The first day of Rain

I have now lived in Kona for 24 days. I've experienced heavy down pours with tropical storms in Louisiana and constant rain fall in British Columbia. Today was the first day it has truly rained...it has rained throughout this entire Saturday while I've been at an anti human trafficking summit. It was as if we could hear, see, and smell the heart of God...His heart is broken when we listen to lies from the enemy, or we choose not to forgive/enslave others, or we don't fight for the least of these(ignore abuse), or don't walk in His freedom. I believe God is making us all aware of various injustices in our own souls, backyards, and nations so as to do something about it. Moses couldn't unhear that deep call inside...GO, neither should we. Before you "go" first know who you are, whose you are, who God is, and who people are...then walk this new found knowledge out via the great commission. Be the hands and feet of Jesus and set the captives free. With that being said, this week at YWAM has been #Freedom Week.

Each Monday we gather corporately for a time of prayer and worship at University of the Nations. The Lord highlighted a sign that said, “Notice, Do not block the doors.” I studied these words as I pondered what the Lord was inviting me to walk into. This past weekend three staff pulled me aside to discuss my original PNG/ Ships Outreach…”would you be okay with going to Cambodia instead and for 9 months?” I said “Yes!” Then I left and went process with Jesus.

I’ve been by the Holy Spirit prophesying things I am just now coming into alignment with and it is absolutely amazing and bizarre.

In 2013, upon graduating from Pacific Life Bible College in BC Canada I was all for going to Switzerland, doing a YWAM DTS in Lausanne or Burtigny. Those doors were not there and so I let that “dream” die. In September 2017, I was simply asking a quick question to God. I had already had “our” five year plan underway but was feeling like things were coming to a close all around me in 2017. I asked the Lord, “looks like a clean slate, now what? What’s our 2018 Jesus?” Then, boom. He hit me with a wammy. I am still riding the wave and feeling like all control has been surrendered to Jesus. He stewards it much better than I do/ ever did/ ever could/ ever want to again.

If you have known me at any period of my life since I was in the 4th grade, I have always been surrounded by French and a love to pursue the French language and French people. My grand parents spoke French, and I enjoy speaking French with my dad, past French immersion peers, French exchange students and more. In September, the Lord had me replace my five year plan with a simple word: Pacific.

The Lord did not say I would be a French Missionary. I just assumed. I thought this is what I need to be and so I will do what I can to learn the language and I will constantly look up ways to be a missionary, school teacher, nanny, woofing hippie, whatever I need to do, I am going to the Francophone nations.

During the most recent Paris terrorist attack, I was actually invited to chaperone a highschool’s Paris trip. The Lord told me no, I was upset. The high schoolers only made it to the Atlanta, Georgia airport before having to turn back. Their flight was on the same day/night as the Paris terrorist attack.

My heart was broken for the French people, as I’ve gone to Paris and have peers in France whom I dearly love and pray for. So to not go to Paris then, was hard, but I was thankful that the Lord had spared my life, time, and finances. Plus, who knows where I was at with fear at that point in my life.

So in September, the Lord radically shifted my focus and told me that He wasn’t going to give me specifics but He would give me the Pacific. All of these blogs on my site are the unfolding of this radical leap of faith I’ve taken with the Lord, to follow where He sends.

I heard this recently in a YWAM class, so here is a fun nugget if you are on a similar journey/adventure with the Lord, “the Lord’s will, the Lord’s bill”. If you have also read any blogs, I pray your faith for finances increases with mine. Being in Kona right now writing this blog is a financial miracle in itself and should truly inspire you that the Lord is a GREAT PROVIDER…most YWAMers , as we are called, actually have been walking out and are still walking out bizarre faith steps for finances and God continues to shine and come through. His will, truly, He has the bill, no worries…shaka.

I started this blog saying I was prophesying before I even had any grid for what I am living out now. Did you know the first YWAM base was in Switzerland, Lausanne…the same one I was considering attending years ago before I even knew who the YWAM founder Loren Cunningham even was. Currently, our class was reading one of His books titled, “Is that really you God?”

I have been utterly blown away by some of the stories and how much each YWAM faith step has somehow collided with my life and really gotten my attention since the Lord somehow previously allowed my life to marinate or prophecy things regarding YWAM and my current season in life.

These prophetic words will flow through blogs I am sure, but for now, I’ll keep it simple. I thought I’d do a YWAM DTS in 2013 and in Switzerland, the same exact spot where YWAM’s first base ever is/was. In 2013 I also made a video project for an Aesthetics Class called Justice vs Injustice where I first was introduced to the Human Trafficking Injustice and tried to somehow develop a project how God uses our hands and feet to bring His justice, love, peace, and kingdom on earth. I quoted scriptures in those videos like Isaiah 6:8 which was my #Mission2Pacific Theme verse.

Recently, hearing about Cambodia and the work we will be doing as outreach students then staff for 9 months, I was pretty floored. Not only do they speak French there but they are a human trafficking hub. The Lord began revisiting the Sex Trafficking Injustice with me and now I am going to a place that needs radical Justice in this area. I am currently living on a base next to the “Plymouth Rock” of Hawaii where the first missionaries stepped foot and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ here. Those seeds took great and deep roots here and in turn the Hawaiians themselves became missionaries. I pray that from us going, we will plant seeds so that Cambodians themselves will become missionaries for Jesus too.

