!!!!Grande and Teddy at Koinonia Cafe!!!!

Spirit Sensitive

Stepping into my identity.

I am stretched. This season of stretching is over (not implying that there won't be another season of stretching at a later date) and I am beginning to fill up with new wine. I am experiencing who I am and what God has called me to be.

Tonight, Bishop Sanger came and spoke at our church and everything he was saying was pouring into my new wine skin. I felt like every word he was saying was being spoken directly to me!

I'll go into detail about all that later...

The greatest thing happened tonight. After our service at church me, Grande, Rob, J, K Pow, and C Mal went out to eat. Then, Grande and I rode home with Rob. On the way home, we discussed what we experienced tonight and how God was moving in our lives. Grande and I began talking about our experience last night during the Midnight Worship on Forest and Cass. While we were speaking, the Spirit suddenly called us to begin praying at that very same corner! So we parked the car and walked over to the corner to begin praying.

I felt that God was calling me to do two specific things. One of them was to draw a line across the ground and declare that that was the finish line for all principalities, secular philosophies, demonic spirits, curses, etc. I began declaring that this is the Lord's land and that I don't need to fight to break principalities because they are already broken! The second thing that I felt led to do was to pray specifically for Wayne State's campus. So, I had to separate myself from the guys and walk over to the campus map. I placed my palm over the map and began declaring the gospel and preaching the gospel to the campus map. Then I began praying for the buildings that were listed on the side of the map (Old Main, Hillberry Theatre, and the Welcome Center) and preaching the gospel to thsoe buildings.

These things may sound foolish, but there is power in them. Although it was not a huge dramatic scene of the heavens physically opening up with lightning shooting down into my body and out of my hand, it was still very powerful and very real. In the physical it may not have been seen. But I know that heavenly "lightning" did shoot down into my body and out of my hands into the campus of Wayne State and into the ground that I drew a line in. I have faith in the existence of something I can't see with my physical eyes. Just because I didn't "see" it happen, does not mean it didn't. There was power there. It was very real and very tangible. I felt the presence of God move through me and out of me as I began releasing heaven over the City of Detroit.

It was incredible being led by the Spirit to pray on that same corner again. Pastor Pete has been talking about how God has called him (and MDCC) to be sensitive to the Spirit and follow the Spirit's schedule for movement, not ours! This flows to every member of our body. There is a calling for our body to be the generation that feeds of the Kingdom and follows the Kingdom order, government, and schedule. I feel that calling in my life. No where was it in my schedule to stop and pray at the corner of Forest and Cass tonight. However, being sensitive to the Spirit, I felt the calling to do so. Although it wasn't in my schedule, I honestly could've went all night. I probably would have, had I not been interupted by nature's call. The night ended with my final prayer over the Wayne State Campus, followed by goodnight to Grande and Rob and a sprint to my apartment to use the restroom (obvious evidence that praying was not on my schedule... but on God's).

All jokes aside, there is power in what happened tonight. We (Grande, Rob, me) stepped into faith tonight.

Faith is the existence of your desire and what your anticipating.
-John Sanger

Grande and I have been “desiring and anticipating” a powerful prophetic and supernatural movement of God through Detroit. Tonight, we stepped into that dimension and our faith is the evidence, essence, and manifestation of God's presence in Detroit.

That is POWERFUL.

I am Changing

Wow...

The only word that comes to mind when I sum up the events of this week. Just when I thought that things were beginning to settle everything explodes into a revival of truth, life, and power!

Since this week was nothing but exams, rest was a big portion of my weeks agenda. God, on the other hand, had other plans for me. Tuesday was abig day for me as far as exams go. I had two exams to take that day and another to take on Wednesday. So, being proactive in the success of my education, I try to get to bed on early on Monday. As I stated earlier, God had other plans...

I couldn't sleep that night. I was wrestling with myself over issues that are still oblivious to me. It was beyon the comprehnsion of my physical mind. Something else was happening. Something great. Something that only my spirit could understnd and deal with. God is changing me. That entire 15 hours of uneasiness and lack of sleep were all due to my spirit wrestling with God. I was wrestling with God! A part of me died that night. I know this because I felt as if I was in mourning for the last 5 hours of that sleepless night. I had an unbearable feeling of sadness come over me. I felt dead. And a part of me was. Because something in me died, something else in me also came to life.

Through the next couple of days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) I've felt like I was contantly being stretched. It was like God was stretching me like a rubber band-stretching me and letting me return to my ormal size and stretching me again until the size that He was stretching me to became my normal size. Its a weird paradox of feeling as close to God as I've ever been yet as far from Him as I've ever been all in the same exact moment! In my confusion, God finally gave me some clartity.

"I'm stretching you so that you can gain the capacity to contain all the riches I have destined for you."

Wow! What a freeing thought it is to know that all the hurt  (yes it can sometimes hurt to be stretched... imagine what a rubber band woul feel like if it had a nervous system and a brain that could interprate pain) was for the greater purpose of God taking me to the neext level! I am going from glory to glory! I am stretched and still stretching because God has so much that He wants to give me!

I receive it.

Tonight, I experience God in a way that I've never experienced Him before. Publicly worshipping, in front of people, at midnight, and in 40 degree weather. I sang as loud as I could and I said words and prayers as the Spirit spoke them to me. To worship as freely as I did tonight was amazing. To follow the will of the Lord and release His kingdom, His Power, and His authority through my worship to the city of Detroit is a revelation of just how powerful and complete I am. I just remember singing  "No one else, But Jesus, Just Jesus." for at least 10 minutes. Ad it is true! There is no one else. No one higher, sronger, more powerful, more gracious, more loving, faster, bigger, greater, better than Christ. NO ONE. He is it! He is the answer forthe poverty of Detroit, for the corruption of our government, for the principalities and philosophical teachings at Wayne State. He is the answer for all of that. His hand is not too small and this problem is not so great when you complare it to the awesomeness that is God!

God is moving. He is moving in a very real and very tangble way. There is going to be a movement of prohetic power and supernatural occurences. He is here. He is planting His seed. And the roots of His tree, Kingdom roots, are going to shatter the foundations of corruption and philosophy that the world has built. This tree, the Cross, is growing... rapidly and powerfully.

There is freedom in worship. There is power in worship. There is change in worship.

I am here. Standing in my greatness, given to me by the Lord of the Universe.

I bathe in the Spirit of Oneness.

I am whole.