Well, summer vacation is almost over for me. As hard as I tried, I never did find a job. Yes, very discouraging, but God is so good! He is always good and always provides. I can't understand just how good He is to me!
This summer has been challenging, frustrating, testing and amazing. He has taught me and shown me how amazing is my family (both church and relative). He has given me so much grace to get through many challenges, including multiple car problems. But above all, He has just loved me the whole time! As much as I don't deserve it, He loves me, shows me mercy, and gives me so much grace!
The packing process has already begun (never did unpack most of my stuff anyway:)). A couple friends of mine from church and I are taking a roadtrip to Kansas City to visit IHOP-KC and start to move me into my new HOUSE! We are only going down for a few days and then I officially move down August 16th.
Ok, so about my HOUSE: All summer my roommates and I have been looking for a house to rent and we found one finally! I am nervous about it, but also very excited to see how God is going to provide for us in this season. Please keep us in your prayers as we begin the lease-signing and rent paying process next week.
Well, this post must come to an end now so I can continue packing some more. I pray that all of you are blessed and well. As always if you have any prayer requests feel free to let me know, whether by comments on here, on facebook, via text message, email, snail mail or phone call (or any other way of communication there is).
Please pray for me as well, specifically for:
- God to provide 3 more roommates on Nights for our house
- A new car (CARlos is just getting too old)
- Financial provision
~Emily Kissell :)
p.s. I hope to write a more official update/newsletter in the next week or so, maybe after I return from Kansas City to post pictures of my new house and address. :)
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Viewpoints on raising support
Why do I need support?
- Well, I need to pay rent and other important bills.
- Classes + Ministering to the Lord by night in the prayer room + Church services/Ministry times = 40 hours a week, sounds like a full time job to me!
- YES:
Verses showing Biblical basis for support raising…
Old Testament Scriptures:
Exodus 33:4-5 – supplies for temple
1 Chron. 29:1-9 – willing heart
Num. 18:21-24 – Levites were paid to minister to do work of the Lord…tithes went to them
1 Chron. 9:32-33 – Levites employed to do work of the Lord (Tribe of Levi were assigned/called to work in the Temple)
New Testament Scriptures:
Luke 8:1-3 – Jesus and His disciples…followers provided for Him from ‘own needs’
- Judas skimmed off top of money bag and no one knew…
Luke 9:1-6 – Jesus sent disciples out with nothing
Luke 22:35-38 – disciples lacked nothing (Jesus said this before crucifixion)
Matthew 10:5-11 – another account of sending disciples out
Romans 15:21-24
1 Cor. 9:1-18
2 Cor. 11:5-9
2 Cor. 12:12-18
3 John 1:5-8
May 2011
2011: A YEAR OF GREAT CHANGE
Emily Kissell May 2011
Dear friends and family,
I apologize for this extremely late update! School and being on NightWatch has proven to be a busy schedule. My housemates and I also recently lost our previous house manager along with internet. All excuses aside, I just want to first mention how much I love it here! This semester has been amazing, frustrating, exciting, testing, life-changing, etc. From losing a car and a cell phone in one day, to being without a car or a phone for a few weeks to being healed progressively in my back to countless inner healing times as well. These past 5 months have been all that and more.
Most importantly I have grown more in love with Jesus because He has given me more and more revelation of Him. I have learned and experienced how much prayer truly does work; He really does hear us and answer us when we pray and cry out to Him. Being an intercessor (fancy word for what we Christians are called to do: pray) has brought so much joy to my life. I have always loved praying and talking to God, but being in a community that does it 24/7 is truly an honor and a blessing. This past Saturday (May 7th) marked the 12 year anniversary of IHOP-KC’s prayer room. However, they did not have the 24 hours until September 19th, 1999. So, this September, God willing, I will have the opportunity to celebrate 12 years of 24/7, unceasing, night and day prayer with this community! I am so honored to be a very tiny part of this history, even though I have not yet been here a full year consecutively.
