Day 4 Nicaragua

This was hands down an amazing and pure God day.  We came together at a local house and it was a house of prayer. So we walk up to the second floor and everyone takes a seat. We are a large group and nearly took up every inch of that place.  We started off with a word from God by a 82 year old man named brother Alvin and followed up with some worship music.  This is were it changed.  I mean the Holy Spirit took over. As we were praying I would look around and God started to put on my heart who needed prayer.  We started praying for our team and in an awesome way, we anointed them with oil and laid our hands on them.  It was beautiful to see Him work. Words cannot express the feeling of seeing these young teenagers surrender themselves and the adults.  They allowed God into their brokenness.  It was so an experience with the one true God, He allowed healing and satan had no influence in that room.  Praise God for what He is doing here in Nicaragua, we as His Beloved are so taken care of.  It has placed a fire in my heart that needed to be refueled from so many years ago.   Now, the last part of this day was so healing for a small group of us.  There were 6 of us who stayed after our devotionals and for whatever reason, God wanted us to laugh and did we ever.  It was so much fun, the kind of laughter that hurts your jaws and your gut.  He was so amazing because I seriously feel like that moment was for the young little man who struggles with fitting in.  Well for this moment in his life he was King and you could see how happy he was to make others laugh.  It was also for me because that was the first time I have laughed so hard and so unhindered since my mom passed almost 3 years ago.  Surrending to Christ is very humbling, healing, powerful and peaceful. God is showing up everywhere we go and He is persistently telling me that He loves me and wants my cup that He has given me to begin to overflow so that the love he shows me may touch others that Jesus places in my path.. Selah!

Day 3 Nicaragua

Today was amazing as we made that turn into La Chureca the darkness was there but bound.  We prayed for God to bind the evil and strongman of La Chureca and He did, you could feel a peace that was not explainable.  As we are here for these kids God is allowing us freedom to let these kids experience Him through us. As we entered the school the kids erupted again, just wanting us to hold them and play.  It was awesome to see these highschool kids love on these young children from La Chureca. They do not know any other kind of love except for the love of Jesus. Here in the darkness of this horrible place is the light of Christ. It says in Psalms 91:2 ” My refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust” Collegio Cristiano is exactly this verse for these kids in La Chureca.  He will always provide for His Beloved.. Selah!

What a world.. Day 2 Nicaragua

We are heading to La Chureca, this shanty town is placed in the city dump, literally. As we were driving down the road we stopped to turn left. When we made that left all you could see was the darkness and heaviness Satan had over this place. It was the deepest kind of poverty I have ever seen. The street is filled with trash and little children two and three years old running around in it. Everyone is covered in dirt and sutt from the garbage burning and this was just the entrance. As we headed to the school we entered La Chureca.  There are these hundreds of shacks made of galvenize just put to together and thats it. This place has brought a true meaning of poverty to my eyes. Every shack has many people living in it and  covered in dirt and garbage. Yes, my friends, we live in a world where a government and a society will allow 3,000 plus men, women, children and babies to live in a city dump.  Jesus is all we have to offer and He is more than enough because on the flip side of today, when we arrived at the school, the kids ran out at recess and had much love to give and to get. They were smiling and running and horse playing with the whole team. We then had an opportunity to take them to the volcano site.  Well here is the deal, we took the first graders and this was their first field trip ever. Now I have had students who I have taught in the past and they have never left Miami, but several of these first graders have never even left the dump. Here is a city of 1,350,000 people and there are malls and movie theaters that are minutes away and these kids have not seen it, but they have been exposed to molestation, rape, prostitution and drugs. They know abuse all to well.  As His Beloved, we must allow them to feel Gods grace and one thing that is tearing away at my heart is understanding and finally living for Christ because my life truly is not about me. Tell u about day 3 tomorrow.. Selah!