responding

The past few days there has been a magnified intensity it feels like of God's attention on my life, on the things that I've been crying out for, it's incredible and exhausting. The past two days at school were the most incredible days of responding to and crying out for the presence of God in community I have ever been apart of. It was a glimpse of what revival is going to be like. There has been this momentum building of hunger for God for His glorious presence. You could feel this anticipation and expectancy in the air at school.
On Thursday of this week we were worshiping God, the music was great and people were encountering God like they usually do, but something shifted in the room and in the worship and as a body we just decided spontaneously and harmoniously that there was about to be a violence in our faith (matthew 11:12) our worship became a cry, a plea, a sacrfice, a celebration before Him. It was beautiful everyone was dancing before God like David did, singing in unison and then in their own language, I can only imagine what God saw and how He felt about His kids worshiping Him.
The room felt so sweet and just JOYOUS! The stage and the aisles flooded with students dancing wildly. You could feel burdens and strongholds in people's lives just breaking off. It was incredible.
And then the next day, Friday, a student was sharing an incredible God story from her weekend where this guy that she had met was heavily into Satanic worship but just saw her encountering God in so much joy that he asked her what she was experiencing and she told him it was the Holy Spirit and that if he wanted he could experience it to. He told her that he did and so she prayed for him to encounter the Holy Spirit and he did! He just started laughing uncontrollably with joy and he said he wanted to know Jesus after that! It was crazy! Something was just released into the room while she was sharing this story. When she finished we just shouted out to God to be rocked by the Holy Spirit! And well...He came into the room and we just busted out into worship(you couldn't help it) and encountering the Spirit, some people were shaking from His presence, some weeping, some laughing and shouting praises. Bill Johnson was about to start speaking to us but he just stood there at the podium and let us respond to the Spirit's presence...for 40 minutes! We were praying, and singing just broke out, no instruments no leader nothing just His kids singing and loving Him. And it ended as Bill just lead us in "Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him" . It was so powerful and I got to feel the Holy Spirit like I never have before my spirit was fluttering within me. And there was nothing else for your being to do but worship, it was instinctual and outside of my control. Shear joy and goodness was penetrating every part of you that caused your spirit to bend to the Source of it all, whose very nature is love, joy and only good.
My prayer is for God to teach me to recognize His presence, it is too sweet to miss and something we weren't created to live without.
God is too good to be true all the time.


psalm16:11 In Your presence is fullness of joy;

psalm 97:5 The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the Lord,

psalm 149:2-3 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with dance; let them sing praises to Him.

psalm 30:11-12 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness, To the end that my glory may sing praise to You and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

2 Samuel 6:14 Then David danced before the Lord with all his might