Prayer Week

New Doors being opened more and more!
This last week was so big I can’t put any words to it!!! I can’t even start to explain it, except that it was all God and his majesty from every minute to every hour of every day!!!! It was such an awesome week it just makes me want to scream!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
The first day was really cool!! The best way to start the week off! Monday morning bright and early at six a clock my group got to start the week off by getting the first prayer slot of the week, then immediately after, we had all base worship as we normally do at eight a clock. Today was a special Monday; they have these every so often their called “Giving Mondays”. This was something that God really showed up on. The point of it is that, everyone involved in YWAM is there, all students, staff of the base, the skate ministries staff that our base is involved in and anyone of the locals that would like to come they can. Then if anyone has need of anything (ex. Outreach money, debt, computers, cars, rent money, surf boards) and in need of some help you would write it up on the white board in front of the room with your name. When we totaled the amount up of everything that was needed there was an amount of just over 68,000$, yeah huge!!!! We than went back into worship and if we were lead to we would go up and write on a piece of paper of what we were giving and how much with our name. God just came through and people just kept giving and giving and we just saw the numbers going down and down it was so amazing to see it happen! When the papers finally stopped coming in there were to staff members up there with calculators and there was a total of 40,000$ dollars was brought in and given to everybody up on the board with two laptops, surf board, two IPods a few bikes and a lawn mower. How cool is that to see? There were some people in real need of help and for God to show up like that how AWSOME is that!!? This really shows how NOTHING is too big or too small for God!! After that our speaker Leon Rusel from New Zealand a.k.a a “kiwi” came in and talked for about an hour, until he felt led to just have some time of intersession and worship, God was just starting to show us on how much he was going to impact us this week in these first couple hours of prayer week. There were just convictions after convictions that people had to face and to defeat the fear that the enemy tries to put into our heads so much. Then to come up to the micro phone and speak it out and to receive prayer from our whole group if you felt led to and were obedient to Him. This broke so many people down, bringing many to tears and not just the girls many of the guys were just broken, we all were transformed and changed by God through this week in such dramatic and sincere way. It’s so amazing to always walk everyday in Freedom that we all have. This week was turned upside down from the normal week, with the 24/5 prayer going on and we had three night lectures this week rather than one that sometimes they would go until two in the morning. Every lecture was always on Gods time and finished when God wanted us to finish, making our lunch cooks really mad at times when showing an hour and a half late to lunch. The prayer times were the most impactful to me this week. My prayer times were at 6 am Monday morning, 12 pm Tuesday, Thursday at 4 am and 10 pm and then my last set time was at 6 am Friday, they were all two hour sessions and just a full time of prayer and praising God!!!
God had shown us such GREAT things this week through the prayer, the fasting and the worship that was going on during the week that I can’t explain or have any words to even describe it a little. God did not only work through our lives but He also brought many to us to preach the Gospel to, while we were in the prayer room a group of guys just walked in the room. At first they were outside laughing at us than one of my mates walked out there and invited them in and a few came in and just started pouring their whole lives out on us. Just from talking to them you could just sense that God wanted to us them so badly in their future. Some of them had come from terrible pasts with drugs and abuse in their lives, but they totally got rocked by God. One of them now feel that God wants him to write a book to reach out to kids that have dealt with the same type of stuff, they were totally turned around into the right direction after that little step into our prayer room. Praise God. There was another testimonie that was really exciting to see, one of the guys here on the DTS named Daniel Wilson from Washington woke up one day and really felt the Lord telling him that he needed to go to the work out place along the beach. He was battling it in his head not to go, than finally was obedient and took off there, as he was walking down he felt that he was going to meet a guy named Gerry and that he had just broken up with his girlfriend and was going to commit suicide. Yeah pretty heavy but that’s what he felt just beating on his heart. He finally got down there and saw this guy sitting on a bench, he prayed to God is this the guy? Daniel sat down at a different bench and was just fighting that fear of doubt and fear of man that the enemy was trying to put in his head to keep him away. He tested God and said if he sees three birds come sit on his bench he would go. Then of course three birds came and plopped up on the beach, how crazy?!! Then Daniel the smallest guy here with the most faith In God that I have ever seen got up and sat next to the guy on the bench, introduced himself and found out that this guy’s name was Gerry and that he had slept on the beach last night because he had just broken up with his girl friend and she was his ride home. He was just down in the dumps and had a 36 pack of beer; his plan was to get as drunk as possible and swim out to the sea and not come back, how sad was that he had two kids at home to. Well than brave little Daniel just started talking, he said words just started flowing out of his mouth, they weren’t his words and they kept flowing out word after word, the Holy Spirit was just flowing out and using Daniel to convict this guy. Daniel said that Gerry started to cry than he started to cry, the first time he said he has ever cried sense he has been here. This guy ended up accepting Christ into his heart and now lives in FREEDOM and saved his life. PRAISE GOD!!!!!
This whole week was like this!! So many stories, too many to tell!!! God has changed our group even more than he has!! I know God has such a huge plan for this DTS and for our outreach teams. I just can’t wait anylonger!!!!!
THANKS again for all of you, for your prayers, your support and all your love!!!
GOD BLESS!!!!!