Visions of Zimbabwe

Exciting times, my friends. God has been training me and growing me abundantly, and I can't remember a time where I'm not maxing out on my spiritual output for the past 6 months. This is really amazing. He's taught me to transfer visions onto paper, with colourful symbolic sketches, while drawing was never a talent, He always gives the ability to draw when it is necessary. Now I just enjoy sketching, and bring my sketchbook out with me everywhere. I've been spending a lot of time learning about Him, hearing from Him, and seeing from Him, not to mention being rebuked and growing further Christ-like. It's been hard work, but it's been amazing.

So anyway.. I think a couple months ago, while I was sharing my faith story with friend, she told me about Heidi Baker's work in Mozambique, and their School of Ministry there, and it's exciting for me to find out about that because they have similar ideals and beliefs as I do, especially on loving one person at a time, serving the ultra-poor and on fully relying on God for finances. I've been looking for direction in terms of ministry as well as a modern day ministry school. I don't like seminary, but I do very much like learning on the job, as well as learning practical skills like prayer, healing and worship. This is my first knowledge about Southern Africa.

Today, I took a nap at around 7pm, and had a very short dream that I woke abruptly from, and it goes like this: I was standing in a pool of water, and my shoes, my socks and the bottom of my shorts or trousers were wet, and my cheeky friend came along and asked if I was spending too much time in Muriel's Mine. I woke up wondering what that means, so I did some googling and found "Muriel Mine, Zimbabwe" on a map. And since the dream was about water, I went on maps to see if there were large bodies of water somewhere, and the closest body of water is a lake very far from the mine. I was a little confused, so I prayed for further hints on what it may be about. And I had a spark of inspiration, and deleted "Muriel Mine" from my search and searched "Zimbabwe flood" instead. And there it was, flood reports for Zimbabwe for both Feb 2014 and Jan 2015. And just out of curiosity, I zoomed out on the map that I was on, and found that Zimbabwe was the next door neighbor to Mozambique! Since I'm not a knowledgable person, before today I was only 60% sure that Zimbabwe was in Africa at all. It was even less with Mozambique two months ago, I had a sneaky suspicion that since it sounded a bit French that it may be a small country that I overlooked in Europe. *laughs*

So anyway, brothers and sisters, I would ask if you can pray for the flood situation in Zimbabwe and pray that people will be kept safe and will experience God's love, grace, and mercy through this ordeal.

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After making this post, a brother in Christ shared a dream that he had on Feb 3. It was about a man that he knew from Zimbabwe being forced into slave labour, and about floods being planned by the government to displace people for more trafficking. I did a quick google search and found that this is true, and the last updates about floods on this website (http://floodlist.com/tag/zimbabwe) were made on Feb 3 and 4 this year.

So I'd like to invite you to pray with us as we pray for the injustice being done to the 3,300 families that were displaced last year, and however many more that will be and had been displaced over the years, and ask God to bring an end to modern day slavery and comfort and love to the people affected.

I declare the Beatitudes over them (Matt 5:3-12)

He said:

3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
    for they will be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
    for they will inherit the earth.
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
    for they will be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
    for they will be shown mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
    for they will see God.
9 Blessed are the peacemakers,
    for they will be called children of God.
10 Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12 Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.