Hey everyone. Wow, I can’t believe how fast these past two months have gone. It still feels like I just came back from the One Tribe Conference last week! Here is whats new with me. God has blessed me with great friends and with people who want to sew into the kingdom by partnering with me. It has been such a blessing to see all the unexpected support that has been coming in. I am glad that I don’t put God in a box anymore because he does things outside of our comprehension and I am loving every single second of what God has for me and seeing what he has for others.
The other day at church God really broke me even more.
I have been breaking free any fear that has come against me. Yesterday I was praying this and later on in the student center during worship, these little slips of paper fell from the ceiling. Each one had a different verse on it. I didn’t pick one up because I just wanted to keep praying. Thats when God rocked me. A girl came over to me and gave me an extra one she had picked off the floor for me. On it was this: 2 Timothy 1:7 “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.” I read this and couldn’t help but begin to cry and be joyous because over and over God keeps showing me how much he loves me. The only reason I can see it is because I am open to it. I look for it and he shows me.
What is it that you want to see? Is it God’s love? Is it a miracle? Is it a shooting star or to see things how God see’s them? Ask for these things that are your hearts desires and he will give them to you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
Here is some more stuff that is awesome after that verse: 2 Timothy 1:8-11 “So do not be ashamed to testify about our Lord, or ashamed of me his prisoner. But join with me in suffering for the gospel, by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time, but it has now been revealed through the appearing of our Savior, Christ Jesus, who has destroyed death and has brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. And of this gospel I was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher.”
Reflect on these verses and ask yourself what do they mean to you? What have you been appointed as? Do not become lazy in using what God has given to you. 2 Timothy 1:6 “For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God.” You have a purpose and have been given everything you already need, so why worry about lacking anything? We have one life, lets make a difference and not let this generation or the ones before and after ours keep living lives of ignorance and unfaithfulness.
April 22-23 I will be going to Bellflower, CA to attend a seminar which will train me to better frundraise for life. Will you please pray for these things:
1) That I will have the full support to travel to California
2) That God will teach me a lot through the 25-40 hours of preparation work which is required to attend
3) That as I am still here in Wichita that God will use me more and more whether its working with people or worship ministry or street ministry or wherever he will have me use the gifts he has given me
Well, thats about it for now. If you read this and want to partner with me financially or join my prayer team or just want to talk or could use some prayer, please email me at nathan@overlandmissions.com. If you would like to see a glimpse of what I will be doing in California, the website is http://www.thebodybuilders.net/Default.aspx. Thank you for continuing to be here in thoughts and prayers and financially. Until next time, I hope that you challenge yourself to do something that God has laid on your hearts and do it without worry or fear and also go with it until it is completed. Do not lets the devil steal what you have been given.
With much love,
Nathan Devaney
