" Aftermath "

Last night while I was just taking a break, I know that is hard to believe,but I do that from time to time. I was thinking & reflecting on God and his divine nature. The wonderful way he sometimes brings things to the surface for us to see and experience. After a HUGE DNOW weekend, I sometimes go through what I would call a "spiritual down spiral" it;s kinda like a spiritual depression, you know what I am talking about. You have something BIG occur in your life and you want it to continue for ever & the WHAM it stops as fast as it started. Eveything vanishes, the people, the music, the message & all the confusion that comes with 20 + girls staying in one house comes to a grinding HALT. Everything goes back to the still quiet of an empty house and an empty gym. Bummer !!!! But WAIT, that not the ending. It's actually the beginning this time. This time, I saw and an stilll seeing the dead brought to life and the ones who were alive are refreshed and re-energized, YEEPEE. This year DNOW was different. Deeper music, deeper worship but yet not so so deep bible study. I say that to know that sometimes just building relationships and talking about stuff is JUST what many needed.
Sitting around and just talking about life is a processof healing. Sharing your concerns and struggles with others & talking stuff through. LOTS of that went on.
But during the worship service, something happened. WOOOOOOO, Before I can get to that let's rewind to the Tuesday before. God sent me a message. I shared this with the students last Wednesday night at Common Ground. The message was, "It will happen Saturday Night". That was my message. At the time I had no clue what it was till the next day rolled around. Not knowing how to take this new prophecy, I called our guest speaker, John and explianed it to him. Later that day I talked to one of our small group leaders, Brooklyn and told her the story. The following day a student called me & told me she has had something on her heart that she strongly feels she is suppossed to tell someone or some group. She went on to tell me her story and I immediately knew what to do. God had told me just the day before, "It will happen Saturday Night". So I immediately knew she was beng led by God to me & I was to get her to tell her story at DNOW. The rest is another story in a story, but an amazing thing happend. Students were frozen in time & for more than three hours, eyes were focused on each studnet as they rose from their seat and spoke what the spirit led them to say. Many told secrets that had been hidden away in their closets. Many just shared about how God was working in their lives in an amazing way. Walls began to come down, tears flowed of brokenness but yet tears of joy quickly replaced them. God had orchestrated the entire thing right before my very eyes and that feeling of God speaking to me is still so alive in my heart.
Two days later, I was in the gym on Tuesday night. The Holy Spirit was still there, still working and longing for students to return and rekindle the deep worship that had occurred in that very place just a few days earlier. At Common Ground, the following day, the deep worship was still very evident as yet more walls had been torn down and healing was taking place.
This Student Ministry has experinced something deep and something so wonderful, God's presence in a HUGE way. Someone told me right after that service, that they had NEVER experienced God's presence like that before, EVER.
God is alive and well and his passion for us is unimaginable. Way beyond what we could ever comprehend. In closing, all I can say is " What an amzing journey we have before us. I can't wait to see how God is going to use this to HIS GLORY".

God is moving in MANY of our students lives and that is something I have been praying for for YEARS. God is always true and always faithful, even when we doubt him.

TC

DNOW 2007

Twas the night before DNOW
and all thru the house
NOT a creature was stirring,
not even my pet mouse.
Aggie was snuggled all curled up in her bed,
and dreaming of chillins' was stirring in her head.
Mia & Taz were all bedded down, getting some rest
while knowing tomorrow, they would be put to the test.
As for Penny and I
I just wanted to cry.
My feet hurt & my phone kept on ringing,
I kept thinking to myself, I aught to be singing.
The Students were exicted & happy with joy
all good and knowing they had to leave their boy toy.
So tomorrow let's all get ready to say
DNOW is here and so let ONE Way play. !!!!!!!!!