In February, a new school, a new chapter, a new season...unfolds. 5 months to raise $6,000

I will be doing YWAM'S School of Worship, where I will spend three months learning about what worship really is, writing music, recording music, leading worship at local churches, and discovering how to use my passion and love for God's glory. I will be given technical tools as well as spiritual guidance and covering. Then I will travel to another nation on outreach for two months where I will use everything God showed me! It is going to be an exciting time, and I believe a huge growing time with God. It is five months completely set aside to fall more in love with him, and know him more. This school is going to cost about 6,000 dollars! I am asking you to cover me in prayer and cover me financially in any way that you can. I have seen 6,000 dollars come in for me before, so no, this number doesn't scare me! not even a little. I have had confirmations about doing this school, and I am beginning this journey with peace leading me. If you would like to make a donation, please message me or email me @ savannawhiteley@yahoo.com, where I will give you my address! Also, if you would like to receive newsletters about what God is doing let me know! Blessings and I cannot wait to keep you all posted on how God does another miracle for me.

Unity is more important than proving a point, or winning an argument.

Human beings long to be heard, and understood. They desire to have all knowledge and wisdom, along with people to share that with. I, myself long for those things. But as sons and daughters of our father, our first command is to love and to love well. It is more important than being right, winning an argument, or proving a point. God keeps teaching me about honor, a word that just entered my vocabulary about a year ago. I left for my adventure called DTS and I had to live with over forty strangers...let's just say learning how to love, and honor didn't come naturally to me. It has been a journey not just to love people where they are at, but to actually see them the way the father does. To see them the way he sees them, and to even treat them that way. Now, being in Missions full time, my job description (if you wanna call it a job) is literally to love people (all people) and to serve people. Although more and more the mindset of "ministry" is being broken off me because this is what NORMAL Christian life looks like. Honor comes from love. As sons and daughters, we are ALL called to love, ALL the time. With God it is very possible. My heart's desire isn't just to love people I naturally see eye to eye with but to love people I disagree with. I don't want to win arguments, I want to win hearts. I am praying for the Holy Spirit to continually give me his eyes and heart. Yea, I can love alright on my own strength. But I can love well with his. This is my prayer. To see love cross all boundaries, ethnic groups, social barriers, and lines.

I'm young SO WHAT.

I refuse to let anyone despise me because I am young. Of course I value honor, leadership, guidence, and wisdom. But I will not be demeaned and I will not be put down. I will let my life be an example to the very best of my ability wherever I am. Yuppp, I am not that trained and I don't have a list of qualifications...but God IS using me and he WILL keep using me. Oh and too, I hear people say things like... "Oh, your so young you still think anything is possible.." Heck yes I do! Is that a joke? With God ALL things are possible. He meant all when he said ALL.

~~~~Case closed.

It's my body, I'l do with it what I want...

Except it's not MY body, it now belongs to the Holy Spirit. Since I was a teenager I remember wanting to save my virginity, and by God's grace I have. But it is only recently that I see WHY purity is so valuable. It is because I am valuable. The church has portrayed sex as shameful, while the world has portrayed it as casual, with no value or importance. The two extremes are both not what God had in mind when he created sex. Let's just focus on what that last sentence stated: God created sex. He mad it. God cannot make anything shameful or wrong. It is impossible. The world's view that sex isn't supposed to be shameful is actually a twisted truth. God made it for marriage. Marriage is sacred and there is a covenant made between two people. I once read that any sex outside of marriage is unprotected because God is not at the center of it. How true this is. God is taking me on a journey right now to discover his heart for sex, love, marriage, friendship, and how ALL four of those things actually go together. I love what he is showing me. This topic is something I want to have as much wisdom in as possible...and I even would love to teach on it someday.

Love the one in front of you: Part one.

I recently had the chance to travel with a team of people to Quincy to be apart of The Joshua Fest, a Christian music festival, where YWAM was asked to run a prayer booth. I was expecting a rather simple, time of praying with people and talking to them about Missions. What happened was beyond what our team even hoped for. We all have countless stories of bodies being healed, people being set free from depression, people getting Prophetic words which turned out to be exactly what they needed to hear, people being filled with joy--the list goes on and on! This will take more than a few posts just to even give you guys a glimpse of what God did there...so I will start from the beginning..:)
---We arrived Friday night to find out that there was a group of people from Calvary chapel who also wanted to be apart of the prayer tent, so our team expanded by like 8 people. It was interesting because this was a group from a rather conservative church, and we are definitely charismatic...some of us were asking ourselves and God how in the world this wasn't going to end up in a Doctrine disaster...but none the less God gave us the word HONOR, but he also said to let the Holy Spirit do what he wanted!After unpacking and setting the tent up we were able to pray with a few people. Then Michael had an idea that was outside the box: He said that someone should sit in a chair on the street blindfolded and give a Prophetic word to anyone that wanted one. So, I got in the chair and to our surprise no one seemed curious enough to ask us why I was sitting in a chair blindfolded....so we stopped. While I was sitting in the chair I kept hearing the name Sherri, and I kept hearing the words tragedy, and healing. The next day, we had more volunteers come to be apart of our prayer tent and our newest team member's name was Sherri! Instantly I freaked out and told her what God told me, and I asked her if she experienced tragedy and she said she recently lost one person to suicide, and another to an accident. When we prayed her tears flowed and I could see God healing some wounds in her...it was powerful. It blows me away how clearly God speaks to us, even if it doesn't make sense to us at the time, don't throw it away because God is always up to something.

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