How you doin? We attend the "Dwelling Place" prayer meeting last night at Abundant Life and it was AWESOME!!!!!!! It's so addictive to be in the presence of God. I felt a tremendous amount of gratitude toward God. I couldn't stop thanking Him and feeling love for Him. Being in His Presence will do that. Psalm 100:4, "Enter His gates with thanksgiving And His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name." 1 Thessalonians 5:16-22, "Rejoice always; 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit; 20 do not despise prophetic [l]utterances. 21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every [m]form of evil." These a few of hundreds of verses that speak about the importance of thanksgiving. I can't say that I'm thankful all the time. Last night as the Presence of God made Himself known to me, all I could feel was grateful. COME ON!!!!!!! I found myself praying for more. Praying for more desire to know Him, to love Him, more understanding, revelations, grace, a renewed mind, fresh fire, and most of all love. As I was praying, thanksgiving was on my lips more then anything. AWESOME!!!!!!! I felt a tremendous amount of fellowship with Him last night and this morning.
Job 9 today. As I'm reading this horrific description of what God does, I found myself feeling sad or sorry for Job. He was making determinations about God based on his life's experience, which at this time is really bad. As I'm reading this chapter, I couldn't recognize God based on Jobs description of what God does. Verse 24, “The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;
Is it possible that Job doesn't know that Satan is on the earth? Is it possible that Job didn't know about spiritual warfare? I know we're all guilty of giving God credit for stuff that's not His, but Job straight out says, "If it is not He, then who is it". Bill Johnson said "God is good. Satan is bad. Cancer is bad. Where do you think that came from?". This statement does not over simplify a basic truth about the nature of God and the nature of Satan. Job seems to be well deceived by the works of the Devil. The very thing that Jesus came to destroy. COME ON!!!!!!! Is it possible that the work of the Devil is deceiving "Christians" right into unbelief? Of course it is. That's what Satan does. Followers of Jesus are not exempt, but they are certainly less likely to be deceived. Job's life's circumstances, which were from the hand of Satan (not God), skewed his knowledge of God's goodness.
After last night, I can't see or hear anything but God's love and goodness. At the end of the prayer meeting, we formed a circle to pray together. I was asked to come to the center of the circle to be prayed for since it was my birthday. The prayer over me was that God grant me whatever I desire in the upcoming year. As this was spoken over me, all I could think of was "to know Him". Not to know Him through study and in my mind, but to know Him intimately and in my heart. It was a "Solomon" moment for me. As I was receiving this prophetic prayer over me I searched my heart to see what my desire is. I asked God to search my heart to see what my desire is. I knew God was asking me what my desire was like he asked Solomon. Solomon asked for wisdom, which is a really cool choice. As I stood there last night raw from the Presence of God, all I wanted was "to know Him". I truly want to have an intimate relationship with Him. I want to know Him with my heart and my head will be forced to come along. In boxing they have a saying, "take the body down and the head will follow". My spirit (heart) will lead my soul and body. Be thankful for the fact that God is good today.
PS Audrey and Paulie are AWESOME!!!!!!! We were praying for a women with stage 4 lung cancer last night. Both Audrey and Paulie bent over backwards trying to get to this women to lay hands on her. They both did get to her and laid their hands on her. After praying for this women, she was asked if she felt anything different in her body. She said that she felt a tingling feeling and tremendous heat from Audrey's hand on her leg. Stacey reported that she felt like Audrey needed to hug the women. Audrey did hug the women and prayed that she "receives new lungs that will last forever". There was a print of Audrey's hand on the women's pants. It was at least sweat. Stacey was trying to see if there was gold dust, but there were too many people around the women to see close. WOW WOW WOW!!!!!!! There's so much to learn from these kids. I'm so proud of them.
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