Outreach Funds

So we have a few financial needs for our school that you guys could be praying for. As a whole school we need about $34,000 just for student fees (so that's nothing extra). My outreach team still needs about $4,000 for one of our members before were set to go. Her name is Christian, she is from Switzerland and we have no idea where the funds are going to come from. So this will be a total act of God when the funds come in. We have full faith that he will provide. It would be awesome if you guys back home could be praying for us as well. Thanks a ton

well i failed at those weekly updates

but anyways this have been really upside down and backwards for me over here two weeks ago was just trippy but i think it was good God is stillexplaining things to me and still revealing new parts of Himself. and this past week was rough the monday morning lecture really just hit me in the head like a 2 by 4 in the forhead. but it was good something i really need to hear. it was about honoring your parents and it will go well with you. i dont know but i can be quite the handfull and i just want family to know how sorry i am but there really arent words. anyways kinda wish i had realized this earlier but better late than never right? but this next week is spirtual warfare which im excited for i tihnk this will be strange but in a good way i hope to get some solid backing for some of the things ive been tought.

How Big is Your God

or rather how small of a box is He in. I don't know Ive always though God was huge. always taught of his divine nature and our depravity. but my world got rocked this week as God was let out of my own box. God never ceases to blow my mind. I'm sure Ive been tough these things before in the past but there just something about having a God given personal revelation about it. well first off that we can move the heart of God through prayer and that he gives all that we ask for. it seems simple but prayer with out doubt about it is so much different than it. also i know this maybe be a bit strange but that our God is healer. i mean like really healer. i have seen miracles this week alone; pain taken away, colds healed, a sprained ankle, and blown ear drum, all instantly. i honestly believe that through prayer we can heal through Jesus. its still a mystery to me why everything is not healed on the spot but I'm just now wrapping my head around things. I'm not sure how my family feels about me sharing this but I'm praying for healing over my family and there is strength in number so if you could join in with me i believe we can move the heart of God. i believe that God can cure diabetes, fibromyalgia, and dyslexia. totally incurable through the world but our God is so great, so awesome so loving so full of mercy and grace, that he can do anything in the world.

oh just bits from personal experience for me but: my runny nose was stopped and someone prayer in Jesus' name it be healed and it was instantly i could breathe through both nasals, my eye was acting up and we prayed and it was fixed. i also healed someone neck pain this week. i know these all my seem small and maybe coincidental but i never want to lose the marvel of God even in the little things and also i don't believe in coincidences.

Just a Grubby Little Kid

to night has just been building up to the revelation of just what my calling in life is. and simply its just to love God. to chase whole heartedly after Jesus. run the race not cuz im supost to or im striving for a goal but just to chase Jesus. i dont want to be know as a big shot or billy gram but just as a grubby little kid who loved Jesus and strived after him no holds barred.

Prayer Requests

well just a list of somethings you guys could be praying for whould be awesome
Team Unity
A heart for our outreach location
strong relationships
that he would be working on my heart
bring clarity to my calling and his voice in my life
put him first in everything
and plan more outside time for personal time for me and Him

and this weekend was crazy too

so i got the grand idea to go pray and fast this weekend. so i took my bible and my blanket and just went. god stoped me off at sandy beach down the coast almost to the east point. and i just sat there and talked to God. it was sooo soo amazing but oh so hard but i wouldn't do it any other way. so after that i was about to go to bed and it starters raining so i clamored over to a public bathroom and slept. and after no sleep i got up to a blah sunrise and a horrible burning day didn't find a ride home forever. but its crazy how God talked to me through out the day even through everything he was there everywhere it was crazy. so many revelations. just one was the importance of fasting.

Oh how He LOVES US

Its so crazy that the simplest idea can be so powerful. it hit me like a huge truck this morning. i cried so hard and shook. i have never felt the presents of the holy spirit so thick before. Just one picture i got during this time was just God giving me a new heart. he made it from my old heart but it was different. he had put a cleansing fire over it and melted away the bad and regrew new so much bigger. and he handed it to me and i said i could contain it and he said i know and that he would give it to me piece by piece as i need it and grow it even larger than i could picture.

ill try and be updating more offten

at least once a week

sorry i havent posted in a while

hey guys well anyways recap on last week. Arron Larson talked about inductive bible study. its how to study the bible and glean what the word says and being able to accurately interpret it in contexts. so it was really good to learn something that i have not been very good at. it was a bit dry at points but informative we studied over the book of Philemon.

and starts on this week Danny lammen is talking this week on spiritual disciplines we just started so i don't have much to say yet but so far it seem like a great topic.

in personal life things have been great i have been growing a lot. its hard to explain but one thing I'm working on is sharing emotions with our team. i have never been good at it nor do i like it at all. but Ive been told that it is necessary for growing in a more personal relationship with people and again back with God. God has been bringing up a lot of past that i really never knew i remembered and Ive been working through somethings but over all God has really blessed me. reignited my heart for the lost and for my brothers and sisters in Christ. oh another thing Ive been working on is trying to encourage people more not one of my strengths either.

