Friday, November 03, 2006

YWAM DNA Conference, Ensenada, Mexico

Hi!
I just returned from the YWAM conference in Ensenada, Mexico. What a thrill to be annointed by Loren Cunningham, and to sit at the feet of Darlene Cunningham and David Hamilton as they shared the stories of God's faithfulness to this generation. These pioneers stepped out in faith on the word of the Lord to begin to encourage young people to go to all the nations of the earth. Today, YWAM is in every nation. One of my favorite stories involved 3 girls who prayed and heard the Lord tell them to go into the Amazon jungle. They searched the web, asked people, even called other missions organizations, and everyone said there were no people there. Three months they searched and prayed; God repeatedly gave them this direction. So they boated as far as they could, then switched to canoe, and finally hiked for four days through dense jungle. Then a fierce looking people surrounded them. After spending three months with them they began to understand their language. The old witch doctor knew her people were all going to die. She held her hands up to heaven and implored if there could be only one God, send someone. Three months later the girls showed up. They brought some of these precious new Christians out of the jungle, and the first time this language was ever heard outside their people, it was as they praised God with their own songs!!!! It was a totally unheard of people group, but God knew where they were, and He wanted them for His own.
We don't need to be in the jungle to find the lost, we just need to look around wherever God has placed us, and begin to pray with urgency that the enemy would be bound, and the Holy Spirit loosed so these people can also know their creator.

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