Updated Missionary Support Letter

Greetings Family and Friends,
I pray that this letter finds you and your family well. This is my second year as a part-time Intercessory Missionary at IHOP-Atlanta! I am excited to be ministering to the Lord and to raise my son in the House Of Prayer, just as Hannah gave Samuel back to the lord and he was raised in the temple. I am thrilled to be serving at IHOP-Atlanta as an Intercessory Missionary! Elijah is attending the Daniel Academy which is a homeschooling/private school partnership on the mission’s base. God is raising up Elijah as a forerunner to prepare the way of the Lord by cultivating a lifestyle of prayer and fasting, prophetic wisdom, and academic excellence.
On February 12, 2006, our dream became a reality, as the International House Of Prayer - Atlanta Prayer Room was expanded to cover 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The prayer meeting that started that day continues to this day, without ceasing. It's astounding to think that there has never been a worship-led prayer meeting that continued unabated for this length of time in our city, until now! Now prayer and worship never cease to arise from our city to our great God (Isaiah 62). Our prayers will release revival in Atlanta and empower the church to love God wholeheartedly and fulfill the Great Commission.
The Lord has called me to be like the prophetess Anna who “never left the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers...spoke of [the Lord] to all those who looked for redemption in Jerusalem.” (Luke 2:37-38). Each week I am devoted 6 prayer meetings in the 24/7 Prayer Room and 8 hours in service and outreach. I am also committed to one day of fasting weekly and three days once a month during our Global Bride Groom fast. I pray the New Testament prayers for the church to be strengthened as the vehicle to fulfill the Great Commission and turn our nation back to God.
God is doing wonderful things and I know that He will continue to be faithful to finish the good work He has started in me and Elijah. I serve as an intercessor in the 24/7 prayer room, give encouragement on the Prophecy Teams, and help run the IHOP Office with my administrative and marketing skills. I have obtained my Bachelors degree in Business Administrative/concentration in Sales and Marketing at Devry University. And I plan to use these skills at the International House of Prayer by assisting the Marketing department. I am also actively involved with Bound4Life, a pro-life and pro-adoption ministry. I focus my intercessions on justice issues (Luke 18) and seeing the African American community released into their identity in Christ and their leadership role in the arising prayer and missions movements. I also have a desire to go to the Nations specifically the West Indies Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the surrounding Islands. I also have a dream to have a Fashion Boutique, (Virtue 31) that will support Human Traffic Organizations with clothing for their victims.

IHOP-Atlanta is run by a ministry staff of missionaries who raise their own support in order to do the works of the ministry. It is for this reason that I am writing you. I would like to give you an opportunity to join me in this ministry by committing to support me with your encouragement, prayers, and monthly financial support .I will be giving you a call in the next three to seven days to share my heart and ministry further. Please know that your ability or inability to partner with me financially in no way affects my love and affection for you. May God bless you richly!

God Bless,

Natasha Edwards
2910 Buford Dr Apt 226
Buford, GA 30519

Email: Natasha.Edwards@ihop-atlanta.com

Yahoo IM: bay757

Website: www.ihop-atlanta.com

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Blog: http://intercessortasha.blogspot.com/

Waiting Involves Courage!

Waiting in what you can not see takes courage and Faith. In times of just hardships and trials Peter says Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.(1 Peter 4:13) This invloves humlity to believe in a God you can not see in the natural but you can see him in creation because he made all things through Jesus Christ. Thats why I like when he also says in (1 Peter 5:6) So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. Im am so in the waiting and I have not been the most joyful just to be honest, I am praying to be more joyful as I wait for breakthrough because only God can deliver me as I put all my trust and hope in all that he is. He is incredibly BIG in my eyes so I will wait patently for the LORD I will be brave and courageous as David qouted in Psalm 27:14 I have no other option where as can I go but to throne of Grace and Love Peace and Mercy. God is preparing his bride to stand firm on that day of his son's returning who will have faith in that day Luke 18:8 states my Life scripture. He is asking WHO????? or how many because he knows that it all boils down to voluntary LOVE. And love is a choice that us humans have to grow in through the revelation of God the Father and the Son, and the Holy-Spirit. We will always be waiting for something. Ultimately we are waiting for his returning because we are pilimgrage here in this land. Even though there is goodness of the Lord in the land of the living but there is a surpassing greatness in the age to come. We can hope and have faith for the kingdom of God to manifested in this life but we can expect so much more in the age to come which is far greater than what we can even imagine.

So Lord I pray that you would enlighten the eyes of our understanding that we would put this life into proper perspective and that we would believe in ALL your promises for us now and begin to operate in them as we humble ourselves under your mighty hand. Bring delierance and breakthrough of power for those who are taking courage as they wait on you. Demonstrate the power of your kingdom and bring us into your glory and reveal your glory so that we can have a taste of the next age. Lord we dont only seek your face but also your hand that moves so powerfully. In Jesus Name!Amen!