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.
Love you!
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