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Saturday, January 13, 2007

PASSION ' 07 AND PURE GRACE.



I am finding it exceptionally difficult to put into words what I did at Passion and how I experienced it.I can begin by saying that I served on the student prayer journey "Kneel " with about twelve beautiful people who really worked as a team and affirmed each other.There were two parts to "Kneel " One was "Journey " the other "Pure Grace. " " Journey " was eleven stations of guided meditation, where the students were asked to still their heart, confess any sins, and then lead to pray for their campus, church, city, country, leaders , nations etc. That took about an hour to do. There wasn't much interaction with the students there apart from welcoming them in and smiling as they left.We prayed over them silently as they undertook their prayer journey. We made sure that the candles were lit and that there was space for them to enter as well as keeping the place tidy.
The other part was " Pure Grace " which was amazing. In a large hall with darkened lights stood a cross. There were beautiful candles around it and two spotlights on it which shone the shadow of it on the roof. Cushions and rugs were on the floor. Students tended to enter, sit or immediately go "facedown ' and spend a long time generally working through things in their life with Jesus. I was totally humbled while in this room and the presence of the Holy Spirit was almost tangible here. I watched as young people wrestled with God, some physically shaking their fists and agonising. Saw a great many reduced to tears before Jesus and then lie utterly surrendered at the foot of the cross. I'd wait until I saw that things had quietened down inside them and then go and offer to pray for them.
How do you convey to anyone that the highlight of a trip to the other side of the world was being "facedown ' on the floor listening and praying with a young person as they completely surrendered their life to the Lordship of Jesus ? Words just can't convey such deep emotion.I was left speechless at what I saw the Lord Jesus doing there. I was honoured to serve, and humbled completely by His Pure Grace.

12 Comments:

  • At 12:06 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    What an incredible experience. It's good to know that there are still good things happening in the world when the news reports all the evil that is happening.
    Uplifting.

     
  • At 5:38 AM, Blogger Unknown said…

    taht sounds awesome - it is awesome what God is doing now - stirring people to intimacy with Him and good on teh passion people for making the space for people to connect with God - or have christian worshp conferences always done that???

    nice to see you again too, look forwa to reading more insights and "gold" that you learned nad lived and continue to do so.

    blessings,
    claire

     
  • At 10:34 AM, Blogger Sunny said…

    Beautiful, Blue. What an amazing setting to help students have a personal connection with Elohim.

     
  • At 6:07 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Sounds AWESOME!!! Welcome home, I missed you!

     
  • At 5:30 AM, Blogger Kimmer said…

    Gail,
    thanks so much for relating your experience at Passion and for serving in that capacity while you were there. Sounds wonderful and I'm glad you were able to be there with Rowan. It was great to meet you guys and I'll always treasure that.
    blessings friend~
    Kimmer :)

     
  • At 7:47 AM, Blogger Rob Greene said…

    Hey Gail... great write-up. I actually read this in your comment on the Passion blog, then clicked over to your page to leave this comment, where I noticed it was your journal entry as well. I didn't make it down to that area (like you said... schedule was CRAZY), but it sounds like I probably SHOULD have!

    How did your son respond to everything? Was it the week you were praying it would be for him?

    Too bad we didn't get to meet up... in the mean time, what's your email address? I'll be glad to try shooting a couple of those songs over via email!
    =rg=

     
  • At 2:12 PM, Blogger gail said…

    Hi Bunnygirl,yes it was so good to see young people so open to god and so apprecaitive all one did for them.

    Hi claire .Good to have you back visiting here. I'll visit you soon. i had a stop over in Auckland. Would love to have called you.

    Sunny, isnt it awesome that we can have a relationship with the one true god of the universe?

    Spookie, AWESOME is the word :)

    Kimmer, I was in a very privilged place. it was SO good to meet you :)

    Rob I've posted my addres on your blog. I'm so sorry that we didnt meet.There was so much i'd like to have done too but couldnt with time restraints. However, as a volunteer ,to attend four sessions was great as we were told at the beginning that we may not get to any.

     
  • At 5:53 AM, Blogger Unknown said…

    hi gail

    oh that would have been so lovely to talk to you in real life!

    hey i'm not really at my blogger blog now, am over here....

    http://fireball.lifewithchrist.org/

    has a good community to it which is fun, and nice and simple. i blog very regularly there and hope you pop by.

    i read that you and your son were not well, hope/pray you are dong better now.

    blessings,
    claire

     
  • At 10:32 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    You conveyed it well. That photo is moving in itself and it did sound very moving and awesome.

     
  • At 6:36 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    wow. gail... now i'm speechless and i have a great big lump in my throat!
    i'm so glad you had such a wonderful time!

     
  • At 5:56 AM, Blogger Unknown said…

    hi gail it was super to see you over at my blog!

    looking foward to more posts by you :o)

    blessings,
    claire

     
  • At 12:38 PM, Blogger Sunny said…

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