Intimacy

This past week Matt Rawlins spoke to our DTS about The Fear of the Lord. If you would like to listen to his teachings you can go to www.awakendts.com and they are available at the left side, mid page. He spoke on a lot of different things, but all of it led back to the topic of the week, Fear of the Lord. It had to be one of the best teachings on Fear of the Lord I've ever heard.

This past week has been full of brand new revelation. I've been meditating on John 15 this week and what it looks like to abide in Jesus. Out of spending time with the Lord I have been taken deep in Him, knowing Him more and more; not the kind of knowing most of us think of. When we hear the word “know” most of us think of knowledge, but when the word is used in the Old Testament it can be translated to understand and to be vulnerable. Like it says at the beginning of Genesis "Adam knew Eve and she conceived." I'm now coming into a deeper knowledge of who God is and how He is vulnerable to us, that He would let us know Him. God is constantly blowing me away with His greatness. I challenge you to spend more intimate time with God this week, you will grow in deeper understanding.

We also announced outreach locations to the students this week! Our DTS will be going to seven locations; Oman, Azerbaijan, South America, Thailand/Cambodia, India, Haiti, and China. Erica Gustafson and I will be leading the team to China! The teams were announced yesterday after class and we had our first team meeting. Let me tell you, the Lord’s hand is all over our team! It has been so divinely assembled. I have a high expectancy for the amazing things God is going to be doing in the next couple months and during outreach, which is still two months away. Please begin to pray for Erica and I, as well as our team.

I look forward to writing again next weekend. I expect the Lord is going to show up in even more amazing ways this week than we have seen yet and look forward to telling you about them! Please keep me in your prayers and I would love to hear from you!

Glory

How appropriate is the title of this blog entry! Honestly people, God has been showing up in amazing ways in my life and there is so much to write about with such little space. I want to start by saying that the God of the entire Bible is the God of today and that is something all of us need to get in our understanding. God is pursuing us more than we are pursuing him, He wants to encounter us more than we want Him to encounter us. He is after us with such a passion that if it was revealed to us we would probably die. GOD LOVES US!
God is showing up in ways that I never thought were possible or even still active in the church today. He started to show His Spirit more to me in the past month and a half than He ever has in my life and it is perfect for the season I am going through. His perfect timing is always perfect for our life and we shouldn't ever be trying to rush God. Onto what I really want to address, God is showing up with scents and manifestations of His Spirit that are blowing me out of the water. Holy Spirit laughter will fall in a group of people and they will start laughing uncontrollably, it's glorious. The scents that we have been smelling are the scents of Heaven, things like smelling vanilla in a corporate meeting, or the scent of a brush fire ( there wasn't a fire anywhere near us). I asked God what the smell was and He told me that it was the smell of "the burnt offering." There is so much to write about. I will be posting another blog this weekend about the amazing things God has been doing in the DTS. There is so much passion in my heart right now. GLORY! I pray that the Lord will encounter each and every person who reads this.