My mind is blown

So I've been doing my work now with out a peruvian partner for like about a month now and I was worried that I would not be able to do as good as a job as Jorge being he is still in his own country and being that its his language he is speaking. But let me tell you God is so awesome!! I have seen such an awesome improvement in my work. I mean about 5 new contacts in Oropesa and in Urcos not having any contacts before he left and now having about 6.. WOW!!! My mind is blown. Please continue to pray for the awesome work God is doing here in Peru through ordinary people like your self.

The BREAK Fest Club

O man were do I start?
Well December 28th we/ Beth Beers, Cailyn Stevens, Tyler and Amy Liebelt and I were getting ready to make some pumpkin pancakes as we were talking about a bunch of random stuff. Then Beth and I remember about the night before. We had heard a massive boom that was louder than a normal fire work right by the house. Well we were asking everybody if they had heard it last night. That very second another boom went off, it was at least twice as loud as the one Beth and I were taking about . This boom shook our entire house. Now let me remind you all my house is 3 stories and made out of thick concrete, so when I say this boom was loud it was loud. But any way we all run out on the balcony and see our neighbors 3 house down has smoke billowing out of the top. As we see this we see a woman running toward to explosion and seeing something as she gave out a shrieking scream. So Tyler and I grab first aid kits and ran as fast as we could over to the house. As we made our way to the door to enter into the compound there was already a crowd forming around it. Tyler and I make our way in and were shocked by what we saw. A two story house blown to pieces and a body of what was a woman on the ground covered with a blanket. We checked to see if anybody was hurt just a boy with a cut above his eye that I cleaned out for him. Not knowing what els we could do we returned back to the house and shared that a 45 year old woman had died and that we should pray for the family, so we did. Please also be in prayer for them. (If your wondering what the explosion was they were fabricating fire works and Im guessing there hole stash blew up)

Puerto Maldonado
So Tyson and Tracey Smith are some awesome people please be in prayer for them. But any way the just had a baby in Arequipa and there house in in Puerto Maldonado. After having there beautiful baby boy they found out that there house had flooded and not just any rain water but like swig/ poop water. There house and all there possessions were most likely covered with poop water. So Tyler decided to go and give a helping hand for a week.

Here are some pictures of the flooding.


This is there bathroom.


This is Tyler and I in the tub filled with the blackest poop water ever.


This is Tyler and I dumping what was in the tub of black poo


Me in the water hole trying to get the poo water out.



So one of the days we were in Puerto we decided to get the city to come and dig a canal or some kind of ditch to drain the crazy flooding in the street by the house. Because it was like this



So they came out and tore up the bridge that was there and made the canal bigger. Than they left with out fixing the bridge. So Tyson, Tyler and I decided to make a new one. Now keep in mind we are building a bridge that big trucks drive over, so you can imagine the difficulty of it. So as we are digging a man comes over saying if we cant get this bridge built then he is going to cave in the trench that was made to have the flooding drain because he needed cars to be able to get to his business down the road. So he started to help us build the bridge. As we started digging again a man starts yelling in my ear and tyler and I have no idea what he was talking about but turns out he had been trying to get the city out there to build a real trench made out of cement for a long time and he was just mad at them and he also started to help. A few minutes pass by and a 3rd guy comes. Now let me tell you this guy was mad, M A D mad. He started screaming at all of us then him and the 2nd got into it and it got pretty heated. So long story short the 3rd man shoved the 2nd guy into the poop water and picked up the shovel and threatened to hit him. We calmed him down and he ended up walking away threatening us that he was going to reck the bridge we were making. But we made it and it is jungle strong let me tell you. Here is a picture of what we like to call the money bridge.





But please join me in pray for The Smith's thank you all and God Bless.

If God is leading you to, jump on in.

www.extremenazarene.org go to staff and I will be the first one. Thank you for your time and God Bless.

Soldier of the Cross

So this is our last week of work till Christmas break witch someone of us are in dire need of. This month has been a very hard one for the Cusco team and just me in general. One of the hard things I have had this month is trying to help / deal with my partner. I mean don't get me wrong my partner is awesome and is a great man of God. But when your with someone every second of the day you just tend to bite at each others ankles, you know? But its so hard here for many reasons. I mean my spanish is not bad but it can defiantly be better but I hate studying. Everyday I am faced with the option to study or do what ever els I need to be doing that day. I'm tempted more than ever to not read my bible and everything will be ok if I don't. I am tempted everyday to go through the motions of my daily work. I am tempted to retaliate at work when people call me names and say My God is not real. I am tempted to get mad everyday when the people slam there doors in my face. If people are not in the word if they take everything as a sign they are going to fall into the trap the devil has waiting for us everyday. Everyday we are pushed out of our comfort zones and if your not ready for that you WILL lose sight of why your here. It's so easy to forget why your here, but we NEED to remember we cant do it on our own. For I am a soldier of the cross and I will not be beaten by the easy why out. I will study everyday to better my spanish, I will be in daily prayer and devotion, I will have faith that my partner will come back after break, I will stay faithful, I will do what you ask of me, I will suffer if that means people are brought to to you, I will because I believe. I mean with all this said, I am reminded daily of how blessed I really am and when I sit and think about it I cant do anything but thank God for what I have, for my family, for my friends and for the new family I have and "all" the awesome / amazing people I have had the privilege to meat and know for the rest of my life. I can do nothing but thank my awesome mighty and powerful God for keeping me in His will and here in Peru. Thank you Lord I am forever yours Amen.

