WHOA BABY!! take 2~
so after such an amazing retreat with our jr higers i was honestly concerned about our sr high retreat. i didn’t want our jr highers to experience the Holy Spirit and our sr highers to wonder what the heck happened and why they missed out.
God is amazing. we left LHC @ 5pm friday and returned 3pm sunday overwhelmed by the person of the Holy Spirit. He met our group in a way i don’t think anyone was expecting.
oh man…it was awesome!
by saturday nite, the pump was primed and we were like buckets ready to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
we broke into one giant small group right after the session and went to chat about what God was doing. when i asked the group what God was doing, it stayed silent for about 20 minutes before someone spoke up. i really think God was ministering in that silence…really allowing His Spirit to continue to move and minister in ways no person ever could. after the 1st couple kids spoke up, we had the opportunity to pray for kids who really wanted to be prayed for. i wanted them to tell the group what they wanted Jesus to do for them…just like bartimaeus…
God then used all our small group leaders to really PRAY FOR the students…it was an amazing picture~
here’s the WORD DOC from everyone who wanted to document what God was doing in them…
here’s a couple i pulled out for the web:
-God’s presence was so distinct; the Holy Spirit filled the room. I’m so glad God is in control, because I’d of lost it long ago.
I’ve been caught in the middle of a bizarre, self-destructive world. All weekend I waited for a dramatic message from God. I wasn’t surprised when it didn’t come at once because I’ve been so distant. Right when I was expecting to get nothing out of the trip, it came; I felt an incredible peace while the band played and people slowly went up to nail their confessions onto the cross.
I have decided today that my life does have a purpose. I have decided that I am not worthless. God loves me and he will be with me no matter what. I will not lower myself to the ways of the earth because that has left me nothing but dead inside. I want life so I AM, for the first time in my life, going, not try, but really be with no hesitation in love with the Creator who loves the sinner I am. I AM NOT WORTHLESS!!!! So the worth that I have that God has given me is now going to shine through me like the light that shone through a now empty tomb. He took my sin, and I have turned my back on that sin. I am God’s now.
May 2nd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
wow. that’s cool! i dont know who wrote what but i read them all and they’re amazing! so did they do the same stuff as junior high because I know saturday night was a wave of pure greatness for the jr. high.