The 10-year mark can be challenging for a child growing up. They don’t know if they’re still children or if they’re teenagers. They have moments when they still feel like babies and then, they have times when they feel like a grown-up. The influences that come into a child’s life at the 10-year old stage can have a great impact on the direction of that child’s future.
The people are crying out. Can you hear their cry?
I remember what made me cry when I first started doing ministry. It was the babies going to bed without anything to eat and their mothers selling their bodies to feed them. I couldn’t stand to see people who were addicted to drugs and alcohol and couldn’t get free, and the list goes on.
You know, it’s been more than 10 years hitting the pavement, knocking on doors and being in the trenches, and I’m still hungry for the things of God.
With as much as we have accomplished for the Lord, there is still much more to do. We are like the 10-year old child who sometimes wants to be a baby and sometimes wants to be all grown up. I believe this is true for us personally and in ministry, here in Greenville and around the world. The Body of Christ is being challenged by the Holy Spirit to grow up, and to become even more dependent on Him.
My goal is to get back to the basics of the hunger and passion that God gave me for Him, for life, and for ministry. I don’t want to do something just to say I did it. I only want to do things that I’m passionate about and that inspire passion for God in other people. I’m constantly asking myself questions that make me get back in touch with why I’m here, why I was born and what my purpose is in life. I encourage you to do the same thing.
God has been good to us. He’s always provided and has always made a way even when I personally didn’t know how things were going to work out. But I still hear Him through this Scripture where the people say, the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
I know that it’s Summertime, a time of vacation and a time of rest, a time of hanging around the lakes, pools and beaches. But the drug dealers aren’t taking vacation, the prostitutes aren’t taking vacation, the gang bangers aren’t taking vacation, and the addicts aren’t taking vacation. There is no better time to reach the harvest than now.
In Exodus 3, God says that “I have heard the cry of the people and now I am sending you.”
I challenge you to go after God harder than ever. Challenge yourself to become more like Christ and to be led of the Holy Spirit every single day.
Here are a few testimonies from the Block Parties we’ve been having this summer:
In Nicholtown, there were people who lived in the streets of this community who showed up on Friday when we “blitzed” the community. They put on their Op GO t- shirts and helped us hand out flyers. We also had men and women who showed up drunk at the block party. When the praise and worship started they were singing and dancing and praising God. I even saw one of the guys who walks the streets of Nicholtown helping us serve this other community.
At our Block Party with Upstate Circle of Friends, there was one little boy who was 8 years old. He came and sat at the stage and watched and listened to the word. He gave his life to the Lord when I gave the call for salvation. He later came up and told me that he came all by himself and walked a couple of blocks to get there.
In West Greenville, we had 50-60 people respond to the altar calls. We brought in a busload of we literally picked up off the streets. We served 500 hot dogs. Many of the people in the community said they really needed this kind of touch from God in their neighborhood. We all were given hugs and handshakes by everyone including drunks, young gang members, and elderly ladies. We also fed a couple of hungry families who lived in that community with the food that was left over. God truly multiplied and there were baskets left over.
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