10/4-10/8

Mmm mmm mmm so a lot has happened in a week. I’ll attempt to just update you guys. Last week Marcus something from Germany spoke to us about worship and intimacy. Wow it rocked me, in a good way. I was very convicted on the way I had been worshiping and this box I put worship into. Marcus being ere has opened my eyes and brought a whole new meaning on worshiping. 


I realized my engagement when I worshiped was based solely on the voice of the person leading it. If he or she was off and sang out of tune, well the determined weather or not I was able to engage or not. Why? Why was I letting someone like that stop me from worshiping my father? It was because my  heart, when someone started singing off tune I stopped focusing on the real reason I began to worship in the first place. Where instead I should not care and just be extremely  honored at the fact that I have time set aside to worship and be with my father. I can’t tell you how wonderful worship is now, its amazing. Its like I have found this new freedom. Hmm ahh its good.


I have really enjoyed this speaker for the week, he likes being around us which makes a huge difference. Instead of just being our speaker he wanted to talk to us, and be around us more then just lecture time. The speaker the week before..whooo we NEVER saw him outside of the lecture hall. That is besides the point, Marcus’ style of teaching is very interactive so that has been nice, not very many people are falling asleep which is nice.


We do this thing called masiphumelele which is mandatory work for everyone, but instead of that on Wednesday we ended up playing soccer, and it was actually really fun. We all worked together and I even scored a goal hahahaa that was a big achievement if you saw my skills on the field hahahaa. 


After soccer we had base worship, which was a very disturbing experience for me. The girl leading it had previous drama with another girl and so she (the leader) kept using God to get these jabs at the girl. It felt very evil ahhh belch enough about that ok so after the messy worship we started lectures. Whoooooooooo it was so cool.


Marcus only talked a little bit and we ended up doing this activity thing. So he told us a story about his son who is a toddler. The boy, Ethean drew him a picture and was so proud of it. But the picture sucked, it was just scribbles. Marcus said, “and did I tell him that he drew it all wrong, that he is not going anywhere in art? NO! because I was SO HAPPY that he would take time out of his day to draw me that picture I did not care about the flaws!” I felt so encouraged by that story. Something I’ve heard multiple times but really got today. Going off the story we got an hour and a half to make something for God. It could be anything a painting, rap, dance, song, poem whatever and once the 1 ½ was over we would come back and present it before God.


So we walk in and they did this throne thing and we all took turns just soaking up God’s presence. One guy even was delivered from a demon! It was so crazy because you would kneel down and just immediately starting crying, it was like he was sitting before you saying its ok I forgive you or whatever you needed. It was so humbling to watch my brothers and sisters be so real with God for the first time. Yeah man whoo Wednesday was just good, the night ended with a random swim in the ocean at like half past 7 it was so fun haha.


Lets see whatelse happened, we went on a silent prayer walk through the community that was cool. It continues to blow my mind at how just a simple smile or hand shake can bring so much joy. So many people are deprived of love here, especially the kids. We walked through this one section not saying anything and the kids saw us coming, seriously probably 20 kids ran up to us and just jumped into our arms they had never even seen us before! I love it here still so that’s good. If you guys ever want more detail in the teachings or anything just let me know. This week is called the Devine Plumb line, its supposedly the most intense week of DTS, where you share everything about your life. There will be many tears but also much healing.


Request:
Maturity among the girls.
Visa papers and passports figured out.
Many people still need to pay fees that they don’t have this is not cheap here.
Continue to pray against distractions (boyfriends, food, phones, memories)
Pray for hearts to be healed this week, that we all come in with an open attitude to really open up and change. 
God is going to do some big things, so also pray against feelings of despair and the spirit of not being able to continue of giving up.