One correction: the speaker Chuck something is really named Derek Mack. Remember the name and see how God will be using this young American in the future.
During devotion, we also debriefed yesterday's experience at YWAM. Since our devotion passage matched Derek's challenge the night before, we went around and shared what was the one thing hardest for us to give up. It was a blessed time of vulnerability and honesty as we shared about giving up control, identity, to our children who are no longer following Christ (we also prayed for them) among the many things. This two hours probably made our trip here worth the expense and effort - not what we thought when we came, but may our resolve to follow Christ wholeheartedly change the way we are after we return to LA.
After this time, we walked to the Pantheon, built by Louis XV but now the burial place for many famous Frenchmen and women, like Emile Zola and Madame Curie. This tourist site was swarming with Police who had assembled there waiting for their Chief to come give them their deployment instruction. We actually had a fun time talking to the police, but we also had a chance to share with a young Chinese couple and a family from Iran. This family, now living in Belgium, moved to escape the anti-women restrictions of the Iran leadership. Meiring and Debbie talked extensively with the father who was very open and excited to hear he could have a personal relation with God. Pray that God would bring someone else to reap the harvest of this family from the seed we planted.
After lunch and a nap, we left at 4pm to walk and sing under the Metro station. After about 15 minutes, we realized we were not making much of an impact as people there were hurrying to catch a train or leave the station, so we divided ourselves into 5 groups to prayer walk and share with people we might meet. I will only report on Meiring, Monica and my experience and during debriefing time tomorrow, find out other stories to with you. We saw a group of black teenage boys sitting on steps leading to a residential park area, so we went down and sat on a bench to catch our breath. An old lady limped by with a cane accompanied by a middle-aged man. We greeted them and found out they spoke some English as they said they were going into a near by supermarket. We then mustered our courage and approached this group (about ten) teenagers. We asked tallest and kind of the leader of these kids if he spoke any English, a few words but he used his smart phone to translate and Marshall used his 60 year old French to communicate. It turns out all these kids lived in the apartments overlooking this park. His name is Joshua Emmanuel, and he said he is a Christian but all his buddies were Muslim. He said he likes basketball and rap music so Monica recorded his made up rap as he danced to it. We might have a chance to share his dancing with you when we return. Monica encouraged him to share his faith with his buddies and we walked back to the bench we were sitting in earlier. The elderly lady with the cane was just returning from the store with a couple bags of groceries. Since she had such a hard time walking, I asked if we could pray for her knee. She said yes so Meiring prayed that Jesus would heal her, after prayer, I asked if she felt better. She said a little and I was about to pray some more for her when she dropped her cane and started to dance. The middle aged man was her son who had told us it was hard taking care of his 82 year old mom, couldn't believe his eyes. He thanked us profusely. We should have shared the gospel with them but they were in kind of a hurry to bring their groceries home. Pray that here too, God will bring someone to finish the "job" of bringing them to Christ. We met up with the rest of team and excitedly shared this miracle as we walked to eat dinner. Praise God, this is the first time Meiring and I prayed for someone and saw instant healing! Hallelujah. Thank you too to Pastor John, Raimer and Jen from Epicentre who came twice to train us to share our testimonies, the good news, and pray boldly when we see the infirm.
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