Sunday, June 24, 2007
Novi Sad
Hi all! i don't have much time. and this will be full of typos. We are in Novi Sad and God is good here as well as everywhere. We are leaving for Montenegro tomorrow evening. Please keep us in your prayers. we are doing awesomethings here that I wish i had time to tell you about but i don't. Please also keep me in your prayers as i believe that God may be calling me to come back for year on Stint from Sept 08 to July 09. This is huge and I don't know what to think about it, but if that is where God wants me, that is where i will go. I love you all and I miss and I'm praying for you even as you pray for me. Be blessed, be strong and courageous and I will see you soon. Hopefully next time I will have more time to tell you what in particular God is doing here, it really is incredible. I'm so honored to be a part of his movement here. I wish you could be here with me =) YAY GOD!
Saturday, June 09, 2007
An E-Mail I Sent from Serbia!
So I actually have a whole twenty-six minutes to spend with you, and I can get more if I need to. It costs less than a dollar for half an hour on the computer. Things are so incredibly cheap here! Down side being that people here really don't have much money. So lets see, I don't remember what exactly I've told you so far, so if I repeat don't pay any attention to me.
Today we had a time of fasting and prayer throughout the whole day. We watched/listened to a video presentation of a bunch of old sermons by pastors all over the world about Christianity and the chuch and the evangelism. I honestly didn't pay that much attention to the video itself, I was distracted by the music that was in the background and what the Lord was saying to me through it. You probably know how I love Last of the Mohicans, and most of the music was from that movie. God was really talking to me about this summer and revealing his excitement about what is about to happen in Serbia.
We have heard, and keep hearing that Serbia is a hard place to be a missionary, and I don't think it's going to be like that this summer at all. I really believe that God is going to do some major break throughs while we are here and especially in preparation for next years Stint group. He showed me a verse in Isaiah 60: 20 I think talking about that changes would happen swiftly. Read the chapter for the reference and you might see some big parallels to what is and has been happening in this country. So as I was listening to the music the Lord spoke to me that the light was coming and he showed me this view of the the city and there was the burst of bright light and then brilliant colors stretched across the sky. It was beautiful! It was to me a symbol of what he is going to do here. It's going to be sudden and glorious and it's going to change everything here.
Another song that played was a wedding cannon and he was saying to me that he was going to be dancing with his bride, Serbia, soon and gave me this beautiful vision of it. He said to me "You don't know her like I do. You don't see her like I do. She is more beautiful than beauty. I desire her and I will not allow anything to stand in my way now!" And his joy and excitement and certainty just spread through me. At that point I heard some of what one pastor was saying about being in Africa and he thought he was going to go and spread the gospel to these people who wanted to know God and find him. When he got there he was disgusted to find that these people knew about God and they were simply happy to live with their sin. They were uninterested and he confronted the Lord on it and the Lord said to him that it wasn't about those people, it wasn't about this man, it was about Him. "This is not about you, this is not about these people, this is about ME" He sent that man for Himself, not for any other reason. I was struck by the love in that statement, the overwhelming passion and desire. It was in that moment that I knew that I didn't want to be here for any other reason than to get God what he wants most. The Serbian Bride.
I find myself in a place where I could care less about what God does in me and through me. All I care about right now is making sure that God gets what he so desperately desires. I don't think I have ever felt so selfless and yet still so ambitious. I am not concerned about not saving people, as far as I am concerned they are already saved, they just don't know it yet. So with that knowledge that God is on the brink of something incredible, I will go with a new kind of boldness and tell people about him because he wants them soooo much that there is not possiblity that they will not choose him. It's like going out to do work that is already done. Just putting on the finishing touches. It's amazing. All I have to do is speak of him, I don't have to convince anyone because they've already been convinced. That probably sounds naive, and maybe it is, but as always I simply know what I know. No one has to tell me, I don't need proof of this, I just know. God is doing something he has never done before and I get to be a joyous part of it. I feel more alive than I ever have, and more joyful than I ever have. This is just a blessing and honor to usher in God's presence to a country that is already desired by the King to be his Bride. Could this be any easier?
