Glory, Glory, Glory To His Ever Blessed Name!

It's kind of hard to explain this week of lecture... It was a shortened week since tomorrow is Thanksgiving and then preparation for YWAM's 50th celebration. Our speaker talked a lot about missions and un-reached people groups. Today was a turning point for many of us because there was a door laying in the middle of the room, and if we felt called to declare what we feel God is calling us to do, we went and knelt at the door one by one and declared our calling and rebuked lies that have kept us down, pounded on the door, then stepped over it, showing that we are stepping into God's calling for our life and shutting the door to our old life and to being held back by the enemy's lies. We were then prayed over and pushed out. Just performing that act of symbolism and declaring it out loud was very freeing. Basically what I felt and declared at the door is that God is calling me back to university to study art and psychology, and He will make me bold and help me to step out, and I won't be held down by feelings of insufficiency or like I don't have anything to offer because God makes me sufficient and He will give me the strength I need to do whatever it is that He calls me to do. 


Since it's Thanksgiving tomorrow, I just feel so grateful to God for all the blessings in my life. I'm so so thankful for my family. What a wonderful bunch of people who have trained me to be godly. I'm so thankful for this season of focusing on God and letting Him transform me, and I'm so thankful for the upcoming opportunity for me to serve and pour out to all the hurting people in Cambodia. And I'm also so thankful for you, dear reader, that you are taking time out of your day to read this post and pray for me. :)


The upcoming week is going to be a big time for YWAM Kona. We've been preparing campus for quite some time because we will be celebrating 50 years of God's faithfullness and people are going to start arriving from all over the world to celebrate with us. There will be lots of events happening on campus - speakers, worship, etc. After this week of the 50th celebration, we have only one week of lecture left to go before outreach!


Cambodia needs intercession right now! Something just happened there that breaks my heart: a panic-stricken crowd, celebrating the end of the rainy season on an island in a river, tried to flee over a narrow bridge in the capital Phnom Penh late Monday. Many people were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. Disoriented victims struggled to find an escape hatch through the human mass, pushing their way in every direction. After the stampede, bodies were stacked upon bodies on the bridge as rescuers swarmed the area. It is unclear what sparked the stampede. Police and witnesses pointed to the narrow bridge as providing inadequate access to and from the island. Hundreds of Cambodian people were killed in this tragedy and thousands left injured. The Prime Minister is declaring Thursday, tomorrow, to be a national day of mourning. Cambodia is one of the region's poorer countries, and has an underdeveloped health system, with hospitals barely able to cope with daily medical demands. Please, please be praying for the care of all the injured people in Phnom Phen. I get to go to this city and these people in less than a month. I pray that God will use me to encourage the families who just lost loved ones; the children left with no parents, those suffering in the hospital who need healing both physically and emotionally. I'm expecting God to do big things through my team, especially healing. 


A huge prayer request that I have is for five of my teammates to receive the funds they need in order to come with me to Cambodia. Today was the due date for all the outreach money, and team Cambodia still needs $7,000. I don't know how many more days they can have to try to fundraise and seek support, but much prayer is needed for God's faithfullness and provision to shine through for them.

Blessed Be Your Name

In the land that is plentiful

Where Your streams of abundance flow

Blessed be Your name

When I'm found in the desert place

Though I walk through the wilderness

Every blessing You pour out

I'll turn back to praise

When the darkness closes in, Lord

Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord

Blessed be Your name

When the sun's shining down on me

When the world's 'all as it should be'

Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name

On the road marked with suffering

Though there's pain in the offering

Blessed be Your name

You give and take away

My heart will choose to say

Lord, blessed be Your name