I have also attached the Feb. 2011 update letter that I never sent out. So, I will not make this one too long. I also want to thank you all so very much for your prayers and support in these past 5 months. Thank you for partnering with me! The Lord has been teaching and testing me on the fact that He is my provider. Month after month He has proven Himself in this way by giving me just what I need and sometimes a little left over! I have learned that if I am faithful in giving what little I have back to Him (whether it be tithe or giving above that), He is more than willing and able to supply all of my needs. That being said, I would like to extend the invitation to partner with me by sowing into the prayer movement. Your sowing into the prayer movement may look small or large in your minds but the Lord has the ability, resources and desire to increase that amount and give it back to you. He says so: Malachi 3:10-12 “’Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now in this,’ Says the LORD of hosts, ‘If I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,’ Says the LORD of hosts; and all nations will call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land,’ Says the LORD of hosts.’” (NKJV) I am honored to serve in the prayer room, the temple of the Lord if you will. I pray daily for all of you and appreciate all of you! Please send me any prayer requests you may have, I would love to pray into specific things with you.
For the next 3 years (at least) I will be ministering in this house of prayer and then beyond that, only God knows for now. I am excited to partner with you not just these next 3 years but for the rest of our lives here on this earth! Be blessed! J
~ Emily Kissell J
Feb/Mar 2011
2011: A YEAR OF GREAT CHANGE
Emily Kissell Feb. 2011
Dear friends and family,
Well, sorry for the delay in getting these letters (and last month’s) sent out, I had a rough time getting them to print. What a month February has been! The first day of the month, we had a ‘snow day’ at college! Coming from Minnesota, and experiencing so many snow days down here in such a short span of time seems silly to me sometimes, but then I remember that I am south enough where this much snow is strange. Kansas City has definitely improved at least in the area of plowing the streets, they even learned that putting salt down on the roads is helpful too! I was very excited to see some trucks out on the roads plowing and even salting in some parts! J
Anyway, a few days later, after wrestling through with some other things (not just the ‘lack’ of snow removal), I stood up for prayer in a Saturday night service, yet again as I’ve done so many times for years, for prayer for my back and He healed my back pain! My back did not straighten, but the pain was gone! I went up on stage to testify and days later I was still in shock that I no longer felt any pain in my back! God is so good! So funny too, because I would’ve thought the spine would be straightened, and then the pain would be gone…I was wrong!
God has also been giving me many dreams and even some ‘visions’ this year especially. In the past I have gone through really short seasons of increased dreams, but this time it’s been at least a whole month of dreams and more, almost every night. God is so good! J
Then, on Valentine’s Day, my phone officially died, and my car was involved in an accident. My roommate was driving my car with a friend in the passenger seat, and I chose to ride with my other roommate home from going out to eat. Long story short, it was miracle after miracle! No one was seriously injured, the other lady involved had to have wrist surgery, and her car had a lot more damage than mine did. Somehow, the way it happened, there was no reaction time for my car, and somehow my car got catapulted onto a lawn of a church (J)! Missing a pole, a tree, and driving straight up a sidewalk ramp! If it had been any later, my friend in the passenger seat might have been killed! God is so good! That was a really rough week, but if anything it taught us to lean on Him and trust Him in every situation! I am so grateful for how that all happened! I am struggling without a car, but there is a little rumor, that my dad might have been able to restore my old car, and I can drive it back down here in a couple weeks when I’m home for spring break!
All this to say, I still want to hear from all of you! I would love to pray for specifics if you have any. Just know that I am praying regardless for you all and I love all your support!
So, if you would like to partner with me financially, you can send checks made out to IHOP-KC and send them directly to me or the base. IHOP-KC is recognized by the IRS to be a religious order and any donations (so long as my name is NOT on the check) will be able to be tax-deductible. It is very important, if you do want to have tax deduction, that you do not put my name anywhere on the check.
If you send it straight to the mission’s base here please do not include any personal note or letter to me as they will discard of it and I will never see it. There are thousands of people at this mission’s base and they cannot just personally deliver my mail to me. You can simply put a post-it or a scrap piece of paper with my full name on it in the envelope or stuck to the check, it is better that you not write my name on the envelope. Kansas City and the United States government require that at least 20% of my check go towards federal, city, etc taxes, so I will only get to keep 80% of the amount. If you wish to support me and do not want those taxes taken out you can simply make the check out to me. “Contributions are solicited with the understanding that IHOP-KC has complete discretion and control over the use of the donated funds”
Support checks for tax deduction may be sent to:
