So yesterday went really well! It was our first official day of ministry and we did some really great stuff! We started out the day with worship and prayer. We asked God what He wanted us to do with the day. When I asked God, I felt like we needed to walk around the city and speak truth. But I also felt like we needed to go the the North, South, East and West. As I kept thinking about this, the verse about where 2 or 3 are gathered there Jesus is popped into my mind and the fact that we are such a small team already, shouldn't we stick together? Theres power in unity right? Then God reminded me of a quote for a book by Bill Johnson. "You + God is always the majority". Yes there is power in numbers but when God tells you to do something, it's more important to be obedient. I must admit though I was still not too sure about what I heard when I asked the others what they got. Petri started sharing what he heard from God. He felt like we needed to walk around the city and speak truth! But not only that, he felt like we needed to split up and go to the North, South, East and West!!!! Bahahhahaa!!! I just started laughing and they are looked at me like, thats what you got too. So I shared what I got and it was very clear what God wanted us to do. So we went back to God and asked Him to give us scriptures to pray out as well as which direction we should each go. Well I shouldn't be surprised but God to Jessie to go North, Petri to go South, James to go East, and me to go West!! So with our Bibles in hand we set out to speak truth over Iceland!
While we were praying, I also felt like I was supposed to go to a church. So I looked at my map of Iceland and found a church on the West coast. Then off I went to find this church. When I got there, I began to pace back in forth in front of the church praying out the scripture that God had given me. At one point I looked up at the doorway and and saw a carving of Jesus with His arms stretched out. I immediately got the song "Arms Wide Open" in my head and began to sing it out.
I was outside for about a half hour and then decided to go inside the church. I walked in the building and it was completely silent. It was so quiet that even just my footsteps echoed through the whole building. I was looking around when I noticed 3 framed pictures on the wall. One was simply the word "Silence", the second one was a picture of a woman with her finger in front of her mouth and the third one was the verse Habakkuk 2:20 which says to be silent in the presence of the Lord. Then it hit me. Churches are supposed to be a place to worship God and sing His praises.
They are not supposed to be places where you sit quietly and just look around! The enemy was totally using scripture to steal the purpose of this church! Of course he wants people to be quiet and not praise God! So what was I gonna do about it? Well I walked up to the first pew sat down and began to read scripture. OUT LOUD! As I sat there, I looked up and this time saw an image of Jesus on the cross with "Arms Wide Open". So again I began to sing. I hardly had to sing out at all. Just even a whisper filled the entire church but that didn't keep me from singing with my whole heart. I sat there and sang out my love to God for about an hour.
God spoke so much to me during my time in that church. I loved my time there. We had planned before going our separate ways to sing the song "Our God" at noon so that we would be declaring who God is to the North, South, East and West of Iceland! So at noon, I went outside and began singing
God you are higher than any other!
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