"Monday, July 9th" MO Trip Pt. 2

In case you were especially observant and noticed the title of this blog, yes I do know that yesterday was in actuality July 5th and not the 9th. But it might as well of been because last night at the camp service, it was like something you'd expect on the last day of camp: everyone (and I do mean everyone) engaged in radical worship, teenagers praying and prophesying over each other, bondages falling off...it was pretty intense!
Things started off with a prayer session. I could tell that there were some hungry kids as they went after it and prayer, but some seemed to have let the heat and business of the day slow them down a little. Worship began and the first three songs was good, but once we got into "Healer", things began to get crazy.
Something in the atmosphere shifted and intense worship broke forth, and Ken whispered over to me "Why not now"? I went up there and began to exhort on how we need to stop just thinking that God can and believe that God will! So we began to pray over the sick and hurting.
The band, named Fuller's Field, played Revelation Song and How He Loves back to back, which was amazing! I sat everyone down after that and preached for 10 on Elijah at Mt. Carmel and the falling of fire. I told them to bring whatever plagues them to the altar, and let the God who answers by (fire) change be God and destroy every work of the devil! So we began to pray over the students.
Pastor Ken got up soon after and began to exhort about how the violent take it by force and that should be demonstrated in our worship.
So we continued in radical, violent, free worship.
Later I released them to pray love and joy over eachother, to prophesy and build up eachother! There was just such a radical sense of His joy in the place!
I wasn't planning to preach for only 10 minutes, but who cares? I stated in my first blog that I just want to see what Holy Spirit is doing and run with that. As a minister I want to be a steward of God's presence, not a preacher with an agenda. To be used less is actually to be used more! When you let God work outside of your help, things can really get crazy.
The hunger in their eyes as I told them we have 4 more days to pursue God was amazing to behold.I'm looking forward to what God will continue to do over these next four days! So I know that it wasn't July 9th, but I'm glad that God made what we thought would be the ceiling the floor of all that is to come!