Holy Spirit

Last week a man full of the Spirit AND Truth of God named Barry spoke to our DTS about the Person of the Holy Spirit. I'm warning you now... what you are about to read might be a bit different or unusual, but I am not posting a doctrine here, but my experience and personal revelation from God in my life. So choose now to keep reading, and I hope that maybe the Spirit is speaking to you even now...
For a few months now (even before DTS) God has been speaking to me about the power of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. Around November, God started showing me how the same power that raised Christ from the dead is alive and at work in me! That is POWER. And not just a power to love, power to forgive, and power to give my life away. It is all those things. But... what did Jesus do? He did those things, yes. But... he also healed people. He did miracles. He raised people from the dead. He cast out deamons! Yes. Does my life look like that? Nope. It does a little more now, but barely. Jesus said we would do even greater works than he did! What on earth does this mean? I believe it means that he can do these things through me... and not just in his ability to, but that he WILL.
I used to think that this only happened in other nations, far away and removed from me and the relationship with God that I had. God has shifted, rocked, and revoloutionized this view within me. Because this view really limits myself, and you know what? It really limits GOD.
So... this week, I told God yes. If you are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and you wanted to make yourself known in the supernatural in the Old Testament and through Jesus in the new testament and the apostles, then why wouldn't you be moving in these ways today?? I started to really believe and ask God to make Himself known to me. He opened my eyes to a whole new side of Him that I had never walked in before. And I asked God to make that part of Him one with me and me one with that part of Him!
So... I'm not going to talk about all the teaching I received, even though it was some incredible, life-changing stuff. But what I really want to emphasize is my experience of the Holy Spirit, the most exciting, radical, fun Person I have ever met! Ever since meeting Him, I felt a new authority be unleashed during that momemt and from that moment on-- a new strength and empowerment to be able to take on the character of Christ in a supernatural way, where I saw his character formed in me, like out of control (like the Mona story)!
And what is so awesome about all of this is what a respecter of Persons God is. I haven't been scared or needed to walk in fear, even though God is leading me into a ton of new stuff with him. Because he is so gracious to work with me exactly where I am at. He understand me and respects me. He is never forceful with me, but he gives me the exact amount of grace that I need when I need it to walk in.
Most of the stuff I experienced this week, I cannot describe in words on a blog, but I am SO excited about coming home and being to tell whoever of you wants to know about everything he has done in me and for me this week. I am truly experiencing a part of God, beautiful, exciting, extraordinary, radical, fun, new, and more and more.
Thank you all SO SO much for your love and support. You are all such a beautiful part my life and this journey, and I am so blessed as always. Your prayers are changing me, so thank you, thank you. I can't say it enough. Sorry if this was vague. I just cannot put into words what He did in me last week. Sometimes words are not enough.

"When you are loved, you no longer fear change nor are you afraid to change. When you love, you are willing to embrace a sacrifice of change and make the sacrifices to change. When you live a life of love, you are not bound to who you are, but who you will become. Love transforms. It leaves nothing it touches as it was before. The only thing you need to change is love."
-Erwin McManus
Wide Awake p. 87

christy