Tonight as I stood at the back of the Rescue Mission looking out at a sea of faces, I remembered my first experience with the homeless. It was my DTS, we were doing this ministry at a coffee shop..our job was to mingle and talk to the people. I was terrified. I guess because all I thought about was me, and what if this and what if that. It was one of the longest nights of my life.
This evening was so different. My job tonight was to clear out trays and cups and make sure tables got wiped down as wave after wave of people came in to eat. The night flew by. I cracked jokes with a few here and there who were not eating their brussels sprouts (can't blame them..I am not much of a fan either), passed a long a smile, shook a hand or two. No time for conversation. No time to hear their stories. I don't know that much has changed in the situations- but much has changed in me. I wish I could have heard where each one came from. Why are they there, was it decisions, or rough circumstances.
Some eyes were clear and full of hope, others hollow, some were glassy from drinking, others filled with wells of sorrow. Some would not look up. Others flashed with pain. Regardless of where we have come from, each of us has value. A simple "May I take your tray, sir" restores dignity, for a moment. Jesus let it go much further.
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Radical intercession.
Thank you Jesus for your amazing love and power. Thank you for inviting me in to your wild extravagant boldness. Tonight was the epitome of what I long for: taking back what the enemy has stolen. The boldness to declare truth tonight was like fire.
So what happened? Myself, Chloe, Katie & Elizabeth went up to the Commons Hill top again and up there was Ryan, Luke and Caleb. I started to pray and Ryan invited us to the center. We began to declare TRUTH and pray and take back the ground. I felt like removing my sandals. "Everywhere the sole of your foot treads." Then Caleb took his off and we began to just proclaim more. I got in the center and started to dance like a crazy person. I've been LONGING to claim that hilltop for Jesus. Oh my goodness. We started to sing "Let it Rain" because I felt a little sprinkle. The rain and the wind started whipping and swirling around us and the more it rained the louder we sang. This kid sang back "don't let it rain!" Well, it didn't work. Literally every person left- all the air cleared of pot smoke. I felt like we needed to clean the area- to pick up all the trash. Even the cigarette butts and do it like a prophetic act. A few people came up, but most didn't stay- they just looked and left. And if they came they wouldn't come in the circle.
Heaven broke in tonight. The atmosphere changed. Fear fled. A kid's hand got healed, I ran into Leroy, a kid that Sarah, Jenny and I met a couple of weeks ago.
Later, Jacob told us they were on the bridge and some kids came through and one freaked out. He said "what is going on?" because they were praying for people on the bridge for people and he said "they are praying for people here and there were crazy people back there praying and making it rain." Lol. Go God. Tonight you truly did use creation to testify. It really did reveal your glory. Thank you God that the city of Denver WILL know Jesus!! Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you are Lord- to the glory of the Father.
-Taken from my journal May 2, 2014
So what happened? Myself, Chloe, Katie & Elizabeth went up to the Commons Hill top again and up there was Ryan, Luke and Caleb. I started to pray and Ryan invited us to the center. We began to declare TRUTH and pray and take back the ground. I felt like removing my sandals. "Everywhere the sole of your foot treads." Then Caleb took his off and we began to just proclaim more. I got in the center and started to dance like a crazy person. I've been LONGING to claim that hilltop for Jesus. Oh my goodness. We started to sing "Let it Rain" because I felt a little sprinkle. The rain and the wind started whipping and swirling around us and the more it rained the louder we sang. This kid sang back "don't let it rain!" Well, it didn't work. Literally every person left- all the air cleared of pot smoke. I felt like we needed to clean the area- to pick up all the trash. Even the cigarette butts and do it like a prophetic act. A few people came up, but most didn't stay- they just looked and left. And if they came they wouldn't come in the circle.
Heaven broke in tonight. The atmosphere changed. Fear fled. A kid's hand got healed, I ran into Leroy, a kid that Sarah, Jenny and I met a couple of weeks ago.
Later, Jacob told us they were on the bridge and some kids came through and one freaked out. He said "what is going on?" because they were praying for people on the bridge for people and he said "they are praying for people here and there were crazy people back there praying and making it rain." Lol. Go God. Tonight you truly did use creation to testify. It really did reveal your glory. Thank you God that the city of Denver WILL know Jesus!! Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that you are Lord- to the glory of the Father.
-Taken from my journal May 2, 2014
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