…one must be willing for it to be blown.
I have been preparing for these next 8 months for a while now, and the scary thing is, I don’t know if I’m ready. Sure I can say that I prepared well enough, but I don’t think that anyone can fully prepare for what has already happened in just the last week and two days. It’s only been 9 days and I’ve attended two New Life Sunday services, been to theMILL twice, went to _tag, attended The Gathering and took part in Revival Town. I’ve also spent already countless hours in prayer and in worship. It is a setting where you are fully involved in the church and fully involved with God. It is a setting where it is hard to mess up because you are so surrounded with God and with HIs people that you can’t get away. His presence is everywhere we run to. Not that that has changed at all, it has just become more real and more tangible.
This week has been completely mind-blowing. Though it has only been a week God has shown me so many things and changed my heart so much. I can’t imagine what is going to happen with the other 31 weeks we’ve got.
Just a few nights ago we signed “The Vow” as a group. The Vow are 4 principals that we base our life off of and that we strive for always. They are Desperate Pursuit, Diligent Prayer, Consecrated Heart and Focused Life. Pretty self-explainitory but very very powerful and life changing. So we went out to the middle of the woods at like 11 at night. There was no fire. There was no lights. There was no comfort. There was just an open grave and a large board that had The Vow on it where we would sign it. We were supposed to put something into the grave that signified us. Something that represented who we are. The point being, that in order to spread the Gospel and live for Him alone, we have to first die to ourselves so we can fully live for Him. When you are expecting God to move, He will.
I have been praying for the past week since I’ve been here for God to move in mighty ways through DLA, and for people to come to know Him in a more real way than we ever could have imagined. And He has moved. I’ve seen people become broken down, weeping before their Savior. Heck. I’ve been to that point. I’ve seen people with smiles so big that they can’t hide it while they are worshipping the God who has saved them. All of this, I think, comes from anticipation. And a willingness to want to know God more. To want to see His face and to be His child. We need to search for it and yearn for it.
Coming into this year I think that every student here was anticipating God to move. And I think that for our human minds to fully grasp who God is in those moments we have to be ready for it. We have to have open minds willing to see what God has to show us. It is easy to look at the Colorado mountains and just think that, “Sure, they are amazing, but it’s not THAT cool. I mean come’on. They’re just mountains”. Or you can look at them and think, “These mountains were created by God for me and they are amazing. That just blows my mind”. I think that it is all a point of how you are coming in to it. Are you going into that home with a sick daughter expecting her to get healed? Are you praying that your friend finds salvation as you are driving to church with him, or are you still sitting on your hands? Are you…. Sure I believe that God can move without our own anticipation, I mean, He’s God. But I do think that He is almost more capable of moving when there is a built up yearning and anticipation.
So coming into this year I fully expected God to do something amazing. And I’ll tell you, already He has. I don’t know what the next 31 weeks hold, but I will tell you that God is going to do something in the lives of these 39 DLA’s (what us first-years are called) that will blow all of our minds. I don’t know how “doctrinally true” this all is. I just know that it is what I’ve experienced. Not only here, but everywhere that I have had a “moment” with God. It was really based off anticipation.
Did that make sense to anyone…..,
Morgan
