So much to say!

well i have sooo much to post bout, so i will try to make it as brief as possible. yesterday was Aust Day for those of u who dont know. well there were 7 of us aussies floating round the community, so we all decided to celebrate together as a group. so at like 11:00 last night, we hit up an aussie pub that is close to where we live, just to have fun and eat and stuff.... oh my gosh, BEST AUSTRALIA DAY EVER!!!! they had real aussie food. like rissoles and mashed potato with gravy and roast lamb and gray rolls and VEGEMITE!!! soooo good. was heaps of fun. the company was amazing!

i took a page out of Karyn Baker's blog and decided to do the love language test... just to see what my love language is.... are u ready..... touch! are you at all surprised??? i am not. however, my 2nd ones was a tie... it was quality time and words of affirmation. for so long i have been tossing up between these 2 to see what would be 2nd. here is my points table.

Your primary love language is Physical Touch
with a secondary love language being Quality Time.

Complete set of results

Physical Touch: 10
Quality Time: 8
Words of Affirmation: 8
Receiving Gifts: 4
Acts of Service: 0


and finally missionfest.... it was allright. i had alot of fun this morning in the 1st session.... seriously what went on in that session is probably gonna stay in that session, stuff between me and juan and holly.... that was funny. but it was fun to hang out with dawn, lynn as well and just have heaps of fun. it was kinda cheesy the sermon, but we had fun!!! also, a passion of mine really got stirred up and caused me to dream big things today. so that was pretty cool. it was one of the exhibits they had there.... just caused me to go " now that is what i want to do back home, this would be a dream job"... so it was cool. i have started dreaming big things!!!!!


well i have had a pretty good day. an intense afternoon of journalling and praying, but it was sweet! OH AND DENISE, I DID RATIONS..... DID YOU????

and finally, quote of the day goes to Cristina Edmonds.... at brunch this morning she said " I don't care about worship!" bold statement Cristina, u go hard girl!!!!! he he if u were there u would understand the context, i just wanna blow it out to be something it wasnt for Cristina, cuz i love her!!!

A week with Doug Burr

Well its been a pretty exciting week in the revolution session... Well probably the whole of 614!!! We have had a guest here, Doug Burr!!! He is from Bangor, Maine... which is in USA for those people from aust that read this. He has been teaching on quite a few things, but it has been amazing. My favourite was spiritual gifts. I love talking about spiritual gifts. I think its cuz i am discovering what mine are and its soooo much fun.

But one interesting thing about Doug is that he is gifted in deliverance ministry and he has major discernment. So we all got offered to go into the war room for a session with him to see what comes up. He is pretty good at finding demons and kicking them out. Now i know everyone is pretty freaked out by the word demon, but when we kick demons out, it doesnt mean we froth at the mouth or end up rolling round on the floor.... It doesnt have to look like that. So today I had my session with Doug and we kicked a demon out. Man it was soooo sweet. We kicked out the demon of anger. It has had a hold over me for sooo long, but it was soooo good to just get it out. i got to bash it up with my Sword of the Spirit!!!!! NOW THAT WAS FUN!!!!!! But yeah I have had an interesting week.... Its been good, its been a bit of a downer, but ultimately i have learnt heaps, so thats all that matters!!!!

if you wanna know more about my week, email me and i will tell u more in detail!!!! Love you all!!!!

OH AND FOR ALL THOSE AUSTRALIANS OUT THERE, HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!!! YOU WILL BE PLEASED TO KNOW THAT US AUSSIES OVER HERE ARE CELEBRATING TONIGHT BY GOING OUT TO DINNER!!!!!

Healing!

man how good is God!!!! soooo good. last weekend at the conference, he healed my ankles. my ankles were pretty messed up because of netball. and he healed them. they are really strong now. so that was a pretty sweet healing he did.

Today i woke up at round 4:45am, as i had the 5-8am war room shift ( thats the prayer room). but i felt really really ill, like i was going to vomit. But i knew i had to go to my shift, so i went up there and on the way, i almost vomited. the smell of our elevator is soooo bad. so i got to the war room, headed straight for the toilet and just vomited. it was soooo nasty. i also had diarrea. so it wasnt pretty. Ian being the amazing guy he is made me go back to bed and he did my war room shift. so i went to bed and at bout 9:00, i woke up and vomited again. i felt soooo bad. it was sooo gross. i am not much of a vomiter.... so this was alot for my body to handle.

Needless to say, i vomited 4 times in the morning, spent half the morning on the toilet and with my head in the toilet. It was soooo bad. But then.... one of my session mates prayed healing over me and it wasnt one of those things that happened straight away.... but i went up to room 704 and slept in becky's bed from bout 2:30 til 4:30 and then when i woke up i took some headache tablets and within the next hour or so, i felt really good. i even stomached a piece of toast with vegemite on it. it was sooo cool. i honestly believe that God healed me. i couldnt have gotten over it that fast, it was definately some divine intervention going on there.

