Fireballs

Previously: Sarah’s baptism

So in order to understand what happened next, I have to tell you about something that happened at Rez back in the beginning of the summer. Most of you know that this, what to do you call it, revival has been going on at Rez since the beginning of the summer. Well, people have been seeking God with all their heart for several years, and God always responds to the heart that cries out for Him, is hungry for Him, and is not satisfied with life as usual or the status quo – because they are hungering and thirsting for righteousness, and for more of Him, in their lives.

By revival, I mean, that when you walk through the double doors of the sanctuary at Rez, the presence and glory of the Lord is tangible. You can feel His shekinah, that cloud of His presence that filled the tabernacle in the wilderness. When the believers have assembled, and we are all with one voice praising the beauty of His holiness, His presence, and the weight of His glory, descends upon the congregation. I don’t even know how to describe it. You just feel His joy, and His delight with which He is delighted in you, or else the awareness of His holiness is so great, that you can hardly stand in His presence. It is sometimes difficult to keep your feet, because your knees go wobbly and your muscles get weak.

So then after about a half an hour, God interrupts the praise and worship, and people begin having words of knowledge, that God is going to heal ___(fill in the blank)___. It is usually a long list of things. Sometimes it is general: “God is healing asthma, heart disease, lung cancer, and spinabifida tonight,” and sometimes it is specific: “There is a woman here with arthritis, who had a difficult childhood of some kind of abuse, and the Lord is saying that the arthritis is rooted in that abuse as a child. Is there anyone here like that?” This actually happened last night, and one woman raised her hand in the back of the sanctuary. Then: “God is saying to you: forgive everything from your childhood, and let go of the bitterness of your past, and be set free from the painful memories AND the arthritis, in the name of Jesus!” And people come up and tell what mirculous thing God has done. God has healed the gamut of diseases: diabetes, cancer, broken bones, heart disease and heart blockages, injuries, you name it. I myself have experienced three miraculous healings since the beginning of the summer: night blindness, gluten allergy, and just last week, an abcessed tooth (which is still being strengthened, btw. Sometimes the healing is not instantaneous, but gradual).

So at the beginning of the summer, someone had a vision. In it, they saw Jesus standing with His feet on the summit of Long’s Peak, and He was packing a snowball. Only it wasn’t snow that He was packing into a ball. It was fire. And when He was satisfied with His fireball, He threw it, just like a pitcher throws a baseball, and the fireball hit Rez, and the place erupted in fire. And the heavens above the church opened, and golden rain poured down on the church, but it wasn’t rain. It was liquid glory. The funny thing is, the rain did not put out the fire, but it only made the fire burn all the more brightly. And then Jesus packed another fireball, and threw it, and another church was hit, and then another, and another, until all up and down the Front Range, churches were burning with the light and life of His presence, with the Holy Spirit and with fire. And then He threw a fireball at Boulder, and the whole town erupted in flames, and then Denver. I can’t really remember what happened next in the vision, because by this time I was crying so hard with happiness that I stopped hearing, LOL.

So about a month after that, Pastor Diane got up in the service and said, “How many people are here from other churches? You are here on Saturday night, because you have your own church you go to on Sunday morning.” And 30 or 40 people raised their hands, representing dozens of local congregations. And she said, “Come up here. We are going to pray over you, because God is wanting to place His fireball within you, so that you can carry it back to your own congregations. God is not a respecter of persons, but all who will have Him, can have Him!”

So now with that background, you can understand what happened to us next in last night’s service …

Continued in Look out Florida, here we come!