HELLOO from Training Camp! So we are down to pretty much one day left and there’s been
so many incredible things that have happened this week, and I know you’re
interested in finding out what all happened this week, but I’m not able to. I do have one awesome story to tell you.
Yesterday, Friday, I was in prayer with my brand new
team. This team is the people that
God has chosen for me to work along side with for the whole year next year
reaching lives spiritually and physically. In the midst of our prayer God gave me a vision (yes, a
vision) about a sprinkler with many shoots on it and all the waters having
different rainbow colors. In the
midst of the water coming out I saw a silhouette of a group of people in the
water. I told my team what I saw
no matter how crazy it sounded but I wasn’t sure if it was of God yet.
Our team left a couple of hours later and went out to a part
of Gainesville where we were going to do some street evangelism and I was
challenged to see if that vision that was possibly God’s was going to manifest
itself in this time. We drove to a market place where many people from Mexico
lived, and it was good because it was a practice of language barrier also.
As my team walked I passed up a Mexican guy standing side a
building as it was starting to rain.
On his shirt had rainbow colors on it, and somehow I thought about going
to talk to him but I continued on with my team. After we walked to the end of the shopping center, we saw
something that actually matched exactly another vision one of my teammates
had. During that time, God was
really telling me to go back and talk to that guy, so I did and Lana on the
team joined.
rainbow
coming out
were all in silhouette – my vision of the people in silhouette
something like that happened before.
Lana and I took the time to get to know the guy and found out his name
was Aaron and he’s from Mexico. He
comes to America to work and cut grass to make money for his family and during
the cold months goes back to Mexico.
I started to talk to him about life in Mexico and then faith. He told me that Catholicism is huge
there and doesn’t really go anywhere here.
I then asked him up front where he knew if he was to die where he would go and
he said he believed in a God and in heaven, but said he would go to heaven just
by being good. Through much
conversation and Lana helping out, I talked to him about Jesus, the cross, our
works not being good enough, and how we mess up all the time, but God loved us
so much that Christ did it for us and works was nothing anymore. He still didn’t fully agree until I
told him about my vision and all of a sudden he completely turned and starting
to thing it was for real when I told him that it was definitely a God thing
that I am here with him. Not only
that, but if it didn’t rain that day I would have never had this conversation
with him.
That really turned his heart (and maybe freaked him out) but
over the course of the next five to ten minutes Aaron wanted to come to Christ
and we had the opportunity to lead him to Christ! I gave him my Bible, some Scripture, and got his contact
information for AIM to follow up with him. We were happy!
As we said goodbyes after I explained prayer, highlighted things in the
Bible for him to read and other thing, I found out that Jessi on our team knows
Spanish. I then tracked down Aaron
in the rain, Jessi followed, and she was able to speak in very fluid Spanish
with Aaron.
wanted to know of a church to go too!
What an encouragement.
Jesse explained some more things in Spanish to him and that we would get
in touch with him. We said our
goodbyes! Can you believe that?!!!
That crazy vision I had was legit and changed someone’s eternal
destiny. Never limit what God can
do in your life and know that He’s bigger than our box or preconceived notions
of him. Praise God!
