Me and Allison, January 2008

I have some wonderful news to share. Well mostly its wonderful for me and my best friend, Allison. But I just can’t help but praise the Lord!

The Lord has blessed me with the opportunity to fly to New York to visit her and her family and new baby girl Paityn.

I have been praying about when I should go, and the money for a plane ticket for a while now. Tuesday night I called her and left her a message saying that I wasn’t going to be able to come. But then the Lord provided, like He always does and I have  plane ticket for Friday morning!! I’ll be there by Friday afternoon and I’ll spend the weekend with them! I haven’t seen her for over a year and so I am very excited to get to visit and catch up. I am sure I will take lots of pictures of Paityn, and I’ll make sure to blog with pictures!!

I just love the Lord so much and just PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!! There really is NONE like Him!

Great news!!

Praise the Lord!

He is so wonderful!

He answers prayer!

Are you ready to hear why!?

The Lord PAID OFF ALL OF MY CREDIT CARD DEBT!!! IT”S ALL GONE! NONE LEFT!!!

HE IS SO MERCIFUL to do this for me, even with all the mistakes I’ve made in the past!

WOOHOO! THANK YOU JESUS!!!

I have officially moved in.

I now live with two of the sweetest people! Tom and Becky Burns.

I have a new roommate. Jess Wright. She is also one of the interns for Immersed.

We live in a huge room together, and I sleep on a brand new mattress! I’m really excited about that! haha…

The Lord has blessed me immensely!
and…

I’m happy.

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Also, Tom Burns has a website company. He does the IHOP-AC website!

He is great! If you have any need for your website check his website out!

Having your website redone, or optimized will make you…

Happy.

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I blogged about IHOP-AC needing 10,000 dollars by the 16th here.

On Monday the 12th, we prayed about it during intercession. Monday afternoon the Lord provided the 10,000 dollars! HE IS SO AMAZING!

His provision makes us…

Happy.

And He delights in giving gifts to His children so it makes Him…

Happy.

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God is really good. Thank You, L0rd!

I am feeling good yesterday and today! Praise the Lord!

I guess it was a 24 hour thing that I was sick with. Praise the Lord that He is faithful and I am feeling good!!

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I have have a couple more days left before I leave for my road trip to Florida. Until then, my days are full of prayer room time with Jesus, wonderful time with friends, eating yummy foods and getting things packed up.

I like to cheat when it comes to packing. I usually do my laundry a couple days before, then I fold it all in my hamper, and put it in my car. And there it stays until I get home and unload. Easiest way to pack ever. Well, except that it is in the 30’s -50’s here in North Carolina, and it is not that weather in Florida. So I will have to adjust some. But still, I’m feeling good about my easy packing and my road trip!

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Something else I’m feeling good about is worshiping Jesus! Oh man was today spectacular! We had to leave the actually physical room of the prayer room early today. They were installing a new sound system. So the 6 or 7 of us headed to a small  back room and decided to do prayer and worship there.

Well, my friend David Rickman who I posted about here, went to a house of prayer in California called the Refuge House of Prayer. Something they did there was have every person in the room sing through a chapter in the Psalms. He said it was awesome. So that is what we decided to do today.

Everyone sang, regardless of whether you could sing or not. It was powerful! We did it for about an hour and a half. We sang through chapters 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100. Each person did a different chapter. Wow was it amazing. We just sang scripture. It does something to your heart, because The Word is living and active!

A quick testimony of the power of singing the scriptures and to make myself vulnerable:

I was really struggling as we came into this meeting. The Lord was really showing things in my heart, and I was battling with taking every thought captive. Love was not in my heart in these moments. It was really awful. And I didn’t want to sing the Psalms. I can’t sing, and so therefore I wasn’t going to. So everyone else sang a chapter. And by the time they all finished like 6 chapters, my heart was completely softened. I had been singing and declaring the praises of the Lord and the goodness of the Lord and I couldn’t stay in the attitude that I was in. If I was, then it would be a conscious decision to not be in the Lord’s presence and I wasn’t about to do that. So I gave in and sang with the rest of them. Then we got to chapter 97 and everyone else had sang. And all of them looked at me. One gently nudges me with his foot, the other loudly exclaims, “come on, Manders!” I knew I was supposed to sing. I wanted to sing. The words already had the power to melt my hardened heart. But I cannot sing. But I had to do it, so after they encouraged me some, and the guitarist found a chord progression I could try to sing to, I began. And by the second or third line I was belting it!

There was freedom for me in this! By the end of it, I was intoxicated with the presence of the Lord. It was amazing! God is so wonderful and beautiful and I want to declare His works and His goodness to all people! He is amazing! He reigns over all this earth. Whether you want Him to or not, and whether you believe He does or not. His existence and position does not changed based on mere humans beliefs.

He is alive and He is reigning! Bless God!

What is an Intercessory Missionary? Intercession is praying to God on behalf of someone else. I am a missionary because I am in full-time ministry in Alamance County, asking God to move in this region through prayer and worship. I not only cry out on behalf of this region but the nation and the world.

As an Intercessory Missionary this is my full-time occupation, first ministry to the Lord in my priesthood identity and ministry to others. I have commited myself to this not only as my occupation but as my lifestyle. I desire to be part of a movement that creates an atmosphere where God’s manifest presense continually dwells. Right now where the Father and Jesus are positioned, in the Throne Room, there is continual worship, crying “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.” Rev. 4:8.

That is what I want to see on this earth. “Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Matt. 6:10

I am crying out for a bride (the church) who would be ready and waiting for her Bridegroom (Jesus) to return. Like the virgins in Matt. 25. So that “The Spirit and the bride say, “Come.” Rev. 22:17.