Katie's favorite day thus far...

This is a cassette tape.
I don't know how I am going to listen to this.
I think it's 2008, right?
Do they even make 'tape players,' anymore?
I just don't know how I am going to listen to this.
I thought my 3-year old Ipod Shuffle was old-school.
Hmmm.

So. Something changed, I feel totally different. It started the other day when God just started to reveal a bunch of lies I was believing from the enemy. But, God wasn't going to have that. So, we attacked them. I will try to compile a condensed version of the amazing things that have happened.

God is so intricate, I love it. He told me that I really needed to get on getting my oil changed. I didn't have a clue where to begin, so I just asked my small group if someone would help me. There is a man named Kris who just told me to get the oil, and oil filter, bring my car to his house, and he would do it for me! Amazing! So Monday I get my oil changed. But, there were even greater purposes for God telling me to get this done...

This morning in worship I felt the Lord close to my heart. I heard Him whisper to me, "Katie, what do you want? I love you and I will give you anything you ask for." I believed it, too. He is a good Dad. He loves to provide for me. So, I told Him I just needed a way, somehow, to get to Florida for one of my dear friends' weddings. Which I also happen to be in, I already have the dress, too! Just no plane ticket...or shoes, yet. The Intro leaders wife came over to me and laid her hands on me, and just prayed for me. She said she felt she wanted to pray for strength for me in this season of waiting on Him. She didn't pray for anyone else.

Anyway, we had another teaching on Biblical Intimacy. We talked about how Biblical prayer is enjoyable prayer. If you are bored when you pray, then you are not effective, either. Ha. It's true, too! We talked about how encounter with the Man Jesus is the only currency of the heart. We were ALL created to encounter Jesus. The Man. As humans, we are always looking for something to fill us, to find our 'reference point for life,' and if it's not Jesus, then it is idolatry. Ouch. But it's so undeniably true. Truly living is about where we invest our heart. In every little detail of life. Because false intimacy comes from the soul, where we are trying soooo hard to be filled. "We will NEVER find fulfillment outside of worshiping God. And it takes an eternal God to satisfy the longings of our hearts. We need a God that big, because it takes the restricting grace of God to satisfy us. Our desires are outrageously out of control, and need the Good Shepherd." It was a wonderful lesson. It really impacted me.

At lunch time, my friend Erica called me. Erica is also in the wedding in Florida. She lives in Arkansas, and had a plane ticket to fly to Florida. Well, she called me to tell me that she is no longer going to fly, she gave up her plane ticket (somehow she gets her money back) to drive with me! And I missed the details, but her grandpa is even going to provide some of the gas money! It's going to be a looooong drive, but it's okay! Not only is God providing a way for me to get there, I get to spend the time getting there with one of my greatest friends! This also being why I needed to get my oil changed!

The Lord was really speaking to me in the prayer room today. I was just soaking Him in. He led me to go to the healing rooms today. Which was amazing. One of the ladies told me that she felt the Lord saying that He pulled me out of a busy life to rest. That I was in a season of rest and needed to receive from Him, and rest in His presence. She gave me Isaiah 30:15, "In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength." I loved that. BUT THEN, God led me to go the prophecy rooms. There were three people prophesying. Well. Each of them had almost the exact same word for me. That God has brought me out of a life of busyness into a season of rest. That God made me perfect and was going to restore my body in this season. That in this season I am to feast with my King (Songs 2:4-5), and that God was abolishing the bow and the sword and battle in my heart, so that I could lay down in safety (Hosea 2:18). I loved so much that no one said anything about what I should be 'doing' or 'working towards.' Just resting in God. Then God reminded me of my birthday. He told me on my birthday that He was going to do a work in my heart this year, specifically this season. Well, it was my 26th birthday, and I'm just saying, this is really cool, but I was #26 for the prophecy room (it's even on the tape they recorded of the session), and not that this means anything, but today is 10/16. 10+16=26. I'm just saying.

God has just been sooo sweet to me today. A friend even paid me $20 to take her to a bookstore! It was so much fun, too. And I also received some financial support in the mail. It's just been a great day. Satan hated me today, and I have loved every second of it. :)

Tomorrow we start our Omega Course, the study of the end-times. Really excited about that!
Well, off to my winding-down time of the night. I can't wait to be back in Louisville!