This week, I received an email from someone in our Blazing Fire family who wanted to share with me what she saw and experienced during worship this past Saturday night. It paints a picture of where the Lord has so faithfully been taking us these past few years together:
The walls around our hearts - the blanket of discouragement - was tangible to me when I entered the church, but our worship that Eric Perales lead us in changed all that!
As we sang the first song about how everything in our lives are tied to praise because of how much bigger & stronger Papa is than the darkness & difficulties we face - I could feel the place many of us were in - the blanket of heaviness that dulls our hearing & our receiving if we stay focused on that heaviness - but we didn't!
We sang "Spirit, break out, tear our walls down". I saw a rainbow stream burst forth from our bellies that completely encompassed each of us, swallowing up the walls. This stream is a picture of our true self - one with Holy Spirit breaking out of the confines of the soul to take its place of prominence. The picture represents the restoration of the soul to its rightful place of rest & dependence upon Holy Spirit.
When we sang about tearing down the walls, I was feeling uncomfortable with the idea of tearing down walls that were placed there to protect me - even when they are actually harming me. But seeing Holy Spirit break out from the depths of my being to completely surround and engulf those walls made me feel so very safe and truly protected. Fear is consumed by Love; discouragement by Hope, and suddenly the sound barrier is broken. Suddenly the words that convey hope and truth to my inner parts are finally heard deep on the inside! By the end of the evening Truth, Hope, Love was washing over us as a congregation!
What an incredible journey we had as a family!! I'm so honored & thankful to be part of such an amazing community. Thank you and the rest of the leaders for living the core values, for risking transparency so that we can be real together! Thank you for the call to return to our first Love, Jesus.
As the worship was winding down last Saturday, Pastor Karena felt the Lord's heart to heal and so we took time to pray for each other. Later several people shared with us they experienced great relief of pain or total healing of their backs and necks! When the God of Hope and Peace and Joy and Love invades our hearts and our minds, it impacts our physical bodies as well!
Thanks for continuing to go on this journey with us into the depths of God's heart!
Much Love,
Pastor Brent
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