The day heaven came down.

The day heaven came down.

Yesterday, I attended a 12 hour worship session. 

We call it “The Burn” and here at Adventures in missions, we host them once a month.  It was the most unbelievable time spent in the presence of the Lord. 

I sang my heart out.

I danced.

I laughed…a lot .

I got crazy before the throne of heaven. 

I fell to my knees in adoration of my King. 

I gave everything I had in me to worship Him.

Yet, even after completely emptying myself, I left that place so full. Full of life, joy, love, in awe and wonder of the Lord. I was pumped! I couldn’t even fall asleep when I got home at 1:30am because I was so giddy! 

I asked the Lord to show me what heaven looks like that night, and I caught just the slightest glimpse. It was unbelievably good.

I got caught up in uncontrollable laughter knowing that I get to spend eternity like this, being in the presence of Jesus .

He is so good.

He is perfect in all of His ways, towards us.

He’s a good, good father.

We are set free!

Worship the Lord in His throne room, live in His freedom, be His child, bring heaven down.

"What the heck is Brook doing in Georgia?"

"What the heck is Brook doing in Georgia?”

                                                  My life isn’t really “normal”,

 that’s part of what I love about it.  I live as a woman deeply in love with my Creator, King and Savior. I live in full abandonment to all that this fallen world has to offer. I live as a servant to the Kingdom of the living God. I live fully dependent on the Lord for my every need. Jesus literally pays for my groceries, gas, and every other living expense. I live in a house with girls from Washington D.C., Boston, Texas and Georgia, whom I met the night I moved in.  I call myself a “Kingdom Gypsy”  because that’s what I am. I’m a Kingdom kid, wild and free, and I go wherever my Father tells me to go.  

I’m a full time missionary, currently stationed in Gainesville, Georgia. 

This is where papa has called me for this season. I can feel it in every inch of my soul that this is where I’m meant to be right now. I am in a discipleship program called “Center for Global Action” one of many branches of Adventures in Missions.

So what exactly does my life here look like? Lemme tell you about a typical day in the life of Brook Gelinas.

6:25am: My alarm clock starts buzzing, pulling me out of my peaceful sleep.

6:45ish: I actually start to open my groggy eyes, roll outta bed, shuffle my feet into the kitchen, and switch the coffee pot on. 

8:50am I get to the office of Adventures in Missions. 

Monday mornings start with all staff worship.

Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (And wednesday afternoons) start with working in my department of Short Term missions.  We send out thousands of participants onto the mission field every year! I can be found doing anything from marketing, to making phone calls, building relationships with past and future participants, with lots of stuff in-between. 

Wednesdays begin with classes: “Calling class”, a class dedicated to teaching us how to decipher the calling the Lord has on each of our lives. Then “Dangerous Jesus” class, a class teaching on the radical way Jesus calls His disciples to live. Both classes are amazing, life altering and challenging, I soak in every minute of them.

1:30pm I head to “Worship Track”. 

Track time is a little hard to explain, because it’s kinda lead by the Holy Spirit, and everyday is a new adventure. At any given moment, track time may consist of: Learning what a life of worship looks like, studying the book “The Supernatural ways of Royalty” and diving into what it means to be sons and daughters of the King of Kings. Deep theological discussions about the bible, God himself, and any other given things in life really. Times of prayer, worship, journaling and listening prayer. Talks from my track leaders, as well as talks from a variety of guest speaks from  around the “adventures community”. We have also recently begun doing more outreaches to our community of Gainesville, including worshiping and spreading the love and freedom of Jesus at “the Square” (it’s our downtown), and this week we begin a mentoring program with local kindergardeners! 

5:30-45pm I get home, cook some dinner and spend time with Jesus, and then time with my roommates. 

11:00pm-ish My eyes get droopy and I give in to sweet, sweet sleep.

Along with my daily routine, I am also in the process of learning to play guitar (yay!) and lots of crazy awesome community events! 

I hope this gives you some insight on what the heck I’m doing living down south! :)

Below, you can enjoy this awesome slideshow of my life in photos!

Romanced in Pennsylvania

Romanced in Pennsylvania.

This past weekend, Jesus opened up the floodgates of heaven {again} and lavished me with His goodness. Romanced me with wine, community, music and bonfires, and used a friend to sing life changing prophetic words over me.

{Performing on Saturday morning}

The worship track was invited to come up to Pennsylvania and spend the weekend at Spring Gate Winery, in the capital city of Harrisburg. We had no idea what to expect. Honestly, I didn’t even really know what my purpose was in going. I was just excited to be going on a trip. The adventure girl in me had been longing for a excursion!

{Performing on Sunday afternoon}

We were taken care of in every little way possible. In a time in my life where I have never been so dependent on the Lord for my every need financially  He took this weekend to crazy lavish His love on me, in such practical ways. By providing everything from money to go buy coffee, {he knows how to love me well} to my food, to the amazing time spent in community and worship.

{Harrisburg PA}

One of the things that stands out to me the most about this weekend was our first night there. We stayed in this awesome old, white farm house. What was suppose to be a time of rehearsal, turned into an epic time of worship. There was so much freedom in the room. The Holy Spirit was there in such a heavy and special way. I was overwhelmed with peace and joy. Then my friend Logan said that we were supposed to sing over each other. 

{The winery}

So one by one we began to listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit and what he was telling us to sing. 

Then it was time for someone to sing over me.  

“The LORD your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing."  Zephaniah 3:17

I remember reading this verse some time ago, and I stared thinking. 

“Lord, I wanna hear you sing over me”. 

 It was such a simple, child like faith prayer. But I really, truly wanted to hear it!  

I was just sitting there in that old farm house with little girl anticipation. I knew that this was an answer to my prayer!

Austin started to sing, and I was blown away. Here’s a little something that was sung.

You were born to be wild.

I created you that way.

Keep chasing after me.

Run to me.

You’re gonna run faster then you ever dreamed possible.

Stop doubting.

Don't ever doubt.

I love you.

The Lord is so crazy faithful, it keeps blowing my mind! He’s such a good daddy! He gives us good, awesome, great unseachable things! Better things then I could have ever dreamed up for myself. Better things then I could ever desire on my own. And He loves doing it! Craziness. 

He’s a good, good father. 

Rest in that. 

{Official Band pic}