I have about 5 blogs in my head, so I am finally buckling down to write this one out.
About a month ago, I decided to buy the book Is that Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham after Luke was bringing it up in every day conversations. It was the building blocks to the YWAM founder's journey. It was exactly what we needed to read. In the book he spoke about sitting in a room with some of his team and just praying. Luke felt like we should do that, too. I thought oh, no big deal. We can sit quietly and pray out loud or to ourselves.
Oh my gosh! That is so hard! You don't even realize how much you pray and talk and maybe listen for a few seconds before you begin praying again. To sit and just wait. Then just as you get quiet and still, all of a sudden you are thinking What am I making for dinner? Is friday a half day for the kids? I got a headache, wonder if I am getting sick. Oh, maybe. Jessica is kinda sick. Stop talking to yourself!
We did this for 4 consecutive days...for hours at a time. Doesn't that sound nuts? I totally agree. One day we tried to do it at my house while we met. Fail. Dogs barking. Neighbors screaming. Chickens squawking. Cars zooming. Luke and Naomi learned that day why I try to get up before the sunrises to read and breathe...it's impossible once this area gets moving because my windows don't close.
Each day we would call out things we saw as our eyes were closed and asking God to reveal plans to us. Australia, red cardinal, thumbs up, M, W, K, temple, mountains, waves/boat, cliffs, black, fox, Bible verses, someone crying to a king like figure.
Just random things. Or so they seemed random. I let Daniela join us the day we met at my house. She goes to a local Christian school that is only half days, so she attends tutoring and soccer some days and some afternoons she is with us.
She saw the crying bowing person. This was actually a similar vision that the author of the book had seen, Luke had pointed it out from already reading the book. Daniela has obviously never read the book. Crazy. It was depicting the team's devotion to a ministry ship, instead of to God and grieving Him. She also saw a temple with people but not a church.
One day after I finally started the book, I realized that Australia was on the cover. There is also a wave (very symbolic in the book) on the cover, too. I'm glad I'm not moving to Australia. :)
After this time of daily prayers of surrender, we finally found a place to have our prevention center. We had been searching for over a year and nothing felt right. Didn't have peace. One day, we checked on this house and every one of us had peace. It was almost eerie because we have never had that (the 3 of us) on any place we looked at. There is nothing at all special about this place, didn't get some killer price, but we waited until it was something He had for us. And, it happened all of a sudden by checking on this house...that we knew was available for MONTHS. We moved stuff in as soon as we got keys the next day.
Thanks for your continued prayers. It's exciting when He answers. More updates to come this week. Besos!
(PS February is my month of God doing big things for the last few years... from baptism, to quitting teaching in America, to being hired in the DR, to leaving JCS, starting/working FIGHT fulltime, and now to our prevention center).
About a month ago, I decided to buy the book Is that Really You, God? by Loren Cunningham after Luke was bringing it up in every day conversations. It was the building blocks to the YWAM founder's journey. It was exactly what we needed to read. In the book he spoke about sitting in a room with some of his team and just praying. Luke felt like we should do that, too. I thought oh, no big deal. We can sit quietly and pray out loud or to ourselves.
Oh my gosh! That is so hard! You don't even realize how much you pray and talk and maybe listen for a few seconds before you begin praying again. To sit and just wait. Then just as you get quiet and still, all of a sudden you are thinking What am I making for dinner? Is friday a half day for the kids? I got a headache, wonder if I am getting sick. Oh, maybe. Jessica is kinda sick. Stop talking to yourself!
We did this for 4 consecutive days...for hours at a time. Doesn't that sound nuts? I totally agree. One day we tried to do it at my house while we met. Fail. Dogs barking. Neighbors screaming. Chickens squawking. Cars zooming. Luke and Naomi learned that day why I try to get up before the sunrises to read and breathe...it's impossible once this area gets moving because my windows don't close.
Each day we would call out things we saw as our eyes were closed and asking God to reveal plans to us. Australia, red cardinal, thumbs up, M, W, K, temple, mountains, waves/boat, cliffs, black, fox, Bible verses, someone crying to a king like figure.
Just random things. Or so they seemed random. I let Daniela join us the day we met at my house. She goes to a local Christian school that is only half days, so she attends tutoring and soccer some days and some afternoons she is with us.
She saw the crying bowing person. This was actually a similar vision that the author of the book had seen, Luke had pointed it out from already reading the book. Daniela has obviously never read the book. Crazy. It was depicting the team's devotion to a ministry ship, instead of to God and grieving Him. She also saw a temple with people but not a church.
One day after I finally started the book, I realized that Australia was on the cover. There is also a wave (very symbolic in the book) on the cover, too. I'm glad I'm not moving to Australia. :)
After this time of daily prayers of surrender, we finally found a place to have our prevention center. We had been searching for over a year and nothing felt right. Didn't have peace. One day, we checked on this house and every one of us had peace. It was almost eerie because we have never had that (the 3 of us) on any place we looked at. There is nothing at all special about this place, didn't get some killer price, but we waited until it was something He had for us. And, it happened all of a sudden by checking on this house...that we knew was available for MONTHS. We moved stuff in as soon as we got keys the next day.
Thanks for your continued prayers. It's exciting when He answers. More updates to come this week. Besos!
(PS February is my month of God doing big things for the last few years... from baptism, to quitting teaching in America, to being hired in the DR, to leaving JCS, starting/working FIGHT fulltime, and now to our prevention center).
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