Whenever I feel like I've experienced it all, God gives me SO SO SO much more! It's so amazing. Anyway, God has given me a word from Him for our city and I want to share it to you so you can be impacted and share in it's glory!
What is it you ask? EZEKIAL 37
Let's go back maybe like a year and a half - two years. This is when God started working this vision/prophesy in my life. I was on the prayer/worship team at Concordia High School. That become the canopy for what God wanted to do in the school-dry bones becoming a vast army for Him. Okay, cool. Awesome.
Next part of the story- fast forward a year or two to Thursday, April 16th 2009. Sound familiar to any of you GRAVITY peeps? Yes, that is when GRAVITY invaded Bellevue East and had a service called 1 LYFE that night. During pre-service prayer, I was praying (imagine that!) and God told me to pray Ezekial 37 over the school, and I did so. During P. Jesse's message that night, He talked about Ezekial 37! I thought, "Oh wow God that's so cool!" But it hadn't even started there.
Saturday night at the college/career group The Underground at church, I heard that P. Jason had preached over what?!? Ezekial 37. I didn't even know that until 2 days ago. Then, I was sitting in church Sunday morning. P. Jeff, our music pastor, preached about what?!??????
EZEKIAL 37
And no, none of the pastors had talked, no one had talked to me or anything. God did it all. Now, let's use common sense here, in a period of 4 days, God confirmed what He had put in my heart to pray over BE and CHS 3 times, plus another time just this week with a friend of mine. Ya think that's what He's trying to tell us? haha I'm thinkin!!!
The great thing is that Sunday isn't where it ends! God gave me revelation after revelation this week. 1st off- GRAVITY had Wed. night service at Bryan Middle School this past Wed. nite. Right before the service was starting, I had Deja Vu. I knew it had come from a dream from a while ago. (BUNNY TRAIL: Did you know Deja Vu is the forming of the prophetic in your life? So if you have DejaVu a lot like me, chances are that God has given you the gift of prophesy and you should start moving in that. Don't be afraid!) Ok, back to the deja vu. After the service then, when I was at home thinking about that, God gave me this mini revelation: I do not doubt that I had that dream around the same time when I first got a vision for Ezekial 37 in Concordia. How cool is that? AHH GOD IS SO AWESOME!
The week before, at Bellevue East, P. Jesse prophesied that the many empty chairs in that auditorium would be filled when we came back to the school. I have thought about that in every school we have been in. So wed. night after the service I was thinking about that concept in accordance to Ezekial 37. Then I remembered the 2nd part to that chapter. Many people forget about the 2nd half of chapter 37. That basically talks about unity and how the houses of Israel and Judah will be reuinited. This is how I interpret that for this principle of filling the seats: When God does open the floodgates of heaven and we have this amazing indescribable breathrough, He will use us as Ezekials to prophesy over the dry bones to live. When the dry bones ( students alll over omaha) become filled with life, they will rise up like a mighty army. This army will be united with us, the forerunners. We will become one body and will unite and that will show in the auditoriums of schools across the area. There will be not one empty seat in the house!
I thought this was a very profound statement "Drought is the build up of rain" (P. Jesse). I was reading in Zechariah 10 and it says, "Pray to God for rain—it's time for the spring rain— to God, the rainmaker,Spring thunderstorm maker, maker of grain and barley." (The Message) I don't believe I "accidentally" flipped to that chapter. I don't believe I "accidentally" watched about the last 10 minutes of A Cinderella Story. I don't believe in accidents. If you were to come to a service at Gravity, you could almost feel the clouds above-ready to burst. God is about to pour out His rain on the dry bones and they will dance in his healing waters that will heal their souls.
You don't wanna miss this amazing breakthrough about to take place- prepare your heart! Get yourself ready- cuz if you aren't ready in time, God is gonna separate the weeds from the wheat.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Love is in the air
I was having time with Jesus while packing on Tuesday getting ready to go to Arizona and I want to share what has been imprinted on my heart since then and what I can't get out of my mind.
I think we forget sometimes that Jesus, when He came to this earth, He went through the whole teenager stage, like we do. He endured what we are going through. The only difference: He didn't allow Satan to distract Him with depression, partying, and romantic relationships. But the thing about it is, you don't have to allow it either! We do make mistakes and fall into sin, but we don't have to! Jesus didn't and He conquered the grave so we don't have to.
