MARKED BY HEAVEN

Today my heart is torn...I only have one week left here at our base in Pemba. I graduate from the "mission school" next thursday and I wish it wasn't over.  Next saturday I leave for Tete for my extended outreach. We will leave here and drive for 3 days to get to Tete. Once there we will be training up new Mozambican Pastors to do bush outreaches, we will spend about 12 days in the bush sharing Jesus and praying for people. I will be looking at our new Tete base to plan out building a boys house for the orphan boys! This will be a great project for me when I get back here to Africa if we can get the money to build it! Pray for Jesus to send the funds! We have one missionary, Marlene there on the Tete base who is beyond excited about building this new home for the precious boys. The only building on the base as of now is what was once a brothel where young girls were sold for sex and now they have been saved by Jesus! Marlene actually lives in this building now and is using it to bring Glory to God every day! I'm looking forward to this journey deeper into Papa's heart! Amen.

Im so blessed. This season here at Harvest Mission School has forever changed my life. I have been marked by Heaven, marked for the Glory of God, marked to share the name of Jesus with the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich, I've been marked as a son of God, marked to go from Glory to Glory forever. I'm a Pioneer...marked to pave the way for others to follow! Hallelujah. Marked to shake nations and change the world for Papa's Glory! I'm so excited to move into this new season of life, walking by faith everyday for daily bread and provision. Papa always has more than enough. He has more than enough for you. He can and will provide every single need. I pray that your faith is increased.  We should never underestimate God and His love for us. His love is ABUNDANT and UNFAILING. It never changes. Doubt is of the enemy. Papa loves to provide for us. He loves to give us the things we need.  It brings Him great joy. I can't wait to be able to share the amazing testimonies of how God gets me back here to Africa! He has spoken and His word never fails. Isiaiah 55:10,11 - "For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, And do not return there, But water the earth and make it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me void, But it shall accomplish what I please, And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it."

His word will PROSPER, His word will NEVER return to Him void, it will ALWAYS accomplish what He pleases. Amen

Jehovah Jireh

Papa has given me a huge vision and I am totally relying on Him for the provision to get me back here.  Jesus is so good to me! I feel like I have the greatest privilege to be able to share His abundant love with these precious Makua people.  There are so many needs that I am trusting Papa to provide for me to accomplish this amazing vision. There is a new act of faith that Jesus is pushing me into… I feel like He doesn’t ever want me to ask for the things that I need. He wants me to share with people what he is calling me to do and share what things that are needed and to rely on Him to provide them. I’ve come to realize that walking by faith is pretty easy while you have a steady income coming in, but when you don’t have a job with a salary walking by faith takes on a whole new meaning.   Walking by faith is fun and stretching at the same time.  So I’m gonna go ahead and share some of the things that I will need to start acting out the vision that God has given me. I will need a 4 wheel drive truck to haul materials and to go to the bush bush to share the gospel with the lost. It’s very muddy and wet here during the rainy season so 4 wheel drive is a necessity.   I will need financial support to live, ha…Jesus will provide my daily bread to live because He is the bread of life!! I will need tools here for construction to build! It’s very very hard to find tools here and the ones that you find are cheap and they break so easy! I’m praying for God to provide the funds to have a cargo container shipped here full of tools that I will need to build. In Africa it takes so much more time to do anything! Everything moves slower and it’s hard to find things that you need to build. Needless to say Papa is teaching me PATIENCE! You have to be patient to live in this part of Africa.  I’m trusting Jesus with these things so the one thing that I will ask is for you to join me in prayer for Jesus to start supernaturally sending these things! These are the main things I will need to get started and I am trusting Papa for more than enough. He really enjoys giving us more than what we need…it brings Him great joy. Matthew 6:26 “Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?” I love each and every one of you and bless you in Papas gracious love. Thank you for the prayers and love! He is always more than enough. He is Jehovah Jireh (My Provider) Amen.

Identity in Christ

Papa has been speaking to me about laying down my life to become a long term missionary here in Africa. There’s nothing else I want to live for...I want to live to make Jesus name known to all the lost unreached people.  I want to share Jesus love with every person I meet. I want to stop for the ONE. I want to stop and take the time to listen to the poor, to hear their heart and to encourage them and push them into their destiny in God.   It’s not like the west here…most people in the west have at least heard of the name of Jesus, they may not profess His name or believe but at least most have heard it. Here most people have never heard the name of Jesus and my heart breaks for each of them.  When I left the states I never imagined I would have the favor that Papa has given me.  It’s unreal. My Daddy really really does love me and I know it. He so desires the very very best for me and nothing less. For the first time in my life I am starting to see my identity in Christ.  He is revealing my spiritual son ship.  He is pushing me into my destiny and my calling.  My life is becoming more and more adventurous! Hallelujah! Jesus died for our lives to be full of adventure and LIFE.  Until now I’ve missed out on the simplicity of living life. I used to think that I was living life but now I know I wasn’t…the busyness in the west makes it hard to actually stop and live life. Its work work work and live to work and work to live. That’s not the way Papa intended life to be for us. He created life for us to enjoy it. He created life so that every single day we could stop breath and enjoy Him.  He created life so we could enjoy walking, eating and breathing His presence.  I can’t imagine living another day without eating, drinking and breathing the presence of God.  Communion with God should be constant and not something we just do on special occasions. Papa is teaching me how to live in communion with Him every minute of every day.  This is life, fulfilling abundant life! The very breath of His presence is fulfilling and joyful.  2 Corinthians 10:5 says, “…bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”  This blows my mind… to actually take every single thought captive to the obedience of Christ?? I want live in that kind of communion with God. 

I actually had my first interview yesterday with the Iris long-term missionary committee.  I was able to share the vision and passion that the Lord has given me and what He wants me to do here in Africa and around the world.  Papa has given me a REALLY BIG VISION.  He has given me a REALLY BIG HEART...HALLELUJAH!!  We have a prophet here this week teaching our school...his name is David Wagner. I’ve never met the man in my life.  After He finished speaking last night He invited people to the stage to be prophesied over. I didn’t go. I stayed in the very back of the church talking with a friend…as I’m sitting there talking David calls me out of the crowd and says, “hey guy in the white hat I have a word for you come up here.” And the whole school shouts, NICK BOYD NICK BOYD COME ON!!!  So I go up to the stage eager to hear what this man has heard from the Lord. I close my eyes and he begins to prophesy over me. He says, “I feel like you’ve been asking for more confirmation.  I heard the Lord say that you are called here to be a long term missionary with Iris here at this base in Pemba…You are a builder and God is going to use you to build…you are planning on going home after the school to get some things in order and to sell some things…you have debt and you are trusting God to take care of it so you can get back here, You have nothing to worry about because HE IS TAKING CARE OF YOUR DEBT NOW….It will be taken care of even before you get back…You have nothing to worry about…I see you going into the prisons to set the captives free…you’re not gonna re-decorate the cells, you are GOING TO EMPTY THEM, you are going to SET THE CAPTIVES FREE! Your office here is already furnished; everything you will need here is going to be provided.  Everyone in the church erupted with praise and shouting rejoicing in gladness with me! And then the Holy Spirit hit me so hard I fell out on the floor!  This man heard from God...Haha! It was one of the most amazing encounters I’ve ever had!  Hallelujah! Jesus loves me. He chose me and pursued me. All we have to do is say yes. God wants a yes.  Not a maybe or a but, He is looking for someone to say YES. I say YES. Lord whatever YOU want, wherever you want me to go I will go, whoever you want me to stop for I will stop.  Amen.