Thursday, April 21, 1994

This morning, when I was doing my devotions, His presense and power came over me again, just like at the altar. I found myself shaking and laughing. The next thing I knew, I fell off the bed and was on the floor, where I must have stayed for about 15 minutes, just feeling the Lord's presense and His power surging through my body. I was sort of surprised that He would meet me like that at home in the privacy of my prayer room (actually, the guest bedroom). When that was over, I got back on the bed and continued my devotions. God opened the scriptures to me so richly. Then, about an hour or so later, I decided I needed to get up and feed the dogs. I stood up beside the bed and the power of the Lord hit me -- I fell back onto the bed -- unable to get up. I sensed the Lord asking me why I was fighting Him, so I just relaxed into Him. His presense was so tangable. It was wonderful. After resting in Him for about another 1/2 hour, I found myself starting to pray and interceed for the people at the meetings, that they would be able to really experience His presense and receive from Him. When I finally went to work, the Lord's presense seemed to be with me ever there. I kept sensing Him and had to take short prayer or Bible reading breaks. It was more like a party than like work.

By the time I got to the meeting that evening, I was really primed. I knew God was going to move powerfully. I started praying for people when the prayer time began - God was doing powerful things. I was amazed to see His manisfestations on the people I prayed for. I felt sort of like a kid with a new toy -- I'd pray for God to bless someone and then be amazed at watching Him answer that prayer. Boy is God good!

Then around 10:00 or so, the Holy Spirit whispered in my ear that it was time to stop praying for others and get prayed for again. He wanted to minister to me as well as using me to minister to others. I got my friend and we went up to the front of the altar area for prayer. I closed my eyes and started praying that God would touch me too. Then, a few minutes later, an older man and his wife came up to me and asked me if I wanted prayer. I said yes and then the Holy Spirit sort of came over him and he started telling me a little bit about me that He could not have known if God had not shown him. He started praying the desires of my heart over me. Then I felt God's presense and His power all over me.

The next thing I knew I was on the ground and they were still praying for me. A strong sense of Joy came over me and I started laughing. Every time I would start to quiet down, either the man or his wife would walk by and wave their arms over me and pray "more Lord" and walk off. But another wave of God's joy would hit me and I'd be laughing again.

As I lay there, I again invited the God to be Lord of every area of my life. I got a sort of silly idea and started praying it -- "Lord, I'll make you a trade. I give you all of me. In return, please give me more of you." I know the prayer sounds silly, but there was something in the Lord's anointing that made it so powerful. He really did give me more of Him. I was also asking Him for an anointing of His power, asking Him to change me so I could be a usable vessel that He would be pleased to flow through to come and do works of His power to glorify His name.

He whispered in my ear that He was going to give me an anointing for obedience. I'd never even heard of that before. But my mouth and body seemed to respond to Him even as my mind was trying to figure out what an obedience anointing meant. I started laughing really loud and saying "Yes Lord!" over and over again. Then I became aware that a man across the room was doing the same thing. I asked the Lord about it and He said that He was moving the same way on him and on another woman too. But I was not to worry about what He was doing with them, I was just to give Him my obedience and praise. It was so awesome. I feel closer to the Lord than ever before.

I started becoming aware of people around me and started praying for them. There was a woman standing near me who desparately wanted a touch from the Lord. I could sense what she must be feeling -- wondering why she was being passed by and wanting so much for God to touch her. People were coming up and praying for people around her but no one was praying for her. I tried to get up and pray for her, but the Lord wouldn't let me. So I laid there and prayed for her, asking God to meet her and that she would not go home feeling passed by. I asked the Lord to send someone to pray for her. I must have spent about 10 minutes praying for her. Then someone walked up to her and started to pray for her. The Lord's presense washed over me and I became unaware of anything else.

After a while, I became aware of people around me again. I noticed a man praying for a brother. I got up and went over to help pray. The Lord started to move on him and he was rocking, but seemed to be fighting to stay on his feet. Another sister came up, stood infront of him for a second, waved her arm and said "more Lord". Down he went nd the other woman smiled and walked off. I prayed for him for a few more moments then went to pray for someone else. She went down under God's power as well. I stayed and prayed for her for a while, then got up and went home, praising the Lord. It was after midnight when I left.