This would be Part 2. Adventure is out THERE!

Hey lovely people! 

You all are so amazing and life is full of good things. There is some exciting news to bring all of you.  Just as I wrote in part 1 we never know the markings of God in our stories and that the greatest thing you can do on this journey with God is say yes to all He has for you. A yes to God will always change your life and will cause the enemy to fear. What I have seen in the Bible is that God is faithful to all who say yes. I assure you it never looked like what they thought it did. I am sure when God told Moses he was going to set the Jews free from slavery that he had any idea it would be through crazy signs and wonders. Or for Abraham being told his wife would have a baby that she would be as old as she was and that he would only have one. How can you be a great nation with just one child. How about David, I am sure he wasn't planning on being a King when he was 17 or being anointed by Samuel. How do become great when you have promises in your life. You can't but God can make you great as long as you look to him as the Author of life. I remember when I got to Pasadena I was setting in a meeting and I heard in a moment of randomness God say to me, "You have been trying to write your own story now its time for me to write it." Wow, what do you do with that! Its simple you learn to surrender. ;) Ever since that statement from my God my life hasn't been the same. For the past six months God has been the faithful God he is in my life. With radical provision, radical love, and radical transformation in my life. It has been the greatest "Yes" I have made yet and as I look back in my life I see where he has been faithful in it to bring me here. 

Sometimes our stories look nothing like we think and you might be saying to yourself right now Kateland, you are repeating yourself like a bad record. I might be. However, its truth and I like truth. Always I have been that way. :) I was the justice child in my family. Just a side note. Okay back on track! My journey of being brought to California which has been AMAZING with some new adventures ahead. God is wanting to add to all the surprises he has for life from coming here. So with that being said, I have decided to do and have been accepted in to another school. It is called the 18 Inch Journey. It is in Sophia, North Carolina with Jonathan and Melissa Helser to amazing friends of God and amazing worship leaders. Its a school of creativity, worship but is mainly a school of the heart. It is there to bring a beautiful revelation of all that God has inside of you and to express it in ways you have never been able to or have always wanted to or already are but just even more. Its only a 60 day school but is full of wonderfulness. The school will start June 1st and go until July 30th. I am so excited about this because for a long time in my life I have been wanting to do something of fully expressing myself in ways I have never done before but know are deep down inside of me. I see as an opportunity to do just that! I truly feel like it is a journey that God has set out for me and also has given such a wonderful opportunity to do it. 

I am still working with YWAM and will still be on staff with them. I feel like this will add in so many ways to what God is already doing with us here. For this school I am needing to raise about $2,000 for it. God I know is going to provided but what I have realized if I don't let people know my need how can they help me. God provides in the craziest ways through the craziest people is what I have come to realize. I will be having my Missions Account connected to my blog if you are interested to give. (it should be on the side) This also makes all giving tax deductible as well. Praise GOD! All I need is 100 people to give 20 dollars and I will have it all raised. My final due date to have this all in will be May 24th. So I am asking for a 100 people to join me in raising this. I am praying and believing God to do it because I know it He will. So I am also asking if you would just pray and see if you would like to be on this journey with me and helping me get there. A story I feel I should share is this simple one about God being faithful to me in applying for this school and everything. I have recently had a desire to learn how to play the guitar  and had been talking with God about it and just said how am I suppose to play the the guitar if I don't have one. Thinking to learn it will be harder if I don't have one but maybe in a few years I will get one. I had told God the kind I had seen and liked. I am small girl so little guitars are more of my friend. hehehe... Well the last night of the fast I was apart of a friend of mine came up and said Kateland, God told me to give you my guitar. The funny thing is and the absolutely amazing thing all at the same time was that was the exact guitar I had asked for. A Taylor GS Mini. Complete with a case and all. When I received it I couldn't believe it and began crying because I was like you have no idea I just asked God today for that guitar, that exact guitar!!! I realized in that moment God is bigger then I had really realized and it was conformation and my faith increased to saying yes to  God. Whatever you want! hahahaha... So please consider joining me on this journey. I believe God blesses those who richly bless others and its not just with money either its just one way. I have seen it in my own life and many others. 

