Dear friends and family,
I’m writing to update you all on some exciting news! Just this last Sunday I was accepted into Iris Ministries’ Iris Harvest School which starts October 12, 2009. That is in 3 weeks! Talk about last minute on the acceptance letter! Iris Ministries is one of my two favorite ministries that I have ever heard of in the whole world!
In case you have never heard of Heidi and Rolland Baker and Iris Ministries, I copied some very brief information about them from their website, http://www.irismin.org, below:
“Iris Ministries has expanded to over 5,000 churches all over Mozambique (the poorest country in the world) and into neighboring countries. The disastrous flooding of 2000/2001 catalyzed an overwhelming hunger for the things of God in the refugee camps where we ministered, and the Gospel continues to spread like wildfire. We now care for almost 2,000 children at our centers, and our churches are taking in orphans as well. Jesus is revealing Himself through signs and wonders, visions and dreams, and we have never seen such a harvest before us. May the Lord of the harvest send us workers!”
I want to be one of the workers sent! This is why I applied to the Iris Harvest School. Graduation from the school is the first step into coming into full time, long term work with this ministry, that is if God’s will permits. Their vision is to expand into other countries, and I was told just last night that they have already begun sending long term staff even up into India! The possibilities are endless and I am beyond excited. God keeps reminding me of my call into mission work every time I seem to lose vision, and I am just so thankful for this opportunity!
I know that if this is indeed God’s will for my life that He will provide; there is no doubt in my mind. I don’t want to send out mission letters for support, especially during a time when I know how much everyone is gripping tight to what money they do have. I hate for any person to ever feel obligated to give. Instead I ask if the Holy Spirit lays it on your heart to give toward this next step in my pursuit into full time mission work, then it would be more than greatly appreciated! Again, there is no guilt to the person who doesn’t give! I wouldn’t want you to give unless that is something that you really WANT or feel led to do. I hope you can hear my heart in this. Above all, I trust God for provision like I said earlier; I just know He likes to use people to give toward His Kingdom work because those who give get Kingdom interest in return! Yay God!! :)
I love you guys, and I thank you for all the love, prayer, and support in the past!
Glory be to Jesus!
Tons of Love,
Kellie
Contact info:
kellielinder@aol.com
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand!
I absolutely cannot sleep. The Holy Spirit will not allow me to stop dreaming about my future with Jesus. I am overwhelmed by God and the kingdom of heaven right now. Today has been one of those, “Please pinch me, I MUST be dreaming, days.” I’ll begin with a few testimonies from tonight. Since I’ve been home from overseas, I started going to a local ministry in Nashville every week called the Under the Bridge ministry. Hundreds of homeless show up every Tuesday evening under the Jefferson Street bridge to come to this wonderful ministry. Since I’ve been attending, my heart has been to do one on one ministry with whoever will let me pray for them. Last week I prayed for a guy in a wheelchair who said his knee/leg had been broken so many times that the doctors want to amputate his leg above the knee (both of his legs were in very bad shape). He also wanted to get back to his homeless community in California because he only come out here to visit his mom, but he was having trouble finding a way back. So I prayed for his healing (and also for his return to California) and I felt the Holy Spirit say, “Now get up and walk!” So that’s what I said! It grieved me when he told me he was too scared to get up and walk because it really hurts when he falls. I offered him some help, but he refused, so I just told him that I still had faith in his healing and told him how much God loved him. I walked away just knowing that he could have walked, because the Holy Spirit said so, and I believe Him. At the end of the night I also walked up to a woman who was with a group of people who seemed really low. I asked her if I could pray for her and she was kinda like, “Yeah, sure, I guess.” I asked her for any special prayer requests and she said her health was bad due to cancer, so I prayed for her while her fiancé stood close by.
