Dancing Hands
DANCING HANDS
I first learned about experiencing His Presence through my hands in worship. I noticed that when I moved them to express my love for Him, that I strongly felt His tangible Presence. I soon began to “dance” with my hands while sitting in my chair adoring Him in worship. I even dance with my hands at stop lights in the car, when the worship music is playing. I have had the most amazing rushes of His Presence.
In the 80’s I had several visions where I was doing this same “dance” flying in the sky. I felt every movement as strong yearnings and love motions to His Presence and the songs that the Holy Spirit was bringing forth on earth. Only in those dances, I was moving my entire body in the gravity free movement of flying and my whole heart, body and soul were expressing my adoration of Him, and also in response to what the Holy Spirit was playing through the music.
It has been many years since I had a vision like that, but I experience the same worship now in literal life, when I use my hands to worship Him in dance. I have found His Spirit is very creative when it comes to expressing many signs and fluidity of expression.
Ps 134 NKJV
Behold, bless the LORD, All you servants of the LORD, Who by night stand in the house of the LORD! 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, And bless the LORD. 3 The LORD who made heaven and earth Bless you from Zion!
Ps 63:8 NKJV
God, You are my God; Early will I seek You; My soul thirsts for You; My flesh longs for You In a dry and thirsty land Where there is no water. 2 So I have looked for You in the sanctuary, To see Your power and Your glory. 3 Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise You. 4 Thus I will bless You while I live; I will lift up my hands in Your name. 5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, And my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips. When I remember You on my bed, I meditate on You in the night watches. 7 Because You have been my help, Therefore in the shadow of Your wings I will rejoice. 8 My soul follows close behind You; Your right hand upholds me.
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HAND GESTURES
Today while getting dressed, I was worshipping to Don Potter’s song about stretching forth the tent stakes. The Spirit came upon me and I fell into a combination of prophetic intercession and gesture. I was stretching forth the stakes and finally pounding them in. It was a distinctive expression because when the Holy Spirit was upon me in this, I felt the Spirit of Might in the stretch and the hammering in.
This was such an experience, I took it as a personal Word from the Lord to me and I prayed that I did not want to lose even an inch of territory that had been bought and won during the long war I was in. I know there is free territory to come into and I did not want to lose it because of my own frailties.
Isa 54:1-3 NKJV
Sing, O barren, you who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married woman,” says the LORD. “Enlarge the place of your tent, and let them stretch out the curtains of your dwellings; Do not spare; Lengthen your cords, and strengthen your stakes. For you shall expand to the right and to the left, and your descendants will inherit the nations, and make the desolate cities inhabited.
