A God Moment…

I want to share a cool God moment from tonight. The church I go to, Coast Vineyard, is connected with a larger group of Vineyard churches, and there is a guy in this network who is really prophetic and just hears from God really clearly.  For the last two summers, we’ve invited him to come teach us about hearing God’s voice and just give words from God to the people in the room.  I must say, I’ve never seen anyone hear from God like this guy does.  When he does ministry he receives some of the most specific details of people’s lives even to the point of naming an individual’s children! I mean he literally just seems to know stuff that he could not know on his own.  And for those of you who aren’t familiar with the prophetic, all this is done not as a show, but to remind the person receiving the word that God is with them, sees them, and hears their cries. Every time I see him do ministry, I just leave feeling like God’s presence and power is so real!

All this said, last summer when he came, he gave me some words… and some pretty detailed words at that, and honestly I was sort of disappointed.  Only about 20% of it made sense to me, and the other 80% I sort of just “put on the shelf” and forgot about.  Then this summer he came back and barely gave me anything, and once again I felt sort of disappointed.  Now, let me make clear… I don’t think we need prophets to tell us what God is speaking over us as I believe we are perfectly capable of hearing God’s voice on our own, but when everyone else is receiving crazy words around you it’s a little hard not to want the same.

Anyways, since that second time this guy came this summer, God kept bringing to my mind the word he gave me last summer and I constantly felt like I needed to listen to it again as I had obviously forgotten the specifics of the word after a year.  Praise God that someone recorded it and tonight I got the recording and listened to it.  As I listened, it was literally like God spoke to me afresh.  Almost every word he spoke connected with something that is going on in my life right now in a really real and tangible way.  I’m not just talking about general “God loves you” kinds of words, but he called out 3 or 4 specific things that I’ve been wrestling through for the last few months and just showed me God sees my struggles and questions.  I mean it felt DEAD on… exactly what I needed to hear right now for this season of my life.

It’s crazy how words that totally didn’t make sense a year ago, all of a sudden is like life to my soul.  Even as I write this, I just feel like God sees me and hears my cries.  I am reminded that He really knows what I’m going through and it’s almost like the Lord gave this man the word a year ago, just so I could listen to it tonight and be encouraged and filled by Him. Haha… only modern technology would allow God to speak to me that way!  God is quite creative.  So yeah… I am so in awe of God’s love and provision for me.  Even though it’s hard for me to feel it sometimes, He truly is good and faithful, and His purposes will be done in me.  Thank you Lord!