Prophetic Workshop

Hello whoever reads this blog and thank you for reading. I hope these stories are inspiring you to draw closer to God from whever you are at in life, so that you may experience the power of God in a such a real way.

About a month ago, I shared a story of how 2 leaders and a fellow staff person and I did some prophetic evangelism in a hippie town and how we say God move in such marvelous ways. Well, the prophetic movement in evangelism is something as a base we all have really wanted to delve in to. Leah (a leader on the base) has been doing workshops with her church and a few with YWAM here for these past few months and we thought it was time to introduce this new MAD DTS to the prophetic, so that when we go out into the city to do evangelism, there will be much more purpose in our thinking.

Last night Leah and Andy asked Amber and I (we were the four that did the prophetic stuff in Byron) to help with this prophetic workshop for the MAD DTS. So we got together about a half hour before we were to meet with the school and talked about what we were going to do, how we were going to make the prophetic a practical thing rather than some gifting that seems to high to attain, and also to pray. During our prayers, we felt God moving inside of us in really overwhelming ways. The four of us has been feeling the burdens of the school over the course of the day, feeling heavy, feeling fearful, and feeling disconnect from God (these are all issues that the students were dealing with). And after feeling God break through these feelings we felt Him promise a real move. We were stoked, but kinda scared, not ganna lie.

I started the workshop off telling the stories of Byron Bay, which were so inspiring and powerful. And then Andy balanced those stories with some stories of how many times her and Leah have been rejected or have gotten it wrong or the timing wasn't right. We did that simply to give the students a very real view of what operating in the prophetic looks like. Sometimes, we think that a person who is prophetic, we could never be like them because they are so gifted, but God has given that gift to all of us. It says in the Book of Revelation, 'the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus'-- so all who are claim Jesus as Lord and are surrendered to him have the ability to prophecy.
Then Leah had the four of us get up in front of the school and prophecy over the students. We just went for it. Every impression, every picture, every word that God gave us was right on. We must have prophesied over 10-15 students or so. It was incredible to see God move in that way. Not matter how small the impression was it was always right on.

Leah then interviewed us on HOW we recieved the prophetic word, once again to just show how simple it is to operate in the prophetic. After that we had 5 students come up and we had the rest of the school prophesy over them. We let that go on for a fair bit and we ended with worship.

I led worship, and I felt like we needed to turn the lights off so that people could be free to express themselves however. It was an optional thing, people didn't HAVE to stay for worship, but everyone did. They were all so hungry to encounter God. I led a few songs and just felt the prompting to ask if there was anyone who wanted to give their life to God--- I barely finished the question before 2 or 3 people start screaming out "I give my life to you God!" and "Everything I have is yours!"
We kept on worshiping God, His presence seemingly tangible.
At one point I stopped playing guitar and we all just sang the song of our heart. \
After that I felt another prompting to confront that fear that I had felt earlier on. I spoke out, "I feel that the Lord wants to say to you all, that His perfect love casts out fear. And if you have fear in you, raise your hands, because God wants to bring His love into your life so that you won't have anymore fear inside of you."
Most of the school raise their hands and we prayed together and as we did there was a release of freedom over the group.. People started crying out, giving their fears to God, girls were dancing, we were all singing.. asking for His love to come in a greater way.
It was an incredible move of God.

After a bit more singing, we finished worship. And they just wanted more. One of the students asked, "Is there anyone with a hurt ankle? I feel God wants to heal you." A girl raised her hand and we all came around her and prayed for healing to come to her ankle.

It was such an incredible night to see all these students come on fire for God, to be hungry for His presence and His word, and to be set free from fear.
Isn't our God great?

Some MAD Worship.

Hello world.

Today would be the first official week of lectures on the MAD DTS, which is awesome. The new bunch of students (25 girls, 7 guys) are from all sorts of backgrounds and countries--From broken homes with christianity as the Sunday things to some as Pastor's Kids who've seen it all and are just plain skeptical. It's an interesting mix to be sure.

So we kicked off yesterday with some lectures and some community worship which was good, but frankly not very free. It felt stiff. Gunnliek (MAD school leader) led worship with a bunch of us MAD Staff backing up (I did some keys and crazy lead guitar). It was a good time but not that deep. But it's okay, it was only the first day.

Today being the second day, and being the day that I was designated to lead worship for the MAD school, I was ready to get past the stiffness, the shallow worship. Of course Ingvild (fellow Staff leader) and I searched God's heart on what was to happen to day and we felt very strongly there was going to be freedom. We felt God was going to touch these guys in a way that they had never been touched before, showing the reality of His being, of His presence. Naturally, we were stoked. The past two mornings I woke up insanely early (the only alone time possible, pretty much) and this morning I felt in my spirit excitement and praise start to build inside of me in such an overwhelming feeling. I knew something good was going to happen.

