07/20/2010

Week 2.5 of ITI

Posted in Uncategorized at 6:45 pm by Nix

Ever had a message repeated to you by different people on different days? Maybe a number that follows you around everywhere you go? Or how about a prophecy given!?!

Guess what? It’s really all the same thing for me in this situation! God has really been trying to get through to me that He is going to provide because He is my shepherd!

1. So about one week ago I started to study Psalm 23 in depth. For example, I studied the first three verses, and have three pages of notes on it! And like what I got from it was that if God is like my shepherd, He must know everything about me. A shepherd has got to know his sheep! He needs to know when they will be hungry, when they are tired, when they are thirsty, He knows when one is being non-social; He knows His flock. As does God know us. SO if He knows us and what we need, “we shall not want” because He knows what we want and need!
2. Then last Wednesday night at our home groups, we knew we were going to prophecy over one another  but we didn’t know who! So we got an envelope of who were going to prophecy over, we then had ten minutes to download from the Lord what He wanted this person to know. Well, as I am writing all this stuff down, I’m thinking to myself “wow, me and whoever this is would really get along because this stuff in here is really applicable to me too!” Turns out we all ended up doing it over ourselves! It was amazing! I do remember a vivid vision that I had of a girl running frantically through a forest and off to the left was a clear path that led to this beautiful waterfall, and after the crash of the fall, it was just a calm stream, trickling on by. Trees and green grass was all around the still water and then I felt like the Lord said “this is what Psalm 23:1-3 looks like.” Amazing!
3. Then I am at the Awakening one night and during the time of worship I am singing Psalms 23 back to the Lord. Well Wes called out a prayer for healing so I raised my hand and my friend starts praying. Now, she is in the middle of her prayer for me and she stops and goes “I just feel like the Lord wants you to know He is your Shepherd!” I freak out in hysterical laughter and just am stunned. I am like “Okay God! I get it! I trust you!!!”
4. Then I was riding in the car with two friends, and I said to the Lord that I wasn’t really going to engage in the conversation and that I would let the two sitting up front talk. Well, one way or another I get in the conversation and we are talking about my friend’s first day on the job as a security person at IHOP. He said his first night on the job he noticed this guy writing down all these verses on  paper and handing them out to folks. Well he one left and gave it to my friend. As he is telling us he is like I think it was a Psalm, I mutter in my head “yeah right, it’s not going to be Psalm 23″. Well he goes “yeah yeah! It was Psalms 23!” My jaw drops and I am stunned!! Okay God!!! I’m gettin’ it! Psalms 23 okay!!
5. Now, just like an hour ago, I am on facebook and I want to put a really cool, in depth and really cool status up. So I say on there “I need a verse of the day or week. Got any suggestions anyone?” So my friend Jannell writes on there “Psalms 23!” ….. wow. lol.  ok.

So all in all, I am learning that I need to get it! Really “get it”!  Also, another cool thing, is during our first week of class we had usher training, and it was super fun! Although, they were saying something that if someone is sinigng really loud to tell them to be quiet and instantly I got this fear put in me that I couldn’t sing because I was going to be told to be quiet and that makes me feel like people don’t want to hear me sing. (I am quite sensitive, which is a gift from God, but in the wrong setting can be stepped on.) So one night, my friend Bret comes up to me and tells me “Hey, I really appreciate you singing harmony and just singing over me this morning” and wow.. I started crying like crazy. It was amazing. THE NEXT MORNING, I woke up to lead some worship at home and I played a song my friend Josh and I wrote, only  I didn’t sing.. but it is based out of Song of Solomon 2. I go to class and we have our worship time, and again fear grips me. I am singing, but softly. Anyways, I was praying in my mind “God give him a word please, that will show me that it is ok for me to sing.” Oh God, this makes me tear up writing this. As we are worshipping Chris Ferguson, goes I feel like the Lord is saying this out of Song of Solomon: (it reads) 2:8 “Let me hear your voice, let me see your face, for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.” I broke down crying like letting it all out. So Bret comes up to me and starts praying and wow.. it was just amazing. Praise God!

Switching subjects, PRAYER REQUESTS:
-I am having a really bad sore throat, headache and neck pain
-Pray for myself and all others in this internship to encounter the love of God that reveals all understanding of Him

Switching subjects, UPCOMING EVENTS/RANDOM NEWS:
-This month GOD HAS PROVIDED ALL MY NEEDS INCLUDING RENT, BILLS ARE PAID, AND I AM EATING!
-I believe I am going to do the second track of ITI which is $600 and if you would like to help me in any way, please contact me!
-I do still need money for the next two months, so if you would like to help in that way, I would really like to discuss the whole thing with you so that you can see where you are benefitting out of it!

Thank you for taking the time to read this and pair your heart with mine in this journey I am on! And PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU NEED ME TO PRAY FOR YOU FOR ANYTHING! EMAIL ME AND I WILL KEEP MY WORD TO LIFT YOU UP AND INTERCEDE FOR YOUR PRAYERS TO BE MET!

With the Love of Christ, and many blessings upon you!
Niki

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