Two updates in two days? Yup!

Hey Guys!

You get another update in as many days! Sweet huh??

Today was absolutely crazy. We had a new speaker come in again this week and totally blew off any restraints and limitations I had on another area of my faith.

This speaker is talking about prophecy and prophetic visions. It's a crazy concept that I never even gave the slightest amount of credit to in our day and age. I totally looked at that as something that happened a long time ago and was seriously a bunch of bull crap today. Sorry for being so blunt, but that's where I was at and what my mindset was going into the lecture today.

Man, did he blow my mind on this one.

He started talking about people having the gift of prophecy and I definitely sat there with 100% doubt in my mind. I kept thinking "wow, this is going to be one of those topics where it's pushed on me and if I don't believe it then I'm wrong." I know that wasn't the right mindset to have going into it because it really is a biblical concept, but that's where I was at.

He asked people to raise their hands if they've ever seen visions from God. About half of the class raised their hands and half didn't (i'm a math genius, huh?). We then went outside and got into two lines. One line was people that thought they might have the gift of prophecy and the other was people who didn't. I went into the ones that didn't. He then told us to pair up with someone of the opposite group and we'd learn about it and practice it. I grouped up with someone and figured we'd try it. I still had complete doubt that this was going to work. I figured it would just be stuff that was so general that anyone could somehow apply it to their lives and make it seem like it was real. I really wasn't excited about going into this day.

What he had us do was have the one who didn't have the gift of prophecy pray that God would reveal things about themselves to the ones who say that they do have the gift. In disbelief, i went along with the exercise and figured it'd just be over soon. My partner then sat in silence for about 30 seconds and then just started unloading stuff on me. It was absolutely insane. Everything that I have been struggling with while being here, including all of the stuff that i have told absolutely no one was brought up. It wasn't like general stuff either...it was super specific and strait to the point about what I was dealing with. It seriously blew my mind. There was absolutely no way that he could have known any of that stuff and because there were only two of us there was no way it could have been a trick of any kind. It's so crazy!

We then switched and he had me try it. I definitely do not have that gift, haha, and i'm okay with that. That's one part that I really liked too; they didn't stress that everyone must have it. Each one of us is given certain gifts that we can use for the glory of God.

Absolutely insane stuff going on guys. I can't stress enough how freaking real God is. This whole thing is absolutely blowing my mind about who I thought God was before. It's absolutely blowing my mind on the little box that I had God in. He's so freaking real and personal and it's so awesome to think about. Seriously, this is legit stuff. Crazy.

I also have a few prayer requests for you all!
-team unity: we have a solid team, but just be praying that we could grow even closer together because we are going to be a family for the time we're there.

-Our fears: Please pray that there would be peace in us as we go over there. Strait up walking into a broken nation so we're a little nervous, but like i said we know God has our backs!

-The hearts of the people to be prepared ahead of time. There is a lot of "christianity" over there, but by that it means animism mixed with christianity. so prayers that their hearts would be open to the message that we bring!

-finances: several of us on the team still need quite a bit of money for outreach. we're doing everything we can, and we know that God has it for us he's just trying to figure out which pocket it's in right now, it's just waiting for it to come in.

-Supplies: We have several things that we need to get before going over there. Shots, water purification supplies, etc. So if you could pray for provision that'd be awesome!

-And above all else: That God's will be done while we're there. It's crazy and exciting, but we don't want it to just be an exciting trip that we go on. We want to have God use us to forever change eternity because someone (or many people) come to the lord!