I’m experiencing quite a sharp hunger pang tonight.  Everybody’s in bed, it’s after midnight and I’m alone on the couch- and desperately unsatisfied.  I’m hungry.

I’m going back through my memory of the various moments of my life where I encountered God in an overwhelming way.  Trying to explain it would be like trying to explain color to someone who is blind.  Suffice it to say, God surprised me with a revelation of supernatural life, and I simply cannot live without it.

I’m a revivalist, and as a revivalist I am forever ruined by the call to press through the crowd to touch Jesus.  We must press and reach and touch- and when we do, the power of God will be imparted into us.  Joy, laughter, drunkenness, freedom, fire and power will consume us.

When Amy and I went to Lakeland, we were forever changed.  I’ll never forget walking into that massive tent the first night.  I was overcome by a surprising, saturating power.  The Holy Spirit instantly touched me as I waked through the door.  When Todd prayed for us, I was overcome. 

I remember a time in Anaheim, California at a Vineyard worship conference.  I was surprised with the most saturating drunkenness I’ve ever known.  People were carrying others into the hotel because so many couldn’t even walk!

Some might say that we shouldn’t chase the latest, greatest move of God.  I understand that argument.  However, the longer I’m in this, the more I have come to realize that God does most certainly manifest in unique ways in different places through different people.  Did I chase God in Anaheim?  In Lakeland?  Yep.  And he let me catch Him.  Did He ever.

I wish I could explain the fervent hunger I’m experiencing right now.  I feel undone, lonely (it’s good though, alone with God if that makes sense), near tears, desperate and determined to burn. 

So, I’m just a bit raw right now.  Thought I’d journal this almost as a prayer.  God, visit me in a fresh way.  I’m absolutely undone and ruined by you.  I crave an encounter.  Just as I am changed forever because of one night in California, or another in Lakeland, I want to tell my grand kids about the many additional times you and I met.  I want to cry.  I want to tremble.  I want to laugh.  I want to shout.  I want to experience a new color that is so vivid that I’ll never forget it.

Holy Spirit come!  Come as you are and do what you want! 

Don’t let me go another day without a divine encounter, a visitation, a revelation.

Amen.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, August 10th, 2008 at 1:13 am.
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    Feeling much the same as I try to make sense of so much. God has thrown so much at Vicki and I since "The Intensive" that the only thing we know is that we desire to encounter God in whatever way He wants to encounter us. We love laughing and crying and burning. There is nothing that we want more than to be in His presence. For the rest of my life I will never forget the first day of real POWER encounter: People strewn all over the floor, John on the stage sitting, facilitating. He said, Mike lay your hand on Devaun, and WOW... that was it. Trying to keep my self on my feet was all I could do and I could not even do that. Down on the ground I went. When I came up i was a changed man. There is no doubt, changed for life. I desire more change, I will not settle for anything less. I will no longer accept powerless services. I want more, more, more , more.
    Come God and change us.
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    John,

    yes and amen.

    Here is a bold prayer for the nations. Accept it into your spirit as well and you will burn as you desire. Don't stop standing now as it is time for all of God's Children, bought with the Blood of His Son to gain His strength and might and power and overcome by fresh winds of the Holy Spirit.

    The prayer:::>

    HEAVENLY FATHER
    WE ARE INDEED UNCLEAN AND UNHOLY CREATURES IN OURSELVES
    IT IS THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB THAT WASHES US WHITE AS SNOW

    YOU GAVE COMMAND OR DIRECTION OR INSTRUCTION TO ADAM AND HIS OFFSPRING:
    Gen 1:26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

    Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

    Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."

    TO HAVE DOMINION, TO BE FRUITFUL AND RULE, TO SUBDUE...

    HUH?

    WHAT IS OUT THERE LORD THAT WE ARE TO SUBDUE IT?

    SUBDUE WHAT AND WHY?

    Psa 110:1 A Psalm of David. The LORD says to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool."

    Psa 110:2 The LORD sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

    LORD,

    TO SIT AT YOUR RIGHT HAND? WHAT FOR AND WHY?
    YOU WILL MAKE OUR ENEMIES A FOOTSTOOL FOR US?
    HUH??

