Once I’ve heard that we would do a treasure hunt, I got a
little scared. I’ve been in ministry for many years and speaking is not a
problem, but coming up to a total stranger is out of my comfort zone. It is
scary to do that even if you had heard an audible voice of God, so listening to Holy
Spirit was little nerve wrecking. What if it is my imagination? What if it is
just my memories? What if it is the movie that I’ve watched? Those are the
questions that kept tormenting me during the process.
Even though the
process wasn’t very comforting I decided to yield to Holy Spirit. I remember
closing my eyes and asking Holy Spirit to speak to me. All I could hear were
the words “Life Everlasting, life everlasting”, and that kept me wondering.
Then I began to see something interesting. I saw what looked like a girl
standing on the docks, leaning her head against the pole. She looked like she
was in distress. As I wondered about the vision I began to hum the words “ what
can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!”
I began to think
that there is someone in need of Jesus or in need of some kind of
encouragement. I wasn’t scared anymore, when Carlos and I left the prayer room
I felt unstoppable. After all God showed me what I needed to do, or at least I thought
that it was that specific thing that I need to do for God. I realized that the
fear that I had was long gone and the excitement took its place. I was looking
forward to meet the girl and tell her about Jesus.
When we got to
Riverfront Park we headed straight to the dock. Full of enthusiasm I looked at
the dock and “NO WAY”!!!!! The dock was empty! There was no one there!!! This
is where I should feel stupid, but for some reason I felt that great joy. I
wanted to find that person, so we began to walk around, looking for that poor
unfortunate soul.
We couldn’t find
matching that description, but as we looked around we found a man sitting next
to a light pole not too far away from the docks. I kept looking his direction,
and then I hear Carlos say, “Want to pray for that guy?” Oh yeah! Yes I do! To
my surprise I wasn’t scared at all, I was eager to pray. What happened to my
old self? I usually don’t bother people in the park!
When we got
closer to the guy, I asked him if I could ask him a question. His reply was “It
depends on the question” and he went back to texting. I asked him if we could
pray for him, his reply was simple “I don’t need prayer”. Then he points
towards union mission and tells us to go and pray for people over there. I
asked again, and His answer was “No”. Now this is typically where I begin to
feel very stupid and embarrassed. That is the exact reason why I don’t usually
practice these kinds of things, but something was different this time. As I was
being rejected I felt being filled with joy. I didn’t mind being rejected
because I actually listened to Holy Spirit and did what He wanted me to do,
even if it meant being rejected.
I was fascinated by
this experience; it did something great to me. As we were walking away we began
to pray out loud for that man. We began to ask God to soften that mans heart,
and to draw him to Himself. Maybe we needed to go where that man pointed us
towards, I don’t know. All I know is that I’m learning to hear His voice
clearer and there will come a time when I will. My experience was great and I will
do this again in a heartbeat.
