The past few days, my squad has been at an Awakening in Siem Reap, Cambodia. We met up with three other squads for 2.5 days of incredible worship, prayer, intercession, evangelism, and sermons. It has been an incredible event and I met a lot of awesome brothers and sisters in Christ!
The second night of the Awakening, just as worship was ending and the main speaker was set to begin, I pulled out my journal. Something you should know: I’m not a big journal-er. In fact, I never take notes during sermons but for some reason, I just felt like the Lord was telling me I was going to want to write some things down so I got my journal and pen and prepared for some awesome truth to be spoken to me. And it was… Just not from the speaker.
So, who told me this awesome truth? The Lord. Now, I’m not someone who has a lot of conversations with the Lord. I have heard from Him in diferent situations and sometimes I will get words or phrases for other people during worship but I had never had an actual back and forth conversation all at once with God until that moment.
I started out jotting down a few scattered notes and a quote that I thought sounded interesting. Then, for whatever reason, I felt compelled to ask the Lord about my future- something that I think we are all curious about to some degree. I wrote down my question and immediately got an answer. I felt like I was a scribe and the Lord was dictating what I should write down.
I got really excited and so I wrote another question and again, He answered it. This went on for about 15 minutes of me asking questions and getting answers. Of course, these answers were not always what I wanted and sometimes they were very vague but there were a few things that the Lord told me that were abundantly clear. I got confirmation that He wants me to be in vet school next year. He did not reveal whether I wil work as a vet in the future or not but He told me that He is going to use me as a light to a community in need. He told me that He has plans for me specifically in vet school.
He didn’t answer everything or reveal my entire future to me. He didn’t overwhelm me with a powerful storm or appear to me in a prophetic dream. He didn’t speak to me through anorher person. He simply had a conversation with me during a sermon and it was beautiful. The Holy Spirit dwells within me and everyone else who proclaims Jesus as Lord and savior. Do you realize what that means?
The spirit of the living God, the creator of the universe, lives inside of us! How could we ever doubt God’s ability to speak in and through us when we know He is dwelling inside of us?
My conversation with God gave me answers I needed in this season and helped me grow closer to Him in just fifteen minutes. I only had to be willing to trust Him. I followed His prompting to get out my journal and start asking questions and He spoke.
He is a good, good father.
