Training Camp is Over.

Training camp is over!!!

While I’m going to miss training camp and all the amazing things God has been doing through me here, I am ready to take a step out and see what God wants to do next! Here are some of my favorite God stories throughout training camp!

Revival night #3

I came into this one prepared and expecting it to end on a sad note with everyone crying and letting things go. But I felt that I should pray otherwise so I prayed that by the end the room would be filled with a joy like nothing else. I prayed that by the end I would see everyone laughing and dancing and smiling. So the revival night starts and it’s pretty rough a lot of people are struggling and letting their pain out through tears. And as it goes on it kinda stays that way. But then we come to the last 30 mins. To help you understand how crazy this is I’ll let you know that I was right behind the person who had the set list on display in front of them. So I knew what was going to play. But the Holy Spirit led them to a few other songs… they went on to play 3 songs straight all about the joy of the Lord. And when I tell you the people were jumping with joy I am not exaggerating. The whole room was going crazy with the joy of the Lord. We were singing the loudest we ever have. They were dancing and laughing and truly feeling the Joy of the Lord. After it ended I asked a few people how they were feeling (I do this all the time for no reason) and they all told me that they had just experienced a Joy that they didn’t even know was possible. It was something new! They were overwhelmed with Joy! Now I don’t know why God answered this prayer but I cannot deny that his joy filled that room to the brim.

He used me

This isn’t a crazy story but it just shows how much God is using me to pray over people. During this last revival night, I prayed that God would strip everything that is not of him from me. I asked that he would make me in his image. But this wasn’t in his plan. About every 5 minutes of worship he had me go to a different person and pray over them. Every prayer was different and personal to the person. I was praying for things that I didn’t even know about the person. I was asking for healing in places I couldn’t know were hurt. The Lord decided not to refine me but to use me. Instead of putting me in the fire he used me to pull people out of it. Through this, I learned that it is when we give ourselves to God He uses it in the way he wants. I gave myself to him to refine me but he used me to refine others.

Revival Night #2

This was on the second revival night we had. Baptism Night!!! I again spent most of this time praying over people and worshiping God. But about two-thirds of the way through I felt to get baptized I wanted to do it as a final goodbye to the old me but God had other ideas. After getting out of the water I went to go dry off but I saw one of my squad mates, let’s call them John, not in the room worshiping or getting baptized they were just pacing outside the door. Once I saw him I felt a weight to ask if he was getting baptized tonight. So I asked and he answered “no I never signed up” (there was no sign up you were just supposed to ask) once I heard this I knew what God was wanting me to do. So I talked to him about it for probably 5 minutes and he decided to get baptized. Turns out he had never been baptized before. He never had the opportunity to do it where he didn’t back out. Me being there talking to them convinced them to step out and do it. So he was up next and I was so joyful just watching them get in the water. I am barely even exaggerating when I say that they were glowing with joy when he came out of that water. You could see the fire of the Lord on them! It was incredible he went on to smile and laugh the rest of the night! I am not saying that God only asked me to get baptized so that I’d be in the right place at the right time but I wouldn’t be upset if that was the only reason!

Revival Night #1

This night was wild!! But not in a high-energy way. Even though it was the first week God moved in incredible ways. The way he worked through me was prayer again. He put me on mission! From the start he would point people out to me and tell me to pray a specific prayer over them. But this time it was all the same prayer. It went along the lines of “Lord I pray that any pain that they are holding onto any shame or guilt anything that is not of you will flow out of them through tears as if a water fall don’t let it stop until they have let it go”. It was longer and more passionate than that of cause but you get the idea. This was also all in my head I never stated anything out loud. This past week I was talking to some of the people I prayed about and it came up somehow. First they are not the biggest fans of the prayer… but they said it worked. One of them stated that she had an entire puddle underneath her another said she used an entire box of tissues. While this is the type of healing that hurts I’m so glad that God did it through them and let me be a part of it all.

Cool Prayer stories

These past two weeks of training camp I have discovered that God wants to use me as a prayer warrior. Funny enough I don’t understand what that helps with but I will follow anyway. He has been leading me to pray over people so much recently. Here are some of my favorite stories:

Knew before the rest

So I was walking around camp, bouncing between friend groups checking on everyone (I don’t know why I do this but it just feels like what I am supposed to do) but I was walking around saying hi to everyone when after talking to everyone I felt something was off. And this felt pretty heavy it felt like someone was hurting but I didn’t know who or where. So I walked the campus another two times checking on everyone and making sure everyone was fine but everything felt right where I went. I began to stress at this moment because I knew something was wrong but I didn’t know what. Then I heard “be quiet”. So I went to the far end of the campus where no one was and just sat down. Almost immediately I heard one of my squad mates’ names. With that came a horrible weight. I knew it was them. So I ran to their friend who was on the other side of the campus. I pulled the friend aside and asked about the person turns out they were currently in the ER. At that moment only three people knew this. So I was so confused why God needed me to know this but I prayed anyway. To this day I still don’t know why he wanted me to know about this but I thank him for showing his power to me.

Nightmares

This is a fairly quick story but it is still crazy!! So it was just a normal night… I woke up at about 3:30 in the morning having to use the bathroom (potta potty) once I finished my business I felt like I needed to pray peace over the camp. So I did and that was it I went straight to bed after this. But the next day the guys are sitting telling stories and prayer requests to each other. When this one guy says that he was going through horrible nightmares lately (demonic attacks) and his worst one was the night before. He stated that it was almost all night long but at 3:30 he suddenly snapped out of it! While I don’t understand why God needed me to pray this prayer I thank him so much for letting me be a part of it!

I have so many more stories but these are the ones I feel called to share. I thank y’all so much back home for all of the prayer! Y’all are in my prayers also!