November 6th, 2022 – 12:55pm – Haifa Hostel, Haifa, Israel:

This will be a brief and natural update… I have been in Israel for a little bit over a month now. Tomorrow begins my 3rd week of my Hebrew language class at the University Of Haifa. My first exam is on the 10th. I am currently booked in this hostel, the Haifa Hostel, until the morning of the 11th… after which I have nothing booked for lodging. Israel is expensive, a bit more expensive that the USA in terms of cost of living. I have $100 in my bank account.

I am learning Hebrew quickly… although I do not as of now believe that learning Hebrew was God’s ultimate purpose in bringing me here to Israel as He has been teaching/showing/revealing new things almost daily. But being flexible is what I am called to do and so I trust whatever God has planned for me.

I spent most of yesterday alone with Him (God). I went for a long walk and stumbled upon the Haifa Flee Market. It was interesting. God was speaking to me very firmly of His intent to keep me in Israel by His own power. And so I listened. If He wants me to stay in Israel it will be by His power alone as this is my current situation:

My tourist visa expires on January 4th, 2023. So I will have to leave Israel by that date which is 10 days before my class ends. Due to my current faith journey living day by day on the gifts and provision God is providing… I am unable to apply and receive a student visa. The student visa has a requirement to show your bank account that has enough funds for living in Israel the entire time of study. And since I only have $100… I would not be able to get the student visa.

Really and truly it has been amazing to watch God provide for this journey so far and I know that it is Him alone that has provided and brought me here. So if He says that by His hand He will keep me here then I believe Him.

He also was speaking to me at length about my life and calling… and one thing He said really effected me. As we were walking through the flee market He said, “I and I alone have lead you through all the events of your life to this day and I and I alone will lead you until the day that I bring you home.” As He spoke these words to me I saw a vision of my whole life and it passed before me… all the good and the bad and I saw His hand in all of it. And I had such an overwhelming sense of belonging to Him, of purpose, or His plan and His will in each and every moment of my life. And so I stopped in my tracks at His words… and the vision He showed me. How can it be that God has so claimed me life as His own? A mystery for sure… one that I do not yet understand.

God is writing a very specific story with my life in these pages and in each moment. And it is the same with every single one of His children.

I had another strange encounter shortly after God had said these things to me and showed me the vision. I walk walking in the flee market and turned the corner and there sitting on the ground in front of me was a woman and she was holding up a cup and swaying back and forth. But that isn’t what shocked me. I saw that she was an angel, brilliantly shining as she sat and swayed back and forth there on the ground, paper cup held up and extended into the air. I walked passed her and then stopped a bit beyond to turn and look again at her. She wasn’t there for anyone else… she was there as a test for me. This is the only way I can explain what I knew in my spirit. She was a test. And so I reached in my back pocket to where I had a number of shekel coins, probably around $30 or so… and held them tightly in my fist. I walk up to her and grabbed the cup I’m my hand to stop the swaying and dropped the shekel coins into the cup, as I did this I saw the angel looking up at me. I nodded and walked away. My gift wasn’t for the angel… my gift was to Him. But it was a moment I will probably never forget… the sight of that angel sitting there swaying back and forth holding out a cup.

I wasn’t going to share this story, but today I felt very strongly that I needed to share it. My life and my journey is a testimony to a life lived both in the natural and supernatural because that is where I stand. Of both, encountering both, seeing both, hearing both. And more and more my life will burn with supernatural encounters and somehow I know it is my assignment to share them.

I do realize that what is common to me is not common to many. That the conversations with God daily is not the normal experience of His children but it should be… because that is why we’re were created.

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