Amazing Words

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving."

"Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile. Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well."

- Mother Teresa -

Words from the Heart on Paper

I received part of this letter from Heidi Baker - wow! She wrote her heart - the words describe the feeling...wow! I picture everything! It brought light to my eyes, a smile to face, my head shaking, I am going to this place! I am speechless, my mouth is dry. God is faithful and incredible. Let God impact you and His Holy Spirit fill you as you read!

I read it, my heart beat faster and faster - I feel like that, she removed the words from heart!

The more I read, the more I want to be like Jesus!

Below is Heidi sharing her heart!

After seven weeks of traveling and fourteen conferences in a row, I am so ready and eager to come home to my beloved Pemba and my beautiful African children. Jesus has called me to speak to the Western church as well, but my heart cries to sit with my Makua people, learn their language, and be surrounded again by the happy, excited faces of my Mozambican family. I long to be back in the bush, winning Moslems to Jesus whole villages at a time. I started my itinerary in Sierra Leone, now surpassing Mozambique as the poorest country in the world. The Craigs from Ireland did a fabulous job of organizing an evangelistic outreach. Nearly every church in the city cooperated, and we were joined by friends from around the world. We all taught pastors and prayed for the sick. The Lord called me to stay in my room to fast and pray during the day. The first two nights of the large outdoor meetings, we were breaking through and contending for more of the presence of the Lord. The third night the Lord began to fulfill a vision that I have repeatedly been seeing. There was a large football field full of people, and after I preached thousands of people gave their hearts to the Lord. As I began to pray for the healing anointing to come, the Lord spoke to me, saying that if I stayed low, He would walk across the field and pour oil upon the people, and heal them. The whole crowd knelt down, and the miraculous happened: there was silence in Africa!!! Not a baby cried, no one stirred. Total silence. I felt the weighty glory of the Lord Jesus falling upon me and the crowd as oil ran down my arm. After some time the Lord began to tell and show me what was happening as I knelt down with my eyes closed on the platform. The blind saw, the deaf heard, the crippled walked as Jesus Himself walked through the crowd. Then lines formed as many came forward to give their testimonies to the glory of God. This is surely what I am created for. I am believing for a million souls to come to Jesus this year. Thank you for keeping in touch and especially for praying for me.

Much love in Jesus, Heidi

Doesnt that stir you? Doesnt that move you? Doesnt that make your heart beat? Dosent that make your mind swell? Above, that is what I want! That is inspiriaton to the core! That is what I long for! I must decrease and you must increase Lord! More of your power, more of your spirit in me!

I'm your Servant Lord

I found this song and it really spoke to me! It went straight into my heart! Lord, I just want to thank you for everything you've done! For you are my Lord, my light and my salvation, in whom shall I be afraid? Thank you for your love, the love that passes all fear, the love that I do not deserve. Lord, I am your servant, here I am, I give myself to you. Take me, mould me, use me, fill me, walk beside me! Come live in me, take over. I am yours and you are mine.
Lord, all the glory to you!

I'm your Servant

Words & Music by Andrew Ulugia

© 1998 Parachute Productions

Now into your presence Lord

I will boldly come

It's only by your grace O Lord

It's nothing I have done

Grant me your servant heart

That I might live like you

and as you set me apart

I will humbly share the love

I found in you

I'm your servant here I am

Bended knees and open hands

Lord I hear your voice today

Lord I hear and I obey

When I am weak will you be strong

When I'm lost will you lead me home

Though I struggle on the way

would you use me anyway

Lord I give my life today

A dream is worth living

Argh!...God is so brillantly amazing! I've never screamed so loud in my life...

Ok, so I need to backtrack a bit. I had applied to go to Iris Ministries International School of Missions, and I was on a waiting list due to accomodation. So I was like mega praying and hoping and wishing and praying some more! Then last nite I got an email to say, that they had not received my organial application - I was so guttered! So I tried to email it again, only to find that the file was too big! They can only recieve 40k and mine was almost 50k - so I spent most of evening trying to reduce the file, by cutting things out and reading to see if there was any repeatition! After mid-nite I gave up and went to bed, I was so tired. I thought that my brain would function better in the morning after a sleep and recover from a very busy week at work!

So, I'm up in the morning! I boggled around a bit, eating breakfast, made cup of tea for fam members, talked to Kayla (the dog), then decided that I would check my mails before I would have another go at my application! So I opened my mail and found that Iris SoM had emailed me! My heart was pumping fast, and I was excited and nervous at the same time. I was too chicken to open up the email, so I opend up another one first, then half way thru reading it, I couldn't handle it anymore and opend up the email from Iris SoM! Well, I read it thru, was a bit confused, so read it again! Then I read the words "dear applicant, you are now accepted as a student", I read it again, and again, took a couple of times for it to register! I AM GOING!!! I thought to myself! This exictment, grew up from deep within my tummy...then my lungs filled with air and came out of my mouth (that was already open - wide open) and boy did I scream!! It was so loud my little brother went pale - thinking I'd read bad news! I was like, speechless and excited at the same time! The words did first come out of mouth and I had to calm myself down! I was shaking, couldnt stoping smiling and laughing, and shaking, and jumping up and down and running around the house! I could have run a marthon and probably won! My reaction after a while was to run thru my street and yell at the top of my lungs and wake all the neighbours up and then pray for them! Oh, being able to go to Iris SoM is such a huge DREAM come true! Words cant express my joy, excitment! I just cant wait to go, I wish I could click my heals together 3 times and I'd be there!

