God gives a heart of flesh

God is doing some amazing things inside the hearts of the children, He is a father to the fatherless. One kid when I first met him he wouldn’t participate. If a kid was next to him he would pick a fight and try to punch or kick them. Whenever he was there you would know trying to teach or have conversation would be challenging because he would be so disruptive. The first sentence I remember him saying was “I don’t believe in God and don’t try to tell me He is real, and hell rocks.” then he sat back in his chair and folded his arms. The woman he said it to had the best response. She said ok I’m not but God will. After about a month and a half a kid who seemed to pay no attention to what we were talking about and being disruptive completely changed. He went from being violent toward others to being kind. He went from arguing/disruptive to telling other kids to be quiet and listen. From not participating in activities to wanting to talk to Jesus and to hear God speak to him. During one activity we had them ask Jesus how He is helping them and to write it down then to write down how they are helping Jesus. He said Jesus is helping me to be respectful, kind,and to not hurt others. On a prayer request a week later he asked God to give him a home, for God to help him be respectful, and at the bottom of the card he wrote I have one comment God Rocks! I know it was our prayers that broke through and God changed his heart. He isn’t at the facility anymore I think he has been placed in foster care. As I’m writing this I am asking God to bring someone in his life to continue to teach him to walk with the Lord Jesus, and please do the same. This kid is a leader and one day will be a mighty man of God.

Fathers Heart

This is the first of many revelations the lord has given me. This one is very important to my calling and its nice to see it birth in our family right now

When I got saved I had a desire to be married but not to have children. After having my first daughter Lauren I was faced with the coldness of my heart. I loved my daughter but I noticed my heart was cold toward her at times and I felt like I should have more love in my heart for my child. I begin to take this lack to the Lord. I said things like If I am a Christian God why don’t I have more love for children. God you desire children so I should desire children. I asked God why do you want children when it seems like all your children hate you. I went to God for about a year and a half asking him for more and for him to change my heart in this area.

It was around august of 2011 when I had a dream. There was a small child about the age of my daughter 15months old in front of me in this dream. His face was old and wrinkled he was carrying a cigar. His voice was raspy he walked back and forth cursing and blaspheming the name of the Lord. I instantly knew everything about his life how his parents raised him up till this age. I knew that they loved the way he acted and they had sought ways to profit off of how old he acted at his young age. I knew that everyone around him supported his actions and thought it was cute such a small baby talking so grown up and cussing. I began to become angry not at the child but because of the things he had been exposed to and I knew he would go to hell if he wasn’t told about Jesus. So I grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him toward me so he was looking at my face. I said to him don’t you know there is a God who loves you and died for your sins so that you can have eternal life. As soon as I said this the old man broke off his face and looked like an infant again. He had never heard about God before. I picked him up and he had baby talk again. Holding him in my arms I told him now you need to repent and tell Jesus you’re sorry. I woke up after that and the Holy Spirit spoke to me even the youth of this generation are mature in sin, Because of the things they are exposed to.

I went to go to prayer and to read the bible. As I read the book of Mathew I got to the part where Herod gave the decree to kill the children after Jesus had been born. When I read this my mind went to the days of Moses and how the Pharaoh gave the same order when Moses was born. I made the connection that when a deliverer is born the Devil strikes to kill the children and stop the deliverer from coming. The Holy Spirit then spoke to me and said again the devil is raging trying to stop a generation from being born that will hasten my return. It was clear in my mind children being aborted killed in the womb. The Spirit of God rested on me and I began weeping I could see how big and loving his heart was for his children and I saw my small cold heart next to it. The Holy Spirit began bringing specific times when I was cold toward my child I began repenting. In that moment my heart was being changed. After I repented He lifted off of me and I could lift my head up and I was able to stop crying. I felt like I was supposed to read some more so I looked down and the next verse I saw was Matt 2:18 “A voice heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachael weeping for her children refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.” As soon as I finished reading it The Holy Spirit rested on me again I began weeping and He spoke to me how long will she cry out alone when will the fathers lift their voices, When will the children cry out. Fathers turn your hearts to your children, children to your fathers. When God lifted His Spirit off of me I knew my heart had been changed and he had called me to be a father and that he was pouring out the spirit of Elijah to make strait the way before the Lord.

