This week our speaker has been Colleen Milstein. She currently works at a YWAM base in Switzerland, but she does alot of mission work in Africa. oh, and she's from South Africa. So basically...shes REALLY cool. haha. I'm gonna probably cover the main points of her lecture later. But in this blog I want to tell you about what God has been doing in my heart the past 2 weeks.
All of last week and this week God has been specifying His call on my life. Which is obviously really huge, but in that call He has been breaking my heart for the unreached. I know what I'm supposed to do with the rest of my life. And I can't wait to tell you guys a bit about it in this blog.
The concept of reaching the unreached, every tribe, every tounge, every nation has been the main thing that has captured my heart. But also serving God, and reaching the unreached because God is holy and He is worthy. Going to the suckiest places to preach the gospel is the LEAST I could do for Jesus. "Worthy is the lamb who was slain" has been the driving force of the past 2 weeks and I want it to be the driving force of my entire life. I don't know specifically what nations God will send me to throughout my life. I'm sure there will be many. But I know I'm more willing to go now then I've ever been. And I don't wanna go where everybody else is going! I wanna go where people have never even heard the name Jesus! And now I'm gonna give you guys some information on the unreached. The people I'm gonna be serving the rest of my life. Theres alot more to this call I'm not gonna talk about right now. But heres some things you need to know....
There are 16,000 people groups in the world. 9,500 have the gospel, 6,500 do not have the gospel.
A people group is any group of people that have in common language, race, and religion. A people group is not a nation.
The most unreached people in the world are in the 10/40 window which includes Asia, the middle east and northern Africa, and parts of Europe. 60% of the worlds people live in the 10/40 window. 3.2 billion people. About 80,000 of them die each day without hearing about Jesus.
Only 2% of missionaries go to the unreached. Thats insane! Only 2% go to 60% of the world!!! And those 60% are 110 more times more responsive to the gospel then any other part of the world. That 60% comprises the most neglected, least evangelized, and poorest people in the world.
This is the worlds biggest injustice!!!!!!! And it's not non believers commiting it. It's the church!!!!! Why arn't we going????
Is it because these places are the hardest to go to? yeah... thats part of it. They are they suckiest places weather wise, the most difficult to go to, and have the most demonic opression. So what? Is God not worthy of us going?? Of course He is! Is it about us? Or about Him? We are all called. Where is the church?
This is what God is calling me to. And I'm more then thrilled. I can't wait to talk to you all about it more =]
Lots of love to all my readers!! I really appreiate your care and love for me!!!
You are in my prayers!!1
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
last week...
our speaker was Fred Allen. He is a professor at George Fox University here in Oregon.
Oh, and to Paul Radford, Fred says hello =]
Anyways here are some of the main points from Fred's lecture. The whole he went through the 6 mission statements of Jesus.
-We can't reduce Jesus to a description
- The cost of following Jesus is everything but the call itself dying.
-We are never willing to give up EVERYTHING. but Jesus didn't beat around the bush. He said we have to give up everything. Yet we always ask God for exceptions, specifics, and to define "everything". Everything means everything.
-discipleship is being bound to the person that is Jesus AND His mission.
-if you're ashamed of the gospel and don't speak, nobody gets saved.
- If YOU don't go tell them about Jesus, they will never hear. if you don't go, then who will?!?!
Oh, and to Paul Radford, Fred says hello =]
Anyways here are some of the main points from Fred's lecture. The whole he went through the 6 mission statements of Jesus.
-We can't reduce Jesus to a description
- The cost of following Jesus is everything but the call itself dying.
-We are never willing to give up EVERYTHING. but Jesus didn't beat around the bush. He said we have to give up everything. Yet we always ask God for exceptions, specifics, and to define "everything". Everything means everything.
-discipleship is being bound to the person that is Jesus AND His mission.
-if you're ashamed of the gospel and don't speak, nobody gets saved.
- If YOU don't go tell them about Jesus, they will never hear. if you don't go, then who will?!?!
Monday, March 9, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
ohhh Ken
*Just so everybody knows I wont be using the internet this whole week. So please don't freak out if I don't write back to you =]
Anyways our speaker this week was Ken Helser, he's prophetic, and really cool. Some of the main points from lecture were as follows...
