Hello friends and family! Missing everyone back home lots! I hear it is finally warming up too! It's been warm here and it is looking like it will be warm right until we leave for outreach! Riding this week was quite average. On Tuesday I crashed really hard and hurt my shoulder and lots of other things, so Thursday I just stayed back at the base and enjoyed the sun!
From Monday to Wednesday Reto and Judy taught on Spiritual Warfare. Wednesday morning we had three groups go to the summit of each mountain to declare and bless the city of Davos. We had a really powerful prayer time for leaders, local churches, and loads of other stuff too! Then for lectures on Thursday and Friday we had Robi, who is the pastor of the local International Christian Fellowship church speaking on spiritual warfare as well. Robi's teaching was amazing! We talked about apologetics, unpacked the story of David and Goliath, and also talked about the story of Jesus calming the storm. Studying this story closer was amazing for me. The first thing I took away was how well Jesus knew himself when he needed to take a break. Even when there are so many people who need healing he decides he needs to go to the other side of the lake to rest. He knows that he will burn out and needs to spend time alone with God. This amazed me because Jesus is Jesus! Why would the most amazing man on earth need time to rest and recuperate? Then it hit me that Jesus is 100% man while still being 100% God. We looked at it from a really unique perspective. Jesus understood that to effectively change the world with a three year ministry time his connection with God would need to be unparalleled, and it was! Jesus understood that when he took time by himself to worship, pray, and seek God the more intimate their relationship would be. The outcome was that Jesus ability to heal people that he met was so great! His connection with the Father was so perfect, but because he was just as human as I am he still needed to deliberately set time apart. This was the coolest thing for me to realize. I can have that exact power to heal the same way Jesus did, I just need to seek God the same way he did. Obviously easier said than done. It was just a really cool revelation for me that even though Jesus was 100% God, he still needed to seek God and spend time praying and listening because he was also 100% man.
That's just a tidbit of what I learned this week!
Friday night was also amazing. A group of five of us went over to a family's place to prophesy and encourage them. Every time we pray for words or pictures for other people it always amazes me how willing God is to speak directly to their hearts through me! When God speaks it is always spot on. Maybe you are wondering what all this prophetic stuff is. It's just God speaking to us through people. It's all new to me too so don't be weirded out but check it out in the bible for yourself! It is always interesting because often our prophetic prayers or explanations are translated, so sometimes I have no clue of what is going on. I only know that God is speaking directly to someone's heart which is life changing! Throughout my time here we have been given many opportunities to prophesy over one another in the school as well as for different individuals and family's. It blows me away every time! I am so excited to learn more about the prophetic and to develop a deeper discernment for God's voice!
And update on outreach: we now have our flights booked! My team flys to Bosnia on the 30th of March! This gives us only 17 more days of skiing in the beautiful Alps :'( But as a team we are getting so excited for what God is going to do!) There are still a few team members that are in need of finances and I would love it if you would continue to seek God if he wants you to give in any way!
I am so thankful for everyone's support and prayers thus far, thank you so much!
Happy almost spring!
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