Hi everyone! Sorry for the delay in posting. It's been a crazy couple of weeks here in the Pikes Peak region. As you probably know, the waldo canyon fire started on Saturday June 23rd. The highway leading into Woodland Park, where Prayer Mountain, CO is located was closed for over a week while the fire raged. As of today, over 18,000 acres burned, 2 people lost their lives, and 348 homes were destroyed.

Most of Woodland Park was evacuated for most of last week. Prayer Mountain was closed except for daily times of prayer and worship.

But the purpose of today's post and video is not fire related. I actually wanted to update you on the 40 day fast that God called me into on June 22nd, the day before the fire (no coincidence I think). Check out this video for the update. But more importantly, please listen so that I can pray for you. Mid way through the recording, I just felt led to pray for anyone who was watching. It's a prayer for God to manifest himself in a greater way in your life. I felt his heavy sweet presence as I prayed. I hope you do as well!

Enjoy!

We wrapped up our 21 day worship journey today and all I can say is wow! I don't remember a more awesome time in my walk with the Lord. Worshipping at least two hours a day changes you from the inside out. I found myself more spiritually sensitive than ever. I was able to walk through situations and circumstances with a much better sense of God's presence. 

In fact, God's presence has become a sort of escape of me. It's amazing how no matter what kind of day you're having, as soon as you get into His presence, everything that was bothering you just melts away.  I'm convinced more than ever that worship is probably the most powerful form of spiritual warfare. And what's so awesome about it, is that you are fighting for intimacy not fighting for the devil.  I heard Graham Cooke say one time that all spiritual warfare is a battle for intimacy. Now more than ever I recognize that to be true.

Intimacy is the ultimate place of safety, victory, and rest. No matter what was going on or how I felt emotionally or physically going into worship, within minutes of entering into his presence, I would rise to a completely different place. My spiritual eyes would open and I would see situations from a completely difference perspective. Faith would rise in my heart, prayer from a position of strength would rise from within. It really was amazing.

One of the things that was really imprinted upon my heart during the last several days is that this journey we've been on is really a never ending journey of love. It's been awesome to have the love of God revealed in new and deeper ways during this time. It's changed me and made me even hungrier for more change. I find my life is becoming simplier, which honestly is so powerful. One of the songs we sang about today was all about how God poured out his blood for love. He died for love. He died for me. He died for you. He died so that we could be together forever. He died so that he could be with us. It's overwhelming to really experience it. I think I sang about love more than any other topic during our 21 day journey. And I believe that it will more and more the focus of my life from this day forward. 

One thing I know is that both Galen and I are not ready to quit. We have worship scheduled every day this week too. Can't stop when it's your life line.

Looking foward to what's next! 

Thought it was time that we heard from Galen. It's been awesome to worship with him on a daily basis and see watch what God is doing. I love his freedom in worship and the fact that he is experiencing revelation about intimacy with Jesus that is so unique. I can't wait to see what the Lord does as we continue our journey. Enjoy!

Thought you'd enjoy hearing about how our worship journey is touching others. Each day we're finding more and more people are joining us during our worship set. People are pouring their heart out in worship. We are crying together, laughing together, praying together, and overall just letting the Lord touch us however He sees fit. 

In this video, Christine shares her experience. She's been trying to convince us that we're supposed to take our worship on the road into the "beer joints." I love it. Not sure if those places are ready for us though. We might be to wild for them (wink).

Enjoy Christine's video and make plans to come out this weekend.  We'll be worshipping on Thursday at 6:00 p.m., Friday at 7:00 p.m., Saturday at 8:00 a.m., and Sunday at 10:00 a.m.  It's going to be a full weekend of worship for sure.

Can't wait to see what God does next.

Today was an awesome time in The Encounter Room! Thanks to everyone who came out to join us. It's so fun to worship in the glory with friends. Several of you were asking if this was something we could do every Sunday morning. That definately took me by surprise.

I'm not sure why exactly, since I have spent enough time in this room to know how powerfully God is using it to minister to people. I love the way he just speaks to people while they lie on the floor or sit back reclining in one of our recliners.

But, then again, personally I do have to wonder if the way that I'm called to do "church" might look something more like this rather than a traditional Sunday morning service. I personally have been struggling with the typical church service format for awhile. I think that's one of the reasons why the ministry of Prayer Mountain, CO is so dear to my heart.

But, I also know that it's time for us to develop a more consistent way for people to connect to us. The Encounter Room is open now five days a week, but there's really not a regular weekly get together where we all can worship as a family on a consistent basis. I don't know, I'll pray have to pray more about it.  

One thing I am sure of is that we are not called to be a traditional church, we're called to host the presence of God and be a place of encounter. So we'll just have to see what the Lord says. I'd love to hear what you think. Leave us a comment below if you have some thoughts you'd like to share. In the meantime, we'll definately be here for the next two Sunday mornings at 10:00 a.m. as part of our 21 day worship journey.

