I thought snow came from the ground not the sky...

I prayed for you today

I wept and still my spirit groans within me. Oh how I wish you saw and felt the depth of my intercession for you.

Your sins are washed as white as snow. In 2010 I saw my first snow. In Uganda While I was reading my bible, I read about snow in relation to cleansing. I prayed and dreamt that one day I will see how white snow is that the bible would choose to use it in comparison to how we look like when we are 
washed by the blood of Jesus. As I left my class in Moody Seminary in Chicago during my first winter experience in 2010, I touched my first snow. It was not a lot on the ground so I slowly 
motioned my hand onto someone's car and touched my first snow. You should have seen my eyes. I 
already have big eyes but they were even bigger. I thought snow came from the ground as it froze in cold but it came down like rain.

My heart swelled within me, my countenance light up I was filled with joy and looked my friend in the eyes and said, " this is what the bible means when it says our sins are washed as 
white as snow."
It was a dream come true. I love Jesus He answers our childlike prayers too !

A few days later it was dirty again. Isn't that just like you and I. We fall again and again but we are washed again and again. Just as the snow season is constant so is the blood. Oh America 
be washed heavily this season. May you realize that the blood covers multitudes of your wrong.
Just as snow covers the ground remember his blood covers your sin, it's finished. Snow may melt away but Jesus' blood was poured once and for all. Snow may get dirty again just like our lives. But it snows again. The season is consistent and so is God's faithfulness to us. His character is not 
determined by what we do but by who He is. I wish you and I would realize God's love through His 
eyes and not through our eyes.

I wept for you, that you will use this snowed in time to stop and get together as a family and pray. That this time will be a time of reconciliation as a family. A time were relationships are restored and wounds are healed. As many cannot leave home, may you have conversations started. I pray that you will find the boldness to talk about your fears and struggles and let others come along side you. 

I prayed for a healthy family time. It all starts in the home. Not in the church or school or government. When you fail in the family you fail in the public arenas too. Oh my heart weeps within me for us as a nation and world.

Oh I pray that alters of prayer will be started in every home. I pray that men will return to their creator. I pray that this time will be a time when men, families and the nation will hunger more for God. Huddle in prayer circles behind closed door.

I cried out to God on your behalf that you will not be bored in prayer or get busy on your phone but that you and I will will find this time when office is closed to pray. My heart weeps and groans for you that you will hear God calling you and stopping you to pray as a region and a nation. Oh God cause us to pray give us a motivation and a delight to talk to you. May we enjoy you more than we enjoy things that have replaced intimacy.

WHAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD LIKE FOR CHRISTMAS.

He would like to be Lord of your life. Not just your savior but also your Lord. 

Lets not go ahead of our selves. Lets back track a little. Consider Mary the mother of Jesus in Luke 1. Or let's say Hannah in 1 Samuel 1

These ladies were despised, rejected, ridiculed, Hannah's womb was closed by God himself. Mary was told by an angle that she will have child in a culture that cast out any girl unmarried yet with child.

Have you felt ridiculed, ashamed, despised. Miss understood, hated, an outcast and rejected?

Mary and Hannah felt just like you and so do I many times.

Authors you would agree with me that the chunk of space given to a topic determines the level of its significance right?

In the book of Samuel and the book of Luke, only one chapter is allotted to the misery and sorrow these ladies felt in comparison to the space and chapters / celebration given to the story that unfolds later. Did you know that God is for you? There is a bigger picture here?

The question is why? What made the difference for these ladies?
This is the answer. Hannah chose to believe God and Mary chose to say, "Be it unto me according to your word." Your attitude when something goes determines who is Lord.

See what happens centuries later. You and I are celebrating Jesus' birth. What celebrations are you holding back because you don't want Jesus to be Lord? Could that be the reason for pain and suffering today? We have accepted Jesus as Savior only and refused him as Lord? I am speaking to me 

The world needs to address the poverty question differently

The world needs to address the poverty question differently

NEW YORK TIMES Very sadly publicly displayed the African corruption, ... and the problem in African leadership in general. We have trained and capable people but this is what happens on day today living... Go change your country is a question we need to consider deeply as it is not just a mater of go, it's how do we help our leaders in Africa that is where it should start. It's the reason for poverty, injustice, ignorance and name it. It's not an easy walk into change that's if we are talking about Real Change. It cannot be done by an individual, it has to a collective effort. Many of the developed world wants change for under developed world but for real change to occur and for your seeds you plant in the children to sprout you need to clear the weeds in the garden or else the seed will choke as it finds it's way up, or plant strong trees that withstand thorns and bushes...

