Tuesday Outreach Recap
June 14th, 2007 by Carl Thomas.In line with my decision to blog about all things mundane Acts 19:11, I had a fun time at The Mission, the outreach we are doing on Tuesday nights.
I worte in earlier posts about some young men that got right and are now doing some spirit filled hip hop. Well I am leading their home group as a missions base. Each week they try to get as many friends from their former life to come to a group we hold on their back porch.
The group starts at 10 p.m. and I leave around midnight. In those two hours anything can happen.
Last night we had over 20 folks there with about four who had never steped into a church in their lives. I preached on sanctification through the power of the Holy Ghost. Some real Keswick type doctrine (I am pentecostal you know). Then I had ministry time. This is when it gets fun.
Last week I cast the vision for the group. At the end, I said that everyone who was there was going to receive power to reach their lost friends and a burden for the lost. I told them that I was not going to have an altar call. The fact that they were there meant that they were in. If they did not want God to use them to reach the lost for His glory then they would have to leave. One girl did. I saw her through the sliding glass door a little later crying. Appearantly she was trying to get out of the house but she couldn’t. The Holy Ghost would not let her.
She said, "I kept saying, ‘I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here’ but I couldn’t." She showed up back on the porch weeping. She recommitted her life to Jesus, received deliverance and the Baptism in the Holy Ghost. Needless to say, she showed up back this week.
This week all the lost confessed their need for salvation and many were touched. To make a long story short, I left at midnight. I wanted to leave before the police shoed up. There were a half dozen young men rolling around on patio laughing and yelling under the power of the Holy Ghost. We could not get then to quiet down. The mother of the young men came out to try to get them quiet. Her nine year old son followed. We prayed for him and he hit the ground praying in tongues for the first time.
As Bill Johnson would say :Good stuff.
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exciting and invigorating! PTL!!!!
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Hallelujah and praise the Lord. Spending time w/young people and preaching the uncompromised Word is just the thing more leaders need to do.
Better alert the city! REVIVAL is on the way.
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[...] girl showed up and got right (I actually blogged about it here). What I found out later was that this girl had just gotten out of a correctional institution. I [...]
Ha ha! Now THAT’S what I call church! I don’t think there is anything more awesome than rolling around in Holy Ghost joy, except maybe doing it with freshly filled sinners!!! Hallelujah!
Speaking of getting whacked, I’m inexplicably crying as I type this. Praise the Lord, He is GOOD!
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Matt, thanks for the comment. Check this out. The girl I wrote about in this post is the same girl in this post
http://www.revivalblog.com/2007/10/10/the-afflictions-of-the-righteous/
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Thanks Carl, I had just checked it out. The reason I was back visiting your blog was because I was reviewing a printout I keep of your Youth Meeting Testimony from last year (sorry I’d post the link but I can’t find it). I often read that testimony when I need Holy Ghost encouragement or energizing–it’s the one about the boy with MD who was healed.
We are contending for Holy Ghost outpouring in the SF bay area, in fact are launching a new worship and equipping service this Friday. That’s why I was reading your post. I’ve experienced great outpouring in my own life over the past year, but my hunger and hope is for the church to catch the fire, and I just want that anointing that will lay them out and break off mind sets of reservation and fear. Pray for us that the fire will go forth!
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