About a week ago I woke up and felt the Lord telling me to have prayer time with our team. Prayer time isn't anything new for us but the Holy Spirit was telling me that this time was going to be different. I knew our Daddy had something special that He wanted us to tap into.
He was telling me to usher this group of women into a place of soaking, a place of resting, a place of intimacy with Him. Our team went down to what we call the “green room” it's a small room painted green with AC. We had our morning feedback session. For those of you who don't know feedback is a daily time we have together where we spend calling each other into greater places. We use our spiritual eyes to see each other as God see's us and speak that over one another. After we finish feedback one of our teammates shares a very personal letter that she wrote, a letter of freedom and forgiveness. This was a letter to the woman/girl that she was for many years, her old self. As she read the letter I could feel God's presence enter the room. I could feel the freedom from her heartfelt words being released to each one of us. I glance around to see what's going on in the hearts of my teammates and see that I am surrounded by tears. I see that I am surrounded by 6 women who are hungry after more of the Lord. Papa tells me it's time.
Time to soak Him in. Time to get lost in His glory. We decided to cover our teammate in prayer. We used that time to pray and prophesy over her. As life was being spoken the presence of the Holy Spirit became thicker and thicker. I was consumed. The Lord whispered to me that another girl in the room needed life spoken into her. I told her and we began to pray. With her standing in the middle of all of us, we each began to see visions of her and received words for her. Daddy showed me a picture of her walking through a dark alley where most would be scared but He was holding her hand and He said for her not to be afraid that He is always holding her. He is always with her. We finished prophesying and moved into a time of soaking. A few fell to their knees while others layed out just breathing Him in. By this time we are all consumed. Drunk. We spent two hours soaking, crying, laughing, worshiping, praying, and declaring things over people and the nations. We call that morning a morning of worship. What I love is that we never even played one song. God showed up. God was enough.
Our time in the green room was special. Not only because God crashed into that place but also because when we first arrived to our ministry location every person on my team got a bad vibe from that room. There were several days where we would pray for unity over that room where we would command anything that wasn't of God to flee from that room. The “green room” went from a dark place to a place full of Him, overflowing with His presence and He allowed us to be a part of the transformation. With us being in the city for the first time on the race, there has been so much we have done and so much we have seen. But, for each of us this is the one moment we will never forget about Thailand. That makes me so happy. To know that out of all the things we have done this is the one moment that we keep talking about and that stands out to all of us. It shows me that time spent with Jesus is time you will never regret. It is never time wasted. Have you ever regretted reading the bible or praying for someone? I haven't. But, I have regret not doing it many times. Also with giving: have you ever regret giving someone our Father's love? What about giving money? When you're in heaven are you going to look back and say man I really wish I would'nt have gave that $100 to the church that one time I could've gotten some new shoes? These are the things we are called to do. We are called to love and love looks like desiring time with Jesus. Love looks like giving money and time. Love looks like speaking life into someone. The more you do those things the more you will do it out of desire not obligation. It's like running or working out. When you first start it's tough and you do it because you know you need to but then you find yourself desiring to have that special time.
I know for me that has been a tough area. Reading my bible and spending time with Papa because I feel obligated to. Because I know it is something I need to do. But that is a crappy way to live our Christian life. There is so much more. Pray for desire. Pray for hunger. Our God is faithful, so keep pushing through the feelings of obligation and without realizing it those feelings will soon become desire.
