Prophetic Singing Class

He-Yo!
Well! What a busy semester this is going to be!! I thought I'd write about what I'm learning in my prophetic singing class. I am fortunate to have had some voice training before coming here, so things like technique aren't totally new to me. Today in class we talked a lot about vocal health. Here is what I've learned:
1. Tiredness first shows up in your voice, so get sufficient sleep. (For me, this will be on weekends. perhaps)                You want to be able to give strength to the worship team.

2. Hydration!  You want to drink half of your body weight in oz a day. If you drink coffee/tea that is diuretic you need to take 2x as much water.

3. Eat a balanced diet. "Don't eat out of a box". Put God-made food into a God-made body for the result as God-intended. For study times when I'm craving, eat fruit first, then if I absolutely have to, go the sugar route. When you are craving cheese, that usually means your body is craving Omega-3's. (eh... we'll see how this pans out...)

4. Don't scream, sing.  Don't clear throat. Philosophy for singing [only], "If it feels good- DO IT!" and if it doesn't feel good, don't do that. 

A lot of this I actually learned from my voice teacher. I felt so informed!! Many thanks to her!!!



Hope this is fun for you who are wanting to learn what I'm learning in this class!
Blessings, Blessings, Blessings!
Please pray for me with school, right now it like I hit the ground running-which is good, just caught me off guard. :) WeEl. Much love,
Rebekah

2nd Semester!

Hooray! I've begun my second semester at IHOPU, and now its almost all music!! WOOOT!!
It is so great to be learning music and growing in this area!  Especially since music is in the heart of God. I was made musically and made for music. (Speaking creates soundwaves and music is a bunch of soundwaves, right?)
I am so excited to grow in this expression of worship! I love singing to Jesus and creating beauty through sound and offering it to Him. I am so blessed by excellent teachers and people who draw my attention to Jesus.
Because in Heaven angels are singing day and night and worshiping Him non-stop and we pray, "On earth as it is in heaven" it is so incredible to me to feel like I am equipping myself to equip others to worship together our Lord God. I am so blessed!

My classes are such:

Harp & Bowl sets (I am on a team), and time in the PR.
Keys II (Piano, theory, ear training)
Prophetic singing
Choir
Sound for Everyone (Soundboard stuff)
FMA Practicum
Excellencies of Christ (Allen Hood)
Life of a Worshiper

Such great looking classes!

I've only taken Keys II today, but my homework is to ask the Lord questions about this year and what he wants me to focus on and to practice Glover's hand signs for Do-Re-Me-Fa-So-La-Ti-Do
I will be practicing at least 30 min a day.
So I am no longer at the GPR prayer room in the mornings, instead I have "lab prayer room" where I am on a team at 8-11:50 am, and then in the GPR  in the late afternoons.
I am very excited for this semester! All classes are good, a lot more homework than 1st semester. I hope I can figure out a good life schedule for this great up and here semester! I really am enjoying it so far!

Any ideas?

Hey this is just a quickie. But I was wondering what you guys would like to hear about? What would you like me to blog about? I'll be back but I'm on a public library right now and don't have much time left.
Till next time

Blitz review

Hey Hey!
I am back from California!
You can read the previous blog for more info but basically IHOPU sent 300 students to Southern California to contend for revival, to encourage the Bride, and to also get people ready for the FIGHT! conference. I was gone 10 days. While we were out there 300 students stayed in the Prayer Room praying hardcore for us and California. I heard that there was some attack even on the intercessors here and boy did their prayers make a difference! We had good air coverage!! 
 We took 5 buses (40 hour bus ride!) and went to 8 different locations in southern Cali. My group ended up going to Santa Barbara! I got to see the Gupta's and G&G Trelstad!! So great! I miss them!  
I was in a place called Isla Vista, or IV; its by UCSB. I heard that it is one of the top party schools/locations in the USA. We got in Friday night around 11pm and we all walked on the streets with our luggage while everyone else was partying. It was a funny sight, I wish I had it on camera! We got to 'hang out' with the people on the party street and tried telling them about Jesus. The location we stayed at is known as the "Jesus Burger House" to the locals. Every Saturday evening this house (filled with Christian students: 8 girls on top floor, 8 guys on lower level) give out free Burgers and use that to minister God's love to the people. The folks we stayed with were so great, they really love Jesus! We spent our time encouraging the body and praying in their prayer shed right behind the Jesus Burger house. The Holy Spirit broke out like a bomb in that room! Healings were occurring, there was a spirit of prophecy, God's joy and delight was breaking out, deliverences... It was a party!
When we first got there we went to a conference the IV church was putting on, then we served the pastor by cleaning his house, praying in the prayer shed, hanging with the body- which usually looked like prophesying over each other, getting 'drunk in the Spirit', worship, and chats and enjoyment of eachother.
We got to go to UCSB for 45 min and went out in twos and talked to people about Jesus. There was this one man who I got to talk with for awhile, it was a really good learning experience for me because I had not really done anything like that! The Lord was teaching me as I went, but hearing testimonies from the other groups it is a crazy truth that not as many people as I would think have any idea of who Jesus is. (But heck, I've been learning myself!) Many people haven't even heard of Jesus.
Then we went to the Fight! conference.
It  was awesome.
The speakers there made me    tremble, in an excellent way. (Mike Bickle once asked, "when was the last time you heard a sermon that made you tremble? When was the last time you gave a message that made  someone tremble?) The speakers were Lou Engle, Jackie Pullinger, Jessie Engle, Dick Eastman, Loren Cummingham, and Brian Kim. Wow! Every time... and they were funny!

