Matt Short

Last night was a crucial night for the school and I feel its important for me to share it with you. To give you some background, the school is in its third week of lectures and we as staff have felt the enemy’s attack, withholding the students from receiving all that the Lord has for them the past two weeks. We feel like it’s been very difficult for many of them to engage, to hear God’s voice, and act on it. And last night I was sick of it! I wanted nothing to do with it. My spirit was raging within me and my heart was burning within me, longing to see the Holy Spirit move.

Now as we would any Wednesday night we entered into worship last night around 7:30pm. But this night my heart rate was up, as was my blood pressure probably and I couldn’t stop shaking. Not rediculously or convulsing or anything but I just shook uncontrolably with anticipation. I’d never expirienced it before and don’t know how else to explain it so we’ll leave it at that. We started with a Hillsong worship song which I felt was quite ironic because I struggle with Hillsong music. Whenever I sing they’re music I typically feel like I’m just trying so hard with my flesh and seeing no results in my spirit, so yeah, IRONIC. The next few songs weren’t much, and the whole school struggled through them as if we were climbing some never ending cliff that had little to no hand holds, but then came a new song. The song, “This is our God” I heard for the first time on staff training a few weeks ago and I asked my worship leader to learn it so we could sing it. As we stood there singing this beautiful song I couldn’t shake two words the Lord layed on my heart, “Sweet Release”.

My “sweet release”. I didn’t know what it meant but I wanted it! Something! Anything to shake the dull, dragging existence I felt stuck in at the moment. That’s when the words, “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord Almighty” came to my heart and I sang them. I sang them with everything I had in me. I LOVE that phrase because as referred to in Revelations, the seraphim sing them night and day, NEVER ENDING, and they never grow old or become less true. Now it took a few times before others chimed in but not before long the whole room was singing this simple phrase. And as we sang with the seraphim these wonderfully uplifting yet simple words the presence of the Holy Spirit was finally released. People began pressing in, singing out what the Lord laid on their hearts and finally began worshiping Him as He deserves.

We later opened things up for ministering to one another and the students, for the most part, dove in. An hour and a half later, the Spirit was still moving, still speaking and people were (hopefully) finally beginning to understand. It was AMAZING to finally expirience such a release amongst the students and GLORY to God for all that He did last night!

Thank you all for your prayers, I greatly appreciate them!

God Bless,

-Matt

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