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Published: October 26th 2009
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South Korean JuRa That is one of the main things that I have been learning here at YWAM DTS. I have been so concerned with what God wants me to do rather than what he wants me to be. I thought that I would be coming here to DTS to get some great bible truths about my relationship with Christ. Right after that, I thought I would be going to Haiti to take those truths to the Christ hungry Haitians. But Abba is shattering those plans extremely fast. When people receive a passion for a nation, like myself, we want to do something right away. We want to go out onto the mission field to take Jesus to those lost people. But that is not always the right thing to go about doing. Most of the time, we forget one important thing, when does God want us to go. This is one thing that I am now realizing I did not ask my heavenly father. I know, without a double that He has given me a passion for Haiti. When would I go? I thought for certain that I would go in May. But after being here at DTS for four weeks, there is
so much that God wants me to become and be before he wants me to do. I am not sure now if I will be going to Haiti in May. I have thought a lot about going through another school with YWAM Mpls, a School Of Evangelism (SOE) and then after that we will see where God has me. But for right now, I am at DTS, my focus is here. I am free falling in faith like I never have before into Christ’s arms. I am putting my future, which is really his will and he just fulfilling a little part of it through me completely in His mighty hands. Is it hard? Oh you can bet your little heart that I have shed many a tear over it and will continue to. As of right now, I have absolutely no clue what God is calling me to after DTS. For the SOE, the next one at the Mpls base is in July. But I will have to again focus on what God wants to do in me and what he wants me to become right now in the present at DTS. I still have two months of the
Work duty "boss"
I work in the kitchen and Terra oversee's me. lecture phase and after that, seven weeks of outreach phase in India. That is where God is leading me for the outreach.
After I heard the presentations about the Amazon region of Peru and India, I had no idea where Christ wanted me to go and be for seven weeks. I decided to fast and pray for three days to seek God’s guidance and to hear his voice clearly. His answer came after one day of prayer and fasting in a four hour prayer time on Friday morning a week and a half ago. Our teacher that week, Wick Nease was teaching on fulfilling our destiny. At the end of the week, he wanted us to have a prayer time where all the students were prayed for individually. We “anointed” a stool, each student sat on it, and we all placed our hands on them and prayed. As soon as I sat on the stool, so many people prayed for peace for me. Before that, I didn’t have any or it felt like I didn’t have any because I now do not know what God wants me to do after DTS. Many of the brothers and sisters that prayed
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Haley is so awesome! had no idea what was going on, that I had no vision or much “un-peace” if you will. Deborah, a lady that I see as my mentor got such strong word from the Lord. God told her that many people would be healed through me. I am so glad that I had hands all around me because I would have fallen off the stool! Me? God wants to use me to heal people? I don’t know if God will use me to heal them emotionally or physically, but that is up to him. Deborah also received a verse from the Lord. She read Mark 6:12-13 over me “So they went out and proclaimed that people should repent. And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.” Right after that verse was read, a voice came to my mind more in the form of a thought. “Kirstin, heal the lepers.” I couldn’t believe it! God had spoken to me so clearly where I was supposed to go for outreach. He also has given me a passion for orphans since I was ten years old and we will also be working with orphans while
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Tierney rocks! there as well.
Our “India team” met for the first time last week and the team consists of myself, two of my three roommates Tierney and Hayley, Kelsie, Jordan, Tobi, Rob, Jono, and Nate. Our leaders are Cristal and Lisa. The “Peru team” is Len, JuRa, Josiah, and Benn. The leaders of the Peru team are Luke and Rachel. We will be leaving on December 30th and we will be there until February 20th. Please keep us in your prayers as we will be meeting weekly to go over details and such.
It is amazing to see how close we have all become in just four weeks. I feel like I have known everyone for years and I can definitely say that after DTS is over, I will have some life long friendships. We have already had so many ups and downs. We are quickly learning that if there is a problem, we quickly address it to make the relationship stronger. God is really showing me how to love my brothers and sisters and to really be careful what comes out of my mouth. I have been more sarcastic, quick mouthed with hurtful speech in the first week than I ever had. I had a lot of hurt in me as well that the enemy seemed to bring up and I lashed that out at people even though they didn’t deserve it. God quickly convicted me of that and I was extremely humbled and went to my twelve fellow students and apologized for my behavior. There was much forgiveness granted and lots of tears shed as God was starting to work in our class
Prayer requests:
1. Financial support will continue to come in. I need $700 more to cover outreach phase.
2. Focus on the now here at DTS and not worry about the future.
3. That God will use myself, and many others mightley in India and Peru.
4. Planning for India will go well.
Please let me know if you have any questions and thank you all once again for all your support
Financial support instructions:
1. Make the check out to Mission Haiti.
2. Write Kirstin Miller in the “memo” part of the check.
3. Send the check to: Mission Haiti
PO Box 486
Tea, SD
57064
All gifts are tax-deductible and you will receive a receipt in the mail. You can make a monthly or one time donation.
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Chris T
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India...
Kirsten, How lovely to hear from you via the Blog :) Sounds like your having a Blessed time finding out all about waiting on the Lord and more :) I was so tickled you choose India, or that God choose it for you would be better stated! Remember from the first I kept thinking India girl, India!! It blessed me to know God had that in my heart for you too!! God is SO COOL!!! Bless you...Miss You....love you...Chris