Update on the Anointing

I have been fasting and praying for the anointing service we are going to have for the youth this week. Last night I went to the church to pray and prepare the message. We use our old church building for the youth services and I knew the youth worship team would be practicing there. I wanted to get a sense of what they were planning to play and make any recommendations I felt might guide the service.

I was feeling guilty that I left my house (read: wife with the kids) to go prepare my message but was just hanging out with middle and high school kids.

The youth ministry at my church is neat in the fact that kids like to hang out at the church even when there is not service going on. Many of the kids in our church, like churches all over America, have kids who spend half their time immersed in urban culture and fight the temptations that come from that lifestyle.

One such kid was there hanging out last night. After a while invited him to go pray with me.  The only relatively quite place we could find was the sound booth above the sanctuary.  We began to pray and the power of God fell on us both. Ten minutes into our prayer time the young man was struck by the conviction of the Holy Ghost. He began to weep uncontrollably. I prayed for him and pleaded with God to fully finish the work that he had begun. After fully a half hour of travailing he looked up at me and said, “I feel free! I feel like the Lord is standing right next to me!” Right at that time someone called looking for him because his ride was there to take him home.

By this time it was late and I went to the main sanctuary to pray and seek the Lord for my message. I began to reflect on the night’s activities and what God had been doing by His Spirit the past few months and he dropped the entire message in me all at once. I sat down, cracked open my bible and wrote the whole thing. No more than 10 minutes spent.

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