Sorry it's been so long! So many amazing things have happened!

I went to the Power and Love conference in Oregon and heard Todd White, Bob Hazlett, Tom Ruotolo and Dan Mohler speak. The main goal was to activate us to love people supernaturally and daily. Also, the burning message from the heart of Todd White, who has amazing dreads, was that the Church has gained victory through Christ. He asked if our lives actually are living that victory out or if we are sitting licking wounds that have been healed.

So, not only was I convicted that I needed to be totally convinced of my abundant life in Christ and not be hurt by people but for people, but I was activated in words of knowledge. Seriously. It was crazy. Here are a few examples.

When we were at lunch our waitress was really sweet and I wanted to love on her. God gave me a word that she was a dancer. She came back with water and I asked, "Excuse me are you a dancer?"

And she said, "Yes, in fact I am going to go to school for it, and I'd like to do choreography!"

I said "Cool well God highlighted..." and as soon as I said God she jumped back and started laughing. I told her the rest of the word and she said I had freaked her out but in a good way. She kept laughing and told us we had made her day.

Later that night I got a word that a girl I met was worried about a sister back home, that God was going to restore to her what was lost, and that He was going to separate her from the world and put His word back in her heart. She said that she was worried about her sister, that she had been raped when she was little, and that currently she was only 14 (she lives in Switzerland), but that she had fallen into a drinking and partying culture. Amen let it be done what you have said in this word Jesus!

The next night when we went out we were at Thunderbird a gorcery store. I saw a women walking away and the flash of red in her hood told me I needed to talk to her. I caught her attention gave her a prophetic word about being royalty, and asked her if she needed prayer. She said no, but then I inquired if she had pain in her knees. With a shocked yes we got to pray for her and the pain in her knees went away!

We ran into another group from the conference and prayed for a friend of one of the girls who had just been in a coma. When we were done I asked the girl if she had, had a lot of shin splints in the past and lots of growing pains in her shins. She said yes. Not knowing why God had highlighted that I prayed they'd be strenghtened. Later that night her sister came over and said she wanted to encourage me that I heard from the Holy Spirit because she had shin splints. I laughed and asked if I could pray for her shins. She was healed! No pain whoot! Thank you Jesus!

When we were walking in to the conference a whole bunch of us got to pray for a man with a lazy eye. We all jumped around him and praised Jesus and it was healed partially and I believe soon to be fully!!

Haha God is so good, I am so grateful for all the words of knowledge and prophetic words He gave me to love His people!!!!! God you are amazing! I love you Jesus!!! And all this love was so natural. I encourage you to go out and if you have a strange thought like, that person has pain in their wrist, then ask them and pray! God will show up I promise!

Love you all! Jesus you da best. :D

Prophetic Declarations

It has been a great joy to embrace the authority God entrusted to us as His sons and daughters. Our words have influence beyond what we can imagine in the spiritual realm. By being a son/daughter we have been raised up and often the father speaks through us. Anybody can come to a person and ask for permission, but it is only the heir that can make ‘transactions’ for the father. I am not claiming we are powerful like God, or a god, but that identity, love and approval of Christ is our source. Love you Jesus, you have given us so much to be thankful for!

Prophetic declarations can transform people from Paupers to Princes (for an explanation of the concept look up Kris Vallotton’s site kvministries.org) and break off lifelong chains or bondages. God desires good things for us as any father would. We are in agreement with His Papa Heart when we proclaim freedom for the ones He loves (which is everyone :).

It’s important that we not only pray but also make prophetic declarations. What we say has an impact on reality. An example would be Obama being reelected. If you’re disappointed, instead of saying it’s going to be the worst four years of American history, you should say it’s going to be the best four years of American history. We have the mind of Christ. If the motivation is love it’s probably from God. Most of the prophetic words that people give are just thoughts in their head that sound like themselves. When they give them, though, they bring life and are often completely accurate. By speaking, you are partnering with God and setting something into action in the heavenly realms. By saying negative things, however, you give the enemy a place of empowerment, because you are agreeing with him. A lie is only as true as you give it credit.  The devil only gained authority by Adam and Eve agreeing with him and sinning.

Proverbs 23:7 “As a man thinks in his heart, so he is.”

Proverbs 18:21 “The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.”

Mark 4: 39-40 “He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Bet still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’”

Jesus didn’t ask the Father for the wind to die down; He simply commanded the elements. He also had the expectation that the disciples would have the faith to do the same because He rebukes them.

John 14:12 “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it”

Romans 8:17 “Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory”.

As His children and heirs our words are empowered by Him when they are within His will.

Genesis 2:19 “Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them.”

