Prayer for Healing

I just received news that a lady named Sherry who worked as a cook at the camp I go to every summer, has been rushed to the hospital and is now in ICU due to hardness of breathing. She is living by an hour to hour rate meaning the doctors have no idea when she could pull through. But dare I say it I serve a God bigger then bad news and the evidence at hand.

In Jesus name I pray for Sherry, Lord release your healing power over her whole body right now in the name of Jesus, that her Body would be restored now to full working order and she would be replaced from the hospital without any signs of this attach on her body. God I pray that she would leave in total health. In Jesus name, thank you God.

-Andrew-

Walks

Andrew Bergen, along with many others throughout the world, find that a nice walk by himself helps to collect thoughts and talk to God. Whether it is 2 in the morning, or in the middle of the day, Andrew finds it fun to walk and pray. It can seem a bit strange that an extravert would gain ground (so to speak) from walking alone, on the contrary however Andrew uses the time walking to speak with God about what has been on his mind as well as getting through lives obstacles.

Over the many years that Andrew has gone for walks with God, it has helped shape him as God has taught him a lot in these times. Andrew grew up with good mentors who passed on a lot of information that helped him in these one on one times. Over the years Andrew heard a lot about men of God who would spend a portion of their day getting away from everyone else and all the business of life, to go and spend one on one time with God to grow closer to him. Andrew took this wisdom to heart and has used the walks to talk with God and get to know him better.

Free People

I have had talks with other men about man’s struggles with the sin of Adultery for many years now, ever since I was a teenager to be exact. Something that I found in all the discussions I have had is that more often than not, men don’t have a lot of hope with victory over this problem. I remember being with my youth group during a cell group night (which is a night where the youth break up into small groups and pray for each other, talk about life, and have fun together) and we talked for over an hour strait listening to married men with children talk about the problems of Lust in their lives and the lives of young men and older men, and not once was there ever any hope of a solution. In fact he ended his talk by asking us, the younger men; so what do you do? One guy piped up and said we should all become monks and live away from woman, but to be honest, woman are not the problem. In fact women have the same problem as men do, in other ways of course but none the less it’s the same stream that we are both drinking from. I want to see and hear people who God has given grace and understanding too, to being to disciple other man and woman into adultery free lives in Christ. Believe me there is so much more I want to say about this right now, but this will have to do for today.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Revival is Coming, Revival is Here Thankyou Jesus

Remember a few blog posts ago I was talking about the Azusa Street revival back in the early 1900’s. One of the items on discussion was the 100 year prophecy that William Seymour spoke of. He talked about that in roughly 100 years there would be another revival even greater than theirs, and so on. Well in the past few year we have seen great moves of God happening in America and Canada, but a recent event developed on the 11^th of November where the Holy Spirit flooded a class of 166 students at International House of Prayer University. Since then they have started up meetings that are held for 5 days a week where people are emotionally healed, spiritually restored with love, and physical healings are happening. I spent the majority of Saturday night watching it over a live feed they provide on their website. The next meetings are happening this Wednesday 6:00 Central. Check it out, it is completely amazing what Jesus is doing in our years, and this is only the beginning.

www.ihop.org

God Bless

-Andrew-

God Experiance

In late august of 2008, a young man by the name of Andrew was led to a Christian camp, where an encounter with God awaited him. Andrew was trying to be accepted into a bible college for further a career in media as he felt led to, however throughout the summer of 2008, Andrew only had a job making a little over $10 an hour painting houses through a student painting company called Student Works Painting. The company was based on piece work, so Andrew would only get paid for every house completed under budget. Towards the end of the summer, Andrew’s boss suddenly disappeared from contact. Both Andrew and his co-worker tried to contact their boss many times throughout the period of a week; however he never responded for days until a text message was received by Andrew from his boss who explained that he had a family emergency in Calgary and had to take off suddenly.

With incredibly perfect timing, Christian Enrichment Family Camp called Andrew and asked him if he would like to be a youth councilor at the camps youth week, he agreed and quit his job, packed his bags and headed off to camp.

