the great rejoicing

I would love to share about our 3 day trip to the island of Butachauques, but we had such an incredible experience tonight, that i'll save the Island Narrative for another time.
Tonight we went to Ricardo and Eleana's house for small group. While we were opening up in prayer, their neighbors Carlos and Carolina came. Ricardo and Eleana have been sharing with them and inviting them to small group - last week they came to the marriage seminar the church held. They're a young couple with a little 2 year old daughter. Well, after the Bible study and time of sharing, we shared prayer requests and prayed for one another and also prayed for and over Carolina and Carlos, their family and work and everything the Spirit led us. God's Holy Presence really started moving in all of our hearts and their hearts, too, during this time. It was just so powerful; they shared some more of how they were feeling and what God was really stirring in them and they wanted to make the decision to confess Jesus as their Savior. Eleana led Carolina in praying; then, Carlos spoke some more and Mike led him in praying. It was just so powerful, and we prayed for them more, and it was just... INCREDIBLE!! It was amazing to get to be present when my brother and sister were adopted into the family. I was so blessed to be there, and i continue to be wowed by it. At one point during the evening i really realized "Wow, i am in the presence of Holiness right now," and there aren't words to describe that. And then thinking of the celebration in Heaven! Wow!
God's love and holiness met perfectly on the cross, and death was made unvictorious when Jesus came back to life, and well...
here we are
humbly accepting the bounty
of ourselves being captured
made servants and friends
to the One with love enraptured
and we fall for the One who owns us
not fearing a great demise
for in knowledge of His love for us
we are seeking to be wise