So I've already started to fail at the weekly blog thing, I apologize! The past couple weeks have been crazy hectic in the best way possible I don't even know if I can find the words for all of it, so for now I'll give you guys a little snapshot...
The past two weeks we have covered Fear of the Lord, Repentance, and Holy Spirit. I was expecting it to be fairly low key, but as you read in my last blog entry, it was anything but. God showed up in a big way and broke a lot of chains, healed a lot of people of things both spiritual/emotional and physical. I received a lot of freedom both weeks. However the one that probably hit me the hardest was Holy Spirit week. There were days where we had ministry and I would actually wake up sore the next morning from either laughing or just being completely "zapped" by the Holy Spirit.
During this week (Holy Spirit week) I really had to give up a lot of control, which was awesome and so freeing! There was one day where we were asking the Holy Spirit to be with us and fill us and we were just giving "crap" to God and I actually had to lay down. It was pretty awesome until I realized I couldn't get up which was a little worrisome, but God was like "Wait watch this" and showed me a ton of stuff about myself again and how he was actually completely remaking me. I got super dizzy at one point and I was like "God what is up with this, I'm stuck to the floor and I feel like I'm spinning?!" He then showed me a really cool picture where he kind of zoomed out and I was laying on a potter's wheel. Essentially he was saying "you're currently a blob of wet clay that I'm working on, enjoy the ride". It was incredible! Not only to get pictures from Him but to hear His voice clearly and know what he was trying to show me.
We had a few more ministry times that week with our speaker Kristen, that dude really gets the Holy Spirit. Both of them I ended up on the floor and with one of them I actually felt like I got hit by a bolt of lightning (the nonlethal kind) and didn't necessarily get anything audible from God but just got to experience his presence and the Holy Spirit in a whole new way. The last ministry day we had was super intense for me. We were learning about Spiritual Gifts and then Kristen said that we were going to pray that God would reveal our gifts to us and show us other people's gifts. He went around and "read people's mail" for a while (Christianese for him saying things that he couldn't have possibly known about them) and then he had the staff come and pray for us. A wonderful woman named Elise prayed for me and she is a power house when it comes to prayer. At first I was a little confused with what she was saying because I felt like God highlighted 4 gifts to me about myself and she was listing literally all of them but the ones I was thinking of. I felt really selfish because I would love to have all the spiritual gifts but I didn't feel like I was allowed to, and so we just kept praying. God was working in me big time and then Kristen came and put his hand on my head and said "More God, give 'er all of 'em". I barely got the word "Floor" out of my mouth before I fell off my chair. Talk about firsts! I had an awesome group of girl pray for me for a while and I'm not even entirely sure what they specifically prayed for because I felt like I had stuck my finger in an electrical socket and was humming with energy. After I got up and thanked them I felt like I needed to burn off some excess energy so I went outside and paced around for however long while one of my friends laughed at me. God was pretty much like "See Kate, Great things happen when you stop putting the two of us in boxes!"
He revealed some really exciting things to me that I will probably cover in a future blog post since I am still in the midst of processing it all.
Then that weekend we were "base-bound" because of Cyclone Marcia, which thankfully was only a low pressure system by the time she hit Toowoomba. We had a great time watching movies and playing games, but when the restrictions were finally lifted, people were pretty excited to leave!
This week we are going to but covering Evangelism and then this weekend we will head to the Gold Coast for some fun at the beach and Dreamworld.
Prayer Requests: as always just pray for continued unity at the base and respect towards one another. I could personally use prayers for health (i've been feeling under the weather off and on for a while) and discernment as I process everything that happened last week and things that will happen this week. I also ask for continued prayers for finances not just for myself but for some of my friends that aren't paid off and for the base so that they can work on projects that they have planned without having to worry about the money. One finally thing would be prayer for our Building Approval that is this weekend (Feb 28). A government inspector will come in and assess if the property is up to code and this is really important so that we can start housing people in the log cabins by the main house as there are quire a few of them and most of them are either storage or vacant right now. The guy at the base (Jake) that is in charge of property maintenance and all that fun stuff is also our speaker for the week, so pray that he doesn't get too stressed and has lots of energy and protection for him and his family that they don't get worn out by all of the busyness of the week. That was a run on sentence, but praying without ceasing means no punctuation right? ;)
I love you all and think of home often, especially this weekend, I was a smidge homesick...shhhhh...
If you have any questions or want to know how to support me or other people here at the base, give me a shout.
Much love from Toowoomba,
Kate
wow, just wow!
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