Monday, April 26, 2010
He's doing a new thing...
Well hello everyone! So recently, there have been a lot of great things happening here at New Life and all over! DLA went to the Dream Centers a few weeks ago and had an awesome time connecting with the people who live there, hearing their stories, and serving them in any way they needed us. My eyes were opened to what goes on in some people's lives and it showed me how blessed I truly am and encouraged me with how much they love God no matter what they have gone through and presently dealing with. For a while now, God has been really laying it on our hearts to pray for revival and it's in progress! The Lord has been moving on the hearts of many and is revealing Himself in new ways to us. A lot of joy has been poured out in prayer meetings and the fire of God is so evident in many of our lives. There have been miracles, people slain in the spirit, and He has been filling them the Holy Spirt and giving people prophetic words, songs and also visions. God has been opening heaven here at New Life. This past weekend was the Youth Leader Prayer Summit and we had over 100 youth pastors from 18 different states with us. We had one of the most intense, most powerful prayer meetings I have ever been to last Thursday night. It was also the first meeting for the Summit. Everyone was really pressing in and going after God. One of the things that we prayed for that night was for God to burden our hearts for the lost and God did just that. I also received a vision from God that was awesome. I was looking around the room watching others worship God beacause I enjoy it and like to see what God's doing in them. As I was doing this, a spark caught my eye. It was in the center of someone's upper back which looked like one from a 4th of July sparkler, but it was brighter. Then I saw more of them on others and also on myself when I looked down. I was like, Wow! This is crazy! It was so real that I 'm pretty sure I was actually seeing this. I then looked over at David Perkins and saw a huge burst of it on his chest as he was at the microphone praying. But these sparks weren't on most. I believe God was saying the sparks will go out only to the ones who are following after Him in desperate pursuit and this spark/fire is also a new one He is igniting in us. I heard a quote that a famous revivalist said once and it really spoke to me along with this vision: "If you light yourselves on fire, the world's going to come and watch you burn." David added on that if you do this, the youth you lead will see you, get along-side you, and burn also. I'm praying that this new fire will be ignited in all of us and we will see this generation following hard after God and revival will break out everywhere; bringing many to Christ. I'm really excited about what God has been doing and can't wait for tomorrow and the next day.... and the day after that....... :]]
Sunday, February 28, 2010
first blog EVER!
Oh hey guys! For my first blog I thought i might just let you know what goes on in DLA during the week, so here's our schedule since some of you were interested:
mondays: this day is our sabbath, so we can stay home and relax, do homework, chores... etc.
God Time
Each day we meet in the World Prayer Center at New Life for God time at 9am which goes until 10:30. There's usually someone either playing piano or guitar while we pray and it's such a wonderful way to start out the day. Being with God in the place of prayer first thing in the morning makes a HUGE difference in my day! I highly recommend it to all.
Class
After prayer time is over, we go straight to class which is Theology on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Christian Living on Wednesdays and Fridays. We have class for 2 hours where we learn a lot of good stuff and have a fun time debating and talking about some pretty deep topics.
After class gets out we have our lunch break until 1:30. During this time, a lot of us love to play 4-square which is a huge thing for a lot of people over in the WPC (just thought I'd let you know).
Ministry Tribes
Every day from 1:30-5pm we break out into our Ministry Tribes. This is our time to work on things for the church and it's many events and nightly meetings. I am in the Conference Tribe which means we get everthing ready and put together for the Desperation conferences that are held in the summer. My specific roles are late night events during the conference, youth pastor events/meetings/Summit, and marketing.
Furnace Prayer Meetings
There is one every day of the week, but only have to attend 2 of them. I usually go to the late night one on Friday which is from 10 till midnight and Revival Town which is on Tuesday nights 6:30-8pm. DLA and theFurnace have to be there at 6 in order to meet our requirements, so we have what we like to call, pre-prayer prayer.
