New Update...

Good Day! (That's what they say here). I'm picking quite a bit of Aussie words. Juice is "cordial." A pacifier is a "dummy." There's so much more... learning still. Anyway, I'm sure you want to know my daily schedule. It changes a little every day, but here you go.

6:15 (usually)- wake up
7:00-7:30 breakfast
7:30-8:30 connect time (quiet time)
8:30-9 tidy time (cleaning up the room)
9-10- different each day (worship, intercession, etc.)
10:00 "cuppa time" cup of whatever.. tea or coffee! mm.....
10:20-1 lecture
1- lunch
2- different things each day like creative time, evangelism, process time, etc)
3-4 is free
then 4-5:30 is work duty and I do food prep so I cook dinner for everyone on base every night (like 25 people usually total, sometimes 30 or more) It's def. preparing me for practical life.
Then cleanup rotates among us each day.
Then nights are all free after dinner, except for Thursday night which is Community Night where people from the community come or whatever and I guess we do different things.
So yeah, that's a typical day for all of you wondering.

God is teaching me so much during this time. Our first series of lecture is on hearing God's voice and I'm loving growing in the knowledge of God and who he really is. Our first speaker has been amazing. Like one thing today that stuck out to me was how thankfulness is actually a tool to be used against spiritual warfare. And when we pray and thank God for all that He is and has done, even when we don't feel like it, that's a sacrifice. And God consumes his sacrifices with his fire and presence and Spirit. And that's battling the enemy in the heavenly realms. Cool, huh? (read more in Phil. 4:4-19.. i think).

I think God is speaking the theme of this DTS for me is going to be "dream." God is showing me what its looks like to go to a place of dreaming with Him. He can exceed all my thoughts and rational logical thinking and wants to take me to a place of what he's dreaming about. I am learning to love what He loves and hate what He hates and grow in the Fear of the Lord, dreaming His dreams and throwing away all the limitations I brought with me from my previous pre-conceptions about who God is.

Our base director said we all have pre-conceptions, and we have suppositions. We think about our suppositions all the time, but rarely do we consider those preconceptions behind the suppositions. God is revealing to me the pre-conceptions that I had in my mind enstilled subconciously and replacing those with His heart and taking me to new realities of who He really is, which is really exciting.

Thank you all so much for praying for me and with me. This would not be possible without you. You are such a vital part of the Lord's purpose, which he is making known, day by day.. dream by dream. I am blessed and thankful for you so much.