Birthday combination celebration! There's nothing like sharin a birthday! :)
Especially when it involves pinatas in the cold...
fellowship with great friends, and...short legs!
Everyone! I'm finally breaking my silence! I've been meaning to post but a combination of being overwhelmed by the volume of things I need to tell you, and the crazy-business of the past week or so have deterred me from doing so. But here I am, so it's time to bring you up to speed!
There is NO WAY for me to tell you all of what God's been doing the past couple weeks... He's been working so many things in me, and doing so many incredible works, not to mention we had a prophetic conference last week so things have been pretty nuts around here. But it has all been wonderful, powerful, and Spirit-ful :). It has been a really interesting 2 weeks for me... because for the first week, the Lord was doing very specific things in me and speaking very clearly and significantly. He was making it very plain to me what He was shifting and changing and moving me toward. But this past week was a different story completely... My mom was in town visiting for the Eyes and Wings conference (which was a BLAST with her) so my schedule was different and busier yet wonderful in so many ways. I stayed up WAY too late WAY too many nights in a row and have been very tired as a result ;). But this morning as I was recapping things with the Lord, I discovered something HUGE had shifted inside of me.... during the conference I was being affected but not an a moment-to-moment, getting hit by heart-revealing revelation basis. It was very subtle... but these past few days I've felt it deeply. As if, completely unbeknownst to me, the Lord took me to a totally new level in His Spirit... I'm seeing, sensing, hearing things that I don't usually see, and being powerfully touched by His presence in a way I have yet to experience before. It's like all of a sudden, "Woah... I was on the 3rd floor but now I'm on the 27th, and the view is GREAT." It's a crazy feeling but really amazing.
Anyway, in the midst of all that, I've got some testimonies for you guys! God has been moving according to His extravagant love and grace :). Lactose intolerance is still taking hits! I got word from my friend Ana ( who was healed several weeks ago, and in turn prayed for and ushered in the healing of her older sister) that her youngest sister was totally healed last week! Praise the Lord! Not only that but my landlord's son's best friend was also healed, not to mention that I got to pray for another of my classmates today at school! God is SO FAITHFUL! It's such an amazing thing to be able to partner with Him because these testimonies don't belong to me. They belong to Him. And it is my incredible honor to steward that which He has entrusted to me...
An awesome testimony from the conference: My friend Kate (who's in the first picture with me) has been pressing into the Lord to have greater vision and ability to see so on the second night of the conference, He gave her an amazing sign that her breakthrough is coming > she got to pray for a woman who was TOTALLY BLIND in her left eye! This woman had been completely unable to see with that eye for 12 YEARS, and as Kate prayed for her, the woman began to see light and forms and colors! It was an amazing thing for me to partner with because, although we didn't see a complete healing, God was moving POWERFULLY in us and the woman we were praying for! She even prophesied some very accurate words over us!
And one final testimony that really brings me joy and leaves me in awe... I shared a while ago about my (now) friend Matt who encountered God at Dairy Queen and came to salvation. Well, he has been totally ON FIRE ever since then, and we've welcomed him into the family and made sure that he's staying connected. Honestly, he is one of the hungriest people I have ever known... and last night really showed the reward for that kind of hunger. See, last night we had a massive combo-birthday celebration for me and four of my friends from school (it was an AMAZING night full of great fun, powerful worship and an awesome time of prophetic words! Thank you Jesus for another year of being alive and blessed by you!). In the midst of a great night, Matt got TOTALLY ROCKED by the Holy Spirit. He told us that he has been crying out to the Lord for two weeks to have a radical encounter with Him, to be touched and affected by His presence in a tangible way, and he said that he KNEW last night would be the night! And sure enough, it was! He was totally wrecked, SO filled with joy and doing Holy Spirit-crunches on the floor most of the night. He left having been filled and radically transformed by the love and glory of the Lord :). The thing that so touches my heart is that Matt's earnest hunger and faith in the Lord has launched him into such incredible growth. I mean GOSH, the kid's only been saved FIVE WEEKS, and he's already filled with the Holy Spirit, worshipping with love and abandon, praying, prophesying, speaking in tongues, and more hungry than ever! We serve such an amazing God...
With all of that and EVEN more building up inside me, it's no wonder I feel like I'm going to explode... it would make for a beautiful mess, that's for sure ;).
I love you all! I've got another post to come so stay tuned in!
Blessings on you all for RADICAL INCREASE and acceleration,
Melissa
3 comments:
Good to get another update from you :). Keep them coming, it's always inspiring.
I love your openness in sharing what God's doing in you. I, too, have noticed a shift since the conference and even (maybe especially) after Sunday night. I was telling my small group friend that something is different - I can't say what but I know God's deposited things. Then Pastor Bill says "something is going on right now, I can't put it into words".
Amazing times, and so exciting to hear your insight into it.
BTW, Matt's journey in just 5 weeks blows my mind. At the same time though, I think that's the way it's supposed to be - I've think I always have, but I never saw it - now I can see that it's real. Furthermore, I think we should prepare for it to become normal and expect people to just join the family and be a brother or sister instantly - afterall, they're finding out that Christ has already done a finished work and it's free for those who are hungry.
-Adam
Yay, you are back! Your blogs are amazing. I feel like I am reading a book (don't worry that is a good thing! It annoys me when blogs don't make any sense and are filled with errors).
Matt blows me away. And something else I thought was how awesome it was that you all didn't just give up on him, but as you said, welcomed him into the family. It is an amazing model to show us that when we love others beyond just the moment how much they can be impacted and changed radically so quickly! I have seen radical change in the past year and he has seen radical change in the past month!
Keep being awesome.
Lol, I just realized in the picture about the short legs that the 2 of us in the picture with long legs have really short hair! I don't really know why I find that funny, but I do. haha.
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