There are eleven of us total, and we are expecting the Lord to move in huge ways. I can't begin to describe the events leading up to this place in my life, so I'll save that for other posts (I like how I can just keep myself from going into a long story by just putting it off). But I will tell you that the Lord has actively been speaking through us as team members, giving us His heart for each other and for the Mozambique people. We will be doing work with a heavily anointed orphanage named Iris Ministries. And when I say 'heavily anointed', just know that that's completely an understatement. Just spend some time on that site and tell me you don't find a lot of it hard to believe. No mortal should see the things they are seeing. No mortal should see the things my eyes have seen, but much less what the eyes of these people have seen. The dead have been raised (as in 24 hours have gone by, then they were riased), the blind given sight, the lame the ability to walk, food has been multiplied, and that's just a few of the miracles that occur on a daily basis.
Well, now that I've creeped out half of you, I'll go on to say I am extremely excited about going. The people God has placed on the team are a rare selection of God-fearing, pure-hearted individuals that are just hungry for more of the Lord's presence. Crazy things begin to happen when the Beloved hungers for the Lord. He is desperately longing for His Bride. So when we, as His Bride, come running to Him, we are naturally sent into a place of deep intimacy- to the place we belong. We were created to be in this place- and it pisses off the Enemy. And that is where we are right now as a team. We are aware of the Lord's Presence, aware that we have a choice to be the Harvest (those God will draw to Himself) or the Harvesters (those partnering with God to draw people to Him), and aware that there is a Spiritual 'realm' that is around us, more real than the tables in front of us.
In Mozambique, we will be loving on orphaned children, going out on a camping trip to the bush- where witch doctors use demonic power to control families and captivate children, going to a hospital and praying over people who will die in the next few days, and preaching in the city (the locals that guide us will be turning to us randomly, asking, "So, what has the Lord told you to share with us right now?") Needless to say, we have to be emptied of ourselves and filled with the Lord. So if you wouldn't mind, the next time you pray, pray that God would break us. If we are to be with the broken, we must be broken, and choose to stay broken for those people.
Heidi Baker, the woman who founded Iris Ministries (which now consists of over 6,000 churches), began all her ministry endeavors by being broken. Many times she didn't choose to be broken- it came to her. I would highly encourage you to read her book, Always Enough. It truly is a life changing documentation of the Lord's faithfulness to His Broken. Her ministry went from about 8 churches after 18 years, and then, after being put through a week-long overwhelming refining fire with the Lord, almost 6,000 churches emerged in the following 8 years.
Anyway, I'm rambling about that for a very important reason. We need to be broken. Not so we'll get a bunch of numbers, but so we'll be in a place of intimacy and 'usefulness' to the Lord.
Okay, bed time. Goodnight.
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