Nightly Meetings
_tag: youth group on Wednesdays, 7-9pm, mandatory for all DLAs and we have pre-tag prayer at 6
the Gathering: Thursdays night meetings for Furnace and DLA. Dan Perkins usually leads this meeting. Also, we pick up our green cards at this meeting that we fill out to and give to our accountability leaders that lets them know if we met all of the Furnace requirements for that week.
theMILL: Friday night service from 7-9pm for college students and 20-somethings led by Aaron Stern.
Sundays
We have accountability at 9 in our groups and then DLA attends the 11 o'clock service and we all sit in section 10 as one big happy family:). Afterwards, we go home and serve our host families from 2-5 if they have anything for us to do for them.
Other random things
We have to be in the Furnace prayer room for 2 hours each week
Saturdays rotate. It's either a personal(we do whatever), accounabilty(we hang out with our accounability groups), or a home sponsor Saturday(we hang out with our host families and do things like snowboard:).
ok whew. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff, I know. But really fun, exciting, challenging, rewarding, the list goes on... I expect that most of you sill skim this post, but if you do read and get this far, congrats. You're either really bored by this point or you're my mom. If any of you have questions about this or just anything at all, I would love to hear from you! Prayer requests are also great!
mondays: this day is our sabbath, so we can stay home and relax, do homework, chores... etc.
God Time
Each day we meet in the World Prayer Center at New Life for God time at 9am which goes until 10:30. There's usually someone either playing piano or guitar while we pray and it's such a wonderful way to start out the day. Being with God in the place of prayer first thing in the morning makes a HUGE difference in my day! I highly recommend it to all.
Class
After prayer time is over, we go straight to class which is Theology on Tuesdays and Thursdays and Christian Living on Wednesdays and Fridays. We have class for 2 hours where we learn a lot of good stuff and have a fun time debating and talking about some pretty deep topics.
After class gets out we have our lunch break until 1:30. During this time, a lot of us love to play 4-square which is a huge thing for a lot of people over in the WPC (just thought I'd let you know).
Ministry Tribes
Every day from 1:30-5pm we break out into our Ministry Tribes. This is our time to work on things for the church and it's many events and nightly meetings. I am in the Conference Tribe which means we get everthing ready and put together for the Desperation conferences that are held in the summer. My specific roles are late night events during the conference, youth pastor events/meetings/Summit, and marketing.
Furnace Prayer Meetings
There is one every day of the week, but only have to attend 2 of them. I usually go to the late night one on Friday which is from 10 till midnight and Revival Town which is on Tuesday nights 6:30-8pm. DLA and theFurnace have to be there at 6 in order to meet our requirements, so we have what we like to call, pre-prayer prayer.
Nightly Meetings
_tag: youth group on Wednesdays, 7-9pm, mandatory for all DLAs and we have pre-tag prayer at 6
the Gathering: Thursdays night meetings for Furnace and DLA. Dan Perkins usually leads this meeting. Also, we pick up our green cards at this meeting that we fill out to and give to our accountability leaders that lets them know if we met all of the Furnace requirements for that week.
theMILL: Friday night service from 7-9pm for college students and 20-somethings led by Aaron Stern.
Sundays
We have accountability at 9 in our groups and then DLA attends the 11 o'clock service and we all sit in section 10 as one big happy family:). Afterwards, we go home and serve our host families from 2-5 if they have anything for us to do for them.
Other random things
We have to be in the Furnace prayer room for 2 hours each week
Saturdays rotate. It's either a personal(we do whatever), accounabilty(we hang out with our accounability groups), or a home sponsor Saturday(we hang out with our host families and do things like snowboard:).
ok whew. Yeah, it's a lot of stuff, I know. But really fun, exciting, challenging, rewarding, the list goes on... I expect that most of you sill skim this post, but if you do read and get this far, congrats. You're either really bored by this point or you're my mom. If any of you have questions about this or just anything at all, I would love to hear from you! Prayer requests are also great!
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