Gah. God is so amazing. Tonight there was an alter call (shout out to Red the youth ministry at Jubilee Fellowship Church in Lone Tree, CO), and God moved so many different hearts to accept His love. THAT is the greatest of all miracles! Amen?! Also when we were praying for the people in our group I noticed that one of the guys had a boot on. He said that I could pray for him and when I asked if he felt heat in his foot he said yes! He even agreed to take off the boot and to walk around. His ankle, which had screws or something of the sort stuck into it, had no more pain, could move around, and was completely healed!!!!

A) God is amazing and did it all

B) That guy was born again on the same night as his healing-- what an incredible way to begin building your theology! ;)

A word (that I really needed) that Steven gave me the other day was 2 Peter 1:5-8:

 ⁵ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. ⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

 Love! It all comes back to love.

Whoops there goes waiting patiently...

So I'm fully aware that this post doesn't count...I haven't technically left for Bethel yet, but I only thought it would be fair to explain to you what treasure hunts are for future references!

They start out with prayer and you ask God (not forgetting of course a time simply just to worship Him) what you should look for that night. He'll often give a location, name, appearance, ailment, or something unusual like a theme for the night. Here's a description with a divine encounter I had a while ago while on a treasure hunt....
 K, so I'm standing in the middle of an eyeglass shop. I know I have a word from God because He told me to be here and Tianna to look for a green shirt. Here we are, there she is (in a very bright green shirt), and now's the time. Seriously. But I'm being eyed by the sales clerks (rightfully so for what teenager goes into an eyeglass store with friends to shop?), and the word I have for this girl doesn't really seem to fit the beautiful and confident being I tremble to approach. Yet there His voice (which sounds like mine, God can speak through our thoughts) is, absolutely refusing to let me walk away without discovering our Treasure. So I inch into the conversation between her and her significant other.

"Uh, hey...so this is Really random but I feel like God is telling me that you feel misplaced, and He says that He knows exactly where you're at, and that He doesn't mind you coming to Him as you are. Uh, I don't know if that fits you or not."

Bam. The ice is broken. She tells me that it was exactly what she needed to hear and complained she was going to start crying. We pray for her speaking her identity in Christ and as we leave the shop we hear her saying "who knew and in the eye store too!"

Oh my gosh. I can't describe to you, only God would have known she needed that. Only God could have told me to go to that eyeglass store and Tianna to look for a green shirt. Only God could have planned that timing. Wow. Only God could have told me the right thing to say to her, I am so incapable of doing anything useful without Him. Seriously, how could I have come up with that? Jesus! Yay!

Haha and this is nothing, did I mention one of my friends prayed for a dead guy that was blue in the face and he was raised to life? Yea, that's my Jesus.