I have had many attempts to try and create blogs but most of the time the have fallen through.
I feel like this time will be different. I pray that this Blog will encourage people wherever they are at of God faithfulness and goodness towards us. He has truly taken me on a beautiful journey and I pray that is doesn't stop.
I apologize in advance if I don't have the best grammar or spelling. I hope that the message can be communicated none the less. :)
The story begins a little farther back then June of this year. I want share with you how I went decided to go to Bethel. During my 3rd year at Briercrest God began to stir our School in a way that perhaps it hadn't seen in awhile. He effected me and whole student body. He began to reveal his character and the goodness of seeing all the gifts of the spirit work toward the common goal. He began to reveal to me personal the new ways in which he wanted to speak to me and through me. This was an exciting time and hard time. Because I didn't have much understand but new taht God did not want me to fight him. As well, I saw the fruit and geunine encounters that people where having which changed thier life for ever!
As this continue a teacher at school introduced us to a Podcast that began to give testimonys of healing. Spontaneous right before your eyes like Jesus did healings. Which blew my mind and encouraged me and left me giddy to see it happen. As well began to explain about prophetic evangelism.
Prophetic evangelism is witnessing and reaching out to unbelievers by hearing a specific word from God to address their need for salvation, healing and deliverance. It is different than ordinary evangelism because it doesn't just preach the gospel but seeks to speak into the individual's life with a specific word from the Lord to them about their spiritual condition. It is a demonstration of not only the conviction of the word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ but also a display of the power of the Spirit of God to minister specifically to an individual.
Cool! I just looked that up and that is a great summary of it! I would say that sort of what Bethel Church is all about.
As I left Briercrest God began to send me a journey to know more about this. He also was so faithful in healing many wounds known/unknown to me. I wanted to know more and more about the way he spoke. To me and to others! Curiousty and hunger arose in me.
This seeking lead me to look into Bethel Church more. I picked up "When Heaven Invades Earth" - Bill Johnston! Also began to listen to the Podcasts. Now this isn't about a person persay or a church. But just God in them , the Holy Spirit through them and the laid down love for Jesus. That I began to have something stirred with in me when I read or listened to the things that were coming out of Bethel. This sparked my attention and I began to think about what it would be like to attend there school. This was around January of 2008.
Then fast foward to July 2008. I heard of a Glory to Glory conference... Little did I know former students of Bethel Church were putting on a conference in a town 15 mins away from me. Here in Warman, Saskatchewan I was witness MIRACLES! Miracles like I have never seen. The anticpation was high for God almighty to work. I loved it and it again stirred up something in me that I couldn't deny. The questions an yearning to know felt like were being answered. But I watned to know more.
So a little after that I decided that this was the place I wanted to go next. To me Bethel Church was not just an excuse to venture out to California! But to me it was a 2 year yearning to KNOW. To know what happend in my 3rd year. To understand more about miracles, and prophecy and the gifts!
My excitment grew as I ventured out and though of Gods mysteries I would soon understand. He showed me too that it wasn't about this school too. Through this time up until I am writing to you. He has showed me he wants to pour out his spirit on all things. That miracles, sponatneous laughter, words want to be given at all time. He decides how they happen and to whom!
Even writing this now take a lot of courage. I have been hesitant to write what God has shown me. For fear of people leaving or rejecting me. Or not totally accepting me. So I encourage you if you have questions or disagree. Write me!
Now lets go to June 2009. This month changed so much in my life. Throughout this whole time I have never needed to ask for a physical healing in my life! :) But that all changed the morning I discovered that my throat was swollen and buldging. Wierd! I thought to myself and went to get blood tests. I discovered soon there after that I have been diagonosed with Graves Diease.
Graves' Disease is a type of autoimmune disease that causes over-activity of the thyroid gland, causing hyperthyroidism. This over-activity is also sometimes called "toxic diffuse goiter." The thyroid gland helps set the rate of metabolism, which is the rate at which the body uses energy. When the thyroid is too active, it makes more thyroid hormones than the body needs. High levels of thyroid hormones can cause side effects such as weight loss, rapid heart rate and nervousness. This is an uncommon disease that affects 2 percent of all women at some time in their lives. Graves’ Disease also tends to affect women between the ages of 20 and 40, although it occurs in infants, children, and the elderly.
As I found out about this it was recommend by Doctors that I stay back. This was such devasting news to hear. Because of the yearning and just the confirmation I felt from God that this truely was indeed the next place on the journey.
I have wrestled with concept of healing. How it works? And many other emotions. Because this blog is getting way to long I will try and condense. All this to say I came to the point where I said, and sense God is going to heal me! I felt that nudge in my spirit. "It will come" he said to me! I believe that God is going to do it. So I want to step out not the fears of what if. But in the sense that I am stepping out in What I believe he has called me too.
So right now I am awaitng an important appointment. I have my specialist appointment this Friday. This person is the determining factor of how to go from here. I am praying that when I get there that it hormone production will be compeletly leveled. I really want to avoid the next treatment plan which is RadioActive Idoine! Beleivng that God is going to have me normal and keep me there! So we shalll see what happens. How that looks like with everything and being down there and healthcare and such. :)
More miracles just awaiting to happen......
So I leave you with THANKS for reading! Thanks for your prayers and I will update on Friday or so. About how it all went!!!
Much love to you all!
Denise
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Denise, I find it a little disappointing that no one is commenting on your posts! Hopefully you are still receiving encouragement that these posts are good and worthwhile and beneficial to those who read them and to yourself. I enjoyed reading about your "third year experiences" and about how God shaped you and has majorly directed your life to where it is now through the work he did at school that year. It is amazing to think about the impact that that year at school had on so many people and is impacting them still and leading them all over the world. You said, "to me it was a 2 year yearning to KNOW. To know what happened in my 3rd year." Your yearning has lead you to Bethel, my yearning to figure out what happened that year has led me to Sri Lanka, and people have been led all over the world armed with the knowledge of Christ in them, that God showed us that third year. Anyways, this is a long comment. Thank you for sharing these posts with a faceless online community that doesn't want to leave comments ;)
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