Wow... this Sunday was amazing. I started praying for a greater moving of the Holy Spirit at my church a few weeks ago, and no sooner did I do that than it started happening. Alot of other people had been praying as well, it's nice how the Lord keeps us all in sync even when we don't tell anybody what we're doing. Every week since then has been better than the previous and this weekend was incredible. At the beginning of the service someone got a word of knowledge that an angelic host of heaven was there with us that day! Two men with prophecy gifts were also there and they and a few others prophecied over people and got words of knowledge and wisdom off and on from the start of the service to the end, and then for about 30 minutes straight after the service was over! Quite a few people recieved something, including me. 4 or 5 people were also healed during the service, a bad shoulder, a stomach tumor, a pinched nerve in the L4 vertebrae, 2 people with migrane headaches, and maybe a few others, just like that. I have never seen so much of the Spirit before in my life! I missed the evening service because we had company, but I am still in awe.

On a slightly different note: I'M OFF PROBATION!! THANK YOU JESUS!

I'd write more but it's way too late for me to be up already... gotta get up early. Goodnight!

Currently Watching Paul: The Emissary-DVD see related

So... I'm finally updating this thing again. Christmas was great, I got to see all my Dad's side of the family and had a great time, plus I got like 5 times the amount of stuff I asked for. I got a copy of the Passion, a Sheetz gift card, a gift card for a Christian bookstore, and ton of cash, plus a few other things, I couldn't believe it. Most importantly I got my Mom to go to church on Christmas Eve! God has evidently been working on her because she seems much more receptive now to going on a regular basis.

On a much sadder note probably close to 100,000 people died last Wednesday and millions more lost their homes and possessions in the space of a few hours... very scary. What can I say... we are most definently in the end times. People were out fishing, shopping in the market, laying on the beach, going to work. It was just an ordinary day, and just like that a 50-foot high wave comes in and and they're all dead. This is how the end is going to come. Every day is a gift!

Yeah I've kinda been neglecting this thing but I've been keeping myself busy. Now that I've finally got a few moments for Xanga, I'm going to type out a prophecy that one of the sisters at my church was given back on September 29. Hearing it has changed the way I do things and hopefully it will do the same for you. These are the words of God:

"I am calling you to a new depth of devotion to Me. I am calling you to truly lay aside the things of this word. The TV you love to watch, the games you play on the computer, and I am calling you to throw yourself totally into Me and spend your time totally devoted to My plan and My purposes. You wanted to know what it would take to change your life and to get you ready to do My plan and be a part of what I am doing in the world today. Well, I will tell you, it will cost you everything. Yes, you heard me right, it will cost you everything. Everything you love to do with your time, everything you love to do with your finances. Yes, you need to stop spending money you don't have. I never called My children to live on credit. That was what man gave the world, not me. The enemy has used it over and over to destroy people's faith and their very lives. It has never been My plan or My purpose, for it distracts from what I am calling My people to do for Me. It consumes their thought lives and it takes away your peace. Now you must purpose in your heart to get totally and completely out of debt and I will tell you what and where to sow in order to do it. As far as your heart, you need to spend more time in My word and in My presence in order to change your heart. And I will help you to do that if you will yield to My prompting when I direct you in your everyday life. Know this, that if your heart is truly bent toward Me, you will yield to Me and do the things I am calling you to do. Many of My people will never be a part of what I am doing in these last days. Oh I have given the wake up call, but they will not wake up, they will get excited about what My servant is saying, but they will not change their lives, their spending, their pastimes, they will never do much for Me to bring My Son to the earth. But if you will give it all up and do what I say, you will be a mighty weapon against the enemy and a great harvester of souls. Will you lay it all down and follow Me? Will you take up My cross and follow Me? Will you do it? Will you do it? Will you do it? I am waiting to see. I am yearing for My people to do it, but they are very busy people. Busy with entertainment more in your country than anywhere else in the world. I am yearning for them to see how I have blessed America and lay down their own desires and take My plan, but sadly most of them will not, will you? Together we will usher in the second coming of My Son." 

I totally gave up video games after I heard this. I thought I needed them occasionally to relax, but the truth is I don't. The only hard part was throwing them away, since then I haven't thought about them much at all. Honestly it feels so good to be rid of them, and I have alot more time to get stuff done while before I was mesmerized by these games for an hour or so a day. Playing a non-violent/sexual/occultic game isn't a sin, but it is a colossal time-waster and a distraction because you find yourself thinking about it instead of the things of God. Giving them up wasn't nearly as hard as I thought because God has been helping me with it, and now it barely crosses my mind. I've also all but given up TV, except for the news. It's good to cut yourself loose from the things of this world! What the Lord said about entertainment in this country has really made me think. In the last 2-3 generations our work-ethic has really gone downhill and now our lives are consumed more than ever with finding ways to entertain ourselves. In other countries this isn't so. To the poor subsistence farmer life is work, not play. I've started to realize that our purpose here is to work. Somewhere we Americans seem to have lost that. Satan's got a good bit of my generation so enthralled with video games, tv, and movies that nobody realizes what's really going on. There's a war to be fought! You don't see our troops in Iraq sitting themselves down in a combat zone to play some x-box, and it should be all the more with us. The end is near, and we need to be militant about our faith. I need ALOT of work to get to that point, but I'm going to believe that God is going to take me there.

Wow... where do I begin? Alot of exciting stuff has been happening lately! God is really moving and shaking things up at my church. It's only been 2 weeks since our worship, youth, and drama leader Keith passed away and God has raised up his family to fill his shoes. His daughter Deb is now leading worship, and keith's youngest son Joe preached the house down last Sunday! He's only 17 and it was his first time! Praise God! Keith's family is back to doing everything they did before, and more. I used to wonder what would happen to my church years down the road since there are only a handful of young people, but God has used this to show me He can raise people up in a second. I think maybe God is saying it's time for my generation to start taking the reigns. It's time to grow up and start taking responsibility, we can't just sit in the pews for a few hours every Sunday and leave and go about our merry way anymore, we've got to run this church someday! I was "volunteered" for sound board last Sunday night and I think this may be the Lord prompting me to start helping with that. I'm seeing things differently now, our leaders aren't getting any younger and the time to start learning is now, it's on us young people to live up to their legacy!

Something else amazing happened on Sunday night. The Lord gave me both a revelation and a healing!. My eye had drifted back out since my surgery months ago and I was seeing double almost all the time, and the doctor wanted to do another surgery to try to fix it. The first operation made things worse so I spent all day Friday praying and fasting about wether I should have the second surgery or not. I came up for prayer on Sunday night and a few people prayed over me for my double vision to be healed and God gave the pastor a word of knowledge "It is so" and that I had double vision because I was double-minded! Since that moment my eye has still been off but I have not seen double! Thank you Jesus! My physical vision is off because my spiritual vision is off. God has been dealing with me about my double-mindedness for awhile ( what psychologists call schizophrenia), but that's a whole other story that i'll save for another time.