That week at camp, Andrew was challenged with many things in his life regarding leadership and Gods work in his life. These were things that Andrew would talk to his friends about, asking and inquiring about what a touch from God is like. But it was on a Wednesday afternoon where both Jeremy Wall who was a councilor along with Andrew were frustrated with the campers and the stress that it was putting them under. That evening all the youth were brought to the meeting place at the camp and a woman named Tasha went to the front and shared her life story and her testimony of salvation. The testimony she shared was relevant to the youth that were there as it had to do with the downtown life of crime and sin. Due to the content of the message, little children were not allowed in the service as the content as too mature for their ears.

This evening was the beginning of the events that changed people’s lives that week at camp. The next evening on Thursday a young teenage girl who was at the camp for a few weeks that summer, shared her testimony as well as shared the gospel with her fellow youth. She shared about how God had shown her three people that were going to receive salvation that evening, but she didn’t say who. After she shared three people came to the front and Andrew went up to pray with those who wanted to receive Christ. As Andrew was praying for one of the youth, he began to laugh harder and harder, to the point when he could no longer stand up, so he fell to the ground laughing for 5 minutes until he stopped. Following his laughter he looked around the room to find his friends, and when he spotted his friend Zach who was also a leader that week, he rolled on the floor towards him. When he arrived at his friend’s feet, Andrew asked Zach to pray for him, however during this time there were several people around the room crying, singing and laughing all at different times in different places in the room. The events of that evening continued until after midnight where many people received something from God and testified to one another the next day.

Angelic Recordings

Lately I have been listening to a song by Jason Upton who is a well known worship leader and song writer from the states, the song I have been listening to is called Fly. The first time I have heard this song was back in 2006 at summer camp when the guest speaker showed it to us because it contained something that not every song recorded contained. What made Fly so special is that it has the first ever recordings of an angel from heaven singing along in the song. In the album cover, Jason talks about the story for those who were curious saying that there was a 12 food angel standing directly behind him when he was singing the song. He himself did not see the angel however, but a young boy in the service who told him after. What made it so powerful was when the man who was with him that evening leading worship told his story, Jason was the only one on stage singing throughout the whole song, but when you listen to it, there are two and three part harmonies throughout the song. When you listen to it you will hear an echo sounding lower voice and some harmonising higher voices at the quieter parts. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo6Nu5W256M

-this link is the testimony by the other worship leader that was working with Jason Upton the night of the recording.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6jRPpHzwCE&feature=related

-this is a shortened 8 min version of the song. The full song is a whopping 12 min long.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Do NOT Worry

In all aspects I have every reason to panic and freak out right now, but I choose not to. The reason I choose not to be is because I look in scripture and see that Jesus never panicked as well as told his disciples and all people not to worry. So the question stands, why are we not supposed to panic? Well to be honest I’m still learning why, but from what I have learned so far, it is that we are built, designed, made to live for Christ, so when we do something that is not in him, then we are not doing something that is of his character. God did not create doubt, fear, anxiety and worry, so being any of those things is really saying we don’t fully trust him.

Something to think about

God Bless

-Andrew-

More Need for More of the King

Last few days I have been longing for God to come down on me and the school that I am at right now. Jesus has been speaking to me to get close to him but it seems I have a hard time to do the simplest of things when God calls me. It’s easy to talk about him and testify, but it’s hard to just... well... do. I want to but when I try it gets hard, however I feel I need to push past and just pressure it with no presumptions and just go for it in worship and see what Jesus has for me and for my school.

That’s what’s been going down.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Smelling Like the King

I really want to take what’s going to happen at Prov seriously. It’s not to say that I don’t take it seriously, it’s just that I haven’t been as passionate as I could be, only sowing into it at convenient times. I am seeing God work among the guys in my dorm, but I feel that I could be doing more. A thought came to me the other day, and by came to me I mean God gave it to me. A few years ago back when I was in high school I used to have sleepovers at my friends house very often. One thing in noticed is that his house has a distinct smell like all houses do, except that his house had a smell (not a negative odder) much stronger than my house did.

