Feeling good…

I am feeling good yesterday and today! Praise the Lord!

I guess it was a 24 hour thing that I was sick with. Praise the Lord that He is faithful and I am feeling good!!

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I have have a couple more days left before I leave for my road trip to Florida. Until then, my days are full of prayer room time with Jesus, wonderful time with friends, eating yummy foods and getting things packed up.

I like to cheat when it comes to packing. I usually do my laundry a couple days before, then I fold it all in my hamper, and put it in my car. And there it stays until I get home and unload. Easiest way to pack ever. Well, except that it is in the 30’s -50’s here in North Carolina, and it is not that weather in Florida. So I will have to adjust some. But still, I’m feeling good about my easy packing and my road trip!

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Something else I’m feeling good about is worshiping Jesus! Oh man was today spectacular! We had to leave the actually physical room of the prayer room early today. They were installing a new sound system. So the 6 or 7 of us headed to a small  back room and decided to do prayer and worship there.

Well, my friend David Rickman who I posted about here, went to a house of prayer in California called the Refuge House of Prayer. Something they did there was have every person in the room sing through a chapter in the Psalms. He said it was awesome. So that is what we decided to do today.

Everyone sang, regardless of whether you could sing or not. It was powerful! We did it for about an hour and a half. We sang through chapters 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, and 100. Each person did a different chapter. Wow was it amazing. We just sang scripture. It does something to your heart, because The Word is living and active!

A quick testimony of the power of singing the scriptures and to make myself vulnerable:

I was really struggling as we came into this meeting. The Lord was really showing things in my heart, and I was battling with taking every thought captive. Love was not in my heart in these moments. It was really awful. And I didn’t want to sing the Psalms. I can’t sing, and so therefore I wasn’t going to. So everyone else sang a chapter. And by the time they all finished like 6 chapters, my heart was completely softened. I had been singing and declaring the praises of the Lord and the goodness of the Lord and I couldn’t stay in the attitude that I was in. If I was, then it would be a conscious decision to not be in the Lord’s presence and I wasn’t about to do that. So I gave in and sang with the rest of them. Then we got to chapter 97 and everyone else had sang. And all of them looked at me. One gently nudges me with his foot, the other loudly exclaims, “come on, Manders!” I knew I was supposed to sing. I wanted to sing. The words already had the power to melt my hardened heart. But I cannot sing. But I had to do it, so after they encouraged me some, and the guitarist found a chord progression I could try to sing to, I began. And by the second or third line I was belting it!

There was freedom for me in this! By the end of it, I was intoxicated with the presence of the Lord. It was amazing! God is so wonderful and beautiful and I want to declare His works and His goodness to all people! He is amazing! He reigns over all this earth. Whether you want Him to or not, and whether you believe He does or not. His existence and position does not changed based on mere humans beliefs.

He is alive and He is reigning! Bless God!