What a weekend! Today was awesome too!

This past weekend:

I went to a whole other level of whacked! I went from being drunk in the spirit part time to drunk in the spirit full time!

I'm also high with the most high full time!

More boldness came on my life.  The prophetic anointing increased.  And I just feel more love for people than ever.  At the same time, I'm not interesting in pleasing people.  There's a difference.  Love for people is not always pleasing to the religious.  Jesus ate and drank with sinners, and the priests and the religious of their day accused him of being a sinner because of that.  That's another blog post though.

I've just learned to have no worries.  That doesn't mean I'm learning to live irresponsibly.  Much of my life, I've been taught by people who meant very well that I should be worried in certain situations.  However, God says NOT to worry!  Do not fear!  It's when you take the risk and stop worrying that the power and the glory of God comes into your life.

Tonight, I went to WinCo to do some grocery shopping today, because God provided me some money.  It wasn't a whole lot.  I was going to buy some ramen noodles; a big pack of ramen noodles.  It's cheap, and it's in bulk.  God told me NOT to buy them.  He told me that I was buying them out of a poverty mentality that has been broken off of my life, and a spirit of fear which has also been broken off of my life.  I bought some milk, ham, bread, and gatorade.  I like to have cheese on my ham sandwiches.  I didn't buy cheese, but God said he would provide the cheese.

Backing up a little today, I went on a treasure hunt at church today.  I do this every other Friday night as part of Bethel's Friday Night Strike.  We ask God for clues to look for, and then we go out into the city and bless the people as we look for those clues.  When Jason asked who wanted to lead a team, no one raised their hand.  Then Jason started volunteering people.  I suddenly heard the holy spirit tell me that I needed to lead, so I raised my hand.  First of all, for the appearance section on my treasure map (a list of clues that we wrote down) I had green shirt and blue shirt.  For location, one of the places I had was Starbucks.  Someone else on the team had it to.  I also had Discovery Village, and I lead the team to go there.  As we went in, right in front of us was a lady with a blue shirt.  I talked to her, and mentioned we were on a treasure hunt, and that we thought she was God's treasure.  She was excited!  She had heard about the treasure hunts!  She had just moved to Redding, and was going to go to Bethel Church.  She was meeting with someone else from Bethel, and waiting for him there.  We blessed her and spoke prophetic words over her. The guy she was meeting with came in just as we got done blessing her.  He happened to have a green shirt on! So we blessed him!  God had me speak favor over him, and it really seemed to bless him.

A child was with us, and apparently he had a seer anointing.  I want get to much into the needs of the people here at this point, because much of it was personal.  But there was a man at one table outside, and the child saw a little gold dust for us at that one table, and another table with some teenagers where there was a lot of gold dust!  We ministered to both of them.  Meanwhile, a couple of others from my team went to another part of Discovery Village and found someone that had some of the clues.  He also had "headache" as something to pray for on his treasure map.  Well this lady they had found had a headache!  They prayed for it.  It didn't go away right there, but she had faith that God would heal it!  I believe it's healed right now!

We were bold today!  Wow!  God made us bold!  Thank you Jesus for the boldness!  Give us more boldness!

One last thing I want to mention!  Sometimes when you go out and do this stuff, sometimes you see nothing happen!  When you minister to people, sometimes you feel like you have no effect.  But we are God's workmanship.  Some people are made out of marble.  When a sculptor makes something out of marble, he has to make some small chips.  It takes a lot of time!  When we're reaching out to people, especially the lost, a lot of times we make small chips that don't seem to make progress, but yet it does.  Every little bit is progress.  And God will send others to chip away at that person as well, to make them who God wants them to be.