I want to highlight some of last week's important events.
On Friday night, our team was invited to minister at an overnight prayer meeting to about 100 people - this was our first chance to preach. We arrived at the prayer meeting at 9pm, and at around 10pm three of our team members, Thalia, Shannon, and Nathalie, shared a testimony in front of the assembled intercessors. Each testimony was powerful. Thalia testified about how God made her fall in love with the house of prayer; Shannon shared about how God made the love of the Father real to him (everybody cried, or wanted to cry); and Nathalie shared about how Jesus Christ is the only thing that has satisfied and sustained her heart. All three testimonies could have had an altar call - they were anointed. After those three, I preached a sermon out of Mark 14 (Garden of Gethsemane) on friendship with Jesus in intercession. After my sermon, Cory led worship on acoustic, Nathalie sang along, Shannon played drums, Tyler played bass, and one of our Kenyan friends, Tony, played keys. It was an anointed prophetic worship time. Cory and Nathalie had a spirit of prophecy on them. A catchy chorus that the whole congregation loves came out during that time that goes like this: "I wanna be your friend, faithful to the end; I wanna be the one, who weeps in the garden." I've been singing it since then:) So good.
On Saturday the team split up. Nathalie and I went to Imani Radio Station, and the rest of the team went to a youth conference. I'll share about what happened at the Imani since I wasn't there at the youth conference. Basically we were interviewed on a popular Saturday morning program that targets young people specifically; this program is where they mostly play the cool, contemporary Christian music as opposed to the boring, old people stuff:) hahaha. Anyhow, we were asked some questions, in front of an audience of 1.5 - 2 million listeners, about who we are and why we are doing what we're doing in Kenya. Nathalie and I both felt the anointing of the Holy Spirit on our words; we spoke with clarity and boldness about the worth of Christ, and the necessary convergence of prayer, worship, and missions. Our radio hosts were obviously taken aback by the content of our words, and the confidence with which we spoke. One of the questions went something like this, "Wow, that's deep. You mentioned three things: prayer, missions, and worship. How do these things go together?" This was the most beautiful question that he could of asked! I responded to his questions with three verses: Mt. 9:36-38, Mt. 28:19, Rev. 7:9-10. In summary, I said that we are praying for the harvest, for the purpose of missions, unto eternal, international worship. It was awesome. Nathalie and I were feeling the presence of the Lord as we were talking to maybe a couple million young people. We were also able to share some of what we think is the prophetic destiny of Kenya - that Kenya would be a light that penetrates the unevangelized darkness of North Africa with the Gospel. It was such an awesome opportunity.
At Church yesterday morning, the radio host came up to me and said that since we shared, people have been sending in text messages and phone calls talking about "Nathalie and Mike" (everybody in Kenya calls me Mike, even though I introduce myself as Michael) and how much they loved it when we shared. So in a couple of weeks when we get to share on Imani Radio again, hopefully we'll read text messages saying, "God is calling me to the 10/40 window to preach the Gospel." Amen!
Thank you for all of your prayers and support. Be praying for us this week. As I mentioned earlier, we'll be in Turkana for one week, and we want God to overcome these people with the power of His Holy Spirit, and leave a lasting impact. We want to see them awakened in radical devotion to Christ.
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