I spent half an hour in prayer Sunday afternoon, explicitly asking the Holy Spirit to allow me to move with Him in His dynamite, explosive power. I felt His presence on me during the prayer time and had great expectations for the meeting.
We arrived and went to the ministry team prayer session. It started with corporate intercession, then we were invited to pray for each other and to get our ministry team tags. I collected my tag as did Elvi and the lady next to us. So I suggested we pray together for each of us to be filled. The Holy Spirit came on me really powerfully when I began to pray. It felt like the temperature in the room suddenly went up about 20 degrees. It was so hot I almost could not stand it. Then I realized that this was the fire of God on me, not the temperature of the room. The Lord came on Elvi and the lady we were praying with. It was that same type of explosive power from the impartation night. Soon two other ladies came and stood by me. One prayed for me for a few minutes and then I felt prompted to pray for her. So I put one hand on her stomach and the other on the small of her back and I began to cry out for God to fill her and release His power and anointing on her for that night. She screamed and went down, shaking under the power. I went to pray for her friend and the same thing happened.
The power of God was on me very strongly. There were two others who were having similar experiences as me. It seemed that God wanted to fill and anoint the entire team, and He used about three of us as focal points to release His anointing on the others. I did not think about it much at the time, but I was very grateful that He would allow me to be one of the ones He was using. It felt very good to move with Him in that dynamite explosive power. I prayed for a lot of people in the prayer room and God showed up powerfully each time.
I told the Lord that this was a lot of fun and I thanked Him for it. While I was moving around the room and praying, God spoke to me in the "deep sensing" type of way. This is my most accurate type of hearing, the one I trust the most. God does not use words per sae, He simply drops a knowing deep into my spirit, and there is a certainty and an inner witness to this knowledge. I have to use words to explain the concept He dropped into me, but when He dropped it in, there were no words, just a sudden knowing.
I have been doing a lot of dog training lately with my dogs. And the Lord used that as the context for what He wanted to say to me. I was suddenly reminded of how we use both positive reinforcements and quick corrections to train a dog. "Heal" is the most basic command. It is more than just having the dog walk nicely with you. It is about teaching the dog to keep it's body in a certain place in relationship to you. It's shoulders are parallel with your left side, and it is about four inches away from you. Part of "heal" is for the dog to watch you and to adjust itself to be in that position no matter what you do. If you stop, the dog stops and sits in heal position, with it's front legs right at your left side, facing the same direction as you and being about four to six inches from you. If you are walking and you speed up, the dog speeds up to keep his front legs parallel with your left side. If you do a u-turn, the dog runs around you, turning with you and being careful to keep his front legs parallel with your left side. In short, the dog watches you and no matter what you do, the dog stays in the correct position relative to you.
In the beginning when you train a dog, you use a choke chain and a leash. If the dog is not watching you he gets a quick jerk of the choke chain to get his attention. It is a snap and release. It does not hurt the dog at all, but it lets him know he has been corrected and tells him to pay attention to where you are. If the dog does the right thing, he does not get any correction but he gets all sorts of rewards. He gets praised and he gets a treat.
The Holy Spirit brought all of this to me in an instant and the He told me that He is training me to move with Him in His power and authority. When I keep my eyes on Him and remain in the right position to Him, I will be rewarded by seeing His power and anointing released. When I am out of position, I will get a quick correction.
That was such good news to me. Before He said that, I tended to think in terms of pass/fail for a given night. Either I did everything "right" in terms of cooperating with Him, or I did something wrong and lost the anointing for the night. But in dog training, you repeat the same thing over and over to help your dog learn. If the dog makes a mistake and gets a correction, then the correction is instantly over and the dog immediately has another chance to repeat the behavior successfully. Now the Holy Spirit was telling me that if I made a mistake, I could just get back in position (e.g., under His Lordship) and then get to do it again. Wow, what good news!
At one point the power seemed to wane a little, so I asked Him to please show me where I'd gotten out of position with Him and to help me get back where I belonged. Then I realized I'd been focusing on myself and my experiences instead of keeping my attention focused on Him. I moved my attention back to Him, recommitted to His Lordship, then asked for Him to help me follow His every leading for the evening. As soon as I got "back into position" the power went way up again.
So a new prayer of mine has become, "Holy Spirit, please teach me how to stay in "heal" position to You." It may sound weird to those of you who are not into training dogs, but all it means is to be focused on Him, centered in His will and responsive to what He wants to do.
God did a lot of physical healings in the service, but I can't remember what they all were. At the end of the service, Todd asked the ministry team to make a fire tunnel and asked the people to come through the fire tunnel. They organized us into four tunnels and for the next hour or so, people kept going through the tunnel. There was explosive power in it. I did not know precisely what God was doing in each person, but you could see evidences of His power falling on the people. In fact, we had a lot of people collapsing under the power of the spirit and not being able to get all the way through the tunnel unassisted. Some literally had to be held up and carried through. It was a lot of fun for me. It was also neat because God was using all of us collectively to minister and was not singling out this one or that one to anoint. It was a great meeting and I went home feeling very full of His presence and anointing. I think I had more fun being a prayer in the fire tunnel than I would have had going through them.
God is good and it was sure fun learning to work more effectively with the Holy Spirit.
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