God is cool

Last night I went out to dinner with some friends. A moment of confession: yes, I broke my liquid fast. I'm not going to go into all that right now, except to say, the Lord is still smiling on me, and I am still fasting certain things. I feel like He kissed me even more with what happened while we were at dinner.

As soon as our waiter came over, all four of us knew that He wanted to use us, just by looking at the tatoos on both of his arms. I don't have anything against tatoos, especially since a good friend and brother, Roger has so many :) ! I try to understand the logic of the whole thing, but I have decided that it is a personal decision and between the person and God as to whether or not they should have tatoos.

The first tatoo we noticed was one that was a woman fortune teller. We began to ask questions and our waiter, Javier, began to explain that they all represented times in his life (even the skulls, and other horrific pictures). He said he likes to get tatoos so that they explain his life and he wouldn't have to tell people about who he is. He said that no one really knows him, not even his mother. We discussed this as we ate and he attended to other duties. We knew we had to ask him if we could pray for him, even though he said he had no religion, but didn't really share with people what he believed (no suprise here). We were so sad at his enclosed state, but knew we could share with him that Jesus knows who he is. He shared a little bit more about his life, being originally from Barcelona, Spain, and moving around a lot.

We asked if we could pray for him and he didn't know what to say or do, but said "okay". As we prayed for him the Spirit came on strong. We got to speak over him that he is loved, accepted, and has a destiny, among other things. When we were done he saide that he felt different and so happy. He said he'd never felt that before. He said he felt such a positive energy coming from us and we explained that it was Jesus. He even asked us if we had special powers! We again explained that it was all from God. Afterward, he shared about his family and even began to cry! We believe the Lord used us in a mighty way in this young man's life and we even got his number to try and follow up.

This all happened less than a mile away from IHOP. I believe that the Lord is changing the atmosphere, just like we've been praying! We just have to be faithful to minister his love to this dying and hurting generation! Thank you, Jesus!