I will be keeping everyone posted on how it is going. Please be praying for me as well. If you have any questions for me you can always email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com. 

He is faithful to the end and He is faith to our hearts! 

Here is a video about the 18 Inch Journey. 

http://vimeo.com/50170599

I love you all out there. May you be blessed abundantly in all God has for you. My prayer at the end of the day for you is this that you would be step out in your own journey with God to say yes to everything he has for you. That you would know his true love for you in it and that you would trust him with everything you have. He delights in us and so why should we ever worry.

 We live by a motto in our house here in Pasadena. Simple Obidence Changes History. Our simple "yes" everyday to God changes our lives, others around us and also the outcome of History. Think about it we often see all the negative things that happen in this world change everything but what if we lived out the positives of saying "yes" to God what would the outcome be. Thinking about it! Its beautiful when you do.

Kateland :)

Part 1: A forty day journey

Hey friends,

Its been a while yet again. It has been a good time for sure. I write you today with much joy in my heart and anticipation for all the things happening around me. Let me give you a little bit of an update of what has been going on these past few months. It may explain some of my delay or lack of writing to all of you lovely people.

In getting back to Pasadena we continued on helping our friends in the area who feel led to hold gatherings on College and University Campuses throughout the state of California. We have seen people getting saved, healed and touched by the love of God. Our friends mission is simple to hold a hour of worship in a common area of the campus and let people be drawn in by the love of Jesus. Many are stopped by this simple act. Many are drawn into this sound that they have never heard before and all it is, is simple worship to Jesus. We have been apart of many of these gatherings now and it has been amazing. We are believing God to fully invade the Universities and College Campuses of California.

Then in the beginning of March we were invited into a 40 day fast with Lou Engle and his group of people. We were fasting simple for this, that the Lord of the harvest would send forth laborers in the harvest fields. (Matthew 9:38) Praying everyday that God would send forth laborers to the Unreached People Groups of the world. It was an amazing time that radically changed my life. God was on the move in so many ways that I have never felt. We also had the privilege sitting under some of the greatest teaching on the Bible that I have ever experienced. It literally felt like the word of God was coming alive just by the Bible being read.(this is how I personally think it should always be never quite experienced it to be.)  It was like watching the new Bible series on the History Channel before it came out. (hahaha... I feel like that is the best way to explain it.) I had never been apart of a corporate fast like this before but I felt like we got to see God move in ways that maybe no one will ever know but God did. To bring a little bit more clarity of what we were praying for and what we felt like God is wanting to see happen here is a video clip of Lou talking about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJmaVwQYhaM



I wish I could explain all that happened in great detail to you but maybe over a grand cup of coffee we can chat over what happened those days. I will tell you with a heart that dreams and is continually expectant to see God do all that he said I have learned so much. However I feel that one of the greatest lessons I had learned those 40 days was that you never know what God will do or how he will write the story. He never does things the same for each person but reading it I saw his faithfulness to every person of the Bible. The great thing is He never changes and He provides. I often had been that person that said to God, why didn't you do this for me and do that for me and why wasn't it like so-and-so. Thinking I have loved you but why have I never seen it. Maybe it was because my eyes were closed and if I had just opened them I would see his markings all over my why's. That is exactly what he did, He opened my eyes. In a moment my eyes began to see that I held to closely what I thought the story should look like. This realization came one day through the story of Joseph. He was imprisoned for crimes he never did several times. Falsely accused and yet at the end of it all rose to the highest place to be second in command. His brothers never thought for one second that God would do what Joseph was told by God what he would. Joseph probably doubted at times but he also knew God was faithful. I sat there realizing his story made no sense to me. That Joseph never said God you gave me the dreams and its suppose to happen like this! Joseph just had pure faith. All of a sudden I had to let go of what I expected God to do and willing say God you write the best stories ever so write mine! Then I began to see him in my story! I don't understand everything we go through in this life but it has never changed one thing. The one thing is God is faithful and he will continually be faithful even if I never understand it He won't change! God is still as faithful as He was to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Joseph, Rahab, Gideon, Samson, David, Solomon, Daniel, Isaiah, John the Baptist and to his son Jesus and to the disciples and most of all US! God never changes. If you have a view of a God who never cared, seemed unfair, and lacks love that isn't him. If you tell me he never did this, he never did that, he never promised to be a genie in a bottle or santa claus. God however promised to love you through all the things no one else will. To be the best friend you never had. Stick closer then a brother, to love deeper then any friend. To provide for you because he is your Father who loves you and all you need to know is that he wants to write your story to as long as you let go of all the fear of how it should happen. He wants to write a story that confounds the wise but shows himself faithful every time!

