All Night Worship!!

I'm always thankful for the opportunities that G-d gives His people and even more thankful when His people step into them. This being said, I sometimes forget that G-d will use anyone. When I had decided that the youth explosion would be over at the end of the summer, I had never thought the Lord would have me do something else, with the rest of my time. At the end of one of the youth explosions, I was surprised to find that my worship team went back up to the stage to continue worshiping, even past the time of ministry! Nobody wanted to leave, they wanted to stay and worship. Not really knowing what I was saying, I expressed how wonderful it would be to have an all night worship session and push through the night, I also seemed to forget who I was talking to, because in that moment they jumped on board and I was commissioned to talk to some people about getting it started. I thought, Ok, we'll try one worship night, see how it goes and if the door is open we'll continue to do it once a month.

The very next morning I expressed this idea with one of the community pastors, and was surprisded to find how quickly he jumped on board to the idea to, even so much so that he wanted us to do it every Saturday! I was able to talk him down to once a month and expressed that this first time would be more of a trial, just to see who was intrested and how it would go. We now had a date, time: 10p.m-6a.m and a place to host the event. The Lord works so quickly sometimes!

Now before this event, on Saturdays, there's another event that goes from 8p.m-10p.m and it's worship and prayer specifically for the local college and the students up there. Some of the people at this group stayed on with us through the whole night completing 10 full hours of worship!! I kind of feel like they prepare the atomosphere for my group b/c they're already seeking G-d's mighty presence and welcoming Him in Joyfully.

I have never been in a worship service quite like this one before!! Now it's very open, all are welcomed to come the only requirement is to worship with your heart, and if you can't stay the whole night, that's fine as well. From 10p.m to 3a.m it was like getting doused with Holy spirit energy, we could not come down, we just kept worshiping as if we would never be tired again, everything in the room buzzed and seemed to want to worship along with us. During this time, One girl was healed instantly, another fell out in the spirit who had never fallen out before, she also sang prophetically which if you were to ask her today, she would readily say, that isn't her "lane" she doesn't sing. Visions were flowling freely, I saw the angels come down around us at one point, their hands extended torwards us and they were shouting "Power to the People!!" over and over again. It was also in this time frame where I had to submit and admit that G-d wanted me to do this once a month. It was offical, G-d had given me a new assignment to work with, but could you blame me for being surprised that He had handed it to me? Again this is why I'm so thankful when G-d's people step out into what G-d has for them, trust me, I know how hard this could be somtimes myself.

From about 3-5 the atomosphere changed and it became very intimate, and the soft prayers went out to the community as G-d expressed is heart for our region. But even this time seemed to fly by so fast, as the spirit of worship was flowing in the room.

Now from 5-6, I would probably call this the sacrifical hour. This was an hour where we actually had to push, some of us were tired in our flesh, but our spirits were so revived, at time it seemed like 6 o'clock would not come, but still the worship flowed forth freely.

When we all left, many expressed how "alive" they felt, I myself needed my roomate to talk me down when I got home, I just couldn't sleep!! Everything about me just seemed to buzz with the electricity of G-d. When I talked to others later that day, they expressed the same thing, the needing to come down from the heights in which G-d had taken us that night. Praise G-d!!!

So if you ever find a free moment the 2nd Saturday of every month, please remember us in your prayers as we Worship our G-d in Spirit and in Truth. The next one will be this Saturday, September 12th, 2009