A Little Bit of Everything

Yay! THE SPIRIT OF GOD HAS AMAZING POWERS! I am so excited. I am bursting with joy! YAAAAAYYYYYY! So tonight was lock-in for youth convention, basically when all the youth at my church going to convention next weekend get togethor from 7-10pm to play games, eat snacks, pray, worship and prepare ourselves for what God has planned. It's usually pretty fun. But tonight was AWESOME! The night started great with games, then rules for convention, then worship. At worship time, God's Spirit just filled the room and everyone just...was open. When we transitioned into prayer everyone was more open then they have ever been and a boy was healed and everyone was just really willing to open their hearts to God. The whole night I felt as if it wasn't me directing the worship and prayer but more like this voice thing in me. Everyone left at 10:30 pm except about four of us and our main youth leader, two of us were interns (two of my good friends) and my best friend and I were the only true youth left. Anyways, my best friend was going to be prayed for over by the two interns and I didn't know this because I was outside. Anyways, I suddenly felt as if I should go to the Sanctuary for no particular reason, and so I did. I entered the foyer at the same time one intern, I'll call him TB from now on, was closing the sanctuary doors. He turned to me and said "Want to battle with us?" and my head saidno and my body moved forward and said yes and I entered with him. He said something about battling in the Spirit, and praying, and that this was serious and the whole time I felt my head say not to go but something in my spirit told me to continue. So I did. And am I glad! We prayed over my BF because lately he had been feeling this really terrible fear in his life, like horrible fear and whenever he was afraid he had dreams of this shadow in a way mocking him. So we prayed. I have never prayed that way before. I have never seen anyone pray as we did. It was if other people were saying things out of our mouths. I was quoting scripture and it was amazing. Halfway through out Youth Pastor came in and joined us. Eventually my friend was bawling on his shoulder, and my friend NEVER cries, EVER. And also while we were praying I felt this erge to read scripture and I randomly opened the Bible and it opened to Ezekiel, now I would never purposely open to Ezekiel during something like that but I did, and the first words I saw were "Do not be afraid." It was amazing I started reading out loud. This is what it said "And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or terrified by them....You must speak my words...open your mouth and eat what I give you." It was amazing. And then my youth pastor asked him, "do you feel the fear anymore?" and he said not as much. And we continued to pray. He asked him again and this time he answered I don't feel the fear anymore. And this whole ...I don't know...feeling seemed to lift away from us and I felt like I wanted to sing. So I did. And now it's been half an hour and I am still drunk on the Holy Spirit and wired so much I can't sleep. And I am filled with a joy I have only felt two other times in my life, once when I knew that God told me to go to El Salvador on a missions trip this summer and once in El Salvador when I received my calling. GOD IS AWESOME! AND HIS PRESENCE HAS THE GREATEST OF REWARDS! I can harldy walk without skipping, talk without singing, stand without smiling...I love this feeling! I am drunk on the Holy Spirit and high on his Power!