Wow...Im completely wrecked by Papa's amazing LOVE. This past weekend we went on an Outreach in Meize in the bush bush! We loaded up in the back of Cameons(Large flatbed trucks) and headed out to Meize to love on the precious people there. My heart was so overwhelmed when we pulled up to the outreach location...as we drove in about 2000 beautiful children in their rags came running behind and surrounded our cameon. They had the biggest smiles on their faces as they were so excited to see missionaries! As we unloaded each of us had dozens of children swarm us to touch our faces and hold our hands. Friday night was amazing...We just loved on the children and played with them until the conference began. Mama Heidi(Heidi Baker) preached and led worship as we packed the church with at least 2,000 people. Worship was so pure and true. Watching the Mozambicans worship touched my heart so deep...you could see in their expressions that they were crying out to God in desperation. They have nothing else to cling to...Jesus is their only hope. He is the only way they live. They know that without God they won't have food or water. The service we had friday night lasted about 5 or 6 hours!! They don't put God on a schedule and cut Him off whenever..We worshiped hour after hour after hour! As we began to get tired a beautiful little boy climbed up in my lap and we napped in the Church as the service went on. Sharing Jesus love with these babies is so much more than a blessing. Papa is teaching me a whole new meaning to the word LOVE. There is so much power in LOVE. Love can change a life forever. Papa's Love is why I breathe every breath.
He TRULY is the BREAD OF LIFE. As I read the story of Jesus being the Bread of Life God spoke to me and said, "I am the Bread of Life, Come and eat me...Every time you eat food, you eat me because I give you life. Every breath you take you are eating of me because I am your life. As you eat and drink rejoice knowing that I am the True Bread." SHABA...what an awakening! The revelation I got as He spoke to me thru this scripture is so deep and life changing. Every bite is a bite of the Life of Christ. He makes me live. Amen.
We set up our tents in a tight little bamboo fence the Mozambicans made for us to give us some privacy...It was so hard walking to my tent at night to go to bed as I saw children laying in the dirt sleeping...waiting on their momma's to get done praying to take them home. Saturday we started the conference early with WORSHIP crying out to Papa for His heart. Several of us split up into teams of 7 or 8 and an interpreter and headed into different villages to lead people to Jesus and pray for the sick to be healed. As we walked into a village I saw what it means to be the "least of these". The poor here are really poor. The houses in this village are all made of mud and bamboo with a grass roof. The first lady we came to was sitting out side her hut shucking corn. We asked her if she knew Jesus and she said no...We led her to Jesus and told her what He had done for her and that was why we were there. She rejoiced as she heard about her Savior for the very first time! She recceived Jesus Hallleujah! As we were praying for her and her house a man came running up to us and said there was a woman close by who heard us praying and she was asking for us. We went to her and she told us that she had breast cancer and she was in so much pain. She had a big open sore on the side of her breast. We began crying out to Jesus to touch her heart and heal her completely! As we prayed the countenace on her face changed! We asked what she was feeling and she said that ALL THE PAIN HAD LEFT!! HAHA SHABA! Thank you Jesus! We declared that Papa would remove all the cancer and that she be completely healed. Amen.
The next hut we came to I encountered something I have never seen before! There was a young woman sitting outside. She told us that she had "bad spirits" attacking and tormenting her in her house, mostly at night. We asked her if she believed in Jesus and she said no. So we asked if we could go in her house and pray and pleed the blood of Jesus over her and her house and she said yes. As we walked in the house I felt like God was going to do something amazing. The inside was completely dark except for the sun shining through a gap in the wall and the ceiling in the kitchen. I felt a supernatural power inside of me as we walked into the darkness. When we walked into the kitchen area I looked towards the light shining through the gap in the wall and I saw something I've never seen before. As God's presence was with us and I felt the power of the Light that we carried I seen the "bad spirits" FLY OUT of the gap between the wall and the ceiling! They looked like big black sheets! I stood in amazement as probably 10 or 12 of the "bad spirits" flew out of the house! We had not even began to pray!!! All it took was the LIGHT. When we walked in with the power of Jesus and the light that is in us the devil trembled... I saw it before my eyes as the spirits fled because the darkness can't stand the light! Hallelujah! We brought the young woman in and sat her in a chair and we began to sing praises and worship around her. As the presence of God fell on her she began to weep and wail!! It was so powerful! She told us that her heart was racing and she felt the Love of Jesus! She received Jesus as her daddy and he poured out His peace on her. We asked her what was going on inside her and the Peace was so heavy on her that she couldn't talk or move! She just sat resting in Papas love! Hallelujah Amen! Many of the other groups that went into other villages came back and said that they seen totally white eyes be filled with color and the many blind saw for the first time! There was story after story of Papa healing!
The service went on ALL day Saturday worshiping, preaching and loving! Saturday night was one of the most amazing nights of my life! I got to see Jesus perform miracle after miracle! Papa Rolland(Heidi Baker's Husband) preached on Jesus power to heal and how He loves to heal! When he finished many people came to the altar to receive prayer for healing. Many were healed of headaches, back pain, leg pain, and various injuries. A momma brought her 4 year old son who was cripled and has never been able to walk. We prayed over him for what seemed like hours asking Papa to perform a mighty miralcle! Finally we asked the little boy to stand up and he stood on his own...He immediately took off across the stage walking and then running!!! It was the first time in His life to ever walk or run! HALLELUJAH!! When he took his first step THUNDER sounded and physical RAIN from HEAVEN fell in a downpour!!! Its not the rain season here right now and if it were to rain the people say it only sprinkles for a few minutes...HAHA IT DOWNPOURED ALL NIGHT SATURDAY!! HAHAHA.....It rained and rained like a monsoon as God poured out the spiritual and physical rain! Everyone in the church danced and rejoiced as God showed us all His abundant love through pouring out miracles on His children! It was MORE than a blessing to be a part of this night as Papa loved on everyone! He is MORE THAN ENOUGH!
He is doing such a work in my heart and revealing to me the true meaning of Love. I thought I knew how to Love and I even thought I am pretty good at loving but Papa is showing me what it really means to love. As it is very hot here and there is NO AIR CONDITIONING anywhere, and I eat rice and beans every meal, and I am always covered in dirt, there is no hot water, a cold shower is like heaven (no showers on outreach in the bush period..ha), and the living quaters are very very tight, it is stretching but I see that it is not about me...But I see what it is to LOVE when under all these circumstances Papa says to play in the dirt with the children and even though they smell and are even dirtier than me it brings me JOY and makes my heart happy. Covered in dirt and sweat sitting with them learning their language and teaching them mine, letting them pull on my hair and touch my face I see Papa's Love in their eyes.
He loves all His children. He loves you! I pray that you are experiencing His abundant love even now as you read this. Papa adores you and He loves His time with you. I pray blessings of Joy and Peace over each of you! I could talk for days and share many more stories! Talk to you soon! Thank you so mcuh for all the prayers! I feel them every day as I am always at Peace! Hallelujah