So the conclusion i have drawn from this post is that God is real, he is here, he is still working in our lives and he is a very gracious God!

Long Distance Friendships

ok so everyone is probably wondering what this picture of a gift bag has to do with anything. and what the heck it had to do with long distance friendships. currently i am in more long distance friendships than i am in friendships with ppl who live really close to me.

but last night, i got to talk to my newest long distance friend, which was in fact Denise. for those of u who dont know, Denise or as i like to call her, Niecy, moved to Bangor in Maine just after christmas. we talked on the phone for 2.5 hrs. it was just sooo good. Denise and I became really really close in the 3 months she was here in Vancouver, so i am missing her heaps. so talking to her was amazing.

And i was thinking tonight, what is the point in long distance relationships. why does God allow me to get soooo close to someone, only for them to leave a few months later? and i have found it really helpful to have someone who knows the community i am living in and knows what i am going through, but yet is outside of Vancouver at the same time. and its always good to get an outside perspective and outsiders advice on problems etc going on.

i still dont know why God allowed me to get sooooooo close to Niecy only for her to move away.... like i still dont understand the full reason, but all i know is that our friendship hasnt become anything less because she is in a different country.... we r still very much connected. i cant really explain it, but although i miss her, i know she is doing amazing things and i still get to talk to her.

so Denise, know that i luv u heaps and that u r such an amazing person. i appreciate you heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps and i am glad that i can talk to you bout anything and everything and i am sooo glad that we have become such good friends. what i love most is the fact that i can talk to you bout stuff going on here and u get it..... u understand. so know that i appreciate you heaps.

so i bet by the end of this post, everyone is wondering why i have a picture of a spongebob squarepants gift bag as part of this post, it seems to have nothing to do with the post..... but in fact it has everything to do with the post!!!!!!! u see.... niecy, soooo cute. she is very good at imitating this face of spongebob. everytime i see it, it reminds me of her. makes me laugh always! luv u Niecy!

ok so here is a real pic of me and denise, for those of u who dont know who she is.... how gorgeous is she!!!!! he he!!!

A crazy crazy week in the life of Lisa

ok, i thought war college was busy in the past, but now.... oh man!!!! this week has been insane.... this is the first time in a week i have been able to sit down and actually blog and actually send some emails out to people, so i apologize for my absence.

last wednesday, we went to a Todd Bentley conference. now for most of you, u probably dont know who he is. he is an amazing on fire Christian but extremely charasmatic.... so it was a pretty charasmatic event. i wouldnt call myself extremely charasmatic, so this was a bit intense. ppl walking round drunk in the holy spirit. that was weird. lots of ppl manifesting.... including me. so it was an intense week with really intense stuff going on. holy spirit did a huge work in my life and i feel very refreshed and full of the holy spirit. if u wanna know lots of details, please leave a comment and i will email u!!!!

but war college has been insane.... i have to read 5 books for different classes, still do class, ministry stuff and on top of that, this week i had to preach and i also have to lead discipleship this week, so its crazy intense.

one thing i have really struggled this week with is just stopping. the main theme of the conference was resting in God and i know Satan has been trying to use busyness as a way to bring me down.... today i was in the war room and i was doing some journalling and reflecting on the conference and as i was writing the word REST, i am like oh crap.... i havent actually done that this week and that was the main theme of the conference. even in the war room, i have had to do journalling, homework etc. but even just being in the war room is kinda stopping.... cuz i do get to reflect... i am a bit of a sift hog this week, i have 6 shifts.

so my advice is.... in the busyness of life, just take some time to stop and reflect on your life and just rest in the arms of God.

What do you believe??

So today we had our first Doctrines class.... we are talking Salvation Army doctrines.... i was kinda dreading the class because some phase 2's had said its pretty boring and also, i thought they were just gonna take the SA doctrines and shove them down our throat and make us believe them.... but i was wrong. as usual!!!!

i really enjoyed the class. Jonathanis teaching it and he decided that he didnt want to just present the doctrines and expect us to believe, he ultimately wants us to decided what WE believe and stick with it. so first thing he got us to do was to write down what our essential beliefs are as Christians. and i thought it would be cool to show you guys what i wrote down... its some pretty broad statements but we didnt have ages to think bout it and these ones are pretty much my core beliefs! so this is my list:

- I believe God created the world and that we didnt just happen to come from 2 atoms by accident.
- I belive in the Trinity. The Father, The Son ( Jesus) and The Holy Spirit who dwells among us now.
- I believe that all scripture is 100% true and that it's all from God.
- I believe that Jesus came dwon as a human but was fully God and died on the cross for my sins, but then rose again after 3 days.
- I believe that Salvation comes when you accept Jesus died for your sins and that it doesnt come from any 'good' works that you may do, but you also need to turn from your sin and follow God 100% in order to have your salvation secure.
- I believe that Jesus is coming again.
- I believe that you body is a temple for the Holy Spirit and should be respected alot. Also that we need to offer our bodies as living sacrifices to God.

