Sixth

Revival is here. Right now. Real time. I just got back from a five day glory encounter split into two conferences. The first three days, I was at a year seven to nine PG1, power generation one, camp. The Lord moved radically in those three days. There was no build-up to the last night encounter. There was no convincing that God was real. The people came, ready to meet, in a state of hunger and the knowledge that He was there. Having experienced high school retreats, I could tell from the very beginning that the Lord was releasing a new thing. A new hunger and desire to know God as he can be known. As we were worshipping, I walked around praying for students and I was surprised at the words the Lord was giving me. There were actually nation shakers in the room. There were actually people that would change thousands of peoples lives. All they needed was someone to tell them. Students were weeping as they were realising the very reason they were created, the very reason the Lord loved them. It was crazy. One of the boys, who was notably one of the more rebellious ones, was kneeling unable to move and in convulsive weeping as he was being encountered with a love like no other. This was happening across the room. Not one single person was left out. This is the stuff I read in books about revival.

As I spoke to some of the students afterwards, I noticed a recurring theme the Lord was releasing. A people that were addicted to His presence. That everything else was rubbish compared to His love and presence. They didn't need someone at the front to formally announce the beginning of 'worship time.' People were on their faces in worship even before that. The last night, Pastor Oh released the call to follow Jesus. To actually lay everything down, belongings, desires and our very lives to follow Him. ALL of them went and answered the call. NOT ONE was left behind. At this point, you've got to ask yourself, "what the heck is going on here?" I'm praying for some guys and I'm saying "you might even die!" And all they did was scream, "YES!" YES I WILL FOLLOW JESUS NO MATTER THE COST!

Ok, so from one surreal experience I went to another. I would say even crazier than the last. From glory to glory. This was a two day conference with a church called Open Door Church. They had a massive influx of people lately and felt it appropriate to hold an easter conference. Pastor James, being the guest speaker invited, asked a couple of people to come. The first session just turned into a restoring of, the image of the Father and how he views them. People were weeping as they finally realised that God wasn't some calm, cool, collected Father but He was actually insanely in love with us. Several girls got wrecked has they finally realised that they were beautiful and the Lord valued them. Jesus just began to destroy inadequacy and rebuild value in people's lives. And from this place of the revelation of the love of God, the next session turned into a destroying fear festival. Dozens of people destroyed various fears in their lives, whether it be fear of man, or fear of stepping into their identity, or fear of failure. BOOM. Destroyed. Gone. It was nuts.

Ok, here's where it went wild and all sense of what was truly real slipped out the window. The pastor of the church and his wife, repented to each other and the entire congregation of their lack. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN! EVER! Especially in a Korean church. He is on his knees weeping in-front of the Father and his wife and the people he is leading in repentance. Blew my mind away. What humility! The Lord released a new thing in that place. People that didn't know that they could hear from God were prophesying over their home suburb Chatswood. Radical transformation in the entire church. I was tired from lack of sleep and just getting wrecked countless times. I have no idea how to process this. It doesn't seem appropriate to just write this down somewhere. It doesn't even seem appropriate to tell as many people as I can. The ONLY appropriate response that I know of, is to worship. Again and again and again. Revival is here. I'm absolutely positive of it. I'm so excited.

Fifth

What a crazy journey it's been! I'm finally back at home. It's been almost a week now. It's weird being back at home. Much is going on my heart. I remember during debrief back in Kona one of the things that Jeff said that struck me was that he wasn't going to teach us how to transition back in, because we were never meant to. As I have been back, I was aware of the natural desire or even pressure to settle back to the 'norm' and stop being radical. To stop being a voice and stop expressing the extravagance of God. Even when I hang out with some of my closest friends that love the Lord, I feel challenged to live out in a more radical lifestyle. To destroy and ruin the ordinary. To ruin what it looks like to be a normal Christian. To again, raise the bar of what radical is. Radical is no longer sharing the gospel on the streets. Radical is no longer the Holy Spirit coming down and touching our hearts. I don't want to down play that and say it isn't amazing, cause it truly is! But what if our desires and dreams were bigger? What if, instead of asking how we make better the praise team, the things we did and the strategies we asked of the Lord was to end sex-trafficking in Sydney and to see all the brothels and strip clubs closed? The Lord's love continues to shape my character and life in such a way that re-defines everything!

As the Lord is challenging me to continue to increase in craziness and increase absolute love for Him I'm getting blown away. I get so tired everyday because I'm literally pouring my heart out to people. Spiritually the Lord fills me up, but physically sometimes my body can't take it. It's so fun though. Together being blown away just by how good He is. Seeing strongholds in my friends' and my own life. I love it! The Lord has placed this crazy desire for community on my heart. I can no longer not live in community. Not that family is not a community, but it's just different. I have yet to put that to words. But just experimenting and living out authentic, intentional community centered around the presence of God excites me to the very core of my being. I come alive talking about it. The Lord created me for this. The specifics aren't important right now, but the desire is there. I believe the Lord will continue to speak more and more of what it looks like and how to do it. Actually, he might not. But He's awesome.