I don't know if any of you follow me on Instagram, twitter or are a friend of mine on facebook, but if you are, you have heard a little bit about this "youth convention." Anyways, I'm going to tell you!
North Dakota Youth Convention was helded in fargo at First Assembly (home church), and it was a 3 day convention with slightly over 1,000 kids attending. The previous year, we only had 600, so I don't know, God is super ready to use these little North Dakotan kids to start a revival on this earth.
ANYWAYS, Pastor Sean Smith was our guest speaker, (someone give me an 'amen!') If you don't know him, i'll just tell you he is amazing, has a SICK testimony and travels to different conferences preaching. He does a lot with Jesus Culture! Go follow him on twitter @RevSeanSmith.
Anyway, Sean spoke both thursday night and friday night, and I want to tell you a bit about how cool and amazing friday night was- don't get me wrong, thursday was sweet as well, but friday was a true Holy Ghost party!
Friday night Sean was preaching, and I'll just share a couple notes I took while he was preaching.
1. We must break free from the hypnotic trends of modern culture.
-because great masses of our generation feel unimportance.
2. Break through the intoxication cloud of our age.
3. Break INTO the power dimension of God.
DANG! am I right? Now, you're probably like Okay, Paola, where are you going with this? I thought this night was crazy and a awesome Holy Ghost party!-- Don't worry, I'm getting there!
Here comes the exciting part!! Sean normally doesn't do this, but he said, and I quote: "I normally don't do this, but I really feel the Holy Spirit moving and the start of a revival!"
He then continued to open up the altar for healings. They (Sean and his assistant Todd) started getting specific words of knowledge and pointing out sections of rows of our church saying There is a person here, a female, who needs healing for this specific thing, and followed by praying for them. They would point people out from the crowd and tell them something that no one else knew about them! This went on for quite a while and the cool thing was the person who had just recieved prayer and gotten healed, was laying hands on another person immediately after! praise jesus!!
This isn't over! After a while of that, Sean said, God's not done in this place, I feel that that was just the first wave, and there's going to be a second wave that the Holy Spirit will do even more! SO then, we opened up the altar for baptisms in the Holy Spirit! If that doesn't make sense to you, let me just sum it up. There is baptism of water, and baptism of the Holy Spirit, where the Spirit comes upon you and fills you, and gives you a native tongue. It's often called praying in tongues, and it's the Holy Spirit coming upon you which gives you power! It is the tongue of angels. It speaks mysteries to God and not to men. It's in Acts 2 if you want to read a little more about it!!
Anyway, we opened up the altar for that, and over 100 kids who had never experienced the Holy Spirit in such a way, were baptised and FILLED with the Spirit! COME. ON!!!! So good! It was just amazing and the presence was so heavy and so loving! Our God is such a good God!! Over 100 kids felt the love of Jesus, our Father! It was incredible!
If that doesn't give you what I call, Holy Spirit goosebumps, I don't know what will!
That was a "short" version of my testimony of my weekend! Of how good our Father is!!! Ahhh! so good!
xo
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