Hey again friendys!!!
I know i just wrote the longest update you've ever scene but i want to shoot a vision for whats next. So like i said in my last post I learned how to dream again. Well let me share with you my dream and what has been my dream for the past 2 and half years when i fist moved to the house of prayer and began running with a team called the Call.
So two and half years ago i visited Southern California for the first time. I thought it would just be a fun trip where we did some evangelism and see some people healed and touched but i never knew that it would be the place where i got marked for everything that I'm called to do. Before i went i had gotten all these words and pictures given to me about the harvest and the nations of the earth and how i was going to be a part of the nations coming to know the Lord. I didn't quite understand what that meant nor did i even know where to start with that. While we were in SoCal i began to get lots of clarity as i heard different stories of a missions movement that came out of Pasadena and how there would be one greater that would shake the nations for the Lord.
As i heard story after story of what God had for California unto the dream of the Lords heart for the nations of the earth i began to burn. I even began say things like " i could just move to LA and minister and see revival and then go into the nations and see revival." Over the next few months I began to burn hotter and hotter even to the point where i would weep over the Lords dreams for California and for revival. I kept praying and praying and dreaming of moving to Cali one day and being a part of what God would do in that place and what God would do out of that place to the Nations of the earth. Over the next few years or so i began to push this dream to the side thinking thoughts like " I'm too small, I'm not good enough and it doesn't look like everyone elses dream." But over the past 7 or 8 months God has set me free to dream again beyond all the accusations. We were made for great things and we were made to dream the dreams of God and to live them out on the earth. Your not to small because your Father is big enough and He wants to use us.
Like i said in my last post while i was in Africa i began to dream. I began to come alive in the dreams God has givin me for California and for the nations of the earth. Theres alot more i could explain with different dreams and words and how i feel like this next journey may look but ill just keep it simple haha if that's possible.
In February i will be packing up and moving to LA and joining the Call and their next step in standing on these promises for revival and the nations knowing the name of Jesus and thousands of souls coming into the kingdom. Ill be working with the call and the house of prayer there in Pasadena but also taking root in LA and working in the streets with the people and carrying the love of God into that city and seeing revival breakout from the inner cities to Hollywood, from the projects to the the whole of California and unto the nations of the earth. I don't have it all figured out and i don't know what it all looks like but I'm going for the dream of God for my life and it may look crazy and it may not make since but its what i was made for.
As i take this next step remember to pray for me and if anyone has it on there heart to support me financially you can donate above. I will be working when i move out but any support would help me in my move and help me start out. Thank you guys for believing in me through my journey. I couldn't do it without yall. Ill keep updating and if you have any questions about all of this feel free to ask.
With Love Hayli Dover
Thursday, January 17, 2013
My season in Africa :)
I know its been a while. I just wanted to give a quick overview of my time in Africa and then shoot a vision for whats happening next in my life. So as most of you know i just attended a missions school in Mozambique Africa with a ministry called Iris. I spent 3 months on the east coast of southern Africa experiencing the things of God like i never have before. We had daily classes with different missionaries from all over the world who shared there stories and visions with the goal of us 300 or so students catching the vision of God for our lives. We did weekly practical missions such as going to the hospital and praying for the sick which was mine. Others did all kinds of things from children's programs to loving on the prostitutes to working on houses in the village that had no roofs and such. Then every week a few teams would be sent out into the bush bush to minister and share the gospel to some villages who had never heard of Jesus or the transforming power of His love. We saw many healed and many saved and many lives transformed by the love of God. Then at the end of the school some headed home to spend Christmas with there families and some headed to other missions trip and then some of us stayed and did 10 days in the bush bush.
Three or four teams of about 20 or so people headed into different villages to be the hands and feet of Jesus to those that had never heard His name. This was definitely the hardest thing Ive ever done in my entire life. Being faced with the warfare of each village we visited along with rain, bugs, LOTS of dirt and different sicknesses that hit our team as we went from village to village. And just when we thought what we were doing was pointless God would show up and we would see the most amazing transformations and healing. For example about 4 days in to our 10 day journey i saw the scripture that states " His power is made perfect in our weakness" come alive in an amazing way. It all started when i was just having a tough day. I was tired and dirty and annoyed and i was just done and ready to head home. As we were all just hanging and living life together i decided to go out and take pictures of the kids. I walked out of the fenced area and found 3 little kids with there parents and an older man. I started snapping pictures and the older man started asking me something. I couldn't understand but this is when my friend Joy came out and helped me translate because she speaks the language. We find out that he has a bad tooth infection and wants us to pull his tooth for him. Now i was definitely not about to pull this guys tooth so i just asked if we could pray for him. He said yes. we asked if he knew Jesus and he said " yes I'm a christian and I'm very close to Jesus." W start to pray and we lay hands on his very swollen face and commanded the healing of Jesus to come. See the infection was so bad that his face was very swollen and you could hear the infection gurgling in his throat. So we keep praying and he says " its ready to be healed." we pray one more time and his face began to twitch under our hands. Then the unbelievable happens. His cheek shrinks right under our hands. Me and Joy were amazed. We asked the man how it was and he said " its all better, theres no more pain, Jesus healed me its all gone!" Even the gurgling had left his voice, the man had been completely healed. We were amazed and then Jesus came again when we invited a young man to come and receive prayer.
The young man had a cataract on his eye which made him completely blind in that eye. we prayed a couple of times and each time the eye got better. We would cover his good eye and ask what He could see and gradually he could see how many fingers i was holding up and then he could describe what we looked like. by the end of us praying he told us there was no more problem he was completely healed. Me and Joy were amazed and ran into to share with our team what had happened. That was just one example of how the Lord met us on our 10 day journey. I know i speak for my whole team when i say our lives were very much so changed in that 10 days. We saw the hand of the Lord move in miracles of salvation and healing and the transformation of hearts by the love of God. Not only did we see many lives transformed but our lives were transformed in the process. which brings me to my final thing about my time in Africa.
Tho i went to Africa as a vessel of the Lord and a zealous lover ready to change the world i was the one who was changed. I like to say that i thought i went to save Africa but Africa saved me. This 3 months was the most life changing 3 months of my life. I learned who i am and who I'm called to be through the gentle healing of my best best friend Jesus and the mighty revelation of My identity as a daughter of God. I got so much out of this school. I made best friends and i fell in love with those kids and i fell in love with Jesus like never before. But the greatest thing that i gained form my time in the Harvest School was that i got my dream back.
During the school I was surrounded by mothers and fathers that our so for what God has called me to do. They heard story after story and testimony after testimony about getting caught up in the dream and destiny of God for my life. So as i began to dream again i found an open door to my future and to the plan of God for me. That open door is my move to California. I will share this in my next post so go read it and catch the vision of God and find your own through it.
Love Hayli Dover
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