God is truly doing a new thing and it is springing up. I believe we will see the end of the Human Trafficking Injustice in our day and age if people like you and me, put our faith into actions, speaking up, stepping out, preaching the gospel, and living it out with our actions.

Cambodia is a vehicle. We are going there to help end Human Trafficking. I understand it won’t happen overnight, but I know that HOPE and LOVE goes a long way. I made a video to explore JUSTICE lived out in our day and age as a response to Injustice. This time I am going to live out Justice wherever I go, Cambodia, Thailand, US, etc. as a response to Jesus.

Scriptures on my heart:

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight-Matthew 10:27

See I am doing a new thing- Is. 43:19

Here I am send me-Is. 6:8

By His wounds we are healed-Is. 53:5

Act Justly, love mercy, and walk Humbly with our God-Micah 6:8

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal-2 Cor 10:4

For freedom Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery-Galatians 5:1

A few things I have been learning and exploring with the Lord recently:

We do things based on Revelation from Jesus not simply Reason.

When you hear. Obey.

We have a History with the Lord. He remembers. He remembers what He spoke to us through the prophets (or what He has prophesied over us, in and through us, to us)…He will surely bring it to pass.

"If you don't have time to pray, you don't have time for outreach."-Vern

Book Resources: “Redeeming Love”, “Mending the Souls”, “Is that really you God?”, “Compelled by Love”

Local Hawaiian ministries I have had the privilege of learning from: Kona Kids Outreach, www.hoolanapua.org, Susannah Wesley Community Center

Current ministries I have been involved in (Healed/FREE people- Heal/FREE people): Queen Liliuokalani (sports and tutoring after school program with local Marshallese Kids) + Meet-n-eat with the local Marshallese families in local school (clothes giveaway, dinner together)

Brief on The Marshallese: Marginalized group here in Hawaii. They have an intense history of suffering and there is a solid film exploring a day in the life (living in a 3rd world in the 1st world) we recently watched in my Justice DTS called “Land of Eb” by YWAM Alumni…my heart is rocked…but I am spending time with them and not just learning about the injustice. I have been hanging with them, spreading hope and joy to my brothers and sisters. They are a beautiful people and they speak a beautiful language from the Marshall Islands. Pray for them that they would come to know the lover of their souls, they would be emotionally healed, physically satisfied and provided for by God, they would have increased sense of value as children of God, and that they would be world changers (what the enemy meant for evil, God will turn to good…May they say this as Joseph once declared, ”you intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives”-Genesis 50:20

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Ministering to natives of Marshall Islands but soon I'll be speaking to my people, Native Americans, at large, pray for me and rejoice in another financial and faith miracle. This trip has been paid for by Foursquare and I will be able to visit with my parents in California before a 9 month outreach to the other side of the world.

Freedom week has reushered in deep joy, from Jesus, fuel to combat injustice. (Trying out outreach bubble maker)

Hearing about injustice sucks, doing something is AMAZINGLY FULFILLING. Some friends and I making Sushi to hand out to the physical and spiritual homeless. The night was a major win for King Jesus, some of us even learned the Haka from new friends who from sushi encounter joined us next day for YWAM UofN worship in AM.

A quote from the summit today.

The anti trafficking summit I just attended today during rain.

Freedom week is in session. We are a class of around 50, representing many nations, tongues, generations, denominations...we get hurt in community so Jesus wants us to get healed in community.

Jesus will lead me and mes amis to Cambodia for 9 months. Poipet will be saved in Jesus' name.

I thought Pacific meant do outreach in PNG for 2 months after this lecture phase. I aimed correctly following the steps the Lord led, which landed me to live in the Pacific now at YWAM SHIPS base, but my name means "port of ships" not "go on ships"...so I am laying down my ideas and following a SHIPS outreach team to Asia. Jesus needs me to fly to Cambodia. Send me, I'll go.

Aim your bow and let Jesus set the target.

Je me rends...there is a joy in surrender. From Louisiana snowballs to Kona shaved ice...God is good and His words are sweet. Trust Him with your life, he will write a wild story for His glory.

The Lord brought me to this very sacred beach with new YWAM UofN Fire and Fragrance pals,& I snorkeled with an endangered sea turtle. This weekend they led a 24 hr Burn.

First church of Hawaii Mokuaikaua, I've gone to two of their services, because this building is less than a 5 minutes walk away. I appreciated their history lesson on first Hawaiian missionaries and their Hawaiian worship services.

A few weekends ago there was a false Missile Threat to the Hawaiian Islands. We as YWAM SHIPS community evacuated to our safest spot on base during alarm, and took that time to pray, send a "missile", of God's love over, for, in, and around North Korea. Don't react in fear, respond in Faith...Pray in agreement to God's will. Jesus loves North Korea. Let's pray for the salvation of their beautiful people...lift up the Bride in North Korea.

Top: Newest Video on Current Youtube Channel releasing Outreach Location

Bottom: Old Video from old Youtube Channel prophecying about Justice

#missile #Cambodia #justice