Outreach Prep

Just when we started getting comfortable with our Hawaiian DTS lecture phase routine, it's about to get all shaken up. 2 weeks until I move again! Outreach phase is creeping up on everyone and I think the reality of us moving, living and serving in a third world country is hitting all of us. I'm certain a few members of my school won't be coming back from their outreaches to continue doing the Lord's work where they're at. It's such an exciting, thrilling time yet scary and unpredictable. I look around at all my fellow classmates and wonder who we will be when we all meet again after the 3 months. The healing, miracles and work we will all have accomplished through Christ.  I feel like this is the beginning of the rest of my life. At least I hope it is! I can't wait to see the ways in which the Lord will use my team and I.
One of jobs on my team is the reporter so I'm sure my blogs will become more extensive as I'm in charge of recording all the things that happen. We will fly to Bangkok on the 28th and spend a few days traveling Thailand, (which I'm so stoked about!) and then riding to the Thai/Cambodian border via vehicle and then walking across the border. We will be staying in Siem Reap for a few weeks and then traveling on down to Phnom Phen for a few more and then traveling our way back up to return in June.
It feels totally unreal, I won't believe that I'm going until I'm sitting on the plane.
God bless you all :)

Joy

God is a good good God. Tonight was a pretty radical night. We had a worship leader who was all about bringing God's joy and having the Holy Spirit fill us up. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced..a little out of my comfort zone coming from my 18 years of sitting in a Lutheran church. We made a human tunnel and people would walk through just falling over with joy of the Lord as people prayed over them. At one point I just couldn't stop laughing, the spirit of God and His joy was definitely filling the room. Then at another point I looked down and God blessed me with gold dust on my hands which is something I had been praying for in the past so it was super sweet! I honestly can't even write about everything that happened because you'd probably think I was crazy!

Last week I went for a run with my roommate, Lisbeth and on our way back we stopped to talk to this homeless man, Johnny. I've been establishing a friendship with him since I moved here. He's in love with music and playing his guitar and he's a super nice guy. I had this feeling that God just wanted me to establish a friendship with him and to not pray over him right away which was one of my first thoughts. But on this night I felt God giving me the green light to pray over him and so we did and we new that he felt God that night. I found out the next day from someone else that talked to him that he got a job and a place to stay and all these abundance of blessings had been bestowed upon him and it was just so amazing. Like God is so brilliant and smart in the way that He uses people. It honestly doesn't cease to amaze me.

Tonight after the craziness in the prayer room I went for a run with another friend and on our way back we ran into someone on campus who just seemed down so I immediately was drawn and asked him what was wrong. He ended up telling us all about it and then I asked if we could pray for him and so we did. After we were done praying he told us how we were an answer to his prayers and that was just what he needed and once again I love how God works. It puts into perspective that it's all about his timing everything that we do is under his timing and the people we will encounter.


Sorry my updates have been infrequent, our schedule is pretty demanding and there's just so many thoughts swirling in my head that it's hard to gather them all together.

I leave for Cambodia in exactly a month. Please pray for my team and for finances to come through. God is good and I know His will will be done. And of course if you'd like to support just click on the support tab on the top of the page! :)

Just a few thoughts...

 God is so good. All the time. He will always be there to deliver us and help us when we call out to Him. He’s the father that never lets us down, weeps for us and lifts us up. I have come to be so in love with Jesus Christ and am striving for radical obedience in Him. I want to go wherever He wants to send me. Do whatever He has planned for me. I’m willing to lay down the rights that He blessed me with for Him. That’s how we show our love, by laying down our rights for Him. Our rights, which aren’t, even truly our rights. Everything is God’s and God given. I’ve been awakened to how in the American culture we’re so used to having things our way, to sticking to our rights, to not believing in authority. What I hadn’t realized was that attitude had transferred over into my relationship with God. I wanted the control. I wanted to control my own thoughts and choices and my life but what God has shown me is that I don’t know what’s best for me. He does and I need to give it all up to Him and let Him take care of me and guide me because His plans for me are far much greater than anything I could imagine or dictate for myself.  

            Once you open your spiritual eyes you can see how the enemy lies everywhere. Lurking just waiting to get at you and bring you down. He can be pretty good at his job. You look around in this world and see so much corruption, dishonesty, pain, and hurt. These are all things from the enemy. Churches falling apart, quarrelling over stupid things not forgetting that the institution of church is insignificant to the matter of getting people saved. Religions get all caught up in practicalities. What happened to the simple fact of spreading the word of God. Spreading love everywhere we go. Becoming more like Jesus. The enemy has wormed himself into the institution of church no doubt. People need to take a stand. Open up, listen to what God is saying to you, read the scriptures ask for revelation. He will show you. We are God’s army sent out to heal this world. We have a lot to fight for and a lot of strength behind us. So what are we waiting for? What are you waiting for?

