I Will Never Be The Same

The Bridge, Richland went for it this past Saturday and I got to be a part of their 2nd Treasure Hunt.  About 13 of us showed up; enough for 3 teams.  I was asked to share a few stories of recent Treasure Hunts and did a short time of instruction.  I had the pleasure of being teamed up with three awesome revivalists and we had a great adventure.  Our clues led us to a small park and then to the Uptown Shopping Center in Richland.  In the course of about 50 minutes we found four groups of people that were on our "Treasure Maps".  Just finding each group with the clues that Holy Spirit had given us was miraculous.

 

Our first location was a small park.  The lady in our group had a clue of “guitar on the front of a black shirt”. The 1^st person we see when arriving at the park is a man with a black shirt with two guitars on the back. Close enough! We got to pray a blessing prayer with that couple and started looking for who else the Lord wanted to touch in that park.

The young man in our group had just showed me the drawing of a "pair of wings" on his map.  He thought it might be on a Pontiac Firebird car.  A moment later I saw a young lady in her late 20's wear an "orange" tee shirt with a large butterfly on the back.  The butterfly "wing" kind of looked like the drawing I had just looked at.  We went for it and approached the women in the parking lot.  We told her what we were doing which got her curiosity going long enough for us to see if anymore of our clues fit her.  We asked her if she had any pain issues or problems in the "lower back" or with her "arm".  She told us she suffered from arthritis in both of those areas.  The clues of "family issues" and "sleep disorder" also fit her and we then had the privilege of praying for one of her children and against the sleep apnea that effected her getting a good night’s sleep.  The lady in our group laid her hand on the young lady's back and we invited the healing power of Holy Spirit to come and break arthritis out of her body.  Awesome!  She said her back was getting warm and tingling.  Warm and tingly is good.  We knew Holy Spirit was touching her.

This young lady had just recently joined the Mormon Church.  We didn't want to get into any debate with her.  We wanted her to have an encounter with the real Jesus and the power of Holy Spirit and she did.  We shared the love of our Jesus with her and gave her some contact info if she had questions.  God is so good!

 

Uptown Shopping Center:  What a good place for a couple of divine encounters.  The young man on our team had a clue of "blue sweater or coat".  I though there is no way we would ever find that clue as it was almost 85 deg's out.  Guess what?  We weren't there a minute and he found a lady on a bench wearing a "blue sweater".   There was a Navy Veteran with her and we got to share Jesus with him and pray for his back.  The presence of Holy Spirit touched him right there on the sidewalk.

The last "Treasure" meant the most to me.  God is a God of love, and he loves people through us.  We had just finished praying for the Vet and the young man on the team got a headache just above his eye.  He normally doesn't get pain like that so he knew it was someone else’s (word of knowledge).  We hadn't walked 20 steps and I noticed a "green/yellow" tattoo on the shoulder of a young lady that had passed going the other direction on the sidewalk.  I chased her and her parents down and showed her the "green/yellow" clue on my map.  The rest of my team caught up with me.  What was awesome was that the moment the young man on the team walked up to her, his headache left.  The young lady's name was Amy.  I had a clue of "A _ _" on my map under the name category.

It was then that Amy's parents told us that the cancer had come back.  She had recently been diagnosed as having a brain tumor.  It was the cause of her headaches.  She showed us the scar on her head where surgery had been done about four years earlier.  Now the cancer was back.  We then proceeded to have church right there on the sidewalk.  The love of God was poured into that family through us, the church.  The prayer of faith by the laying on of hands was offered up to Daddy God.  The Spirit of love surrounded us all. 

I will never be the same.

Bookmobile

My wife and I partnered with the Kennewick Healing Rooms this Thursday night.  She had a good analogy for what we do; they are the library and we are the bookmobile.  Sounds like someone who works in a library.  The point is, we both bring the kingdom of God to people, but we get to walk around more. 

After prayer and worship and just getting into the presence of Father God, we got out our treasure maps and wrote down some clues (words of knowledge) to lead us to the people God wanted to touch that night.  Some of the clues that led us to two young ladies that night were, "black/white" = appearance, "flower/rose" and the color "red" = unusual.  We also had what looked like "angel wings" in the prophetic art part of our map.

God's timing is perfect.  Thirty seconds earlier or later and we would have missed them.  Walking down the sidewalk we stopped for less than a minute looking at a painting of a "red flower" in a store window.  We looked up to see two young women in their 20's walking toward us. They had just walked out of a tattoo parlor a couple doors down the street.   Both of them were wearing clothes that were "black/white".  One of them also had a large tattoo of a large "red flower" on her shoulder.  We had found God's treasure!  After we had talked to them awhile we also noticed a tattoo of what looked like "angel wings" on her back.   My wife was going to write down the clue of "music" earlier but talked herself out of it, and this young lady also had musical notes tattooed on her wrist.  When it doubt, write it down.

After telling them what we were doing and getting to know them better, we asked if we could pray for them.  We showed them some other "clues" we had on our Treasure Maps.  One of our clues was a problem in the "neck area".  The other young lady said she suffered from Scoliosis.  I asked her, on a scale of 1-10, what was her pain level was?  She said the pain was at a level six.  My wife laid her hand on her neck and prayed the prayer of faith over her neck and spine.  After prayer I asked her to check out the pain level again.  She said the pain was gone.  Awesome!  We then shared the love of God with them and how much they were loved by Him.  We then prayed for the presence of Holy Spirit to come and touch them and make Himself real to them.

The presence of God showed up on a sidewalk in downtown Kennewick on a Thursday night!  I never knew being the church could be so much fun!