Tuesday. 10/13/09

Bennett Prayer.

City Intercession.

Ms. G

High School

Body

Certificate.

Good Leftovers.

Personal Prayer.

Costly Call.  Rafqa Bary Court case.

Mrs. W____

Women’s minstry, intercession calling, overcoming battered wife, making whole hypocrites- not persecuting them. Prayer.

Lab.  HC calls.  Students at high school supernatural not fighting, choosing to talk it out.  Desiring it for the rest of the student body, seeing its so much easier, students should be able to pray for students, STUDENT DESIRING TO START IN SCHOOL PRAYER (sound of answered earlier morning intercession).  thank you Jesus.

Student in lab asks when I started doing the God thing.  Did I go to church as kid?  SHARED FOR A LONG TIME TESTIMONY.  Said he has just been going by what he’s heard, needs to look into for himself.  GAVE HIM A BIBLE.  HE TOOK IT.  HE MENTIONED OTHER RELIGIONS. TOLD HIM ABOUT MUSLIM CONVERSIONS, GOODNESS OF GOD.  Little guys around saying God is our father, I have that book, etc…

Monday. 10/12/09

Stacy got married this past weekend.

Nehemiah 9.  24th day of seventh month. Word. Confession. Tables. Chairs.  Plumber. Intercession. Lawn. Newsletter.

Wednesday. 10/07/09

Treasure Hunt/Intercession.  Bill, Stacy, Sharon, Gary, Myself.

VFW.  Grief and loss, vision and hope.  McBride gave stuff to ______.

Lunch with C_____ at Nu Dinner and Youthworks peeps and Matthew.

Bennet.  Sp0ke about Character.  Bringing understanding within them.  Prophesying over them.  Invited to me a part of character intermurals.

Lab.

Tuesday. 10/6/09

Intercession.  Rainy.  Gary, Sharon, Stacy and I.  Prayed for Joy.  Prayed for High School.

Soup Kitchen.  Sister R___.  Blood Pressure.  P___ sober.

Mrs.  W___ no soup kitchen.  Grape Juice.

Lab.  A___. C____.

Monday. 10/06/09

Clarifications and adjustments have been made in regards to this documentation process.  This is supposed to be a witness to the movement of the Holy Spirit.  

3:48  Prayer walking today with Ms. Stacy in McBride Projects.  Lady comes out and stands on her stoop as we get out of our car.  We walk by.  Supposed to go back.  Stacy introduces herself.  Women backs up and declares she’s been drinking.  We press in and give her hugs anyways.  She says she’s frustrated.  “Why did God send this man to beat me?”  We clarify for her.  She says “I asked God to take this man away.”  We clarify for her.  She alone has the authority on what she allows the devil have ground in her life or not according to whether or not she obeys God’s blessings.  It’s clear in the word.  He has given us the choice of LIFE or death.  It’s our choice.  I told her I believe the Lord heard her prayer and we were sent to be a living witness to what he’s already said to her in the word of God.  Gave her more counsel.  Asked if we could pray with her, she said “please.  Can I go in and get my daughter?”  She did.  We prayed over her and her daughter.  20-year-old daughter loves Jesus.  Recognized her calling and role of prayer.  By the time done praying two little ones had joined our circle.

As we resume our prayer walk with the little ones, we walk by the oldest one’s apartment and I suggest we pray for it and she suggests we pray for her mom.  We all go in and pray for her.  The daugher reads out of the bible Proverbs 3:5-8  ”Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; ⁶ in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.  ⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes;  fear the LORD and shun evil. ⁸ This will bring health to your body  and nourishment to your bones.”  Stacy and I pray for her too.  We move on.

Older of the two little ones, I___ starts talking about wanting a hot pickle more than anything.  On and on about hot pickle.  Stacy utilizes this teaching moment.  Girl prays about getting a dollar.  Turn corner, meet group of two grown men and one woman standing by cars.  Greet them chat with them.  they are polite, asking questions, listening well.  Look over one is giving each girl 50 cents.  I___ but pickle’s are a dollar.  He replies “If you put them together you get a dollar.” They run to the candy store.  I sit down on the ground chatting.  Girls come back.  The younger one has a bag of candy.  I___  has a pout.  After awhile he gives her the other 50 cents.  She gets a pickle.  We pray for them and move on. 

