Just this past week my squad along with 3 other squads all met up for a fairly new Christian conference called The Awakening. It was 3 full days of speakers, worship, games and just fellowship non-stop. Going into it I honestly wasn’t too happy because it took me away from my ministry this month which has been so incredible for me personally. But I will say that there were several good moments out of the 3 days that did make me happy.
The 3rd and final full day we were there all 150 plus people split up in random groups of 4 to evangelize on the streets anywhere we wanted for a few hours. The team I was with walked and ate lunch first and set ourselves certain goals. We started walking trying to figure out where to go and then I just started challenging them and daring them to talk to people. Hannah said hey to this one couple and they didn’t even acknowledge she was alive.
Then I dared Jon, he was going to say hey but the guy kept taking a selfie in front of a store. By the time I got to this guy he finally quit and so I said hey to him. The conversation quickly went south when he said “what do you want? I’m leaving” in a manner that wasn’t exactly the greatest. So I just wished him a good day and as we were leaving I noticed his bike didn’t have a front tire on it and he kept taking selfies after we left.
So we kept walking and I felt fairly confident when we came across this young looking couple, specially when we had a short but good conversation with an older lady. I said hey to them and the guy looked me right in the eyes and literally just shook his head no. At this point we all are trying to hold our heads up high and keep smiling. We came to an agreement that if we don’t talk to anyone we’ll talk to our driver who will take us back to the hotel.
We came across another young couple who was drying their stuff out from being wet in the water festival called SongKron. I looked at him and simply said hello and the conversation blew up, in a good way, from there. We talked about them traveling, us traveling, movies, the water festival and religion. They said it was very awesome what we were doing but they didn’t believe because certain things didn’t make sense to them. A few of us shared what God had and has been doing in our lives to maybe help out there thoughts without being too pushy. Half an hour or so passed and it was about that time to head on back so I asked them if it was ok to pray for them. Both of them said yes with smiling faces and all of us laid hands on them and prayed for their lives.
Looking back at it being rejected by all those people sucked, but that one conversation we had made up for everything! If I get rejected by 10 people but I got to plant a seed/thought into some ones mind then it’s worth. Rejection isn’t the greatest but staying obedient is. It’s like practice, if you continue to practice everyday at the guitar even after hitting bad chords then yes you will be better at it, but if you stop after playing one bad note then no you won’t be good at it. If you stay obedient to God and keep going rejection after rejection He’ll lead you to someone who wants and needs to hear his word. But if you get rejected once and quit then that’s one less person you could help change the life of. Stay persistent and obedient, God sees it and will reward it!