The point of all this is that when I would go home from sleepovers, I found that my pillow and cloths smelt like his house did, very strongly. This is what the Lord was showing me: that I would spend so much of my time with him in his presence that when I would be around other people in public or privet that His smell (metaphorically and naturally) would be one me, like a sign and a wonder that says I have been with the king/

God Bless

-Andrew-

Its Happening

I am not going to lie; it feels good when God works through you. Lately around school, God has been telling me and a few friends to start doing what his word says and start praying for people, whether it is for healing or to speak God into a situation, anything really. Today was the day that we started to do what his word says with really no idea what would happen. To be honest I was hoping that we would see a miracle, but who knows what God had in mind, we just prayed as a group (the four of us) and waited to see what God showed us. Then we went out and prayed for the people or placed God told us about, we had the chance to pray for 5 or so people and speak into their lives. It was an awesome experience and I can’t wait to do it again.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Worship

What hasn’t happened this past weekend? Well, lots, but this was definitely a significant weekend as our church has been experiencing more and more of the presence of God in the past few months. This last Sunday we experienced a bit of the Love of Christ which sounds typical but it seems that a lot of people don’t even know that God loves them and wants to be close to them. None the less there was so much Love from Christ in the sanctuary that I broke down crying because of the beauty of it all, it made me want to worship God forever and do nothing else. I always had problems with worship mainly because it’s more than just music, but often gets classified as music, i.e. if you sing along with the songs you are worshiping. What I found was myself getting frustrated with worship services rather than enjoying them, so I began to ask God how to worship, and instead of telling me he opened a door so that I could. Now I can say with utmost certainty that I love to worship

God Bless

-Andrew-

We Are the Voice in the Desert

I’ve been learning so much about God and who he is and what he does lately. It’s probably the most interesting thing to learn about it, but what about doing it? Lately I decided that I was going to take the word seriously and start to pray for the injured or the sick, and God liked it. Lately I have noticed that on these blogs I have been skimpy on the life giving food that we need, and have talked about stories or… sham-wow. Knowing that God gave me a good sense of humour, I think that I need to start declaring the things that God likes again. The enemy doesn’t care if we read the word, more so he does not want us to be doers of the word. So when you start to notice that everything around you that is worldly is suddenly working against you rather then tolerating you, it’s safe to say that you’re doing something they don’t want you to be doing.

Think about it.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Good Times with Good Friends

This past weekend was very much a refreshing weekend as I was able to go visit my friends from camp. Now I am no stranger to having friends of all ages, some are much younger than me, and others are much older. These friends were a couple of 31 and 32 years of age who have 3 kids and live in a small town in Manitoba, but they are such good people it’s amazing. I met them 2 years ago at a family camp I have been going to for my whole life. There they received salvation from Jesus and their entire lives were transformed and changed as well as their families. I cannot tell you how amazing it is to see God completely transform a family and totally change who they are its truly amazing to see true salvation.

God Bless

-Andrew-

A Reminder

The other day I was flipping through my bible book, or testimonial book, I’m not quite sure what I call it as I haven’t given it a name before; we will just call it my note book. Anyways I was flipping through my notebook when I read a prophetic word that God gave through a couple I met for Providence, specifically for the people and what God is going to do this year. After reading it I felt refocused in the vision and desire God has for the people that have come to this school; and believe me it’s going to be awesome.

I pray you all get super blessed by the One who loved us first.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Dear Jesus

God I want to be fully healed, all of me, God heal the whole man. God I desire to be a man after your heart, to become a man the way you intended. God bring your presents to this school, God bring your Holy Spirit and draw us closer into relationship with you that we may see you and all that you have for us and for this school. In turn that we leave this school equipped to walk with you into the fullness of what you are bringing us to do. God bring joy to everyone, and I mean everyone here, fill us with your love and rest, God bring your revival and your power. Talk to you soon.

-Andrew-

All I Can Say is Sham-WOW

This entry will be a little different then my normal entries about pursuing God and revival. This entry will be about the controversial and addictive topic of Sham Wow’s. This new invention, which is likely the work of devil worshiping voodoo witches, is essentially a towel that once provoked by conditioning, can absorb copious amounts of liquid even when wet. Brilliant, but somehow maniacal as this object seems to be controlled by the untrusting sales tactics of the wizard named Vince who by the quickness of hand and the cunning of words, convinces thousands of people to throw their hard earned money at a towel that could, in turn, potentially absorb peoples house, boat, car, kids or even their own souls. One should be careful before they go and through away their money all willy-nilly at the newest hot product.