Sorry I haven't been on top of my blogging lately! Things have been pretty intense. This last week was called pure heart week and it basically is what it sounds like. We got to get all the gunk out of our heart and let Jesus come in and fill us up. It's truly one of the most emotional weeks I've ever had. The devil has been so adamant to get to me and I've been facing temptations and trials and dealing with things like depression and homesickness but today was the day that all got released. Jesus just showed himself to me in such a real way in doing little things. My friend was having a gushing nose bleed and she told me it was the Enemy and to pray over her and instantly her nose stopped bleeding! It was the coolest thing to be used as a vessel for the Lord. Later on I straight up turned my back on the devils temptation and felt such a sense of freedom.
Then for the first time all my roommates and I gathered together and just prayed over our room and for each other and it was such a powerful time. It feels so good to be free from the devils hold on me and filled with the joy and love of the Lord.
All your prayers are so so appreciated. I could never express that enough as well as your support.

A little information about what I'll be doing in outreach in Cambodia; we'll be working with a lot of orphanages and teaching English and health care, going into unreached villages, sex trafficking and prison ministries. I'm TOOOO excited about the prison ministry part seeing as my passion and my want to go into that field career wise.
PS: I could still use some support money for the 2nd half of my outreach payment which will be around 2,000. Thank you to all those who have already supported me not only in prayer but money as well. God is good and He will bless those who give.

God bless you all!

Hello blog-world.
So these last couple weeks have been very interesting. A lot of spiritual warfare and I appreciate the large amounts of prayers that are being said for me! They are much needed. We had an amazing speaker week before last and he really brought it and answered practical questions about things I've always wondered about faith wise. This last week was called corporate week and the wife of the founder of YWAM, Darleen Cunningham and a few other people spoke. Heidi Baker came and spoke and she was quite interesting seeing as she has seen miracles and healings and just lives in radical obedience to God.

So as most of you probably know I will be heading off to Cambodia at the end of March assuming I can come up with fees. I need $2500 by this Friday, February 3rd. Prayers and donations are extremely welcomed at this time! You can click on the link on my site here to find out how to donate or shoot me an e-mail or text!
saidasampson12@gmail.com
(408)-762-9727

God bless!

HELLO! Sorry it's been awhile since I've blogged.. I was just trying to get all settled in and get my mind right. My days here are pretty busy! I found out last night I will be going to Cambodia with the most amazing people I could ever ask to go with! I'm super excited..except for the fact that there's supposedly deadly bugs...But that's ok everyone can just pray for a force field around me! Yesterday we did this class called equipping tracks and you could choose from four categories and I chose sports and youth ministry. Sports is the first part for the first couple of weeks and I'm so glad I chose it because we get to run around and I don't have to sit and listen to more lectures! Plus I'm learning how to be able to create sports camps for when I go to Cambodia. I've already met quite a few locals, I love the people of Kona. I could never live here for like years upon years but already 2 weeks in and we already have a bunch of local friends! I pretty much get to go to the beach everyday and the sunsets here are jus too beautiful! Our speaker for this week is too awesome. Last weeks speaker was a little radical for me so I'm glad that I can keep up with the weeks speaker! I'm learning a lot and taking a lot in so overall things have been good!
Thanks for your prayers :)

The light.

Today was the first day of classes and such an emotional day. Our first speaker speaks about hearing God and listening to Him. She's so in tune with Him and you wouldn't believe my experiences if I told you. I just felt Gods presence as he took some of the burdens off my heart. He's taking the darkness from my heart and turning it into light. During the morning session I wrote down a prayer in my journal and at the end I honestly didn't know what I had written until I read over it and I thought I could share that with you all.

"Lord,  my commitment to you is my life. I came to live for you. I give you everything. I have the faith, no matter what I'll have to endure, you will give me the strength. You've made me a strong woman and I've used that blessing incorrectly. Turn the blessings and gifts you have given to me to be used for your glory Lord. I hunger and I thirst for you. I thirst for your love, your wisdom and your heart. I want more than I'm living for. I want you. I want to live the life you've chosen for me. I'm ready. You've taken me through a journey to get to this point and I've taken detours and made my life harder than it needed to be. I'm through with that. That lifestyle will never conquer me again. My sins have been set free. Thank you Lord for your steadfast and unconditional love. I have not and do not deserve a wondrous God like you. I love you. Thank you so much Lord.
Amen."

Yeah, I'm pretty confident God worked through my writing because I don't even remember thinking while I was furiously writing down things.

Tonight we shared some testimonies and it was so good to hear where people come from and who they are and how they got to this point. The people in my group are so so amazing and I already have amazing love for them. God has spoken through my friends to give me comforting words and honestly I just keep using the word amazing because I don't know what else to say! I'm learning so much and with all this knowledge I just can't wait to see what God has in store for me and for my school.
We are truly blessed.