Resonate

This weekend I was a part of a college retreat called Resonate. I went with Bethel Worship center expecting God to show up in a mighty way. My new friend Laci Cargile decided to go with me. We got there and the first thing we did was go to dinner, since we got there late. Now, Springfield Conference Center is where we always have camp...and the food has never been this good! After dinner we went to chapel and God without a doubt showed up. Chris Owen from Southeastern University was the speaker for the weekend. He was different from anyone I had ever heard before. The first night he asked us to sit (and we all did, on the floor) and he simply sat on the stage and talked to us about what we want from life and what God has called us to do. The whole weekend he lead up to the Saturday night discussion about Dreams. Are my dreams God dreams? How will I know? At the end of the night Chris opened the floor for people to stand up and say their dreams if they had unlimited funds and no one telling us no! People stood up all over the room saying dreams from helping sex trafficked women to building playground for the 18,000 teens in Wetumpka, Al to come and hear the gospel. We prayed over all of these dreams and as we did God spoke over his children and said "Yes you can!"


One of my favorite things about this weekend was Saturday morning chapel. Pastor Chris read 1 Corinthians 13 over the crowd 4 different times. The first time we would say what word or phrase stood out the most. The second time we expanded on those words or phrases and voiced what we thought God was trying to tell us. The third time we turned those God thoughts into a prayer. People stood up and cried out to God to change the way we love people, to love the unloveable, and to open our eye to the unseen things of this world. Finally after Chris read the passage one last time we sat in silence in the presence of the Almighty. 


Resonate your word in my heart and mind oh Lord!