well hello everybody! how are you all doing>! so again the weeks are just flowing by! i can't believe it. there is always just so much info and things we do that it is just hard to process! Last week, (i'm not sure where exactly i left off, BUT it was called Hearing the Voice of God week and it was awesome! we had a woman named Maria Daughtry, and she was so good, it's been funny because the last three weeks have been women speakers, 2 of the speakers are woman around the age of 41, the first one reminded me (FAITH DUtton) reminded me so much of my mom. She would be sweet to speak here sometime i think:)
Anyways, last week was awesome. Maria, is always trying to listen to the Lord speak and will listen to see if someone from our group is being highlighted to pray over right in the middle of lecture. The very first day this happened, and one guy named Martin was prayed over and it was crazy like he screamed, and was crying and shaking. God's present was sooo crazy present in the room. Some people were really scared though, but it was awesome and Martin told us the next day what God was saying to him and explained it so people calmed down. :) I learned a lot and it became clear to me that throughout my life, God HAS spoken to me, I just haven't recognized it. We went through a list of about 14 different ways He can reveal things to us, and it was crazy to see just how God wants intimacy with us. He talks to everyone differently by going with what you'd connect with! that is crazy!
God spoke to me a lot and I had some great new revelations and freedom over my life from things that were holding me bondage! Last thursday night, we also had a giving night and it was so awesome. Between our group, the people that had to still raise funds for their outreaches totalled over $20,000, and at the end of the night we had raised over 10,000! it was incredible! We just allowed God and the Holy spirit to work in us and it felt so good. There is DEF a reason that God asks us to give! it is awesome! I laid down things in my life that were keeping me and my home-boy Jesus from growing deeper in a relationship.
We also did some fun ways to experiment hearing the voice of God by trying with our friends to allow God to speak prophetic words through us. We were asked by Maria to come to the front and be blindfolded and then a person came in front of them and they were asked to seek God to give them a word fro the person in front of them. It was so cool! everybody had something that spoke to them. For me, a guy named Dillion gave me a word that really connected with me, it had to be God! it was so cool, he said that i have a passion for music on my heart and that he could see guitar and singing and to just keep playing for the Lord. i've never had anything that personal, and it was what i had been praying about so it was sweet! it was a great week and i learned so much!
This week was called NEw Hearts and our speaker was Janet. I just am so happy with all that i am laerning about God's character and who is to me. New Hearts focused a lot about going deep with the issues you had in your life and cutting away the root that is holding you back from going deeper with God. At first i had the attitude that i had dealt with everything already in the last two weeks. I mean they had been really emotional! But i just came with a open heart and allowed the holy spirit to do some more work in me! We had two nights out of the week were prayer ministers came from around Maui and prayed for us, and it was just so amazing to see God just work through the room. I am going to try my best to walk out what i have been taught and remember that the doors have been closed! I am set free oh oh oh oh!- sons and daughters- such a good song! (look it up!) pretty much sums up how i feel!
This last weekend was so fun but jam packed with things we did! We volunteered at a marathon and were at a water/gatorade stop at the 2 mile stop at the 10 km run! the only tough part was that we had to leave the base at 5:30 in the morn, but it was worth it. The night before was a meteor shower, so i stayed up till oneish watching and i saw my very first shooting star! it was beautiful! and i didnt feel tired the whole day. we got free t-shirts and snacks, and me and and a few girls decided it would be fun to wear some fun outfits! we went to savers-which is the american v.v. and you know me, i like to go all out! so i had to get some fun stuff to wear at this event! so i got purple stripped tights, suspenders, and purple eyeliner, OH and i black out my teeth with some black tooth wax that i got for 99 cents there so it was worth it. in the morning, i put my hair up with a bottle in it like cindy loo-hoo. I HAD to dress up, it's in my blood! and i am super excited for this other marathon that is coming up which is just between ywam, called manny's mustache marathon and we get to dress up super 80's.
I loved helping out though! we had so much fun at the water station, we were the most enthusiastic one they had ever seen! there were five of us girls at this one and we had about an hour before the runners came by the time we got everything set up- so what did we do? what we do best-rapped, made videos, planked, laughed. it was so good! and there was this one leader on a green quad that came by and everytime we would chant his name, kirk! kirk kirk! kirk! every biker that came by before the race, i had to ask them if they were world renown, and there were a few! jk they were local but some of them had done the ironman. Lots of the runnners were from all over the world! believe it or not but lance armstrong was there! we didnt see him but he was preparing for the triathalon that was on sunday! pretty cool hey?!