Spring time is full of make-ups, break-ups, and hook-ups. The thing is, 99% of these aren't what God has in store for your life! we think that finding a significant other, dating, and then it will all be "happily ever after" while most of the time, that's not the case. There is something very significant about being single. The only reason why God allows you to get into relationships you aren't supposed to get into is because you have been given the free will to do so. Just cuz you hook up with a guy and feel like he's your "Prince Charming" he's probably not. A friend told me once that you have to be secure with yourself being single before you get into a relationship. why? If you are insecure about yourself, you are only bringing another person on board with your problems, along with theirs. Theres no doubt then that your relationship won't work out! Rather, pursue God, love Him wholeheartedly, let your passions run wild for Him, and then while your running you'll look to your side, see someone running next to you, who God has set in mind for you and He will give you that relationship. Jesus never had a wife, date, relationship, etc. and he did just fine. Now, if you think He didn't want that on earth, you're wrong. I mean, I don't know exactly, but God created humans to have those pursuits and passions. He wants us to find someone we can be in unity and relationship with. The thing is, His timing is everything. When I see people hooking up and all that, sometimes I wish that I was in a relationship, but then I just run after and pursue God even more. He is your first love.
When you are feeling down, depressed, etc. remember that is how the devil wants you to stay, but know that you need to take hold of what God has in store for your life, like Jesus did and overtake satan!! We are co-heirs with Christ. That means we are brothers and sisters of Him. We share His blood. We aren't any lower than Him, we just have sin in our lives that he has already overcome. I hope this encourages you, like it does me.
One more thing, do you know that when Jesus went back to heaven after conquering death, hell and the grave that it was like a big welcome home party? And thats the same thing that's gonna happen to us. it says in 2 Corinthians 5 that "The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less." He has put a taste of heaven in our hearts, so we long for what He has in store for us in heaven! That's why we are so hungry for more of God. He puts that in our DNA.
Keep running after Him, cuz He's running after you!
I think we forget sometimes that Jesus, when He came to this earth, He went through the whole teenager stage, like we do. He endured what we are going through. The only difference: He didn't allow Satan to distract Him with depression, partying, and romantic relationships. But the thing about it is, you don't have to allow it either! We do make mistakes and fall into sin, but we don't have to! Jesus didn't and He conquered the grave so we don't have to.
Spring time is full of make-ups, break-ups, and hook-ups. The thing is, 99% of these aren't what God has in store for your life! we think that finding a significant other, dating, and then it will all be "happily ever after" while most of the time, that's not the case. There is something very significant about being single. The only reason why God allows you to get into relationships you aren't supposed to get into is because you have been given the free will to do so. Just cuz you hook up with a guy and feel like he's your "Prince Charming" he's probably not. A friend told me once that you have to be secure with yourself being single before you get into a relationship. why? If you are insecure about yourself, you are only bringing another person on board with your problems, along with theirs. Theres no doubt then that your relationship won't work out! Rather, pursue God, love Him wholeheartedly, let your passions run wild for Him, and then while your running you'll look to your side, see someone running next to you, who God has set in mind for you and He will give you that relationship. Jesus never had a wife, date, relationship, etc. and he did just fine. Now, if you think He didn't want that on earth, you're wrong. I mean, I don't know exactly, but God created humans to have those pursuits and passions. He wants us to find someone we can be in unity and relationship with. The thing is, His timing is everything. When I see people hooking up and all that, sometimes I wish that I was in a relationship, but then I just run after and pursue God even more. He is your first love.
When you are feeling down, depressed, etc. remember that is how the devil wants you to stay, but know that you need to take hold of what God has in store for your life, like Jesus did and overtake satan!! We are co-heirs with Christ. That means we are brothers and sisters of Him. We share His blood. We aren't any lower than Him, we just have sin in our lives that he has already overcome. I hope this encourages you, like it does me.
One more thing, do you know that when Jesus went back to heaven after conquering death, hell and the grave that it was like a big welcome home party? And thats the same thing that's gonna happen to us. it says in 2 Corinthians 5 that "The Spirit of God whets our appetite by giving us a taste of what's ahead. He puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less." He has put a taste of heaven in our hearts, so we long for what He has in store for us in heaven! That's why we are so hungry for more of God. He puts that in our DNA.
Keep running after Him, cuz He's running after you!
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