Continuous New Work

God is really showing me new and great things and I am absolutley loving it!

Last week I went to an Earthquake Conference at the Tulsa Healing Center. On Thursday night the theme was Meet With God. It was just going to be a communion night before the real conferece meetings started the following day. Before we started praise and worship they made an announcement that anyone who has been an approved volunteer there for a while to feel free to go and pray with anyone that God lead’s you to. So I just had my eyes closed just praying and praising God. Then one of the leaders comes up to me and whispers in my ear, “God wants to break off this religious spirit on you and the spirit of being too cautious. He wants me to experience that freedom that I have wanted for years and years since I was a little girl. ” I knew right away what it was. I had always wanted to dance in church but felt that it would be looked down upon, kicked out of the church, or everyones eyes on me being critical and judging. Growing up my friend Angela and I would always go to her house and just dance for hours and hours and hours in her bedroom. No judgement on how we looked but just pure fun and freedom. Well anyways after that man told me that the next song that came on was a Jewish dancing song singing about Israel. My friend Desiree knew I had a heart for Israel and grabbed my hand and said girl this is your song! She led me out to the area where everyone was dancing. I was like God you wanted to start that today? I still felt hesitant. But she got me out there and a group of women formed a circle and just started dancing. I haven’t smiled and laughed so hard in such a long time. I felt that spirit lift off of  me and felt such great freedom and joy dancing before my King! Then this lady came out dancing with a beautiful ribbon on a stick. I was like I really need to get me one of those. Just talking to a friend about it and she knew someone who made them. So I called up this woman who makes them. She is a messianic Jewish woman. I just so happened to call her the day before she was leaving for a mission trip to Paris.  So I bought several of them from her and blessed her with a little more for her mission trip. Just in that little bit I was there the 2 of us already had bond of friendship. I cant wait till she gets back in 3 weeks from her mission trip.

Okay, sorry I ramble so much. I just get a little too excited sometimes! But that same Thursday night after praise and worship came communion. At the front of the room they always have up what they call the tabernacle or the holy of holies. It is behind shear see through curtains. So I stand in a long line to take communion. Before you go through the tabernacle their is Scott who has a jewish prayer shaw type thing on his head and some annointing oil. He is praying over everone and annointing their head with oil before they take communion. Scott told me that my name Krystal was perfect for me. That I was a reflection of God’s light. That I was going to be a light to the nations. That God created people just for me to be that light to. He said you are strong woman of God with strong values. He opened up the curtain for me and said let this pure woman of God come through. I go through and wash my hands and dry them offf, pray and partake of the bread, pray again and partake of the juice and come out. When you come out there were more peple to pray over you. 4 women came up to me. One woman immediatley said FIRE and annointed my lips she said for the prophetic gift God has given me. Another lady said that she saw shutters just fly off my eyes that I can see clearly now. Another one said that God is restoring me fully and the enemy is unraveling himself off of me as we speak. The last lady lady said to water the ground with the WORD!

Friday night was the 1st session of the conference. My friend Desiree was sitting next to me and I had told her not too long ago that God has blessed me with the gift of healing. After praise and worship I sat down with my palms up and was just staring at my hands. They were tingling so strong. Desiree looked at me and said you got the annointing right now? I nodded my head. She said girl my grandma is sitting right over there you better go lay hands on her she needs all the help she can get. So I went and sat next to her grandma and just laid my hands on her. I could feel God’s power going through her whole body. Not too long after I went back to my seat. Grandma tapped Desiree with her cane and said she came in with a severe headache and it was totally gone. Desiree looked at me and said I dont ever want to see you waste that gift again do you hear me? Next time you get that way again you better lay hands on someone girl.

Also that night during praise and worship we were singing that song We Exalt Thee. Then God gave me a vision of the orthodox jewish people standing at the wailing wall again. I had that same vision in New Zealand and an angel was showing it to me. This time when I saw the vision I saw really tall angels line up along the wailing wall where you couldn’t even see the wall anymore. And the jewish men all in black were kneeled down saying We Exalt Thee to Jesus. At the end of service Friday night a man blew a shofar and I just broke crying. I just felt God calling all His chosen Jewish people back home. It was very powerful.

