Hi! Hope you’re doing well! It’s definitely been an interesting few weeks in Global Impact land. Your prayer support is indispensable!

This week, could you please pray:

• I will quickly and obediently fall in line under the protection of the Holy Spirit–been sensing significant spiritual resistance from the enemy lately as we explore a new option that looks quite promising
• for God to release more of His favor as we try to move forward in planning our first domestic program test-run–perfect dates, affordable rates, lasting strategic friendships
• for meetings with “persons of peace” (Luke 10.6) in our own backyard! And that I would carry increasing measures of the peace of Christ with me to extend to them.

Thanks so much! Greater and greater blessings to you this week…

Hello! Hope your week is off to a good start…is it really the middle of May already?!

This week, could you focus your intercession on strengthening my faith? Been sensing the need to believe before I see, so please pray

• God will grant greater faith to proclaim He is victorious before it happens
• God will give me eyes to see beyond the natural to spiritual reality and to act accordingly
• God will direct me to the peace and wisdom of His presence in the places I am prone to be anxious

Thanks! I’m definitely feeling more desperate for Him this week! Uncomfortable, but (in a strange way) an answer to prayer.

Hi! Hope your week is off to a great start! Thanks so much for praying for me last week. It was an anointed time at the mentor network gathering as God made Himself clearly present, and I came home with renewed energy for Global Impact, new friends, and exciting possibilities.

This week, could you please pray for:

• protection from the enemy as he tries to steal away all God has done in New Jersey (I learned from the last two weekends that he tends to do that, so this is our preemptive strike )
• solid follow-up for new friendships…especially that I would be a blessing and encouragement to them!
• good start to exploring new possibilities and next steps
• time to go through all of the email from everyone as a result of our time together, especially all the links and notes

Thanks so much! What would I do without your support?!

Reflections of Praise

In the course of three weeks, I’ve had the opportunity to be at 3 conference-type things. Only one was officially called a conference, and the one I’m at right now is really more of a gathering than a conference, but I know it’s the Lord’s encouragement to allow me to meet with such a wide variety of Kingdom citizens, learn from them, be ministered to by them, and be fueled by His presence within them. (Hopefully, they have also received from God through me!) God was so faithful to answer your prayers this past month for good connections. Building strong relationships takes time, but I’m so thankful for the small beginnings of new Kingdom friendships!

He has been most generous with me this past month with the sense that we are moving in the right direction, even if it feels like we are barely moving at all. Over and over again, He has been showing me through Scripture and through teaching and example of others how the arts can be used in much greater ways to worship Him, and how worship is a strategy near to His heart for the display of His glory. What He does in the spiritual realm can be reflected in our natural lives and actions to bring about great advances for our King. The greatest obstacle is not our lack or others’ opposition; it’s our fear.

Please continue praying this month

• for God’s presence to overwhelm us at the Mentor Network Gathering in New Jersey, May 2-4, and for health and travel protection as we go to and from different parts of the country…His hand carrying us is better than any travel insurance we can buy!
• for favor in the eyes of other ministry leaders as they consider partnering with a relatively small ministry and its inexperienced coordinator
• for affordable and timely connections as we continue to make plans to test-run a domestic worship mission program
• for spiritual protection as we move in a direction that will attract the Enemy’s contempt
• for unshakable assurance and confidence in God as my sovereign authority in whatever I get to do with WFI and in my own personal life

Looking Ahead

Recently, a friend shared what he was learning about stewardship: it isn’t about the gathering, it’s about the dispensing. The emphasis is only slightly shifted, but it has made a big difference in my approach. While my personal net worth is less than impressive and carries no hope for an early retirement (wouldn’t want that anyway!), I know God has given me more than a fair share of experiences and opportunities, of skills and relationships. I might not be a “10 talent” girl, but I know He has generously lavished me with more than one. (Matthew 25.14-30)

Saving is the safe way to go, whether it is effort, money or time (which, I’ve been told, equals money). Especially in our current economic climate, saving looks like the wise way to go. An online post by Bill Johnson of Bethel Church in Redding, CA has challenged me for weeks: “Fear often looks like wisdom to those in unbelief.” How much have I held back from the Kingdom – actually, from God – out of fear and deceived myself into calling it “wisdom”? He doesn’t need me for anything, and everything I give Him is merely an act of returning it to the original Giver. The only one eternally hurt by my holding back is me. My sense of wisdom and responsibility needs to be informed by deep trust in God as my portion.

One of my greatest desires as I grow as a worshiper is to know my Lord’s affirming words, “Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” I won’t hear this if I won’t dare to wholeheartedly invest whatever He has given me into whatever He is asking of me. What I get to do with Worship Foundations International is really just a few things compared to eternity in His presence.

Fear the Lord, you his saints, for those who fear him lack nothing.Psalm 34.9

Hi, and thanks for praying last week! Lots of people, lots of learning, lots of God…good times. Thankful for the ways He ministered to my heart and encouraged me. On top of that, discovered some more (and better) possible options for stuff we’re working on. Sometimes it feels like such a slow process, but it makes me extra grateful for any steps we can take.

This week, please

• thank God for the confirmation He has been speaking to me through the past two conferences and pray I will walk in faith and confidence in Him as WFI tries to follow Him in growth
• thank God for the opportunity to meet some worship mentors this coming Sunday-Tuesday (May 2-4) in New Jersey (and to sit under Brennan Manning’s teaching and to room with Karen Lafferty!) and pray for solid beginnings of Kingdom friendships and partnerships
• thank God for providing sufficiently for the past two months and ask Him for His favor this month
• thank God for a “normal” week before flying to the East Coast on Saturday and pray for His ideas and wording as I work on written materials for Global Impact

Thanks! Have a great week!