For those of you who read these posts religiously, this is not the way things are going to be from now on its just that I have noticed all of these posts have been very serious, and decided to though some absurd and farfetched humour into the mix.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Our Church

Where do I start? Our church has seen a huge shift in life. What I mean by that is only a couple of months ago, we were a very lifeless church in the sense that the spirit of God was rare to find on a Sunday morning, but religious atmosphere was evident. Now its as if someone turned the lights on and we are free to worship God and move in obedience to the word. Since this change that happened in august, we have been moving into areas of Gods will to heal the sick and the broken. It’s a learning process, but so amazing to see the people that have stuck with us for this change that God has brought to our body of believers.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Somethings Happening

Did anyone else notice and take advantage of the beautiful weather this past weekend. I sure did and it gave me opportunity to go for a nice long walk with Jesus. It’s been a long time since I have been able to go for walks with God. This time was different then all the other times I have gone on walks. Jesus showed me His love for me in an undeniable way and how He doesn’t make people He doesn’t love. The reason I speak about Gods love and intimacy with Him all of the time is not because I fully understand it, but because I want it so badly, and God hears our cry’s. If I could say anything to you about this it is this; don’t stop asking, and pressing in. He hears you and He’s there.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Things I Want

I have a list. I believe everyone has one in their heads, a list that they keep of things they wish to accomplish and goals they wish to reach. As life continues I found that my list is always changing, either things are getting added to it, or taken away from it, however lately I found things are only being added to it rather then taken off of it.

When I was younger my list consisted of things such as what I wanted to be when I grew up, who I wanted to get married to, what kind of car I wanted, the house, car and boat etc. Now that list looks much different, because I changed, or rather God changed me. When He changes your heart to from the desires of the flesh to the things of his kingdom, you don’t lack anything; the scriptures mean what they say. Jesus takes away the things of the sinful nature and replaces them with Him and things of His kingdom, however sometimes the problem becomes when we don’t take in the things of His kingdom but stay empty… well I’ll let you read Luke 11:24

[24] "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' [25] When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. [26] Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."

All this to say that we need to know Him, and be known by Him, we need intimacy with Christ not out of obligation for good things to happen to us, but out of a desire to know the God we talk about all the time. This is what I want.

MY LIST:

1. To grow in greater intimacy with Christ so that I can speak with Him face to face, and just hear Him speak for hours and hours.

2. To be effective in the kingdom, obeying His commands such as healing the sick, casting out demons, and speaking life.

3. To speak life all the time, and to walk in the glory of the Lord, not just one the outside, but on the inside

4. That where ever I go the environment changes to an open heaven

5. To love ALL people unconditionally

6. To get married and support a household

7. To not miss the plans and purposes that Christ has for my life.

8. To walk on water, and walk through walls, to get transported, and to visit heaven.

As you can see, some of the things haven’t changed, but others are being built onto this list even from recent times in my life. All in all I want to know Christ and to see His kingdom come and His will be done, however it looks

God Bless

-Andrew-

Thinking Things Through

I find that I am living in an environment that doesn’t seem to promote the life of Christ. It supports it and allows it, but it does not promote it. As brothers and sisters in Christ, we cannot hold to excuses why this is the way it is, we need to just simply stay close to Him and help others who are in need of help. It’s something that I have been working on and continually need to work on, but God is calling His people to be close to Him and to know Him. I talked to a friend of mine about this and he didn’t turn me down, but he had a hard time hearing it, so I think. Perhaps he did hear me its just hard for him to understand what I’m trying to understand.

God I pray that I understand what you are doing here, and what you want to do here, that I hear you clearly and that you would change this environment to an open heaven environment, whatever the cost.

-Andrew-

The Biblical Standard

I have spent my whole life in the church, and only now understanding what a relationship with God really looks like. I have said it before and I’ll say it again because it is so important, we cannot expect to grow up in the church and assume we know God. Yes it can be beneficial to grow up in an environment of God, but we need to take it seriously, our relationship with God.

One thing I have noticed is that when human beings do not understand something, they will do one of two things. They will either go after it until they find the answer, or they will make up an answer that fits with their realm of thinking. These are not scientific facts just observations, but I believe they hold some truth. When you realise that you think know everything, is when you need to get back into the word.

I was tired of getting temporary sufficient answers to questions about God and his nature that I had. I didn’t want the person to answer the question; I wanted to know the truth, but evidently we are taught in Sunday school how to answer questions but not a relationship with Jesus (for the most part).

