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Monday Musings

In a word, yesterday at The Mission was amazing.  Sometimes God lets you know well in advance exactly how He wants to move in a service.  This week it was more obvious than others.

I knew that I was going to talk about anxiety and self image for a while, but I was hoping that it would be more than me teaching. I really wanted God to show up and heal.

Monday morning I had a meeting with someone from The Mission.  Sure enough, they wanted to talk about these very issues.

On Tuesday, God told me in very clear detail that He wanted to heal hearts and laid out for me how I was supposed to spiritually prepare for the service..

After Friday setup, the Holy Ghost came in such power and began to touch hearts in an unbelievable way.  I knew there was going to be an anointing to not just deliver, but give that Ezekiel new heart.  So many people are dealing with unclean spirits and aren’t dealing with the stronghold of the enemy in our lives.  If the stronghold is dealt with the enemy has no ability to stay.  People won’t put up with the mess.

So when Sunday morning came I was ready to see God move.  I was really excited. Sergio said, “Pastor, you have a bunch of coffee?”  Fair question, but it was not the caffeine.

So I preached on the connection between anxiety and self-image.  I hit it from four different directions at least.  As a pastor, it is always hard to see folks who would have had life changing experiences miss a church service.  We had a technical glitch and the service did not get recorded.  So if you missed it, you missed it.

At the end of the message I began in line with the word God laid on my heart.  I prayed that the Lord would come and baptize hearts in love.  I prayed that He would deliver from the enemy.  I prayed that God would do what only He can do.

After service I began to get the testimonies.  People had visitations of Jesus embracing them.  Others had open visions.  I heard testimonies of strongholds that God has been talking to people about for years getting broken.  It is now the next night and I am still getting testimonies about what happened and I am sure the fruit will come for years to come.

Last night During our Advanced Spiritual Discipleship class the anointing came like a flood in worship.  We had planned to go for 20 minutes but when we stopped after an hour and a half there were people sobbing on the ground all over the room.  The testimonies of how people were encountering God and Him revealing the issues of the heart made people all over the room sob.  It was an awesome move of the Spirit.

We really had a far deeper conversation about our identity and how we relate to other people.  In a word, amazing.