Tonight I've just been reflecting on the past two weeks and God has just proved himself so good, faithful, and powerful! I thought I would share. I've been praying for the supernatural a long time. I believe it, I've seen it, and I've desired it but I've never experienced it for myself. Man has that changed!
I guess this story starts last Monday September 27, 2010 when a two ladies were praying over me and then after about five minutes, one of them asked me if I had any kind of sexual addictions. I said yes and she said that God had been speaking to her for five minutes that I was free. She said he bound it up and threw it into Hell! And He did! I had been doing better before, a lot better, but God has better plans. He never meant for us to struggle with some sin and repent, fail, repent, fail, repent, fail, and repent again. That is slavery not freedom. God freed me through his Spirit in an instant and I don't even have desire for it anymore! Living in freedom is amazing
Tuesday nigth rolls around and I got off work super early and went back to the prayer meeting. the guest speaker told us about a prophetic dream he had the night before about a mountain of God coming to Searcy and we were all like, "Yeah, we know." Then later on we had a "fire tunnel" where the pastors, leaders, and just crazy Spirit-filled people calling the fire of God down and just praying for us and speaking things over us. A guy told me that I was forgiven and my fried said I was a prophet to the nations and an apostle. Later on me and a friend were talking to someone about drunkedness in the Spirit and she prayed that we would recieve it and even just throughout the week. Then the guest speaker prayed over me creativity for the prayer room anf then to be a precher who is just filled with the Spirit and just spits out the Word (that I would eat the scroll and it would be sweet like honey, but bitter in my stomach so I spit it out). He also said that was a spiritual gift which is a confirmation for me. He also prayed prophesy, visions, and dreams over me.
Wednesday night at cell group, I heard the Lord for the first time. We were praying for a mission team going to Guatemala and broke up into groups. After my group was kind of done praying our leader just prayed and asked to Holy Spirit to reveal to us anything else we needed to pray for. So I closed my eyes, opened my hands, and listened. I immediatly heard. "Brandon" so I pressed in and asked what I needed to pray for. I justed heard feelings of insecurity about if people were supposed to go in the sense of preparedness or worthiness. So I just prayed about those insecurities. After I prayedBrandon said, "You know, it's weird that you prayed that because I've been feeling that way because I haven't been able to make it to all the meetings." I just sid, "Yeah, I heard your name. I just didn't say it..." That was pretty awesome!
On Friday I took a nap and had a dream about Dr. Burks soming to know the Holy Spirit in a whole new way after his wife dies and that it was going to be because of conversations with a woman who's name starts with an "A". I believe this was from God. Also Devin asked me if I wanted to speak at His devo the next Wednesday. That was my first chance after I was prayed over so it was a cool opportunity right away
On Saturday I was sitting in the identity corner of the prayer room and God gave me a revelation. I was just reading the words of identity that were written on the wall about us and realized something. All those things that we are, Jesus was. We inherit traits from Christ. In fact we are co-heirs with Christ and sons of God even. Everything that Christ is and was, we are!
The next Monday I woke up and had a picture in my head. It was a guy that looked so happy. He had a checklist above him with things like commands, his callings, and work that the Lord had given him with little checkboxes next to them that were all checked. There was a huge one that said "LOVE GOD" that was not checked. We can think we're doing great things but if we don't truely love God, then it doesn't matter.
Tuesday I got off work really early again and went to the prayer meeting. It was different this time and we were all just going to soak in God's presence together. Well it started that way and the Spirit was coming on me with like shakes and stuff and then it turned into a Holy Spirit dance party. Me and my friend that got prayed for a week before for the intoxication of the Spirit both got drunk in the Spirit and I got the Joy of the Lord and I was just laughing and laughing in the corner! And then a pastor friend and I went accross the street to a Baptist "Revival" (this is a story for another time). Needless to say it was awkward trying to hold in the Joy of the Lord!
On Wednesday I still had the Joy! People definiatly noticed. One of my friends asked what was wrong with me so I said I was hungover in the Spirit! I also got to preach and told them about God's heart for Searcy, Harding, and Kensett. I also told them about the mountain of God and prayer, intimacy, and worship. I told them some testimonies about healings (including a blind guy being healed the day before!), and my own deliverence and freedom. After that I went to cell and I got the Joy again when someone was praying. It was ridiculous!
On Friday someone asked me at work if I smoked pot. This may sound weird but it is a testimony. People have prayed, prophesied, and spoken about the peace the Lord has given me multiple times and I think he saw that! Along the same lines I got to be there for a friend who needed peace and pray for that in her life. I also got the pray for peace for another friend on Wednesday night come to think of it.
