During UCR spring break, which was this past week, I brought a few of my cores at UCR and my sister Alice to Redding for a encounter retreat. We had God's favor and grace all over this trip. He provided everything and got all five of us really wracked by the Holy Spirit. Totally sweet trip! All refreshed, regained strength and received new wine/revelation in our new wineskin. GOD IS GOOD!!
Highlights of the trip:
- On the way there all of us prayed in tongue for an hour straight. Such a breakthrough and we all received visions and words for the trip.
- God provided accommodations for all of us and two free meals!
- Seth helped me to meet w/ Bethel's Jr. High teacher. Received a lot from him for children ministry. (Danny Silk is his father in law! O___O)
- I received really cool revelation from Jesus in the Alabaster Prayer House in just 10 minutes! (See below for details)
- Got to attend School of Supernatural 1st year class and it was Bill Johnson who taught. (He's usually not at Bethel during weekdays but we got God's favor to have the privelige to hear him preach) So blessed and challenged!
- Went to Turtle Bay's Sundial Bridge and we tried/practiced to walk on water for an hour or so. (Videos will be uploaded later)
- Seth got us in Deborah Reed's children ministry small group weekly meeting. We all got wracked by the Holy Spirit. Drunk, holy laughter, balled, electrified, healed...etc for an hour. People were seeing angels. What a night!!
- On the way back got to visit San Francisco JHOP. So encouraged by testimonies and got to see how hidden the place was. Crazy soldiers for Jesus.
Revelation at Prayer House
I entered the prayer house and sat down by the fountain. Closed my eyes and gazed upon Jesus. I asked, "God, reveal Yourself to me. What do You want to tell me today?" The verse "1 Corinthians 2" came to my mind right away. I flipped there and it's the passage that talks about wisdom from the Spirit. When I read to verse 5 I started to be filled by the Holy Spirit, my hands started to tremble as it reads "... so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power." As I read on, I felt the Holy Spirit started to speak, through these Words, to my spirit and suddenly I started to get downloads of divine revelations from Him. As I read verse 14, "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned", the word "accept" jumped out to me. When we do not accept/allow/let/open the door for the Holy Spirit to come and fill us, we are doing the same to block heavenly wisdom from being revealed to us.
There is a reason why it is hard for people who are not Spirit-filled to walk in powerful Christian lifestyles that are based on the two heavenly principals: 1)"Nothing is impossible with God" (Luke 1:37 ) and 2)"When perfection comes, the imperfect disappears" (1 Cor. 13:10). Why are we, as the redeemed ones saved by His grace, still living the lifestyle filled with the impossible and imperfect when it should have been the other way around? The answer is simple. When a person, even saved, keep the mentality and confidence of "i'm possible" and "i'm perfect", we will always be bound in the "impossible" and "imperfect" of our self-righteousness and self-pride. However, to live a victorious lifestyle through God's possibilities and perfection, we must get ride of the "i'm" and replace that with the Great "I AM". Through Him, we'll be able to have the lifestyle of "I AM possible" and "I AM perfect". There is no impossible or imperfect in His dictionary. There is only "I'M possible" and "I'M perfect".
Thank You Jesus for giving me such a great revelation in just 10 minutes. I'm expecting for more. <3
-sala<3