Soul Survivor this year... so pretty recent i guess lol. Was amazing! In the session on the monday morning i couldn't stop crying. Ali was doing the talk and i broke down in tears before she's finished her first sentene. So much had gone on, with a couple of my friends, in the past two days that was really hurting me emotionally and really getting me down. What she said really spoke to me, right into my heart, and i felt that God was telling me to just let it all go. Forgive and feel accepted and loved. Went up to the front, still crying, to be prayed for when they invited people to go there. A few friends were praying for me, and someone on the SS prayer team, and i just felt this huge burden being lifted off my shoulders (cliche i know, but it's true). I've felt like a better person since it happened, andi guess what had happenedt was a learning experience. Also, on the next morning, I had this vision. (I'm sure i've explained it somewhere else on here, and it took ages, so i'll just be brief). Lay on the floor during a set of songs cos my legs were aching. Asked a friend to pray for me, and someone else joined here. I don't know what they were praying about or for, but all i know is that God, again, really spoke to me with images and motion pictures of someone worshipping on a stage, a worship pastor, at some big event like SS. She turned around and it happened to be me! Was amazing after my homegroup and i had been praying for about a year that God would show me what to do with my future - i had no clue at all until then! So that really secured me and made me feel at rest. And then that night i went up to the front again to be prayed for the gift of tongues, and guess what... God gave it to me! Was awesome! So they were 3 encounters within two days. I felt so close to God and i never want to let him go. It's amazing being able to help my friends in their faith as well... especially one who feels quite distant from God at the moment, so He's really helping me help her =] God Bless Nic xxx

Kind of like what Chris pointed out... it’s all in how someone defines “amazing encounter with God”. That seems to make all the difference. Indeed, sometimes when I feel He is as physically distant as the Sun I find found Him closer than the warmth of the Sun’s rays. It is the times that are most austere, droll and dry which, somehow, can become the most incredible displays of me encountering God; but unfortunately I see this easier in my past. It is often much harder to see Him amidst the present.

When the lord spoke to me about singing over a womans heart during a meeting I was taking, my first instict was "oh no they'll all think Ive gone mad" lol but I recognised the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and knew that the Lord knew what he was doing.

I sing over people spontaneous songs of the Spirit, but singing over someones heart was a first for me. This lady came to one of the meetings I was taking in spokane, she had an enlarged heart since she was a little girl they found it when she was 2yrs old, and throughout the years she had treatments pills etc , and now as a woman of 47yrs old she had congestive heart failure and was sent home from the hospital to die.

I knew that this was make or break time for her, and began to tell her what the lord had spoken to me about how to minister to her.

I asked if I could place my hand over her heart and began to sing to her heart, I was amazed at the tenderness of the lord as he released healing into her, I cant remember any of the words but felt such a peace and joy as I sang over her that day. After finishing the lady said that she felt so much better, and told me she was going to book a scan that week.

I returned home, and often thought about this lady, I recieved an email three months later, to say that she had indeed had scans, and xrays, and other examinations, and was told that her enlarged heart was no longer enlarged wahoo, the only thing wrong could be corrected by diet lol, that she wasnt going to die, and that she was healed.

I cannot express to you the feelings of elation, not for my own sake, but for the sake of this woman who's life was transformed coming from out of the grave clothes and into garments of life.

what an amazing God we serve. love In Jesus Heather.

This is good, its good that you were able to recognise what was happening in the Spirit, and also that you knew what to do about it when the time was right. Leadership who are flexible are worth their weight in gold, its so wonderful that they didnt hinder the flow of the Spirit, but that they knew you and the gifting in you well enough to enable you to bring that word forward and that it bore fruit. How wonderful, I love the way the lord teaches us to work together in unity in Him, its so powerful when it happens,.

God bless Heather.