This year on tour I was really impacted by the way God “entrusted” people to me. He showed me how people are gifts, and that we should handle them just as the Father does. He also showed me that the only reason we had success every time we ministered is because He is the one who called us to do what we do. There were so many times when all I felt was my own weakness or I couldn’t get my mind off my problems. But because God has called me to touch people’s lives, He spoke through me and used me to love people every single day. I’m seeing more and more how God uses the weak things of this world (that would be me) to confound the wise or the strong, and I am so grateful. He also revealed to me more of my destiny and who I am on this trip—that I am called to carry God’s heart as an intercessor, and also that there is a special place for me in speaking to the hearts of young girls and even those who struggle with thoughts of suicide. I will never forget the gifts God put in my path, and I’m going to keep looking for those people who think that no one cares or are forgotten in order to expose this deadly lie and set hearts free!
-Denica McCall
Going on tour this year was something I will never forget! It amazed me to see the way the Lord used us as we stepped out in faith. The Lord really gave me an ability to connect with people, especially the teenage girls. I can’t tell you how many broken girls there were who wanted to know that they were loved and cared about. I had the opportunity to minister to several young girls who just cried when I hugged them and spoke the truth of their identity over them. One girl that I was praying with received a lot of inner healing from the Lord. She felt the Lord tell her that she was beautiful. It was a precious moment to experience that with her. When we were done, she looked up at me and asked if she could call me her sister. That touched me so deeply because of the way the Lord connected us together in such a short time of maybe ten minutes. It really was the Lord that connected me with those girls, and I am so thankful that He used me as His vessel on this tour.
-Laura Swanson
On tour I met a lot of incredible people. Getting to meet so many amazing people was something I enjoyed and was really blessed by.
On various occasions I could see birds soaring. One memory that particularly sticks out to me is when we did our dance “Freedom” in the park. In front of me I could see a bird soaring in the open space between the trees. I saw other birds later, too, and I felt blessed to see them.
At one of the stops, I was really touched by meeting a girl whose story was similar to what I’ve been through. I’m also keeping in contact with another girl whose friend recently passed away. I knew that the Lord brought us together. Hopefully I can continue to be a part of these people’s lives through prayer and allow them to be a part of mine.
-Genesis Burgess
I was very impacted by our tour and all the things the Lord accomplished through it. When we were ministering in Newport, Kentucky, God showed me how awesome and creative He is. We were doing a treasure hunt, and I had the words walker and scoliosis on my map, but I couldn’t seem to find my person. But I found a guy with a broken foot and asked if I could pray for him. He said, “Sure, but I would rather you pray for my mom who has scoliosis.” This was very encouraging to me.
When we were in Lansing, Michigan, I got to wave a pink banner, which was a vision I had at the beginning of the MC year. The Lord told me this would be a sign of the change coming in my life. I was able to give a testimony to the people there of how the Lord has changed me: my pride, fear of trusting others because of hurts, and a few other things. I also shared about the Lord’s care and love for me.
-Jordan Marlowe
Before coming into MC’s I was in a relationship with a guy, whom I broke up with to come to Master’s Commission. But for the first six months I secretly kept in contact with him. The Lord convicted me of it, so I went to the group and told them what had been happening and they willingly forgave me. But I was still harboring a lot of hurt from the relationship.
While we were in Louisville, Kentucky, the pastor of the church gave me a word from the Lord. He said, “strong heart; healed heart.” That word meant so much to me. When he told me that, I had a vision of Jesus kneeling in front of me, picking up the million pieces of my heart that had been destroyed, and making it new. Instead of sticking some band-aids on it so it would stay together, He completely reconstructed it and added pieces of His heart!
-Kristen Milar
On tour I got to do a Prophetic Art Workshop at a couple of the churches we stopped at. It was so cool to see how the Lord used it because I did not expect people's lives to get impacted through just a workshop. So many people came up to me after I did the workshops and told me how incredible it was for them. One mother told me her son had said he felt like he finally had a place in the church.
Only the Lord can transform someone's heart like that. It gave me greater faith to trust that He can do big things with something little. It wasn't that I had a low expectation or a negative idea of how the workshop would go; it was that I didn't have an expectation for Him to do something great. Why wouldn't I always expect greatness to happen when the Greatness Himself is in charge? I think I would have to say my favorite thing that
happened was when a 3 year old boy brought me a drawing he had done during my workshop and said, "It’s for you! It's a grasshopper in the grass!" How good it is to be a grasshopper if you are in your source!
-Larissa Cunkle
One of the most impacting experiences I had giving a word of knowledge was in Louisville, Kentucky. I gave a word to a young man about being an overcomer; God has made him a victor over situations in his life. This was really impacting to him because we had talked the night before about how his brother had really hurt him over the years. He wanted restoration in the relationship and to be able to forgive him.
After praying for a while, I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me to ask if I could stand in the place of his brother and apologize for all the things he had done. We both began to weep and he experienced a great level of freedom from the pain his brother had caused him.
In keeping in touch with him, I have found out that his brother has come back into his life! He feels like God is still working in helping him love and forgive him completely.
I’m so glad God used me to speak into this young man’s life and that he will never be the same!
-John Port
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