Given to the Wind

I am extremely excited for what this year holds. As I have been seeking direction from the Lord, I can confidently say that the Lord is calling me somewhere this year. I have been going through all my journals and putting all the words I have gotten through the years together into one document on my computer. This process was such an encouragement and made me realize that God has spoken so much over my life from people all over the world. I strongly recommend revisiting your old journals! I feel extremely blessed and convicted that I ever doubt that God speaks. He is so faithful to provide encouragement and direction when we ask. As I was revisiting all this the last couple weeks, it was confirmed 5 different times that the Lord is calling me somewhere. The Lord led me to Gen 12:1. To paraphrase, basically God calls Abraham up and out to another land.  I feel like the Lord is calling me into a season of going and coming. I don't fully know what that is going to look like or for how long but I say, "bring it on"!

 I am more than thrilled to be a dead leaf blowing in the wind resisting nothing, willing to blow anywhere the Holy Spirit is leading me.

 I also noted several tines in my journal that Latin America and specifically South America has been spoken over me or has showed up my dreams.  I guess I will start there!  I strongly feel I am to join up with my Iris friends/missionaries that are currently headed to Ecuador and continuing on into all of S. America. I don't know the exact timing yet, but I feel that if it works out, I will be joining them for the remainder of the trip starting within the next couple of months (time to be determined). This trip will tentatively end in August or September. They are doing a bit of everything from inner city ministry to jungle outreaches doing things like showing the Jesus film, blessing churches, any practical help they can provide and praying for the sick. They are just following the Holy Spirit as well as connecting with various other like-hearted organizations along the way.

Along with this, I feel a green light to sell my car. I also have been cleaning out my closet and getting rid of unused things and any excess that I have. I want to be ready to go when the Lord says to go. I get butterflies when I think of what this year could look like.  Woooohoooo!

I just spent the last week with one of my dear friends in Kansas City, Missouri at the International House of Prayer. She is apart of the missions school/ University there. I was able to sit in on some classes as well as be immersed in the prayer room that has has continual prayer and worship for 12 years now.  I also got to receive some prophetic ministry that just confirmed what the Lord has been saying about this year. The atmosphere there is so refreshing and thick with the presence of God.  I feel so refreshed. It warmed my heart to be able to spend that much quality time with her since it has been almost two years since we have had that. Thank you, friend :) It was such an honor to jump into the flow there of hundreds of young adults pressing into the word and pursuing the Lord with all that is within from all over the world. I soaked as much teaching and revelation in as I could. As well as the good spiritual food, I got to eat at some good restaurants. I got to enjoy some blues music, deep fried pickles and green beans, hot wings, meatloaf hamburger and truffle fries(that came in a little car as pictured below). I also go to enjoy some delicious Vietnamese food. Kansas City is a beautiful town with incredible art and restored brick buildings with a lot of wealth in its neighborhoods. Korynne is a great tour guide!

 I am headed back home with much anticipation of what the Father is going to do and release back home. Although I may be in and out for the next while, my roots are here in Walla Walla and I have such a deep deep yearning to see the saints of the valley arise and be the glorious shining church we were meant to be, leaning hard on our Beloved, willing to do whatever it takes to have more of Him. I feel a great awakening in my spirit over this valley and I wait and rejoice with much excitement for what is about to happen here. Its an honor to be apart of a family that has plowed and sowed many many hours and even years of prayer and work into seeing freedom and the Lord come and receive his reward here in Walla Walla. My parents are so inspiring as they have laid down their lives over and over again unrelenting to see God move over this land. Its an honor to walk into the heritage of parents that plowed so that I could reap...who walked out the hard years so that others can enjoy the freedom that His Spirit has brought and continues to bring. Thank you Ma and Pops, your reward will be great! More for Walla Walla Lord! Its coming, I know it.

I guess that is all for now. I will follow this with some other personal revelations/words the Lord has been giving me lately (this last week at IHOP as well as leading up to). Bless you heaps and may you be overwhelmed and stopped in your tracks today with the depths of His love over you.

Overwhelmed and undone in His love...