Outreach, Healing, Fear of the Lord

Oh my goodness guys!
 I wrote on Sunday and was completely wiped out, but I HAD to write again to tell you about the past few days.

It has been truly insane and wonderful. Monday we kicked off our week of Fear of the Lord and Repentance. I was going into the week a little anxious because there was a lot of unknowns, and not really feeling up to being in lectures or anything. Good thing I toughed it out! Our teacher for the week Lael really let the spirit lead her in our lecture plans. Towards the end of our lecture for the day she dropped to her knees and was said "if you guys feel called to, just kneel and declare what you want God to do for you this week or revelations you have". Slowly every person in the room was getting in a "worshipful" position. The Spirit was so heavy in the room, and one by one people started making declarations and breaking lies off of themselves. Lael played worship music and just asked God to continue what he was doing in all of us. I completely broke down, I haven't had such a powerful God moment since my Dad was healed. God broke down a ton of walls that I had even realized I had put up. I have always struggled with anxiety and feeling like I wasn't good enough for _____. But God also revealed something to me that I didn't even realize I was believing. He showed me how I had sabotaged relationships in the past with people because I didn't believe that I was worthy of unconditional love. Right as this was happening the song "Through and Through" by United Pursuit came on and I was utterly breathless. God not only showed me that I AM worthy of unconditional love, but what exactly that felt like. It was pretty awesome!

Monday night we found out our outreach teams, so they brought us into the main house and we did a few games and then they blindfolded us and we had to make animal noises to find our teammates. After our teams were all together we went into team meetings for a bit. Team Fiji is the smallest outreach team, but that is only going to work to our advantage, I'm really excited to see how we are going to grow as a team and to see what will happen on outreach.

One thing that I have been working on in DTS is freedom in worship because I've always felt awkward with hand-raising or dancing. Tuesday morning I experienced just freedom in this that I was laughing. Holy laughter is way better and way more joyful than regular laughter in case you were wondering. I was dancing with my friends and jumping, and being all around foolish for God, which is the best! I'd never experienced that before and I have to say, I loved it! I finally felt like a Noorman in the spiritual sense (not everyone will understand what that means, but talk to megan or hannah and they can bring clarity). While my own emotional healing was awesome, it was just a drop in the bucket of what happened this morning.

My outreach teammate and all around nice guy, Tim dislocated his right shoulder playing volleyball last night and was in a sling and on pain meds. During worship one of the leaders felt like God really wanted to do healing in  people in the room so we just started turning around and praying for anyone that had their hand up. I was lucky enough that God used me to heal my friend Jazz's knee which she sprained a few days ago. Tim received complete healing in his shoulder and took the sling off and started doing stretches. God is so good!

The story that really had me laughing and crying was of my Sweetheart of a friend Christa. We started praying for her during worship and God was just doing so much in her she was practically vibrating with energy. After a time we stopped so that we could start lecture, but when we took a break for morning tea a few people started praying for her again. Christa was diagnosed with INCURABLE Fibromyalgia (very rare in our age group) a few years ago. Well nothing is incurable to the Great Physician and Christa was COMPLETELY HEALED! We hugged and jumped in circles for a while. I mean this morning was the first time in two and a half years that she has been completely without pain. Praise God! I'm absolutely blown away guys, I mean come on, it's only week 3!

I also got to pray for our taxi driver today who is retiring in 6 months. When we got into the cab you could just feel how run down he was and after we talked to him and pray, you could feel how full of life and joy that cab was. God is so cool...

So that is just a snippit of what my past two days have been, and I am honestly so excited all the time I can only describe it as a Holy Spirit High, and guys I never want to come down!

Prayer requests!!!! With all of the great things that God is doing here, prayers are appreciated more than ever.
         Please be praying that Christa feels continued healing and is able to receive all that God has to over her. Pray that her testimony is a key that unlocks people's heart to God. Pray for team unity and base unity as we continue to go through repentance week and humble ourselves. Please pray for continued financial blessings for everyone here. Open hearts, open minds, and open eyes to see opportunities that God is laying out for us. Also be praying for all of the staff members as they reapply for their visas and are preparing for Easterfest. I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but just keep praying and worshipping!

Much love (and even more excitement) from Toowoomba,

Kate