Over the past few months, God’s been challenging me. Throughout my life I’ve seen His Spirit move in miraculous ways—whether through physical healings, words of knowledge, or the outpouring of His Spirit—but over time, I’ve found myself occasionally questioning if He’s actually moving at any given moment. For instance, when a worship set would be powerful, I’d love it and hop in, but at the same time, I’d question in the back of my mind if this was really Him or just nice music.
Turns out it wasn’t me being astute to question His moving, but rather was me struggling to say “yes” to how He wanted to move in me. This is what He’s been confronting in me.
Over the past 2 months, I’ve been able to go on 2 incredible trips, one to Mexico as a mission trip and one to Fayetteville, NC as a youth camp. In each trip, I approached it with openness to whatever God wanted to do, but also hesitation over if He was really going to move powerfully. I’ve seen God move before, but like I said, I had this question lingering in the back of my mind.
However, on each of these trips, God immediately began to move in powerful ways. In Mexico, people received emotional healing from traumatic memories and life hurts, where they had fear and hesitation, they now had joy and confidence. In NC, students began to not only meet God for the first time through prayer and prophetic words, but also through miraculous physical healings all week long. God was moving; it was undeniable.
What was the common theme in these situations? People said “yes” to Him. That’s what He began to hammer home to me.
Open up a painful memory so you can see how He’s always been there? Yes. Invite Him into your heart during worship, even if it looks silly? Yes. Give Him a chance to physically heal you, and choose to run after Him whether or not it happens? Yes.
God pouring out His Spirit into our lives, giving us opportunities to live a miraculous life with Him, but it’s on us if we choose to receive it. So I ask you, will you say yes?
“And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.” (Acts 2:17-18, ESV)