I went out to lunch with my brother and his girlfriend, and everytime I thought about it, I just wanted to jump and clap with excitment! God is so good! Its so funny - everytime I look around, and I see people who are from Africa, I feel instantly like I know them, and wanting to run and give them a hug - they would prob look at me rather oddly, but hey!

Jesus! I love you and I thank you so very much! This is such a dream come true! God is so inrediable, amazing, joyful, faithful! THANK YOU SO MUCH LORD! You rock dude!!

To be able to go to Africa - a dream since I was a child, when I first heard about my favourite missionary Mary Slessor, my heart was beating, my eyes became bright and my mind alert! I knew that is where I wanted to go! Like when words jump off a page and you get a revelation from God and you know your answer - that is how I feel about going to Africa! To be able to hold those dear children in my arms, to tell them stories etc...oh, my heart is melting just thinking about it! To see the hundreds (if not thousands) of hungry, hurting, lonely, sick people, all crowed in, to hear the voice of God - to recive Him as their father, someone who will love, heal their sickness and take away their pain...wow, that is such a precious moment, and brings a smile to my face! What an honour to work for Jesus! I can picture everything in my mind now - wow! God is so amazing! But going to Africa means so much more, not just to meet amazing and beautiful people, to see them walk into the arms of Jesus, to see them healed, it also means I can see my handsome, amazing, God-loving man of God, Felito Utuie - my boyfriend, whom I love so very much!

God you rock! Thank you so much, for totally everything, my family, my job, my handsome boyfriend, being able to go to Iris SoM - you are such a dream maker! I love you and praise you and thank you again!

My dream, is no longer a dream, its reality and I am living it!

Bring it on!

Welcome Holy Spirit! COME LORD COME

An awesome prophcy from Phil Pringle (Kiwi born) whose being living in Oz for some time. This word was brought during a big conf that was focusing on fire for Oz, but this word came too! This really is so exciting, and we are all really praying for it to happen! For all of us to be part of this somehow! Again, Holy Spirit have your way! We are so hungry for MORE and MORE!

The word from Phil Pringle

"I believe New Zealand is about to have in 2005 a revival that will eclipse any kind of revival it has ever had in the history of that nation.

I believe by the power of the Holy Spirit New Zealand is about to have a touch from Heaven. A touch from Heaven and the finger of God is poised in the heavens.

I see it. I see lightning bolts coming out of the Long White Cloud.

I see feet running through the streets to get to meetings.

I see things happening that have never happened before, people running to church in New Zealand. I see them running through the streets of Wellington.

I see them running down and the wind is blowing.

They are pushing against the wind, they are trying to get churches.

There are people running in Auckland down Queen street to get to church, people are running. They are desperate,some are full of fear and some are full of faith.

But they are running to church.

This is going to happen in New Zealand 1000's and 1000's of people running to church- running. It's probably not ever happened in New Zealand before. Amen.

Amen and Amen! Lord, COME, Holy Spirit we welcome you! Come and fill this place!

Returning to the Land of the Long White Cloud

The trip back to NZ, was long, but I meet some amazing people and made two new friends, I also meet my sisters Pastor in Sydney - so we had a great chat on the way to warm and windy Wellington. So its back to life in SUNNY NZ, enjoying the warm weather, going for long walks along the river and beach, not to metion soaking up the sun and eating all the fruit I can get my hands onto! What a life! What can I say, I live in paradise...lol... (Right now I am sitting in the lounge with all the windows open, enjoying the sun & drinking, wait for it ladies and gents - Feijoa juice!)

Being back in NZ, is ok. Has been so great seeing family and friends and spending some quality time with my pets, whom I have missed terribly. Church is...welll, its not TACF, but God is still here! God is really teaching me about HIM, knowing him deeper, his thoughts and his smiles, what makes his heart pump and beat fasta and also where his love is! Finding him, his presence in the smallest things and things we even take for granted...like the sunrise, the sunset, the flowers, the smile from a loved one etc.. and then chain of life...its been inspiring. I have finially got a job, which is keeping me nice and busy, and am looking for some weekend/evening work...but I know that God will supply! Sometimes it feels as if I never even left, and other times, it feels that I was away for more than a year! The Hutt Valley has changed so much, I feel like a tourist walking around. Quite odd really asking people for directions to the local store, the gym, where to buy phone cards and asking for a measure tape to work out my size! Then they ask - What a nice accent - where are you from? I always just smile and give a little giggle, and then promptly change the subject, as I am too embarresed to let them know that I am actually a kiwi.