Yesterday my friend Desiree and I went to the Asian market on 21st and Garnett so I could get some Bihon noodles to make Filipno pansit. As I was walking towards the cash register I just stopped and was like wow something is not right here. Where I was standing the atmosphere changed from where we were standing. I felt a heavyness. Desiree was looking around to see if she could see anything when I said that. She was like girl as soon as you said that that is where the relgious section of the store started and there were all these Budda statues. So now I want to go back and tarraform the place and make Jesus’ name known there. Just get it ready for the presence of God to come in.

Also I work 3rd shift at work and a new girl started working 2nd shift so I have to work with her a little bit before she leaves. I cant seem to keep my mouth shut about how good God is. She was raised in church from elementary to high school and didnt know a thing. She was like do you know much about christianity. I was like I sure do. She said I have so many questions for you but cant ask them right now but does God really speak to you? I said yes and he wants to speak to you too. He is all excited waiting to hear from you. She said that she thought God had left her. I like no way no how! He loves you so much! So this girl is wanting me to teach her how to hear from God. Man God is GOOD!

So sorry for the long drawn out spill but that is what is going on in Krystal’s world right now!

Two Months Later…

I am so sorry not everyone has been in the loop with what has been going on with me these last 2 months. It has been a real struggle with me and my emotions being here. I cried an awful lot. Wondering what the heck God had up His sleeve with me staying in NZ. I felt loneliness like I have never experienced before. But God kept asking me “Am I not more than enough for you?” So I had to also lean on God like I have never done before too.

Outreach was not exactly what I was expecting it to be. It was more in-reach or networking actually. I loved working with the Korean Kids though. I had 11 kids on my family group team. On their last week with us I got a chance to pray over each of the 11 kids individually and speak prophetically in their lives. It was really cool to be able to do that. They were very hungry for God and wanted to go deeper but didn’t quite know how. I wished I could have spent more time with them. We all still keep in touch on facebook though.

I did work with after kids club programs with 2 local schools twice a week. We only had an hour with them which didn’t seem like much time.

I also worked with a ministry called City Lights that I loved helping out with. I didn’t get to do too much with them but they have an awesome ministry that connects all different demoninations together to work in the community. It is really amazing to see how God working in this.

While being here in Auckland God did remind me of some things. The reason I wanted to go through YWAM in the 1st place was because I knew God said He had a plan and a purpose for me here in NZ. I didn’t have any contacts here and didn’t want to just show up without a plan. I figured YWAM was my foot in the door to run into someone for future opportunities. Also He reminded me of what I had said the 1st time I had ever been on a mission trip “I wish I could stay longer in one place so I could be able to have built some relationships with the people of that nation”. Well, both of these things have happened.

God led me to this specific YWAM base because it was in NZ and graduation was in Israel. When I read Israel on the web I just started crying not exactly knowing why. But during my 1st 3 months here I started having dreams of Israel and God’s chosen Jewish people. I had never had a heart for Israel or for Jewish people before but God did give me His heart for them. Even though I don’t get to graduate in Israel I know I do have a purpose there further in the future.

But right now I feel I am called right here in NZ. God has given me a heart for the prostitutes here. He told me to show His love to His beautiful daughters and let them know how much He truly treasures them. I have gotten really ticked off at Satan for all the lies he is telling and how he is attacking people that God has plans for. I have seen it in my own family and am really sickened by it. I know I need more experience in this area and am seeking that out right now. I have a meeting tomorrow with the base director of Oxford and my team leader to share my heart with them.

When I found out more I will let you know. Right now I am doing a lot of research and possibly training in Amsterdam red-light district with YWAM there so I can come back and pioneer something in NZ or possibly even train in NZ. Just keep praying for me I know God will give me wisdom and discernment in this area.

Trip To Auckland

Four of us started out early leaving Oxford on Saturday morning. Me, Josie, Will, and Sam. Sam came across us by a flyer he saw in a backpackers hostel. So we gave him a place to stay for the night and a hot meal the night before we left. We dropped Will (my team leader) off 4 hours into the trip and he was hitch hiking to the rest of the way to see an old friend. Hitch hiking is very common in New Zealand and supposedly very safe.

