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-