Walking By Faith

There is so much to talk about from this past week!   We had a wonderful lady, Sarah Lanier, come and talk to us Monday-Wednesday on engaging cross culturally!   I found this topic very intriguing because I plan on visiting many different cultures in my lifetime!   She had so many great thought provoking things to say but I only will be able to mention a couple things here!   One big thing from her teaching was unity!   In John 17 starting in verse 20 Jesus talks about how we are suppose to be one with each other as Jesus is one with God.   It was really interesting because she was saying one of the biggest ways people get burned out of something is when they have a team that argues.   Strife in the Bible is listed along side murder.   God does not like it and there is no grace/presence of God when a team is fighting.   We must constantly die to ourselves and put others first!    Another big thing that struck me was when she was talking about people’s values.   Ever

Talk about one intense week! How about the topic of Spiritual Warfare!  This is probably one of the least favorite topics for most Christians but when in reality it is such an uplifting subject!!  A crazy fact is that we all are living in spiritual warfare whether we want to admit it or not.  There really is a devil and demons.  People really can be possessed and attacked! BUT, THE POWER OF GOD IS SO MUCH GREATER!!! Half the battle of spiritual warfare is realizing it exists! We watched Dean Sherman's videos on this topic and when all was said and done I ended the week with 13 pages of notes!  My mind was blown after every teaching!  It was a great encouragement to me to have spiritual warfare put into perspective!  Since I have been here I have developed a real hatred towards the devil!  I knew going into this week that I wanted God to work through me to save people from the lies and bondage from the devil but I was a little fearful about what it was going to consist of.  So the

Getting ready to worship!! I am finding it really hard to believe that we are already over half way down with our lecture phase of DTS!  The time here is flying by!  We just arrived back at our base today after spending the week in Talladega, Alabama for the YWAM Southeast Conference!  It was a really great week!  There were about 10 different bases there equally about 400 people total!  The teaching of the week was lead by a guy named Paul Hawkins and he spoke on the Nature and Character of God!  (If you ever get the chance to hear him speak live or from an audio...DO IT!)  My mind was literally blown after every teaching!!!! (The week was recorded and I will get a copy if anyone is interested in hearing it I would be happy to pass it along!) I want to share some key points that he spoke on this week: - First thing he pointed out is that, what you believe about God determines what you believe about   everything else.   - Cool thing is God awakes us every morning!  He knows o

Last week we had a wonderful couple come to our base and teach on Destiny!  They are such an inspirational couple of God!  Their ministry is called Streams of Mercy where they sponsor orphanages and medical clinics all over the world!  They not only sponsor these places but they build relationships with these places and the children!  It was very awesome for me to know that God creates ministries like theirs that provide financial need to orphanages!  So if I have my own orphanage one day then I could possible partner up with a ministry like this and not have to necessary deal with the financial part of it!  Visit their website:  http://www.streamsofmercy.org/ Something to think about: There are 143 Million orphans in this world but there are more Christian families.  If every Christian family adopted 1 orphan there would be no more orphans in this world!  Them just coming was great but the teaching was also so wonderful too!  Destiny is a pretty fun thing to talk about when you kn