Sam, Josie and I took the ferry from South Island to North Island(which was about 3 hours). We got a hostel in Wellington. Josie had booked it previously. When Josie and I got to our 6 person bedroom to my surprise there were already 2 guys staying in the same room. I was like what the heck. Josie said welcome to hostel traveling. It was very weird at first. Thank goodness these 2 guys were very nice non partying dudes. One was from France and the other one was from Holland. They were both waiting at the hostel for a few days until their dorm room was ready at the University. So we just played a board game before we went to bed. I woke up the next morning to find an additional Asian guy as a guest on the  top bunk. I guess he checked in the middle of the night with out me even noticing.

Then we left Sam in Wellington and Josie and I were on our way. It took 10 hours from Wellington to Auckland. Josie wouldn’t let me drive for fear of my driving I guess and bad weather too. One of the highways were closed due to snow and ice. So we had to go around. (Asia team I sure hope your enjoying the nice warm weather in Indonesia.)

We arrived at King’s Kid’s Camp around 8:30pm and a lot of Koreans were here. I thought I had stepped into Korea. There are 23 boys and 10 girls here from Korea from 6th-10th grade. They are so much fun to be around. The 1st morning one of the kids spilled coffee everywhere and made a loud noise. One of the girls asked if he was okay and he said, “me okay, coffee not okay”. I started laughing so hard but he was so serious. But he loosened up and started laughing too.

Yesterday I had to train 5 of them how to clean the bathrooms. They were not happy that they had to clean the toilets and showers. Especially the toilets. Then later that evening I went from room to room to teach them how to make their beds. How to put there sheets on and stuff. They have never had to do any of these things before. I bet they just thought they were coming here to learn english. But it will really help them out in the world. I also got teach them how to do their own laundry and hang it out to dry. In New Zealand everyone hangs their clothes outside or on a wire thing by the fire if it is bad out. They say electricity is too high here. Even rich people hang their clothes outside. It is pretty amazing.

I already miss hearing the sheep every morning. They are so cute. I have got to get one.

 

Leaving for Auckland

I didn’t raise enough money to go with my team to Asia and the MiddleEast so I am going to do an outreach for a couple of months in Auckland. (Thank you Destiny Church for helping make that happen).

I leave at 6 am tomorrow morning. My friend Josie is driving me up there. I will be working at King’s Kids Camp in the ghetto part of Auckland. It is a very poor community. I will be  going to the schools in the area and helping with the after school kids club program. These kids ethnic backgrounds are Samoan, Tonga, and Maori. I will also be teaching english to 2 different Korean groups. I was also told that they will have a prayer booth set up in town and random people will be coming up to me and asking for prayer. I am really excited about that one!

It is a little scary, but exciting at the same time, I will be without my team and having to make new friends all over again. I guess that is kind of my new life now on the mission field.

I am hoping that my truck will sell before the 2 months are up and I would like to meet the rest of my team in Israel for graduation day in September. I really want to finish this well. We sent out 2 teams. One to Africa and one to Asia. Now I guess the 3rd team is me in Auckland. I am still very excited about this chance to go to north island. The culture there is very different to the one in south island.

Team Africa and Team Asia know that I am still interceding for you all! I love you guys and I know God is going to show you new things and new giftings that you have never experienced. Have an awesome journey and hope to see you all in Israel!

I Found Freedom

Our speaker for this week was Mark Parker. He is part of TEAM 3 (NZ leadership for YWAM). He spoke this week on Lordship. He kept picking on me all week trying to get me to speak out more. He told me that I was holding back and when I step out and speak the rest of the class would follow my lead.

Tonight is Thursday night and that was his last night  here. Yesterday he spoke on the temple and the holy of holies. So today for 8 hours we spent as a class participating and going through that. We came to the gate with thanksgiving and entered the courts with praise and etc….

We had to bring and offering to God. So I walked up to the alter and gave myself to God. Total surrender and said I would go anywhere and do anything that God tells me or desires me to do. Then Mark started picking on me again and said what has God called me to do. I said the day I heard the digerydoo horn blow in class I felt like that it had such a strong sound that it shook the earth. I felt that if everyone heard that it would wake them up that Jesus was coming. Then God had led me to Ezekiel 33 that talks about the Watchmen on the wall blowing its trumpet to warn the people.

