Wans, Hakas and Songs

Hello friends!

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve blogged – it’s been a crazy week!

Sunday was wonderful – so relaxing with all the OPs still sailing, I managed to do my CIR, finish my book and book report, write a few letters AND finish TWO songs! It was great! And Elisa and I had a lovely date and watched Alice in Wonderland on my laptop in my comfy bed! I love my German roomie! She is so funny! All the Germans are! Marit cracks me up – in German, “v” makes a “w” sound and sometimes they have little slip-ups which make the funniest phonetic mistakes! Last week, Marit asked us “Who cleaned out the wans?”

Anyway, the Musos had a lovely song sharing session and then the Ops got back super late and it was so lovely to see all my sister and best friends again! I just hugged them so much! It was funny, how in mere moments, our cottage went from empty silence to comfortable noise that the normal pack of 6 girls makes on an average evening.

Then came wonderful Monday! This week, our own base director, Bearyl is our speaker, and man is she a powerful woman of God with an incredible gift of deliverance! In week four, she helped me get delivered from some serious stuff, so I have experienced firsthand God working through her to bring people out of oppression. Man, she’s delivered me from stuff I didn’t even realize was holding me down!

So Monday was incredible. I had an unforgettable Holy Spirit encounter when Bearyl prayed for me to receive the gift of deliverance. I feel like God is growing gifts within me that I never recognized – the spirit of discernment, gifting in dreams and visions and interpretation of both those and tongues. And the more I ask God for these, the more He gives! It’s crazy! I’m continually asking God for an increase in blessing of these gifts and to continue to develop them! I am so pumped for Spiritual Warfare! Man, my prayer life has gotten rocked so much lately and God is just pouring on the revelation!

On Monday, Matthew and Schnegg sang a song that they wrote over the weekend, crazily enough, over spiritual warfare! Man, it was so powerful and it was so great to see my brothers in Christ to rise up and become warriors of God! I am so proud of them! The boys also had their first Haka rehearsal. Watching them learn it was pretty entertaining – they slowly moved from floundering spaghetti noodles to strong warriors. The Haka they learned is “Te Waka” – a Maori battle cry that prepared the men for fighting. Te waka means war canoe, and the men chant about gearing up for war, getting in the war canoe and do preparing for battle. Before fighting, the men would beat their chest so hard and furiously that they would draw blood. If you’ve ever seen a group of native men preform a Haka, it’s absolutely terrifying. Rich, a rather large Kiwi leader here, has Maori background, and he leads the Haka, and it’s truly powerful. There is something so powerful about it. This particular Haka has the words changed a little bit – instead of declaring death, it declares life and fighting the Enemy rather than killing man. And the boys did it on Tuesday morning, and I was so proud! Watching all my boys become warriors and fiercely declare spiritual warfare on the Enemy was so powerful and they blew me away! Well done boys! I mean, MEN! Though it's not nearly as epic as in real life, here's the vid:

 http://www.facebook.com/#!/hannah.douglass.3/posts/460782010631402?notif_t=like

Tuesday was a blah day. Not gonna lie, a lovely string of things just shot my attitude and Satan was determined to rob me of my joy, but God restored it to me after a “get it together” chat with my one-on-one, Carly and some intense conversation with Jesus. And they filled in my favorite potholes on the drive during work program! I was so sad – I’ll have no more puddles to jump in on rainy days!

Oh yeah! I almost forgot about Tuesday! So, I run to breakfast, as usual, in my Pajamas and crazy hair, only to fins our entire DTS standing outside the A-Frame and Rich telling us that there had been a burglary and that they had stolen all the instruments and computers and equipment and we were all shocked. Though I was slightly relieved to learn that it was just a burglary, because my first initial thought was something had happened to Bearyl, who is fighting breast cancer. (please keep her in your prayers!) I felt so bad for people like Henk, whose beautiful guitar was left in there, or Noemi, whose iPhone was left there overnight. So we began to pray for the burgalers, waiting outside for the police to show up and fingerprint the place when the door to the A-Frame opened and out came the staff, all dressed up and fancy shmancy. And turns out, we were punked. There was no robbery. But there was BREAKFAST. Funny how my thought process went from Bearyl to burglary to breakfast all in under 5 minutes. So they beautifully served us a HUGE hot breakfast with pancakes, french toast, hash browns, eggs, bacon, fruit and yogurt, coffee, tea, juice - the SHABANG. Man, it was so sweet. I love the staff, they are such a blessing to us.

Then there was yesterday!

God has been blessing our school with some incredible angelic occurrences! During lunch, Miranda was getting delivered by Bearyl, and I thought I heard a trumpet sound in the lecture room, and when I looked in, all I saw was Miranda getting prayed over by Bearyl and Aleisha and a couple other people, but I didn’t really think about it, maybe I heard things, you know?

And then we found out something crazy today. A lot of people heard a trumpet sound when Miranda was getting delivered, but no one was blowing the shofar.

GUYS THERE WAS AN ANGEL BLOWING A TRUMPET IN OUR LECTURE ROOM.

ISN’T THAT CRAZY???

So yeah.

I had a wonderful date with Jesus after an eventful community rec time of nonstop cricket. I went on a walk, he showed me boiling water. If you’re really interested in what the heck that means, please ask, I’d be happy to tell you.

Then I had AWESOME prayer in the prayer room! Man, God is so good. Mom – you and I need a skype date SOON.

Then Matt and I had a lovely late dinner date with Rebekah and Schnegg and Henk. I had Kraft mac ‘n cheese for the first time in MONTHS. Thank you Beth!

Then we played with a random dog running around the base and went to sleep!

Today was awesome – we dealt with generational strongholds. I love learning about this stuff – I wish we had more than one week with Bearyl!

We broke generational strongholds off my life today – from as far as ten generations back all the way to my future bloodline. And man, was that powerful!

Then, Elisa and Hannah and I had a lovely show at Robert Harris, the coffeeshop. We made over $20 in tips today, it was crazy!!! We decided that we should go pro. So our band name is…ready for it?...it’s super hip and cool:

 

Hannah Squared and Their German Friend

 

It might look cooler if we did it like this:

 

Hannah² and Their German Friend

 

BAM

We’re going to have a field photoshoot and everything.

And Schnegg will be our official photographer.

He doesn’t know it yet.

But he is.

AND MACKENZIE PUCKETT.

You’ll never guess what song I make them sing all the time.

Don’t you worry there my honey…

Ladeedeedadeedeedeedum

Bunnies

 

J

Everytime I sing that song, I think of you, my dear.

 

AND THEN HANNAH AND I WENT ON A DATE.

Yesyesyes, that required ALL CAPS.

Because it was a really good date.

We went swimming at Opal Springs – the hot springs next door.

I love me some Hannah.

Then we had our first outreach prep meeting! It was good! I am getting sooooo excited for Fiji! God is giving me a heart for that place and all the members of my team! I think I’m gonna copy Steph’s idea and do an entry where I do a profile of my team. It’ll be awesome.

Oh yeah, i almost forgot!!! Musos are going to Raglan beach tomorrow to brush up on our songs for the album! I'm so excited to just relax at the beach house, just spend a weekend songwriting and chilling out! We're also going to celebrate THANKSGIVNGGGGG. It's been far too long since I've had the pleasure of a food coma.

Man, I’ve written a Lot. And to think, it’s not even everything.

I love Jesus.

And worshipping Him is awesome.

If you don’t do it very often, you should try it sometime. God created worship for US! Imagine that!

I’m gonna go shower now. I don’t think I’ve done that in a while. Woohoo

 

Peace out girl scout.