Message #3567

[ecuworrier]

so when mog and me sat down to draw up our treasure lists it was GOD WHO SAID SO! and SO IT WAS!... even though i was meant to be someplace... ok the treasure hunting is easy...yo

so... the first time i did treasure hunting .. i'd missed the talk spiel and a guy had said he had done it before so i hurriedly attached to his group.... we pray ... we write a list: location/ name / appearance / condition to be prayed for / something unusual... we pray asking the Holy Spirit to come and furnish us with the details.... everyone in the group has their own sheet....  so when everyone is finished... the first confusion was.... why is everyone's different... are we seriously looking for serena with a red beard? whose prayer needs are job as a tank driver hip replacement and something about turtle soup ....? (details made up but you get the picture!) and the location is well a tree!  .... er oh! ........and then everyone seems to have a different location and there are turns out 7 of us! there is no overlap except perhaps pink and red? and then we only have an hour where do we go first... turns out our leader hasn't quite done what i believed he had.... well there are three who know eachother and seem in a rhythm of calm so guess what... we follow the gang and get to ... nowhere in an hour though we seem to have meandered just about everywhere and asked precisely 3 people none of whom fitted anything ..what is the plot!?    then makes things worse... we pass other groups praying and oh wow!!! you can see the Holy Spirit!   so i did that thing in despair ... yes i managed to pray for some folks.... (breaking off from the group i find someone who has already been prayed for about 3 times by others and i am glad and it shows! so i pray some more and return) and then i say to GOD can you bring someone to us ? and lo and behold only one person approaches us... all the way back .. they are one of the christians and no they do not want to be prayed for (WWWHHHATTT!!!???) not even by their friends????  we get back and lo and behold excitement has broken out.... other groups have excited stories to tell!!!  well that was the first time though i am determined that GOD is real... and i have been living in a study of how christians think interact and do the er interpretation of signs,,,,,,,  and aaaaargggghhhhhhhhhhh! and nobody has anything the gang of three are just as calm as they were before we went out ... and i am sooooo disappointed!!!!.... when disappointed talk to GOD!

it is a bit startling when one discovers that the lists are a combined pallett and that the team works together so aspects can combine across the board across people's lists .... in fact on a recent expedition the treasure hunt did not end there when team of two split and went our ways... on the way home i found i was following someone we had seen earlier and ignored but GOD was determined i speak to them so i did... and ... wow!.... GOD APPOINTMENT OR WHAT!....  even though they were in a hurry and had a bus to catch they could not stop talking to me!.... then over the next weeks the names we had not located came for prayer to the other street stuff... i mean this was not totally obvious that they would have done... i was amazed i tell you utterly AMAZED!!!!!

in fact .. asking GOD to reveal stuff about who needs prayer... well....  recently was doing some street stuff with folks and it was going rather slow... ie nobody was stopping .. sometimes there is a steady stream!  or even a trickle will do!... i peeled off for a contemplative fag and just prayed where i was then i said to GOD to give me an indicator and was given one so i sat and looked out and saw someone with something that matched but did not quite get up to approach them but had finished my fag and was returning and found myself passing them so i prayed as i passed them ... then find myself with somebody right behind me who is breahting really heavily i turn round to see someone with breathing difficulties i kindov pray for them i'm in a sort of revery and stroll towards where our chair was set ... they have just packed up and left like that!.... as i am standing a little surprised ok i was just an optional extra sure but we are talking 5 minutes or so!...  as i am caught in raised eyebrows who should appear has stopped right there in exactly the place the others were set up is completely bathed in the Holy Spirit and is searchingly standing and reading a notice nearby but the person with breathing difficulties i am gobsmacked! (GODSMACKED) i step forward and offer prayer.. i have the distinct feeling the person does not know why they is standing there ... but i do!  unfortunately the others and the officialdom of their set up are gone but the Holy Spirit remains and the person does not know why they are there... but i do and as i speak to them explaining ... they leave bewildered and hurried.... and i scamper off to catch up with the others with a 'guess what!' you see no prayer is wasted! and GOD cues you in one way or another...


so for times sake mog and me abandon the location and concentrate on the rest we draw up our lists and off we go... no sooner are we out the door when i recognise somebody who is just passing with a pronounced limp that they do not normally have but i have recently spotted them with... it's kindov one of my prayer needs on the list... remembering my conversations previous about religion and christianity it's not something they subtend to but amazingly though they do not stop for us they are up for us praying for their recovery!... in the street outside one of my indicators seems to be everywhere though i was sceptical anyone would be wearing.. in this weather... but the image i had was quite specific even so one person in particular stands out but they are clearly in a hurry and somehow we don't stop them and somehow they seem to be the right  person to have engaged with .... further on we are passing a homeless person with dog.... there is something about the dog that stops me in my tracks and i scour the person who is homeless for any resemblanmce to any indicators nul and void...  but there was something about the dog and so i engage with them... turns out the dog who looks healthy enough is poorly enough to be scheduled for a vet visit... so i gladly pray for the dog who clearly likes this sort of thing... they usually do! the person is delighted and even more so after they too have been prayed for.... thething about treasure hunting is this ... in the experience GOD knows exactly who is supposed to be prayed for....that's the point but where are they? .... it is true that not everybody wants to be prayed for but it's astonishing how many folks are thoroughly approachable this is even when you are approaching only on the basis of indicator somebody who normally would appear to be somebody to avoid... but GOD sees somehow differently to the paltry human eyes of the world full of fear and value judgements or add it to christian teachings and the inevitable if you really don't extract yourself from the prejudices and predispositions trapped in time of your very own er teachers of the law in residence all trapped and waiting to be set free but by whom more teachers of the law? 

also sometimes you are engaged and somehow a folks or two just cannot keep away!  got to squeeze by ... oh yes? drawing themselves to your attention when you is well and truely on a mission... we do nothing but bring BLESSING sharing the Knowledge of GOD's LOVE and Beneficience (is that a word?) ... and so on it was mog's first time and mog was pretty much taking to it as a duck to water.... not overly fussed with the oddness of a list that was a very loose list that covered both our sheets patient to let me step outside of it like with the dog (thought tbh we did not ask the person theri name) and to well approach the people we feel led to...

in the course of this 'reply' i needed a break and off i went... finding a new computer i sat down and just prayed that prayer that leaves one breahtless as the Holy Spirit somehow well just is... making one breathe really deeply...  there were folks either side of me and somehow one was touched and affected they've both gone now ... and as  i say GOD never does nothing no prayer is wasted and GOD is Beautiful!

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,