Whirlwind!

The only word to describe this past week would be whirlwind.  I couldn't explain to you all thats happened, but I will try!  At the beginning of the week, I was planning on moving to Wilmington NC with my best friend.  Well, I walk into work on Tuesday and receive an opportunity for a promotion, to be one of the Office Managers.  I am sure you can imagine my surprise at this, especially since I have only been employed there a little over 2 months.  I knew this was the Lords favor, so I decided to pray about it.  On Thursday night, I was praying and really just wanted the Lord to only make one thing go right, this way the decision was easy.  But I knew that He wasn't do that, and part of it was so that I would really seek His heart, receive His perspective, and go after His face in this time.  So this past weekend i went to Wilmington with my parents and younger brother.  It was such a fantastic time for all of us, and the Lord really began to speak a few things.  During my time Thursday night & the weekend on Wilmington, the Lord spoke a lot, but it wasn't on direction; it was about my heart.  He brought me back to many journals entries, over 6 months ago, about seeking His face and that He would give me clarity when I had to make decisions.  He spoke about how my heart is the most important thing, to guard it & to go after the things in it with all that I have.  Over the weekend my dad asked me a question, "Lizzie, if you could go anywhere and do anything, if peoples opinions didn't stop you and you really went where you were fully alive, where would you go?" Immediately my heart knew, "Hawaii".  The thought of this scared me a little bit, because I was nervous that I would use Hawaii as my crutch, but then the Lord revealed to me that that was part of the reason I stayed home.  He has used this six months to ground my faith, to stir up my hunger for His heart, and my roots have been brought deep into His soil.  All of the fear was erased and He brought hope to my heart again.

My heart for the nations cannot be described, and when I get around people who have that same heart beat, I come alive.  I was made for something more than the ordinary, I was truly made to thrive in the extraordinary & the supernatural.  I believe the Lord has put a desire in my heart, that for this season, will be quenched while being in Hawaii.   I will be on staff with Fire & Fragrance and will be joining some of my best friends on the Leadership Track they run on campus.  Some of this will include: prayer room staff, ministry into the town of Kona, serving the campus in needed areas, staffing DTS, staffing schools and leading outreaches, participating with another pioneer community, teaching in schools, and ministry trips.  The point of this track is to raise up a generation sold out for the Lord, living a lifestyle of honor and respect, worship and intimacy with the Lord.  It will be an intense season of seeking the Lord for the present and the future and investing in relationships as well as training and preparing for all He has for my life!!  I am extremely excited and expectant of what will happen and all the Father will be doing during this season & I cannot wait to see it all unfold.

At the moment, I will be leaving for Hawaii at the end of this month.  I am still in need of a plane ticket so that date isn't sure yet.  I will also need a minimum $600 a month in support.  This will include all of my living expenses; housing & food, gas for transportation, and other necessities.  If you feel the Lord putting it on your heart to support me either monthly or one time, please feel free to call me at 704 724 1175 or email me at oceansroar@gmail.com.

You can hear more about my journey with YWAM by clicking here ---> "Going Deeper"
And you can hear more about how you can be a part by clicking here --> How You Can Be A Part

Thank you so much for all of your support and prayers.  God bless you!

Ending A Season Victoriously!

Wow!  I am the worse blogger in the world.  It's been well over 2 months since I have written you, and I am super duper sorry!  I have no good excuse except doing the Lords work ;) haha.
How is everybody?  I feel I need a followers update on your hearts & lives back home and around me.

