The Recent Changes We Go Through

My blogs are going to be way less frequent because I just don't have the time anymore for this :/ I will most likely just doing one per week or two. While I'm here, I want to get the most I can out of this experience, and if I I have to spend an hour or two blogging AND writing it in my journal, it will be taking its toll.

Yesterday was miraculous. Benji went up to speak for our morning lecture. He spoke about pride, how it affects our view of ourself, how it skews our view of God, and how it can ruin the way we think. He also shared a lot about himself, and pretty much gave his testimony. I gotta admit, I was sorta out of it this morning. It's about 8:30, I haven't had my coffee, and I was just having a hard time connecting with the Holy Spirit this morning. It was a little cloudy for me. After he was finished speaking, we prayed, and repented of our pride and the things that we need to get rid of that were holding us back from God. Almost every single person had confessed what they wanted to repent of, and near the end, one of my friends stood up.

In the middle of this conviction of the Holy Spirit, he stands and admits that he was using YWAM as a get-away. He confessed to have abused his two sisters before he came here, that he was struggling with the devil condemning him, and that was the main reason why he ended up in YWAM. He started to break down. Everyone got up to lay hands on him and pray. The prayer went on for about 10 minutes, when all of a sudden I felt a rush of the Holy Spirit. I started shaking, or shivering. I don't really know how to describe it. It was uncontrollable. All of a sudden, I just started speaking, and I had no idea what was coming out of my mouth until I had said it. I was proclaiming the Holy Spirit to take up his sanctuary in this place. I also said something like this: "Father, in the name of your Son, we commit this room to you, we commit our hearts to you. We know that the devil is trying his very hardest to stomp out the words that we are saying, but Lord we demand that you eliminate him from our presence and our thoughts. Do not let him invade our thoughts father!" In the middle of my prayer, I heard a girl speaking in tongues next to me. It was refreshing to hear. Also, after I had finished praying, my face felt really tingly, which was kinda weird. Instantly I felt the annointing of the Lord fall down on us like a blanket, and a lot of people were crying. It was intense!

Also, yesterday was the Montana night square dance fun night :) I will post pics of that.

Today, we got into small groups and got our small group leader. My group is Caleb, Levi, Matt, and I. Benji is my small group leader. We all took vans as a school and went to Glacier Park. There we hiked about 2.5 miles out to the lake, and sat down as a small group and shared testimonies. I already feel like they are my second home. BTW: That lake was Colddddddd