To make a very long story as short as possible, as soon as I arrived this evening a man who has been working with this ministry for many years came up to me with a big smile on his face. He told me that he had run into Jim on Saturday, the guy in the wheelchair, and that he was out of his wheelchair walking on his own, and that he was in the highest of spirits!! Jesus healed him!!! I was blown away, even though I had the faith, WOW! He had also met a guy who was helping him get back to California! Jesus!! At the end of the night when I was walking back to the car with my parents, who are now coming, the same lady who I had stopped on my way out last time stopped me. It took me a minute to recognize her when she asked, “Remember me? Would you mind praying for my fiancé?” I remembered and quickly went over to her fiancé to pray for him about a job. After, I looked at her and she was just smiling ear to ear, had life in her eyes, and she just looked great! I told her those things and she responded, “I feel so good!” Now, I know she hasn’t been back to the doctor, but I believe in her healing! Jesus !! These haven’t been the only healings lately. Pain is leaving, sickness is leaving, bodies are being healed and God is opening doors and causing people to walk in favor, lives are being changed, all for Heaven’s sake. I look at what I’m writing, and it’s hard for my own logical mind to grasp, but it’s the facts. Jesus HEALS!! The kingdom of heaven is at hand!!!
I don’t write any of this to give myself any glory, because Jesus did the work. He’s the one with the love and the power. I’m just obedient to His word and to His will. See, I believe as a BORN AGAIN believer, as a DISCIPLE of Christ, that I have no special anointing healing or gifting outside of the Holy Spirit alone! I am no one special; I am only obedient to the will of God and to the Holy Spirit, and that is the same call that is on all of the church of Jesus Christ. I believe in Matthew 10:7. Jesus says, “As you GO, preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons.” I believe this is for now church. This is the will of God ALL THE TIME! Whether you are going to another nation, to church, to your ministry, to Target or Wal-Mart, wherever! This is our call. I write to encourage you that the gospel isn’t fake, or powerless, or for another time, but it is real, powerful and for now, so GO for it, please! The world is hungry for it.
Love forever and always,
Kellie
To make a very long story as short as possible, as soon as I arrived this evening a man who has been working with this ministry for many years came up to me with a big smile on his face. He told me that he had run into Jim on Saturday, the guy in the wheelchair, and that he was out of his wheelchair walking on his own, and that he was in the highest of spirits!! Jesus healed him!!! I was blown away, even though I had the faith, WOW! He had also met a guy who was helping him get back to California! Jesus!! At the end of the night when I was walking back to the car with my parents, who are now coming, the same lady who I had stopped on my way out last time stopped me. It took me a minute to recognize her when she asked, “Remember me? Would you mind praying for my fiancé?” I remembered and quickly went over to her fiancé to pray for him about a job. After, I looked at her and she was just smiling ear to ear, had life in her eyes, and she just looked great! I told her those things and she responded, “I feel so good!” Now, I know she hasn’t been back to the doctor, but I believe in her healing! Jesus !! These haven’t been the only healings lately. Pain is leaving, sickness is leaving, bodies are being healed and God is opening doors and causing people to walk in favor, lives are being changed, all for Heaven’s sake. I look at what I’m writing, and it’s hard for my own logical mind to grasp, but it’s the facts. Jesus HEALS!! The kingdom of heaven is at hand!!!
I don’t write any of this to give myself any glory, because Jesus did the work. He’s the one with the love and the power. I’m just obedient to His word and to His will. See, I believe as a BORN AGAIN believer, as a DISCIPLE of Christ, that I have no special anointing healing or gifting outside of the Holy Spirit alone! I am no one special; I am only obedient to the will of God and to the Holy Spirit, and that is the same call that is on all of the church of Jesus Christ. I believe in Matthew 10:7. Jesus says, “As you GO, preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, cast out demons.” I believe this is for now church. This is the will of God ALL THE TIME! Whether you are going to another nation, to church, to your ministry, to Target or Wal-Mart, wherever! This is our call. I write to encourage you that the gospel isn’t fake, or powerless, or for another time, but it is real, powerful and for now, so GO for it, please! The world is hungry for it.
Love forever and always,
Kellie
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