July 26th - 30th of 20x, I spent the days on the sunny beach of San Destin Florida & in some of the most amazing youth services in the nation. Now before I go into full out detail, let me just tell you about Verge and what it is.
Verge camp was downloaded into the minds of pastor Scott & Britt of the Rock in Huntsville, Alabama by God. For 5 days, churchs from all around the southern part of the US come together to worship Jesus, and have fun. We stayed at the San Destin beach resort, right on the water, and man was it amazing! There was tons of fellowship, and tons of Jesus.
My room consisted of 2 leaders and 6 girls (including me). Our villa was huge! & there was tons of yummalicous food to keep us all sustained for these five days. Now the bulding where we had service, is so hard to describe. When you walked in, to the right was the Lost & Found and a place to sign up for beach activities. Farther back behind that was the restrooms and phones. To the left was a table where they were selling TONS of merchandise such as Huntsville Masters Comission shirts, Verge 2010 shirts, Manafest Revolution shirts, Eyes Around tshirts, Eyes Around CD's, and Citizen CD's. Back farther behind the merchandise booth, was a large open area (obviously used for conferences), set up with a few tables and water jugs incase we got hott (cause ya know, it was only a billion and 3 degress outside all week). Straight infront of the merchandise table, was the "entrance" to the sanctuary. When you walked through the long black curtains, it was the most amazing setting ever. Tons of chairs set up just like a normal church. In the back center was the media stand, with the cameras / comptuers / lights / etc. Then straight on up was the stage. With tons of lights, a large screen to see on, and mics galore! (sp, ha).
Now onto the lifechanging stuff;
-Before Verge had started, I was in an awful relationship & I definitely rebelled against the Lord ... for awhile. He was trying so hard to show me His love, and pull me closer to Him but I just absolutely would NOT let Him. So finally, once I had enough of the relationsihp, I broke up with the boy and I started, somewhat, to aim more towards God. I kept asking him things, and just asking him to talk to me: and He wouldnt. Except for the Sunday before Verge, He said one word to me: reconciliation (hence 2 posts below). Im not gonna go back into that, but this is just the start to Verge. There were so many questions I had in my walk such as: should I be going to church here? Do You truly love me God? What do you want me to do? Just so many questions, and I needed a confirmation.
-Once we got to Verge, I automatically felt the presence of God ... as always. The services started going, and the worship started, and I was all over that stuff man. I LOVE to worship God! Especially to upbeat, fast paced music like they have at Verge. So Monday night, Tuesday morning & night, Wednesday morning I was all over the altar worshiping, taking notes: you name it. I felt God, and I was starting to feel His love, but it just wasnt definite yet. (Im about to sound a bit scatter brained, so I apologize in advance). I had also been begging God to heal me of my broken heart for a little over a year now, and I felt him preparing my heart for that. Ok, back to the other story.
-Wednesday night, Sean Smith preached his AMAZ!NG message, and started doing his healing thing (as I like to call it). He did this last year and he did again this year. God revelaed to him people that needed healing, or that Sean needed to speak things over, and Sean / Barbara (his wife) called them up to the altar. So about 4/5 people in, Barbara took the microphone from Sean & said: "Theres a girl here, with a lime green shirt on ... yes, she's over here. Yes, you. your friend just looked at you ... yes, you just looked to your left. Yes you, come on up here". Yeah: she was talking to me. So I went on up there, and she prayed for me and her & Sean just spoke some amazing things over me (Im not going to put that in this blog, its too much! I'll post another one later with all of that in it :D).
That night definitely took me to a WHOLE new level of intimacy with the Lord. I gained my gift that night as well: Im an intercessor - [According to Websters dictionary] 1. The act of interceeding; 2. Prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of another. So basicalllly, I pray for others :) & I must say, its absolutely amazing! As soon as God gave me my gift, I put it right in motion. I prayed for three of my dearest friends, and all 3 of them received their prayer language (speaking in tongues before the Lord). 2 more friends ended relationships they knew they wernt supposed to be in, because of prayer (not just mine, but because of prayer and Gods love). But also, this was such a confirmation for me: and that was actually one of the things Barbara had said to me. Also, my heart has been healed. One of the interns at our church named Kayce prayed for me Tuesday night, she prayed hard that the chains on me be broken: somehow, she knew what was going on. God took the bondage from me, He broke the chains, and His love set me free. Its definitely a testimony that I need to share, and I know He will allow me to use it to save others :)
Verge changed my life, radically. It definitely made me think over my life, and decided to re - dedicate my life to God. Im no longer wishy - washy: Im ALLLLLL INNNNNNN for God this time. As Kim Walker sings in her song "I Surrender": No turning back, I've made up my mind, I'm giving all of my life this time.
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