At the beginning of this month I felt the calling to go deeper with the Lord, I didn’t know how thing will look like. Nevertheless, I said yes Lord the picture I got was of a big Lake and God invited me to swim into the deepest of the Lake to meet Him there.
This month I was bless in many ways spiritually, there was a team from New Hope in Taxes that came and visit in South Africa at our campus. The first week they went to Mbonisweni one of the community that I am helping the youth. The first week they taught the youth and me about Leadership while one of the teammate was teaching some went out and prayed for us and asking the Lord to give them a word for us.
This what I got on that day Mathew 8 vs 13 Jesus said what you believe will happen. And “Psalm 118 vs 7 The Lord is on my side, He will helped me, let those who hate me beware. Is better to trust the Lord, than put confidence in man.”
In life is easy to trust man for things I find myself trusting my friends to support me and forget, that it is the Lord who called me not my friends. Also I got this too “You pour out of you entire being joy. It is contagious and wonderful.
One day I went with the team to do home visit in Dwaleni and at the second house we visited, we found a single lady in her twenties alone, lonely, no one to talk to, no one to laugh with, no one to share life with, I was heartbroken for her. It took me back where I came from lonely even though my dad was alive but I felt not loved I never experience the love of a father in my life, that was something missing in my life growing up. It was painful to see her in that situation it made to realise how much we need each other in life. While I was reflating to what God showed me, the New Hope team came and prayed over me and I got a scripture in
ISAIAH 61 vs 1-9 “The spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion- to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning and a garment of praise instead if a spirit if despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his splendour. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for generations. Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your field and vineyards. And you will be called priest of the Lord, you will be named minister of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches, you will boast. Instead of their shame my people will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be theirs. For I, the Lord, love justice; i hate robbery and iniquity. In my faithfulness I will reward them and make an everlasting covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations and their offspring’s among the peoples. All who see them will acknowledge that they are a people the Lord has blessed.” They also prayed for the woman and she was healed and gave her life to Christ.
On that same week, the New Hope team-taught me and the youth more about the Holy Spirit, lots of the youth got healed from their past and they received the Holy Spirit. One guy one day pulled me aside and said “ I had dream about you, we were seating somewhere and underneath there was two big giant snakes, but you Stanley remain and fought with the snakes and killed it, that mean there is power in you” it was a dream it can be true or not. Kristal and Petty from the New Hope team asked me lots of question about my gifts and many more. She asked me if I do have a prayer language and I said, “no”. She said, “do you want it now” I said, “sure” they began praying for me in the tongues and they told to give my tongue to God and. I did what I was asked to do, without noticing in few minutes later I was speaking in a language that I don’t know. I felt the Holy Spirit in a way that I never felt it before. It was like electricity in my body but it was the Holy Spirit. I lay down for few minutes I don’t even know how long I was on the ground. While I was on the flow being drunk with the Holy Spirit. I got some words, which I believe they were from the Lord this is what I got “You are full of fire, you are a fire blazer, there is more to come, you will go far, healing will come from your hands”. When I woke up I barely walk there was some point where I was walking with my eyes closed. I went to bed to cool off, when I woke up, after few hours I read my bible in 1 Corinthians 14 vs 1-4 what I got was that I need to pray and ask God what does my praying language mean.
Also in one of the letter that my friends wrote for me, I found this word that I felt that the Lord said to me “There is more to come to you”
Every Thursday morning I have a small group and one day John one of my friends suggested us to read all the scripture that our friends wrote for us because we all got a letter. I don’t know the Lord works but for sure God is up for something big for my life, in the letter this is what I got.
The first scripture is in 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gift of healing by that one Spirit. To another miraculous power, to another prophesy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.”
The second scripture is in James 1:2-18 but I will share verse 17 and 18 “Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of first fruits of all he created.”
The third one is in 2 Corinthians 13:4-6 “For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God’s power. Like wise, we are weak in him, yet by God’s power we will live with him to serve you. Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you-unless, of course, you fail the test? And i trust that you will discover that we have not fail the test.” The last one in in Acts 2:17-18 “In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.” After reading this scriptures I felt it was a conformation from the Lord.
After getting all this from the Lord and the people that God spoke to me, I felt scares and excited at the same time. One thing that I learned from Nancy was to be silent if I want to hear God’s voice and to see things in a different way. One weekend I was with my relatives and two young girls came to buy airtime at the house, I saw an opportunity to share the Gospel. I ask the girls questions one by one, in one of the girls I saw God’s heart for the Nation she has the heart for medicine. All the country in the world needs medicine. After sometime I spend time with the them, I gave them the invitation to know the Lord as their life saviour. Both of them accepted Christ that day, glory and praise goes to the Lord. When I got home I read a letter that a friend of mine left me Nicole from the New Hope team there was a scripture that she wrote for it is in Matthew 28:19-20 and that what I did on the same day she wrote the scripture to me.
The last story In the youth service as we been taught how to rely on the Holy Spirit, I gave each youth a name of a person and they had to go home and pray for that person and ask God to give them something. One of the girls that I got her name and she didn’t know that I was praying for her. She asked me if she can talk to me and she gave me her journal to ready something in it. She is a teenage and she is struggling with lots of heavy things in her life, she doesn’t trust anyone in the community even in her family. She felt to speak to me, because she trust me. I was being careful as I read her journal God reminded about my mission statement you can see it on top on my blog. I then connected her with one of our TTH staff Kacy. I didn’t want to do thing a lone especial she is a girl. She met with Kacy and She let things out of her heart. We have been called for discipleship this is part of it. My role now is to do a follow up and support where I can.
This month I feel like God is cooking me for something big
Prayer request
Ø For guidance to the things He want me to do
Ø For a car to go around and do what I have been called for and to see my family
Ø Wisdom in discipleship