Mark got so excited. He said that was what he has been trying to get out of me all week in class. He said that I have a strong prophetic call on my life and that God is going to give me message that I am supposed to proclaim to the nations.

Later he prophesied over everyone. When he came to me he said that God has called me to the nations. That I have always been strong and I know that my NO means No and my Yes means Yes. That I am going to speak wisdom, disciple and teach young people of the nations. He said that I am to Go to the Nations and he warned me that God is going to hold me accountable to that if I dont. He also said that I have a strong fire in me. That God is going to tell me to get up and speak a word and when my mouth opens so much is going to start pouring out and I am going to be like that was not from me that was all God.

Then we had to line up in 2 lines facing oppisite directions. And we had to ask God for a word for the person across from us( who we cant see) then turn around and give that word from God to that person. I was nervous but I heard masculine then I heard the word wisdom. I turned around and prayed that it was going to be a guy. I turned and it was Casey. I got so excited. Yes I heard clearly from God. It was really cool.

Also a couple of days ago during class he turned down the lights and played some music for worship. I was just praying in the Spirit. I felt so much of God’s power in my hands (way more than usual). I just wanted to turn and touch somebody. But I asked the Holy Spirit 1st if there was anybody that needed healing. Deandra came to my mind(her back has been hurting from falling off a horse). I went up to her and asked her how her back was doing. She said oh its okay. I was like seriously. She said well my neck has been hurting. (oh and Deandra had just told me earlier that day she didnt know if she had ever had a God experience). So I laid my hands on her neck and prayed over her and went back to my seat. The strong feeling in my hands had left also. That night she was laying on her stomach and Sarah was massaging her back which hurt. I got a little bummed. I was like God what was all that about? Why didnt you heal her? Then Bethany asked Deandra the next morning if she slept good. Deandra was like well it was weird. She felt like Jesus was laying next to her all night massaging her neck and just comforting her. She said also that she didnt have anymore pain in her back at all. I was like God you are soooooooo GOOD! I love Him so much and love to see Him at work. I approached Deandra later and said girl you just had a God experience.

week 5

Sorry I haven’t written lately it just gets crazy busy here. It was raining and hailing last Friday night so we didn’t get to evangelize.

Not last Sunday but the Sunday before the pastor of the baptist church had a word from God to give out. He said that God said “Will you still love me even if I don’t give you anything that you dream or desire? Am I enough for you?”

Well I was upset that it took me 10 minutes to say yes. I really had to think about it. But I finally told Him that HE is more than enough for me. Then the pastors wife gets up to give a word from God too. God said, “Give me all of your desires and I will show you a love like you have never endured. “

I do trust and love God so much. I am glad He got me to that breaking point so He can do things the way He wants to do them not how I have asked Him to do them.

Amazing Week

I will try to post more often than once a week but it gets so busy here. It seems like Sundays are my free day to write. But this week during class we were talking on relationships and forgiveness. Before our speakers left to go back home to England they had a word from God for me.

Miriam said she was praying for me and she saw flat land then she saw mountains and rivers flowing. She said not that my time with God has been flat but in my gifting areas that on outreach that I was going to grow and flow in the gifts of Words of Wisdom, healing, and discernment. No longer will it be flat land anymore. That I just need to step out in faith.

I was so excited. That is exactly what I have been praying for. I felt such an expectancy from the Holy Spirit before I even got here.

On Friday night we go into Christchurch for outreach and I was on the hospital team again. I ran into a minister in Christchurch last week that told me how to get into see the patients. He said to go up to the receptionist and ask for the chaplain. That I had the favor of God so I could get through. Well we went Friday night and the chaplains leave at 5 and we didnt get there until 6:30pm. But Diane and I prayed in the chapel while Julie and Jonathan went walking around the floors. Diane and I also found a board on the wall that had all of the Chaplains pictures on it. So we prayed over it and asked for favor on the chaplain that would walk us through. Then Julie and Jonathan came back down and we prayed some more in the chapel and took turns reading different scriptures out loud from the bible. But I feel like we are laying the foundation for even after the 8 or 9 more weeks that we are here in NZ that the other YWAM team members will take up this ministry too.

