The Three Chairs: Practicing the Prophetic

Several things I loved about today:

*We had fish for dinner. Ha! Good stuff...

*I was able to chat on the phone for 40 minutes with a revivalist girl from Michigan (who did 2 years of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry) and recently moved to the valley.

• She just visited church on Sunday, and is coming back next Sunday. Her presence in Arizona and her interest in our church is SUCH an answer to prayer. One of the things Emily (my fellow revivalist buddy) and I pray for extremely often is for God to send us ready-made revivalists. And by "send us" I mean both to our church, as new members who want to get plugged in and help make things happen, OR as just part of the greater network of contacts and new friends we are building in the area. Whether this girl becomes part of our lives for the former reason, or for the latter reason (or both), it's going to be great having her around. I'm thrilled. I had a grin on my face the rest of the afternoon! I love answers to prayer. I love it that God hears our prayers, period. But then it's astounding to see just how specific he can get when he answers them. Such goodness. BTW - another thing Emily and I pray for is for God to send us those that are ready to be awakened to dreams of revival, destiny, and a supernatural move of God. So...not just the ready-made revivalists, ha! :) We want to help MAKE them, too!

*School of Supernatural Ministry started up again after we all had a bit of a summer break - and that was majorly fantastic. We had a group of around 30 students.  Kris Vallotton taught on the prophetic (not live, rather through a previously recorded DVD), and then we did an activity where we placed three chairs facing a wall, had three volunteers sit in them, and then the guy who runs it pointed at someone out of the rest of the students. The three volunteers in chairs, who couldn't see anything and didn't know who had been chosen, were to see if they got a prophetic word for that person. Two out of the three had a word, and once those had been shared, the lady who had been chosen explained to us how those words applied to her life. Pretty cool, huh?! I was glad that one of the brave volunteers didn't actually get something, or at least, didn't share it, only because hopefully that makes everyone realize that it is completely okay to not have anything! And practicing the prophetic is essential. It helps us identify how it is we hear the voice of God and feel his presence, and that way we can apply it out there in the "real world", where there's obviously not a contained, controlled environment for stepping out in the prophetic.

God is a rockstar!

Fellow Revivalists

*Deep, delighted, chuckle*

So...I've been finding some friends in this wonderful community called Blogspot, and I am so immensely excited about sharing my journey with all of you.

Here are some things to know about me that wouldn't fit in my profile:

*I am a revivalist because I choose to 1) Believe it, prophesy it, and pray it over myself and 2) I want the Kingdom of God to invade my HEART and this PLANET!

*I'm still learning what revival is.

*I don't have any idea what I'm talking about most of the time, because I'm learning SO much SO quickly that I can hardly take it all in, process it, act on it, etc. I think that makes me a baby revivalist. Mentors and friends are SO invited to speak into my life and encourage me and challenge me. I need it. I want it. Oh man, I just want to grow and learn so badly.

*The Kingdom of God is not one of talk, but of power, and I'm so hungry to see the power of God transform lives and cities and nations.

*My church recently started a school of supernatural ministry, using the materials from Bethel's School of Supernatural Ministry (this was a dream come true!). It's only one night a week, which means it takes us about 8 weeks to get through the material they did in one week!

*Deep in my heart, there is still this desire to actually go do a year or two at BSSM, just because the atmosphere is amazing (I have only been to Bethel once). I know there's other incredible revival schools out there, but this is the one I actually know a couple people at, and I've fallen in love with the whole community. I'm so so blessed to have them in my life, even though they don't even know it!

*I so badly wish I could be around tons of other revivalists my age, but in all honesty, there's only a few around here, so I want to meet more. I'm praying for more revivalists in my area. I also want to be part of the move of God at my church and my city. This is where he has me right now, and I want to be aligned with his heart for this area.

*I recently deactivated my Facebook so that I could concentrate on Jesus. Social media of that sort was getting a little too distracting. I originally meant my FB break to be for a month or so, and now I think it might be for longer. I'm loving this.

*I'm in the craziest spiritual growth spurt of my LIFE. It's been going a year and a half.

*I'm looking for a safe place to dream big, so I'm starting this blog by just getting myself in contact with people that are on board with this sort of thing. Eventually I want to take these thoughts/ideas/feelings/nuggets to the world. For now, this is my place to process what is happening in my heart.

*I really don't like living under the fear of man. I want every little piece of it broken off of my life.

*Jesus is kind of a really big deal to me.

*Any questions? Just ask!

The End.

Born for Revival

Revivalist: (n) a believer who is focused and passionate, willing to pay any price to live in purity and power because they are loved by God and love Him - whose manifest presence transforms lives and cultures.

-Student Manual, Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry