We have
been on Outreach for a little over a month now and have seen some amazing
things. God has been doing so much. We’ve been in various cities and small towns
and there are so many stories; I wish I could share them all. I’ve chosen a couple stories from each town
we have visited to share.
One theme
that God has been speaking to me about our time on Outreach has been Isaiah
60.
“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you… But the Lord will rise upon you, and his glory will be seen upon you.”
SANTA CRUZ DE
CAMOTLÁN
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced humidity quite like I experienced in the week we spent in Santa Cruz. Literally we would drip with sweat. We took bucket showers down at the river and
we would literally never dry, because the humidity was so bad.
A few of us one day took a hike up to a house on
the outskirts of town to visit an elderly woman (99 years old), Leonore.
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| Leonore in her clean house |
Her house was covered in trash, rotting food,
feces, urine, cats, etc.. I have never
seen such filth. The filth was literally
piled 6 inches from the ground. Leonore
can no longer walk or move around, so she would lay on her bed and defecate on
her hand and dispose of her waste on the floor.
No family. Nobody in the town to
look after her. A lady and her daughters
invited us to help clean her house and so we joined them. We were definitely impacted. While spending time with her there God showed
me His heart for her and broke me to tears as the Holy Spirit led me to intercede
for her.
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| Part of our team with Leonore. |
The following night we sang worship in the
plaza. While worshipping God told me to
go back to the house for a Bible that He had told me to bring to Santa Cruz
when we were interceding a couple of weeks ago for our time in Santa Cruz. So with the Bible in hand I prayed that God
would show me who to give it to and He told me that the person would actually
come up to me and that I wouldn’t have to go to them. So I continued praying and God gave me a word
in Deuteronomy 7 and in that exact moment the lady who cleaned Leonore’s house
with us came up to me and asked me what I was reading. I immediately shared with her Deut. 7 and
everything that the Holy Spirit had put on my heart for her. She was afraid to cry because of what people
would think of her and right in that moment the lights went out in the entire
town and she was able to let her tears out without shame as she cried out to
God for salvation.
We continued worshipping and praying
together. Earlier while praying we felt
God telling us to sing “Let It Rain” and that He would make it rain. It hadn’t rained in this town for
months. So we sang and sure enough, God
made it rain. It was amazing. The rain clouds came in out of nowhere and
the rain storm came in over the town.
The following days the people in the town recognized us as the people
whose God made it rain. God definitely
does miracles.
SAYULITA
During our time in Sayulita we stayed with a
family at their bungalows in the middle of the jungle. We were able to be Jesus’ hands and feet in
serving around the property.
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| The boys built a storage room with old tires and mud while the girls did housekeeping of all of the bungalows and gardening. |
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Honestly being in Sayulita was a very hard time
for me. I have never experienced a
spiritual attack as strong as I did in Sayulita, but God kept comforting me
with Psalm 91 and the prayers of my teammates.
He also spoke to me through a song with the following lyrics:
Take a moment to remember who God is and who I am. There you go lifting my load again. No longer am I held by the yoke of this world. Come up under the yoke of Jesus. His yoke is easy. His burden is so light. You’re lifting my load. Your love carries me. Through all the valleys and the darkest places. Your love carries me.
While we were preparing for Outreach God gave me
a drama that basically it shows how that throughout life we start believing so
many lies about ourselves that become burdens.
But in reality God gives us the invitation to cast off our burdens onto
Him and believe the truth that He says about us. While I was feeling super attacked in
Sayulita I had to present my drama in the plaza and honestly I did not want to present
it because I felt so weak, but God told me that He wanted me to cast all of my
burdens upon Him not only in the drama but in my life as well. And I did.
I started declaring His truth in Psalm 91 until I believed it.
I praise God for the way He has been speaking to
me in this time and for the amazing things He has been doing in and through our
team.
Up next I’ll update you on what God did in our
time in: Lo De Marcos, Tepic and Zacatecas
I appreciate your prayers and encouragement more
than ever in this time. It has been a
long and yet fast month of Outreach so far.
God is doing so much and I ask that you would join us in praying for:
*Church follow up in the towns we have been serving in. That the churches we have been partnering with would continue discipling and seeking out the people we made contact with in those towns.
*Spiritual protection for the team.
*That God would be glorified through our actions and words.
*Guidance and direction for our next stop after next week in Miguel Auza.