Within 10 ft of moving on, after she’s tasted the Hot Pickle juice, the Holy Spirit convicts I____.  She turns and confesses what the Holy Spirit just brought to mind.  As she says it her face pales and backs up.  “My momma told me I’m never to beg for money.”   She must have asked for money.  I first tells her she’s heard the Holy Spirit and shared it outloud with us.  The Lord wants us to Honor our mother and father and has brought conviction.  She has two options.  Conceal or reveal.  The only way to be free is to walk in the light.  Lying and covering up does not obtain mercy in heaven I read a proverb to her that had showed up earlier in the projects but it wasn’t the right time.

Proverbs 28:13  He who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.

She knows the right thing is to tell her mom.  She relinquishes and walks back towards her apartment with us knowing punishment awaits her.  She starts tearing, then starts crying.  We send her in and clearly hear rebuke reprimand and much more from the parking lot outside their apartment.  We won’t be seeing I___ again for the day. 

The younger one is almost through with her bag of candy as we see a familiar face from town but I’ve never seen where she lived.  We approach this adult women and her apartment and sit on her front porch as the young girl asks us to read from the bible. 

Matthew 18:1-6 ¹At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” ²He called a little child and had him stand among them. ³And he said: “I tell you the truth, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵“And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. ⁶But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

The woman’s apt that we’re at, she has a daughter in high school with health issues and is going to St. Louis in three days.  We pray for her daughter, including the little one.  She did not know what the word ‘heal’ meant.  We explained it to her.

Thursday. 10/01/09

11:21  Soup Kitchen.  Gloria leaving as I arrive.  Heading to Carbondale.  Sister M____ and Sister J___ good.  H____ has a hurting shoulder you could see desperation in his eyes.  Overall cheerful mood and atmosphere.  Sister’s gone again on Saturday looking for dog watcher.  Remind next door staff about coming wedding.  Plenty of soup today.  Sisters listen to Cardinals game on radio during clean-up.  Pitcher hits grand slam.  Prophetic confirmation/sign from this morning’s prayer time with Stacy on the baseball diamond in Cairo. 

1:04  High school Math class. Less kids. Very engaged.  Helpful to classroom environment.  Meet Mr. J___ new teacher discipler more or less.  Very involved with his home church Zion in Marion, IL.  Invited me to Kwana’s pancake breakfast.  Went into library during HC’s meeting time.  Connected with J___ about computers walked her through internet enabled her to check and use her work email.  Asked to pray for her ear.  I do.  Back to class.  Also less students.  Engaged.  Participatory.  After school K___ computer appointment gone to bring wife to hospital in St.Louis.  Connect with further lessons J___ in library.

5:34  Annual Chili dinner at Cox’s.  Said hi mostly.  Chatted with table full of young Elmwood boys in a largely older adult gathering.  Happy to see them there.  Prayed with one kind host about arthritis and gout.

Wednesday. 9/30/09

10:28  Prayer Walking.  Cl___ pulls up as Stacy, Gary, Sharon and I file into Gary’s car.  Stacy tell’s her what we’re doing.  CL___ tells her that the holy spirit led her to drive this direction.  She gets out of her car and joins us for this mornings prayer walk around the city.  I ask her how the service went last Saturday on the streets near the liquor store.  She testifies of good weather, 2 strong testimonies from men the Lord’s pulled out of lifestyles of addiction, ministry of prayer, and three salvations, one that came to church the next morning.  First destination.  J____ who lives right beside Elmwood.  We pull up, knock on door, she’s home.  Sharon talks with her.  She’s concerned about preserving her sunflowers.  Car empties out, we pray with her, including Cl___.  Neighbor Z____ comes over to greet us and join us.  Visit and move on to next appointment.  Nu Diner at 11:00.  Appt not there.  Next destination.  Rainbow=Flood=Levee Wall.  G___ there with bike.  Gary gets out and talks with him.  You never know whether he’s going to be in his right mind or not.  Waves us over.  G____’s in right mind.  We visit.  Gary says he knows Jesus.  G___ sits on the ground with us and prays with us.  We leave to get him food.  M___ has just come from the soup kitchen to eat outside the levee wall and gives G___ his other hot bowl of chili.  Cl____  astounded by interaction with G___ and praises the Lord.  She comes over to house with us.  We bring him back canned goods. 

2:04  Ms. Lacy at schools.  We meet about our character presentation.  She tells me Bennet is going to be closed next year and Emerson is going to be k-4 and the high school will be 5-12. 

2:56  Lab.  Meet A____ from Melissa’s class. 

5:35 St. Mary’s Park for wedding planning meeting.  See Br__and meet her friend Si___.  She’s in high school.  Talk about the ninth grade.  security guard make her think ‘you better not be gettin in trouble.’  Talked about principal taking each grade aside and layin down the facts.  Dance team practicing in gazebo.