Today (Saturday) was celebrate:kingdom day. I got to help out in the community, prayer walk through neighborhoods aroung Harding and declare peace, freedom, love blessing, joy, boldness, and deliverence over those places and even discovered a hidden talent: facepainting! I met some good people today and helped plant some kingdom seeds.
God's been so good! He's just been giving me more revelations than I could put here and doing more things in me than I probably even recognize.I'm learning to live in obedience to his Spirit andfinding out more and more that that's where abundant life comes from and that the way His presence will increase in my life. I'm in love and just standing amazed! It's been an amazing two weeks of starting to walk in the Spirit and I know it only gets better. I'm getting hungrier and more expectant and I'm just all in!
Oct 10, 2010
Oct 1, 2010
The Prayer Room
The Harding Prayer Room above the Student Center in Shores Chapel has been my project for the past couple weeks and I wanted to share it with you guys. So here is a little bit about the major elements of the Prayer Room:Prayer Journal We want people to share their experiences with God. Te
stimony is probably our greatest tool in telling people about Christ and letting them know that He is real and present. People share how God has worked in their lives and pour out their hearts to Him and allow us to pray for them.
Harding Wall The heart of the Prayer Room is Harding. It was started by a Harding student, made possible by Harding facult
y, created by Harding students, is primarily for Harding students as well as staff and faculty, and is kept up by Harding students. There have been prayers by people for years for there to be a prayer room on Harding’s campus and even prayers for one in Shores Chapel where it is currently located. We want Harding kids to pray, to learn to press in and seek God, and to be changed by his Spirit as they are seeking God. We want them to have a sense of intimacy with their Father. We believe that with an increase in prayer comes an increase in how much God uses Harding because we’re allowing Him to grow us, speak into our lives, and convict our hearts.
Prayer Wall The Prayer Wall is a place where hearts are poured out to God. There
is no central theme planned for this wall; it is just for people to let whatever is inside of them out. There are prayers, quotes, lyrics, and scripture all on this wall and people just put whatever they feel led to.
Searcy Wall Harding is not the whole of what we’re about. Harding is a part of the larger community of Searcy. Being a Christian is about a wh
ole lot more that just filling up on Jesus, going to church, and not doing bad things. We want to see kids get out of that mindset and start seeing Searcy as their community and a place that needs them and their light. Prayer is the starting place for this and is the fire that will keep their work going.
Nations Corner It’s important for us to pray for the nations. God sa
id that if we ask for the nations he’ll give them to us. So the prayer room is a place where we we’re going to ask for the nations for Christ and gather together in prayer for them. A lot of times we become the answer to our own prayers…
Cross The center of everything is the cross. The cross paid for freedom from sin
, deliverances from our sin nature, abundant life, healings, salvations, and deliverances from Satan’s work in our life in the manifestations of addictions, demons, depression, and all the rest. The cross is our source of life and is a joy to us and not something we should always be mourning
Identity Corner Depression is winning in so many people’s lives. People don’t know who they are in Christ and are so
much less powerful because of that. If people know who they are in Christ and take a hold of this knowledge deep down inside then depression cannot stand and people will learn to be powerful and effective in the Kingdom. The identity corner a place for people just to meditate on who they are in Christ, look at themselves and know it’s true, and just allow the Spirit to speak those things into them. This place is essential to raising up disciples of Christ at Harding.
Justice Wall God desire
s justice. God requires justice because of who he is. He’s a God of justice and promises justice to us if we just press in and ask for it. He illustrates this in the parable of the unjust judge and he is a just judge. He will give us justice if we pray so we’re going to pray!
Kensett Wall Kensett is a community just outsi
de of Searcy. This city has been put on the hearts of many people and we’ve been praying and contending for it and I want to invite Harding students to stand with us in prayer. Here is some information about the economic status of Kensett:
stimony is probably our greatest tool in telling people about Christ and letting them know that He is real and present. People share how God has worked in their lives and pour out their hearts to Him and allow us to pray for them.Harding Wall The heart of the Prayer Room is Harding. It was started by a Harding student, made possible by Harding facult
y, created by Harding students, is primarily for Harding students as well as staff and faculty, and is kept up by Harding students. There have been prayers by people for years for there to be a prayer room on Harding’s campus and even prayers for one in Shores Chapel where it is currently located. We want Harding kids to pray, to learn to press in and seek God, and to be changed by his Spirit as they are seeking God. We want them to have a sense of intimacy with their Father. We believe that with an increase in prayer comes an increase in how much God uses Harding because we’re allowing Him to grow us, speak into our lives, and convict our hearts.