-God wants to speak to you even more then you want to listen.
-The only way to keep from getting old is to always be willing to learn something new, and realizing theres SO much more left to learn.
-So many Christians have a relationship with doctrine rather then Jesus.
-When you compare yourself to others..you always lose.
-You can't give what you ain't got.
-We can't let religion and tradition hold us back. We can't fit into the churchs box. We as Christians are supposed to be different, but in a radical way. Our generation needs to be as exuberant as we are and make an indent on the church.
So it was really cool, Ken came with his intern David. And 3 weeks ago our staff members sent them pictures of each of us. They have been praying over each one of us ever since. And all they gave them was a picture of us and where we are each from. But God gave them both a word for each of us. The words for me were SPOT ON. seriously. God mightly spoke through both of them into my life. It was REALLY cool =] Kens word for me was this-
"Kristina, a daffodil...radiant with spring. Why is it so hard for all of us to let go of the past?
TRUST! Trust Him for the NEW. What a glorious time in your life. Now to let Him recreate your whole world. You love God, but the next step for you is eeing how much He loves you, and truely letting Him make "ALL THINGS NEW".
This is exactly how Ken had it typed up on the screen. I was just in awe. This is exactly, EXACTLY the cry of my heart. It's exactly what I had been begging the Lord to tell me. After plumbline week I felt I was a new person, totally. But I felt life didnt totaly feel all new. And all of us were under alot of attack last weekend after plumbline which made things worse. And I had been hearing from speakers and my one on one and from my devotions that the next step in my walk with God was gonna be discovering deeper depths of God's love for me. and oh my gosh, all this is EXACTLY what the word said1 Plus Ken got this word for me 3 weeks ago! And it came the EXACT day I needed it most!!! =] praise the Lord! And then throughout the week the Lord kept revealing alot more stuff to me throughout the week during my quite times. And later in the week I got this little vision of a bird in a cage, but the cage was open, the bird was teetering on the open ledge of the cage door. Free but not letting go of the cage. That bird was me and God just kept telling me to fly!! All week He just kept saying to let go and FLY in the freedom he's given me. The cage door is open, it's time to fly and close the door behind me. Amen.
Anyways our speaker this week was Ken Helser, he's prophetic, and really cool. Some of the main points from lecture were as follows...
-God wants to speak to you even more then you want to listen.
-The only way to keep from getting old is to always be willing to learn something new, and realizing theres SO much more left to learn.
-So many Christians have a relationship with doctrine rather then Jesus.
-When you compare yourself to others..you always lose.
-You can't give what you ain't got.
-We can't let religion and tradition hold us back. We can't fit into the churchs box. We as Christians are supposed to be different, but in a radical way. Our generation needs to be as exuberant as we are and make an indent on the church.
So it was really cool, Ken came with his intern David. And 3 weeks ago our staff members sent them pictures of each of us. They have been praying over each one of us ever since. And all they gave them was a picture of us and where we are each from. But God gave them both a word for each of us. The words for me were SPOT ON. seriously. God mightly spoke through both of them into my life. It was REALLY cool =] Kens word for me was this-
"Kristina, a daffodil...radiant with spring. Why is it so hard for all of us to let go of the past?
TRUST! Trust Him for the NEW. What a glorious time in your life. Now to let Him recreate your whole world. You love God, but the next step for you is eeing how much He loves you, and truely letting Him make "ALL THINGS NEW".