Tuesday. 9/29/09

12:34   Lunch date.  Mrs. ___ house.  She told me I should’ve come the day before.  She wanted buttermilk.  She talks about how much should honor pastor.  I tell her I don’t quite agree with all that.  White van pulls up.  Meet her two other visitor friends.  They go to churches all around the area.  She tells them she wants to see them here on Sunday.  I say go wherever the Lord leads you to go.  They talk on the porch.  They’re going to get her buttermilk.  I go out a little later.  Talking about food and greens.  They leave to pick up buttermilk.  She brings it up again.  I have to address it.  “I can’t meet all your needs Mrs. ____.”  Feel the pressuring manipulation leave the environment.  I tell her I got her a position working at soup kitchen.   She is glad.  Tell her I’ll call her to see if she wants to go to chili dinner on Thursday night at the Cox’s.  Van pulls up, give her her buttermilk.

1:55  Lab.  No key.  All locks replaced because building keys were stolen.   2:28 College homework guy.  Sh____ types up her spelling words to print out.  See K___.

Monday. 9/28/09

1:58  G____ driving.  She was waiting outside her apt.  We practice 2 point turns.  She shares about hard live-in boy friend.  She’s ready to be done…again.  I tell her I’ve heard this twice before.  If she’s not actually going to act on it I don’t want to hear it again because she’s choosing pain.  Renew tape at library that community member has.  Find out at library that the old buildings downtown are coming down October 28th.  Between 10th and 8th street on the west side. 

4 ish.  Prayer walking at Elmwood.  Meet up with A___ D___ and three other young ones that have never been to church or heard about Jesus.  They are in and out.  Read the word with the children.  Pick a Psalm.  20.  Read it.  coincidently Joyful Joyful song brought with us.  We sing and read through it over and over again.  Tell the oldest of the three about Jesus.  After repeated invitation she finally says Jesus from her lips.  Pray over each of them.  Press through the hair playing and moving around.  Move along to intersection area in the projects.  Horde of kids on wheels.  They move on, one stays behind.  We catch up with her.  Pick a psalm.  30.  Joy.  Ask what time it is 5:26.  We start talking about joy, praying it, singing other joy songs and we all jump up and down for joy repeatedly.

7:00  Arrive at church in Mounds City.  Guest speaker from Uganda.  When arrive hear that young pastors not there because his second child Joy was being born at 5:30.  Destiny praise dances during worship.  She’s four.  Pastor speaks.  Young pastor arrives later.  Tell him more of his new daughters story.  They stay in front of Elmwood.

Wednesday. 9/23/09

10:23  Prayer walking with Stacy around city.  R___ , C____, Plaid Shirt, Tigert Methodist, Tiffany.  Visit old friend C___ first.  Much cause for spiritual concern.  Schedule appt to meet next week.  End up at Shemwells talking to man just got out of hospital.  Drive down street from summer, remember guy named R__ got saved when World Changers in town.  No car home.  Pray for him.  Next street over another guy from the World Changers that Stacy remembers.  The Lord brings name to mind.  We knock on door. Get invited in.  Jesus shining through this agile old man.  Shares story from when times were tight with him and his kids and he asked the Lord what to do and Jesus downloaded a way and he began a new career.  I was sitting on some of his craftsmanship handiwork.  Loves to dance.  Wife died 12 years ago.  Had to leave town for four years afterwards buts been back ever since.  He was wearing a plaid shirt.  Invite him to the wedding.  Stopped by Tigert.  No answer.  Pray on porch, remember the revelation of chili dinner ministry to community next week, pray.  Pray for Tiffany in another town we know with health problems.

3:25 Lab.

5:28  Head to Elmwood to connect with A___ one of the prayerwalking girls.  She’s home.  We sit down on her front step.  Talk about her day and her family.  We pray for her siblings.  D___ shows up.  We pray.  Talk to them about being like God to other people.  Loving.  A___ brings out her bible and shows me her favorite verse, what she reads.  Verse that Stacy had underlined when gave her the bible.  Your God’s child.  You get to act like him to others.  T___ was walking up, they weren’t very positive about it, case-in-point, I loved T___ with words, broke out into a smile and joined us.  Drawing pictures, reading more, talking.  A___ brings out paintings she’s done, she gives me one.   We pray again holding hand.  They try to keep me longer by praying for more things.  The three run off together, say good-bye.