At a summer camp I hear the speaker say this line,

“We need to raise our experience to the level of the word of God, rather than bring the word of God down to the level of our experience.”

Our lives need to be a biblical standard, not a standard that revolves around what goes on around us, whether its teaching that limits God, or the world falling apart around us. We need to hold true to what the bible says and believe it in faith, as well as keeping close to God and intimate with Him. In fact that’s probably the most important thing is to stay close to God.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Intimacy

For the past several days I have needed to do some God searching. Nearly at the end of my rope with a demonic issue, I was fed up of ending up in the same place in sin. I had tried everything, and I mean everything to get out of where I was. The weird thing about going in circles trying to find a secure solution to where I was to please God, but the funny thing is when you’re going in circles you will find that you are circling the very thing you’re looking for.

The answer that I was trying to find was God himself

“Come to me” He said,

“Just spend time with me”.

God is the answer, we hear that all the time but few find it true for themselves because of all kinds of excuses and false cliché’s.

We often see God as a problem solver, and the one stop shop for getting rid of the trouble we are in. We look at Him as a problem solver rather than a life giver; yes God does deal with problems in our lives, but when we don’t allow His life to fill the gaps of the things delt with, we will end up taking those problems back on ourselves.

God desires intimacy with everyone, not just a church hello.

Pray and think about it.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Food

Unlike most posts on this blog, I should remind the readers that this technically is a blog for school, where I write daily about whatever I wish to speak about. Unlike normally I will not be speaking about revival, and the love of God, this time I will be speaking about an assignment I was given in class which involves speaking about the events of a situation, as well as my interactions with such events over the period of 45 minutes. These are the events of that period as well as my interactions.

First I decided that because of my lack of breakfast earlier this morning, I would try to ingest some nurturance for nourishment. Wondering what kind of place on campus would offer such satisfaction, I turned my attention to the most logical choice, the cafeteria. In the cafeteria I found few people to be present, there was the staff who was serving the food, but even they were in scarce numbers. Being a man and working on my college degree I found the intelligence to put together a bagel, some tater tots with bacon, and a bowl of fruit. I completed my meal with spreadable cream cheese that complemented my bagel, as well as a glass of water to help it all go down smooth. As I brought my tray of edible goodness to the cutlery bar, I decided to grab some ketchup for my tots however after I received my ketchup I decided that I was going to be different and use chopsticks that were made available to me at the cutlery bar to use for eating my delicious breakfast. I brought my tray to a table which was made for seating 8 people, 5 of these people were present and occupying chairs, I sat down in their company, thanked Jesus for the food that had been provided for me, and dug in.

I started with the tater tots because it seems that deep fried food draws attention, even at 9:30 in the morning. Using my skill of hand at chopsticks, I successfully grabbed the tot, and dipped it into the ketchup I had on my tray. I continued to eat the tots on my plate while occasionally grabbing a piece of bacon and, with some difficulty, using chopsticks to eat it. After fighting with bacon for a shot while, I turned my attention over to the much healthier side of my meal, the bowl of fruit. In this bowl was an assortment of two kinds of fruit, there was the delicious watermelon, and the juicy fresh cut strawberries. Being a fan of both these fruits I decided to take a stab at my favourite of the two, the strawberries. It was a taste sensation which could have been enhanced if I didn’t have the mixed taste of bacon and tater tots in my mouth already. None the less they tasted amazing, and the meal satisfied for the breaking of the nightly fast. All in all it was a good meal. I took my tray to the kitchen, cleaned it up, and left the cafeteria, a slightly heavier man (due to the weight of the food).

