Pairutani

Pairutani is a little village outside of little Vinto outside of a little bit bigger Cochabamba. It is mostly Quechuan indians and Evo followers, and people look at you like you are an alien because of your blonde hair. The pastors, Bri, Ralph, Elitha, and I went up there last night for the anneversary service of the church, they are celebrating 25 years!!

The worship was mostly in Quechuan and it was super fun. Then Pastor Jhonny Vela spoke on receiving strength from the Lord, and since yesterday was one of the hardest since I have been here, he spoke right to my heart. I have to have it translated into English becaus

e it was a mix of Spanish and Quechuan and I couldn't really understand anything, haha. (What do they call Spanish and Quechuan? Spachuan?) But thanks for Pastor Jenn who translated. Then after, and a little before all of this, we had an awesome ministry time with the Lord. God healed people through my hands!! Two knees, a nose, headaches, and more. The Lord is so faithful and so available to all who run to Him with reckless abandon.

When most people think about healings and miracles, they think about either one of two things. One, people think of revivals. Like the one in Lakeland, FL, or in Ontario, Canada a little while back. People come to things like this EXPECTING to be healed, and as you all know, God moves in ou

r expectation. But we don't have to be at a huge "revival" service to receive healing! We need to forgive, receive forgiveness, and expect. That's it! So much less complicated than it seems. The second misconceived perception with healing is that it only happens in other countries. Wrong!! It is about YOUR attitude and YOU expectation that God WILL heal you!!

The youth conference is this weekend at Beach Fellowship and I am interceding with major expectations. I know God is going to let His glory dwell in that place!! If you are reading this, and you go to Immerse youth, you should definitely make it out there! Even if it is only for Friday night, it is only 15 for that night and dinner! The Lord is going to use YOU to reclaim what the enemy has stolen from you!!

Okay, enough preaching for the day ;) I leave in a week from tonight! I miss my family, my friends, sushi, and starbucks. If you want to come see meh at the airport, let me know and I'll give you the times and stuufff.

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This week has been full of miracles, healings, Holy Spirit pour outs, and everything else awesome you could think of. There is a song that goes

'Jesus only did, what He saw you do, he would only say, what he heard you speak, he would only move, when he thought you did, Father we need your heart, Father we need your Spirit

How can I begin to live without you? When every step that Jesus made was in surrender?

What the world sees, and soon forgets, we will not forget who you are and what you have done for us'

I love that! It is so my heart to God right now.

I have been fasting for a couple of days about the next 'step' that God has for me - but I am a little confused. So if you are reading this please pray that I will have clarity and discernment!

(nine days)

Revelation!

The Lord never fails.

In John 3:33 it says: "The man who has accepted it has certified that God is truthful. For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God give the Spirit WITHOUT limit!!!"

Some people are simply attracted to Jesus. Some people chose to become disciples of Christ. With the first choice, you are simple being entertained by Him, enjoying just Him, like when you watch an awesome movie for the first time. Just like when you watch a movie you love over and over again, soon enough you are going to get bored with it and stop watching it. In the same way, if you put a limit on Christ, then you are going to watch the same thing, or experience the same thing, over and over again until you get bored and fall away from HIM. No wonder so many people fall away from God, or backslide!! This is not some kind of "pointing the finger" attitude that I have, but it is a DECISION to make your relationship with God more deep and more intimate EVERY TIME you meet with Him!! I just quoted a scripture where John the Baptist says all me need to know about this issue. "for God give the Spirit WITHOUT LIMIT..." So if we believe the Bible, believe that it is God-breathed, then we have a RESPONSIBILITY to act on this scripture!

Another example: If I died my hair pink, and then went to church or anywhere really, people would freak out! For at least a week there would be tons of people talking and asking me about it and all excited, but then after about two weeks, people would get accustomed to it. Some people feel the same way about God! They reach a certain "level" with God, and for a while they are happy and content, but then they get accustomed to this and it doesn't affect them at all. This is what some Christians call "season" with God. There is a season in which God is talking to you and you feel close with Him, but then we feel that that is all He will give us, so then we fall into a "dry spell" with the Lord, He just isn't speaking anymore. NO! This is totally opposite of what the Bible tells us!! We can be going through situations with Him that He chooses to strengthen us in a certain area, but be NO means are we any farther away from God than we CHOOSE to be!!

When you chose to be a disciple, you are no longer living, getting entertained, and getting joy from tangible things. Now you are being engrossed, and make a DECISION for the things that are of the Kingdom, that are intangible.

Matt 6:5 says, " And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing by standing by the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have seen their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen."

Okay, so if this is the words of God, then again, it is a commandment and a DECISION!! I just challenge you right now, whoever you are, wherever you are reading this, that you right this second get down on your knees and worship the Lord who died for YOU!! It might be inconvenient but guess what? It was probably was more inconvenient for Jesus to die on the cross for you, than for you to get on your knees in gratitude to HIM!!

If you want to be closer to God, daily growing with intimacy with Him, and loving Him more each day, these are KEY elements to having a real relationship with Him! And that is what it is all about.

AMEN! :)

p.s. Don't think for one second that just because I am in Bolivia, that I am closer to God. NO WAY!! If you are hungry, thirty, yearning for the Spirit, and you choose to give your time and your everything to Him, then it is no different than me being here in Bolivia!