Date Night With Holy Spirit

Hot. It’s hot tonight. When we got to the Healing Rooms it was 95 degrees out and there was nobody outside. I thought to myself, “It’s going to be hard to pray for people if we can't find any people”. Don't underestimate what God can do. In about an hour we found, and prayed for 12 different people that were on our Treasure maps. All but two, were either going into or coming out of the bars and clubs.

As far as some of the clues (words of knowledge) Holy Spirit gave us, it was a very eclectic mix of names, initials, colors, what people were wearing, headlight, red car, mustache/dark blue shirt, bar, and a bunch of generally weird clues. Three different members of the team received the clue of "back pain". God put them all together and led us on a trail of people that He lined up for us all through a two block area of downtown Kennewick. At the end of about an hour, we looked back in awe at what Holy Spirit had done. He had us at just the right place at just the right time for the right person and we had the right clues for that person. I will always be amazed at how He arranges everything for us. All we have to do is GO and DO what He shows us. It's easy and fun and a bit scary.

The first treasure we found was a young man in his mid-20's about to go into a bar. He was wearing clothes that were "gray/blue". I stopped him before he went into the pub, told him he might be on my Treasure Map, and asked him to look at our other clues. We had the initials of his first and last name and he was suffering with back pain. He had worked construction and had hurt his back. He told me the pain never left - it was always there. From a scale of 1 - 10, I asked him to tell me what the pain level was right now. He said it was a level 5 and he was hurting. He gave me permission to lay my hand on his back and pray for him. I had him check his back and he said the pain had dropped to a level of 2. God was up to something. I prayed again, and the pain left completely. We had just had an encounter with the healing power of God on the sidewalk outside of a bar. Over the next 15 minute I shared the good news of Jesus with this young man. He had just encountered the power of LOVE because God is love.

We found a group of four young black men with the clues, "in the street", "dark skin", "white shirt", "white hat" "green/white", name that starts with "K", "shoulder pain", and an unusual "green" color. We had clues for all four of them and they all received prayer, a prophetic word, and heard about the love of Jesus. When we first approached them they were commenting about the good looking girls that were entering the Comedy Club across the street. When we were finished they had all bowed they head in prayer to the living God and I doubt they think they were thinking about the girls anymore.

Roger had a description of a bartender on his map and it took him about four bars, but he found and prayed for that bartender. He was digging for God's gold and he didn't stop until he found what Holy Spirit had showed him. God is going to reward his perseverance with more open doors and more power to release God’s kingdom.

Thursday nights have become our date night with Holy Spirit.