Home Again with Smelly Things

It was another glorious trip to the YWAM base at ENR. Oh how I love it there. Each time I go the pressure is increased exponentially for me to stay. Soon, I fear, I may buckle. That is, after Edmonton is birthed into revival, or at least I am done what my job here is to do. God has made it very clear that once that is done then I am off again. So I might as well work really hard and see what happens, eh?

I think one of the neatest things from this last trip was the fact that everybody was able to smell the presence of the Lord. My friends were telling me about it and I thought it was pretty cool. I have smelt the presence of the Lord before, so I was like, "Yeah... neat." I was not prepared for what smells awaited me!

This DTS school's theme is "Gladness". I think. YWAMers, correct me if I am wrong. They felt like they were supposed to make an oil of gladness, complete with nice smelly things in it and give some to each student and staff. Heck... YWAM people... just post the whole story on a comment if you can, at the end of this.

So it seems that this smell has been coming and going in certain rooms and such, even though there was no oil present at the time. I thought that was pretty cool. Chadwick mentioned over breakfast one morning how its funny that we do not consider it strange anymore when we can smell His presence. We're used to "Oh, can you feel His presence right now?", but how many of us are used to *sniff, sniff*..... "Oh, God's here!"

On Sunday night we met with all the YWAM staff just to hear their hearts and give a little direction to where the week would be going, as far as we knew. The night quickly ended up into us all drinking in the presence of God and some being plain old plastered in His presence. In fact, any time someone got anywhere near Aileen, she would freak out and flop around on the ground. She was getting some serious power shots from God.

When the night came to a close, Carolyn and I went for a traditional walk. But when we stepped outside there was a gentle breeze blowing which smelled powerfully like the oil of gladness! It was unmistakable. We walked about half way to the gate, which was about 1km and the scent was just as strong as when we were near the Town Hall! Remarkable!!

It was quite enjoyable, actually.

It really made me wonder that if the wind is smelling so wonderful, where is the wind actually coming from? Did God just spike the wind, or was this no natural breeze to begin with?

Either way.............