Blessed to be a blessing

I've always thought of myself as a Holy Spirit guy... Love to pray for people and have seen some amazing things happen as I've prayed. I could tell you some awesome stories that have happened in my family, in my church and in public as God has used me for His glory.

But something happened to me this week at the Vineyard's national conference. During one of our workshops I had a powerful encounter with HolySpirit... Again, I've had these before, but something new happened this time. Not sure what, but when I awoke the next day Jesus started using me differently. Again, nothing new to what I'd been doing... Just a LOT more often.

Let me give you some examples...
I love to be friendly and positive with people but I've found myself either blessing people or praying for them after every conversation longer than one or two sentences (and even after some of the one or two sentence conversations)...

By the end of day one I found that I had prayed with about a dozen people... Two for healing (1 lady's knee was healed...said she felt fire in her knee, awesome!), two for financial situations and then a whole lot of blessing on people's lives... Two or three of these had powerful Holy Spirit encounters and felt the manifest presence of God.

Day two has already had some good stuff... Blessing my flight attendant and making her day as God told what a amazing job she was doing.

Prayed for an older woman's bone spurs in her wrist. She thanked me, but seemed uninterested. As i talked with her, she then told me amazing story of her father being cured of a serious illness when he had holy water from South America thrown on him. I told her how amazing that was and praised God for that healing. Her faith rose and she agreed. Then I asked about her wrist and she laughed and said it was better.... So good!

Wrapped up the day with an hour long conversation with a man named Richard (not a believer) on my final flight home... He shared his life's story and I was able to tell him/call out how God has blessed him over and over along the way. We parted as friends, exchanged contact info and I invited him to church (he lives in Mahomet).
Good stuff Jesus... Looking forward to tomorrow.