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This trip was a testimony to God's provision, sovereignty, and work throughout the world in our generation.

Provision:
If Jesus calls you to something he will see you through it, he will make it happen. This journey started off a few weeks after God called me to move to London, England in a year. I received an email about the 24/7 Prayer conference called Magnify. Jesus told me I was to go and that he would provide. So I spent my bank account on a ticket in faith that he would indeed do the rest. Here is how he came through:

• A friend of a friend hosted me, got me acquainted with city, and even cook a few meals for me!
• Another friend gave me a ride to Chicago and then to the airport
• I was at a prayer house in Grand Rapids two days before I left, two guys separately came up to me and gave me money saying God told me to give this to you. It totaled $250, it was the exact amount I needed for all the minor expenses with the poor currency exchange. 
• Jesus told me not to buy a train ticket in advance for the trip home from Chicago. Later I found out that I would have missed that train. 
• As I landed in Chicago I asked the Lord if I should buy a train ticket now and said that someone would buy it for me. Right about then my mom called and said that she would buy the train ticket for me.
• I needed a place to stay in Chicago b/c I was too late for the train that day. So my friends offered their house and we had a lovely evening. 
• I needed money for train tickets around Chicago from the airport and to and from my friends house. As I was walking to the train station the wind was blowing and a 10 dollar bill and 5 dollar bill blow and land at my feet. Not past me. They stopped at my feet. 

Our God is so faithful. 

Sovereignty:

God is so big. He is in control. Nothing can happen without his permission. In Job 1 we see Satan asking God permission to afflict Job. God gave me more revelation on this as I as running frantically through an airport in Brussels, Belgium begging God to stall the plane from taking off without me. All of a sudden it hit me. That plane cannot take off unless God allows it to. If God wants me on that plane, there is nothing that can stop me from getting on it. If he doesn't want me on it, there is nothing I can do to make that flight. But that thought gave me peace know that whatever happened would be what God wanted to happen. Then I was filled with peace knowing that his will would be done....I ended up making the plane even though I really shouldn't have. God is doing the impossible all over the world and the conference was filled with 250ish people from 21 nations testifying to this.


What God is doing in our generation:
In the year 2000 God started rising up the modern prayer movement all around the world through organizations like the International House of Prayer in Kansas City, MO, 24/7 Prayer in the UK, and The Call, to name a few. These organizations all started in 2000 and for the past 10 years have been setting watchmen on the wall interceding for our world in day and night prayer. 10 years later both IHOP and 24/7 Prayer have begun to team up with the missions movements and justice movements around the world inspiring new movements like Burn 24/7 and Fire & Fragrance. It is a marriage of prayer and missions. It is communities of people coming together in a place of worship and prayer that births missions and justice on the earth. It is a model that was seen quite dramatically with the Moravians in Herrnhut, Germany. God is doing the impossible all over the earth and he wants to use you right where you are to change the world. YOU can change the world, because you carry the Living God inside you, for whom nothing is impossible! But it starts with intimacy with the Most High God. Find a place where you can get away with the Lord by yourself and in community and watch what God does in you!

Books to read on this:
Red Moon Rising by Pete Greig
Fire & Fragrance by Sean Feucht and Andy Byrd

 Here is a song by Ben Cantalon, who lead the worship at the conference with Sean Feucht, that has really been blessing me and pumping me up to change the world: Savior of the World