Have you ever encountered the Holy Spirit, in the middle of the night, in the rain, in Ecuador? Well, that is what happened last night for myself and my two teammates Allison and Allie. Last night our team went and had bible study at a rehab center. Our whole team could feel that the Holy Spirit was there. So we came back to the house and we had team time and prayed. The more I prayed the more I just felt God.
Team time ended, yet i was not tired and i did not feel like going to bed. So, I decided that I was going to go outside in the rain. Alison and Allie said they also wanted to come. So, I was like “Yes. This will be so much fun.” So we headed outside to have some fun in the rain. When we got out there at first it was like a light rain. We were a little disappointed cuz we wanted to get soaked we thought it woud be fun. Anyways we started just kinda spinning and dancing in the rain.
Then Alison climbed up on this cement wall and Allie and I were standing by the cement wall. All three of us began to look upon the city and Alison was like we should shout declarations. So that is what the three of us began to do. We stared out with just kinda of general things about just ourselves and then things just started to come to us. We then found ourselves declaring things over the city.It was then that it began to rain a little harder. We then began to pray for the city and for the country,each other, over our team, over our squad, over every world racer around the world, and that all the nations would be turned back to God. It was while we were praying for the city that God began to give each of us visions of what God was doing in this city and this country. God gave Alison a vision of the Angel of Armies entering every house . At around the same time I too was praying for this city and this country. As I prayed that He would open the hearts of these people, God then gave me a vision of him physically opening up the hearts of these people. So we then began then to sing songs declaring how great God is, and how much He loves us, and how much we love Him. We continued to delare things, we continued to pray, we continued to sing and to dance in God’s presence.
God continued to bring us freedom from things we were still dealing with. We began to pray that God would ignite the flame with in us and we began to feel warm as we prayed this. When I say we felt warm I remember taking my hand and touching my arm and it was physically hot. We Continued just to dance in Gods presence. Up until this point the Holy Spirit’s presence had been so heavy and so strong. Towards the end we began to pray some more and all of a sudden I felt that someone was with us , but it was an un easy feeling. I opened my eyes very quickly and saw the figure of a man, clear as could be standing right between Allie and Alison. Allie and Alison quickly opened their eyes because they sensed him to, although they did not see him. Right then we decided we needed to pray harder and that we were not going let Satan provoke fear in us, that we were not going to let him use fear as a foothold. So as I began to pray I prayed that fear would be completely gone, that the flame within us would burn so hot and be so big that it could not even be effected. As I prayed more and prayed harder and still sort of felt uneasy I prayed against all evil, I prayed against that spirit and I remember yelling at the top of my lungs “GO BACK TO HELL! GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM!” I just kept praying that only God would be able to dwell within me, that only things of him would be abe to enter my life. Allie and Alison also began to pray and after a few minutes we were back to where God had us before Satan tried to detour us.
Last night I dont think can really be described in words, but I am so excited for what God did in our lives and the things He revealed to me. I know I have purpose. I know that He is always with me. I know that He has ignited a flame that not only can it not be put out but it can not even be dimmed. I finally understand FREEDOM. This is what living in Freedom is. Last night I didn’t just dance in the rain for 2 hours, in the midde of the night in Ecuador. I had his love, his mercy, his grace, his joy, the Holy Spirit literally rained down on us last night. We were cleansed from all that was and we are new! Thank You God, for rain. I also know know that I have the authority through Jesus Christ to send things that are not of him “Back to hell…Back to where they came from.” There is no room in my life for anything but God.
