Meeting God

Here are some videos and pictures from last week!!!!

Here are some glimpses of driving through Jamaica.

This is Kingston

As a rule of thumb, I love culture. But what I love more than culture, is getting to know the heart behind the culture. That is what this week has felt like to me. A week of actually begining to understand Christian culture. How there can be one Man who just creates a unique culture where ever People encounter Him. It's like I'm finally getting to meet God after all these years. It is beyond amazing.

This week our speaker, Lenny, was really good. The topic was Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance. I learned that I am a Weapon of Mass Destruction. (#WMD) Because I have the kingdom of God living inside of me. And nothing can withstand the Kingdom of God as I bring it to earth. That's deep stuff. I hope to learn that for the rest of my life. Because what God has been showing me is that my whole life is just getting to learn of His love over, and over, and over, and over again. And then Heaven comes to earth and I get to do it for eternity. In the process, I become who God created me to be and I walk in my destiny. The thing that can transform a man the most is to encounter the love of God, and never lose the hunger to experience that perfect love forever and into eternity.

I could almost leave it at that. That is almost the highlight of my whole DTS. But God did way to many epic things this past week for me to leave you out.

Evangelism was splendid. We went down to the bus station with Lenny and set up worship as before. Right when we first got out of the van Lenny yelled up to three girls standing on a second story balcony and asked if they knew Jesus. It was a moment when I said to myself, "this will be different.... I'm not sure if I'm ready for this." But I didn't see Lenny after that. We set up worship and I lead it by playing guitar for about a hour or so. Then Jule (our German student) took over worship and I went out to declare the love of Jesus. I got to talk to a younger boy, a woman received healing on her leg, and my friend and fellow student Jordann got to pray over a police officer. It was a beautiful time of expressing God's love and seeing healing. I love how I get the privilege of being God's child and being able to see miracles often. Missionaries are spoiled, they get to see miracles really often. This is one of the reasons I'm looking forward to be involved in missions.

this is where we did evangelism:

Wednesday. YO! Wednesday.

So Wednesday night I was about ready to go to bed around 10:30pm. All of a sudden Kyle (a Jamaican student) gets a call, FREAKS OUT and runs out of the room I was in. I just take up my stuff and decide that I'm going to bed. Then Kyle yells out to me to come in to the prayer room. NOW. I come in and Nicky (another Jamaican student) is doing some sort of spiritual battle. Yelling, declaring the name of Jesus, all that goodness. I start praying. Nicky leaves the prayer room and Kyle follows her. Not to long after that I follow them back up to the Rec room. Nicky is talking to Tarik (another Jamaican student) and he is helping her to see that there is a spirit of anxiety that is effecting her. We try and reason with her, but it isn't helping. I pray over her because I have overcome anxiety before, so I found a scripture and prayed it over her. Then we all pray over her. She tells us of pain in her arm. We pray and God brings some healing. We decide that we should praise God for the healing and that is when it starts to get good. The Holy Spirit comes upon her and she starts laughing like crazy. We are all sitting there and just enjoying what God is doing. Then she goes to the other side of the room and it sounds like she's talking back and forth with God. She's doing that for like 30-45 minutes. She finally comes back and is all like, "YO! God is so awesome you guys!" She told us how God had given her new eyes so she could see herself with the beauty God created her with. Then He gave her a new heart a "heart of flesh." She also described God's huggs as "so warm." It was intense to witness just seeing her react to God. We didn't see God there with Nicky, but dude it was so real. Just so much yes.

I also believe that I'm going to be more active with songwriting. I believe that God has given me a gift with words and that He wants me to use that gift to write songs. I'm excited about that.

We got our visas for our outreach location. Also, with plane tickets for outreach, we are going to be leaving a week earlier than we had planned at first. We will be flying out the 7th of December for our outreach in Asia instead of the 13th. We will basically get an extra week for outreach. I'm very excited. I leave in 22 days. It is nuts. I don't know if I'm ready, but I trust God. I'm really excited for outreach. It's just coming up so fast.

I also got a letter this last week. My mom (who is a genius) had my family and close friends write words of encouragement and it even had something from Karissa in it. This week was just a week of only good things. God's gifts just make me feel so loved. I'm amazed at all the people He has put into my life.

Continue to pray for unity in my DTS. Pray that as God shows me His love that I continue to let it define me. Pray as we still need some funds raised for outreach. Testimony: Jule's parents just donated $10,000 out of the blue. We were all in shock. God is so good, but we still need more. Please just continue to pray!

In Christ,

Timothy David