Names identify our nature. Adam had the privilege of naming the beasts using his God given creativity. His words were prophetic and revealing God’s divine will by calling out the characteristics of the creatures. In Ezekiel 37:1-10 the valley of dry bones came to life. By the spoken word of Ezekiel’s mouth, bones came to life. Our declarations change reality. Just as Ezekiel was saying what the Lord asked him to say, so should we. Our words should bring light because we are the light of the world! 

1 Peter 3:10 For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.

Psalm 34:13 and Proverbs 13:3 also talk about stewarding your mouth. Why would they place such significance on your words if they had no power?

But I am not writing this as a warning! No! I am excited that we have been given authority as sons and daughters to prophesy by foretelling and forthtelling! So go out as powerful people and change the world! Change realities. Realize you have the mind of Christ and that when you speak there is warfare in the spiritual realm!

Glory Cloud

(The picture above is of a "Glory Cloud" I was in Friday shot by Katie Johnson)

God is glorious!! He made a ginormous glory cloud for us on Friday! It was a bunch of sparkly stuff (some call gold dust) that randomly just falls from the ceiling. The glitters spontaneously appeared and disappeared above our heads. Haha we are such kids, God sends us glitter and we jump up and down in excitement. Thank you Jesus!

Lots of healings and good stuff going on. It's great because God heals people from life long diseases, to headaches, to emotions, and everything in between.

Sorry this isn't very detailed...I love you all so much!


Mmmm just wanted to add that Bethel Church has checked all the filters and air ducts and stuff to make sure nothing is dishonoring Jesus, and they can't find anything. It's purely from heaven all that pretty stuff dancing around our heads.

God Encounter!

John 13:1-10

 

13 It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

² The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. ³ Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; ⁴ so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. ⁵ After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

⁶ He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

⁷ Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.”

⁸ “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.”

Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.”

⁹ “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”

¹⁰ Jesus answered, “Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean."

I had an awesome encounter with God this week, thank you Jesus! It was after reading the passage above. I realize that this is not new theology, but I was thinking about Jesus who having been the greatest came down to be the very least and washing my feet. Essentially, the blood of the cross came down and washed my feet in a stream of blood.

I lay there and tears poured down my face. At that moment God made His Papa Heart Love jump from my head to my heart. For the second time in my life, I knew to a greater extent in my heart how amazing God’s love is. It made me realize that going out and ministering without an encounter is useless. If you can win converts by rationalizing then they can easily lose faith when someone with a better argument comes along. But if you give them an encounter with God, there ain’t nothing in this world that’s gonna convince them otherwise. Mark Brookes, the overseer of first year students, is one of the main reasons that I had this experience. He had us make declarations and released Daddy's love on us. Thank you Mark! You're so good to us! God wants us to be continually living in His love and consider encounters with Him a lifestyle. If any of you out there want one, just ask Him for it, think of how wonderful He is and thank Him while you wait on the Lord. If He doesn’t give you one the first time you ask, keep trying! There is no one that I know that died without ever finding God if they kept pursuing Him. I release to all of you my encounter with God and experience of His love.

This year has officially been made worth it. I found what I was looking for…haha but Papa please keep it coming, I love to be with You!! Thank you thank you!

I love hearing about God encounters too... :)

People kept asking me if retreat changed my life and I would just kinda look at them and think, "Are they serious? Nothing changes my life that easy."

But all of them were serious. And several of them had crazy encounters with the Lord, so I began to self exam to see if there was a change. One of the nights of retreat we talked about love. The speaker said that we need to let others pay a price to love us and be willing to pay that price in return. She also talked about how not seeing others as God sees them is a violation of love, and she gave practical advice for improving. As an example she gave a conversation with her husband where she had teased him and said "Ye of little faith." Later the Spirit convicted her and showed her this was a violation of love, so she went back to her husband, repented, and said that she did not want to speak death over his life and that he is a man of God with great faith.

This blew my mind. To be that careful, is it that necessary? But God's really been convicting me that the standard has been set and the expectation is I will meet it. With the Lord's help I have been stewarding my mouth, the giver of life and death, and the fruit I've seen in such a short time is amazing! Everything that is spoken has incredible power. So yeah, retreat changed my life, the bar has been raised.

She also talked about how God is the God of seeds and babies. He loves the process. I think so many see the journey as finding that God is real. That is where you hop on the road, it is not the journey. Yes, it is vitally important, but God doesn't want us to be stuck there. There is no end to God's ability to increase. Woo can't wait for heaven where the increase in our encounters with God will NEVER end!

Clay Street Prayer Walk Night....amazing!

