Hi Everybody! I am so sorry that I haven't updated in awhile. The internet was down and since we are missionaries we didn't complain and we just waited for it to get fixed! :) Becuase we get convicted when we complain! So, here are all my updates for the last few days:
1. Sunday. It was amazing! We have 4 services here on sunday because we have almost 800 in attendance and no building to hold everyone at once. There's a rule that you are only allowed to go to one service, however, the aimers are clearly allowed to go to all of them. Needless to say, it was a really long day! We have one english service because there is a large Philipino Community here...2 got the Holy Ghost and 1 got refilled after years of being astray! Praise God!
2. The training has been outstanding. This week we have Bro. & Sis. Howell and Bro. & Sis. Tuttle. Just some of the topics have been: Anointing for the Task (bro. Howell), Being a Servant (bro. Howell), The Wife of a Minister, My role as a minister's wife (Sis. Tuttle), Prayer Evangelism (Sis. Howell), The Biblical Way & The Master's Method (bro. Howell), God Seeks Intercessors (sis. Hopkins), Obeying the Will of God (Bro & Sis Tuttle). That is just classes from yesterday and today. So, you can only imagine the kind of people we are going to be when we return home! :) My personal favorite class out of the listed ones is probably The Biblical Way & The Master's Method. Bro. Howell talked about outreach and evangelism and I have some great ideas now for our outreach team. All of the classes go together like you can't have results of evangelism without it being preceeded by intercession. Sis. Hopkins talked about the reason we don't have results is because we wait until the day of to pray, when really we need to be interceeding weeks before the event. In reality, we need to be praying for our daily routines weeks in advance, even if there isn't a special event coming up. Bro. Tuttle, in Obeying the Will of God, talked about Romans 12:1-2 and how "conformed to this world" doesn't mean to backslide but it can mean just getting caught up in day-to-day living and forgetting the reason we're here: EVANGELISM. We can get so caught up in even our duties at the church that we forget to bring visitors. When Bro. Howell was a pastor in El Salvador the rule was if there were no visitors, there was no church, Which is so intense but so true, we aren't here to continually be feeding ourselves. We must reach out. He said it only happened once that when church was supposed to start and there were no visitors that he sent everyone home. Pretty crazy, but in the 20 years that they were in El Salvador over 100,000 people were baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. I could go on and on about the classes but I'll move on!
3. Church last night was great! Bro. Tuttle preached about Grace & Mercy. He said that "Mercy is not getting what you do deserve, and Grace is getting what you don't deserve". I love that quote and he talked about buy the truth and sell it not. But, how do you buy Truth? By, Grace and Mercy. They give you the currency, or the means to buy it and Truth gives you conviction and conviction keeps you in Truth which gives you Salvation which puts you in Heaven. I posted a few clips from the service last night on my youtube channel. I want to write his whole message out but that I won't, haha! Then, altar call. Wow! I didn't even have to seek out anyone, an elderly lady came to me, grabbed my hand, and began to pray. The Lord told me to rebuke the depression that had weighed her down her whole life, plead the Blood over her, lay your hand on her head and release the Holy Ghost. So I did. She immediately began so sob. She began speaking in tongues for the first time...and didn't stop for like 1.5 hour! Then, there was a tongues and interpretation and it was "I am your God and I love you. I have given you the means that you need to buy whats neccesary(sp?), tonight. Buy the Truth and do not sell yourself to the world". Wow, right? Crazy. But God is reallly doing a work here and Spain is experiencing great revival! :) Miss you all!
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