel, waiting for His friend. That he would begin to seek out truth, that God would begin to capture his heart again as he already knows truth.

Sickness- There are a lot of students on the DTS who are sick right now, We are all beginning to feel attacks from the enemy regarding our immune systems...He has no stronghold here.

Justin- one of our fellow DTS students who is in the hospital right now, they arent quite sure what is wrong with Him. Just be praying for a speedy recovery and that there would not be anything seriously wrong.

Marie Anne- A christian lady who's husband just walked out on her, Just that she would feel her worth in Christ. That she would know that Christ is her Rock. That he is her Lover and he delights in her, Even though our flesh fails us, that other humans fail us, that Christ WILL NOT fail us.

Mirrabooka- This is an intense suburb of Perth that we have been doing evangelism to the past month, God's presence just isnt really known here but we have been bringing His love to the refugees there. There has been a lot of violence there lately. May God's power rain down.

God's Direction- I feel like God is calling me into Missions, more specifically human trafficking. I pray that God would begin to reveil more and more about what this would look like. How and where he wants to use me, domestically, internationally, more training or straight into ministry? I know He is faithful to give an answer. I am just focusing on waiting patiently for His timing.

Finances- I still need $$ for outreach, also if God is calling me into Ministry/Missions full time, I need PROVISION for school loans. I am learning to have FAITH in Him. He is my father and he will not let me down. Pray that I would be doing the possible so that he may take care of the impossible.

Thank you sooo much for all your prayers!!!