I have returned!
So, it has been a big three weeks of growing and actually seemed quite longer...and shorter than three weeks. I am so glad I took them off from internet...it opened a lot of doors for God to do things in my life that He otherwise could not have.
First of all, I simply must tell you all about my gloriously beautiful weekend.
Last moment, I decided to go to a conference with my grandparents. I didn't even really want to go. I had never heard of the speaker, David Herzog, and hadn't ever heard the worship leader, JoAnn Mcfatter. But...go I did. And though I came with a lot of doubts and misconceptions, God somehow managed to work a ton of things out.
So, Thursday night I went to prayer meeting at my grandparent's house. It was a good time and God told me several things that I don't really want to share here on the internet, but let's say that He confirmed most of them over that weekend. That was cool.
Friday, we went on a long car trip down to Everett, and got a hotel. I kept thinking..."why did I go...I just want to be at home! I'm going to GenUnleashed down in Oregon in two weekends anyways." Well, woe is you Elisabeth. You had no idea what was going to happen.
Friday evening we got to the church early. Immediatly I noticed...an easel set up in the corner, and I was dumbfounded. Here I was, complaining in my mind about coming, and I got to come to the first church I had ever been to that had prophetic painting during worship! I even got to talk to one of the people who was going to paint. That was surprise number one.
Surprise number two, coming up. For several weeks I had been struggling giving something up to God. Eh, I'm not going to say what it was on the internet either, but it was a big struggle. So as soon as worship started, God drew me to Him, and well, let's say, the rest is history. I'm in love!
So after a long worship service (long means GOOD here!) we listened to Mr. Herzog just talk and talk about miracles and the Glory and quantum physics, and by the end - One lady had lost weight, another got two gold teeth, and many other exciting things happened.
The next day, I got to see gold dust for the very first time since I have asked God for it in...Fall 05, I think. It was on my hands! And a bunch of other ladies behind me had it too! The atmosphere was really heavy with God's presence, and it was so fun, at the end, when Mr Herzog pointed his mike at people and went 'whoosh' or blowed or something, and everybody'd fall over. Then he did it to me and I went down! Whew, it was the first time I got pushed down by the power of God.
And then Sunday, my grandma got a gem. It was really small but it was really cool. Appearantly it was the first one that had appeared in that church, and so they took a lot of pictures of it. I shall take one and post it soon.
So, I sure had a wonderful time. Now I got back home. It will be weird to go to church again with nothing exciting happening. To have worship for twenty minutes each service. But I'm sowing into it at home. Spending time with God in my bedroom. Learning what the spiritual strongholds over my region are, Worshipping by painting. Soaking. All that stuff. I want to do it more than I did. I would truely love that kind of atmosphere around me all the time...more like...I just want to always be aware of God's love. Gold dust is cool (let me tell you) but I would rather have God's love penetrating me all the time than gold dust falling behind me everywhere I go and none of God's love.
I once said at the beginning of this year that I would make no resolutions. I'm done with them. They're stupid. That wasn't on the internet, it was just to one of my friends.
But now I have something that I resolve and I know I can attain. That is more intimacy with God. What do I mean by 'more'? Well, more than I did last year and more than what I'm doing now. More than just what keeps me from spiritually dying. You can starve for a while without dying. You can eat once a week and be totally unhealthy but still live. So what I'm saying is, God keeps you alive. But you are still unhealthy if you eat just enough to keep you alive. Am I making any sense? I'm going to 'eat' more this year...more than 'just enough'. Let's say I'm going to be healthy. No more starvation like last year.
