Spiritual Whiplash?

This seems to be the best way I can explain my weariness at the moment.  It's not purely a physical tired, but the battle going into the School of Worship was fierce.  The key battleground was bringing international students to a very Dutch base.  Each and every visa that was granted had to be fought for in practical and spiritual ways.  Many of our YWAM staff, friends and many of you prayed for these students and their visas.  We have tasted victory as well as defeat.  Four visas were granted and four were denied, even after repeated attempts and considerable documentation.
It's been many years since my home YWAM base has hosted such an international school.  It's been so difficult to get visas and it was just easier to "fish in the Dutch pond" for students. But YWAM is an international organisation and it fulfills it's calling when we have staff and students from many nations together.  So, it wasn't just a fight for one school, but a fight for my home YWAM base.
And I realize that I took the point position in this battle... and I'm feeling it.
I'll be calling on my prayer partners to cover me in prayer so I can be restored... all prayers are welcome!
We have taken a foothold now and my prayer is that we won't lose any ground.

Foretaste of Heaven

 

"A thousand songs with ten thousand voices blended and echoed 

through the whole of Heaven and beyond."

- Bill Payne "The Seraphim Chronicles"

 

On the brink of a new adventure - the in-gathering of the nations to come and worship the Creator.
In a few short days our School of Worship begins.  Precious people from every strata of life and almost every continent have been attracted by One to come and worship.  Every tribe, every tongue, every nation converging around the Throne.
Soon we will see each other's faces
Soon we will hear one another's voices
Soon we will bow our hearts in His presence and do what we were created for: to Love and Worship God.

Brothers and sisters from Korea and Central African Republic, from Ireland, Indonesia and India, from America and Australia, from Rwanda and Egypt and Ghana and Holland, all of us blending hearts and voices in praise to Jesus.

I can't wait for this foretaste of Heaven!