What A Week

How many times have I said this on the blog: God is so cool. But its always worth saying again, cause He is! This past week in Panama City was indescribable. God showed Himself faithful and powerful over and over again. For those who don't know what we did, I'll fill you in. There were about 175 people that came together from mostly TN, Michigan, Indiana, and Kentucky. At night we would give free van rides to Spring Breakers when they'd had to much to drink, or just needed a ride, and also there would be groups of people out on the streets at night just talking to people and letting them know about the van rides and also the other thing that we did there, a pancake breakfast in the mornings. I think I can honestly say that I have not witnessed God work as He did this week. And it was through prayer. Every night groups would take turns in the prayer room praying for the van and street teams and for the people who got on the van and other various prayer requests that came about. It was really neat. For example, when Joe called to say that he needed a ride from one spot in town to another, the person who answered would call a van and tell us to go get Joe and then that person would go to the prayer room and give them joe's name and what van he was on and we would pray for Joe and whoever else that had called in. So it was so cool, while these people were on the van there were 30+ people praying for them back at the base plus an unknown amout praying from the internet. What they would do is take the same prayer request that we were praying for and put them on the internet so that other people would be praying for them too. (Check out the link from 9pm to 2am) And we saw God answer these prayers. Many people who had never heard the name of Jesus did hear it on one of these vans. We saw people who were broken inside and wanted to hear what we believed so bad that they would get on the van to go to another club or bar and stay on the bus for hours talking to us. God put so many people in our paths who wanted to find out what they believe. We saw people decide to follow Jesus for the first time and we saw people who decided that they didn't want to live this lifestyle anymore and they returned to Jesus. We also saw spiritual warfare in a way that I have never saw it. Satan was mad that his stronghold on Panama City is being broken and many times this week we saw things that he tried to do to scare us or to makes us give up turned into nights where we all got together and praised God.
I think that the neatest thing for me to hear would be when people would talk to us and when they left say things like. "I want what you have." or "There is something different about you all." "You're glowing." "We see a light in your eyes." Comments like remind me that it's not me they see, but Jesus living in me.