Holy Spirit Come

As we continue through the weeks of lecture each one continues to work in everyone's life. This week has really blown my mind, but I think I say that every week.

Monday we had the honor of having an amazing organization, Destiny Rescue, come and talk to us about the amazing things they are doing in Thailand and Cambodia. This organization is amazing. They go and they rescue children out if the sex trade and take them to a safe home where they gain counseling, education, and most important Jesus. We will be working with this organization for a chunk of our trip in Cambodia. Since 2011 they have rescued more than 1,000+ children and are looking to have rescued more than 100,000 children by 2020. I am so excited to be partnering with this organization to continue to fight for and with these children. As a team of 11, we are filled with people from 7 different nationalities! Woo!

  Here's a picture of team Cambodia:

The rest of the weeks lectures were focused on the Holy Spirit. It's not often you get someone so on fire about the Holy Spirit like our speaker Kristen is. He taught us so much about listening to the Holy Spirit but also into more depth on spiritual gifts. That was my favorite part of the week, being able to dive in and learn more about the spiritual gifts in detail. I feel much more confident now in my spiritual gifts now that I understand them, or know that this is not something just in my mind.

This weekend we're all taking it easy here on base as we wait for a storm to pass over. Its a good time to relax and recoup before we head into evangelism this coming week.

Outreach, Prayer, and Healings

This is the start of week 3 here in the beautiful land of Australia. 

Here's a summary of week 2:  

We had the privilege of another wonderful speaker, Gwendi, talking about Biblical World View. She showed us all of the different ways that the bible is supported through ancient artifacts, how to ask questions and find answers in the bible, and overall how to fall more in love with the bible. On the last day of lectures we were able to pray for Gwendi as a class, turns out she also has chronic pain. We were able to talk after class and say what things help us with our pain. It's always such a nice feeling to be able to talk with someone who just gets it. What it feels like, the frustrations, and the limitations. Since coming to Australia my pain has been expenentially worse than at home and that has been really hard for me to adapt too. Also, I'm going to CAMBODIA FOR OUTREACH!! #cambrodia

Okay so today is Wednesday here in Australia and God is so good! Monday I got a chance to sit down with this weeks new speaker and asks her a bunch of questions. She is a huge believer in healings and that is something I have never experienced or seen and is not really talked about that often. Yesterday (Tuesday), we had a time of worship. We are worshipping when one of our head leaders (Landon) comes on the mic and says he really feels like there needs to be healing in this place and for those in pain to raise their hands. Probably a handful of us raised our hands and the leaders and students came around us and started praying for us. What I didn't realize is that healings were happening all around me. One kid dislocated his shoulder the night before and as they prayed he took off the sling and raised his arms above his head.  While they're praying for me my body feels like a thermometer, the pain going down through my spine to my hips and feet. When it reached my hips everything below it started to feel like cement. It was a pain like I'd never felt before. After this I went outside with my outreach leader and just cried because the pain was so unbearably high and she told me Jesus really did want to heal my fibromyalgia but he also wanted to heal my heart. 

After that we went into our first lecture of the day. As I sat there trying to focus, all I could think about was my pain and how high it was getting, like my body was being filled back up with pain. When we broke for Morning Tea (yes that's a thing) Landon came outside with me and we prayed again. This time we prayed over my feet in particular and just like that the pain was full force an it felt like it was trying to burst out of my feet. Landon and I are both telling the pain to leave and just like that NO PAIN. Shock and tears rolled in and we just hugged and thanked God over and over. After I was able to go in front of the school and proclaim HEALING! What?! Yes. Not a dry eye in the place we rejoiced and praised God for this gift. Guys, I HAVE NO FIBROMYALGIA!!! God is good.

Last night I went for a full blown run with no pain. I am in such awe of god and his glory. This is a picture!

I am still raising support if you feel called to helping with my schooling and my mission to Cambodia!!

https://www.youcaring.com/mission-trip-fundraiser/support-christa-s-ywam-adventure/196566