God just keeps on truckin on!!
SO today I missed church for what was the first time in 4 mths. Yet God gave me time to spend w/ Him. Man ... It was wonderful. :) No roomie around, just me & the Lord, & I was able to get on my knees & praise Him as I saw fit & as He wanted me to, ya know? :) Yay.
Tonight, I went to the Chi Alpha house, & they had a Missions Meeting. I really feel the call to the Netherlands, but the $ is due like pretty soon b/c they're leaving during Spring Break, sooo ... I am just gonna go on a mission trip to Africa this summer, hopefully. That is, if God permits me to. If that's where God wants me! Ya know? :) Anyway, after that, we had a prayer meeting. Everyone just opened up/worshipped God, & we sang songs & prayed. It was very nice. At the end, this girl Amanda (who works for Chi Alpha, & I met her @ "Salt") came to me & said that she was praying for me, & she didn't even know that she was like 2 inches from me (haha). She told me that God talked to her, & told her to tell me that "He loves me," & that I "should keep surrendering to Him during prayer. However, that I need to fully surrender to Him on ONE THING." (This is totally weird! For one, every time I pray, I do surrender to God by getting on my knees, holding out my hands, & saying, "God use me. I am your servant & I surrender." It's like He told her that I do this! Secondly, I know what it is that I have to surrender to Him. I have to surrender all thoughts (for the moment, at least) about a relationship, & focus on Him. I need to let HIM take care of me in the relationship aspect, & let it come when He desires it to come to me). I was just utterly amazed that God spoke through Amanda to me, & I started crying (I am a bit emotional ... Hey! You'd cry, too, if God basically spoke through someone you barely knew but as an acquaintance, that He loved you & that you are basically on the right track! I mean, we all KNOW that God loves us ... but when He says it through someone ... Man! No words to describe that!).
Then, after the prayer meeting, I decided to go on a "prayer walk" w/ Rachel/Jg/David/Nathan/Matt, some people from the Wesley Foundation (the Methodist Student Center here on campus). Anyway, we went to the top of the garage to pray, & we ended up praying over Matt. What happened next was UTTERLY AMAZING!! Matt received the holy spirit, started shaking, & fell face down on the ground. After doing THAT, he began to speak in tongues. We prayed over him, & when he was done, he confessed to us that he'd "never spoken in tongues," that he was "raised Methodist & didn't believe in it," & that he wanted "his girlfriend Danielle to come out w/ us sometime so that God could break her into the spirit like that, too." After praying for Matt, God kept telling me to pray for David, that we needed to break him of something. Sooo I turned & we started to pray over David. It took like 15 min, but he started to break. Jg started flipping through the Bible for a passage, & I prayed over him that God would guide him to the words He wanted Jg to speak. Jg flipped to the passage about Jezebel, but then flipped to another. God told me, "Tell Jg to flip back to the Jezebel passage!" (Which speaks about pride), so I did & he did. What happened next was that we prayed the Jezebel scripture(s) over David, that God would rid David of his pride, & lead him to confession of his sins. After we did that, David's confessions just started rolling out, one by one! It was so amazing. After it was over, David said, "Man ... I feel so free," & you could just SEE the light shining out of his face. God brought us out there tonight to pray for 2 people, who are professed Christians but needed something more in their life ... They needed God's holy spirit, & His holy redemption.
One sentence will sum this up completely: God is amazing. :)
Love you guys!!
Tonight, I went to the Chi Alpha house, & they had a Missions Meeting. I really feel the call to the Netherlands, but the $ is due like pretty soon b/c they're leaving during Spring Break, sooo ... I am just gonna go on a mission trip to Africa this summer, hopefully. That is, if God permits me to. If that's where God wants me! Ya know? :) Anyway, after that, we had a prayer meeting. Everyone just opened up/worshipped God, & we sang songs & prayed. It was very nice. At the end, this girl Amanda (who works for Chi Alpha, & I met her @ "Salt") came to me & said that she was praying for me, & she didn't even know that she was like 2 inches from me (haha). She told me that God talked to her, & told her to tell me that "He loves me," & that I "should keep surrendering to Him during prayer. However, that I need to fully surrender to Him on ONE THING." (This is totally weird! For one, every time I pray, I do surrender to God by getting on my knees, holding out my hands, & saying, "God use me. I am your servant & I surrender." It's like He told her that I do this! Secondly, I know what it is that I have to surrender to Him. I have to surrender all thoughts (for the moment, at least) about a relationship, & focus on Him. I need to let HIM take care of me in the relationship aspect, & let it come when He desires it to come to me). I was just utterly amazed that God spoke through Amanda to me, & I started crying (I am a bit emotional ... Hey! You'd cry, too, if God basically spoke through someone you barely knew but as an acquaintance, that He loved you & that you are basically on the right track! I mean, we all KNOW that God loves us ... but when He says it through someone ... Man! No words to describe that!).
Then, after the prayer meeting, I decided to go on a "prayer walk" w/ Rachel/Jg/David/Nathan/Matt, some people from the Wesley Foundation (the Methodist Student Center here on campus). Anyway, we went to the top of the garage to pray, & we ended up praying over Matt. What happened next was UTTERLY AMAZING!! Matt received the holy spirit, started shaking, & fell face down on the ground. After doing THAT, he began to speak in tongues. We prayed over him, & when he was done, he confessed to us that he'd "never spoken in tongues," that he was "raised Methodist & didn't believe in it," & that he wanted "his girlfriend Danielle to come out w/ us sometime so that God could break her into the spirit like that, too." After praying for Matt, God kept telling me to pray for David, that we needed to break him of something. Sooo I turned & we started to pray over David. It took like 15 min, but he started to break. Jg started flipping through the Bible for a passage, & I prayed over him that God would guide him to the words He wanted Jg to speak. Jg flipped to the passage about Jezebel, but then flipped to another. God told me, "Tell Jg to flip back to the Jezebel passage!" (Which speaks about pride), so I did & he did. What happened next was that we prayed the Jezebel scripture(s) over David, that God would rid David of his pride, & lead him to confession of his sins. After we did that, David's confessions just started rolling out, one by one! It was so amazing. After it was over, David said, "Man ... I feel so free," & you could just SEE the light shining out of his face. God brought us out there tonight to pray for 2 people, who are professed Christians but needed something more in their life ... They needed God's holy spirit, & His holy redemption.
One sentence will sum this up completely: God is amazing. :)
Love you guys!!