Things here have been absolutely fantastic & and I am completely filled with the joy, love, and faithfulness of my Father.  I just returned back to Kona from Irvine, California.  A lot of things have changed since I last talk to you, so I will get you updated just a bit!
We headed off to California on the first lovely day of July.  We lost housing 24 hours before we boarded the plane, and really didn't know what to do except pray, so we did!  Within that 24 hours, we received a phone call 20 minutes before we boarded the plane, saying we could stay the whole 7 weeks with a family who are pastors of Newsong Church in Irvine.  We headed out, and soon came to the obstacle of no transportation, but yet again! the Lord provided.  The family let us rent out their van from them for the whole time we were there.  We were blown away and so encouraged for what the Lord had for us!  As the weeks continued, the stories didn't change.  Yes we had our ups & downs, our highs & lows, but nothing could take us down.  We were strong & committed to the word of the Lord to be in California.  About 4 weeks in my co-leader, Kellye, and I felt the Lord nudging in our spirits to stay in California (we had originally planned to finish the 4 weeks of outreach in New York City).  After praying with our leaders, bringing it to the team, we were all in complete agreement this was from the Lord & we decided to stay.  Thank goodness we listened because let me tell you, those last 3 weeks in California were the best of all outreach!
We had the privilege of joining the Circuit Riders for the last 2 weeks we were there, for as much as we could.  We still stayed with our normal ministries, but used all of our free time to be involved in what the Lord was doing in & through them.  To read more about who they are & what they are doing, go to the Fire & Fragrance - Circuit Riders website).  We were able to be a part of over 100 salvations in 4 days, over 50 healings, mass revelation & downpour of the Holy Spirit daily for 2 full weeks!  Every night we ended on Huntington Beach at the Hilton Hotel.  They rented out a big white tent & each night it was bombarded with drug addicts, atheists, the broken, the lost, the homeless & the hurting and all, in one way or another, encountered the love of Jesus.  It was a powerful time.
On September 3rd at 7am we boarded a plane and flew back to Kona, our home sweet home with our big Call2All family.  And man has it been refreshing!  We all spent the first night back together eating pizza, drinking sodas, having a party & sharing stories.

So now it is Monday & tomorrow we are starting our debrief week.  This is where we share even more stories & testimonies, hear each others hearts more in depth, and share in the victory of all that the Lord did on outreach & the past 6 months we have been together.  It's basically like a family reunion for a week straight, super fun!  The students will graduate on the 21st of September and then we are done!  I cannot believe it's already been almost 8 months since I arrived here & 6 months since the school started.  The consistent thread throughout this whole time has been the faithfulness of the Lord over our school. Time & time again He proved Himself worthy of ALL praise & worship.  Something all of my girls said at the end of the outreach was "We have completely fallen in love with the man Jesus, and have no reason not to give our whole lives to Him."  If that is all I saw through this whole thing, it would have been worth it... Because if we do not have that as the foundation, nothing else matters.  But! we saw even more than that... Because we had that foundation everything just began to overflow out of that place of intimacy with Jesus.  HE IS SO GOOD!
I am incredibly encouraged, lifted up, walking victorious in Jesus & what He says.  I am in love & overwhelmed with His goodness to ALL of His children.

I apologize this is so short, but I would love to tell more of the stories in person.  Thank you to every single person who invested in this time in my life.  Whether you gave financially, or prayed, or just thought about us on our journey, it was all needed & I am deeply deeply thankful for your investment.  The Father will bless you immensely for being a part.

God bless!

-Lizzie

The amazing women that I have the privilege of leading, at

Universal Studios for our Debrief Week of outreach!

The Force Of The Elijah Ministry

So this week as part of our staff training, we are reading "The Force Of The Elijah Ministry". It's 22 pages, and every page is fire. This is one excerpt from it that really grabbed my heart. Just take 3-5 minutes and soak it in.


"The following text is from Michael Brown's 'Called to Die' video, inviting us to a total commitment to Jesus. This provoking message fuels our dedicating to the "Elijah army" into which God is calling us:

Amy Carmichael (who died in the 18th century; a mission to India) makes some interesting comments: She said, regarding New Testament miracles and transformation of cities, "No wonder New Testament living has ceased. Satan is so much more in earnest then we are. He buys up the opportunity while we were wondering how much it would cost."