Today's worship set was such an encouragement to me and everyone else that was there. It was all about standing in faith for the impossible dreams that God has placed in our hearts. I don't know about you, but sometimes you can feel like a nut case when you are a person of faith. 1 Corinthians 1 says that the gospel is foolishness to those who don't belive, so I'm not sure why I'm so surprised. It's "crazy" to believe that when you pray for someone with cancer, the tumor will disappear in front of your eyes. It's crazy to believe that you're destined to be rich, when your bank account is overdraw. It's crazy to believe you've got a call of God on your life to make a difference, when everyone around you thinks your a loser… Well that was a little harsh, but I think you get the point.

Walking into the destiny on your life takes faith. There's no other way to get there. One of my favorite books that I'm constantly recommending to people is The Fourth Dimension, by Daivd Yonggi Cho. Honestly, it's one of my favorite books of all time. No other book or teaching has taught me more about how to manifest the will of God and release the miraculous. I came across this book when I was believing God for children when the doctor's said I couldn't have them. I kept experiencing miscarriages and it was very discouraging. This book held the key to my breakthrough. It taught me the importance of dreaming with God and "seeing" the unseen with my spiritual eyes in a very practical way. It's full of examples from Dr. Cho's life and I found it to be invaluable in my walk of faith. 

Anyway, today's worship set included alot of things from the heart of God about seeing his will with your spiritual eyes when everything you can see with your natural eyes says just the opposite. It's awesome how each day in this 21 day journey of worship is shaping up to be so different, yet connected. I love it!

This video shows a little sampling of some of the prophetic worship that we regularly experience in The Encounter Room. It really is awesome to have the freedom to worship in this manner. One of the things the Lord showed me about the flavor of worship that He wants to flow from The Encounter Room is that He want us to not only worship Him, but to give voice to the songs He's singing over us.

Zephaniah 3:17 (New Living Translation)
For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior. He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all your fears. He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”

It's really an amazing thing to be a part of something that is giving voice to how God feels about us. Honestly, this is one of the reasons that I keep getting ministered to so deeply during these worship sets. They are like having a singing conversation with God. Almost always, Galen and I will go back and forth singing to God and then having him sing back to us. It's wonderful! In this video, we're singing about the way God loves to sneek up on us and surprise us. These "Holy Uh-Ohs" are some of our most rememberable experience with God. One huge example is the Apostle Paul's "Holy Uh-Oh" on the road to Damascus…  Enjoy!

Psalm 16:11 says that in His presence in the fulness of joy, but sadly I lived most of my life as a Christian misinformed about what this scripture meant.  I had no idea that God was a God of joy. A God of judgement, yes. A God of wrath, yes. But a joyful God? No way. Then when I first heard this scripture taught and started to realize that God was no longer angry at me because of the sacrifice that Jesus made (Romans 5:9-10), I was freed from the constant burden of trying to earn God's love.  In fact, my relationship with God was transformed. My image of who He is and what He thought about me slowly but surely began to align with new covenant Christianity.  

Now let's fast forward about ten years. Today, I am alive with the reality that Jesus is the furthest thing in the world from angry at me. He's the lover of my soul! His love is so powerful it's actually intoxicating and His joy is so delicious that it surpasses anything I've ever experienced in this life. In fact, worship has become such a place of joy and intimacy with Him that I get completely lost in it most of the time.

When you watch this video, just remember the reason I'm in such a good mood is that you just can't help yourself when you are hanging Him. Remember, in His presence is the FULLNESS OF JOY!  At Prayer Mountain, I'm thankful to say that we experience a freedom in worship that allows us to experience that. Come on by The Encounter Room and worship with us during the next 21 days and you too just may end of a little intoxicated by His love!

As this journey into the heart of God through worship continues. I am overwhelmed by His love. It's amazing to me that God, who is I mean GOD, is pursuing me in a way that is so personal and so intimate. I'm also really overwhelmed to be singing again in public.  The whole way it happend is something that I think I'll never recover from. I haven't really shared it publicly because it's been so personal, but now that I'm singing everyday and people are actually complementing me, I'm gaining confidence enough to share.

Several months ago, I was leading prayer during a worship set that Galen Beaver and Iwana Nettles (two amazing worshippers) were doing. I was really just thinking about what to share in prayer when the Lord totally interupted me with a vision. In the vision, I was standing before a mirror looking at my reflection.  However, the reflection staring back at me was singing with microphone in her hand.  I was totally shocked. Then the image changed and I was about 13 years old sitting in the room where my piano was growing up.

I used to play and sing publicly from the time I was really young. But when I rebelled during my teenage years, I stopped playing and singing.  In fact, I hadn't sung publically for about 30 years at the time the Lord showed me this vision.

Well, I was completely undone. I started bawling uncontrollably right in the middle of the worship set. The Lord was tapping into something that had been buried in my heart for 3 decades.  You see, when I was about 15, I completely abandoned my faith. I began doing drugs and living for myself. I smoked daily for over 18 years and completely lost my ability to sing. But up until that time, most people thought that the primary call on my life was to lead worship and sing. But after the life that I had led and the choices that I had made, I had given up on that gift long ago thinking that I was only called to teach and preach now and let others lead worship.

But… God interupted all that. Abruptly a couple of months ago.

I could share more, but for times sake I'll end it here for now. Just suffice it to say, that these 21 days of worship mean more to me than words can express. God goodness is beyond words. He's restoring a dream in my heart that died years ago that I didn't even know I still had. How can I help but worship him?