Thursday, November 29, 2007

i need some insight

there is guy on my DTS from England and his name is Daniel and he is very gifted with Prophecy and recently he has recieved some prophecy for me and sent it to me and i wanted to share it with all of you because since you all supported me through this i figure you all should be a part of this too and help me pray into this prophecy and help me figure out if it is really something God has in his heart for me or if it is just an opinion of someone. Leave comments and let me know what you think but i encourage you to pray about it first. but leave comments everyone.

Lauren
I see you as a bold champion of the people. I believe that you are a voice for those who have no voice that you will be an ear for those who nobody will listen to a shoulder to cry on for those who have never felt safe enough anywhere to be open and vulnerable before. One of your special callings I believe is that you are a champion of women and teenage girls speaking their identity to them and helping them form the future of their lives and young single mums empowering them to connect with Jesus their husband and know Him as their source and I believe that they will step away form self destructive habits and addictions to drink and endless shopping and TV and the bad men who are bad for them as you help them connect with their source. I believe that you will encourage and challenge the middle aged women to step into being spiritual mum to the young women who are starting out in families. I believe that your life and example in love and motherhood even without children at the moment, as you move in that spiritual mothering anointing now, called to encourage young mums and girls to grow into being beautiful women of God will call and rally and release and equip an army of older women. I believe that you will be a catalyst and leader of women twice your age and older who are starting to understand that the calling to grandmother and mother young women into godly lives is an anointing form God and they can operate in it the same as you do. I think that abortion will be an issue that course you a lot of pain and heart ache as you seek to support women weither they chose to or not and you see the pain that both choices course to them and love them as they step into their lives. I believe that to give you extra revelations that will being focus and perspective to balance you huge heart and vision and revelation of justice for women that God has formed in you sovereignly, because this calling and fire for justice is so strong and powerful so strong I believe that it can scare you sometimes and you do not want to dive into it fully as you are scared that it make sweep you away and take you to a place where you will not love everybody because you are wanting justice. I believe that you have had situation where this shout this roar has come out of you and hurt people around you and so you have wanted to put a cap on it but at the same time are unable to because it is the very heart of God for justice wanting to express itself through you. I believe that you have been wanting to be able to control and be able to turn the fire down or have a handle for it, I believe that you have almost not known how this can happen so it may be better for this to be quenched, maybe that it could even be an area that needs healing. But I believe that this passion for justice is from God, and it isn’t just justice for women but also for all that are unheard and unloved and pressed down and abused. I believe that God wants to keep this fire in you and increase it but He wants to put a harness on this fire a guide on this fiery roar of God so it can be released through you with direction and focus. I see it like superman’s eyes that he can burn through things with his fiery stare but he has glasses on to stop it burning up people. Again God doesn’t want to take it away but bring focus and direction. I believe that these revelations that are being released more and more and that He is inviting you to pursue and ask for to you are of “The eternal kingdom of God” and the greater worth of life in eternity instead of life on earth. I believe that this will bring you to a place where the most important thing for you is that somebody would be saved and will empower you to being the gospel in situations were it needs to be shared but it is difficult to share it. The second the live for life and especially life in the womb of a women, I believe that will balance your huge heart of compassion and enable you to speak to and challenge women to make good decisions even though it will be tough for them. I also believe that there will be a revelation and an increased understanding of men that will come long before you are married. I believe that this understanding will bring like a soft spot for men and you will love them and want to bless and love the wounded little boys that are in them and that course them to live in reaction instead of love to the women around them. I believe that you will need this deep compassion for men and understanding of their brokenness because you will embrace and absorb and help many women process deep hurt that they have experienced at the hands of men and this revelation will help you to not take offence at men but bring understanding to women and empower them to love the men in their lives come what may. Amen.

Please weigh I don’t know if it is true or not.

Monday, November 19, 2007

8th week

hello everyone!
im sorry i know it's been two weeks since my last post and im really sorry but I've been busy these last two weekends and ran out of time for this. Well these past two weeks have been HIV/AIDS and brokeness/renouncing rights. our speaker this last week was from Brazil and her name was Daniele and her husband's name was Daniel cute huh? Well she was a very joyful person and she brought a new life to our group. Basicially the message was that sometimes we need to just be broken before the lord so that his anointing can pour through the cracks. I think God teaches alot through tragedy and when we are so vulnerable it easier for God to mold us and work with us.
Well sadly this wednesday is our last normal outreach in Zwelethemba. I will miss those kids so much! We are currently working on a project called love in a box. We are setting up stations at local stores so that people can donate items for the children so they can have christmas presents this year. We are asking for things like socks, toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, non-perishable foods and toys. We are hoping to be able to give all 350 kids a christmas present this year. and in 2 weeks we are having a christmas party for them.
We leave for out reach in 5 weeks! its going to come really fast. We have alot of fundraising to do for it though because only one of our staff membes has the money to go and 2 students are also without the apppropriate funding. we have a few ideas to fundraise but we can not do anything it is going to take a miracle from God for us all to be able to go so please pray for breakthrough for us we really really need it.
My brithday this weekend was really great me and about 8 of my friends went into cape town and we saw the penguins and i saw sharks from the beach shore and we had a really nice dinner and we went to the African marketplace and well it was just alot of fun and all my friends here made it feel really special. The people here are becoming like another family to me. We have had our moments but we are actually really united and we work so well together.
I hope everyone at home is doing well and that everyone is helathy and happy. If only I could have the faith of a mustard seed i could be able to tell a mountain to move from here to there and it would. Pray for my dts to have this kind of faith please. Love every hour of everyday and reap the blessings of the Lord

Sunday, November 4, 2007

greetings

hello everyone!
this last week was titled crucified life.
man oh man was it intense. It was all about how Christ is in us and we are in him and how completely amazing that is. The only thing we have to do is ask what brings life and not concentrate on whats right and whats wrong because Christ died for us and we are no longer slaves to sin but we have the freedom to choose and if we simply submit ourselves to God daily then all we have to do is simply live and just be and we will bear fruit. Let me tell you though i was on the verge of tears and actually have just broke down and cried a couple times this week. My heart feels like it is being twisted and pulled and challenged in so many ways. however im learning what it really means to obey God.
Me and all my team are also getting really close and its really great... we have all these inside Jokes and we cry to one another and we laugh and well basically we do everything together. I love them alot but i still miss home so much.
So for the first time this last week we were able to bring bananas and chips to the children and they were really excited... It was great to be able to give them something besides candy (which they always get) in a weird way these children are really becoming a part of me.. there are a few girls who are really attatched to me and insist on always sitting next to me and when i look at them i cant help but to tear up a little because i wish i could do something more to help them get out of there but they have hope and always have smiles waiting for me. If only we could have this simple kind of happiness they have nothing yet they have joy always.. We can learn alot from these people. Please continue to pray
Another interesting thing I've learned is that the people that live in the bush of Africa really dont have it that bad. There is a man on my dts named Renaud and he is from a bush village in Congo and he misses it alot. He says the city is filled with gross air and the meat tastes horrible as well as the fruit because everything he eats is completely natural. He was telling me of the first time he killed an antelope and he took such pride in it and finished the story with "I cant wait to go back to my village I would like to see the world and I would really like to see the Golden Gate Bridge but I love my village it is so nice". We cannot judge peoples lives simply on the fact that they are different than ours. He has no running water or electricity no grocery stores and no t.v.'s but he is so happy there and it is home.

Lastly we finished the website yay! so go check it out and tell me what you think (i did the interveiw) www.childrenafrica.org
love love love you all!