Distractions

After talking to a friend about distractions I decided to write about distractions, (funny how that works). Ever since God got a hold of me, I’ve been taken gladly though a process of cleaning out what is not God out of my life. On the surface levels that include, specific music, movies, video games etc. a lot of people, myself included, have a hard time hearing God these days and a lot do not know why. Part of the reason is that most are not sure what his voice sounds like, and do not have a history and practice of listening to Him. It says in His word, “my sheep hear my voice”, plain and simply if we are His we will hear him. It is hard to hear Him however, when our ears are being plugged with the world, and our eyes stolen away by pleasing eye candy. I would encourage you to pray that God would open your ears to hear Him and your eyes to see Him that all distractions that take you away from Him would fade away.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Then and Now

For about two years now I have been hearing more and more about the power of God; more specifically I have been hearing about the power of God moving today. Last year in April of 2008, there was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Lakeland Florida. Many people were miraculously healed, delivered, and saved. There were stories of people who had glass eyes that, after being touched by God, could see out of the glass eye. Others had similar stories, except the glass eye was turned into a real new eye. Many people lost weight instantly; a lot were filled with the Holy Spirit, as well as a boldness to go out on the street and share the true gospel of Jesus Christ. On the streets people would be healed miraculously and saved, just like in the book of Acts, it was coined, “the Lakeland Outpouring.”

You might be wondering why this entry is called ‘Then and Now’. Way back in the early 1900’s, 1906 to be exact; a revival happened in the United States of America called the Azusa Street Revival. The video explains a lot of what happened there, anything from arms growing out in only a few seconds, to the Shekinah Glory of God manifesting in the meetings in the form of smoke and fire. In essence this was like the bible brought to our time. The reason I am telling you this is because of the prophecy that William H. Seymour gave coined, “the 100 year prophecy”. Judging from the title, it was a prophecy about a coming revival in about 100 years that was going to be even greater than the Azusa Street revival. Here’s the kicker, the revival went from 1906 to about 1910, the 100 year prophecy was given in 1909… just saying.

So what does this have to do with the Lakeland Outpouring? Well it is pretty much 100 years if not exactly and all around the world churches are crying out to God for Him to come and pour out His Spirit on the earth, so far many churches are being awakened and have started to take the Word of God seriously by doing what He says and getting close and intimate with God. If you are unsure just look up Bethel Church in Redding Ca. or Morning Star Ministries with Rick Joyner, or even the Lakeland Outpouring.

Now is the time to get close to God, to know Him and know his ways, so that when manifestations of God are common, you know how to discern between God and the enemy. He desires a relationship with you, going to church is not a relationship. If your walk with god is based on religious points you have been earning by going to church functions and doing good for your salvation, I would remind you that salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. Works are evidence of our love for Him and His love in us; they are not a means to get to heaven. Jesus loves us so much, if you are saved but have stayed away and no longer follow God and do what His word says, repent and do as you once did as it says in 1 John.

He Loves You

God Bless

-Andrew-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hI1oOf_8R8

Walking With God

I find it comforting that I will always be learning. Well it all depends on if I’m hungry for it or not. I can’t tell you how many times I have been walking up and down a highway asking God for change and deliverance, asking God to move in my life in an intense extreme way. There had been times when I would see these things happen, in the sense that I would see God move more frequently than other times, but then there are the other times where I wonder where God is.

I often listen to teachings from great men of faith who operate in closeness and truth with God. People like, Bill Johnson, Joshua Mills, Paul Washer and so on. Something that I have been wondering for a long time is whether or not it is healthy, spiritually, to listen to speakers of truth in excess. I have been thinking about this and praying about this, and as I have been writing this blog entry, God showed me something about it. He showed me that if I fill myself up with the teaching of truth, what comes out of me will be that teaching. But if I spend time with God and get to know Him more and more, and be filled with Him, then He will flow out of me, and the teaching of truth will help to further understand Him. I hope that makes sense. In a way it could be said like this; “it’s not enough to hear the word, but we need to do what it says.”

As I have been learning more and more about God and who He is, as well as His ways, I’m seeing how it is becoming more and easier to obey Him. For example; this past Sunday I was confronted with an opportunity to pray for a lady in our church who was overcome with pain and weariness. As it was given to me and seemingly no one else around me to pray for her, I then had the opportunity to both pray for her and watch what God would do, or stay comfortable and spend time thinking of what would have happened if I had prayed for her. Now, not to sound proud or conceited, but I believe that because I said yes to God and decided to pray for her, that this is an open door for God to work though me and flow through me more and more; we are vessels of His mercy after all.

This is all still a learning process, but it is an exciting one. We as believers in the One True God need to realize that just because the way is narrow, does not mean it’s boring, but rather extremely brilliant with color and excitement beyond anything we can imagine. Think about it, pray about it.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Worship

If you would ask me about worship, I wouldn’t know where to begin; mainly because I don’t know that much about worship. The biggest influence I have had in regards to worship is singing in church, apart from that I don’t know much else.

