To the Nations We Go!

This week is Missions Week in school. We have 23 different teams going everywhere from Japan to Alabama.

We heard already on Sunday from a team that was heading to Mexico. They came across a car accident on the way there and stopped to see if they could pray for those who were hurt. A baby was ejected from one of the cars and had died just before they got there. The team prayed for the baby and the baby was brought back to life!! The mother received Jesus right there on the spot!

Another group is in Australia with Pastor Bill, there was young girl who came to one of the meetings and went up to receive prayer. She has had an aborton a few weeks earlier and was very upset about what she had done. After being prayed for she went home and ended up going to the hospital because she was feeling sick. They discovered that she was sick because she was 4 months pregnant!!! Talk about the restoration of all things!

Radical displays of the extravagant love of God!! There is nothing better!

My team is headed to Tijuana at 3 am. Adventures with Poppa God await us!

Thanks for your prayers! I will post testimonies and pictures when I get back.

Core Values - An Adventure in Identity

I have been looking at what are the lenses that I see life through. I have continually struggled with constantly scrutinizing and judging other people. I knew that some of this came out of fear of being rejected so I would judge and reject others first. Then I had no value for anything they had to say so they couldn't hurt me. Very effective at pushing people away and isolating myself, not very effective in accomplishing life's purpose of being everything I was created to be. I will never fully fulfill my destiny without other people and they will never fulfill theirs without me. We were created to need each other.

So how do I get out of this cycle? I have been reading about core values. These are the lenses we see and perceive life through. We all have them whether we know what they are or not, whether they are good or bad. Here are a few things I have discovered about mine:

rejection and isolation were 2 of my major core values, along with performance and people pleasing. ( gasp - I know you are soo surprised!!)
No matter how hard people tried to love me, it rarely made it through the walls I built. Here I thought I had been doing so well in dealing with issues. Soo the good news is that with revelation comes the grace to change. Holy Spirit does not point out issues just so we can feel bad about ourselves but He comes with the full weight of Grace - the supernatural ability to change.
Being transformed isn't always easy, but the freedom and joy are well worth it.

So enter my new core values that are transforming how I think and act from the inside out:

I am more than enough just the way that I am. I don't have to be better than or less than anyone else. I just have to be me.

Fear has no place in my life. I will not make decisions or be moved by fear in any of its forms.
I have been made perfect in love and perfect love casts out fear.

I am not a victim of circumstances. I am a daughter and heir of the One to Whom nothing is impossible. I am to overcome and overpower anything evil that is against me.

I have been granted access to all things in the Kingdom. It is my Father's good pleasure to give me the Kingdom. I don't need permission to come boldly and receive what I have need of.

I am accepted and approved of just as I am, therefore rejection has no place in my life. I freely receive and give love because I have been set free in love.

So that is just a little sampling of what I have been up to lately. God is soo good and faithful, I am amazed more every day.