So thats what i wrote down.... i think most of them as pretty much core beliefs to any Christian. then in class we had to think bout why we believe what we do and where we got the beliefs from... its a good question. do you get your beliefs from what others believe? or do u get them just from what u think? or do u take what others say and test it? or is it from personal experience? one of the biggest things is personal experience for me. i was thinking about the last one i put and i didnt used to believe that, until a few slip ups in not respecting my body as much as i should and the amount of conviction i had from God and how much i really saw that God cared for me, so it really caused me to have that one as an essential belief.

we also had to answer the questions is it important to have beliefs? is it important for a community/body/church to have beliefs? and if you say yes, why?

one of the things that i came to the conclusion is that it is important for a community to have beliefs..... to voice what their core beliefs are and it all comes down to one word UNITY. when i came to War College, i didnt know any of my session mates, never met them ever..... but because we were all Christians and we all believed in God and the bible etc.... we were united. i felt a sense of unity, just purely on the fact that we believe mostly the same core beliefs. i think that is sooo important for a community to have.... if they didnt have beliefs or if they didnt know what their beliefs were, everyone would be a bit all over the place and there wouldnt be huge unity....


i could write soooo much more on lots of other topics as the past couple of days, God has been revealing cool stuff to me, but that is what is on my heart at the moment. oh and one more thing from Pray the Bible this morning.....

we were praying for Spiritual Strength for our fellow session mates..... and as i was praying, God spoke to me about Is 40:29-31 which says:

He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.

now this is just what i think, i am not sure whether its true or not, but i think it is..... in that the part where it says he gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.... it occured to me, that we arent just praying for any strength, we are praying for SPIRITUAL strength.... i felt God telling me that he gives power to the weak, but we need to be weak in order for Gods power to show through.... if we r all stubborn and think we r so tough, God's power isnt going to show through. and he gives us strength when we are powerless.... i struggle with this ( anyone who knows me, knows that i like to pretend everything is ok!!!!!).... we HAVE to be powerless and we have to be weak in order for Gods power to fully work in our lives..... what does anyone else think about this?? do you agree with me??


sorry its a bit long and alot to go through, but i am interested.... what are your core beliefs??? and do u agree with my last statement bout Is 40:29-31???

Back in the DTES

well i am in Vancouver now and have been since Wednesday. I didnt really know what to expect coming back, i didnt know how i was going to feel about coming back and i didnt know how i would react to different things and different people.

well my first reaction of coming back was i felt sick. physically i felt sick coming back into the Downtown Eastside. it was kind of sad. like it wasnt cuz of the smell, it was just because i saw all the hurt of the people and that really hurt me too. when i walked into the hotel, i realise how much our hotel smells.... sooo grosso.

one thing i did notice is that i was soooo excited to see my session mates. and they were pretty excited to see me and my pink hair! good response all round. then it was soooo exciting to see Andy. cuz i have been homesick lately, it was good to see someone from home, so that was pretty exciting. i was also really excited to see Jenea and Juan and Joe..... and on Thursday night saw Karyn Baker, so that was pretty exciting.

so all in all my DTES return wasnt too bad. i still hurt for the people down here, but i know even being here makes a difference in people's lives and i am coming to that realisation. Gina, the desk worker at the Empress said some weird stuff went on while we were gone and she never wants us to leave again.... how cool is that!!! except that we have to leave! ah well.

so it probably wasnt a very interesting blog to read, but i just wanted to write one on coming back!

wait, i have a better picture of my hair.... sooo cool!!!!

A week of change

ok so i think i have gone a bit weird.... this week amongst sleeping and playing alot of Phase 10, i got a new piercing and i got half of my hair coloured pink!!!

so why did i do this?? i got the new piercing cuz i thought it looked good and i have wanted it for ages!!! the new hair is cuz i needed a change, i wanted to look different and be a bit outrageous!!! but i am pretty happy with both of them. i thought i would blog about them because some of my friends wont get to see my pink hair... so i will also put some photos up as well.

so this week has been a week of changes.... new piercing, new hair colour, new place to be, actually get lots of sleep ( thats a new thing!!!!!) and meeting lots of new people.... its been a good week... although i have been quite homesick. but i am sooo thankful and sooo blessed to have had these 2 weeks off and especially 2 weeks of being out of the downtown eastside...

I love you all heaps and heaps!!!