More, Lord!

In the last post, I mentioned a few people we've been getting to know through our "adopt a block" outreach. Well, yesterday we had an AMAZING time with Carrie. She was having a rough time and Aaron and I were talking and praying for her when Chris Overstreet (the director of outreach at Bethel) walked up to us. We introduced her to Carrie and moments later he said, "I feel like God's giving me some impressions about you. Can I share?" Then, he began to speak things about her past and things she was going through in the present and things that God was wanting to do in her life. She was totally crying and touched by God. It was awesome! We prayed through a lot of things with her including unforgiveness of others and herself and prayed for the filling of the Spirit. She might be coming to church with us this Sunday which would be cool. She really needs Christian community and encouragement to really walk with the Lord again. Keep praying!

Aaron and I walked away from this whole situation totally blessed at what God did but also realizing that we want and need more!!! Like Chris, we want to be able to walk into situations where we don't know a person and be sensitive to what the spirit is saying... revealing things that we couldn't possibly know that will open them up to God! We've experienced "a measure" of this but we know there's so much more. The funny thing about yesterday was that we had already spoken some of the same things that Chris did to Carrie but when Chris said them there was an authority that went with the words. If we look at the life of Jesus we see that people were amazed not just at his teaching (words) but at his authority!!! We believe that this same authority is available to us and we want to walk in it in increasing measure!