Prayer Wall The Prayer Wall is a place where hearts are poured out to God. There
is no central theme planned for this wall; it is just for people to let whatever is inside of them out. There are prayers, quotes, lyrics, and scripture all on this wall and people just put whatever they feel led to.Searcy Wall Harding is not the whole of what we’re about. Harding is a part of the larger community of Searcy. Being a Christian is about a wh
ole lot more that just filling up on Jesus, going to church, and not doing bad things. We want to see kids get out of that mindset and start seeing Searcy as their community and a place that needs them and their light. Prayer is the starting place for this and is the fire that will keep their work going.Nations Corner It’s important for us to pray for the nations. God sa
id that if we ask for the nations he’ll give them to us. So the prayer room is a place where we we’re going to ask for the nations for Christ and gather together in prayer for them. A lot of times we become the answer to our own prayers…Cross The center of everything is the cross. The cross paid for freedom from sin
, deliverances from our sin nature, abundant life, healings, salvations, and deliverances from Satan’s work in our life in the manifestations of addictions, demons, depression, and all the rest. The cross is our source of life and is a joy to us and not something we should always be mourningIdentity Corner Depression is winning in so many people’s lives. People don’t know who they are in Christ and are so
much less powerful because of that. If people know who they are in Christ and take a hold of this knowledge deep down inside then depression cannot stand and people will learn to be powerful and effective in the Kingdom. The identity corner a place for people just to meditate on who they are in Christ, look at themselves and know it’s true, and just allow the Spirit to speak those things into them. This place is essential to raising up disciples of Christ at Harding.Justice Wall God desire
s justice. God requires justice because of who he is. He’s a God of justice and promises justice to us if we just press in and ask for it. He illustrates this in the parable of the unjust judge and he is a just judge. He will give us justice if we pray so we’re going to pray!Kensett Wall Kensett is a community just outsi
de of Searcy. This city has been put on the hearts of many people and we’ve been praying and contending for it and I want to invite Harding students to stand with us in prayer. Here is some information about the economic status of Kensett:"The median income for a household in the city was $20,478, and the median income for a family was $26,161. Males had a median income of $22,763 versus $17,500 for females. The per capita income for the city was $11,049. About 26.3% of families and 30.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 48.5% of those under age 18 and 21.4% of those age 65 or over." From Wikipedia
Salvations, Healings,
Deliverances Wall The cross paid for a lot of things and Jesus prayed for the kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. Because of these things we can pray for healings, del
iverances, and heart transformations and expect them! These are things that are on the heart of everyone because everyone has friends or family that is lost, everyone is either trapped in some consistent sin or knows someone who is, and everyone knows of someone who is in need of supernatural healing. God loves to give us these things so we want to agree with each other in prayer and band together about our individual concerns
Worship Walls This is the newest addition to the Prayer Room. I believe God is so so worthy of our praise. The Prayer Room is full of plac
es to cry out to God about issues where we want Him to move so I think it is important to set aside places to just tell Him how great, awesome, wonderful, beautiful, and powerful He is and just say how we love Him and why we think He is so great!
I love The Prayer Room and God set it up for me to take it over this year. I’m so glad He did because it is the delight of my heart! I hope it is a blessing to you and that it is a place where you can connect with God like never before, be filled with His Spirit, and where He just delights you as you delight in Him. We just want you to realize God’s desire for intimacy with his bride and for you to grow in that
Deliverances Wall The cross paid for a lot of things and Jesus prayed for the kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven. Because of these things we can pray for healings, del
iverances, and heart transformations and expect them! These are things that are on the heart of everyone because everyone has friends or family that is lost, everyone is either trapped in some consistent sin or knows someone who is, and everyone knows of someone who is in need of supernatural healing. God loves to give us these things so we want to agree with each other in prayer and band together about our individual concernsWorship Walls This is the newest addition to the Prayer Room. I believe God is so so worthy of our praise. The Prayer Room is full of plac
es to cry out to God about issues where we want Him to move so I think it is important to set aside places to just tell Him how great, awesome, wonderful, beautiful, and powerful He is and just say how we love Him and why we think He is so great!I love The Prayer Room and God set it up for me to take it over this year. I’m so glad He did because it is the delight of my heart! I hope it is a blessing to you and that it is a place where you can connect with God like never before, be filled with His Spirit, and where He just delights you as you delight in Him. We just want you to realize God’s desire for intimacy with his bride and for you to grow in that
"Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart."(Psalm 37:4 NIV)
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