Tonight we didn't actually end up walking, but we did pray. ;) There was a girl who had mild scoliosis and her right leg was about 3/4 inch shorter than her left. A powerful second year told me to tell the right leg to grow, so I placed my hand on her foot and said, "Right leg grow out!" And it did haha. It was the weirdest looking thing I've seen in a loong time. I didn't even pull on it, it just grew. It grew out!? After a couple more prayers and having her sit against a wall we saw it was sure that her legs were the same length. God is so amazing, praise Him for His good works, restoration, and desire to encounter us! Also someone else prayed for her back which felt better and had electric shocks. Her ankle diminished to almost no pain after spraining it as well. Praise God for that miracle in progress.

On another very random note, I think the majority of people here see angels. I do not...but I am not particularly attuned to the spiritual realm (or not for long Jesus willing).  But it's quite interesting, they show up all the time...and I think they have free time cause apparently they paint things and have made silly faces at people in the past....I don't even know, but God is good!

Oh, by the by, I apologize for the lack of grammatical structure on all the posts I've made and will make in the future. Love love YOU!

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Hello lovely loved ones!

I have to admit, this one week at Bethel is giving me growing pains. :) I have been stretched at such a ridiculous rate! God has been so good, and so many people have been healed, but I am going to share a personal breakthrough.

My Revival Group Pastor told us that the thing we fear most is the thing we need to pursue. She said it's the enemy trying to take away the word of the Lord from our hearts. They also prayed and released us from fear. I didn't feel anything, but God did remind me of my harp. I have a fear of playing my harp in front of people. My hands shake, I feel like crying, and usually I am exhausted by the end of the first song.

Last night, for my apartmentmate's birthday, they asked me to play for a soaking session/prophetic word time. I only said yes because God had told me to step out in this area. I couldn't even start, I just didn't have the courage. I had to have help starting from a guitarist. When I finally got over the bump of how to begin my hands were flowing and my face was burning, something that occasionally happens when God's presence is in the room. I played for about an hour, in front of maybe 20ish people, and it was entirely spontaneous music. He backed me up man, He came into that room.

God is breaking my fear of man. Haha I didn't believe He could. God forgive me my fear was bigger in my mind than He was. He still choose to bless me because faith comes from hearing, and hearing from the word of God. After hearing God I stepped out and took action and God did the miraculous. Amen. If God did this, then God can do anything! ;) So good so so good to me.

Love you all!

Gah. God is so amazing. Tonight there was an alter call (shout out to Red the youth ministry at Jubilee Fellowship Church in Lone Tree, CO), and God moved so many different hearts to accept His love. THAT is the greatest of all miracles! Amen?! Also when we were praying for the people in our group I noticed that one of the guys had a boot on. He said that I could pray for him and when I asked if he felt heat in his foot he said yes! He even agreed to take off the boot and to walk around. His ankle, which had screws or something of the sort stuck into it, had no more pain, could move around, and was completely healed!!!!

A) God is amazing and did it all

B) That guy was born again on the same night as his healing-- what an incredible way to begin building your theology! ;)

A word (that I really needed) that Steven gave me the other day was 2 Peter 1:5-8:

 ⁵ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. ⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Love! It all comes back to love.

Whoops there goes waiting patiently...

So I'm fully aware that this post doesn't count...I haven't technically left for Bethel yet, but I only thought it would be fair to explain to you what treasure hunts are for future references!

They start out with prayer and you ask God (not forgetting of course a time simply just to worship Him) what you should look for that night. He'll often give a location, name, appearance, ailment, or something unusual like a theme for the night. Here's a description with a divine encounter I had a while ago while on a treasure hunt....
 K, so I'm standing in the middle of an eyeglass shop. I know I have a word from God because He told me to be here and Tianna to look for a green shirt. Here we are, there she is (in a very bright green shirt), and now's the time. Seriously. But I'm being eyed by the sales clerks (rightfully so for what teenager goes into an eyeglass store with friends to shop?), and the word I have for this girl doesn't really seem to fit the beautiful and confident being I tremble to approach. Yet there His voice (which sounds like mine, God can speak through our thoughts) is, absolutely refusing to let me walk away without discovering our Treasure. So I inch into the conversation between her and her significant other.

"Uh, hey...so this is Really random but I feel like God is telling me that you feel misplaced, and He says that He knows exactly where you're at, and that He doesn't mind you coming to Him as you are. Uh, I don't know if that fits you or not."

Bam. The ice is broken. She tells me that it was exactly what she needed to hear and complained she was going to start crying. We pray for her speaking her identity in Christ and as we leave the shop we hear her saying "who knew and in the eye store too!"

Oh my gosh. I can't describe to you, only God would have known she needed that. Only God could have told me to go to that eyeglass store and Tianna to look for a green shirt. Only God could have planned that timing. Wow. Only God could have told me the right thing to say to her, I am so incapable of doing anything useful without Him. Seriously, how could I have come up with that? Jesus! Yay!

Haha and this is nothing, did I mention one of my friends prayed for a dead guy that was blue in the face and he was raised to life? Yea, that's my Jesus.