Swimming in His Presence

       Every Monday everyone at Adventures in Missions meets for a worship session to start our week off together in worship. I have been looking forward to the staff worship every since I knew I was coming to CGA because it was during my training camp for the World Race that I walked in to freedom at AIM to worship the Lord in the way that I felt was truly right for me. I have found that worshipping the Lord is probably one of my favorite things to do and that I absolutely love to dance and just soak up His incredible presence. 

       Well this Monday’s worship was absolutely incredible for me and I did not want it to end. It started by walking into this beautiful set up where the worship crew was in the middle of the floor and we apprentices were helping find/borrow lamps from everyone’s office. Then they started with the first song, Scandal of Grace, and I just remember instantly feeling the Lord’s presence all around and just crying out to Him with,

“Oh to be like You
Give all I have just to know You
Jesus, there’s no one besides You
Forever the hope in my heart.”

       Then they started to play the next song I could feel my soul reaching out to the Lord and Him taking a hold of my hands and we started to dance around. I could hear my heart just saying how much I loved Him and how all I wanted was to feel Him around me. I was in such a blissful place of existing in His presence. And then they started to play Endless Ocean, which I thought was hilarious considering we were just listening to it in the car and I had been thinking how much I loved that song. While we started to sing the chorus the Lord gave me the image of me swimming around in a dancing way in this beautiful tealish-gold water that was the presence of the Lord. I cannot explain to the full extent to what I was feeling but it was pure bliss and peace; I did not want it to ever end. Next thing I know we were singing Great Are You Lord by All Sons & Daughters and with every breath I took I thought about how it is my heavenly Father’s breath in my lungs and how He has restored my brokenness and how much He truly loves me to have even created me. Then we finished it with one of my favorite songs, Nothing I Hold On To and all I could think is how literally He is the only one I lean on for everything and how this past year I let go of my control and trusted Him to mold me into what He had originally wanted me to be because He will make me into something beautiful and special. And how the Lord has become my number one love and how He is literally the love of my life. 

       And to end the whole worship session we were to go to someone and tell them about something that we feel we need to let go of and just let the Lord take it and give us peace. I went up to one of the other ladies in CGA and told her that I felt the Lord wanted to me to lay my biggest fear at His feet and to leave it there and not come back and pick it up…because lets be honest here I tend to have the habit of laying something at the feet of the Lord and then sometimes coming back and picking it back up like a lost puppy or something…well this time I am letting Him have it and I could feel such a peace rush over me when I did. Then we prayed over each other and even sang more of the song afterwards. I cannot tell you how much this whole experience gave me such a high and peace for the future and the present. I look forward to more sessions like this and what the Lord has waiting for me. I want to encourage everyone when they are worshipping the Lord to let down your guard and just take a hold of the Lord’s hand and let Him take you on a journey of a lifetime.