I felt God lead me to speak release to this kiddos. So we gathered at our usual meeting time and I gave a bit of a talk about expression. I felt it important to greet them all in this manner:
"Good morning, Creators. Who here is a creator? Raise your hand! All of you raise your hand, because you are all creators. We were created to create."
I spoke to them simply of the expression of worship from our heart in the gifts (art, music, poetry, dancing, photography, cinematography, ect..) that God has given us. To bring our most excellent talents before the throne room of God as an offering of praise to God the Creator, the Father. I told them they had freedom to do and express whatever they wanted. They could sing whatever, draw whatever, dance whatever as long as it was worship to God. After a short 5 minute talk we were off.

I felt the words flow out of me as naturally as they always do when I begin to worship God. We sang maybe one song and then dove into the prophetic-- as God impressed feelings, thoughts and guiding of where He was taking this whole sha-bang, I led the rest of them into it. After a while this eruption of praise was coming from Ingvild and I:
"Your unfailing love casts out fear!
It casts out fear in me!"
And I felt the Lord give me the nudge. I spoke it out, "Does anyone here feel like there is some sort of fear, or hinderance that is keeping them from God?"
A few hands go up and the staff flock to them, and as they do some one named Maureen falls down in tears weeping.. The presence of God is heavy now.. And as my fellow staff are ministering to these girls in this worship time, the girls are crying out to God in tears. It was beautiful..
But I knew there was something more. So we kept worshipping, singing out exactly what God was doing in me or what He was wanting to do in others.. Another prompt:
"Has anyone here never been touched by God before or felt His presence?"

One hand from Mick (one of my guys) and I spoke it out:
"Mick, God wants to touch you."
His hands go out in a cry and he falls to his knees as two leaders come to minister to him.. It was such a joy to see God move in the way that He said He would.. Bringing freedom and life to those that were captive to death..

Worship ended in the chorus of one of Brad Kilman's songs:
"I want to be close to you, I want to be found in you.." over and over and over again.

The cry of our hearts is to find identity in Jesus Christ.
And Jesus is on the move.

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.

Everyday

I am beginning to realize the necessity of hearing the word of the Lord every single day.
I have seen from experience and I have heard from the voice of wisdom that to miss even a single day without seeking the word of the Lord is a wasted day. If I don't actively puruse hearing his voice, guaranteed I am more likely to fall into sin or to become apart of the world again..

The two ways I can encounter the word of the Lord:
Rema and Logos.

A Rema is greek for stream. When I hear a Rema word from the Lord it means it is fresh and living like a stream of water (John 7:37-38). It is a word that resonates within my spirit when I am in the presence of the Lord.
Logos is greek for reason. It is symbolic of the written word of God, where God has used men through the reason and logic of language to write His commands, His stories and testamonies of Him.

Fortunately, because of the saints and forerunners of our faith we have been given the gift of the written word of God for us to encounter daily. It is through this word and by divine revelation that we will base our lives. Thank God that I have such easy access to this logos word.

But, to all that have been created by God we have the ability to hear His voice because of what Jesus Christ accomplished at Calvary. His sacrifice made it possible to have communion with God the Father despite our unworthy lives, because He is the ultimate atonement. If we believe and confess Jesus is Lord than we have the ability and capacity to recieve Rema words from Him every single day, just like the early apostles. All we have to do, is ask. "Speak to me God." He is our Father, and He will speak to you.

Wow. I need the word from the mouth of God everyday. Whether it be rema or logos, God I need it to resonate in my spirit in conviction to live more like your son, in encouragement to feel the approval of the Father and not of men, to be a light to my path even in the darkest times.
"The Lord is my light and my salvation--- whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life-- of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1


Father, give me revelation and speak to me daily through your rema and logos words.
Be the light, salvation and stronghold of my life. I will not let any other thing in this world be my light or salvation or stronghold, but you Jesus. You are the Way, the Truth and the Life. Amen.

Awaiting the Visa

As many of you may or may not know, I am currently in the process of obtaining my Visa so that I can become a temporary resident in Brisbane, Australia.
I am working with Youth With A Mission, Brisbane in a Music Arts and Dance (MAD) Discipleship Training School (DTS). I will be enrolled in a Basic Leadership School in which it will be my responsibility to mentor and serve all the students that come to Brisbane for their DTS.

I will be working with this school in awakening young artists to the heart of God, so that we may receive creativity from the ultimate Creator. The vision of this school is to release into the world artists, dancers and musicians who are deeply rooted in life with Jesus Christ, so that they may infect the world around them with their art.

I am so deeply excited to be apart of this mission to reach out God's lost children through ways they may hear him (music..) and I just as excited to be playing my part in the Kingdom of Heaven as we train up more Followers of Christ.

Keep me in prayer as I head into this new season.

Now, I am simply waiting for the Australian Immigration to release my Visa to me. And then I will be on my way across the world for the Glory of the Lord.

Please keep me in your prayers:
-That my Visa would be released to me.
-That the LORD would reveal more vision to me of what my role is to be on this school.
-That more supporters would rally behind this path that God has laid before me.

Thank you so much and God Bless,
Kelly Allen Arndt.