“I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination,” he said at his 1964 trial. “I’ve cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Mandela.

Today we suffer under black domination, being dominated by our very own. We seek a society with equal opportunity for all persons.

It is the imbalance in the question you have always asked.
Today as I travel around North America, the states I have not been to I can count on my fingers. The big question is why do Africans come here, study and find it hard to go back. It is like exile running away from the reality of dying with your dreams and potentials. This is the one of the many answers. The well educated want to put their skills into practice in a society of fairness and equal opportunity something Mandela fought for all his life.

If organisations that want to see a better Africa begin to focus on the real problem then we shall be talking lasting change but for now, we are fighting poverty cutting it's branches and not the root...
My personal opinion and conviction.
I know we need a solution not a problem trust me been boiling in my inside giving me sleepless nights for the past two years... The world needs to address the poverty question differently
The gap between the child helped with nutrition and developing their potential then giving them a platform. There is need of leadership development not just education but fighting to clear the bushes to the platform it's not a one man work... Especially with the gift of media.

Gary of the International Justice Mission real close to the problem by writing this

http://www.thelocusteffect.com/join-the-launch-team
Gary is putting his nose to the ground and getting his hands dirty together with his team and I commend him for REAL change. Lets support him. This is my passion right here real change...
Well compassion International gave me a voice to speak up it's developing it.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/world/africa/mandela-memorial-interpreter.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=WO_IAM_20131212&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1385874000000&bicmet=1388638800000&fblinkge0&_r=0

MINISTRY!

Thank you all for praying for me this year. God has been so gracious and faithful as to provide for me a family as I travel around North America this year. We are 19 Team members and 28 people total on our

team including the family of the revivalist and our team director. I know that I am exactly where God wants me to be this season of my life. God has been healing me from so much that I know would have been a big hindrance to what He would do in future through me. Life action is about transformation and authentic Christianity in community.  I literally see that I am different. My blurred vision has been cleared and I am able to love people more and now lead others on the path that

I have walked.

What I do on the team is sing in the four day thirst conferences and 8 day prayers summits. We have been to

five churches in five weeks so far and we are hardly two months into this journey. We have until May of 2014. In each church it has been awesome to see where they are at with God and come along side them to walk at their pace. It has been a learning process for me after Moody Theological seminary to actually put my theory into practice. It has been very humbling and I love it.

I also do announcements and closing prayer during the ladies luncheons every Tuesday, and I am so honored to work alongside women I look up to. I help out with girls on the team since most of them are between the ages of 17-27 years. 

I need prayers for good health because of a lot of travelling: we are at a different church and host home every Friday!  I am learning to let go of my “bed” comfort and the familiar and move at God’s pace, He has downsized me to just a carry on and a back pack each week. You cannot be a missionary and carry your suitcases of your favorite things around. Pray that I will give my best to each church and run a good race fixing my eyes on Christ alone. Thank you so much for those that contributed.

JUST FOLLOW!

I remember our first chapel in Compassion International head Offices in Colorado Springs (GMC). God is amazing! Deep in my spirit I knew what I was saying to be true but practically speaking, I didn't know what that looked like. I said, keep your eyes and ears open for we will lead this world back to God.  I still believe this today as i am being amazed at the doors God is opening. No one not even me can stand in the way of God.  I have always revered God, its better to obey Him now than to go through a humbling situation only to bring you back where you should have been in the first place. Lets stop trying to control God and those surrendered to Him.

 I am with Life Action ministries, leading churches in worship across America. what i had planned to do in Uganda at exactly the same time. Calling us to bow down before our maker, faces hitting the ground in total surrender to God. God changed all my plans and am just following him. Michael W Smith told me as we talked one evening in his bus after dinner. He looked at a flag and said, " you are like a flag blowed by the wind to a specific direction. Even though you try to go a different direction you cannot because God will push you from the back like a wind and also be in the front leading your each step."  He continued to say that whatever God meant for you will be fulfilled because you are different from so many i have met. I will never forget those words they are hidden in the most secret place of my heart.
Papa Wess Stafford said, "just love God. He will direct your path. He gave me His favorite verses Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the lord with all your heart, lean not on your own understanding and then He will direct your path. Why do we always want direction before we trust God and love Him? Direction comes last. He continued to say, I know you love God Lois but I don't know why He is asking you to love Him, just obey"
How I had plans to be in Uganda this summer but see where I am. How I got here only God could have done this not me.

