Just want to update you on what's been going on the latest news! A lot has happened this year 2010! I've already been living in Taiwan for 4 months now. Got ordained by Heidi and Rolland Baker in February. At our "Supernatural Encounter: Holy Spirit" event, over 500 people poured into Taipei's largest night club to experience the love of Jesus and power of the Holy Spirit. I finally settled in and rented a small loft apartment in the middle of kareoke-ville, piano-bar restaurants, and night entertainment/of seedy-establishments. I love where i live because it's in one Taipei's seedier places to live and I think Jesus would want to be around call girls and piano bars, right? At night there are fortune tellers at almost every street corner! I'm praying for the Lord to give me opportunities to make friends with some call girls and pray prophetically over the fortune tellers on my street corner the love of the Father. I also love how I can walk to my favorite beef noodle soup restaurant in under 2 minutes and it only costs me$2.50 USD!!!!!
Many people have asked me " so, what do you do, Yonnie"? Whenever I'm asked this question, this uneasiness creeps in and I feel like i have to have it all together and explain my existence in Taiwan. The truth is that I'm still trying to figure it out. At first, all i knew was that God called me move to Taiwan to bring the love of the Father to Asia, to see His love heal the broken-hearted and see the spirit of adoption sweep through to the nations! How? I had no clue, but I knew that my job was to keep watch on what the Father was doing in Taiwan, in Asia! This 4 months has been a great ride both with it's highs; highs of excitement of ordination, conferences, meeting some really really,cool people, and seeing Jesus crash His love in people's hearts, and also with it's lows; lows of anxiety of the unknown, waiting patiently for His next moves, and figuring my place here. I tease sometimes by calling God "Jehovah-sneeky" because He likes to reveal things to me the very last minute. I'm still not great at this dance of following Him, but I'm coming to discern the will of God easier these days with the help of trusted, mature believers around me and much journaling.
So, what am I doing? The Lord has plugged me into a great Taiwanese spiritual family. Here, I'm co-leading two groups of fellowships; the entertainment, media, artist, celebrity fellowship and the other is the "Esther Group" which is a newly fellowship comprised of highly influencial woman of Taiwan. There is a third group of people that I'm longing to reach out to, and it is the Poor. After Heidi Baker came to Taiwan , I heard the Lord speak to me very clearly, and He said, "Yonnie, do you know that my heart aches for the poor? Do you know how important they are in my heart? If you don't work with the poor in Asia, you mind as well just pack up now and go home. Your vision for Asia will not be complete unless you have the poor in heart, in mind, for they are always in MY heart, in My mind." Heavy words, i know, but I know this is really from the Lord! So, thus far, I'm been praying for Him to open my eyes for the poor, first in Taiwan, then for the rest of the Asian countries.
I had the privilege to visit some Taiwanese aboriginal orphans living in the deep mountains. It felt good to be back with nature and reconnected to the Father heart of God for the poor. My heart is to be a bridge for these three different groups to come together. I believe that when the wealthy "poor" touch the material "poor", lives from both parties will change forever! Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of God. That's where the Kingdom of God touch down on earth and healings and miracles happen! I know this because my heart has been forever changed as I saw the eyes of Jesus in the eyes of the poor!
So what am I doing? Something that I realized is really hard to explain is that I'm called to BE, and just be myself! My whole life, I've been raised to DO. I've learned, through my cultural and family value, that Doing and achieving is more important than anything else in the world. I used to live to prove my worth that I'm deserving of love and all things good. Simply by BEING a daughter of God qualifies me for the Father's love and goodness! It's really really hard to be myself sometimes, as i feel the pressure to conform, to be less opinionated, more demure, to bow under the forces of ungodly parts of Asian culture. i constantly have to remind myself to BE myself. In Being myself, I can DO the most in loving others around me and that's what ministry is right? This BEING thing, to stay in the present, to follow God's leading, moment by moment, is still a struggle for me. I haven't mastered it yet. I probably won't ever master this in my life time. Believe it or not, this is probably one of my biggest internal struggle that preoccupies my heart. It's funny how, that as i know that my life message is about sonship, daughtership of God, the identity issue is one of my biggest struggles! I have hope still because I know that my biggest struggles will become my greatest victory in Jesus Christ!
So what am I doing? I'm building relationships and staying in relationship people. Let me explain. I want to share with you one of my biggest lesson that I learned about "ministry" from my 4 and a half years of missionary work in Mozambique. Remember my Mozambican friend, Julianna? She was a widow and mother of 5 whom I've hired to help carry water for from the wells and hand wash my clothes to free me up to do medical missions. I've known Julianna ever since the beginning. As I pioneered a medical clinic on our missions base I've tended to many people's medical needs. Lots of healings, signs, and miracles happened. I've seen deaf ears healed in front of me, but do you know what was the my most memorable and significant memory? The memory that touched me the most was when Julianna came home one day and said that the uncle that took cared of her since she was a child had died. With my poor Portuguese, I was left with not much to say her except to hold her and cry with her in silence, to mourn with those who mourn. I don't know, but something very powerful happened in my heart that day. I felt that if I had come to Africa for Julianna, to share with her the love of Jesus in a simple tearful embrace, it would have been all be worth it, for this one day, one moment, one person.
As Mother Teresa would insist: "Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...The smaller the thing, the greater must be our love."
So, in the mean time, i'm really enjoying my new home here in Taipei, I just recently baptised the girl whom i'm home tutoring english. I'm scheduled to preach about missions and the Father's heart. I blackberry messenger friends in the middle of night answering their difficult questions like, "why does bad things happen to good people", "how come i here demon voices and i can't shut it up", " as a Christian, can i still go to my fungshui fortune telling master for my future?" etc. I meet people up for one-on-one meetings in coffee shop and share with them the love of God and help them out with life issues. Sometimes I'm so busy and I don't even remember what I did that day. I teach prophetic art with Patricia. I'm taking oil painting classes and exploring more prophetic art through painting and song. My heart longs to put on canvas my heart, my past experience in Africa, my present, and hope for the future through prophetic collaboration with Holy Spirit. i hope to oneday have an art exhibit of my work, the journey of my heart. Exciting things are happening here, i'm seeing the miracle of Lives changing right before my eyes! Taiwan is gonna bust at it's seems, please when you remember, to pray for us! I believe that Taiwan has a very special part to play in the revival of the Asian nations, to China, and back Jerusalem! The hunger level for the love of the Father is incredible!
I just got back in the United States and will be staying for one month, still trying to figure out my USA itinerary! Well that's it for now. I pray that the good Lord cross our paths soon! Would love to see you or hear from you soon!
Please pray for:
1) pray covering
2) that i continually host the presence of God
3) the "Esther Fellowship" and Monday night group (entertainers)
4) a husband
5) unshakable confidence on my identity as a Daughter of God, no fear of man! To just BE!
6) deepening heart for God's heart for the poor in Taiwan, a heart to see the poor
7) to have discerning eyes to see what the Father is doing in Taiwan and in Asia, and join Him in His works.
Much love in Jesus,
Yonnie
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