Connections to the Past

Can I just start by saying that God is awesome? I hope so, cause I just did!

It's amazing to me how he ties things together, working in a timescale so foreign to us. Right now, my church is preparing to start a Sunday night church service at Hope University in Fullerton. I'm with the initial team that's preparing ourselves to minister through this. And the connection to my prayers for CSUF from 2-3 years ago is astounding. For instance, our first meeting was two years to the day after AJ, Eleanor, Jessica, Doug and I had a worship meeting at Hope...in the same room. Or take today. We had one of the strangest church services ever. We started by random fun/embarrassing stuff. You know, making many of the elders rap, mucho random dancing, and forcing every guy there to do a ballet impression...you know, good times. Then we turned to worship. I wish I could remember Chris' exact words, but in essence he told us how the Hebrew word(s) for worship were linked to the concept of radical abandonment (well, he named a different concept, but it's close). In short, in the Hebrew, worship is a crazy time, not a calm one. So the worship team played When the Spirit of the Lord, and the 40-60 of us there did exactly what we sang we would do. Danced, jumped, sang, clapped. We continued with other songs, eventually demonstrating the theme of freedom. Which, incidentally, was the theme of that worship meeting back in 2005. In fact, during a prophetic flow moment, Dana was singing words that I'm pretty sure matched parts of Jason Upton's Freedom. Which was the central song of that worship meeting. Then, I saw a continuation of a vision from the worship meeting. Incidentally, that worship meeting tied into some spiritual warfare that ended an oppression against worship in CSUF's Crusade group...

As if that wasn't enough, consider some more random bits. Also in 2005, myself, Jessica, and a couple of other crusaders whose names I'm forgetting did a Jericho siege on our campus. I had a vision during that where I saw us erecting a barrier which contained the demonic forces which have influence on our campus. I also saw how God was sending reinforcements our way.

Or how about prayer walks? In the fall of 2004, Crusade had regular prayer walks on Campus. During the first, much cool stuff happened, and we expected it to continue, and for God to double our numbers. Instead, we all got burnt out, and one by one stopped coming to the prayer walks. But in the spring of 2007, there was a new prayer walk. And there were exactly twice the number of people as in the 2004 one...

Or how about multi-campus unity? The idea first showed up during 2004's fall retreat. It didn't happen for a long time. Now, it's really begun, including the first LA Metro all-campus prayer meeting this last Spring.

God is working something crazy! I'm excited. There's several other visions and prophecies I've left out as well. I'll have to organize and review the ones I have organized...I'm sure to find even more!