Sunday was a sweet day and church was really good! i go to waipuna hope chapel and sat in the service this week instead of hanging with the kids, but a missionary spoke to us about being beacons of light to the world and it was sweet. And then we went back with my bangladesh team at night to hear him talk about muslims and how they are not all the same. We need to treat each muslim with love, and there are differnt degrees to today's muslim people. under 7% of them take violence as a means to deal with stuff. He really challenged us to look at the news differently with new eyes, and not judge. It was super encouraging as well as we watched furious love tonight and that just made the fire grow inside of me for the excitement to really do something with my faith! I'm so pumped for Bangladesh!
Oh yeah! and i also had given my chapel talk on tuesday! it went super well and i talked for 20 min on the joy of the lord as our strength (neh. 8:10) it went awesome!
Man i am just falling more and more in love with jesus and i can't wait to see what else God will do with my life! for now, i am just sitting in Paia, waiting for my laundry to dry. have a great week! talk to you soon!
Monday, 24 October 2011
Tuesday, 11 October 2011
66 books, 1 story!
So another week has came and gone, and boy did that ever go by fast! It has been a busy week! The days were packed with lectures with our speaker Tom the base director about the bible overview! Holy molly, so much info! But I learned a lot and I am proud and excited to say that after that week of a total of 15 hours of lectures (2 and a half hours long), I have never been more excited to read the Old Testament; like it came to life! We really focused a lot of our attention on getting the beginning story of how everything started straight before we went on to the new testament.
Before we studied, we took a test to let us know how well we know our Bibles, and there were lots of questions on it. A lot of them based on order and length of events. I bombed! haha I believe I got a 9 out of 32! For many others: the same result! I've been going to church pretty much all my life, and i know lots of stories and sunday school lessons but it was crazy to think, wow i actually have so much to learn. and i did! It was pretty hard, but i bet if I were to take that same test again i would pass for sure! The first three days we pretty much studied Genesis and Exodus in detail. We went over the short summary of the bible 1. Creation 2. The fall 3. Redemption pretty detailed and then all the stories. I know i have tried to promise myself to do it before, but i would really like to read the whole bible. I have never got around to it but I would really like to. Not only does it help you learn more about God's character, it gives you truth and spiritual nurturing for the soul. I had never really thought about it before but our speakers have challenged us saying if you want to evangelize to non-christians, be prepared and a common question or argument that they can throw at you is, "how can you preach on something that you haven't even read?" another analogy that hit me was something like "you don't just start a book from page 125 without feeling like you missed something." ouch. so i have realized just the importance of being able to know why i believe what i know and how. Of course you don't need to read the whole bible in order to be a christian. Our faith should be much more than that of seeing how much we can learn. It's not about knowledge! It's about having a true and genuine, best friend, honest, open relationship with the Lord.
Don't hate me if I fail, but I'm going to try to read the whole bible in the next year! and ya'll can keep me accountable of that!
We also focused a lot on God's holiness and Love. From the week before I had learned so much about what God's love is and it's been really cool to have a whole new revelation on this. God's holiness shows up all though-out the bible and how he is a just God who is patient. Especially with all of the patience He had on The people of Israel. He picked them as his chosen people in order for them to bless the nations. In judges (the "yuck" chapters), it's crazy to think that God waited THAT long before pouring His cup of wrath onto the nations.
On that note: the cup of wrath is such a crazy subject! I am glad we as believers don't have to fear that anymore! :D And for him to send all of those prophets, signs and teaches to get them to stop, wow they did some crazy evil stuff!
ALSO i found it really cool to understand that with the 10 plagues that they weren't just random. God wanted to destroy one by one all of the egyptian god's Showing them that His power succeeded all!
Looking back through the Bible it is so cool to see how God fulfilled His promises and covenants and how we are in this exciting time of waiting for Christ to come back! Gosh it was such a sweet week.
Last weekend, one of my fellow friends here from the Philippines got in an accident while we were at the beach. We were doing some body boarding and some of us were just swimming and the waves were sooo big. My friend wasn't looking when one of the waves came down on him and his chin/face hit first and then his legs kicked back. One of my other friends who witnessed saw him get out of the water right after it happened, they called out his name and he fainted into the water. Immediately 2 of my friends responded and got him out of the water. He had lost conscienceness but thankfully we had our madeline a nurse from switzerland with us and she new how to handle everything. Someone called 911 and the whole shabbot was there almost instantly. It was scary but, i always knew he was going to be alright. Our group was praying for him the whole time: on the beach and after we left. Madeline got to go with them so that he would be able to have someone be familiar with him while he went and she could be used. His cousin is one of the leaders here so when he first got the phone call he was scared but immediately the whole base prayed. My friend, Ben from the Philippines ended up only having a few slipped disks thankfully and we were all happy, with a minor concussion. Praise God!
