God Loves the Youth

I have been a bit behind on sharing what God has been doing so I will have to hit the highlights.

I lead a youth small group now. I have the feeling that I will be moving out of youth ministry soon and I sense a great urging to impart some things before I leave. So I started my little group.

The first meeting I had four kids in the middle school ages. One kid got saved and the other three got baptized in the Holy Ghost that first meeting.

This past Friday, I had to lead the Friday night youth service so I brought my group to be my ministry assistants. There is nothing greater than ministering to people who do not doubt the power of God. They don’t have to have faith, I will bring that, but they can’t be filled with doubt. Doubt is a real ministry inhibiter. When you preach to a group of doubters you have to plow for so long it almost isn’t any fun.

At the beginning of the meeting I told the group that I don’t do normal church. I got saved in college after serving in the military and I only know how to be on fire for God or on fire for the world. There is no in between. If I am at church I expect to see the manifest presence. Otherwise I might as well be watching television. I told the youth that I was going to preach and at the end we were going to pray. At that point the Glory of God would descend in the room and people would be changed.

So preached and preached and preached till I felt like there was some sort of breakthrough. Then I asked the Holy Spirit to come, and come He did!

There was a kid that I had been harassing to come to my group because I felt God was drawing him but he was avoiding me. Finally he could not avoid it and came. When the Holy Gost descended he began to bawl. He wound up on the ground coughing up devils and got off the floor praying in tongues and running around the room. He said that when I told everyone to repent of their sins he saw a black cloud in the room and that as I began to pray it escaped through the cracks in the doors and windows. Wish that happened to me at 13!

Out of the ten who were there, one got saved, four got baptized in the Holy Ghost. Two kids prophesied for the first time in their lives. When we were done, there was a crowd of people outside the windows watching.

The next day I got this email:
hey wutz up?

I LOVE U GUYZ SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MUCH!!!!

NO ONE CAN DO WHAT U DO…..

IM SO HAPPY ABOUT LAST NIGHT, NOW I FEEL SO GREAT!!!

CARL UR AMAZING!!!!

I DONT KNOW HOW U DO IT, BUT ITS LIKE U KNOW EVERYTHING DAT I GO THROUGH…..

ITS LIKE EVERYTIME U PREACH, U TALK ABOUT WUT IM GOIN THROUGH…….

I USED TO THINK DAT U WUZ PHYSIC OR SOMETHING BUT ITS JUST GOD WORKIN THROUGH U!!!!

UR VOICE AND THE WAY U YELL WEN U PREECH LIKE MADE ME GIVE MY ALL FOR GOD U KNOW?

(TRACY I LUV U 2!!!!!!!!!!)

TODAY, WE WERE PRAYING FOR A LOOOONG TIME, JUST ME MY SIS, D, K ,AND L…..

IT WUZ AMAZING DA HOLY GHOST WUZ IN DA PLACE….

WE WERE ALL CRYIN AND SPEAKING IN TOUNGES, IT WAS SOO COOL!!!!!!

well im sort of talkin alot so ima go now k?

KEEP DOIN WUT U DO GUYZ!!!!!

I LUV U!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GOD BLESS…..

C U TOMOROW?

BYE
V

So we all know that I am not special. If I were, I would have someone else typing this as a ghost blogger (can a pentecostal have a ghost blogger?). In any event, I love seeing these kids get filled!

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2 Responses to “God Loves the Youth”


  1. 1 David Copeland

    Praise God!

    Keep yellin’ it, tellin it, screamin’ it, pleadin’ it….till the whole world knows!

    HE IS REAL!

    DC

  2. 2 Mark H

    THANK YOU JESUS! Carl: I love your testimonies ;-)

    I agree with you regarding faith and doubt. Sue and I received prophecy a few years ago that God was giving us a gift of faith - a faith that imparts and multiplies. Since then we’ve often found ourselves contending against DOUBT. I love being with those who suck faith out of us like a dry sponge. It’s wonderful and refreshing because faith just pours through us in that kind of environment. But thank God that He deals with doubt too!

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