holy spirit Let it rain..

Last week we had the amazing privilege to hear Amy Sollars speak on the topic of the Holy Spirit. and let me tell ya..she is the woman to do it! Her testimony and her experience with the supernatural and holy spirit are insane and so encouraging.. we have the power of the holy spirit INSIDE of US, and through him miraculous signs and wonders can be performed :) This Holy Spirit topic can easily make people turn off or ignore because it is something that is so difficult to understand. Amy provided lots of biblical references backing up everything. main focus this week was teaching us to have a relationship with the holy spirit..he is a very real part of the trinity, not just some Casper ghost, one of the God head, the 3rd person. God walked in the garden with Adam and eve..Jesus walked with the disciples and now we walk with the holy spirit. This week was on FIRE with the holy spirit. He out poured and manifested (def: a showing forth) himself in ways I've never seen before! it was incredible to see. As Amy would say "He's my friend, and if hes my friend then he shows up..and when he shows up..things happen ;) . We learned about some of the different representations of the holy spirit: fire, oil, dove, finger of God, water, and wind/breath. As well as the different gifts of the spirit (1 Corinthians 12). She broke it down like this..

Revelation Gifts..supernaturally REVEAL something..the eyes of God:
words of wisdom, words of knowledge, discerning of spirits
Power Gifts..supernaturally DO something...the hands of God
faith, healing, miracles
Vocal Gifts...supernaturally SAY something...mouth of God
prophecy, tongues, and interpretation of tongues

Wednesday night we have an incredible time of ministry and worship.. the chorus we sang and the volume we sang..so loud and so beautful! we were all crammed in the classroom and tons of other classes and people on campus were joining in because of the incredible out pouring of the Lord that was going on. fresh baptism of his spirit..joyful singing...it was like no other night i have ever been a part of! Thursday night at our weekly all campus Ohana meeting..the Lord really revealed himself again through another POWERFULL night of ministry and worship. Thank you Lord so much for meeting us so much throughout the week!!
..since I suck a words and voicing and putting into words how I feel...here is an excerpt of my good friend Elizabeth's blog, so you can get a better feel how that night went :)..

"So the first day was good. Second day was better. Third day... day of resurrection it felt like, haha. Friends of mine who completely put some of the gifts of the spirit in a "heck no" box... all the sudden were being filled with the gift of tongues... Friends who struggled for the past 6 weeks with questions and finding truth in what God thinks about things... began to experience God in those places... breakthrough was happening all around me. I not only saw it with my eyes, but I was hearing with my ears the testimonies, I could feel the joy of the Lord rising up inside of me, and my doubts were being turned into beliefs. Wednesday night came and we had ministry night with Amy and "Phase 3" students (part of Fire & Fragrance ministry here at YWAM). Call 2 All (another DTS going on right now) also joined us as we went after the heart of God. From 630 - 930 (when we got kicked out of the building for being too loud), we worshiped... Singing, Dancing, Shouting, Interceding, Laughing, Praying in tongues, Joining with Angels in loving Jesus and being loved by God... fully walking in the Holy Spirit. For me to explain what happened this night, would not even come close to the breakthrough that each one of us felt. Like I said before, we were joined by Angels. Worship was a little rough in the beginning, but then we asked God to come down in our midst and take over - and He did. We started singing this melody and you could feel the atmosphere shift. There were voices that were not earthly, and the volume of the singing could not have been from our small group. It was incredibly ridiculous how beautiful that sound was, and how it could never be replaced by anything earthly... Heaven invaded earth last Wednesday night."

let it rain..let it rain..
open the floodgates of heaven..
let it rain..let it rain

let it rain
let it pour
like its never rained before


you can view all of Amy notes that she taught us at www.amysollars.com