Richward Wormbrough was tortured for his faith during 14 years in Romania. He said, "extremism should be the norm for Christians. Every day as we watch the news, we see that sin is exceedingly sinful. It can be defeated only by exceeding love, joy, hope and self-sacrifice. God Himself does not give with measure."

The devil, world sin, terrorists, and false religions are not holding anything back. Why are we? We have eternal life! We are indwelt by the Spirit! Why are we holding back?

Leonard Ravenhill asks, "Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?"

The Bible calls us soldiers. Paul writes to Timothy, "Endure harship as a good solider of Christ Jesus." In the military you are no longer your own. You can be sent to the front lines or sent anywhere. That is life as a soldier.

John Hyde, a famous prayer warrior said, "Obedience. I know how a soldier will obey an order even unto death. I cannot expect to look Jesus Christ in the face and obey Him less than a soldier his commander."

We are called to be soldiers. Islamic nations have one worker for one million souls. If we are going to see our generation come to Jesus, we are going to have to give ourselves to the workd of God. I am going to encourage you tonight, by a total call to commitment, to full surrender, to totally step out. I want you to consider that around the world Christians are suffering things that are unbelieable; that between 100,000 and 300,000 believers have been killed annually for many years now.

In Sudan alone, 1.5 million Christians have been slaughtered for their faith by radical Muslims. It is common for Sudanese men to be crucified, nailed to trees right now in our own day. Boys are taken to learn in Islamic school - to learn in chains. Girls are taken and sol into prostitution, otherwise they are sold into slavery. This is happening every day, and yet I think I am a hero when I get up early or come to a prayer meeting.

Famous Story from Vietnam: "Pastor was killed and the wife was sent a bill for the bullet that was used."

Friends, we have to step back and say, "It's time to change. It's time to shift gears. It's time for us to adjust our mentality." Gone must be the days that we watch TV more than we pray. Gone are the days that we are on the internet or read newspapers more than we read the Word. Gone are the days where months and months go by without quality witnessing. Gone are the days when months go by without tears for the lost. Gone the day when months go by without the church burning for souls. Those days must be gone. The days must be utterly trashed when sports scores about our home time team winning or losing, or the arrival of the new computer, get us excited, but if eternal things don't matter, those days are gone.

How serious are you about seeing The Great Commission fulfilled? How serious are you about revival fired spreading to the ends of the earth? How many hold in your hands an English Bible? Do you know what it cost to get you that Bible? Tyndale was killed. Am I willing to give my life? You know who wins the battle: The army that is willing to die for the principles they stand for.

William Burns: "The evangelization of the world is a desperate struggle against the prince of darkness, and everything his rage can stir up in the shape of obstacles, vexation, and opposition, whether by circumstance or by the hand of man."

He said it is a desperate struggle, a serious task. It should mean a life of total dedication. William Burns, a great man of God, gave his life for China: "Believe me, it is not with folded hands and drowsy consciences, and hearts full of he cares of this life, but denying ourselves, taking up the cross, bearing the reproach, and following the Lamb wherever He goes, that I give my life."

I want to challenge you to ask yourself the tough questions tonight. I am going to ask you to make a living sacrifice. Your life is not your own. It is time to tally change your attitude.

John and Betty Stam trained for years to go to China with a young baby, and wrote this incredible entry "Afraid of What?" int their journal just before they were killed for their faith:

Afraid of what? To feel the Spirit's glad release
To pass from pain to perfect peace,
the strife and strain of life to cease.
Afraid of that!

Afraid of what? Afraid to see the Savior's face,
to hear His welcome and to trace
the glory from wounds of grace.
Afraid of that!

Afraid of what? A flash, a crash, a pierced heart,
darkness, light, a wound,
Afraid of that!

Afraid of what? To do by death what life could not;
baptized by blood, a stony plot
til souls shall blossom from the spot.
Afraid of that!

James B. Taylor said - and I close - with this: "The world may frown, Satan may rage. But go on: live for God. May I die in the filed of battle!"