Friday, September 28, 2007

New School Soon


"Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask" - Billy Graham

Then Next DTS that I'm staffing here in Wollongong, starts on Monday, whichis coming at a rapid pace. As a staff, we've been praying for the students and have been praying about what each of us will impart individually into the school, and the students. Through my very recent experiences in Fiji, I've had a few revelations that I feel God is calling me to grow in and impart to the school. One of the things that god has been teaching me through my time in China and in Fiji is that where you set your hopes is where you end up going. I've used this on outreaches to get my heart right, by setting my hopes on the highest most impossible things I can imagine, and making that my goal for the outreach. But God has kind of shown me how that works in a new way through the crazy miracles I saw in Fiji.
I realized that the people who were on the IWT Teams had their hopes all the way into the impossible not just for shows, but for every prayer time, worship time, conversation, etc. I was really inspired by it, because I saw that God was faithful to meet every hope they had for the tour not just because they hoped for it, but because they stepped out in faith, laying it all on the line, knowing that God would show up. I realized that in my life God can do the supernatural in every single moment of my life if I would place that as my hope/goal, and step out in faith.
The second thing I realized from my experiences in Fii is that the more a person steps out, the more of themselves they lay on the line in faith, the more radically God moved. God has really put it on my heart to start living everyday with the hope of the dead being raised, the Blind and deaf healed, and over all God being glorified in everything I do. I know there are guys who see miracles weekly and who use the authority that was given to us by Jesus. All the authority in Heaven and on Earth. My heart's cry today is to have nothing ordinary about my life and walk with God, but to have it all be beyond the possible. And if that makes me look crazy to others, and even if this means I'm crazy, I'd rather be crazy and have a crazy life, than to be held back by fear in this short life. I'll let you know how it goes.

Monday, September 24, 2007

Fiji Pictures

I forgot to add pictures so here are some. I hope they help you visualize a bit of what I spoke about.




Fiji: Miracles, Healings, Salvations, and much more.

I arrived in Fiji with little to no expectations for what was ahead. All I knew was that God clearly told me to go when I was at a YWAM conference in April near Sydney. God told me to go and do Tech work for Impact World Tour (IWT). IWT is basically a Billy Graham Crusade, but with teams of people who do skateboarding, breakdancing, strong guys breaking bricks and flipping cars, and island dancers. All of it is geared toward presenting the Gospel. The Tech team had a ton of work to do for every show so it was extremely tiring and I ended up working so hard I was sick for most of my time there. But in the midst of that God would do the most amazing things during the shows, that just blew me away. The first night I got to pray with people and a this one kid I prayed for got healed of this chest pain he had had for awhile. I got excited and after that I prayed for more people and God was totally faithful to speak to them, touch them, or heal them. From that point on the Tour seemed to just build up to greater and greater displays of God's power. I consistently made sure that I had someone switch with me on Camera so that I could go pray for people during the altercall, and after the show, and I consistently got to see god move. My heart was to grow in flowing in the gifts of the spirit and hearing God's voice for others, and God really gave me a lot of opportunities to grow and learn from others during those times. This one guy who was a dancer prayed with me for this one guy and before the guy even spoke the dancer said "you have a pain in your knees and you've had it for 2 years". The person wanting prayer was amazed and said that was all true, and we prayed for him and He was healed within a few minutes. These kinds of things were happening every night and they were really cool for me to just see different ways God moves. During the second week they had this one guy get up from his wheelchair completely healed and able to walk. This happen with a few others at other shows including this one lady who they saw before the show and prayed for her and she was completely healed before the show even startedand tehy brought her up on stage during the show to testify and she started dancing on stage. It was such a beautiful sight, it brough tears to my eyes because God is so good and faithful. right before I left they had this 9 year old girl who was deaf her whole life, was healed. It was crazy because she had ever heard noise her whole life and had never spoken. I say all of this because I feel like God placed me there as a witness because He wants his stories to be heard throughout the earth. Everyone needs to know that God is moving and will continue to move and that everyone can be apart of it. I was so humbled to be there and seeing God hold back bad weather, heal people, bring thousands of people into his kingdom, and continue to bring Love to those in need. Please tell others about these testimonies and about how God is moving in the World. I think this is the end of my first blog.