There's a whole lot of shaking going on...

This past Friday night's service was full of laughter by many. Now most people may be bothered by this but how can you not roll with a holy laughter? It fills the entire sanctuary and continues like a wave over and over. Meanwhile, while doing some laughing of my own I was shaking and shaking. Whats up with this? I have seen others shake and thought hmmm thats nice but I do have to say sometimes I wonder whats really real and who is "faking" it. But I remember a time when Pastor Bill talked of what matters, if it isn't real it just shows that person is wanting more of God and out of their "faking" it, something is going to happen for the good.

Okay back to the shaking adventure. I was shaking through worship, then through the remainder of the service. The more I tried to stop or slow things down it got worse. (that should show you not to fight what the Holy Spirit is doing), I even got to the place where I was informing God that my legs and such were really begininng to feel tired. Nothing, no change.

Once the service was over there was the bright idea to have a fire tunnel. Now dont get me wrong, I love love fire tunnels, I was just trying to figure out how I was going to get through one, much less two!So here I go, bobbing along through the first round, okay that was really good, heading back to my seat I knew I was supposed to go to the other side for round two. Jason my Revival Group Pastor was shouting out look my whole group is here, and then I got through partially and I was down, oops up again, and down, and up. I made it out of the tunnel crawling to the first row seat and laid across it and couldnt move for about 30 minutes.

Healing! The Lord spoke to me "healing was taking place". At the time it felt as if I was exhausted after a wide voltage was going through me. The rest of the night I envisioned me dancing with my Father and there was such peace. I don't fully know how to explain what happened except to say there was an encounter where the Holy Spirit and the Heavenly Father collided.

Upon leaving, a girl followed me outside and said "the Lord wants you to know how much He really loves you and how proud He is of you". I began to cry because you see many dont know that I am afraid of missing God or disappointing Him.

He knows me, He knows you and all your Father wants is intimacy with you. He will work out the rest of the kinks that seem to trip us up or put us on the wrong path. I am slowly learning just how He actually sees us and how much He really loves us. Its not conditional or performanced based, its a heart matter. If all you can do right now is talk to Him the same as you would with your best friend, all else will work itself out. There is a level of trust that develops and you begin to allow your Father to lead you in the small things and before you know it those things that seemed so huge, begin to shrink and become less worrisome.

I pray that you have an encounter with your Father. It can be a few minutes or hours or days. Sometimes we dont feel like anything is happening but there is always something happening. Dont give up, He is right there beside you, arms opened wide waiting for you to just jump up into His lap and let Him love on you.

Blessings, Tricia