Please pray with me this Christmas holiday about my team and especially for Jorge my partner. He is really having a hard time with a lot of things. He will be returning home this Christmas to visit his family but he will be gone for a month. So please pray that he returns, because God has called him here and I know 100% that he is suppose to be my partner. thank you all and God Bless.

Satan's Dirty Little Secret

So I've been reading this book called Satan's Dirty Little Secret by DR. Morris Cerullo and its been pretty awesome. Long story short: God give Morris a vision a few years ago about this high school that he was preaching at. Before he went in for his second time going in, he decided to pray and deal with the spiritual warfare before he went in. He then had two visions: one about what was about to happen during his sermon, and the other that changed his life for ever. In the vision he saw the school, but out of both sides of the school out of the ground were giant tentacles. They were the thickest at the ground and grew thiner as they towered over the school almost touching. Around and clinging to these tentacles were all the demons that trapped the students: drugs, sex, girls etc. So Morris started to cast the demands out in the Lord's name. And as he did, one by one they flew out with a huge force. But Morris was not sure it was working; he just felt like it was not doing anything. So he looked at these two tentacles and started to pray harder to understand what these two tentacles were. As he did so the vision got deeper and he could now see under the school. The tentacles were thick and as they grew deeper toward each other they grew skinnier and almost touched. and on them were words saying what they were.

One said Insecurity and the other was inferiority.

Insecurity = the state of being not secure, not confident, not firm.
Inferiority = the state of feeling lower in position, stature, or value.

The devil has used these two demons since the beginning of time. It all stated with Adam and Eve. Genesis 3:1-6 explains what happened. I mean, yeah we all know the story but I urge you to read it again. There is a terrible truth in this story.

"Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" Thus the set-up begins. The very first step of satan was to call into question the word of God. Everything Adam and Eve knew to be true was based solely on what God had spoken to them. God's Word was their only source of truth. They walked with God and talked with God. He gave them the commands concerning the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve's security was based on the assumption that everything God said was true. God spoke it, and that settled it. She had never even considered questioning the truthfulness of God's Word. Satan's strategy was to set her up, so he could call God's truthfulness into question. So he asks the question as he misquoted what God had actually said. Satan said "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" Eve says "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree in the midst of the garden, God hath said, 'Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, less ye die.'" Eve now has responded the the false statement. But at this point she was already engaged in a conversation in which she shouldn't have engaged.

Satan was now ready to release the first of the two demon spirits upon Eve. The serpent said "Ye shall not surely die." The first of the two was released. Named insecurity. We knew that everything that Eve had believed was based on the absolute trust that everything God said had been true. Now she is thinking the question "Is God a liar?" She began to feel her whole world crash around her. She began to feel insecure.

Right after this he released the second of the two named Inferiority. He said "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." Now Eve starts to believe she is not who she thought she was.

The same two demons get us to day using the same moves over and over to trap us Christians. Over and over, we trip over the same things. Well we need to bring it to a stop. For Satan has no power over us. Our greatest enemy is our bad thinking. Some people would say, "Well I thought the devil was my worst enemy?" Well that would be wrong because he has already been defeated, all thanks to our awesome God. But we need to locate the battle field and locate the enemy. We need to be victorious Christians. And it's everywhere but it is possible. It is possible to have the mind like Christ Jesus. For Jesus never looked at sin with longing. No, I tell you, he hated sin. He had His mind so in line with the mind of the Father that even His senses were repulsed by sin. We can live this way. We can so take on the mind of Christ that even our senses, our emotions, are repulsed by sin. (Hebrews 5:14)

So my prayer is that we all have an experience with the living Word that is so overwhelming, so strong, so good, pleasant, and desirable, that it will forever change the way we think. Amen.

Updates

Updates
Hey everyone sorry its been so long but we still dont have internet yet so im sorry about the no updates. Saylla, Oripesa and Urcos are my church plant sights and everythings going great so far. In all three places this week to gether 21 people have excepted Christ Jesus into there hearts. Praise God!! Jorge and I have also had doors slamed in our face and people say we dont know what were talking about. But let me tell you its worth every second of it.

On My mind

Inferiority = The state of feeling lower in position, stature, or value
Insecurity = The state of not being secure, not confident, not firm

These two things controll us so much and we have let it from the begining of time. with Eve. Genesis 3:1-6
But anyway I would love to go more on this matter but I´m at a internet cafe at the moment and my time is running out. But if lets try our best to get rid of the Inferioritys and Insecuritys in our lives.We cant have them. but God Bless and when I have more time id love to expand on this matter. God Bless

Updates

So it’s been pretty eventful hear Daniel got sent home my partner was getting depressed I’m a little sad and just the devil is really attacking all of us. My partner was a bit depressed just because he did not really understand the meaning of confrontation. He felt like when he was confronted with anything we did not trust him and everyone did not like him. I think it’s a Peruvian thing and also Peruvians care too much about what other people think of them but it’s also because there always being judged. But any way I confronted my partner and told him to quit his attitude because it was affecting everyone in the group. I told him, I said “Jogre you can’t not talk to me we need to communicate to have an affective relationship. I want to help you please tell me how I can. My job here is to plant churches but also to be your partner and help you when you’re down and help you carry the weight of the problem.” After that he felt a bit better and God is good because that was the best Spanish I’ve ever spoke. I’m just a bit sad but excited about moving on Sunday to Cusco. Why you ask well I’ve meet some awesome friends during my 9 months of being here and now I’ve got to move that part blows but I am thrilled to start me work and destroy the thrown of evil in Cusco. Please just continue to pray for both Arequipa and the Cusco team as we push and strive to the goal that the Lord has appointed us to. Thank you God Bless