This week is so exciting! It is the hearing the voice of God week with Maria Daughtry! already we had our first lecture today and it was sweet! one person was prayed over and you could really feel God's presence in the room. it freaked some people out but once we get more into the week, i think we will all have a better understanding of how God speaks to us. :) God is moving here in Maui!
ALso another fun thing that is happening this week is that it is Angle/mortal week! so we al selected a name from the people that are here and we are like their secret santa for the week! any suggestions for cool gestures are welcome!
God will def provide for everyone. We are getting to that time where we all need to make our payments, and many of us including myself have to still get some in. Ben had to end up paying for the medical fee which took the place of a lot of his outreach money, but it will all work out:) God will provide. If you could support any of us here with our outreach fees that's be amazing but waaaaay more importantly if you could keep us in your prayers as we are preparing our mind, body, heart and souls to be able to reach people on our teams. thanks so much! Love you all!
Before we studied, we took a test to let us know how well we know our Bibles, and there were lots of questions on it. A lot of them based on order and length of events. I bombed! haha I believe I got a 9 out of 32! For many others: the same result! I've been going to church pretty much all my life, and i know lots of stories and sunday school lessons but it was crazy to think, wow i actually have so much to learn. and i did! It was pretty hard, but i bet if I were to take that same test again i would pass for sure! The first three days we pretty much studied Genesis and Exodus in detail. We went over the short summary of the bible 1. Creation 2. The fall 3. Redemption pretty detailed and then all the stories. I know i have tried to promise myself to do it before, but i would really like to read the whole bible. I have never got around to it but I would really like to. Not only does it help you learn more about God's character, it gives you truth and spiritual nurturing for the soul. I had never really thought about it before but our speakers have challenged us saying if you want to evangelize to non-christians, be prepared and a common question or argument that they can throw at you is, "how can you preach on something that you haven't even read?" another analogy that hit me was something like "you don't just start a book from page 125 without feeling like you missed something." ouch. so i have realized just the importance of being able to know why i believe what i know and how. Of course you don't need to read the whole bible in order to be a christian. Our faith should be much more than that of seeing how much we can learn. It's not about knowledge! It's about having a true and genuine, best friend, honest, open relationship with the Lord.
Don't hate me if I fail, but I'm going to try to read the whole bible in the next year! and ya'll can keep me accountable of that!
We also focused a lot on God's holiness and Love. From the week before I had learned so much about what God's love is and it's been really cool to have a whole new revelation on this. God's holiness shows up all though-out the bible and how he is a just God who is patient. Especially with all of the patience He had on The people of Israel. He picked them as his chosen people in order for them to bless the nations. In judges (the "yuck" chapters), it's crazy to think that God waited THAT long before pouring His cup of wrath onto the nations.
On that note: the cup of wrath is such a crazy subject! I am glad we as believers don't have to fear that anymore! :D And for him to send all of those prophets, signs and teaches to get them to stop, wow they did some crazy evil stuff!
ALSO i found it really cool to understand that with the 10 plagues that they weren't just random. God wanted to destroy one by one all of the egyptian god's Showing them that His power succeeded all!
Looking back through the Bible it is so cool to see how God fulfilled His promises and covenants and how we are in this exciting time of waiting for Christ to come back! Gosh it was such a sweet week.
Last weekend, one of my fellow friends here from the Philippines got in an accident while we were at the beach. We were doing some body boarding and some of us were just swimming and the waves were sooo big. My friend wasn't looking when one of the waves came down on him and his chin/face hit first and then his legs kicked back. One of my other friends who witnessed saw him get out of the water right after it happened, they called out his name and he fainted into the water. Immediately 2 of my friends responded and got him out of the water. He had lost conscienceness but thankfully we had our madeline a nurse from switzerland with us and she new how to handle everything. Someone called 911 and the whole shabbot was there almost instantly. It was scary but, i always knew he was going to be alright. Our group was praying for him the whole time: on the beach and after we left. Madeline got to go with them so that he would be able to have someone be familiar with him while he went and she could be used. His cousin is one of the leaders here so when he first got the phone call he was scared but immediately the whole base prayed. My friend, Ben from the Philippines ended up only having a few slipped disks thankfully and we were all happy, with a minor concussion. Praise God!
