Last weekend was so amazing! I attended a weekend conference at my church for the Youth Group Alpha Course. It was life changing. I and every one else there were given so many words and empowered to break free from chains holding them down for so long! I was one of those people.
I have struggled with addiction for so long, and last Wednesday at Youth Group was the beginning of the end of my addiction; I got prayer from the youth pastor for my addiction. I am on day 7 out of 21 to try and break bad habits and even though I am struggling, God is with me every step of the way!
On the weekend away I received a vision in a prayer session intended to pray and hopefully bring on spiritual gifts through praying for anointing from God. This vision was of a dying tree in the desert, with a black Raven perched on it and a dried-up well at its base. At the well was a woman in tattered black clothing crying and lying on the ground. Ahead of her, a man was walking away from her into a cloud of dust.
I didn't know what the image meant or why God had given it to me, but I wrote it down in the journal the Alpha leaders had given to all the students. I then prayed to God and asked him to explain the image or give me the spiritual gift of interpretation. He didn't do either of those things, but he told me to continue on my Bible reading plan through the book of John.
I came to the story about Jesus, when he speaks with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob. Jesus talks about how the woman will be thirsty if she keeps drinking from that well, but if she drinks from God's well, she will never thirst again and will have everlasting life!
The vision I had received suddenly made sense and actually had such an impact on my life. I wrote this down in my journal along with my observation and application of the scripture I had read. I then got prayer from the leaders of Alpha who were running the show. I got many words from them, one from Veronica, which was "The Richness is in the Water". This had an impact on me as well ( I will explain how these things impacted me soon) and Steve, Veronica's husband, also was given a word that I was to be a mighty Spiritual Warrior.
When I returned to my seat, I started to cry because I realized just how good God was; I have been having such hardship with my addiction that I had been going to the world's well to try and fill a void that could only be filled by God. I was so happy about the word and it has been constantly in my life as I try to break my addiction with God's help.
"The Richness is in the Water" applied to me because in the past, when faced with temptation, I have been told by God to run to him, but I would weigh the idea that God's ways were truly what I needed. I would question God as to if there were some other thing I could do, when all I needed to do was rely on his word and prayer. The richness is in the water means to me that everything in this world is empty and will not give me what I truly want, only God can do that.
Steve's word also had a profound effect on me because I often struggle with being who I am called to be in Christ because I am worried others will look down on me. I have had the spiritual gifts of tongues since I was four years old, and I have driven three demons out of people that I have encountered in my life. I in no way mean this to sound high and mighty, I am just saying that this was an accurate word in my opinion. Since the weekend ended, I have had confidence to pray over so many more people and I feel that I am more ready to defend myself with God's armor.
I have been reading the Bible every single day since last Wednesday, and I feel so much more free. Thanks for reading and please, if God tells you something even if you think it unimportant, act on it. I did, and it has made all the difference in the last 7 days. 7, a number of completion, times 3 (the trinity) equals 21, the amount of days it takes to break a habit. God bless you all.
