Harvest School 11 -- Hungrier Still !!!!!

It’s hard to believe it is already the 25th of October!!! My experience with the staff and students of Harvest School 11 has been nothing short of awesome. The students have brought such a hunger, Day #1 worship was at the intensity that we left the last school!!! The students mentioned sadness that this school was two weeks shorter than the summer one, but I said, “Well, God knows how long you have and He can accelerate everything so you get exactly what He brought you here to receive.” Acceleration has been so obvious, especially to the staff as we were almost all at the last school together. People often talk about someone’s ceiling being the next person’s floor, but we’re actually seeing it in an incredible tangible way!

The word spoken over me by the directors as they prayed for the staff on week one was, “grace, grace, grace.” And I’m happy to say, God has extended His grace for me to walk in some things I’ve always wanted and finally am walking in, such as waking up at 4:40am each morning Monday through Friday and running on the beach, then having plenty of time to clean up, spend in the Word, and have breakfast and get to class before 8:00am without feeling rushed. Some of you might know me well enough to realize what a miracle this is!!!! My normal schedule back home was more like, get up with 30 minutes to rush out the door and be 2-3 minutes late to work each day! Praise God. There have been two days, last Thursday and then this Wednesday, when I was so tired and decided to “sleep in” to 6:30am or so, and I experienced such spiritual attack both days! I asked for grace the night before, but the next day my perspective was off, and I battled voices of accusation all morning or on Wed all day. The directors were praying for me Wed when I mentioned I hadn’t gotten up like usual at 4:40am, and Nathan reminded me of what our guest speaker had said about life in the Spirit being like 440 3-phase power going through our AA battery flashlight systems. 440 Power!!! So I believe God is giving me the grace to get up--I pretty much have jumped out of bed at that time—but if I bypass the grace He’s offered, He’s allowing my protective covering to be removed to be tested by the enemy to stretch me and bring me unto maturity. It sounds harsh, but it makes me so happy! He loves me too much to leave me the same and is unrelenting in the work He’s begun to bring me to maturity!!!

So this Wednesday I learned the 24/7 week would begin Saturday, thus making Harp and Bowl training imperative for Wednesday night. After seeking God’s peace all day, as I headed up to the Prayer Hut I felt His peace. A majority of the school showed up to the training, and even though I’d never done it before, His grace was all over it! We had something like 5 circles of 7 or 8 people going around doing spontaneous singing and choruses and prayer leaders! People who had never sung much before by the end were having a blast!!! Praise God. Then Matt my friend and staff person in charge of the 24/7 prayer week, shared his heart on intercession and the night ended with everyone facedown in awe of God. I ended up doing about 40 minutes of worship just because no one would leave! And it was an extra meeting. They have school meetings with guest speakers Monday and Wednesday. This school is just so hungry!

Last night I led opening worship and Harp and Bowl (music and intercession) for the 24/7 prayer week, and our “rapid fire” prayer line had like 40 plus people in it! It took over an hour! Ha ha, so not so rapid fire. But the point is to get people praying, and wow, a spirit of intercession was on us for Mozambique like I hadn’t anticipated! It was powerful.

A new thing from last school are the worship teams leading 2 one hour sets a day, which I believe will energize our unity and prayers throughout the week, as well as stretching and releasing these “musicianaries” into new levels of anointing and authority in worship. Can’t wait to go to tonight’s sets and just be a part of the crowd and enjoy!!!

I could go on forever, but this blog is already really long. The worship training I’m doing on Fridays went really well this first week! Extra people keep asking if they can come if their Friday practical mission assignment is at a different time. My prayer is that when we start going on bush outreaches the week after the elections, many of the groups will incorporate worship and intercession in their days as they bring in the harvest!

God is doing so much in me and in the school, I could blog everyday! Maybe I will try, but the base internet blew out and it’s hard to have time to get down here to the hotel, or even if I do it may not be working. TIA, This Is Africa! God bless you all! Please comment, please e-mail, and please let me know what’s going on in your lives!!! I CAN check e-mail on my phone, it’s just hard to type a lot compared to a keyboard on a computer…

Angie ;) <><

South Africa

I've arrived in South Africa! I'm at a hostel in Joburg with fellow staffers Merari and David. I actually slept a little on the way over, so I'm happy about that, a 2 hour nap and later 3. But I plan on sleeping a lot tonight/tomorrow!!! Merari leaves in the morning, but David doesn't fly out till Sat so hopefully tomorrow he will walk with me to a market or something and I will basically just hang out here for 2 days, enjoy the peace and solitude, before jumping into the community and school-prep work in Pemba!

God is already stirring our hearts as we shared at dinner tonight and I have great expectation for what He will do this school in my life and in David and Merari and all of us!

Praise the Lord, I received enough support to pay for the extended outreach plane tickets with a final $500 from Victory! Well, I'm having trouble with LAM booking my return flights in Dec, so I just bought Sunday's ticket to Pemba, Mozambique, and I will get the extended outreach flights when I get to Pemba. I'm thinking of flying to Beira in December and maybe looking into taking a bus to Joburg from there. It's 17 hour bus ride, followed by 17 hour plane ride, followed by a 7 hour layover and then short flight to Denver....not exactly ideal, but it will undoubtedly be a lot less expensive.

God bless you all and thank you for your prayers! 

He loves us and His love won't relent! No compromise!

Angie :)