This week is so exciting! It is the hearing the voice of God week with Maria Daughtry! already we had our first lecture today and it was sweet! one person was prayed over and you could really feel God's presence in the room. it freaked some people out but once we get more into the week, i think we will all have a better understanding of how God speaks to us. :) God is moving here in Maui!
ALso another fun thing that is happening this week is that it is Angle/mortal week! so we al selected a name from the people that are here and we are like their secret santa for the week! any suggestions for cool gestures are welcome!
God will def provide for everyone. We are getting to that time where we all need to make our payments, and many of us including myself have to still get some in. Ben had to end up paying for the medical fee which took the place of a lot of his outreach money, but it will all work out:) God will provide. If you could support any of us here with our outreach fees that's be amazing but waaaaay more importantly if you could keep us in your prayers as we are preparing our mind, body, heart and souls to be able to reach people on our teams. thanks so much! Love you all!
Thursday, 6 October 2011
My Address!
Hey everyone! had another good day as we are learning about the bible fundamentals this week.:)just to let you know, in case you wanted to send me a letter, my address is
PO. Box 790237
Paia, HI. 96779
Have a good weeek!
PO. Box 790237
Paia, HI. 96779
Have a good weeek!
Saturday, 1 October 2011
Restored< REnewed, Refocused
Aloha! It's the weekend again! This time I felt like the week went by super fast. but it was so fun! Our topic was on relationships! The speaker was real cool and from Australia! Ps. i have gotten pretty good at copying lots of accents here: such as Scottish and Aussie:)
Last weekend i went to this magical place called the bamboo forest! bamboo in Maui? I know! I was just waiting for a panda to jump out! it was actually so cool though and we got to do some cliff jumping! if you know me, you have probably heard me say that I have a fear of two things, Cops and Bears. worst fear: bearcop. hahah yeah... anywho! so I believe that my third fear really precise is jumping off things that you can see the bottom of. Why so specific is because I really want to go skydiving once in my life but i think that would be fine! you can't see where you are going to fall, you have help and it's just a jump. bungee jumping too, I believe there is something about those harnesses no matter what you do< just mentally help you prepare better.
Sorry about that tangent there. I think sometimes I like to think by just writing my mind out. So anyways, we did some cliff jumping and i jumped off like a 15-20 footer! i think haha it didn't actually know for sure! but it was freaking tall! to get to the major cliff, we had to hike through the bamboo with bare feet and the rivers which was like a 30 min. hike. I LOVE this kind of stuff. The very first rock we had to jump off was so small like 5 feet and i was scared! i like couldn't make myself to do it! it took me like 20 minutes to convince myself i could do it, but it came with the death scream, eyes shut and body tense reaction of course! The water I jumped into was the most calming thing i ever felt. PTL I made it safe and sound but this deserted water lake was so pretty. Like I could almost have my wedding in it!
Then we got to the big cliff where I wasn't too sure if I wanted to jump but my friends encouraged me and i did it! a lot of people went higher than me (those turkeys) but i was proud of myself after getting nervous again and a scream of chills, being able to make myself jump felt great. Daniel, my Norwegian/ Korean friend was scared to and i was really happy that he went. cause really there was no way down but to jump! Martin, also another Norwegian, dove from like 30 feet up! it was nuts but he is a risk taker! If you ever come to Maui though, definitely give the bamboo forest a try, it's absolutely stunning!
This weekend I want to better manage my time to be able to do my homework well without leaving lots for Sunday!
Our week like I said, was on relationships with Faith Dutton as our speaker. It definitely was not your common dating 101 course. Actually she spoke on what a healthy relationship looks like with all the relationships you have in life. she spoke on emotional dependancy, manipulation, unhealthy same sex and opposite realtionships, fleeing from sin, condemnation vs conviction, self worth and others. I could really see God speaking through her and i felt empowered by what she shared. She reminded me a lot of my mom with her being 40, blonde with blue eyes and threee kids, but just a lot cooler! jk mom:) i love you! (you guys should have coffee someday)! She really challenged all of us with the way we thought about things. I loved her teaching on really what TRUE love is. It isn't selfish and a lot of what she said, i want it to really stick with me. Love is genuine an if ever that one day happens, i will be prepared to date with putting the other person's best interests in front of my own. :) Yesterday we had a sharing time where we split boys and girls and went before God of areas that we felt convicted in our lives and asked for forgiveness in front of a group for accountability. Another awesome thing about sharing with people is that it offers You a sense of humility and reason to tell Satan off by saying that You had already dealt with the sin. Let me tell you, God moved through the group. Including myself and after it finished, I just felt so much peace to be able to have opened up and be prayed over. I was humbled and feel free and filled with joy. I don't even know how to explain it, but by listening to hear what God was trying to release me of and being able to bring to the light to confess to the lord was so amazing. God was here. Don't you just love a good cry with the girls!
