A Testimony of Power.

  Happy Monday! So I just have to share this 30 day testimony of my life that God has brought me through. It started on the night I went to Paula White's Unleashed conference (I blogged about it in an older post of course) In that post I talked about God putting me into a spiritual shift. Let me tell you, this spiritual shift was bigger than I was expecting. The next night after the Unleashed conference I watched the live stream of night number two. It was a  Bishop from Africa preaching and towards the end of his preaching he said something along the lines of "If you want to accept this I want you to pray three times a day 20 minutes each time for thirty days." I instantly new that God wanted me to do this. I was thinking "God how in the world am I going to do this, I am so busy." But I shut that out and said "I'm going to try because God is doing something in my spirit right now and I absolutely have to pray and I mean not just pray but storm heaven with prayer." So the next day I started praying three times a day 20 minutes each. God automatically started revealing things to me. I was praying in the middle of class and He lead me to opening my bible and He gave me the scripture How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace who bring good tidings,who proclaim salvation,
who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!” (Isaiah 52:7).  God told me right then and there "Sofia I have enabled you with beautiful feet to be a living testimony, to share with the world my love and greatness. You will bring healing to people through me. You will bring good news and proclaim my name to the world." Let me just tell you I started crying right there in my classroom. I was astounded. So as I continued in my prayer each day I found myself needing some direction on how to pray for certain things. So get this. I was sitting on my couch in the living room watching Celebration of Gospel on BET. Tasha Cobbs (one of the best Gospel singers of all time, that girl is anointed)  was singing Break Every Chain. So I was singing along and just loving it, and all of a sudden I heard "Go to the bookshelf." There are two bookshelf's  next to the TV in my house filled with books that my dad has collected over the years through his preaching and discipleship. I looked at that bookshelf and ran over to it. I began to look through, and the first one that popped out at me was Juanita Bynum's The Threshing Floor, How to Know Without a Doubt God Hears Your Every Prayer. Okay so I had just been praying about needing direction on prayer and now God has just lead me to this book all about prayer! Is God amazing or what!!!!??? So I began to read this book and study the Word of God and let me tell you I will never ever pray the same! God spoke to me through this book, taught me, showed me things. It's amazing. So I continued praying each day and one day I say "Lord I'm ready to go deeper. I don't really know what that fully means but I want to operate in the super natural. Whether it be speaking in tongues, prophesying, healing, all of it, whatever you want have your way." Then my amazing friend LaShonda invites me to her church and I got baptized in the Holy Spirit for that first time a.k.a I spoke in tongues!!! ( yes I already blogged about this). If your reading this you just need to take a minute and Praise God!!! I mean just look at what He is doing! I am so amazed that I'm being brought to tears as I'm  typing this. So after that I was pumped and excited but the enemy began to bring an attack of discouragement on me. I was being confused and brought down and dealing with nothing but straight flesh and emotion. I was so disappointed because I was feeling on fire and now this war was being waged on my mind. But let me tell you something the enemy can't win. The next Sunday I found myself being discouraged to go to church, but I went. I am so glad I did. The enemy was trying to get me to miss out on a Word straight from God, but like I said he can't win. I got that fresh Word and was filled with encouragement. Now, when I left church and went home to get ready for a life changing event that I didn't even know was going to happen, I began to battle with my emotions again. Here comes the enemy again! Attacking my mind and discouraging me. So I left my house with my best friends to go to a night of worship with Todd Galberth, Larue Howard, Pastor William Mcdowell and Tasha Cobbs in Orlando. Yes Tasha Cobbs! The Tasha Cobbs that was singing Break Every Chain and then God spoke to me and I received a book that will forever bless me. Keep in mind that my 30 days of prayer had just come to an end the night before. So we get to Deeper Fellowship Church and I'm like okay this is going to be awesome. I'm going to worship and see my favorite Gospel singer. I'm going to try as hard as I can to put into words what I experienced. I walked into the church thinking I was going to have a nice night of worship. I walked out of the church filled with the Holy Ghost and so covered in the presence of Jesus that even right now I am still feeling it. It was different than anything I've every experienced. Chains in my life were broken, the enemy was shut up so quickly. God poured His spirit out on me more than ever before I felt like I was on fire. Every inch of my body was completely praising and submitted to the Lord. Every fear was cast out, and right then and there my life was prophesied over. This 30 days of prayer wasn't for nothing. It wasn't just some "religious" thing. God was leading me and preparing me for this. He was preparing my heart to be filled with the Holy Ghost. He was preparing my mind to and eyes to see Him, to hear Him. He was preparing me to step into the supernatural. In the beginning I said that God spoke to me saying that He is going to use me to bring the good news and healing. I now believe this with every fiber of my being. God has called me so much higher and deeper than I have ever imagined. He has created within me a prayer warrior. He has birthed a spirit of healing in me. He has gifted me with the utterance of tongues and I only know that it doesn't stop here and He is going to continue to work miracles in me and through me. All of this hasn't just happened to just benefit myself, but to benefit those I come in contact with. I am blessed to be a blessing. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more. (Luke 12:48). Another thing I want to mention is that in no way whatsoever am I bragging about myself. I am bragging about my awesome God and what He has done in my life and what He is going to do through me for others. It's not about me it's about Jesus and what He wants to do through me. He has the victory. The enemy has been defeated! It doesn't mean that there won't be hard times and attacks. The enemy is furious right now! But guess what my God is Greater so the enemy can stay mad and try and throw attacks of the mind and body but I have the resurrection power of Jesus Christ living inside of me so the enemy has NO authority over me and he's not going to come at me without getting attacked by the blood of Jesus. I am so grateful that I can have a blog to talk about this and share with all of you. My prayer for everyone who reads this is that God touches you. That He answers prayers that you have been putting forth for a long time. I'm here to testify to you that God is Healer, Redeemer, and He has something for your life. He desires to live within you, guide you, and fill you. All you have to do is let Him. Thank you Jesus. 

 Love you guys. ~Sofia

The only decent picture I got of Tasha Cobbs. You don't have time to be taking pictures when your under such a strong anointing. She was amazing. What God is doing through her is beyond words. 

Yes! Me and my favorite people. I love these girls so much. So glad I got to share this amazing night with them. And just look at the fashion in this picture....We're rocking it.
(Oh and thanks to LaShonda's wonderful sister for taking this awesome picture)