i am His best friend. i AM His best friend. i AM His son

sooo much of Him is revealed when we believe/know 

we're His children and best friend. Fathers root for their 

children and believe in their capabilities.

chill out and love Jesus

one night, a week and a half ago, i was standing in a crowd of several hundred muslims in a small coastal village. this village was known for being pretty dangerous and there was no telling how the people would react to the Gospel (the weekend before the team had gotten stones thrown at them). our truck was completely surrounded and i was feeling really uneasy by how surrounded we were. we just started worshipping on the truck while several pastors and mission school students preached to the multitudes. while worshipping i looked up into the night sky and heard Jesus happily say to me, "You don't even know what's in you." and then i heard Him happily say "you have no idea what you're capable of."

When we are fearful and unbelieving Jesus is still 100% 

fully aware of who He is in us. His Spirit 

dwells in us, never to leave us. 

When we are unfaithful, He is faithful.

shortly after worship we went into the crowd to pray for people. the presence of God was so thick and He had just given me a sweet and refreshing revelation how it's all about His name and not mine, which takes away all disappointment should the Lord decide not to heal someone right then. but this night, as far as we could tell, every single person we prayed for was healed. and He did it sooooo easily. everyone had the same thing happen when praying...that we didn't even really have to even pray ha. i kept praying for people and they kept getting healed and then it got to the point where i would lay my hands on someone to pray for them and the Lord was say "just healed them" before i could even begin, so i would ask them if they were healed and they would have smiles on their faces and saying yes! Jesus healed probably well over 100 people. i'm guessing. saw several with bad eye site get healed. too many head aches to keep track of. me and this english dude were praying for a man with an "S" in his back and it was straightened. one girl was praying for a guy who didn't have an eye or it was just very very small and blind. she put her hand on his eye and soon after starting to pray she felt a pop under her hand and when she removed her hand from the person's face they were looking around with their new eye!

while praying for people i literally just started laughing because i was so amazed at what Jesus was doing. it was blowing my mind. He is soooooo good!!!!!!

"In an acceptable time I have heard you, 

and in the day of salvation I have helped you."

Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is

the day of salvation.

-2 Corinthians 6:2

on saturday morning i went to a man's house in a village in the middle of nowhere close to Nampula. the night before a few people had gone to the house and prayed for him. his family couldn't remember the last time he had eaten. when i saw him he was basically all bones. they had tried witchcraft to heal him and he got worse. the night before i saw him a few people convinced them to take all the witchcraft out of their house for a day and see if Jesus would heal the man. when i came back with them in the morning on saturday we got there and they had food prepared for the man. they didn't want to give it to him until we had prayed for him first. so we prayed and the man ate. he ate a little but he ate. he and his family both saw the inferior power of the enemy and believed in the power of Jesus and his love. the man and his whole family all got saved when they saw the man eat. Jesus is good and mighty to save! Amen!

fill me up God

heeyyyyy! don't have much time so i'll give a very very brief rundown

its been awesome. went on my first outreach last weekend. the first night was in a muslim village and it was kind of weird but really good. some people got saved. the second night in a different village was insane. a lot of people got saved and a lot of people got healed. the Lord also used me to cast a demon out of someone. thats another story but was pretty freaking intense. the spiritual atmosphere in that village from sexual immorality and witchcraft was really crazy but the Lord moved so hugely there. a bunch of people got saved and came up for prayer and the Lord healed a bunch of people. one day we were praying for this man who has a messed up leg and we prayed for his leg and he started getting movement in his leg. the big deal about this was that his foot had no been able to move (it was like a rock at the ankle) in 8 years! he saw double vision and that also got healed as well as his back. the Lord is good and this place is beautiful. He is doing a lot and showing me what it means to be a son of God. He is beautiful. i love you all. pray for me. the spiritual attacks at night have been kind of big lately. there is a lot of witchcraft in the villages all around us. but Jesus is proving His dominion to me/us and showing us more and more about how to truly love (which is way deeper than i ever thought i knew). but i gotta go. i love you all. i wish i had my journal to show some journal entries but i guess another time.

good night!

see you later

well...i leave tomorrow at 10:50am.

i should have internet once or twice a week to hopefully put up pictures and update on whats going on for anyone who cares to follow.

i love you all ridiculously and already miss everyone. see you all soon.

taylor

the constant battle to be genuine

these past couple months getting ready for africa have been an interesting road. i feel a lot more peace and confidence and hope in God and in His mercy, grace, and love. He has been teaching me a lot lately of how much He values joy and resting in Him. the past year+ has been really hard for me and a few weeks ago i felt the Holy Spirit telling me its because i don't trust/believe in the way He loves me. from there He started showing me to rest in Him. in that rest i find trust and faith. in that rest i hear His voice. and in that rest my heart is softened and heeds His Words. in this rest is where i've begun to rediscover the joy of life and the physical/spiritual/and mental rest. a couple nights ago the Lord added to these revelations He has been giving me thru His Word; His unfailing, unrelenting Word:

"Woe to him who strives with his Maker!"
-Isaiah 45:9

He loves and longs for us to just REST! and to believe in Him. that He is our Father and that we are sons and daughters of the living God!!!!

"But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, "Abba, Father!" Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ."
-Galations 4:4-7

we are no longer slaves. we are sons and daughters. i feel the reality of this coming more and more to fruition and it is beautiful. i am not going to africa as a servant nor to serve. i am going there as a son who wants to know the depths of his Father's heart.