However, over the recent years I have learned a lot about worship being more than just singing songs or dancing, but obedience. Now I am not saying that you can’t worship God by singing or dancing, but worship is much more than that. (keep in mind I’m still learning this) but I think that worship is being obedient to God, Glorifying Him with who we are, out of our utmost being as it says in scripture. Lately I have been seeking into worshiping God more and more, and I can’t wait to tell you what I learn about worship and God.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Testemonies from Home

I figure now is a better time than ever to testify to the goodness of God. Our church has been going through a pruning process so to speak, as God has been cutting off old teachings and cutting off oppressions and so on. This Sunday was a treat for our church as we began to pray for healing and being to move in faith into what God has called us as a body of believers to do. In one particular instance God gave me courage to pray for an old lady who is so weighed down by sickness that she has little to no strength left in her. God put it on my heart to pray for strength and healing for her whole being. I do not know what has happened to her since, but I trust that she is doing much better then she was, and God is moving powerfully in her life. I can’t wait to see more of these kinds of things happening more frequently in our church

God Bless

-Andrew-

Where Things Are At

I’ve been having a need to start to speak life all the time. I’ve been learning about how when we speak life into people, and situations rather then death. Its funny how when you speak life, life comes, but when you speak death, you guessed it death comes. As well I find that I need to spend a lot of time with my family, mainly because they are the ones that I can bounce all of what I’ve been thinking and praying about. And I love them. Other then that I need to keep praying and seeking God, pray for me please.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Learning, Testing, and Hearing

Lately i have been learning alot about Lately I have been learning about pressing into God at all times. I have been living in such a way for so long that I will only press into God when I am in need, but I feel the need to press into Him, even in the good times, the times when I’m not struggling with temptation or anything like that. I had an interesting thing happen to me when I was on a walk today. I was walking alone in the country praying, when I passed by a house surrounded by field and there were two dogs without leashes, they began to bark and chase me, however they didn’t come too close. On my way back God told me that they would both come uncomfortably close, and sure enough they did. The cool part was that God told me it would happen so that I would trust his word rather then react in fear, unfortunately I didn’t have the courage I thought I would but it is something I need to learn. I had some breakthrough today in pressing in and I can’t wait to see what else is coming up with Jesus and I.

Speaking Life

God was telling me the other day that he wants me to speak life rather than death. I noticed I was doing it only after he told me that I was supposed to. It is a place he is taking me and something good he is teaching me. I am excited for it as I have never thought of it before, but as I read the word and talk to God, he shows me how important it is to speak life so that evil and death does not come around and trap us. When we speak death we invite the enemy to rule and cause destruction, but when we speak life and the goodness of God we bring heaven’s atmosphere around us and it draws the presence of God. I am still learning about this, but I will leave you with that

God Bless

-Andrew-

Healing Miracles and God's Love

Well I can honestly say that good intentions do not get any work done. Seeing as how I have neglected to write for three days in a row, I figured it would be fitting to write a bit of a longer message today so we can catch up on what’s been going on, but more importantly, because I have some awesome stories to tell.

This past weekend I had the privilege of embarking on an adventure to go to our schools freshman retreat. There were many saints who had been praying for God to move and change lives at the retreat, and did He ever. I had been praying that God would speak through me to the hearts of everyone there, and after some people talked to me, I found out that there were times when, as one guy put it, “it was like you stepped back and it wasn’t you speaking anymore, and that’s a good thing”. When I hear that I know God spoke through me, and that means someone received something.

On Saturday night, we opened up chapel for ministry for those who wanted prayer for anything, even healing. A young man came up for prayer for his knee, as he had injured it playing sports. He could not put much weight on it, let along walk properly. A bunch of us laid hands on his knee and prayed for God to heal it. After the first time praying he was able to take his bandage off and move it around a little more than he could before, the swelling had gone down considerably. A few of us got a word from God that there was total healing for his knee that was going to happen. So we kept praying and praying, after 15 minutes he could walk around the room and had gained a larger range of motion. His leg did not get totally 100% healed that evening, but what would have taken one to two weeks happened in 1 to 2 minutes. That’s the God we serve.

