We had our Ohana meeting like we do every Thursday night at 6pm. I feel like the anticipation of what the Lord was planning on doing was building in me all day long. I felt His smile overflowing inside of me tonight. I literally felt all day that I was going to burst because the joy of the Lord was just so intense in my heart. I felt His goodness just follow me all day long. And it was amazing. I didn't expect any more than that. I wasn't expecting God to come the way He did tonight... But He did, and it was ridiculously amazing.
So the meeting starts and the way it was set up is we would sing one song and then we would transition (very smoothly actually) into intercession. Haha. Oh man. Okay so the first song, Gods glory just fell and I felt Him so strongly. Let me give you a little bit of a background on how It's been here for me in worship.
I love to dance, I love to shout, I love for the Holy Spirit to take over my worship when the time comes... and usually it always happens. But here it was almost like, something was holding it back... and I couldn't stand it. It was like my bones wanted to dance, my heart was longing to dance, my spirit was beckoning me to come closer but something was... just in the way. I couldn't figure it out. Was it the music? Was it that I was scared of what the people around me would think? Was it something in my heart that I hadn't dealt with yet that was holding me back? So for about 6 weeks now I've been crying out for God to do something. Show me anything that could change this! And then today, I was talking to one of my best friends and I was telling Him how I feel like there is a reason that I've been in this period... and that the Lord was bringing me into a new season of my life. A season that was grounded in TRUTH... that my emotions would follow Truth – and not let truth follow emotions. So for 6 weeks, I've been becoming more and more grounded in Truth. Reading the word, challenging things I've always believed, searching things out to prove them right not prove them wrong. I've been spending quality time with the Lord, I've really been falling in LOVE with JESUS CHRIST, GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, HOLY SPIRIT POWER, TEACHING & LEADING. It has been amazing. I have been finding joy in really living out of the over flow of my heart... and it's been something that I really didn't believe would happen for a long time – even after DTS. I just always saw these things prohibiting me and not ever really being free. Well... BOY WAS I WRONG! :D God has broken through... as He always does.
So tonight during worship it was powerful... I started to DANCE. I started to SING. I started to SHOUT. Something inside of me broke. We kept going back and forth from worship to intercession and back to worship and back to intercession... And then, somewhere in the middle of the transition – All was lost... and It was the most beautiful loss of my life. I started, haha, oh man. I starting “ho-ing” and “sho-ing” and shaking, and bending over, and laughing hysterically, and I tried to speak in another language besides tongues but my mouth would not let me. The Holy Spirit invaded my body, and I had no control, and it was the best freedom in the world. I'm sure we switched back and forth from worship to intercession about 2 times and I continued to just be taken on a journey with the Holy Spirit. Then we started praying for people, and it was like fire was being released. I went to 2 different groups, and in both groups people got 100% healed!! And then we ended with “did you feel the mountains tremble”... and if anybody back home is reading this, you know when God enters a song... I eventually will completely loose all breath, throw out my back, and be dripping in sweat – and holy moses did Jesus come!! Haha! It was incredible. There had to be about 100 people up there, all shouting and jumping and going crazy for Jesus. We were all laughing... enjoying being children in front of our Daddy. It was such a beautiful feeling. They played another song but I had to sit down and worship because my body was in so much pain from dancing, hahaha.
Afterwards group of friends of mine (Teya, Elizabeth, Grace and Vincent) all went and jumped in the very refreshing pool and just enjoyed the Lord for about 30 minutes more in there. And the Holy spirit didn't stop moving. We were done, I went to my room, me and my room mate start talking about the Holy Spirit and BAM it hits again. Even sitting here, I can feel Holy Spirit so close. It's all around me, It's inside of me, I love it and HE LOVES IT! He loves being near to us. God longs our company, and all we have to do is ask and He is RIGHT there for us to enjoy Him and Him enjoy us.
I have been praying for about 6 weeks that God would invade like this... and tonight something shifted in the atmosphere, in the hearts of every DTS student and staff, I fully believe with all that I am – even if some people didn't feel it... God started something new in each and every person there tonight. And I am SO excited to see what else He is going to do!
THANK YOU SO MUCH JESUS!
Picture taken by: Alyssa Shrock
