Week 5 & 6 of DTS - Amazing

I apologize for not writing week 5, but I was really busy. I am going to give a quick summarization.

Week 5 was on the topic of The Holy Spirit and our speaker was Mike Esposito. Mike was AMAZING!!! He gave me so much clarification on the Holy Spirit. I grew up in a church that talked often about the Holy Spirit, but Mike's teachings taught me so much that I did not know, or was never explained to me. Now, don't get me wrong... I really like the church that I grew up in, maybe I just wasn't paying close attention when there were sermons on The Holy Spirit. Anyway, Mike had to leave early on Friday because his flight did not have a crew, so his teachings had to be cut short. All of Thursday was spent in prayer, he went around with some of the staff praying for people just waiting on God. What he prayed for me about was really good. I would like to share it with you, but it is kinda personal.

Then on Saturday I packed for the GO! Conference in Colorado. We left at 5 in the morning for a 12 hour van ride to Colorado, where we stayed at Valerie's (on of the staff members) aunts house. Then on Monday we had another 3 hours to go before we got to our destination: Estes Park, (YMCA of the Rockies). We had a time of worship and a short service at 7pm until 9:30 pm. The worship was AMAZING, I have never been able to worship God the way that I did this whole week. Then on Tuesday, I totally surrendered my life over to God, for Him to use me - completely. I also gave back to Him everything that He has given to me. My life here on this earth short, and how I see it... God created people to spread the Good News (in other words known as The Gospel). Therefore, why not let God use me for His purpose rather than for my own purpose. Anyway, Tuesday was the most intense day for me, however all of the other nights were pretty intense. I cried every night during worship due to the Holy Spirit working in my life. All of the speakers were really good as well. I was able to walk away with something that I did not know, that I could apply to my life. On Friday, we had a time of worship and intercession from 9 am - 11 am. We prayed for everyone is going out to other countries for short term or long term missionary ministry. Then we had lunch and after lunch we set out for a 15 hour van ride. The van ride to and from Colorado was the worst part of it all. It was so uncomfortable, but the experience that I had was so AMAZING that I don't even think about the van ride. We got back to the Training Center around 9 am on Saturday. I took a nap for about 3 hours, but I was still extremely tired. So today I ended up sleeping a total of 11 hours. It felt amazing! :o)

God is still speaking to me and slowly revealing to me what it is that He wants me to do. I am unsure of the specifics, therefore I am going to wait until I know more about what it is that I am going to be doing with my life, before I start to tell people. God is giving me "teaspoons" by revealing to me what it is that He wants for my life, and I know that if he showed me the whole picture then I would be completely overwhelmed. Right now I am already overwhelmed, however this is an excited kind of overwhelming feeling.

Well, I think that is a pretty good summarization. However, I will leave you with this: Psalms 33 . For me, Psalms 33 sums up what I was able to experience for this last week.