If I may share a brief testimony with you today, 10/31/2023. I little bit ago I attended a conference in Nashville/Brentwood. It was powerful, insightful and a mighty refreshing to my body, soul & spirit. It was just what I needed in that moment in my life. I was shown weeks in advance to start gathering items to place in a "thank you, hospitality gift ensemble" to bless the ministers of this conference. I kind of had an inkling to bake challah bread but I dismissed it until ... I believe it was the day or 2 before going to the conference and I had this heavy nudging to bake challah bread. Challah bread is not some easy 1, 2, 3 and then it is done type of making bread. You have to prepare the dough, let it rise, punch down the risen dough, roll into ropes, braid the bread, let it rise again then place egg wash on top and sprinkle with sesame & poppy seeds, then you bake it. I was shown to make a round loaf and then a regular loaf braided. You do get 2 loaves of bread out if the recipe. I was on the hunt to discover a new way to braid and make a round loaf to try and make. I found it and, in this recipe, you make 6 equals in length ropes and take 3 places of them on the baking sheet, then weave 3 the opposite direction with the 3 already in place. There is left over in 4 directions, and you braid these tails of the bread and then tuck them under the dough and that creates the round loaf of bread. This is kind of funny, this dough requires about 8 cups of flour (I used bread flour) and at 1 point you just keep incorporating flour into the dough and somehow, I had a fight with flour that seemed to get everywhere in the kitchen. Think of a light dusting over items in the kitchen. I had to clean it all up. I was using the regular mixer attachment as this was happening and then switched to the dough bread kneading attachments and that seemed to reduce flour getting here, there and it seemed like everywhere that day. I baked the 2 loaves of bread and trusted Holy Spirit to bring with me this unique host gift to a ministry. I wrapped it up and place it separate from the other items with a short note stating Holy Spirit had me bake this in the event they all wanted to partake in communion while the conference was going on. I did my part in all of this as Holy Spirit nudged me to do.
The first night of the conference I found the kindest contact person I had been communicating with via email prior to the conference and gave her the gifts for their team/ministers. I thought nothing about it once my portion was done. I received an email thanking me since they had some of the baked goods, I also tucked in with everything else. They did not have time to go to dinner that night and so they enjoyed some of the items in the gift set and was going to give the thank you note and everything else to the main minister the next day. It was mentioned that someone suggested they did not do communion and they wanted to. Imagine that, Holy Spirit truly does know situations and what to do in them doesn't He.
I received an email the other day and sure enough, the loaf of challah bread was used for a group communion. See, no matter how odd or unique a nudge from Holy Spirit may be follow His guidance for others will truly be blessed with the follow through okay!
This actual conference I received a prophetic word from one of the lead people in the prayer team while standing in line to get a book signed by a prolific author. They kept mentioning how they saw the color green around me and spoke about it. You may think to yourself no big deal, but it was. That evening unbeknownst to me the main platform spoke about the color green. I was on a mission to find this person to tell them the prophetic word spoken was then spoken on the main conference stage, imagine that! I found this person the last day as I was leaving. They were outside praying for a person that had a curvature of the spine and as I was waiting, I could actually see the back straightening out. I briefly shared with them how I was witnessing the power of God with restoring this person's back and then I shared about the color green they spoke over me. Apparently, the green cape is pioneer covering.
One more experience I still need to somehow connect with another author/minister for further insight let me share. There was a younger in age prophetic person that I met a few years back in Gatlinburg for a retreat I attended. I knew then this person was honest, and truth came forth from them. I was thrilled to see them ministering at this conference, so I bought a book of his and waited in line for him to sign it for me. The night before there was a mighty move of Holy Spirit, and he released a word about dreams and things of that nature that people were going to experience. No dream but it was somewhere between 3am-4am this happened to me @ the hotel. I had on a pair of lightweight walking type of socks on, and I woke up with my right foot right big toe burning sensation. Almost like my big toe was on fire if that makes sense. I removed the sock and eventually it dissipated and subsided. I felt led to share how the word he released had this happen to me. You will never believe his response ... the exact thing with same foot and big toe happened to him as he was preparing to come to this conference. He was going to seek out further insight from one of the other prophets about the meaning of this.
As Holy Spirit leads me maybe I will share a bit more at another time.
Sorry, I did not take a picture of the round loaf of challah bread I baked.
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