THE BATTLE FRONT

THE BATTLE FRONT

What God is up to is always more than us but it always begins with us.  I woke up 5:00 am this morning with a burden to cry out to God. I don’t know how the day would have unfolded if I didn't yield to the promptings of the spirit. God knows what lies ahead, He knows the devil’s schemes and he always wants us ready for battle. I cried out sobbing in ways that words cannot express, I had no idea why. One of my sisters at the camp prayed with me both of us sobbing in the Spirit. As we prayed that God would intercede within us, we couldn't stop sobbing. Praying to be like Christ in His suffering, like Paul in jail but yet singing praise to Him, like Enoch walking with Him and being no more. I had no idea what I was praying for.

Not knowing what the day had in store for us, we heading to the front lines. Battle after battle as though the enemy was waiting for a spark for war then I was struck with sickness, I felt as though I had been sick for days. I could not walk from the Lodge where we had lunch to my room.  Someone was kind enough and gave me a ride to my cabin.  When I tried to get up and head down for practice I couldn't stand but had to walk and ask for a time of rest. I felt my life drifting and nowhere and no one to hold on to but God. I continued to cry out to God even in my weakest point. Feeling a little strong, I staggered to rise up again and looking at my phone I found a text that was a sign that the battle was still on. I continued to pray and chose to.  Then I got a text from my best friend and roommate Karen, telling me that she was praying for me.

Being in the battle front is not easy. James 1:2 ^“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,^[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³ because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. ⁴ Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”

If you remember please intercede for us as we intercede on your behalf.

God’s Course Change in My Life

I have written pages and pages about how my next step has unfolded.

In March of 2012 I remember being so certain that by this time next year I will be leading my country in authentic worship. My heart was so consumed in leading my entire country in facedown worship. I got so many friends of mine praying and was in contact with many pastors and radio stations in Uganda. While I was live, with Janet Parshall on Moody radio in her program in the market, she asked what I will be doing after graduating. My answer was that I will be leading my country in worship starting August 2013.

God had a different plan for me. I knew the calling and timing but had the wrong location. In Urbana Mission Conference, God told me that I am going to send you to a different culture and called me to accept possibly being uncomfortable. He said, those people will speak a ‘different Language’ I thought he was calling me to the Middle East or to Iraq or something of that sort. I never knew that he was calling me 3 hours away from Chicago.

I had my heart and soul set on Uganda but the way God changed everything around, was something only He could do. He said I will give up nations and peoples for your sake. He messes up systems and changes things just on time for His will. One thing I know for sure no one or nothing can stand in God’s way not even me. He changed my ‘big’ plans. I decided that obeying God is better than anything else. Obedience is always better than sacrifice. Following God is the wisest and safest thing anyone can ever do.

While in class, a Moody Radio staff member asked us to go pray on the One Cry event for the American National day of prayer. I went and got to know Ryan Loveing, His lovely wife, and the Moody Radio Executive vice. After praying, they asked me what next, I said I wasn’t sure yet. They were very kind and invited me to tour Life Action Head quarters where I clearly heard God say this is where I want you to be. It was a still small voice but I knew it was His voice. I became so restless until I said ok Lord, let’s go. Here I am now in Life Action. On the 6^th day at Camp, God told me, “Remember I told you to lead my people this summer?” I was shocked to realize that I had the wrong location. I was so glad to be in God’s will.

Now that I am with Life Action all I can think is “I don’t want to wait, I don’t want to rest I want to keep going.” God once again has different plans for me. At this moment in time He is calling me to wait on Him. A question we were asked today at Seek week with Life Action Ministries is “What if the revival he is calling this country and world to is dependent on your obedience?”  All I could say is, “Yes Lord.”

Join me in prayer, this journey is very humbling, I am still fighting. I love being busy, I cannot be still. I don’t know how to receive, I know how to give. I started thinking about my siblings when I was 12 years old; I started to worry about my mom’s health. I don’t know how to let go of responsibility and wait on God. I need to totally surrender. This week, I am waiting on God to break me and completely take me over.

https://www.lifeaction.org/conferences/schedule/?team=white-team