God. You are crazy!!
I think that I said that at least three times today.
I woke up and it was a typical morning. Grudgingly I awoke to my snooze alarm at 6:50 and got myself ready for my 7am workout with my sister. Did my laps, did my squats, jumproped, tin mans, and sprints, then it was time for the Lord. I ended up playing guitar for a while and then spent a few minutes on my keyboard and somewhere in my Ray Charles piano sway, God showed up. It wasn’t earth shaking, news breaking, nor eye opening, it was a calm wave of glory that washed over me and erased my distractions and stilled my thoughts.
But then, time ran out so I didn’t even read my Bible and I didn’t really talk to God, because I had to go meet a friend. Little did I know that God had prepared an earth shaking, news breaking, eye opening experience for us that morning. We did our quiet time and talked for an hour and a half and when it was nearing time for me to leave, she asked me to pray for her and I knew that I was supposed to because God told me to earlier that morning. But I knew this was not going to be a simple “Touch my sister, Lord, Amen.” prayer; no, this was going to be a long, drawn out fighting the enemy and inviting the Holy Spirit to show up type of prayer.
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And so we prayed. And prayed. And it’s only been 3 weeks since training camp, but I am so much more sure in who I am in Christ from that experience that I just followed His leading. He literally showed me visuals in my head of what He wanted me to tell her to do and told me what to say, sing, and play and like never before, I allowed the Holy Spirit to just guide my every move for His glory. And it was beautiful.
We were praying for her and God did a work in her heart, but you can’t get close to the fire and presence of God without being changed, so of course, I was affected as well. God has already been pushing me out of my comfort zone with music and as I played the piano this morning, my hands and my back felt like they were lit on fire as the Holy Spirit made Himself known. And after about a half hour or more, I just kept emitting, what I can best describe as a joyous squeal as my soul processed what was happening. The merciful God of the Bible cares about us so much that He would prepare this time and space for an encounter with Him with the plan of making us whole. Seriously God, your love is so wondrous.
I was blown away by His goodness and His kindness.
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I walked to my car and I started cracking up at the sheer craziness of the situation. I came over the house to hang out for a little bit and God decided to show up, how awesome is that!?! And He allowed me to be there for the experience! He’s so frikkin awesome!
Afterwards, I must admit that the middle of the day was a little bit of a struggle as I was physically and spiritually weary, but boy oh boy, Galatians 6:9 is my memory verse right now and it’s so appropriate. “And let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.” And reap, I did tonight. I went to Friday night service at the new church that my dad is starting and I am so glad that I did. Seriously, God is madly in love with me and loves to surprise me with gifts of Himself and it’s awesome. I ended up praying with this lady and I was trying to do like Ron Walborn told us and kept my eyes open and be sensitive to the Spirit and even though I didn’t get any words from the Lord, I just spoke truth over her and after a little while, it seemed like a peace washed over her and she got up, I gave her a hug and I thought I was done. Ministry complete. Nope! She looked like she was in pain and I knew that God wanted me to pray for her healing, so I asked her where she was hurting and she took my hand and placed it on the top of her butt!
Umm, pause. Lord, why do you have me praying for this lady with my hand on her butt? That’s what I wanted to say, but I stayed in spirit mode and just prayed with her and I guess she started to feel better because she started crying and saying, “Thank you Jesus!” over and over, so that’s cool.
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So now, I felt like my ministry moment was over and so I went into prayer, but then God led me to pray for another girl there who I had as a camper years ago and she was not a fan of mine. I prayed with her anyways and just felt God break her heart and break down her walls and I had this stupid huge smile on my face because I love how His presence breaks down walls and knits our hearts together. God, you are crazy! Three women in one day. I can’t believe you would entrust your precious daughters to my care.
For some, this may seem like no big deal, but for me this is rocking my world. I am both humbled and proud. Humbled that the God of the universe would choose me and love me and include me in His work and I’m proud to be His and His alone. A daughter of the Most High King empowered to do the good works that He prepared me in advance to do, even when it includes praying healing over people’s buttocks.
God, you are crazy…crazy awesome that is! Love you!
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Prayer Request: Please pray that I get all my supplies in time and that I know who God wants me to spend time with during these last few weeks.
