{Day 19}

Got up early and went to church. Brian Johnson led and Kris Vallotton spoke! Happy day! Highlights:

• Past prophetic words could very well be for what you're struggling with right now.
• You're going to eat the fruit of what you say.
• Three keys for Joshua's victory:
• the law of God was to be in his mouth
• he was to meditate {think, remember, sing, speak} on it day and night
• he would do all he was thinking
• "You cannot be tempted by something you don't have an appetite for." - Kris Vallotton
• "I am not defined by my appetites. I am defined by the choices I make concerned my appetite." - Kris Vallotton
• Your heart gives your mind parameters for how it can think.
• Your heart has a PR person - your tongue.
• Fear and anxiety are why we don't manage our thoughts.

It was a great teaching. As always, of course, but still just wonderful. :) If you have iBethel, go listen. :)

The rest of the day was spent with some food, some phone calling, some picture uploading to Facebook {nothing you haven't seen here, but at least it's all in one place}, some watching of Jenna paint a picture, and then off to church again! Getting there early so we didn't have to sit on the bleachers again.

And then we went to pre-service prayer. We had gone at TwinView during the Kingdom Culture conference and enjoyed it, gotten some prayer and prophecies. But pre-service prayer at Bethel is very different. Basically, everybody chills in the "Great Room" until about fifteen minutes before service. And then we circle and have what's basically a round-the-room fire tunnel. We pray for each other, and then the leaders go around and pray for us. Got prayed for by Danny Silk! But anyway, the pre-service prayer is where it's at. So much crazier than their fire tunnels. Pre-service prayer is where people laugh so hard they fall over. Or just fall over.

Worship was really, really good and long and spontaneous and prophetic - led by William Matthews. If you're an iBethel addict, look that one up, too. {You may actually see me in that one. Felt like the camera was staring at me a lot.} We went into some fun dancing and spontaneous worship, really cool, really fun.

Then a teaching by Eric Johnson. Also really good, though I was starting to get tired. Highlights:

• There's a season for this and a season for that, just know what season you're supposed to be in.
• The wineskin that you're building should be built in such a way that will contain future wine as well.
• Be careful you don't keep the same wineskin for new wine.
• Jesus is okay with giving you something you're not ready for.
• "The Holy Spirit is not a vending machine." - Eric Johnson
• When Jesus left his {three-year} ministry, it exploded. But when a lot of nation-going organizations found ministries, the ministries collapse when they leave.
• If you read the gospels with a mindset that salvation is only there to get us to heaven, you get a list of right and wrongs.
• There's a higher standard with grace than with the law.
• If you're insecure, you don't like to empower people. And if you do empower them, you definitely don't let them higher.
• When you stand in extreme security, you see God on other people.

Then a fire-tunnel. Yay! Danny Silk, and Sheri Silk, and Kathy Vallotton. Laughter. :)

And then a trip to In-N-Out. I was on a quest not to eat out this week, and I still am, but I was also on another quest to eat at In-N-Out before I left. So, that's accomplished. Their fries really are amazing. Cut and fried there, with 0 trans fats, if that makes anybody feel better. Definitely better than McDonalds {though Dani dislikes In-N-Out; she prefers McDonalds French fries. And there is no dissuading her.} Anyway, I'm so ready for a salad tomorrow.

And Snickerdoodle cookies. I so feel like Snickerdoodle cookies, and I have the ingredients to make them! Happy day!