Dearest ones! Well, I am finding my feet and working on getting into the rhythm of being a part-time intercessory missionary and a part-time market-place missionary...well, I guess you could call me a full-time missionary, huh? Someone asked me recently what my typical day looks like...I chuckled...no day is typical, but I am trying to establish some rhythm and schedule.
I try most mornings to get to a prayer meeting from 9-10 with Deeper Waters, a marketplace ministry here. Their message of HOPE is transforming cities and nations and I truly feel the Lord has something He wants to do with and in me there. I spend 12 hours per week in the prayer room, which is spread out over 5 days right now. My service hours (as they call them) are divided between inner healing prayer ministry, prophecy team ministry and research and writing for Exodus Cry (fighting human trafficking). A true blessing started yesterday with the gathering of four amazing women! We will be studying a wonderful book by John Eldredge called Journey of Desire and meeting every two weeks to pray, discuss and encourage one another. I've moved from a 30 somethings group to a 40 somethings group of women! A young lady approached me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would mentor her. We meet weekly and I know the Lord is opening more doors with young women who need older women to pour into them, so I am blessed to "be available" to Him.
I still have two part-time jobs as I wait on the Lord to bring in full support, and I'm thankful to have them! I'm also thankful to each of you who is praying faithfully for me as well as to those who are financially sacrificing! Lives are being touched in powerful ways.
Some of you may have heard that the awakening meetings which have been taking place 4 nights a week since last November are being put "on hold" for a season. In no way is it because the Lord is not showing up and doing His amazing work of healing bodies and hearts; rather, there have been a number of words from the Lord indicating that there will be an even greater "wave" of awakening not only here but across the earth and the need now is to go into the place of prayer and intercession and prepare our hearts for what is coming. It's the Ezekiel 47 reality; we've been enjoying the ankle deep water and splashing about in the joy of the Lord, watching Him heal hearts of shame, emotional trauma, addictions and more, as well as bodies from tumors, paralysis, deaf ears and weak vision, just to name a few. There are reports from across the globe from over 6000 people of how they have been touched by God including many new believers in the Kingdom. All that in addition to over 1500 baptisms here at IHOP alone! The Lord wants to do more and human logic would say, "Just keep it going." But the Lord wants to do more His way; He wants to bring the entire global bride of Christ into waist deep water and then in over our heads; and so we push 'pause' on ankle deep, seek out the heart of the Father in the place of prayer, worship and intercession, and wait for His timing in sending the next wave. Truly it is we who need to prepare our hearts in humility. God continues to move with power in the prayer room here as well as across the globe, so the "awakening" hasn't stopped...it will continue!
Ok, this was to be a quick update and it has turned into another TOME. Sorry. The REAL reason I am writing is to promote my book. Let me be perfectly blunt here! A number of people have read it now and the feedback is super positive. The head of community care here at IHOP and I met last week and he will be adding my book to a list of books for small groups here to consider using in their small groups. This got me thinking about you all out there in various churches and missions groups and the blessing that this book could be to people around you! So, email me back and we can talk about how you want to get your copy (or copies) and how we can get it into the hands of the right people at your church! A dear friend of mine here who is a Hebrew scholar...not that that has anything to do with anything...is reading the book and says, "It's incredible! It might just be because so much of what you are talking about I am walking through right now, but I am being touched by every chapter!" I hope you all know me well enough to know that I am in NO WAY tooting my own horn. I am completely, utterly humbled by the feedback I am receiving. My prayer from the outset was that God would be glorified and that ONE person would come into the Kingdom as a result of reading it. I am also PUSHING it now because in November, I am heading to Hungary..... ....Yep, I am heading back to my second home for a visit which has turned into a MAJOR ministry trip. However, the part connected to my book is this: I want to BLESS the prayer room in Budapest, which started a worship school last fall, with a much needed financial gift. So, every dollar that comes in over and above the $10 cost of the book (plus $3 shipping; retail is $14.99) will go directly to the Budapest prayer room ministry!!! Wouldn't you just LOVE to be a part of sowing into the Kingdom in and through Hungary while receiving a book at the same time?
So, to make a long letter longer, write to me and let's get a copy out to you and bless the nations at the same time! I'm ending my tome here and looking forward to getting a FLOOD of emails from each of you! ha ha ha! Thank you and love you all so much...cuz it's all about Jesus and His Kingdom anyway, right? Always by grace alone,Arden
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