The Lord has been solidifying me on this trip.I've been stepping out in faith and have been learning to have confidence in His Love. God is soooooooooooo faithful!!!!!!!   Amen! He is so good, so joyful- Jesus is the happiest man alive! God is so just, so excellent, so terrifying, so comforting, so Holy, so peaceful, and so much more! He's so BIG! He's got everything I need!
I will post more on the Blitz very soon! With some good stories!~Hope this is a good teaser!
Oh and the testimonies!!! Next Blog for sure.

Have I mentioned I like it here?

IHOPU is fantastic! I am growing so much. God  delivered me yesterday from annoyance and also fear of man and shame. (the last two I'm declaring and will walk out) I was annoyed with my roommates for a little while, and then God delivered me and I haven't been annoyed since. Praise God! I'm claiming that!

The whole school right now is getting ready for a blitz outreach to colleges in California. We will be there Nov. 4-15 leading up to the Fight Conference. We will be fasting from Oct. 24-Nov. 13 if you would like to join us in fasting and prayer. Here is the info:

The Blitz! SoCal, November 4th - 15thThe vision of the Blitz! is to mobilize IHOPU students to launch a preemptive prayer and missions strike in Los Angeles in the weeks leading up to the Fight! conference.  The aim is to  to call forth young pioneering leaders to a culture of prayer and a life of mission according to the vision and mission of the Luke18 Project and By serving and strengthening the Body of Christ in Los Angeles.
All IHOPU students are invited to participate in the Blitz!. Students will leave Kansas City by bus on November 4th and from there will be dispatched to one of several strategic locations in the South California region (LA, Pasadena, Laguna Hills, San Diego, etc.). At each location, students will strengthen local prayer ministries, engage in street/beach evangelism, maintain healing and prophecy rooms, and minister to college students on local college campuses.
The final days of the trip, IHOPU students will converge from the surrounding regions on to the Fight! young adult conference (hosted by Luke18 Project in Los Angeles) where students will help minister to the 5000 expected attendees. Immediately after the conference, students will board buses and return to Kansas City.

 Students will adopt a "missions lifestyle" for the entirety of the Blitz!. In addition to a humble attitude of serving demonstrated at every turn, students will:

• sleep in community sleeping areas (such as the floors of churches, etc).
• Engage in a Daniel-fast type diet for the duration of the trip.
• Share shower facilities and kitchen facilities
• Rotate cooking duty

 Also this whole month, every Saturday students have been outreaching/ministering to people in line at haunted houses. (Its called Edge of Hell-intense name, I know). Kansas City is known for its haunted houses.  I haven't gone yet, but I want to this Saturday. Pray for me, its gonna be good!

That is what's going on as far as school activities besides the powder-puff football ultimatum happening next Sunday.
Exciting!!

PRAYER ROOM!!!!

The PR! Its a great place! Its so great to just go in and meet with Jesus. I go every morning from 6 am to 9:30 Mon-Thurs. At first it was hard, but now its becoming easy- God's awesome. Something that changed how I spent my time in the PR was when Corey Russell said, "Its awesome. You wake up in the morning and you go to the PR first thing, and you go to meet with Jesus and say, 'Jesus, you're beautiful today'." I thought that was pretty cool. I'm noticing from the PR that IHOP has some waay talented musicians here. It blows my mind a lot of times. There is a pretty good  variety of styles: you have Justin Rizzo with violins, cello, viola, a white rapper, trumpets and sax. Then there is Jon Thurlow's team that have unique voices- there is a Hawaiian man who sings like he's in Hawaii- its sooooo awesome!  Then there's Misty- she's intense. And a whole variety.
In the PR, I feel as though God's right next to me and basically I take advantage of the room's/team's anointing and ask him about what's on my mind, and what I'm struggling with. There is just the sacred atmosphere in that place.
I like the PR

I've missed 3 weeks?!?!

So sorry! I've been writing a couple of papers, so every time I was on a computer I forced myself to stay as on task as I could!
Update: At the moment I am a little sick- I think its just a cold. I worked today trying to take pictures of bitty soccer and it was cold outside and little kids have a hard time posing. It was kind of funny, but it took some time... But today may have very well been my last day taking pics of little tykes. Its been short-lived but a blessing to earn some extra cash.  Today my coworker Alan told me he didn't have trouble sleeping anymore! This is cool because he told me last time we worked together that he trouble sleeping. So I asked if I could pray for him and he was cool with that and now he is reassured that prayer works!~ I am becoming more bold, but I still forgot to encourage him more by telling him more of Jesus' love for him. He actually grew up in a Lutheran background, so we had something in common!

Days go on, I am spending half of my time in the PR and really enjoying it! I play ultimate frisbee on Sundays (HOORAAH!) and have resorted to getting work out dvds from the library and working out at home-this is new to me, but I did take a walk in the rain today-pretty fun! My roommate today was baffled that anyone would even go into a library, and that its a place for nerds....well... it is. :) I love my room mates, we are pretty tight! I have a fondness for libraries-quite useful you know! You can get stuff for free for an allotted period of time. CHECKING STUFF OUT FOR FREE?!?!?!= awesome.

Things in Missouri that are not in Utah, chicadas(spelling?), chiggers (:( I miss my grass days), papers get damp at night in 1 hour when outside, and apparently sidewalks are only for parts of the street. JK- but for real.
That's all folks! (good cartoon days!)