The same day I got back from my bicycle trip to Long Beach, I was off on another trip. This time my friends Sam and Robert and I took off by car to Redlands to the East.
My friend Sam came back sometime in the last 3 months from Mozambique. He was at the Iris School. It turned out that I had already met 2 of Sam's friends each one individually who had been there with him. They were over in Redlands that night along with a good amount of other one's who had been there in Mozambique.
When my friend Sam came back God had given him an intense revelation of His grace. As he has been explaining to me again and again the implications of the finished work of the cross I have been weighing out his words and been getting wrecked. I have found intense reason to know the scripture even more, I want to make sure what I hear and recieve, not just from Sam, is truth.
Sam introduced Robert and me to this community of people up in Redlands, they are amazing. I know I was there from Salem, but there were people there who had driven around 3 or 4 hours from Sandiego. It was a Holy Spirit party. The main theme I got as these people came together young and old was, "He did it" We worshiped just launching right off the platform of fullness.
I was having a bit of a hard time, even before i was there. The love tanks were low. Which is painful. I miss the familiar embrace of friends and family. God did something pretty incredible. My friend Robert, and APU student, whom I had been talking to, told me suddenly that, "God, asked if He could love me through him." And then immediately tackled me in this huge hug. It was very powerful for my heart. One of my pains has been in loving an invisible God; when do I get to hug Him? I long for his embrace. This was closer than just hugging Him through his people. My friend told me it was like God put him on like a glove. It was so good. May I just say, God knows our hearts so much.
We spent the night at Jerad's house; one of Sam's buddies. There were probably 12 or 13 people who slept over at his house that night. I went to sleep very soon after we got there. In the morning we had an amazing breakfast and just had an amazing time together. Before we left all these people originally from California, Oregon, and Washington, and beyond, we blessed the West Coast and what God is doing in Cali, Oregon, and Washington and thanked God for the ability to walk in all that He has for us.
When we got back, I actually was able to deposit some money in the bank.Communications will be solved soon. I have a baking job possibly lined up I need prayer over that. God had been showing me that my baking would be important for down here too.
When I was in Long Beach God woke me early and spoke to me some things about why I will be placed where he places me, as I put down roots here too. I was so grateful to hear from him so clearly.
Also I returned to my friend Bob's house for a prayer meeting or bible study. I recieved a word that really launched off a theme that God had started to speak to me about a week before I left Oregon. That was an intense one, it gave some clarity about the season I am in. God is so good!
More Later! :)
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