Bob Hamp

She stood defiantly in the face of her past and shouted it down.  God had healed another heart.  One by one she named the moments of her past when darkness had tried to snuff out the life God intended for her.  The moments were big and dark.  Most of us have not lived through the things she lived through.  God was bigger, kinder and more powerful than all that the darkness had thrown at her, and she stood up to proclaim it to everyone in the room.

God had visited this room full of leaders in a tangible way.  Something about when we turn our minds and our hearts toward Him seems to invite His presence and He had come like mist into the room.  You could feel the shift.  We were discussing His Nature and His Love.  We were declaring His Power.  He seemed to like that because He came to show us.  And when He did He climbed inside this woman’s heart and burned out from her years of rejection, shame fear and loneliness.  Then she stood to declare it.

The force of her words seemed to move the air in the room like thunder.  She spoke a language I did not understand, but the look on her face and movement of her heart transcended things like words.   She would name an incident and then climb victoriously on top of it.  Moment by moment by moment, the trauma of her life bowed to God’s Breath and her reception of it.  With each declaration He seemed to increase His presence through her and among us.  We were on Holy Ground.  She was in Holy Hands.

When she finished casting down this life time of trauma, she began to express what He was doing in her.  Rejection became ultimate Acceptance.  Shame became Love.  Pain became Joy and darkness became Light.  The same God who had created the cosmos with His voice was speaking to her and through her.  And as He did He was creating again.  We watched in wonder.

He said to her, “I will never leave you or forsake you”.  She believed Him.  So did we.  It changed me, and I will never forget what I saw.