I am really glad this topic came out so early because really i think it will make the atmosphere of our base incredible if people take these principals to living a God driven relationship between everyone.
I am heading to the beach mates! but thanks for stepping in to be apart of this journey with me! have a great day! and thanks for reading, and please keep me in your prayers!
Anyways, I am going surfing now! wish me luck!
Last weekend i went to this magical place called the bamboo forest! bamboo in Maui? I know! I was just waiting for a panda to jump out! it was actually so cool though and we got to do some cliff jumping! if you know me, you have probably heard me say that I have a fear of two things, Cops and Bears. worst fear: bearcop. hahah yeah... anywho! so I believe that my third fear really precise is jumping off things that you can see the bottom of. Why so specific is because I really want to go skydiving once in my life but i think that would be fine! you can't see where you are going to fall, you have help and it's just a jump. bungee jumping too, I believe there is something about those harnesses no matter what you do< just mentally help you prepare better.
Sorry about that tangent there. I think sometimes I like to think by just writing my mind out. So anyways, we did some cliff jumping and i jumped off like a 15-20 footer! i think haha it didn't actually know for sure! but it was freaking tall! to get to the major cliff, we had to hike through the bamboo with bare feet and the rivers which was like a 30 min. hike. I LOVE this kind of stuff. The very first rock we had to jump off was so small like 5 feet and i was scared! i like couldn't make myself to do it! it took me like 20 minutes to convince myself i could do it, but it came with the death scream, eyes shut and body tense reaction of course! The water I jumped into was the most calming thing i ever felt. PTL I made it safe and sound but this deserted water lake was so pretty. Like I could almost have my wedding in it!
Then we got to the big cliff where I wasn't too sure if I wanted to jump but my friends encouraged me and i did it! a lot of people went higher than me (those turkeys) but i was proud of myself after getting nervous again and a scream of chills, being able to make myself jump felt great. Daniel, my Norwegian/ Korean friend was scared to and i was really happy that he went. cause really there was no way down but to jump! Martin, also another Norwegian, dove from like 30 feet up! it was nuts but he is a risk taker! If you ever come to Maui though, definitely give the bamboo forest a try, it's absolutely stunning!
This weekend I want to better manage my time to be able to do my homework well without leaving lots for Sunday!
Our week like I said, was on relationships with Faith Dutton as our speaker. It definitely was not your common dating 101 course. Actually she spoke on what a healthy relationship looks like with all the relationships you have in life. she spoke on emotional dependancy, manipulation, unhealthy same sex and opposite realtionships, fleeing from sin, condemnation vs conviction, self worth and others. I could really see God speaking through her and i felt empowered by what she shared. She reminded me a lot of my mom with her being 40, blonde with blue eyes and threee kids, but just a lot cooler! jk mom:) i love you! (you guys should have coffee someday)! She really challenged all of us with the way we thought about things. I loved her teaching on really what TRUE love is. It isn't selfish and a lot of what she said, i want it to really stick with me. Love is genuine an if ever that one day happens, i will be prepared to date with putting the other person's best interests in front of my own. :) Yesterday we had a sharing time where we split boys and girls and went before God of areas that we felt convicted in our lives and asked for forgiveness in front of a group for accountability. Another awesome thing about sharing with people is that it offers You a sense of humility and reason to tell Satan off by saying that You had already dealt with the sin. Let me tell you, God moved through the group. Including myself and after it finished, I just felt so much peace to be able to have opened up and be prayed over. I was humbled and feel free and filled with joy. I don't even know how to explain it, but by listening to hear what God was trying to release me of and being able to bring to the light to confess to the lord was so amazing. God was here. Don't you just love a good cry with the girls!
I am really glad this topic came out so early because really i think it will make the atmosphere of our base incredible if people take these principals to living a God driven relationship between everyone.
I am heading to the beach mates! but thanks for stepping in to be apart of this journey with me! have a great day! and thanks for reading, and please keep me in your prayers!
Anyways, I am going surfing now! wish me luck!
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