Walking out onto the streets of Puerto Barrios, Guatemala on day Numero Uno of ministry, I was not expecting what we saw God do. I should have expected it-and will from now on. Because God took a willing group of day-one World Racers and brought a group of men to their faces at the rag-tag bar down the street.
A little back-story…
The October 2009 Squad launched last week in Antigua, Guatemala. We had an amazing week. This squad is a squad of Love. Huge, crazy, prophetic, Kingdom bringing Love. God was very present and this squad wanted all He had for them. I believe that last week ushered in an atmosphere and spiritual norm of expecting first-God’s Love. And out of His Love-prophetically expecting the change and the miraculous.
Because God Loves us, and puts us in a position to Love Him, we are able to walk more fully in that Love. That Powerful Love. That Love that breaks off darkness and brings light. That Love that resonates down in the deep places. That Love that can make an English speaking American’s prayers understandable to the soul and spirit of a Spanish speaking Guatemalan man.
Yesterday was an incredible blessing of seeing what happens when we make an effort to go out seeking His Love in our own lives, listening, and living that Love out onto the people.
He makes it so simple. So fool-proof. I get so caught up in trying to mystify it and do it all “right”-but there is no right, just Love.
Three or four men at the bar literally fell to their faces on the street because God came to Love them, to break off the crap, to speak truth and forgiveness, and to release. They received. The Spirit worked in and on them. And we just continued to minister out of a place of Love-first for God, and because of that, for those men.
After that, we saw divine appointment after divine appointment throughout the day. God is speaking, and moving, and bringing us to places with Him that I am so beyond blessed and encouraged by.
God, thank you! Thank you for the places you are working and the way you are moving in these Racers. Thank you for the way you show up in ways we couldn’t imagine when we come out of a place of Love-glorifying You. Father, as we continue to speak life and Love and truth over this city, continue to start us from, and bring us back to, your heart.
