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This post is a guest post by Randy Vollrath.
In the past few months, God has been increasing the borders, FAITH, and stepping out of our/my comfort zones in many ways. In my life, in our church body, in our discipleship groups’ lives.
And it is a phenomenal thing!!
Prayer and expectation for a great move of God and the Holy Spirit have been manifested recently. A couple of weeks ago in one of our Church services, GOD asked me, What Do You Want?
I’d like to tell you my answer was instant, but at that moment, I had to think for a minute. But I answered, God, I want to see Miracles, More of you in my life, More of the Holy Spirit guiding me, More prophecy, and Peace and Joy.
Since that time, God has had my number. Literally and figuratively. I have always admired, respected and loved to be around men and women of God, and Prayer warriors. My Grandmother was an especially gifted prayer warrior. Well, suffice it to say, I always thought that was someone else’s gifting, someone else’s job. WRONG NUMBER!!!
After telling God what I wanted to see and do, he rang me up. In a way that was consuming, and easy enough to recognize, but stepping out was another thing.
I started feeling promptings, and a wonderful confirmation email came from a friend, forwarded by a great man, Dick Schroeder, a Chi Alpha minister who teaches as well on the Holy Spirit. My spirit man welt up with emotions of, that is exactly how I am feeling.
“Are you learning to recognize the promptings of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit often speaks to you as a thought that drops into your mind; words that you “hear” in your mind. An impression, or gentle urging to do or say something, or an impression that you should not do or say something, as if God is gently pulling back on the reins. You will develop the ability to accurately recognize the Holy Spirit’s promptings if you immediately obey what you hear. OBEDIENCE is the key. When you do what the Holy Spirit tells you, He will speak more to you. Why should He continue to speak to you if you haven’t done what He said last time? SO Listen, Listen Listen.” Dick Schroeder
In the next week, I had been asked to be part of the Prayer Team at church. Talk about an honor and blessing both. Not a week has gone by that there has not been promptings to pray over, with and give God Directed blessings to those God wanted to impart to.
My first one, though was a hard step. A young man in our youth group had been having some bad days/weeks. I had stopped to talk to him on Youth night, and told him I was praying for him. Well, Sunday morning service, and God said, you need to go and tell him this… I was like, well, God, that is clear across the church, and maybe I would tell him later, but not now during worship and prayer time. OK God, if he comes down to me during prayer time, I will certainly step up and tell him. Well, if he only comes down front, and lo and behold, he does move out at prayer time. OK GOD, here you go!!
So here I trod, clear across the front of the sanctuary, to this young man. For this time, nothing else was going on. Time stood still, I could not hear anything else going on. As I laid my hands on this young man, he was sort of expecting something. The words of prayer and knowledge were not of my own volition, but truly words from God Almighty.
The main intent of the words, were that he would be lifted out of depression, into a leadership position in the youth group and that he would be instrumental in many things.
Now you see, God had his number too, but had called mine to minister to him. It was exciting to see later, that on Facebook, he had mentioned that he had been called to leadership. We are set to get together and talk more about his calling and his newfound calling to youth leadership.