Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Literally a Place of Grace

Everyone has said that Brunswick County and the surrounding areas are a place of healing. Many people gravitate to the water when they have undergone some kind of tragedy/change and want to start their lives over. It is a curious thing when I think about the people who have moved here, to this place of grace, to start over.

I believe that this is true. You can feel it in your spirit. Where I'm from, in Dayton, Ohio, not many move there to start over. The ones who do move there are often the ones who have lived there before and have family there, and I do believe that some are called there. It is a place of spiritual warfare-you can feel it in your spirit. Not many move to Dayton for healing and grace, not like here. I just think it's so amazing how different places have this different spirit about them, and how I know that God has designed it this way.

My conclusion is that in this place of Grace, we are called to have more grace. The people who are here and who have moved here, God has put here because we need this healing and grace. He wants to pour this Grace into us and it will heal others.

I can feel in my spirit, despite the many recent conflicts at Generations Church, that we are bursting into a time of healing and power.

I come from a very charismatic background. I believe in tongues, the prophetic, all of those things that many traditional Christians here in the south have frowned upon. At my old churches, these things were talked about and encouraged often, so of course you would see people practicing them and it filled the churches.

At Generations, there is no talk of any of this. There is only talk of Grace and Love, and yet the spirit in the church and the worship have become so powerful and spirit-filled that I feel like God Himself could show up at any minute, again, despite the conflicts (which I hope will be healed soon and I know are part of His plan somehow).

The revelation that I'm having is that His grace and love hold the power of deliverance and of all of the gifts of the spirit to follow. It makes the appearance of gifts much more natural when it is truly an overflow of the spirit and not coming about because a preacher has been telling you to do it all morning in a sermon. So amazing, the power.