Hungary + Ukraine ‘20
So, I’m really not sure where to begin. During this trip God ministered to and through both myself and my team in so many ways beyond what I could’ve ever imagined. Before I get into sharing the details I just want to say thank you. Thank you for helping us get out into the world and share the best news ever.
I suppose since I’m not sure where to start, I’ll start from the beginning.
For about a month before our trip I was being attacked left and right. I can only imagine that others also experienced this, because we all know that the enemy doesn’t like people going and sharing the good news. Even with already knowing this I found myself fighting feelings of depression and unworthiness to go on this trip. I wouldn’t let these thoughts and attacks of the enemy hold me back, but I did have a hard time fighting off these feelings of being stagnant in my relationship with the Lord and that I wasn’t at a place where I could effectively minister. I even had a women prophesy over me when we were being prayed out that I would feel unimportant on this trip, but that God wanted me to know that I was a valuable asset to this team.
That being said, after about 20 hours of travel from Woodland Park, Colorado to Uzhhorod, Ukraine we were ready to sleep in a real bed. That night I had a dream, or what I originally thought was a nightmare. I tried to forget it, but throughout that first day of ministry in Ukraine the Holy Spirit continued to bring it to my remembrance.
This is what the dream was:
It was the kind of dream where it was as if you had been there before and you knew everything about what you were in. I had knowledge already that these evil people had stolen a woman from us, taken her to an underground system and we (my family) had used our authority to get her back. These evil people knew we had the best lawyers in town, the best weapons and that we were not to be messed with.
In spite of that they stole another woman. We got in contact with the people over the internet and he showed us a live video of where they were and told us that the woman was underground from where they showed us.
The video showed a large concrete mansion with a big empty concrete pool in front of it. Pieces of the concrete were broken, the ground was distorted, trees split and there was fire everywhere.
The guy started to type in the chat box, telling us that we knew what he wanted; money, power and us to give into him. I looked to my sister to what to say and she told me with authority in her voice, “We already told him once. He knows what happened last time and that was the last time.” I began to mull this over and he quickly continued to send messages asking if we were there. All these things of what to say were running in my mind and just before my fingers started to hit the keyboard to tell him what my sister said he sent a message saying, “Too late.” And the screen went *click*, black and that was goodbye…
Then I woke up and I couldn’t go back to sleep. Like I said before, I tried to forget the dream because it was so real and scary. As the Holy Spirit brought it to my remembrance and I shared it with my teammate I realized that God had given me this dream for a reason.
I began to realize that this symbolizes the devil kidnapping God’s children and taking them captive in hell and that we are sent on mission every day to go share the life saving news of Jesus Christ with them and use our authority on anyone the devil is trying to kidnap to hell.
This dream brought to remembrance the beautiful heavy burden the Lord has placed on my heart to share the gospel with everyone.
But it doesn’t end there…
A day later I woke up around 0430 and couldn’t go back to sleep. So I got quiet with the Lord and asked Him what He wanted to share with me and that I was hungry for Him and needed Him to feed me. So, He led me to Nehemiah. I hadn’t studied Nehemiah in probably over a year and had forgotten what it was about. I read the first two chapters and began to cry.
I read;
“Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire. So it was, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned for many days; I was fasting and praying before the God of heaven.” Neh. 1:2–4 and “Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying, ‘ If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations; but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there, and bring them to the place which I have chosen as a dwelling for My name.’ Now these are Your servants and Your people, whom You have redeemed by Your great power, and by Your strong hand.” Neh. 1:8–10
So Nehemiah had a heavy heart for Jerusalem and its people. He knew that these were God’s chosen people and that Jerusalem means, “place of peace”. In the second chapter it goes on to say how while Nehemiah was serving the king, because he was the king’s cupbearer the king saw that he was sad and asked why, so Nehemiah told him about his heart for Jerusalem and that he needed to go there and rebuild it. So the king saw the favor of God on Nehemiah and gives him permission and authority to go do it! So Nehemiah gets sent by God and permission from his king to go rebuild Jerusalem, the place of peace and bring back unity to God’s chosen people and he encourages them saying things like; “Then I said to them, “You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.” And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, “Let us rise up and build.” Then they set their hands to this good work.”
Nehemiah 2:17–18
So, I had this dream of a place that should’ve been a paradise, but was up in flames and how God’s people were being stolen and taken to live in the depths of it. Then God takes me to these words in Nehemiah and gives me confirmation that we are sent to rebuild His kingdom here on earth and bring His people back to Him and into His original intention of a great place of peace.
Cemented in awe and wonder, with a heart flame drenched in fresh oil and Wind I felt beyond ready to go out and fearlessly share the gospel to Ukraine and Hungary. It was as if God used this dream and the revelation of it to wake me up to redeem this time and replace my lenses with ones focused on eternity. And this was just day 3 of the trip!
So much came with this refreshed heart culture of sharing God’s truth. I found myself finally really listening to God’s encouragement to “not hold back” and “just be with Me.” This overflowed greatly into my time in Ukraine and Hungary. I found myself fearlessly going up to person after person and sharing the gospel. This mission to relentlessly pursue souls to be saved drove me each day, and I became even more amazed as my team united with this drive together.
“Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and His demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything.
For I am persuaded and now live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love.
I’m convinced that His love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken His love.
There is no power above us or beneath us — no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!” — Romans 8:37–39 (tpt)
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