This is exactly how Ken had it typed up on the screen. I was just in awe. This is exactly, EXACTLY the cry of my heart. It's exactly what I had been begging the Lord to tell me. After plumbline week I felt I was a new person, totally. But I felt life didnt totaly feel all new. And all of us were under alot of attack last weekend after plumbline which made things worse. And I had been hearing from speakers and my one on one and from my devotions that the next step in my walk with God was gonna be discovering deeper depths of God's love for me. and oh my gosh, all this is EXACTLY what the word said1 Plus Ken got this word for me 3 weeks ago! And it came the EXACT day I needed it most!!! =] praise the Lord! And then throughout the week the Lord kept revealing alot more stuff to me throughout the week during my quite times. And later in the week I got this little vision of a bird in a cage, but the cage was open, the bird was teetering on the open ledge of the cage door. Free but not letting go of the cage. That bird was me and God just kept telling me to fly!! All week He just kept saying to let go and FLY in the freedom he's given me. The cage door is open, it's time to fly and close the door behind me. Amen.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Plumbline Week
This week has been the most life changing week of my life so far. Our speaker was Jerry Praetzel and we did something the whole week called plumbline. It's a week of repentence, forgiveness, and redemption. But before I get into the life changing stuff I'm gonna list some of the main points from lecture....
-What we bury, we don't bury it dead, we bury it alive.
- Forgetting doesn't heal. The pain is alive inside.
- You can kill the thing inside that wants to come to life by just forgiving instead of meditating on it.
-Theres nothing you have been though that Jesus didnt die for to bring you back.
-You can only extend freedom to the extent you are free.
-I am a lousy redeemer.
-You live your life on what you percieve to be truth.
-You bury hurts but God redeems them. Give them to Him.
-God uses storms to try and break down the walls we put up.
So he uses this illustration of a plumbline to symbolize our lives and how situations affect us. We either swing to one side of the plumbline or the other. Either the rejection side or the rebellion side. (i was on the rejection side). But anyways we started the week but prayingn for God to reveal to us stuff in our lives that we need to forgive people for. The Spirit really dug to the depths of our souls and the roots of our deepest problems.
So the next one by one almost everybody in the class went infront of the class, told everybody their deepest hurts and publically forgave everyonen whos ever hurt them. I felt SO AMAZINGLY free afterwards!!!!!
As the week went by everybody who was led by the spirit went up there, forgave, and Jerry helped us and prayed for us.
But then at the end of the week we came to the 2nd part. We each individually(everybody who was led by the spirit) went in front of the class and publically confessed our greatest sins and shame. We also cut of generational curses, and through this God broke ALOT of strongholds. its really hard to even describe this week. its was so completely led by the spirit. it was INCREDIBLE. all of our lives were changed forever because we literally cut off strongholds anad soul ties, and God COMPLETELY took away the regret and shame of our sins. I have NEVER felt so light. I have NEVER felt so free. I am literally a new person now. I've never been changed so deep in my soul. This week was amazing.....wow.
-What we bury, we don't bury it dead, we bury it alive.
- Forgetting doesn't heal. The pain is alive inside.
- You can kill the thing inside that wants to come to life by just forgiving instead of meditating on it.
-Theres nothing you have been though that Jesus didnt die for to bring you back.
-You can only extend freedom to the extent you are free.
-I am a lousy redeemer.
-You live your life on what you percieve to be truth.
-You bury hurts but God redeems them. Give them to Him.
-God uses storms to try and break down the walls we put up.
So he uses this illustration of a plumbline to symbolize our lives and how situations affect us. We either swing to one side of the plumbline or the other. Either the rejection side or the rebellion side. (i was on the rejection side). But anyways we started the week but prayingn for God to reveal to us stuff in our lives that we need to forgive people for. The Spirit really dug to the depths of our souls and the roots of our deepest problems.
So the next one by one almost everybody in the class went infront of the class, told everybody their deepest hurts and publically forgave everyonen whos ever hurt them. I felt SO AMAZINGLY free afterwards!!!!!
As the week went by everybody who was led by the spirit went up there, forgave, and Jerry helped us and prayed for us.
But then at the end of the week we came to the 2nd part. We each individually(everybody who was led by the spirit) went in front of the class and publically confessed our greatest sins and shame. We also cut of generational curses, and through this God broke ALOT of strongholds. its really hard to even describe this week. its was so completely led by the spirit. it was INCREDIBLE. all of our lives were changed forever because we literally cut off strongholds anad soul ties, and God COMPLETELY took away the regret and shame of our sins. I have NEVER felt so light. I have NEVER felt so free. I am literally a new person now. I've never been changed so deep in my soul. This week was amazing.....wow.
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