By Cathy Dodge 

The evening started as a few intercessors joined the worship team in prayer.  The presence of the Lord was strong as the words from Isaiah 57:14 "... build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles....I live ... with him who is contrite and lowly to revive the spirit... and the heart..." and Isaiah 40.... "prepare the way for the Lord, make straight in the wilderness a highway... rough ground level...and the glory of the Lord will be revealed" proclaimed His Word to us.  As the public began to gather, we sensed the heaviness that some brought with them, but as the worship began and the breath of His song began to blow, it was if a knocking on heaven's door manifested itself in the song "Let the doves go free".  The congregants picked up the verse and it was as if a chant of victory beginning quietly and then building to echo off the old foundation walls for the freedom that each person looked for individually and we all look for in our region.  I remember the lulls in worship where you could hear the songs of the saints joining together singing their own songs to Him that blended into a corporate undergirding of harmonies.  Quietness settled over us.  His presence was so tangible as we all waited upon our Bridegroom.  Then another singer broke forth with a song drawing us "deeper still" and another wave of His presence carried us ever closer.  There were moments of ministry and prayers for healing that were very precious.  There was even a word inspired by a prayer for the Lord to interrupt us in our lives, a new word coined by His presence "innerupt"; to cause an erruption from our innermost beings that would start as a fire from Him, melting us into liquid love and overflowing like lava to cleanse, heal and deliver us.  In the end when the final note was played, no one wanted to move.  And His presence lingered.......   even as we began to make our way home the fellowship and sharing of how the Lord touched were many.  I hope we will hear from those who received freedom, hope and healing so that others will be encouraged.

Cathy Dodge is the Administrator  for Partners in Transformation and the Worship Experiment, an intercessor and psalmist.

Last weeks gathering was, as can be expected from services called The Vermont Worship Experiment, out of the box. We ventured further from cliché phrases like “soaring in the Spirit,” and actually met with the God of all gods. Through the singing of His already anointed Word we rode wave after wave of His glory (sorry clichés are so much fun to use), but found that the truly crowning moment of the night was experienced before a single note was ever sounded.

Intercession began at six o’clock, and quickly it was realized that the night belonged to brilliant overtones of revival. Revival that would span all ages, but for me was specific to the generation that my wife and I call our own: teens and twenties who long for the real, and tire of the glitter that disguises untruth.   Joel 2:38 was spoken over the younger generation as we corporately engaged the enemy who has bound them in cages of regret, addiction, and depression. But like Jesus who stormed the temple courts, and set free the doves the merchants kept bound, we believe that we have begun to release this generation though the revival that was interceded for last Saturday night. 

Josh Marsh