Spiritual Warfare and Gods provision

This last few weeks have been unreal. Gods provision truly came in in a way I can't even explain, like I'm still processing.

We started last week with lectures on spiritual warfare. We had a pastor from a local church come talk who has started a ministry regularding spiritual warfare. It was super interesting hearing his stories of things he's encountered and how real evil spirits are. 

That Friday we did a really cool thing as a school. Written on a board in front of us was a list of peoples named and the $ amount due still for school fees and outreach. Over $37,000 dollars was needed, $3,300 of that was myself. What we did was for an hour we played worship music and just worshipped God as a school for an hour. During that time if God placed it on your heart to give to someone on the board you wrote down their name and amount on a piece of paper and put it in a pot. As the pot was filled a leader would go and change the numbers on the board of fees in front of us. In one hour we raised over $27,000!!!! 3 of my fellow classmates came forward and made me FULLY FUNDED!! I am fully funded!! GOD IS SO GOOD!!! I am so so so blessed by everyone supporting me financially and emotionally back home and here on this base. I can't even express to you how much I LOVE these people here.

This week we had an amazing musician from New Zealand come and speak with us about what it's like doing music as missions. Strahan Coleman (seriously look him up!) is not only a talented musicianary but also an amazing teacher.

Here are some of the things I learned:

- The parts that we don't love about ourselves, God made and He loves.

- Spiritual Gifts aren't for you they're for others

-Just like seeds need water to grow, we need the Holy Spirit to grow

- Emotional fragility is our best tool in writing songs

- Who you are is the greatest tool in music

So this week I forgot to take pictures... So here's these!!

This is where I love writing songs. 

This is my friend Austin! My YWAM family is the best ❤️

Evangelism, koalas, relationships oh my!

Guys, boy oh boy has it been a cool couple of weeks!

Last week our lecture topic was evangelism. Something that is so out of my comfort zone. It was cool to learn more about what evangelism means and how it is apart of our everyday life. 

On that Friday we went into town as a school to evangelize over the city and the place where Easterfest ( Australia's Biggest Christian Music Festival ) is going to be held. My friend Tyler and I headed out to a local park to spread joy and love, I would be lieing if I said I wasn't freakibg out a little. But it was fun! We played with some kids and prayed over the land and it was so fun. Then we met a really nice guy named Tom he was on his lunch break from work and we asked if we could pray for him. Turns out he is also a Christian and was going to go with his friends to evangelize over the city like we were over the weekend. We encouraged him and prayed with him and he gave me his contact information. When I got home I emailed him and encouraged him. He emailed me back and told me how he'd been asking God to pop up in his everyday life, and that we were an answer to his prayers. So cool!

Then we went to dreamworld and the beach as a school for a field trip! The beach was so warm and beautiful! At dreamworld I got to hold a koala, his name was Lincoln, AND I got to feed a kangaroo!! I almost cried. 

This week was on relationships. We started the week with family relationships, then friendships, spouces, and your relationship with God. Just bein honest it was a big week an I'm still processing a lot of it.

Last night we had family night and did a scavenger hunt and had a baby bonfire together as a community. So fun and I love all these people very much. 

I would like to ask for prayer for financing. I still have money I need to raise before outreach (45 days). Our God is faithful, and I know he will provide in His timing and not my own but it never hurts to have others covering it in prayer along with me.

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