Byron Bay

Upon my arrival to the YWAM Brisbane base (my new home).. I found out I was to leave on local outreach to a New-Age-Hippie-Beach-City called Byron Bay for a week. But hey, I'm just going with the flow and this is all apart of God's plan anyway. So I packed up quickly and jumped in the car jet lagging like no one's business.

The week was awesome. We had lectures, we worshiped together, we were able to be apart of a girl's inner healing session with our leaders, and we were able to spend time on the beach.
But of course, the whole week's purpose was really to get us more grounded and capable in street evangelism, as we are missionaries and we are to be discipling others in this new lifestyle of spreading the kingdom.

Friday night we all split up in pairs after some worshiping near the beach, to do some prayer walking. I was with a girl named Amber. We sang the song "Let It Rain" in a particular parking lot we were led to, asking for God's conviction to come gently, in love and mercy for the people of Byron Bay. We crossed the street and ran into our leaders, Leah and Andy. After talking to them briefly, we all talked about how we really wanted to step more into the prophetic as we evangelized and as we were talking Andy turned around and asked 3 girls who were passing by if we could prophesy over them.

We were caught off guard, but secretly excited to see what was going to happen. All four of us prophsied over this girl named Sarah all the while her friends saying things like, "Wow, how did you know that?" or "That is totally Sarah!" as Sarah herself was tearing up.
When they asked us how we did that, Leah explained in a short bit of what Jesus accomplished on the cross and how it has enabled us to come into relationship with God, thus being able to hear His voice. As she finished explaining, Sarah started fully crying and turned away walking off.. Her friends were confused as all that we had said to her was encouraging and uplifting and we immediately recognized the conviction settling inside of her. Her friend went off after her thanking us repeatedly.. We rejoiced that God was faithful to us and that He heard our prayers! How awesome..

We kept on walking and Andy had a word for a policeman, which she gave to his partner and it turned out to be right on.. Fully encouraged we started heading to the park where we had all met..

We saw 3 guys walking by and we agreed ask them if we could give them prophetic words. Andy stopped them again and I gave a word to a guy named Peter about his life and work situation and as I finished his friend responded saying, "Don't tell them they're right!" (They were a bit intoxicated.. didn't realize we could hear..) And the other girls gave their prophetic words as well which at the time didn't really make sense, but as we walked away from our encounter with the boys God exlpained to us more fully what it meant so that we could pray for them..

How awesome is our God! That He would speak through us to His lost children and confide in us..
God is doing some awesome things here in Australia. I feel priviledged to be apart of this mission..

To sum up, this week has felt like a reawakening of the prophetic in my life. A man named Don Webber (mentor of Clay Staires) actually prophsied that this would happen to me. That the prophetic ministry and greater portion of discernment was going to become a large part of my life this next 20 months for me. So, thank you God for fulfilling your promises!

I'll keep you updated to more stories as they come,
Kelly.