A Reason to Sing
GOOD MORNING Saturday…so our teams head out and Emilee and I make our first stop at Grace Church and set David up (we were blessed to have a table for the men’s breakfast). Simultaneously, across town Kyle and Rich were at another men’s breakfast for HisClay Ministries. All the while we had part 2 of training starting at 8:30 a.m. at OCMC. And some of our team was there - getting prepped for the morning! Busy day!
So Emilee and I get David all squared away and we head out to the OCMC. As we are cruising down a MN highway, I just remarked to Emilee, “We may have just enough time to stop and grab a coffee” (a must for any early morning in the cold!). Well just as I mentioned coffee, I noticed a police officer and I looked at my speedometer and said “I’m going to get a ticket.” Yep, I was speeding. Guilty! And now you’re thinking - great what a way to ruin a morning. But for some reason, it didn’t really phase me, did I have the time to get the ticket, nope, did I have the extra money to pay for the ticket, nope. But I knew I had more important things to think about.
So as we departed from the sight of the infraction, I turned up the radio and took off to OCMC. Neither one of us spoke, and there was no coffee to be had, but we were good and made it to OCMC. We were on time for our most important mission...getting the teams equipped to go out and share the Gospel.
Our emphasis from training the night before was LOVE - LISTEN - DISCERN - RESPOND. The Lord had us open in prayer with this verse:
“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails…” (1 Cor 3: 4-8)
The morning worship was amazing, the Lord just kept telling me not to worry about anything (as some of you may know I’m a blessed to be a facilitator in training, which means I help organize the teams before we go out during training, and last time we had about 200 people to organize). As the church filled up the Lord kept saying, keep singing, keep worshipping me, I helped you last time, I’ll help you again. So I kept singing. I love singing and the Lord gives me a reason to sing time and time again.
As 150+ people and 42 teams hit the streets, I was excited. I was so excited, because I was on a team! I hadn’t had the opportunity to go out last time, but love when I do and really felt that this morning I was excited to LOVE on people. Not to mention I had a ROCKSTAR team.
So our team headed out and went to a local hospital, as we talked and walked we came across Whitley, as she greeted us with a sweet smile, we asked her how we could pray and she said for direction (for her life) and for her God-son. So we stopped and immediately, I thought the Lord send us to Whitley because He knew her and about her life. As we sat down we noticed she had a tattoo on her finger, and it said “Love.” It was beautiful. So as we continued LOVE - LISTEN - DISCERN - RESPOND, Whitley gave her life to the Lord and became confident in her direction. And the Lord gave all of us a reason to sing.
Praying, that despite all the things the world throws at you, you will remember we have an eternal reason to sing and we have to share it.
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