Spiritual Shift

   Happy Friday everyone! I hope everyone has had a great week so far. I know that I have. It was definitely a week filled with unexpected things. A few weeks ago I found out that Kim-Walker Smith was coming to a church conference in Orlando at a church that my family was very familiar with. My best friend and I had been wanting to see Jesus Culture in concert really badly so when I found out about the conference I knew that we had to go. I signed my mom, me, and my best friend up and got so excited. As the day approached things started coming up that I thought would prevent us from going, but when God is involved in a situation there's no stopping Him. The name of the conference was Unleashed and it was at New Destiny Christian Center. Paula White is the senior pastor of the church and she is incredible. I thought I knew what to expect at this conference, but what I got from it was so different than anything I could have dreamed.  I've been listening to Paula White preach since I was a little girl so I knew to expect some Holy Spirit fired up preaching, but I was not expecting the prophetic anointing that was released (I didn't even know to much about prophetic anointing until this night). I've listened to Kim Walker Smith's music a countless amount of times but to actually be present in her anointed voice was way different. What happened to me was a complete spiritual shift. Being in a room of hundreds of people worshiping is one thing. Being in a room full of people speaking in tongues, getting healed and prophesied over is a whole other thing. People were literally healed from sickness and bondage right in front of me, lives were changed right in front of me. You don't leave something like that and stay the same. The atmosphere was so incredible it's hard to explain with words. It was like nothing I've ever experienced. What makes me so excited is knowing that I have stepped into something so much deeper and bigger than myself. It's like God has breathed a breath of fresh air into my lungs and given me this whole new outlook and vision. Everything I know about God is about to get so much more intimate than it was before. Seeing the resurrection power of Jesus become activated in my life has caused such an enormous shift and I am so excited for this new journey of intimacy, sacrifice, abundance, and anointing to enter into my life. God has restored things back to me that I didn't even know needed restoring and I am so grateful to Him for bringing me, and two of my favorite people, to this awesome conference. I can't wait to continue in this amazing shift and share with you all about the new journey that I'm on. God is so great, and as I get deeper into His word and anointing I pray that I can be an even bigger blessing to people everywhere.

                                      Here's something I read in the bible today that really spoke to me. I  pray that it blesses you!

     Awake, awake, O Zion, clothe yourself with strength. Put on your garments of splendor, O Jerusalem, the holy city. The uncircumcised and defiled will not enter you again. Shake off your dust; rise up, sit enthroned, O Jerusalem. Free yourself from the chains on your neck O captive Daughter of Zion.....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!"...The Lord will lay bare His holy arm in the sight of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God. ~ Isaiah 52:1-2, 7, 10

My amazing mother and soul sister before the conference. :)

Kim Walker Smith was AMAZING. Seeing her was a dream come true.

Jesus.

                                             

One of the amazing healing moments. Seriously such a beautiful and powerful thing. So blessed to have experienced. (no, healing miracles didn't just happen back in the bible days, it's alive and present now to)

Paula White and this amazing prophet preaching up a storm!! It was incredible.

              

A Day of Splendor.

Hey everyone! I hope you all have had a great weekend so far. I personally have had an absolute amazing weekend so far. Yesterday was what I would like to call a day of splendor. I started off my day in anxious excitement. I was so ready to go prom dress shopping with my best friend and then see Kari Jobe and Rend Collective in concert that night. I spent some quiet time with Jesus before I left. My prayer was just that his favor and anointing rest on us that day and that He is just glorified in our day, and He so was. I found myself noticing Him in the little things. We got to Orlando safely, found our prom dresses within an hour of being at the mall (extreme favor), got to the concert safely, found a good parking space, and drove home on a busy highway in the middle of the night safely. I see Jesus in all of this. Even though they were each just little things I see how he watched out for us, provided for us, and showed His love and glory. And then there was the concert. Beautiful, magnificent, glorious, powerful, anointing, these are just some of the words to explain the atmosphere last night. God literally changed the House of Blues into a House of Worship. It was incredible and breathtaking. There were moment when I thought I couldn't stand up any longer because the presence of God was so strong. It was altering and has left me hungry for God and His presence. Worship is beautiful. Rend Collective was amazing, they had everyone dancing like crazy and praising Jesus. It was so much fun! And then Kari Jobe just blew my mind. Jesus is so real and there is no way that you could've walked out of that room and not believe that there is a God in heaven fighting for you and loving you. Oh and did I mention that she sang in Spanish (I almost passed out it was so amazing). There were moments when I thought that the House of Blues was just going to come crashing to the ground, it was so full of God's presence and shouts of praise. Besides Kari singing in Spanish and Rend Collective throwing a huge party, one of the highlights of the night was towards the end of worship. The House of Blues is a bar and because of the kind of concert it was not many people, if any, were buying drinks. Kari Jobe said something along the lines of this. "Those bar tenders back there haven't made any money tonight, why don't we just be Jesus to them and go leave them tips even though were not buying drinks. How cool would it be if they made more money at a Christian concert than any other." At the end of the show everyone flooded the bar (including me) and handed the bar tenders money. It was literally one of the coolest thing I've ever seen. I was so blessed. People also got the chance to sponsor kids around the world with money to provide them with food and water. I got to see my best friend sponsor a child from Kenya which is so awesome! Yesterday was magical and wonderful all because of Jesus. If you ever get the chance to be in a room of hundreds of people worshiping  Jesus do it. It will change you from the inside out. 

  Sing to Him, sing praise to him; tell of all His wonderful acts. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. ~ 1 Chronicles 16:9-10

           Love,
              Sofia