It was three days after that when I was driving I saw a vision of the youth of this generation. I saw the mouth of hell open and the children walking to fall into it. I saw the things in their lives causing them to fall. I began weeping again under the presents of God for this generation to know Jesus and was thinking to myself really God doing this when I’m driving seems like the worst timing. Needless to say after these events I knew God was calling me to youth ministry. That there is a fatherless generation that needs fathers.

God did answer my question about why he desires children. He took my mind to David and how his heart’s desire was to prepare a place for God to dwell. God told him he wouldn’t but his son Solomon would and that David needed to prepare and gather everything Solomon would need. David gave Solomon all the riches of the kingdom to build a temple for God to dwell in. After He revealed this He said to me in the same way I sent my Son Jesus with all the riches of the kingdom to prepare a place for me to dwell. I desire children because they fulfill the desire of My heart.

Kids City 7 Side Walk Sunday School

To day was the day we were able to go witness what the Lord is doing in Grandview. The ministry is called Kid City 7 and they focus on Side Walk Sunday School. From what i understand there are now three apartment complexes that teams go out and witness to the youth. They go a different time in the GREEN tuck. they bring games, a bouncy house music and the word. All ages come out.

There are four main focus that are thought to the kids

1. He loves me

2. I am a sinner

3. He died for me

4. so I can live

This week was the first week they all meet inside the Children’s Equipping Camp building. Lenny the Director of CEC at IHOPKC gave a little word on the Father and asking Him to come in your heart. The warship ended with the song of “oh how he loves me” such a powerful song for kids to know that the Father loves them given most come from single parent homes.

Having the ability to go with my Family was powerful given we were able to show the family unit as a whole, a family that loves the lord and servers him together. We are still in prayer about our involvement with this ministry but we will be going back next week and the weeks to come even if we are not there to help directly. In all this I’m looking forward to the weeks to come to see how the Lord moves in the ministry and in our hearts for the lost children, because even they have to accept Jesus.

For more information check out  http://www.ihopkc.org/cec/2013/10/09/sidewalk-sunday-school/

Seeking my Calling

Juanita and I will be in constant prayer asking the lord what he has in store for us. I know it will involved evangelizing in some form. So i will be back involved in Forerunner Evangelism department at the House of Prayer KC. Thursday we meet from 10-12pm, the lord has already cleared my current schedule for this time. Making plans to meet with head of  the department to see how i can be of help. As of now ill be at meetings and outreaches this months the focus is on EDGE OF HELL its a haunted house set up here in Kansas City, you see why its important we go and preach JESUS. We meet up on Saturday nights until it shuts down at the end of October.

I was working with the CEC while in Ministry School so praying abut going back to my roots their or sprouting new ones else were. I’m sure ill have some connection there no matter what given my wife’s involvement. Really I am a blank canvas saying lord use me. I love speaking so i want to be the lords microphone and allow is words to flow through me to reach the lost.

Ft. Lauderdale

This trip to Ft. Lauderdale has been incredible! I went with a team of six evangelists Rodney, Laurie, Josh, Reese Jess, and myself. We went to preach the gospel and Jesus showed up. So much happened it’s impossible to put it all down. The first day we went to preach at a church and right after a secular AA group came in to have their meeting. Josh shared his testimony with a woman and a man of how God set him free from his heroin addiction by the filling of the Holy Spirit. The girl gives her life to Jesus receives prayer gets filled with the Holy Spirit goes and tells others about what happened we pray for the other guy he encounters the Lord and two more get brought over saying they want Jesus. They get prayer and one says he sees wings over his eyes and Jesus is holding his hands telling him he can do this and that He loves him. Josh and Reese approached six gang members when we got to the park and it was a tense situation until the presence of the Lord fell on Reese and he began weeping crying out for the salvation of one of them at their feet. That completely humbled them and they all became willing to hear the gospel the park became ours for the rest of the time. Then at the park several young children get filled with the Holy Spirit start praying in tongues. One of the children who was about nine years old pleaded with me to go with him door to door and tell people about Jesus with him until I said yes. There were many children and adults who got slain in the spirit filled with the spirit and many repented coming to salvation. One of the most powerful parts of the whole trip was when Laurie shared her testimony of when she went to hell, an entire basketball court of kids stopped what they were doing to come here it. Our week in Florida was more than we could have ever imagined. We saw over 50 people get saved, 55 healings, and 48 fillings of the Holy Spirit speaking in tongues. Everywhere we went the power of God fell with healings and salvation.