Treasure Hunt!

Oh my goodness two blogs in one week!! You guys are so lucky!!
So today we did something so cool! We went on a treasure hunt! This wasn't your normal treasure hunt, it was a Spirit lead hunt. So what we did was we prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to show us pictures or give us words, or anything to give us hints as to where to go (remember the most of us are not from around here so we don't know what to look for). Once we recorded these "hints" we broke into groups and went out to Colorado Springs and surrounding area's to try to find these things/people to pray for. In my group the words that we got were blue shirt, blue sweater, blue, and old wheel, Garden, Garden of the Gods (which is a place around here), a picture of a man in a wheel chair and a person with something wrapped around her finger.
We found out that my group and another one were going to this little community about 10 mins. away and it is very dark and into witch craft and new age religion. So like smart people we are we prayed and got the armor on and went out to fight.
Crazy side story, we heard that one of the girls in another group had a vision of a moose ( I thought right away CANADA!!!), we had to drop off some people with this other group and sure enough they were at the pottery store with a stinking huge metal moose out front... Crazy!!!! They were able to pray with the owner and help him out and minister to him!!
So yes my group just started driving not too sure how our words would connect but believing that God had a plan. So we were driving and drove right past this campsite called "Garden of the Gods Campsite!" we thought this was something that had to be pursued! We were walking around the campsite and all of a sudden we see not only one old wagon with wheels but two!! Oh boy we were very excited. Me and a couple girls felt like we just needed to hang out in that spot for a little bit. We were not too sure weather or not to go and knock on the door of the trailer right beside the wagon, so we started to walk away and this lady comes out of the trailer and asks us what we were doing. Hesitantly we walked towards her and asked her if we could pray for her, she jumped around and yelled yes, (the back of her shirt said "Campers for Christ") it turns out that she was part of an organization that goes around to campsites and holds two services a day and just ministers to the people in the camp sight! They had been running into problem after problem, so us being there was so confirming for them! So we got to pray for her! It was amazing! We then had the idea to pray around the area that they would be meeting, so the others came around and the lady got the other people she was in and you will never guess what color their shirts were BLUE!!!! It was crazy! So we all prayed for them, and they prayed for us and we were all sooo blessed and amazed at how the Lord had clearly led us there!
We also got to pray for this lady at the same camp ground, she was skeptical as to who we were praying to,but when she found out that we pray to Jesus she was more than open to it. It was such a blessing to be able to bless other believers and to be part of God letting his children know that they are not forgotten!
It was an amazing experience! I wish I could tell you everything that happened, but that would take forever! We did not get to see the fruits of the other things that people saw, but we will keep our eyes open!

God is good and if we ask him he is faithful to answer!!!
Have a great night!!
~Sheri

Failure is not Truth!

Hello everyone!

So much has happened these last 2 weeks! We had our first class last week (Recognizing the Voice of God) and let me tell you it was like nothing I have ever experienced before! It didn’t really seem like a class it was more like spiritual boot camp. Day after day just learning the things that keep us from recognizing God's voice and then just sitting and letting him speak so much truth into our lives. He essencailly just starting ripping lies out and filling those holes with truth.

Two huge things that God started to teach me last week were: 1. He wants me to discover him, for who he really is, not who I have made him to be. He wants me to discover him like a child discovers their daddy's face! I am his daughter and he delights in me just like a daddy delights in his daughter’s first steps.

The other huge thing that he has been teaching me is that I need to let myself be loved, by him and friends and family. I also need to let myself love as well. I have been so scared of being hurt once again, but he has reminded me that he won’t leave me as a dry and barren land but he will replant what he tore up. It is so hard for me to be vulnerable with people, but through a few different circumstances that he has put in my path there is not option to love and let myself be loved!

Yes these lessons may seem like elementary learning but let me tell ya it is so fundamental to my faith!

Another thing that clicked today was that Failure is not truth. The only reason why we think that we fail is because of the things that other people have done, the bar's that they have set. God did not create failures he created sons and daughters, warriors and conquers. He knows what we can handle and I think that most of the things we feel that we failed at weren't even things that the Lord was asking us to do, they were things that we figured we should do. Ah pleasing people and not God, something I am definitely guilty of.

Prayer requests!!! Please be praying that my mind and heart will remain open to what God wants to do. Last week was so huge and I am still exhausted from it, my I am in a way going into a defence and I can feel myself building walls up.

Another thing that kind of goes hand in hand with that is just this feeling of being ready to go home. I think a combination of home sickness, being satisfied with what I have learned these last weeks and just wanting to give up. Have no fear I am staying here there has never ever been a moment of doubt that this is where I am suppose to be. It is just so much to take it in such a short amount of time.

Thank you all so much for your continual prayers. I can definitely feel them everyday!

~Sheri

I'm here!!!

Hey guys!!
So yes I am in COS and I am really enjoying it! The trip down was amazing! The Lord gave me so much peace while I was travelling, I definitely did not feel like I was travelling alone! So Praise the Lord for answered prayers and a definite miracle that he worked that day!
It has been pretty crazy since I got here. We had the incredible privilege to go to a Jubilee celebration for YWAM's 50th anniversary. The guest speakers were Lorne and Darlene Cunningham, the founders of YWAM. Before I came down I really wanted to hear them speak, but also knew that the chances of that happening were slim to non, but God is so amazing and I got to hear them speak so much. It was an amazing way to start YWAM, just a sweet chance to get re-focused and to get so amped ( I don't think I have ever used that word before) for what God is going to do. I realized that I was all excited for God to use other people to do amazing things but never really had the faith that he would use me. This is something that I know I need to work on. I need to have the faith that the Lord will work through me and I need to be obedient and do it.
I also realized that I have been in this mind set of always needing to surrender everything, but I have realized that I need to just be obedient and see what he asks me to do. I am not too sure why but thinking of my life as someone who is obedient rather than always sacrificing seems to make more sense of this relationship that I have. I am not too sure if that makes sense.
So yes, my time here is going well, it seems like I have been here for so long. I am slowly making friends and really enjoying getting to know some of the girls on a deeper level!
I will post again soon!! Thank you soooo much for your prayers, it means so much. I can definitly feel the Lord's peace!
~Sheri