Finally I am writing up my notes. I'm starting at the beginning. I'm putting my own ideas in red, not because I think I'm Jesus, but because...well because if I'm wrong, my theology or something, you won't think it's Bethel. You can blame me!

Day One:

Thankfulness: story of boy who was trying to dig to China, other mocked, he confessed he may not get there, but he opened up his hand and said, Look at all the treasures I found along the way!
Appreciating what God has done, and where you are because of it;
Contentment comes from your connection with Go throughout your day.
Who you are in God: Walking in it is like you are a song from Heaven; we all have our own song what is as unique as our DNA.
When you are being you and not trying to be someone else, you effect others to be themselves...you need to be you for them to be them, since we are a body
value one another's gifting; their gift makes your gift work
dont TRY to be amazing: be you! You are amazing!
watch out for envy
You don't have to push for your "big break"; God promotes based on faithfulness.
God highlights different people at different times for different reasons
Do the things in your life that God is highlighting you to do
have authority over the season you are in: sleeping through the storm, ie not letting the circumstances determine your ability to walk in authority and confidence in what God is doing
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Bill Johnson:
The farther we go into God, the less we can take with us
He's not a tame lion, He's WILD

Thanksgiving is a responce to God's ACTS, praise is a responce to His WAYS. (Israel knew the ACTS of God, Moses knew His ways)
Commitment not to worship, but to HIM
Thanksgiving and praise are actions we can DO; we start here
Even if we don't feel like it when we start, once we do, we will!
To minister to Him we give HIm honor, and declair it! (Ps 115)
You always become like what you worship
You are the living sacrifce, more who you are than what you do
It is costly and not convenient
YET He desires compassion above sacrifice
"To exhalt"= to leap in the air with jumping and turning
A long time ago he didn't know thats what it meant, but in his quiet times he had started doing it because he read about David dancing and wanted to worship more like David. He suddenly felt like it jumping and turning! Next day he found out through his dad's sermon that's what exalt means.

Mark 5:2
"Legion" the most deamon possessed man in the bible WOSHIPED BEFORE HE WAS SET FREE
So, Satan doesn NOT have the power to stop our worship; only we do

When noone is looking we have encounters so that when everyone is looking you can be entrusted with encounters
David and lions(alone) David and Goliath (in view)
We choose His presence, the miracles, the healing because we choose HIM

Learn to live FROM the presence of God, not just from Kingdom principals (what God said, which is good, but not enough if void of realtionship)
When we turn our hearts, our affectinons to HIm His presnece manifests

The worship service must have: faith, compassion, and love for people

Worship is horizontal and vertical ( first a connection with God, then with the body)
Don't preach
Bring His presence
Look for the worship moment that accelerates the worhsip( that "key" that unlocks another relm of worship, the path that opens that you walk together further into the kingdom realities.)









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No Internet for a week; now I'm back home!

So, it's kinda anti-climactic to not have written for a week and then suddenly I'm back home.

But, I'm going to continue the blog as I process more and more of what I've learned. All the notes I took I'm going to type out and mull over with my friend Havah. I met Havah the first day, I think, and we were instant friends. It just so happens her parents live in SB and she's here for the summer. Praise God I have a friend to enjoy, process with, and grow in the very things we studied!

To be honest. I was hoping to write more, but I'd rather unpack and organize. I don't feel settled. But I do have grocieries:-)

Not a sinner and dinner with Kim Walker

Go to Bethel's homepage, Click on "Sermon of the Week" on lower right of page, go to the purple "Podcast" button. See 'listeners also subscribed to" on right. Click "The best of Chris Vallotton". Download the sermon called: "Is your House Haunted Pt1"

(or just follow this link if it works and use that purple "podcast" button)
http://www.ibethel.org/features/sermonoftheweek/189/Danny-silk-Follow-Me-11:00am/free_message.html

So, yes I've discovered something and I'll never be the same again. I am not a sinner saved by grace as I always thought. I WAS a sinner, and ow I live UNDER grace. If you had as many questions as I did about all this, please go to the sermon God directed me to. It will blow all this out of the water. I always thought I sinner all the time, because, hey , we're all sinners, right? Well, when I read Romans, Paul tells me a different story. I've actually camped on the conclusion that I really don't sin that much, actually, because God showed me a new def. of sin. Sin is willfully disobeying God, and this is not something we are naturally prone to when the Spirit of God lives in us (Rm 8). I rarely think, man I'm going to purposly gossip about this person today. If I do gossip, IF, and it wasn't intentionally done, say it just came out, it's not a sin. ( I know, it sounds like heresy, but let me continue)It's a mistake and the Holy Spirit is using it to teach you something. You will not have to stand before the Father on Judgment Day and have HIm brin it up.

