i'm dancin' on this mountain top...

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So this week is "holy spirit" week so we don't really have classes. We just have time during the day to just be with God. How awesome is that? How many times do I get the chance to go sit by a river or on a mountain for house just spending time with my creator? Today was amazing. Liz and I went on a hunt to find a good place to chill, we had to walk on to someones land to get there and go over a barbed wire fence to get there, praying we wouldn't get shot or something.
Finally we climbed up a mini mountain and decided that was good enough so we stayed put. I went and sat by a rock, and put my headphones on. Immediately I was memorized by my surroundings. Just looking around at how beautiful nature is still gets to me. After reading for a while, I remembered that I brought my streamer, awesome. So I picked it up and started running down the hill and just danced around, it was so amazing...i just felt so free. I can't even describe those moments with God, but I love them. Just when you feel so alive and loved and full of JOY, like and just happy to be who God has made you to be. Like nothing else matters except praising Him. Just
literally feeling as if His presence around you. there is nothing better.

I am really excited about this week for a lot of reasons, the main thing is that there is so much I want to learn about the holy spirit. Before I came here, I had a lot of mixed ideas and almost fear of who the holy spirit was. That has definitely changed, back at thanksgiving time...we had another time kind of like this where we were just on our own seeking and reading through acts and I just prayed that God would reveal His spirit to me in anyway He wanted to Then I started thinking, praying and studying the bible more about it. And I came to the conclusion that, I always seem to put limits on God, why do I think that He can't do the same things today that He did in the bible? He is the same yesterday, today and forever. It says in the bible that Jesus left His holy spirit

.At the end of the week, we had service and someone prayed for me and i was just completely overwhelmed with a sense of peace and it swept me off my feet. I really hope that no one is freaked out by reading that. and if you are......I would just have to say I understand, because I used to feel the same exact way. This is just such an exciting aspect of God that is so important. The holy spirit is supposed to guide me, it just seems like a lot of times I ignore his presence in my life. That is what I want to learn more about...how to just have more faith, and walk in the spirit.
I think I used to think it was a scary thing, I would see pentecostals running around the church shouting and saying things I didn't understand and think...what in the WORLD!!! If THAT is the holy spirit than I want nothing to do with it!!
Why did I think that? Because I simply did not understand anything about the holy spirit and what role he does play and can play in my life. It just seemed weird, and foreign to me because i wasn't accustomed to it. Once I started praying on my own for God to just show me more of the holy spirit...it doesn't require a special service or anything...my world was rocked.
And yes, I think absolutely the holy spirit can manifest himself physically, but it doesn't have to be that way, there are tons of ways just blows my mind.......the very fact that God even allows us to experience ANY of this is incredible, and that very fact that so may times my faith lacks so much that I miss out makes me sad.