Then He (Jesus) said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” – Matthew 4:19
This year marks five years, since laying down my life on God’s altar and receiving His Son, Jesus the Christ as my Lord. Hallelujah!
The moment I breathed out the confession of surrender, God breathed His Holy Spirit into me, and I was born again. In a moment I was taken from death to life, The world received a new hue and everything around me became radiant, I was consumed by an inexpressible joy and a peace that went beyond understanding. The unperceived void in me that I had been trying to fill and satisfy with the empty treasures of the world was suddenly and instantaneously filled, it was a God sized space in my inner being that was made for my Creator. My heart transformed from stone to flesh, and my mind became enlightened with the knowledge of The Holy One. The veil was torn and finally I could see, it was Him that I had been searching and longing for all this time.
The One Who is The Way in this lost world, The Truth in all of the deception and lies, and The Life in the valley of the shadow of death- the One who holds immortality and eternity in the palms of His hands. The True Love of the soul.
He is, The Lord Jesus Christ. –
He became my purpose, and I knew from that moment on, that I needed to follow Him and tell the world about Him.
Making me a fisher of men
Hello Beloved, I pray this Newsletter finds you in peace and in the love of Christ!
Meeting Ray Comfort
God has been moving in awesome ways in my life recently and I’m excited to share with you! The first major things God allowed, was for me to meet Ray Comfort! When I gave my life to Jesus, it was not in your traditional spot. I didn’t meet Him at an altar call or a crusade, but in my bedroom, in the middle of the pandemic. When I became born again, I instantly knew I needed to share Christ…but I didn’t have anyone to disciple me on how to do it. So, I did what all young people do when they don’t know how to do something, I went to YouTube. And there I found Ray Comfort. One of the greatest evangelists of our day. Ray’s evangelism style was biblical, bold, brilliant and effective! Watching his videos educated and encouraged me to share Christ, giving me my first lessons in being a fisher of men. Those first steps would later turn into my Missionary calling, starting in my own community and now to the ends of the earth. Five years later God in His Sovereignty brought me to California and connected me to Ray through the community I’m currently serving with. Talk about full circle moments. I was able to go to The Living Water Ministry and meet the entire team and say thank you to Ray for being faithful to God’s call on his life.
Making friends with a Muslim
Another amazing opportunity God has given me is to meet, befriend and be regularly in communication with a Muslim named R. I met R about a month ago while at the beach. I engaged him with compassion and curiosity, asking him about himself and his beliefs, and R responded with the same response. We went back and forth on The Bible and The Qur’an. Respectfully rejecting where we had disagreements. I asked R if he would be interested in meeting up and communicating regularly to discuss what we believed, and he said yes. Please be praying for The Holy Spirit to move and to give me the patience, compassion and wisdom to navigate this new friendship. And for R’s eyes to be opened to the truth.
Becoming Debt Free and Praying to See.
Last and certainly not least God did a huge miracle and provided the money for me to become debt free! A reality for Missionaries, is that you can’t go to the mission field with debt. So, my debt was a huge hinderance to me being sent out but God in His great grace and kindness supplied the money. And now I can begin the process of preparation for being sent! I’m coming to the end of my 1st year in Missionary Training School and will have the opportunity to return to Southern Asia to pray and see. My desire is to go Southern Asia for an extended vison tour and come alongside the established works and disciple, serve, teach and encourage. A few more doors and vision tours may be opening as well. Please, please, please be in prayer that The Father would show me exactly where He wants me to be.
Prayer Requests:
- Pray for R to see Jesus as He is
- That God would save thousands upon thousands of Children, Women and Men across the world
- That God would reveal where He would have me serve long-term
- For my walk with Jesus to remain intimate and that I would abide in Him
- That God would protect and provide spiritually, physically, and financially
- That I would walk in His perfect will for my life
If you have any prayer requests, please click “respond” at the end of my newsletter, and it will be sent directly to my email: Haggstromdeprii@gmail.com.
I want to thank everyone who has partnered with me. I am so excited to share this journey with you all as we fulfill the Great Commission together.
Stay tuned for all that the Lord is doing!
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And may we all continue to faithfully follow, love, obey, and walk with the Lion and the
Lamb.
God bless,
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