There's deeper levels to it than all that, but the most important result of this realization is that I feel so much better about myself. What a weight I've been carying to think I am prone to sin, and that all these mistakes I do and thoughts I think without meaning to etc. are sin. I've prayed manytimes for God to forgive me for all the many things I did throughout the day that were sinful. What shame to feel you are continually disappointing God? Instead, He is perfectly pleased with me! Perfectly! I am a new creation in Christ, and I am clothed in perfect righteousness, without blemish or spot, whiter than snow. I always was inwardly confused that Jesus paid it all and yet I'm still always screwing up. Don't get me wrong, I DO screw up and sin and need to repent, but it's not what I'm prone to, and I don't do it all the time. *sigh* Thank you God!

In other news, yes it's true, I had dinner with the famous Christian Worship leader/artist Kim Walker. http://www.kimwalkermusic.com/ Her music is some of the most prophetic of my generation, meaning she'll make up these songs on stage that are seriously downloads from heaven that speak messages and hope from heaven. She is so talented, and so wise beyond her years from all the time she spent with the Lord(what she says was the only key to her success). Well, I'd like to say she was just this normal person, but she's about as normal as any of the crazy Bethel people around here! Very quirky, very type A ( in a good way) She just got married and was telling us all about how it was a musical with dancers and singers and costumes, etc. Oh, this all came about because my friend Derika is friends with the couple whose house it was Kim was staying at for the conference. We were invited over for dinner, not having any idea Kim would be there. God kept me humble, because I was dressed really casual, like not very pretty, and my hair was kinda greasy because it was really hot that day. it seems like every time something great happends I'm having a bad hair day. lol. But, it was interesting that Kim is now interested in theater and wanting to revive the theatrical evangelism of Aimee Semple McPherson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson

who in the 30's founded the four-square church and did musicals instead fo sermons. They were such high quality shows people came from all over to see them. Hollywood and the artists of the day really respected it. You guys all know my heart for a long time has been longing for something like this to happen in our day. How cool that Kim is heading this direction.

So, that was really fun, it was good to get to know the sister and her husband and joke around the table telling stories and having a good time. We were talking about our first car wrecks and she had a really funny one that she backed into her Dad's truck that was parked in the drive way three times in succession because she thought it was a wall of snow. (crunch crunch)

Wonderful times. And I met this wonderful girl Havah who is from Santa Barbara. She's Jewish and really free-spirited, an artist, and has such a keen awareness of the love of God. We prayed today and the Lord really ministered to my core. Inner healing is so good when friends are praying for you and not just church people you don't know.

I'm also really really glad I'm doing dance class. I really feel like I'm in a super-hero class, or Harry Potter because we're learning to listen to the spirit and connect with God in such a way that we can actually change the atmosphere of a room through dance and break strongholds of the enemy and other things people are dealing with by dancing the opposite spirit. Dance becomes a tool for proclamitary prayer. It's also really fun and freeing when we do the improv. exercises. What a blessing! She has such a crazy testimony about how she wanted to be a missionary in Africa and the Lord kept prophesying that she would do dance when she wasn't really even a dancer. She resisted it, but out of her love for Him started walking in the directions of His way and people started getting healed in the church when she danced and all kinds of crazy stuff. Now she puts on the amazing dance shows and her dancers go all over the world making a difference for Christ. And, just as everyone is emphasizing here, it all came from her relationship with the Lord and all the time spent loving and ministering to Him in secret.

Well, enough excitement?! It just keeps coming! I'll try to be better about writing what's going on because there's more and more, but I want to ask everyone to please pray because my check from the School District never came today, and I really hope the address wasn't wrong. I need that money!
Bless you all!