This has been the most amazing 6 months of my entire life. From wrestling with God to having my heart be so passionate and forever ruined for the ordinary it has made for the most amazing experience that I ever could have had. Thailand, Myanmar, and Western Australia were all so unique and so beautiful in their own ways. I will be back in Denver on the 24th of March. I hope to catch up with everyone and share so many stories and photos. My life is completely changed and the passion for reaching the lost and broken and sharing the love of my Savior and Lord Jesus is in the forefront in my mind, my heart, and soul. He will forever be my King and my Lord. Anything less than serving Him with everything I have for the rest of my life I feel would be a disservice to my King, like I said forever ruined for the ordinary.

Selaphum, Thailand

Hello from Selaphum!!!!!!!
Life in Thailand is amazing! The Father is moving here so much! I am falling more and more in love with the people here with each day. We leave for Myanmar in 3 days. Thank you so much for all of your prayers. Please continue to pray for me and the entire team. We are all staying healthy and enjoying ourselves so much. The culture here is so different than anything I've ever been a part of, but I love it so much. The joy that I see in every smile of the people of Thailand is so encouraging. Bangkok was a trip! I've already fed some elephants and had a Thai massage. I'm loving the small village I am in in Northeast Thailand! Praise the Lord!!
Please keep us in your prayers!!!
I love you all!

God is Faithful ALWAYS!

Hello Everyone!
I am leaving for Thailand in a few hours and am so excited. My heart is overflowing with joy from the Lord to be spreading the GOOD NEWS of Jesus to people who have never even heard the name of Jesus before, what an amazing priveledge! God has been speaking to me so loudly in the past couple weeks. I hope you all have had amazing Christmas' as well as New Years. Things were great here on base in Perth, really tried to make it into a really good family setting. Life is so great living under the will of God, really does not get any better than that! I was in the middle of downtown Perth on New Years Eve, and in the midst of the parties I felt God saying that I need to stand up and proclaim the Good News. So I stood on top of an electrical box and starting preaching repentance and forgiveness in the name of Jesus! How great is our God. I will be resting in His hands and arms every single day on outreach. I know I will look up to God, and say How did I get all the way to preaching your name in Thailand?! Praise God always. Let us all look at every circumstance with the character of God in mind rather than looking at the character of God with the circumstance in mind. So I will be in a village called Salephum in northeast Thailand for two weeks, and then will be in Yangon for 4 weeks, then moving on to Western Australia for another 4 weeks. Please please please continue to pray for the safety and unity of our team going to these places. Fill out prayer cards or whateve you can do through your church so that the Body will be supporting us completely through Him. I am so appreciative of every pray, know that God is hearing every single one of them and is answering them loud and clear. Praise God always for always God is good and His love and faithfulness is made new everyday. I love you all with my whole heart and feel eternally blessed by each one of you. I will try to update this whenever I can! Blessings everyone!

Amazing Love!

Hello All,

God has shown up in the past week more than I ever could have imagined. I know that all of you were praying for me that I had made the right decision in what God had told me in my decision to go home rather than go on outreach. We had Lordship week this past week, and it hit me like an 18 wheeler that I was not living as Jesus is my Lord over every aspect of my life. The conviction I felt was unbelievable. The revelation that my Lord and Saviour died on the cross for me, and I can't even give him 6 months out of my life to know Him more and serve Him and let his name be known to people who have never even heard the name of Jesus before. I called my parents, and told them that I could not come home. I am now staying here, and on January 3rd will be going to Thailand for two weeks, Myanmar for 4 weeks, and back here in Western Australia for another 4 weeks. It is the most amazing thing knowing that you are living under Gods will. God spoke so loudly that He wants me to walk through this door, and that He is going to have some huge doors put in front of me that he will want me to walk through in the future, it all starts with me completing this one. God is so amazing in His faithfulness to our prayers, we must be obedient to everything that He speaks! I cannot begin to express the power of prayer is truly. He is the God of perfect timing and that is the truth. He told me that I just had to let go of the rope that is the people I hold so tightly back home. I have to let go of them and grab a hold of His rope, and put 100% of my trust in Him knowing that He will take care of me, and push me into more amazing things than my deepest imagination could have ever come up with! We are talking about the Creator of the Universe talking to me here! How amazing is that!? I will not move forward in life unless I know that I am living under His will furthering the Kingdom however He wants me to. I love you all so much. Please begin to pray for safety and softened hearts of all those we come across on our time in the field. Please spread the word to your friends and churches. We really want to see breakthrough in these places, the light of God needs to be seen by this unreached part of the world! I love you. More to come! Let Go of the Rope, put all of your trust in Him He is so good!

Hello Everyone. We just finished studying on Submission and Authority being taught by Steve O'hearn, the national director for YWAM here in Australia. It was a great week with a lot of important things covered. We went camping this weekend and I experienced more flies in the outback of Australia than I thought lived on the face of the earth. The weather is really heating up here, just doesn't feel like Christmas! I have received a great peace about my decision to not go on outreach. I'm very very excited to be back in Denver. Thank you all for your words of encouragement and supportive attitudes. This week we have Spiritual Warfare. Please keep me in your prayers for continual direction. I have 2 more weeks here then it's back to the States for me! I love you all and can't wait to see you all!

New Direction

Hello!

We just finished our week on Evangelism taught my Cliff Weiner. This week was a huge week for me with which direction the Lord wants to take my life. Numerous things have come into the decision that I have made, but most of all through many days of prayer and seeking the Lord to truly hear His voice, I feel that He is calling me serve in a different way away from YWAM in my outreach. I have come to a real peace about this decision. I know that in all thing God works it for the good of His kingdom. I will be returning to Denver after the completion of my 12 weeks of lectures. In just the past 8 weeks I have experienced God in a completely new transformational way. I have entered into His presence and heard His voice speak to me on which direction He wants my life to go. Thank you so much for all of your prayers of direction in this amazing time of growth. If you have any questions for me please e-mail me at samharper20@hotmail.com. I love you all, and am so thankful for all of you. Please continue to pray as I do the same. Blessings. 

Hey from Perth after the completion of week 7!

We just finished Relationships week with Mark Parker. It was a good week with a roller coaster worth of emotions. I know that so many of you are praying for me, and have told others to be praying for me as well; I cannot say how much I appreciate all these prayers. Everyday I am seeking to be in the presence of God. We had a great day of application on friday that included communion and being anointed by oil from the Holy Spirit. Every time I have entered into God's presence since being here He has been telling me something very exciting about my future. God has placed on my heart getting involved with some type of youth ministry, giving me the challenge of speaking to every high school in all of Colorado. I just wanted to share that with all of you, and ask that God continues to give me direction about my future. It's all very exciting, but I still need to find all my security from God alone knowing that He is at my side with every decision that I make. Some things with outreach have been changed, and a real sense of unease has risen in me. Please pray for direction on which way I should go with the subject of outreach. I will keep you all posted with what decision I make. Thank you all for your prayers and your love. I love you all.