Week 3 in Mozambique

What’s up everybody! I hope all of you are doing amazing and having a blast wherever you are! It is so good to be able to reach out to everyone again as we were out of power for a little while all over the city and I wasn’t able to connect anywhere haha. So sorry for the late post again but I am slowly learning to stop making plans and agendas in this culture, which I guess Jesus never did either. But anyways yea we also didn’t have running water for about a week too. Oh and yea I have more joy than I ever have it’s amazing what happens when it’s just you God and others. Especially the kids! I can't wait to get more in depth about the kids with you guys next week kid by kid and just let you know how they grew up and how they live now, but we will save that for next week!

This last Saturday we attended one of the most amazing weddings I have ever been to. It was filled with more glory and the presence of God than any other wedding I have been to as we just worshiped all throughout. The girl is a fourth generation missionary and the guy was also a missionary. Haha I guess their a cool couple. But yea it was so beautiful right on the beach by the ocean with a perfect breeze! Although I have never seen more chaos than at the end when cake was given out with over a hundred little kids running around. They were literally changing shirts and hiding in line trying to get another piece of cake. It was part hilarious and part sad. But yea I gave you guys a good idea of the surroundings last week, this week I wanted to share a couple of testimonies of not only what happens around here but what is happening in my heart as well. Lets hop back to the first week of school when my heart was absolutely wrecked over the topic of the Father’s heart.

Pastor Steve Long was the guest speaker for the first week. He was the pastor of a church called Catch the Fire in Toronto Canada that had a huge revival and many amazing moves of God during the late 1990’s. His messages were so simple it was hilarious. Everything in the bible was created to be understood by a child but man tries to make it all complicated. As we began to cover the Father Heart of God and getting rid of the orphan spirit it was amazing to me on how much I found I acted like an orphan instead of a child. As I slowly began to feel the love of God and experience his Presence (The presence that David in Psalms talks about every other Psalm almost) I was discovering on how to become and act like a child instead of orphan. Today the church sais to do this and do that and whoever works the hardest or whoever has the most bible degrees is the closest to God. I have finally figured out that being a child of the living God has ABSOLUTLY NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU! By HIS grace you have been saved. Simple. I strived for the last 8 months not even knowing it trying to earn being a child of God until I finally realized there was nothing I was going to do for God to love me more! That is why the Bible sais he gave us a spirit that cries Abba Father which means Daddy. We are called to be more intimate and affectionate with our heavenly Father than our earthly father. If your mom and dad were decent at all they loved you no matter what you did. That doesn’t mean they didn’t discipline you but that means whether you were the best child in the world or worst they cared and had compassion on you.

Then last week Amy Lancaster came in for the next 20 days! Her ministry is called We Will Go in Jackson Mississippi where she lives in the red code district in an old Crack House reaching out to the drug addicts with her 3 kids and husband. If you think God’s greatest plan for you is to live in a nice brick house with a nice family and be comfortable while going to church on Sundays and Wednesdays and nothing else you’re serving a different God than me. But anyways she came and talked about cutting the devil’s head off with prayer and fasting last Wednesday. It gave me a whole new idea on making war with evil. Which brings me to my first testimony.

If demons scare you than you might not want to read this paragraph. But we were worshipping on Sunday at church and it was slowly dismissed. There were only a couple of us left there at the end when a man dropped to the floor and started to manifest a demonic spirit that was inside Him. A couple of us began to lay hands on him and pray as his eyes rolled back and began to scream like what you would see on an exorcism movie. I was at first a bit freaked out but than I shut my flesh up and realized that according to the Bible satan has been disarmed and has no power over me or anyone with Jesus. For many of us it was the first time dealing with a demon-possessed man but after talking with a local he kind of smiled like it was no big deal and it was common. We prayed for a while for the man and he was manifesting and shaking on the ground for quite some time so I took a video with my camera if any of you would like to see just face book message me or something. I don’t share this to be cool, I share this to let it be known that in the African and Easter World it is completely normal for demons to manifest and be set free by Jesus. I later found out the man’s family was involved in witchcraft, which is a huge problem here. To lighten things up here is a different testimony.

Every weekend a group of different students get to go on an outreach to certain unreached villages that may have a believer in it but have never been preached to. I don’t want to go too deep into details, as I will wait until I go on the outreach myself and give personal experiences. But after talking with many people there were many powerful moves of God that occurred. Blind men were given sight, deaf people received hearing, and most importantly many many people gave their lives to Jesus!!!!!!

The students are becoming more and more like family every day going through all the heart changes and experiences together, it is so awesome to see. I especially love hanging out with my two Mozambique Pastors Tarde and Omar! Haha Tarde is 58 years old about 5’3 and maybe 100 pounds and is one of the most lovely men of God I have ever met. He gets up at 4-4:30am every morning and reads his bible until about 8am. The hunger in some of these Mozambique people is amazing! Omar is 22 and speaks way more English than Tarde so me and him joke around all the time. Both of them wait for me to ask them if they want to listen to my Ipod everytime I come home. Hahaha Tarde will literally listen to the same song 50 times until the ipod dies and he loves it. They are so happy when they get to listen it’s amazing. They also where the same 2-3 shirts and 2-3 pants everyday, so if anyone would like to donate to men of God it’s a great opportunity! Tonight we have family dinner with our house and I am excited for some chicken haha!

As I begin to close this blog I just really wanted to take the time and honor you guys and thank you so much for reading this! I have plenty of open time here and if there is anything I can intercede for you or anything like that please let me know you guys are seriously all so awesome and I hope you can take just one thing from this. I still kept it quite vague this week letting you all in on more of the basics but I will get deeper and deeper as the weeks go on! I love all of you so much and I am so thankful for each and every one of you taking the time and reading this when you didn’t have to! Have a wonderful day!

OH AND PICTURES SHOULD BE ATTATCHED!!!!!