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Alright. Alright. Okay. Okaaay. SO. JESUS STORY!!!
Friday....I'm psyched out because my friend Sadie is coming with me to youth group and a band is playing and her 'dream' is to make a British person talk ghetto (She wants to meet Ben and all that). We were both planning on going two weeks before on a Saturday and she'd sleep over Friday, and those other two weeks - the first week youth group was off and the second week Sadie didn't notify her fam yet and then she did after school and called me but I had fallen asleep. We were both excited everyday going "ARE YOU READY???" until we actually went. We're geeks XD. Now, she's a skeptic about God. And gets really touchy about Jesus stuff that is serious. SO.
Flashing back to November last year, I had prayed a simple prayer for her for her to meet Jesus is some way. So that a door would open just a little bit in her heart. Now, all ths time I'm waiting on God going.."Wow, how can I do this? How can I show her the power of Jesus? Because if I didn't know God, I'd want to see power". SO.
Flashing Forward.
I come to school and Sadie is there and I run up and hug her. She goes "OOOWWW!!" with a pissed off attitude, and I'm like [in my head] "whoa...what's going on? Tomorrow we're going!!" and she tells me her arm hurts and she can barely MOVE it. Can't clap. Can't press it. She slid on ice Thursday night and landed on it. So it takes me a minute to go......"OMG! This is so God!! I can pray with her for it to be healed! Power!" So...I analyze it for the whole morning. I pray for it by myself to stay the same or worse until Saturday. So what does it do? Gets worse Saturday morning. She's been doing a bandage and ice since Friday morning. Swelling up.
So, at Steps (youth group) there's this great band. SO. The youth center is kinda packed. I see this woman/my friend Kathy from church come in. Now...2 weeks ago I had a dream she was randomly there and sitting at the table in the back saying Amen and screaming and laughng and talking. And what does she do??? The same. THE SAME.
Are you still here people?? Good.
So the band is playing loud and I'm 'spirit' dancing (I dunno what else to call it) for Jesus and crazy with all the Jesus freaks...and God is filling me up. So near the end I ask Sadie is she wants to be prayed for for her arm. So she goes "No". And I'm like "Why not??" and she shrugs. So I go..nonononono...."you're gettin prayed for". So I go get Kathy to back me up in prayer and while walking towards Sadie, we meet Esther and we ask her to join us. So we pray for her to be healed. She's all awkwarded out and we ask her if she has just a little bit of faith to believe she can be healed and she goes "Juuuust a little bit!" And I smile all big.....ughhhh it felt so good to hear!!! and we asked for her if she wanted anything to pray for herself and she prayed for someone ELSE which was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. :DD
So, we we're planning on just dropping Saide off home after Steps but my dad called and said she's gonna have to sleep over again because they're gonna be late picking us up. So, she's going to church with us Sunday.
Sunday morning I go to eat breakfast and I'm sitting at the table and she comes out of the bathroom. The first thing she tells me is "Look! Look!" and waves around her arm and wrist! [in my head] "Jeeeesususususususususs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ubupup! That's not all. We go to church and Pastor Jon has a sermon on being a door to the church - bringing people to church to develop in Christ!!! And Sadie told me I'm a door. XD AND AND! We see Kathy again and she tells us a testimony and Revelations 4 was included in the story so I go to that chapter that night after Sadie leaves. Sadie lives on Philadelphia Street. Get this. Next to Ch. 4 is Ch. 3 talking about the 7 lamps/churches and angels. And there's this passage:
"To the Church in Philadelphia
7"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."
SO!
......I think that's all I can say. God is real and He is good. And ironic. And awesome. And healing. Amen.
The end.
Friday....I'm psyched out because my friend Sadie is coming with me to youth group and a band is playing and her 'dream' is to make a British person talk ghetto (She wants to meet Ben and all that). We were both planning on going two weeks before on a Saturday and she'd sleep over Friday, and those other two weeks - the first week youth group was off and the second week Sadie didn't notify her fam yet and then she did after school and called me but I had fallen asleep. We were both excited everyday going "ARE YOU READY???" until we actually went. We're geeks XD. Now, she's a skeptic about God. And gets really touchy about Jesus stuff that is serious. SO.
Flashing back to November last year, I had prayed a simple prayer for her for her to meet Jesus is some way. So that a door would open just a little bit in her heart. Now, all ths time I'm waiting on God going.."Wow, how can I do this? How can I show her the power of Jesus? Because if I didn't know God, I'd want to see power". SO.
Flashing Forward.
I come to school and Sadie is there and I run up and hug her. She goes "OOOWWW!!" with a pissed off attitude, and I'm like [in my head] "whoa...what's going on? Tomorrow we're going!!" and she tells me her arm hurts and she can barely MOVE it. Can't clap. Can't press it. She slid on ice Thursday night and landed on it. So it takes me a minute to go......"OMG! This is so God!! I can pray with her for it to be healed! Power!" So...I analyze it for the whole morning. I pray for it by myself to stay the same or worse until Saturday. So what does it do? Gets worse Saturday morning. She's been doing a bandage and ice since Friday morning. Swelling up.
So, at Steps (youth group) there's this great band. SO. The youth center is kinda packed. I see this woman/my friend Kathy from church come in. Now...2 weeks ago I had a dream she was randomly there and sitting at the table in the back saying Amen and screaming and laughng and talking. And what does she do??? The same. THE SAME.
Are you still here people?? Good.
So the band is playing loud and I'm 'spirit' dancing (I dunno what else to call it) for Jesus and crazy with all the Jesus freaks...and God is filling me up. So near the end I ask Sadie is she wants to be prayed for for her arm. So she goes "No". And I'm like "Why not??" and she shrugs. So I go..nonononono...."you're gettin prayed for". So I go get Kathy to back me up in prayer and while walking towards Sadie, we meet Esther and we ask her to join us. So we pray for her to be healed. She's all awkwarded out and we ask her if she has just a little bit of faith to believe she can be healed and she goes "Juuuust a little bit!" And I smile all big.....ughhhh it felt so good to hear!!! and we asked for her if she wanted anything to pray for herself and she prayed for someone ELSE which was absolutely BEAUTIFUL. :DD
So, we we're planning on just dropping Saide off home after Steps but my dad called and said she's gonna have to sleep over again because they're gonna be late picking us up. So, she's going to church with us Sunday.
Sunday morning I go to eat breakfast and I'm sitting at the table and she comes out of the bathroom. The first thing she tells me is "Look! Look!" and waves around her arm and wrist! [in my head] "Jeeeesususususususususs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Ubupup! That's not all. We go to church and Pastor Jon has a sermon on being a door to the church - bringing people to church to develop in Christ!!! And Sadie told me I'm a door. XD AND AND! We see Kathy again and she tells us a testimony and Revelations 4 was included in the story so I go to that chapter that night after Sadie leaves. Sadie lives on Philadelphia Street. Get this. Next to Ch. 4 is Ch. 3 talking about the 7 lamps/churches and angels. And there's this passage:
"To the Church in Philadelphia
7"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write:
These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 8I know your deeds. See, I have placed before you an open door that no one can shut. I know that you have little strength, yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name."
SO!
......I think that's all I can say. God is real and He is good. And ironic. And awesome. And healing. Amen.
The end.