IHOP-KC Support Emily Kissell*
3535 East Red Bridge Rd. Or 12137 Charlotte St.
Kansas City, MO 64137 Kansas City, MO 64146
(*only send personal stuff to my home address)
Or email me at: emilykissell@ihopu.org
January 2011
2011: A YEAR OF GREAT CHANGE
Emily Kissell Jan. 2011
Dear friends and family,
I am writing to you this letter from the global prayer room where I spend at least 24 hours/week. Everyday from midnight to 4am I sit here worshipping and interceding with my friend, Jesus, (and alongside fellow brothers and sisters). I pray for each of you and thank Him for all your prayers and support. I am so honored and blessed to be called an intercessory missionary. Luke 18:7-8 promises: “God will bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night…” I see that passage every night on one of the walls in the prayer room. I truthfully believe God has called me here, to Kansas City, MO for such a time as this…that I not only may have the opportunity to go to school here (fully paid I might add!), but most importantly, to be able to stand on the ‘wall’ for the very first watch of the day! He moves at the sound of my voice. I am not some crazy special person that God chose to do this ‘task’, we are all called to be friends and lovers of God, He just happened to call me to move to Missouri for this season.
I thoroughly enjoy receiving texts, calls or emails from many of my MN (etc) brothers and sisters and love to stand before Him on behalf and alongside them in prayer. Oh what joy is mine when I seek His face and talk with Him night after night, day after day. This joy is for all of us if we just ask and receive. He is so loyal and faithful…a dog had NOTHING on Him! J At the Onething conference I attended after I moved here in December, He began to put a burden on my heart to pray and believe the promise He’d told me about LifeChurch (my home church in MN) and myself. He told me that ‘2011 is going to be a year of GREAT change’…all for the better! I am not sure what that looks like exactly but am so excited to see what He will do daily this year. Every single day He’s answered at least one prayer! He is so faithful! I prayed for a mattress and the next day I got a free one. I am overwhelmed. J This and many other requests have been answered!
Once again, feel free to shoot me a text or a message by email or facebook anytime and let me know prayer requests or even praise reports or testimonies! I would love to hear from all of you and contend with you in prayer. If you would like to support me, whether financial or prayers I would appreciate that. I believe God has called me to consecrate this season (indefinite time) to Him and Him alone. I am honored and blessed to do this…to partner with God!
So, if you would like to partner with me financially, you can send checks made out to IHOP-KC and send them directly to me or the base. IHOP-KC is recognized by the IRS to be a religious order and any donations (so long as my name is NOT on the check) will be able to be tax-deductible. It is very important, if you do want to have tax deduction, that you do not put my name anywhere on the check.
If you send it straight to the missions base here please do not include any personal note or letter to me as they will discard of it and I will never see it. There are thousands of people at this missions base and they cannot just personally deliver my mail to me. You can simply put a post-it or a scrap piece of paper with my full name on it in the envelope or stuck to the check, it is better that you not write my name on the envelope. Kansas City and the United States government require that at least 20% of my check go towards federal, city, etc taxes, so I will only get to keep 80% of the amount. If you wish to support me and do not want those taxes taken out you can simply make the check out to me. “Contributions are solicited with the understanding that IHOP-KC has complete discretion and control over the use of the donated funds”
Support checks for tax deduction may be sent to:
IHOP-KC Support Emily Kissell*
3535 East Red Bridge Rd. Or 12137 Charlotte St.
Kansas City, MO 64137 Kansas City, MO 64146
(*only send personal stuff to my home address)
Or email me at: emilykissell@ihopu.org
Description
This blog is a way for me to bring you opportunities to partner with me as I intercede for the nations and do His work.
I attend IHOPU in Kansas City, MO where I am first an intercessory missionary and second a student of biblical studies. As an intercessory missionary I spend 4 hours a night (12am to 4am), 6 days a week praying for whatever is on HIS heart. Also, being a missionary means that I live off of support, both financially and prayer support.
Please take a look at my uploaded newsletters from this year and come back to see more updates on my schooling, prayer time, words that God has given me to share, etc. Be blessed in Jesus' name! :)
~Emily :)
I attend IHOPU in Kansas City, MO where I am first an intercessory missionary and second a student of biblical studies. As an intercessory missionary I spend 4 hours a night (12am to 4am), 6 days a week praying for whatever is on HIS heart. Also, being a missionary means that I live off of support, both financially and prayer support.
Please take a look at my uploaded newsletters from this year and come back to see more updates on my schooling, prayer time, words that God has given me to share, etc. Be blessed in Jesus' name! :)
~Emily :)
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