Coming on this trip I had no idea what I had gotten myself into, but after training camp, I knew that I had signed up for an amazing adventure with some amazing people. This past week we did a time of worship every night and then someone would share something. Let me just tell you, that only worked two times! God showed up!!! Saturday night I was supposed to share my testimony but that never happened. Hannah and Nick decided that it would be a good time for all 9 of us to get in a circle and have everyone pray and speak life over each other. God once again showed up and it was just an amazing time of intimacy with God and levels of trust formed within the team.
On Sunday night we had worship and I had started out with so much energy, pacing back and forth, praying when all of a sudden I fell to the ground weeping. God was breaking me and I couldn’t help wanting Him to break me even more. I was on the ground for a while just praying that God would take me deeper and show me things He hadn’t shown me before. And let me just tell you, those are powerful things to pray. God just took away so many things I thought and just told me how beautiful I was and really spoke to me about what I was supposed to be doing when I get back home. A little while later, Hannah came and sat next to me and just said that huge weights had been released from me and no matter what I can’t get those things back. They are gone forever!
When I stood up I literally couldn’t stop moving. My heart was beating out of my chest. So much joy and excitement was inside me and it was all I could do to jump up and down and scream at the top of my lungs. By the end it was just Nick, Hannah, Sam and I outside. We continued worshiping and jumping up and down (I believe someone even did some push-ups he was so pumped. SAM!) We even ended up laughing because God has a sense of humor you know! We then took the time to pray and speak over the nation of Kenya, we spoke over each other, we then prayed over the different teams out on the field right now. (Please continue to keep my brothers and sisters in prayer. They are in India, Thailand, Brazil and Swaziland.) All in all, God showed up and left an impact that made up all feel a little crazy. But, if I have to be crazy, I’d have it no other way than to be crazy for JESUS!
TIA people. This. Is. Africa.
Lizzie 🙂
p.s. we bought a goat this week…. I’m sure you know what this means..we, I mean Sam, killed it. I watched (kind of) and then I held its head and tail. Yes, I got pictures. No, I didn’t eat it!
