#58 Divine Appointments for Needy Christians

     Our team was made up of some of the LBE kids (4) as well as one of their leaders, Les and myself.

     We started out by going to Portage Place.  Ministered to a woman and her young daughter as we came into the Food Court.  The kids gave her daughter a cookie.  We asked if we could pray and she said yes, that she could use some prayer for her and her family.  We prayed.  Prophesied over her and then shared Jesus with her, but she chose not to accept Him at that time.  We then met a few other people and offered to pray for them.  They declined.  We blessed them and gave out some cookies as a treat which they were grateful for.

     Met a woman sitting alone at a table named Brandy.  Found out Brandy was in some kind of emotional/family related crisis.  As we asked if we could pray for her needs, she broke down and began to cry.  Many of the children offered to pray for her which she gratefully accepted!  She just kept on crying through most of the prayer time.  At one point I began to prophesy over her and she was greatly encouraged.  We asked her if she knew Jesus to which she replied that she did.  On the table was a leather covered Bible!  Apparently, she was sitting there grieving, trying find some comfort in her Bible.  She was a believer.  After the kids and others prayed for her they went outside with Les.  I spoke briefly with Brandy and felt the Lord asking me to invite her to come out with us on the street and reconnect with us—she needed the fellowship and support of other believers.  She said yes, she’d really like that so I handed her a card for Zion in the hopes that she and her family could connect with us again as she had no home church.  Amazing divine appointment!

     Later, we met a few others outside and Les and team prayed for them.  Les was excited to do his card trick and tell his story to people.  In the meantime (while I was on my way outside to meet the rest of the team, I met “No Name”.  He started following me around for a bit and we stopped and chatted.  As we spoke he suddenly became quite angry about God and I could sense that he had much pain in his life and had been hurt by someone.  We chatted for a bit longer and would swear once in awhile, especially when we came to a discussion about God or Jesus…When I pointed out that he was quite angry with God, his answer was something like, “Well, wouldn’t you be?!”  But he would not share with me the reason.  Eventually, I rejoined the team.

     We walked towards the park and eventually the evening ended there as the LBE members left.  Later, I met up with Jeremiah and the two of us joined Gaylene, Lani, Mike, and Sarah in the park.  I noted that “No Name” was following me there and sat some distance off at a picnic table watching us as we met another person there with her family and ministered, prophesied over her ( Letisha).  We quickly discovered that this young woman was looking for some other believers to be with and longed to be praying for the sick, etc and sharing Jesus with people around her!  Pretty amazing, God-encounter!  I asked Lani to write a brief report on what happened as she introduced Letisha to the rest of us.  This meeting with her (and eventually the rest of her family), turned into an amazing powerful appointment where many words of prophecy, encouragement, tongues, words of knowledge, etc were released.  Pretty incredible!