So, I love you, I do miss you very much, and I bless you in all that God is doing back home. Be strong and courageous and pray for us. That nothing would stop God or his servants from winning this Bride. That nothing could stand in the way of revival. Call down the strong holds and stand firmly in faith with me. We have no choice but to believe this, because faith is the only thing capable of moving a mountain, and this is a MOUNTAIN! I'll get in touch again before we leave for Novi Sad on... I think Thursday, maybe even a couple days. We are doing evangelism "blitzes" on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then go to Novi Sad for a week or so. Again I love you! Be blessed!
Kirstin Elise Block
Today we had a time of fasting and prayer throughout the whole day. We watched/listened to a video presentation of a bunch of old sermons by pastors all over the world about Christianity and the chuch and the evangelism. I honestly didn't pay that much attention to the video itself, I was distracted by the music that was in the background and what the Lord was saying to me through it. You probably know how I love Last of the Mohicans, and most of the music was from that movie. God was really talking to me about this summer and revealing his excitement about what is about to happen in Serbia.
We have heard, and keep hearing that Serbia is a hard place to be a missionary, and I don't think it's going to be like that this summer at all. I really believe that God is going to do some major break throughs while we are here and especially in preparation for next years Stint group. He showed me a verse in Isaiah 60: 20 I think talking about that changes would happen swiftly. Read the chapter for the reference and you might see some big parallels to what is and has been happening in this country. So as I was listening to the music the Lord spoke to me that the light was coming and he showed me this view of the the city and there was the burst of bright light and then brilliant colors stretched across the sky. It was beautiful! It was to me a symbol of what he is going to do here. It's going to be sudden and glorious and it's going to change everything here.
Another song that played was a wedding cannon and he was saying to me that he was going to be dancing with his bride, Serbia, soon and gave me this beautiful vision of it. He said to me "You don't know her like I do. You don't see her like I do. She is more beautiful than beauty. I desire her and I will not allow anything to stand in my way now!" And his joy and excitement and certainty just spread through me. At that point I heard some of what one pastor was saying about being in Africa and he thought he was going to go and spread the gospel to these people who wanted to know God and find him. When he got there he was disgusted to find that these people knew about God and they were simply happy to live with their sin. They were uninterested and he confronted the Lord on it and the Lord said to him that it wasn't about those people, it wasn't about this man, it was about Him. "This is not about you, this is not about these people, this is about ME" He sent that man for Himself, not for any other reason. I was struck by the love in that statement, the overwhelming passion and desire. It was in that moment that I knew that I didn't want to be here for any other reason than to get God what he wants most. The Serbian Bride.
I find myself in a place where I could care less about what God does in me and through me. All I care about right now is making sure that God gets what he so desperately desires. I don't think I have ever felt so selfless and yet still so ambitious. I am not concerned about not saving people, as far as I am concerned they are already saved, they just don't know it yet. So with that knowledge that God is on the brink of something incredible, I will go with a new kind of boldness and tell people about him because he wants them soooo much that there is not possiblity that they will not choose him. It's like going out to do work that is already done. Just putting on the finishing touches. It's amazing. All I have to do is speak of him, I don't have to convince anyone because they've already been convinced. That probably sounds naive, and maybe it is, but as always I simply know what I know. No one has to tell me, I don't need proof of this, I just know. God is doing something he has never done before and I get to be a joyous part of it. I feel more alive than I ever have, and more joyful than I ever have. This is just a blessing and honor to usher in God's presence to a country that is already desired by the King to be his Bride. Could this be any easier?
So, I love you, I do miss you very much, and I bless you in all that God is doing back home. Be strong and courageous and pray for us. That nothing would stop God or his servants from winning this Bride. That nothing could stand in the way of revival. Call down the strong holds and stand firmly in faith with me. We have no choice but to believe this, because faith is the only thing capable of moving a mountain, and this is a MOUNTAIN! I'll get in touch again before we leave for Novi Sad on... I think Thursday, maybe even a couple days. We are doing evangelism "blitzes" on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and then go to Novi Sad for a week or so. Again I love you! Be blessed!
Kirstin Elise Block
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Farewell
Hello to all! Just writing an extremely short note to let you know that I'm leaving for Serbia today! Hurray! Please be praying for my team and I as we go out to serve the Lord's people in his country. My flight leaves at 1:55PM and I'll be back some time on July 20th. I love you and bless you in all that you do!
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