Under threat of banishment I have decided to post again, which I have been meaning to do but haven't had the time or my internet has been down. So I am on Christmas/Winter break right now and I am enjoying this wonderful 60 degree day in brown Iowa. We're in the middle of a drought or something. So my break has been fun, I have spent much time with family and friends. I saw my best friend Chad for the first time since August, we have played a lot of pool together and not enough time driving... yet. I had a less than 24 hour flu bug, in which I puked in a movie theater bathroom. The "West coast Waters" were in town for the first time in three years, that is my Uncle Mike, Aunt Yem Ling, and Cousin Tia from Santa Monica, California. My cousin Tia is five, and doesn't stop talking or changing into other outfits, so it was interesting watching her. Christmas was good, went to the Christmas Eve service, my Grandma got interviewed by a news crew at our church, got some cool clothes that I like, and just plain had a good time with family. Last night I went to the 4th annual Norgaard Christmas Bodega, an annual party with the group of friends I went to Europe with. There was a guy there that I had never meet named David Lloyd who was a riot. We tried to play a prank on these guys that were coming over that we didn't know, which involved me with no shirt, it didn't go as planned and was quite awkward and embarassing... yeah. We played catch phrase and laughed our butts off (they grew back later) and talked about everything under the sun. Then we discussed what has been happening in their family (listen up now). They come from a Baptist background, and are now E. Free, but they had all grown up being taught that the Spiritual gifts had ceased with the passing of the apostles, and thus believed it so. Well one of the daughters, Renee, contracted a serious disease (I don't remember what) and it would eventually be seriously deabilitating. So they began to pray for her and eventually got a group to pray over her. This group involved a lot of people similar to them in understandings of Spiritual gifts. Well, they start praying over her and all of a sudden there is an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, a baptism of the Holy Spirit. She gets healed, people start speaking in tongues and God moves powerfully. So now, this has enabled them to do awesome ministry in sharing this but also in deliverence ministries. So this whole past semester I have been learning about the baptism of the Holy Spirit in my class on Acts and from the Stephs and others, and now sometime this week I am going to be prayed over by this family and others and see what happens. I really think God will move, I expect Him to, I know that this is something He wants me to experince and know. So I will definitely follow up on that (and call Moss and Pavi).
Other than that I have been learning from my quiet times and in prayer that God wants me to know Him as my refuge and my strength, and what better way to test that than next semester. It will be a busy one and I will be forced to rely on God, which is awesome. I also am finding new strength in being single, which is dope. Ummm, what else? Oh yeah, I also am asking God to show Himself as a lion to me. He is both lamb and lion, I know His lamb nature but I desire to learn that reverent awe of Him (one would show a lion). Well I think that is about it, I will update later about everything, I believe that I will take advantage of this day and play EXTREME bochee ball (Chavis style, straight up!) so have a good one and keep the love yo!