Saturday, October 22, 2005

10 "Forget the football game, we want to hear you!"

Imagine if you would what it would be like to go to a local high school football game and God show up. Maybe you walk into the front gate expecting God to move. You wait and feel like you have a word of knowledge for some kid that you see standing at the fence watching the game. Let's say you get up enough guts to approach him as he begins to talk to his friends. The word that you give him is wrong but as he tells you this, Jesus gives you a download of very specific things about this guy's life. He is totally flabbergasted. His friends all heard what you said and knew how accurate it was. Before you know it people are pulling at you saying, "do me next". Just for the fun of it let's imagine that it gets totally out of control and in the process of praying for these kids 15 people get born again, 6 get healed, 8 get delivered, and many many have an encounter with the living God. Wouldn't that be awesome? IT WAS!

Yes it happened in Woodstock GA at a football game. Let me tell you, it was incredible. Jesus moved so strongly that mockers were getting healed and had to shut their mouths. Young people full of depression and anxiety were getting totally delivered and full of the joy of God. The harvest Fields were so ripe that the kids were begging us to pray for them and to tell them what God was saying about them. They started coming in waves. Each one of us in our group had about 20 kids surrounding us as we gave prophetic words and prayed for healing. We would preach the gospel of the Kingdom and then they would go get their friends, we would give them words of knowledge and prophecy then preach the Gospel to them as well. In this cycle the gospel was preached over and over again.

Until. . . Unfortunately there is an "until", the principle of the school came over and shut us down saying that if we preached the gospel again on his campus we would be removed. His reasoning was it was not the appropriate venue for it. I told him that Life was the right venue for it. We cordially backed away and shut our mouths after we stated our case and asked a few questions. But if you know any of us you know even that was with a strategy. We asked what we were doing wrong and what laws we were breaking and we got our answers. Don't believe for one second that we are going to back off a harvest field like that. We will just come back ready next time ready to face the music. "Officers do what you have to do, I am compelled to preach."

The kids were angry! Not at us but there leaders who were asking us to leave. You could hear shouts of "why are making them leave? They prayed for me and I am healed!" "They told me things that there is no way they could have known. Let them stay." The kids were definitely disappointed. At least 60 were showing their total frustration openly to the authorities around them. "Let them stay." As we walked out they asked for phone numbers and how to hear more of the Gospel. IT WAS AWESOME

Now that I told you about my Friday night, how was yours?

Joh 4:34-35 Jesus *said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. (35) "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. Pick up your sickle and get to work!

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