This week I don’t have a cool collage, or a word art quote cloud. Truthfully, I was too busy being encountered by and processing the encounters with the Lord. After each session I felt chains lift off me (whether I knew they existed or not).
I didn’t know what would come out of this week, but I knew I wanted ALL of what Jesus had for me! Every single part. I didn’t (and DON’T) want anything to separate me from experiencing ALL that Jesus has for me. I don’t want to know Him in part, but know Him as fully as He’ll reveal His self. And that’s how I went into the week.
After the first day God renewed my view of Him as Father. I got a fresh revelation of Him being KING, yet my Dad. All powerful, yet to me Abba. I felt like I was being washed in a Father’s perfect love as I was held in His arms.
Tuesday, while in the prayer room, I received a new revelation of God as the Bridegroom. As MY Bridegroom. While I was interceding I felt like my Partner was right next to me, hand-in-hand, interceding with me.
“There’s no place Your blood hasn’t transformed me. There’s no place your love hasn’t set me free”
As my identity was being restored to God’s original design, I began to walk in new authority.
At evangelism that week my partner (and awesome roommate Jess) encountered a man, Brother Gary. He began to overtly manifest a demon
The power of God RUSHED upon me. Immediately, I was responding without thinking AND without fear. I’m on the prayer team at church so I’ve prayed for people who were manifesting on several occasions, but I’ve never been “in the wild” while this happened this aggressively.
Truly, this moment for me is such a memorial stone in my walk with the Lord. I KNOW there was NOTHING I did to ‘subdue’ Gary or the spirit that was tormenting him. It was ONLY by the power of the cross that lives in me that rebuked the demon and allowed me to talk to him and hear his story.
Transparently, this whole week and leading up to this week, the enemy had been attacking my mind in regards to my salvation. However, while manifesting he was unable to look at me because “he couldn’t look at the light.” Remember that if you belong to the Lord, you are His and His light lives in you!
On a serious note I had to leave before I was able to walk with Brother Gary through full freedom and repentance and have been unable to find him. Therefore, I have some prayer requests:
1. That he would be ministered to and receive the gospel & freedom.
2. That I would run into him again.
3. He said he was in heart failure. I’m believing in the Lord to heal him!
4. That the Muslim man from Libya, Yasin, who we were originally talking to, would
come to encounter Jesus!
Mind you, all this happened outside the McDonald’s on High Street. Just know, freedom had no geographical boundaries.
Practical Steps to walk out repentance:
- Repent – Turn from the sin or thought pattern (stronghold) and turn TOWARDS the Father.
- Receive – Welcome the forgiveness
- Rebuke – Cast down the lies that you believed to free your mind from its chains.
- Replace – Speak life and the truth of God over yourself!
ORIGINAL DESIGN
We ended the week with Original Design where we got in groups and asked Holy Spirit to reveal to us three reasons He made us. the Bible says God’s thoughts towards us are GREAT, so three were requested because that’s a manageable number for us to grasp!
How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
King David in Psalm 139
How great is the sum of them!
If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand…
For me Original Design was really cool because it affirmed things that I already knew God put that I was already actively walking in and it called out things that the Lord put in me that resonated with me, but that I had not been walking in.
One of the things I put down for myself AND that the Lord revealed was that I am a ‘builder’. Obviously I have worked in construction for the past 4 years, but I also have felt called to build spiritually for a few years now.
One of the things I had not received as a personal identifier, but have been called by a Brother at Church for about a year now is ‘little giant’ because I’m small in the natural, but not spiritually. I truly never see myself as this spiritual ‘power house’. I mean either way, it’s not me but God, BUT I feel like I’ve been selling God short in not doing so. He has placed His infinitely large and powerful Spirit in me, to perform His work through me. But one of the things my roommate Ahmi saw from the Lord during this process was ‘David in the face of Goliath, slinging the stone at giants.’ So I’m beginning to walk in this, and not in a prideful way, but in a ‘I’m settled in who my Heavenly Father made me to be way.’
Weekly Reflection – Have you been set free and delivered from the bondage and chains of this world?
Missionary Nina Moore 