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For anyone who knows me, you will be aware that I have been struggling with decisions around work recently. It has been a hard last couple of weeks.

Two Sunday nights ago, a picture was shared during worship time by a member of our congregation at City Bowl. It was a picture of a swing which was being held down by cobwebs. The encouragement to us was that the Holy Spirit wanted to come and blow these cobwebs away, releasing the swing. Jesus was standing behind the swing and would begin to push it so that it would swing higher and higher. God wanted to restore our freedom and joy in that moment. The picture was very real to me, but the burdens of the week (my cobwebs?) seemed more overriding at the time. So, I left the church building still feeling weary. Sad hey?

The next night (Monday evening), I was sitting chatting to God, crying out to Him and asking to hear His voice of clarity on work matters. Then the picture that was shared from the night before came to mind. I felt led to pray the picture over my situation and my life, to really take hold of it. As I did, I felt the Holy Spirit come into my room. I have been a Christian since I was three years old (that's a story for another time for those who can't believe that one can be a Christian from that young) and up to now, I have never laughed in the Spirit. That is...until Monday night. Not even a minute after praying this prayer about Jesus coming to swing me into freedom and new-found joy, I started to giggle...and giggle...and laugh uncontrollably and hysterically for several minutes. The happy tears were rolling down my cheeks, my cat was frightened by her mommy going ballistic and the neighbours from the apartment downstairs got up to shut their windows to block out my guffaws. This made me laugh even more! What a party the Holy Spirit and I had. After ward, I went to bed feeling a physical and spiritual difference.

The outcome of that week was that God gave me clarity re my work situation, but a more far-reaching impact , was this important lesson for me: That when words of prophecy and knowledge are shared corporately, I need to take hold of them, really take hold of them for my life personally. And in my private space, I need to pray those encouragements over my life, maybe even more than once.

So I praise God for His faithfulness in all things, for the joy of the Holy Spirit and for guiding me upwards and onwards in His ways!