entering the presence of God...

so last night we had ALIVE again...its been 2 weeks since we've met and so we were super excited to get back together. Friends of ours, Erika Sanborn and Nate Tysk came to the meeting and they shared some things that God put on their hearts. they talked about prayer and learning Gods character. They talked about Daniel 10 and John 15. really good, powerful stuff. learning to just sit and listen to God. listen to the things He tells us and then act on them. when names or things pop into our heads while praying, we need to pay attention to it and pray about it. ask for God to reveal His heart to us so we know what He wants, what is on His heart, so that we can get to know Him better and learn who He wants us to be.
it was a really great time...God really spoke through them. Erika shared a passage from Song of Solomon, about how intense God's love is. and how seriously we need to take it. how He deserves our love...He wants to love us like this.
Song of Solomon 8:5-8
Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the LORD.
7Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
he would be utterly despised.

And after all that - we had a prayer time. we sat for about a half hour and just listened. and prayed according to what the Spirit spoke to us. it was really powerful and we were able to spend time praying over each other and just listening to God. it was a really beautiful time, just getting to know God more.
and we got to pray with more people individually afterward. SUCH a blessing for us to be able to just pray over people and just take that time to spend with God. i love it SO much!!! i love seeing God take the time to speak into the lives of them and just see God work. its so beautiful and i am SO excited to see what God is going to use them for.
and we ended the evening with a little game called ninja...:)
i just am so grateful for friends and for a God who is faithful and personal and who speaks to us so clearly and just wants to reveal Himself to us. God is SO good!
my prayer now is that we continue to pay attention to God's voice when He speaks, that we dont brush it off and move on with our own thoughts, but that we listen and learn how to hear God. that we get to know more and more of His character and His heart and in that just become so close to Him...that we experience Him all the time, in new ways and just FALL IN LOVE with Him.
i love this team...it is SUCH a blessing to me and i could not be more grateful that God allows us to be a part of His plan...