Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Update

warning: this post is long and not very organized.

I'm so sad that I've been neglecting this.  It's not that I've forgotten - I haven't at all! I've been dying to update but just haven't had the time.

God's been doing cool things in my life.  He's enlarging my heart with compassion like never before.  I've gotten bolder.. as in my friend Brittany and I have started witnessing basically everywhere we go.  There have been so many divine appointments.. I've had so much fun!  I look forward to witnessing now instead of being afraid of it.

I got a job yesterday, which is a huge relief because my church is 45 minutes away, and I drive out there 4 or more times a week, and gas prices keep increasing.  I also need to save money for all of the different retreats and conferences and trips I go on.

I've been growing in the prophetic and discernment and intercession.  God has used me a lot in the past few weeks to really shift some things in the heavens.  My National Day of Prayer was intensely awesome.  God downloaded His heart for different things into me multiple times.  I've never been so broken or felt so fired up for seeing reformation.

God has been bringing me forth in my musical gifts like CRAZY (He told me over spring break that I'm going to be a prophetic musician).  My church recorded its first live worship CD on Friday, and God revealed to me there that I will release my own worship on CDs in the future through my church.  My singing and harmonizing skills have improved dramatically in the past week.. I'm pretty much dumbfounded.  There is no doubt that it's God.  I've been spiritually attacked to the point that I can barely talk/breathe because satan is trying to ruin my voice, but whenever I press in and try to worship, God restores my voice.  Some friends and I had an impromptu worship session on Thursday, and it was AMAZING.  I can't even describe it.  Heaven definitely touched Earth.  We were literally singing songs from the throne room, and the weighty presence of God showed up so powerfully that my lungs felt like they had to really work in order to breathe.. but it didn't hurt or anything.  Last night we decided that we're going to have permanent worship nights weekly in which we go after it and also learn to play instruments better.  A youth pastor at a local church is sponsoring us and giving us keys to the church so that we can go in and practice whenever we want.  We'll be leading worship during that church's youth group this summer.. and if that's not cool enough, we're going to lead worship at the church soon :D  I honestly never thought these things would happen so soon.  God is cool.

I also feel like God is giving me insight into who I am going to marry.  He is also teaching me to be more transparent.  I feel like God is opening so many doors in my life right now.

The beginning of break was really hard because I felt like a bunch of wounds which were just starting to heal were being ripped open, but God gave me a huge impartation of grace to deal with it, and things have gotten drastically better.  I'm so thankful!

By the way.. if anyone has an acoustic guitar that they want to get rid of or knows someone who does, let me know!

That's enough for now.  So much has been happening that I can't possibly share it all.. but more to come!

2 comments:

Shalyse said...

wow, that's tight :) Glad to hear God's moving powerfully in your life!

Caitlin said...

thanks, Shalyse! He's definitely amazing :)