Scotland 2009

Yesterday, during an outreach at Oak Mall I met a man going through the local Teen Challenge.

He showed me and another Choir member his tattoo, which bares his first name. He shared in a light-hearted manner that he had tattooed his name on his arm so that he would remember his name when he’s drunk.

I invited him to the service and he promised he would come.

The next night was the opening service of “only the truth shall set you free” conference, at Town Hall. During the invitation to know Christ, Pastor Carter noticed a man wearing a shirt that read, “Let’s party!” He explained that there is a big party in heaven whenever anyone says yes to knowing Jesus!

At first, I didn’t realize what had just happened. I was very excited to see many young men at the altar.

Then it hit me! The man at the altar with his hands raised high and a “let’s party” T-shirt had his name tattooed on his arm. It was the guy we met at Oak Mall!

Let’s party!!!

This blog post was published on November 11, 2009

Today, our team went to the Church of the Mall. We ministered some songs, and did whatever the Lord lead us to do.  One special song we had prepared was called “Free.”  The chorus goes like this:  “Free, free from my past, free from my pain, free from the guilt that would cause me to be ashamed. Once, once I was blind, but now I see clearly the debt that I owed Jesus paid for me.  No more chains are binding me.  I’m totally free.”  While singing this song, we held up our testimonies that were written on a cardboard. The testimonies were condensed into five words and fewer on the cardboard.  On one side it tells of what we were before Christ, and on the other side it tells of what we are today as Christians.  It was not a big turn out at the church.  There were only 9 to 11 people present, and most of them were from that church.

Among them was a man named Greg.  Two of us met with him, and learned that he is a previous drug addict, who is currently in the Teen Challenge program.  This was truly a divine appointment.  We felt that we were there to encourage him.  As we were sitting on the bench together and talking, his nephew came over to us.  We were able to invite him to Friday’s Youth Night service and told him to bring his friends.  He said he would. 

Then, a Teen Challenge worker came over to us, and we had the chance to talk to her and encourage her as well.  Then, one of the brothers on our team came over to talk to Greg, brought him a coffee, and began to encourage him.  Greg asked for us to pray for his legs.  He had been experiencing a lot of pain.  We anointed him with oil, and prayed for Jesus to heal his legs.  During the cardboard testimony presentation, we saw the emotion in his face.  He looked at each cardboard testimony with such intent eyes, and we could tell that he was deeply moved.  He said that he would be coming to the service on Tuesday night.  Some of our team members prayed for him again this evening at our hotel.  We trust and believe that the Lord has plans to use Greg mightily as an intercessor. 

This is a testament of God’s faithfulness to the promises He gave to Pastor David Wilkerson, when he obeyed the Lord to serve the helpless and hopeless.  To God be all the glory!

This blog post was published on November 9, 2009