Great Weekend

Friday night is our outreach night in the city of Christchurch. We split up into 3 teams. One team stayed downtown outside to do art work to draw people into talk, play soccer and talk to the homeless. 2nd team went to the hospital and 3rd team went to the prostitute section. Prostitution is actually legal in NZ. I ended up on the hospital team. We were not allowed in to see patients because of their privacy act. So I found someone that can help us out for next week. I am so excited.

Saturday is our fun day. It was snowing Saturday morning and my whole team wants to go surfing for our fun day. I was like you have got to be kidding me! I cant stand to be cold. But we put these warm wet suits on had a lesson then off into the ocean we went. It was so much fun! I didnt get up all the way so I just rode in on the board on my knees which was still so much fun! The changing area was a dressing room outside in the cold and it was raining. But as Kiwi’s say ” No Worries!!”. Then my friend Diane and I split some fish in chips it was sooooo good!!

We can only watch movies on the weekend so a couple of people went into town and rented Nacho Libre. 1st time I have ever seen it. My expectations were very low so I ended up thinking it was a cute movie.

Sunday morning hardly anyone went to the 9am service at the Baptist Church. Most of us slept in and went to the 11am service. We were all so sore from surfing. I keep telling them YWAM needs a hot tub on base.

Prayer

The leader over our team is Will Rosenberg and he was praying for a few of us back on February 6, 2008. I was one of the people he was praying for over on look out mountain here in NZ. He gave me a typed up version of what he heard from God before he ever met me or new anything about me.

Word from God that Will heard-

Krystal Johnson is Beautiful, Loving, Gracious-daughter of the Most High. Heaven cries out for you-to hold your hand and walk with you. Celebrating the victories and trudging through the defeats. March on and keep going. The CALL on you life is GREAT and the King will not let you go – so run from it no more. Embrace the call and give you self the freedom to fail. From that place and there alone will you be able to move forward.

Anyways I thought that was pretty cool!!!

God Is So Amazing!

It has been kind of a rough week for me this week. God has really taught me what it is to be a servant and how to really enjoy it. I had the worst attitude towards my work duties this week. I felt overwhelmed, tired and whiny. It was my weekend to be a weekend warrior. Which you are chosen to clean and fix meals all weekend while everyone else gets to have fun and relax. Then this last Monday it was my turn to be on dish duty all week for lunch but still have to do all my regular work duties for breakfast and in the evening. Also on Monday after I did all of that I had 20 minutes to rest before I got a chance to do Base duties that we do every Monday. And I was chosen to wash 10 vans inside and out with a couple of friends. And of course it rained hard that night after we did all that work. I felt God kept pushing me and finally broke me until I realized that it was not about me or anybody else. I was to do all of this as an act of worship to Him. On Tuesday night I had a one on one session with my team leader Jessica Ball. I asked that she pray for my attitude and that I would get a servants heart. So she did pray for me and God heard her prayer. Wednesday morning was the 1st day I truley enjoyed doing dishes at breakfast. Then I got to do them again at lunch then I had another chance cause some friends of mine was short a person at dinner dish time and I actually volunteered to help on my own free will and I enjoyed it. Now that was an act of God!

After dinner dishes my friends Diane, Casey and I went into the prayer shed to pray. It was so amazing! We were in there about an hour in a half. Casey said he almost left because he felt like he wasnt really praying with us. But he joined right in. God made such a break through with him that night. He has his prayer language but had never prayed it out loud in front of people before. But he was able to let loose, pray, dance, and shout for joy! Casey always seems to pick to be in my group which I think is so funny. He says that he thinks that I am close to God so he just wants to be near me. He is just 19 years old and been a christian for 2 years. He said his mom told him when he gets to NZ to find someone that prays in tongues alot and stick with that person and learn from them. And he told me I was that person and that he was supposed to latch onto to learn from. I was very honored. God is already doing so many great things through him. But the 3 of us were praying that it doesnt just stay the 3 of us that it would expand to the whole team to want to pray corporately like that together as a team. Especially before we leave for outreach.