On my mind: Santa-Cali-Gon

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PLEASE pray for me and my house as all of us are sick!

In just a week so much can happen! I'll try to update y'all.
The Lord is working wonders on me, its almost unbelievable- but I believe! I'm actually really enjoying the Prayer room (I'm gonna call it the PR) but I have realized that I am similar to my mother in that I have to have a certain quota of movement fulfilled otherwise I can get antzy sitting in one spot too long. 
The Lord is teaching me about how he speaks to me and about the gift of the 'prophetic'. I've been told that I have that gift but I didn't really believe it or I was afraid of whatever that meant. No joke, not more than 5 min after I told a friend that I wasn't really sure about the prophetic in me and wished I could be mentored in it that God gave me a crash landing course. A little bit of background: Over labor day weekend I was at a festival here called "Santa-Cali-Gon Festival" I think its where some specific set of roads all began from?... Anyways IHOP had set up 4 booths. There was a mini-stage, facepainting, and a dream interpretation/healing booth all right next to a witch's booth, and then there was a large tent for gospel music or something of the like. So here I was thinking this was just like Finger of God/Furious Love (these are 2 awesome documentaries about what God is doing around the world and stuff going on- check 'em out!) 
The students were required to go to one day of the festival to serve the people in anyone of those booths or just tell people about Jesus. So the festival for me started off with my first spiritual treasure hunt. Boy. It was interesting- I was about as beginner as you could get, I was hoping I could just tag along for the ride. I was a little tense and things weren't apparent in revelation to the people we talked to.
For everyone wondering a treasure hunt in this case is where you have a group of people and you wait on the Lord to give you names, pictures, things that need to be healed, miscellaneous, colors, places, whatever. We wrote them down on a piece of paper and then walked around the fair looking for those people and when we found them we told them that we were doing a treasure hunt and asked them if they needed any prayer. There were a couple times where my buddies got 'words of knowledge' about those we talked with. (Things about them we would otherwise have NO idea about if God hadn't told us). So it was interesting. I wasn't really feeling bubbly or anything though. We went back to the IHOP booths and I was interesting in the dream interp booths, really I just wanted to sit and listen. So my friend Darren asked me why I didn't just try it. Of course I gaped at him, but during this convo I was talking about being spiritually shy, and wanting direction in the prophetic. WEEeelll. Darren convinced me to go with him and sit at a table and before I knew it people were coming in telling us about dreams they've had and we would try to interpret it. Now this was all biblically based. We highlighted 1 Cor. 14 in that prophecy  is meant to encourage, strengthen, and comfort. Thankfully Darren had some experience so I just followed his lead.  The people who came in were either curious, wanting to pick a debate, desperate or searching. The Holy Spirit opened up our table where people were just spilling their guts. There were a lot of broken people- God likes those alot! So God was working through me to interpret dreams, and pray for healing- one lady had 2 pages full of lists of meds, problems, and surgeries she had. Other people needed heart healing, if you could keep a lady named Marianne in your prayers. Then came a big stretch for me of prophesying over people. We would just pray then sit in silence as the people across the table waited then tell them what we heard or saw related to them. IT WAS AWESOME! It was exhilarating, it was powerful, it was FUN!  God is SOOOO GOOD!

That was my grand adventure last weekend.  It was a good reminder that God wants to partner with his children in bringing the kingdom of heaven to earth. It also was a part answer to a question of 'what is my place in influencing culture.' A couple weeks ago IHOP hosted a prayer conference of National Evangelical Prayer Leaders Event during which these leaders prayed for 66 hours. (they're the ones who presented that question).  Part of it is deliberate, part I hope will just happen. For example I may influence the culture by becoming an ethnomusicologist that helps people worship with their own music. But I also want to influence the culture of my city by how I walk and interact with people in a grocery store, because there is an open heaven that I want to rain down wherever I go. I want to be under that open heaven, I want my faith to leave the building with me, to be a shirt I never take off or whatever.  :) I need a better analogy

Anyways, I'm being pressed and encouraged. God is speaking to me- which in itself is amazing!
I am seeing the need to proclaim the gospel. I am being taught what it really means to follow Christ. I've given him my life, control, obedience. If I take back control I am undermining his authority and must think I can do it better than God- which is saying I think the problem/situation is too big for God- which is a lie.
Nothing is bigger than God. I am askin gGod to stir up more passion for His name, and am soo thankful that he teaches me. Its all about him really. As I get closer to the light I do see the darkness of my heart and thoughts, but one of my teachers said it gets worse as the darkness is on its way out and that's why it seems so discouraging to find out. Corey Russell said "God knows all those dark things, you're a lot worse than you realize." But God still chose me, he still likes me. In the lyrics of Misty Edwards, (From God's perspective): "I knew what I was getting into when I formed you, I knew what I was getting into and I still like you, I knew what I was getting into and I still want you."
God is so good! I love him so much!