    YOU SEND JESUS CHRIST TO RULE IN THE MIDST OF OUR ENEMIES!!

    Dan 2:44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, nor shall the kingdom be left to another people. It shall break in pieces all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and it shall stand forever,

    LORD GOD
    YOU HAVE MADE US A PEOPLE FOR YOURSELF, RANSOMED BY HIS BLOOD AND NOW SETTING US UP AS THIS KINGDOM AND THIS PRIESTHOOD SO THAT WE WOULD DESTROY, BREAK IN PIECES AND BRING TO AN END THEIR REIGN, THE KINGS IN THESE DAYS, DESTROYING THEIR AUTHORITY, NEVER TO BE REMOVE BUT TO STAND FOREVER AS THIS GLORIOUS BODY OF CHRIST
    AND SO WE PRAY
    AND SO WE PROCLAIM AND SAY

    Act 2:32 This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.

    Act 2:33 Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing.

    Act 2:34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he himself says, "'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand,

    Act 2:35 until I make your enemies your footstool.'

    Act 2:36 Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."



    YES AND AMEN LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
    YOU HAVE DONE IT
    CHRIST HAS FINISHED IT
    THE HOLY GHOST IS LIVING IT NOW THROUGH OUR LIVES TODAY
    WE ALL ARE THE WITNESSES OF IT
    HE IS EXALTED TO THE RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND OF GRACE, MERCY AND PEACE
    SEND THE FIRES OF THE HOLY GHOST
    SEND THE FLAMES OF THE HOLY GHOST
    SEND THE WATERS OF THE HOLY GHOST
    SEND THE RAINS OF THE HOLY GHOST
    CHRIST HAS BEEN MADE BOTH LORD AND CHRIST, ....HIM "WE HAVE ALL CRUCIFIED"

    Rom 16:20 The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

    YES LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
    CRUSH SATAN
    CRUSH HIM
    CAST HIM DOWN
    REMOVE HIM
    Heb 1:13 And to which of the angels has he ever said, "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet"?

    YES LORD GOD
    IT IS CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD
    WHO WILL BRING SATAN DOWN
    CRUSH HIM
    CRUSH HIM UNDER OUR FEET
    THIS HOLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    THE HOLY DWELLING PLACES OF THE MOST HIGH
    Heb 2:13 And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me."

    Heb 2:14 Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil,

    Heb 2:15 and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

    Heb 2:16 For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham.

    Heb 2:17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

    Heb 2:18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.

    YES LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
    WE DECLARE YOUR NAMES TO THE NATIONS
    THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PROCLAIMED TO THE NATIONS AND THEN THE END SHALL COME
    Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,

    Rev 8:4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.

    Rev 8:5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

    YES LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
    SHAKE THE NATIONS
    SOFTEN THEIR HEARTS
    LET THE HEAVENS BE GLAD
    LET THE EARTH REJOICE
    LET MEN SAY AMONG THE NATIONS
    THE LORD REIGNS
    THE LORD REIGNS
    THE LORD REIGNS

    Rev 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."

    Rev 11:16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,

    Rev 11:17 saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

    Rev 11:18 The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."

    Rev 11:19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.

    AMEN AND AMEN
    DESTROY THE DESTROYERS OF THE EARTH!
    Rev 18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"

    AMEN AND AMEN
    WE REJOICE TO SEE HER DAY
    GIVE JUDGMENT LORD
    GIVE JUDGMENT
    DESTROY THE DESTROYERS OF THE EARTH!
    Joh 12:28 Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

    Joh 12:29 The crowd that stood there and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to him."

    Joh 12:30 Jesus answered, "This voice has come for your sake, not mine.

    Joh 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world; now will the ruler of this world be cast out.

    AMEN AND AMEN
    Rev 22:16 "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."

    Rev 22:17 The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come." And let the one who hears say, "Come." And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.

    AMEN AND AMEN LORD JESUS
    COME!
    AMEN
 

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