The next day he asked for prayer again because he wanted his knee totally healed. So we prayed, and others who were curious of Gods healing power joined in and prayed with us. We spent a good 45 minutes praying and no physical changes happened, but it was after when we were thanking God for what He had already done in the young man’s leg, all of a sudden he could instantly extend and contract his leg more significantly then he could a moment ago. Praise God for that!

Although his leg is still not totally healed, I would venture to guess it is at least 70% if not more healed then before. God is good and I can’t wait to see more of His healing work among the students at Providence and all over.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Knowing God

Today I listened to a speaker by the name of Bill Johnson; he pastors a church in Redding Ca. which is currently and for the past while been deeply involved with God. Now I know that sounds weird saying that this church is deeply involved with God, but surprisingly there are a lot of church’s that are not. There is a verse in Revelation 3:20 which say;

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.”

Bill Johnson’s church called Bethel, has been pursuing God for the past years, and only recently within 6 years or so have they seen the power of God in their own lives and in their church, their message is truth and love. It’s what the bible has been telling us for years, yet a lot of church’s would rather follow the traditions of man rather than see the goodness of God and have a deep personal relationship with Him.
I grew up in a Christian home, went to church from birth, went to Sunday school forever, went to a Christian school from kindergarten to my graduating year, I went to youth group for as long as I could, I became a youth leader in that youth group and lead youth for two years, I am now attending a Christian college, and I know that I know that it is possible to:

-grow up in a Christian home

-go to a Christian school

-go to Sunday school

-go to youth group

-lead a youth group

-go to bible college

-graduate bible college

-go to seminary

-do overseas missions

-become a figure head and a leader of a multi-country organization bringing the gospel to all kinds of people

-pastor a church for 25 years

Do ALL of these things, and not know God. There are a lot of reasons behind this, one is that we have allowed a culture that looks good, but hides a lot of sin behind closed doors, another is that we are very ‘works-oriented’ but at the end of the day, it seems to come down to the one question; do you know God, and does He know you?

Think and pray about it

God Bless

-Andrew-

A New Way to Wake Up

Today was definitely a new day. Although I woke up feeling very sluggish, it was different than usual because Jesus was in my room. It is hard to explain, but its true; it was like there was no longer any barrier between me and God, I didn’t have to sacrifice a calf so to speak. When I got out of bed I was feeling guilty because I had over slept, but the first thing I heard Him say was “I Love You”. At the same moment I felt as if He gave me a hug, however I didn’t feel it physically, just on the inside. I don’t know the specifics on where this is going, but what I can tell you is that I want to know God more and more now.

God Bless, because he is with you

-Andrew-

Being in His Presence

Something that has been consuming my thoughts lately is being in the presence of God all the time. I can definitely say that growing up, the message and truth of me intimately being in the presence of God was not a Sunday morning sermon in any way. Yet the more teaching I hear these days and the more I read about it in the bible (the little that I do), I find that to be intimate with God is such a blessing that all of Gods people are called to be. I find that when I speak about Gods goodness or just testify to His goodness, that the atmosphere in the room changes, and the presence of God comes down. It is so lifting to be there in His presence. That is something that I want to be doing a lot of from now on.

Now I understand that those who are reading this may not have a single idea of what I am talking about, and that’s ok, just pray and ask God to show you what He is like, cause those who encounter Him are changed forever.

God Bless

-Andrew-

Living in the Season

My name is Andrew, and because this is on the internet, we will just keep it as Andrew. It was only two years ago when I first heard the term “Kairos Season”. I was at a family camp where the guest speaker preached about how the world is in a kairos season. Kairos (kahee-ros) is a Greek term which means an opportune time, or a time of change. The speaker talked about how we are in an opportune time for God to move through his people, and that we need to be conscience of what He is doing in the world. It took me a long time to realise what it really meant in regards to my life and the lives of Gods people, but now I understand it much more clearly. We as Gods people are living in such a time where we need to be pressing into God rather than just living idle waiting for something to happen. He has called us for such a time as this.

In later posts I hope to be talking about other things God is doing around the world, as well as prophetic words that I have heard regarding his people. As well I really want to discuss lies that have found their way into the North American Church, and bring truth into those things.

God Bless

-Andrew-