Jesus Culture!

I'm at the Jesus Culture conference in Redding California, well we actually just finished tonight but happily its Saturday so we still get an awesome church tomorrow before we go home. Jesus Culture is a youth conference that happens a couple times a year. It was originally the youth group from Bethel Church having an extra extravagant party but now its morphed into something so big that it takes the Convention Center and the whole Church building to contain it.

Young people have come from all over to party with God this weekend. What the teachers have been instilling in us these past two days is how we are a supernatural revivalist generation. And that God wants us to have His presence all the time in our homes and in our city's. There has been a lot of praying against fear because that's a last resort trick of the devil, and we have inherited what our Daddy God has that's His favor and authority. He likes to pamper and love His kids, so when we ask that cancer be gone, God is so happy to make that happen.

Also we learned that the Holy Spirit has called us to live our lives with a shout (we are after all generation extreme). Live with a shout and show that with our time, money, energy, attitude, encouragement, and forgiveness. Church should be a party all the time because Jesus is in our midst. And Christians should be the most forgiving loving people because we have been the most forgiven.

The teacher we heard from today is called Russel Evans and he talked about the part in the Bible where Jesus was crucified for us, and in His last breath He said the words "It is finished." at that point all of hell cheered because the devil had his fill of blood and the man that had caused him so much grief was dead. But on the third day, in the midst of hell Jesus appeared in Satan's face causing much fear and panic. Jesus took the keys of our inheritance from the devil's petrified hands and said "What I meant by its finished, was their death is finished and your reign is finished."

The crowd was going absolutely wild at that point. Just before Teacher Russel had shared about what he imagined Jesus raising from the dead to be, we had been learning how to make a joyful shout. 11,000 young people in a room learning how to shout is definitely something to be seen and heard. When he got to the "Satan your finished" part, the sanctuary erupted with a powerful Ruah (meaning to sound an alarm). We meant to shake the earth and I'm pretty sure we did.

There is so much more to say that I can't put into words at the moment, but I most certainly will later. For now THE END