YWAM + IHOP = YWHOP

So, once again, the past couple of days have been pretty powerful. I have absolutely wept, and laughed, from the very core of my soul. And once again, I cannot share all the details, but they will come about over time. I am just waiting on further instruction from God.

Sunday morning at church was powerful beyond my ability to explain. Lou Engle spoke, and his heart was totally turned upside down by events in our nation, and especially in California. There was a girl that gave a really powerful testimony regarding a worship team. The team of about 12, went to a homosexual community, not to preach, but to just worship God. This group just wanted to bring the presence, the love of God, to a broken and hurting people. What ended up happening was an angry mob broke out, even though there was no preaching. This speaks of how spiritual a matter it was. While they were worshiping, the presence of God came and there was a light shining down from heaven into their circle where they were worshiping. But it wasn't long until there were hundreds of people surrounding them, throwing hot coffee at them, hitting and kicking them. Eventually the police, then the swat team was called because their very lives were in danger. The group had to be escorted home by the swat team, and someone took a video that is still burning in my heart. There were people screaming and yelling things like "you Christians, shame on you!" The girl who gave the testimony talked about how she could sense the very real power of the 2 worship movements, as the mob broke out in singing "we will overcome." May heart still aches, I have no words to express what this did to my heart.

The rest of the time, Lou talked about abortion. Which totally stirred my heart with an even more fiery passion. He went a little into settling issues about when is a baby, really a baby. Well, Lou went on to point out that when Jesus was just a zygote in Mary's womb, John jumped in his mothers womb at the very presence of the ZYGOTE BABY JESUS. A baby is considered fully alive and well in the sight of God the second he/she is conceived. So, President Obama. This truly could be the finest hour for the Church in America, if she will see that the shedding of innocent blood is not okay. May we take our place in the heavenlies with prayer and fasting, to see that our nation is led by one who fears God. Lou said this, and I was wasted for a while, "With these elections, there has been an offering of babies." "We have got to stay true to conviction, rather than making people happy." This is a quote by Abraham Kuyper that he shared:
-When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, peace has become sin, you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.-

Peace has become sin. To make people happy, we are embracing homosexuality which opposes God's divine order, and being tolerant of abortion which says that God is not the author of life, and we just want to live our lives for ourselves. Again, I am not saying that we don't love people who struggle with these things. The heart of God is to see all set free and to freely receive His love, but that is impossible without recognizing the need for redemption. Friends, may we please love with all of our hearts, according to the will and authority of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Creator God.

The Lord brought up some other major things, that hit me so powerfully, which I cannot go into detail about these things. I literally sat in my car and wept for a half hour or so.

Now, on a much lighter note, I got to attend a thanksgiving dinner that night (top 2 pix, playing Taboo). I had so much fun! Fellowship was AWESOME, we played games, and just enjoyed each other's stories. I had a neat experience, when we were sitting at the table talking about things we felt called to do, I felt led to mention a very specific thing that I have yet to tell anyone. As I was sharing it, my friend Jose told me about a book describing a man who does the EXACT thing that I just explained...in fact he is an Ihoper and just had coffee with Jose that week. Sorry, that, too, I do not get to share with you just yet.

Today was my Sabbath. I did the usual, cleaning, grocery, ya know. I got to go to an Arbonne party this evening, which was so cool, and so much fun. It was hosted by Caron Massey from YWAM, and the lady who was presenting Arbonne, was a lady that was actually in the very first DTS ever (now remember, there are over 800 bases worldwide that run 1-2 DTS' a year). It was a pretty awesome experience for me, she really encouraged me and called out a lot of my qualities and built me up. She spoke some wonderful things over me and even said that she wanted to stay in contact with me. I just feel incredibly honored. I wasn't star-struck, but definitely in awe that I had a foundational YWAMer validating my call as a leader and missionary. She thoroughly blessed me with an Arbonne grab-bag, too! The bottom 2 pix are of Caron and then me. Caron makes these sunglasses and sells them (Mom, you would LOVE them, they would more than make up for your lost Wubba's that Charlie Tuna is wearing!).

I want to say that I still claim myself to be a YWAMer and an IHOPer...or a YWHOPer. I carry them both. And my Spirit is starting to connect with both of these in a much deeper way.

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST: My finances are suffering. My late employer was about a month late submitting my health insurance information to the Cobra plan that I have to purchase, and so now I am stuck paying for 2 months at once, which is about $600. I absolutely had to pay it to get a couple prescriptions refilled...which leaves me out of money. I am expecting a couple of checks, one of them being a pretty significant one, but it still won't cover my rent and other various things (like food) that I will need.

~If you so choose to bless me in this, my address is 3304 East 107th Terrace, Kansas City Mo, 64137

Bless you all!