6 hours ago I went for a short walk in my neighborhood. As I left my house I was thinking about how it’d be nice to meet some more neighbors, maybe have some divine appointments and was reminded of a time that someone had come up to me on the street asking for spiritual things. I started intensely praying for revival in this land and specifically in Apple Valley.
All of a sudden a friend from church comes sprinting up to me. Totally out of breath, he explains that while he lives in Shakopee he just came from a treasure hunt in Brooklyn Center where the Lord had told him to come to Apple Valley and release Holy Spirit at a home group that meets near by and he asked me to come. [Read more…]
I got to share the testimony of my life for a second time at the public school I work at. This time, a teacher asked me to share with her class because they were doing a unit on courage. We didn’t pray, the Lord’s name wasn’t mentioned, but my story is His story, so I believe He directed my words and what I shared. My story is touching people in ways I may never know. I’ve never had the opportunity to do this before, but I believe there’s more!
I was in the parking lot of a local store when I saw a woman crying to herself as she was putting her bags into her car. I said, “Are you OK?” She ended up telling me about how she felt all alone in the world and shared some of her recent health problems that she was dealing with. I listened to her and prayed for her – declaring life, health, peace, and joy, and let her know how very much God loves her. She thanked me and said she believes He sends people to us during times of need. I talked to her about her faith and invited her to church and to our Engage group, and shared about how family is not always blood-related. By the time we parted ways, she was smiling, laughing, and hugging and kissing me.
I took some traveling magicians to Rochester. Out of the 23 passengers I was able to engage James who decided to read my mind was his psychic powers. So after some general assumptions and guesses I asked him a question. “What is the purpose of knowing this information about me?” He answered, “To show you my skills and entertain.” “Okay, I have some skills too. Do you mind if I try on you?” He said, “You do?” With a smile of humoring me.
I work in sales for a large IT equipment and software company here in Minnesota. I was on the phone with a new team member and in his discussion he mentioned being really busy as his mother had stage 4 cancer and was juggling going back and forth from the hospital to work. I paused, and said “wait, what?” Repeat that. So he did and I said “Let’s put work aside and address the real business. I want to pray your mother, as I’ve seen God show up and do healing of cancer in and around our church in Minnesota. Can I pray for you?” He said yes, I declared healing, the Kingdom etc…and as I finished I could hear him weeping and could tell that God showed up. I asked him to call me in the next few days and let me know how much better his Mother was feeling. He weeping, said “Thank you, thank you”….Just another day in the Kingdom!
I had the opportunity to speak kingdom into a young college student this week. She stood out to me among 50 other students at a job fair. I wanted to engage her but I needed the opportunity. She came over on my bus that was full but went back alone. Her name was Zoe. The thing that caught my attention was that she spoke of disliking the world’s system in the business world and in her college. I asked her a little about herself. She was business and agricultural double major. She was also.going to Ethiopia as a peace Corp volunteer. Her heart was in missions and towards establishing God’s kingdom but felt stuck in the worldly college or business landscape. 
Due to the recent snow storm I was delayed at the airport. My first client of my international group was from Columbia. He was the only flight to make it on time and therefore the only person on my bus. He and I talked for a bit and I found out his brother and father were both in the drug business. Over the next half hour I shared the difference between an empire mentality (drug business) and the kingdom of God mentality. He said that he believed that God was showing him that he needed to be part of a team using these kingdom ways and break the habit of dealing with people he learned as a kid. 
I try to be a positive person in life but it seems to have a big influence at my job. Because of this I have built a reputation, which brought a person of great influence to come find me. The Director of Culture at a large health group came to me and asked me a few questions. He made a couple of complimentary statements he had heard about me and about things he had seen himself. So he asked me if I would be willing to help him.
During my business open house week, I decided that we were going to do a member appreciation day to end the week on. I had bought bunches and bunches of flowers and a pack of note cards and spent the day writing prophetic words to all 146 who walked through my doors that day. Each person got a word and a flower! It was hard to keep up at times, but it was amazing to see people’s reactions.