Excitement

I have not felt as excited as I am right now since I arrived in Pittsburgh. I can hardly contain it. Cornerstone TV was amazing tonight – I spent an hour on the phones praying with callers, crying with them, standing with them while we prayed for everything under the sun. (Seriously. Catch me in person and I will tell you a crazy story!)

After CTV, we (P. Chris and P. Kate, Laura, Drew, Brendan, Bridget, and Holly) went out to eat. It was so much fun! I was really talkative (less than normal, but WAY more than normal in Pittsburgh!). I don’t know if I made a lot of sense, but I was so eager to talk about the amazingness of God after my time on the phone lines. I talked about the time Jolene got attacked at the Yellow Building and everyone came back to the sanctuary. I talked about that crazy Celtic band that played prophetically and the walls of our chapel literally shook. I talked about when that student got delivered at Praise Gathering! I talked about our beloved Sanctuary at NCU and how we spent hours into the night there. God has done so many amazing things at NCU! I don’t think I made any sense; I was too excited!

I forgot to talk about the glitter that appeared all over the altar and on people’s hands. (If you ever see me inspecting my hands at the altar, now you know why!)

I talked about God sized dreams ~ a few weeks ago, I was praying for Japan and I found myself praying that one person would get saved. I felt like God was telling me to pray bigger. So I prayed, “Fill the church.” Bigger. “Osaka?” Bigger. “Osaka and Tokyo?” Bigger. “Japan?!” Even bigger. “All of Asia???” I asked God. This seemed big enough, so I began to pray for all of Asia to be saved. After praying in faith for an entire continent, I realized how little my faith had been just minutes earlier. I couldn’t believe my dream was only for one person (this is not about the APC one person vision). God’s plans are so much bigger than ours! The only way they won’t get accomplished is if we don’t get on board! I don’t know about you but that makes me want to jump up and down with excitement! Imagine – not just the North Hills, not just Pittsburgh, not just Pennsylvania, but the entire US saved! ~ That’s a God sized dream that He can use us to accomplish if we’re willing and ready to dream God sized dreams and walk in God’s power to do His will!

Something else that makes me excited: Jesus Life House. This is what a friend wrote in her blog today:

梅雨やね~
it’in rainy season…
ジトジト暑いよ～
its so humid and hot recently…
でもチャーチは良い意味で熱いで！！
but！ church is hot in a good way！

(if the characters don’t display right, it’s in Japanese.)

That makes me excited!

I often joke that “excited” is the word I use most. It’s true at school. I get so excited I run up and down the halls screaming and dancing! I get excited for EVERYTHING. But that excitement has been lost at Allison Park. I don’t know what happened. But the past is the past. I’m going to try my best to keep the excitement I have right now going strong!

I’ll post a link of the CTV program here soon!