Youth For the Nations

This past week was YFN. I went with Paradigm. It was such an amazing experience. I was on the nation of Pakistan.

Tuesday night, Banning Leibscher spoke. God was showing me so much about my spiritual gifts and giving me some visions. Then he showed me his love like crazy. I couldn't stop crying for like an hour. Jordan hugged me and he cried too. Then Nathan came up and hugged me and Jordan. that was a huge bonding moment with my brothers. The love of God is so crazy amazing.

Wednesday, Jordan and I did a rap song thing for the talent show. I sang, he rapped. we did Nathan's song "Holy Are You". Although we didn't place, I still had fun performing in front of 1200 people! Wednesday night pastor Adam McCain spoke on respecting God. it was a very convicting subject and was very applicable. Then at the end, Adam McCain told us to split up into groups according to youth groups and we were to confess our biggest sin. Very emotional night...

Thursday, Me and Cassie and Shayna and some other girls decided we were going to pray before service since it was the last night. Well, God was telling me all these different things to pray for. That night, God was giving me prophetic visions during worship. It was so crazy. Right after worship, Banning Leibscher spoke and he was talking about healing. He specifically spoke healing over these things: Scholiosis, Athsma, Carpal Tunnel, joint problems, Arthritis, sports injuries, and car wreck injuries. SOOO many people were healed. He asked people who were healed to line up in front of the stage. There were so many people healed that they were filling the aisles all the way to the back of the auditorium. Probably about half (if not more than half) of the people in the whole room were healed. There were around 1200 people there. It was so crazy to see the power of God move in sch a HUGE way. Then Banning spoke about going for God 100%. It was very convicting. I thought, "If I'm going to go for God, why not go all the way with everything I am? What's the point of just going halfway and not giving it all?" Then God told me to quit listening to secular music. Gosh, that was hard to submit to.

Friday morning, we had worship. God was convicting me. I was praying and he revealed this to me: Its amazing that we're able to even stand in the presence of God. Its only by his mercy that we don't fall flat on our faces during worship. So many times we take worship lightly. So many times we say we're too tired to worship. By doing this, we are sitting in the presence of God mocking him.

YFN was life-changing.