In saying all of that I know God has me on quite the journey. So stay very close for in the next few days more is to be discovered of what that looks like. :)

Always
Kateland :)


P.S. This is part 1 so there will be a part two this week! I know I am getting crazy but I am just letting you all know.

2013... Survived the Apocalypse... Again!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!


Welcome to 2013 where by now you have survived at least 3 Apocalypses. The first being Y2K, the second the calculated 2011 predictions, the third and most recent Mayan prediction of 2012. I know who would of thought we would of made it to this year. I am was pretty sure at young age that I would of been raptured by now but am so glad I haven't been. I know that you thought I might of been because of my lack of staying up on this but the last few months have been different with a lot of transition. It is exciting transition and I am enjoying it all but I have recently been on a journey with God that I wasn't expecting.

After leading a team to Japan, going back home to Alaska for a bit and then out to Kansas City, where I did the Circuit Riders school, I went back to Kona, HI. There I was preparing to actually move out to Pasadena, California I know it is a shock! You maybe saying, why did this girl move out there? I thought you were doing DTS's all your life. hahahaha... Well, God has a funny things about journeys and he is always will to take you on them if you are wanting to go. So after being asked by my dear friend Amy Sollars to come out to Pasadena, I simply asked God if I was to go and with an unshakeable, undeniable YES, I went and am now here.  You maybe asking, What?, Where?, When?, and Why?. All of those question valuable and to answer them all specifically would take lots of time so I will try and hit the basic points. Why, well because I felt like God said go. When did I decided, well in June but I didn't know of all the particulars so in faith I said, yes and waited. Where, well that one is kind of obvious Pasadena. What are you doing?, well a combination of things. We (there is seven of us five girls and two guys) are here to serve and to listen to what God wants to do in this area. We are working with several groups of people in this areas. So we are here because we felt like God said Go and see what I will do. I know it sounds crazy and maybe it is. Its not what I am use to but I love that about it. Its stretching, unsure at times but I really do feel God in it. Our house in Pasadena have a motto we say and live by, Simple Obedience Changes History. I am here because I feel like God is going to do some thing in this area and he wanted me to be apart of it.

In thinking of these past few months from the journey after Circuit Riders where I spent about four months in Kona, HI and then coming out to Pasadena, CA in November. I have been realizing something really significant. Its this. God is more committed to you as a person then he is about the mission of doing everything. I realize he wants us to be so secure in who he is and who he created us to be more then anything. He began to show me this in Kona and thinking it was a concept I was grasping He, at the perfect moment brought me to Pasadena. Where he had took me from all my securities to show me even more that He wants me to know more then anything in this world is He is my security. We tend to get comfortable in the securities of this world, that could be people, money and fmaily and really you just can't be secure in it because it could all change but onething I have really been meditating on is the Steadfast love God. That means he is never changing and in the end means you can lean into him and not worry because tomorrow even if the world economy falls, anarchy rises up that God will not change. He will not change in the way he thinks about me, he will not change in the things that he has told me I will do, he will not change just in general. Even now that thought is blowing my mind. Do we truly realize that. He is STEADFAST. I could be saving the masses or talking to one person but unless I know Him, know who He made me to be it means nothing. My security is flat. I am only secure in my acts. I feel like the cry is to know him. You could everything but not know him and not love and you will have nothing. I want to know him and I want to love like him. I want to share his love and I want people to genuinely encounter him. Not just accept him because they fear Hell but because they want to feel accepted, know their purpose and to feel a love that never changes.

At the end of the day I want to be transformed by love and see others changed by this radical love.

If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1 Corinthians 13:1-8


Let this be what transforms us everyday. He loves us and so let us love others with a love that could change their lives. 

Always kateland