Fire Fall Down

...on us we pray.

The Holy Spirit fell and consumed us to our very cores
Diminishing confusion, doubts, fears, and insecurities
Molding us more into his likeness
Giving us passion and endurance to keep following after him
We will run after you!

From behind, Karen placed her hands on my shoulders and began to pray. The first sentence out of her mouth, "Lord I pray against any doubt and fear in this young woman's life..." Earlier that morning, I asked my friend Lindsey if she could pray for me. Doubt and fear were the two issues I addressed and low and behold, God made this known to Karen, a woman I have never spoken to before. As soon as those words escaped her lips, I was caught up and brought to tears. She spoke encouragement into my life, praying that I would know my worth and the calling God has given me. I stood there, tears running down my face knowing that God was present and he was speaking to people about me and using them to minister to my life.
My girlfriend Rebecca stood next to me and rubbed my back. Over and over again, not stopping for probably half an hour. Somewhere in there my girl Liz came over and placed her hand on my shoulder and started praying for me. She prayed against doubt and that I would know the fullness of Christ's love for me. I can't remember a lot of what she said but I know that she was speaking to our God on my behalf and that she is so precious to me. Jose came over and laid his hands on me, praying that God's fire would fall on me and that his Holy Spirit would come. More, more, more. Then he began to pray love, love, love. And I broke. I needed to feel the awesome love from my savior, and I did! I became consumed by his love and knew then that nothing else mattered. No relationship I've been in or will be in can ever include a love like the love my God has for me. I knew this and instantly felt a sense of freedom. I had this reassurance that God loved me and I no longer cared if I had a significant other to feel love from. (Sadly, this is always mulling around in my brain... and I crave the love of another human being so much... but it's no longer that important to me, which I would say is some great progress! haha) Anyway.... God showed his great love for me on Wednesday night, I was so consumed by it... It was amazing.
I could probably write more... but I don't feel like it at the moment.
The thing I love about this, is that it is so easy to ask people, "Hey what did God speak to you on Wednesday night?" They share a story of God's goodness and then I can return the favor. We need to be sharing all the great stuff(and not so fun stuff) that God is doing in our lives with each other. We can build each other up with how God is working, we just need to take the opportunities that he gives us.