DTS update :)

Discipleship Training School is so amazing! I don't even know where to start...

We just finished week 7 of 12, we leaned about The Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 13) and how simple the Gospel is to share with others!  When asked, Jesus said,

"And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ ⁸ Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. ⁹

 ^{(Matthew 10:8-9)}

We are told to "go" preach the Kingdom of Heaven, heal the sick, cleans the lepers and raise the dead.   But in todays culture, we try to over spiritualize the Kingdom of God, which is so simple and it is this- doing the will of God.   In Matthew 6:10 Jesus teaches us how to pray, saying, 

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.

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Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven..."   

Our hearts cry is that God's Kingdom would come and His will would be done, here on earth, as it is in Heaven.  And in heaven, there is no sickness, no death, no tears- that is why we must pray for healing!  So what are we waiting for?

In exactly one month, I will be on a plane, headed to India!  I really can't believe how fast time flies when you are doing the will of God for your life!   I am so excited to go and help out at the Mother Theresa home and serve the people in Calcutta, India!

Here is our tentative schedule for India:

Dec 18- Leave Kona

Dec 21 - Arrive in New Delhi (3 days of travel!)

Jan 2- Travel to Calcutta (we will be there for 6 weeks)

Then we have a few other possible stops

Beg. March- Travel back to Kona

I so love the team that I am going with, we all get along really good and I know God hand picked our team!

Please be praying for us!

• Health!  Most of the team has been struggling with health- one of the girls has a bad bug and others of us have had allergies/cold/eye problems.  We want complete health for this journey!
• Increase Unity.
• More team bonding.
• Decrement for our amazing leaders, that they would know exactly where we should go/what to do while in India. 
• Protection from the enemy- that the devil would not interfere with any of our plans or continue to attack our health.
• Finances!  There are a few of us that still need the rest of our outreach fees. (Me included) I need $1840
• That God would begin to open the hearts of the people that we will be ministering to in India.
• That we would be able to share about the Kingdom of Heaven!

During one of our fun DTS hang out time!

Community Transformations DTS Journal Entry

Can’t believe that we are in week five of twelve for DTS!  This week Brian Brennt has been sharing about freedom in my Community Transformations DTS.

I’ve grown up in an amazing Christian home and awesome parents, who have always been great examples of how to daily walk out our walk with the Lord.   I didn’t think that there was anything that I needed freedom from, but little did I know what the Lord wanted to speak to me!   We are going through Brian Brennt’s Freedom Manual book and the past week, we’ve been breaking off fear and passivity in our own lives- both of which I didn’t think I had problems with.  We went through a checklist of some things we fear…. Fear of man, fear of failure, fear of the future, fear of not doing the right thing, fear of _______ (the list could go on!)  And I begun to see that I had definite things that I was fearful of, strongholds that the enemy has used to hold me back from what God has called me to do!  After recognizing our fear, Brian took us through the four “R’s”-

Repeat for how you have partnered with Satan in the area fear.

Receive the Lord's forgiveness in that area!

Rebuke the enemy and tell him he no longer has a foothold of fear in your life.

Replace what the enemy has lied about with what God says.

So freeing!  We don’t have to have any fear in our life, but the fear of God!   We shouldn’t have fear of man, of speaking to people that the Lord tells us to go talk to! I use to think that I was just more of a quite person, not made to be the evangelist, or go do lots of street preaching/ ministry, because I was terrified of speaking to strangers!  But the Lord set me free from that fear! (I’m not saying that I’m called to always be on the street corner preaching, but I won’t be afraid to talk when the Lord asks me to!)

After breaking off fear, we broke off passivity.  Another area I didn’t realize the enemy had me! We broke up into small groups and again prayed and went through the four “R’s” and again I was amazed at how many things I was passive about in my life- passive about relationships, church, ministry, etc.   After we broke off passivity, we preached it to each other, it was such an amazing time of prayer and breakthrough for many people!

I’m so excited about what the Lord is doing in my life and what He will continue to do!  I feel so blessed to be here at YWAM Kona for this season.

*I definitely recommend Brian Brennt’s Freedom Manuel (you can order it here! http://store.citycentral.org/product_p/freedom1-1-07.htm )  It would be great for any individual, small group or church to go through!  Built on biblical foundations, it is incredible