Outreach

So we figured out our outreach locations today and kinda surprising I'm with Daniel. well anyways were headed out to Mongolia and somewhere else but I'm crazy excited. we have an excellent team 4 guys and 3 girls. be praying that we bond really well and mess together. we still have about 2 months before outreach. which will be great prep time. im totally swaped right so my mind isnt forming complete thoughts right now. but alot has happend this week.

Hearing The Voice of God

So i can now say i have heard the voice of God. its so crazy amazing its unexplainable. i mean he didn't speak anything prophetically renowned but its just cool to chat. Its  straing ( so i cant figure out how to spell straing but its the best i can do) almost just because back home we're never taught to hear or discern his voice specifically. something that Ive really missed growing up. if you could be praying that i would have a more discerning spirit strong and full of faith

By the way

for anyone at home thats been trying to contact me i got my phone stolen so yeah. really bites but it says in job "naked i come naked i shall return" but be praying it turnd up as well as the two other laptops that were lifted as well

LOVE

Love is a crazy thing. we watched a movie called furious love and the feeling of love poured over me me. how surprising i know but it really was to me being so emotionally distant felling that emotion without fear or resentment was weird. it was such a blessing.

Well it really tied into tonight we went and did a pray walk (which is for people that don't know a walk around town praying for people) and i remember Nate Parry give a preach on hell and during the walk God really gave me back my heart for the lost and how much he cares for them and how much i should be caring for all these people who will be going to hell without our intercession.

Just an Update

well no life lessons this time just living life. things are going great. oh but one thing Google "laminin" its kinda crazy. oh and we have outreach in the comunity tomarrow night. just be praying for our hearts that they would be prepared and that God would do a great work through us.

God > Food

OK so i had the weirdest revelation today in the Tin Cathedral (our lovely chapel) anyways we where having a debrief today and I was thinking about food. if any of you don't know i have a crazy high metabolism and i have to eat like every 2 hours or my belly stares growling. well this weekend we had very little to eat and the last day of our trip i was STARVING and so looking forward to a huge meal when we got back to came. i kept hoping and hoping it was what kept me going. We finally packed up camp and where headed out but we didn't know. we weren't told we were going home or where we where going but something in the back of my mind said we were. and that hope kept getting bigger. by we got out of the cars i was about to burst (we had blind folds on the whole car ride.) and when we got back it was so exciting just to eat food. food is trivial and simple but it taught me a strong lesson about how i need to be hoping about God. that i should be yearning and hoping excited to enter into gods kingdom and into rest from this rough world. sometime i forget how powerful hope can be it really drives and that how i should be looking home. this place is just a blip but God is eternal.

Not sure if any of my story makes sence but it was really powerfl how it just hit me like a truck and i wanted to  share it with you

P.S.

forgive the horrible writing and spelling and also I'm tried to grab some pics but not being a camera kinda person i forget a lot

The Exodus

So i haven't been around for the past few days. We left camp and headed out. I cant share any logistical details about our journey but I can say it was a lot deeper than just 3 days in the woods. We went to a huge ranch one of the most beautiful places Ive ever seen by far the view was just amazing I wish I could have taken you guys with me.

One both good and bad thing God spoke to me about there was just the monster I'd been hiding in my closet. He opened that door and let it out. There is a lot of pain that I have been running from and God brought me right back. So please be praying for me as I wrestle with this. Pray for healing and that he would grow in me a new heart that is able to feel again. With my problem I buried my heart and threw it out with that I lost my intimacy with God that I'm missing.

One other thing that you guys could be praying for are my buddies. On our exodus we were assigned buddies my where Jared and Brock. Great guys on fire for God.

So I made it here all in one peace

Wow all i can say is Honolulu is beautiful. The weather is warm bit humid but just a touch. Been having some rain these past couple days Ive heard.

Anyways there are about 13 guys and 14 girls on our team. People from all over. Its amazing to see how god brought people here. I don't want to get caught up in the emotions of the "trip" but i can really feel a heart beat for God in this place. I'm really excited to see what God will do with our team it will be amazing.

Test Test

Hey this is Ray just testing out my page. Its a lot more complected than i though. All kinds of layouts and designs. Not a clue how to put up a picture. Oh but best thing is spell check so glad they have that.