Please Pray

For those of you who actually read these blogs i am asking for prayer.  a couple posts back under the title of “Atheism’s “Grasp”" i talked about a dear friend who has been continually experiencing the tangible splendor and majesty of the Lord for the first times in his life.

A little over a year ago, before we had left to plant a church in seattle, i had been living with mason on his couch for a while and it was amazing!  the memory the Lord has brought back to me was a very specific night at his place.  I remembered waking up in the middle of the night and feeling like i had to pray this very specific prayer:  it was so clear that i had to pray for a future friend that did not know the Lord, and i could see very clearly that we were going to meet; me as a believer and him not as a believer.  it was clear that our friendship would grow…a lot.  so much so that i would consider him one of my best friends…even though he didnt know the Lord.  But then i could see that there would be an instant where his life would be given to Christ Jesus and because of that our friendship would flourish even more.  That was what was consuming my brain as it was still dark, and that is what i prayed about for a while, overwhelmed, excited and not fully understanding it…and then i went back to sleep.

For those of you who dont know what the story is with Sean…well…it is pretty much being explained above.  I met Sean on the bus as an atheist and for the past few months our friendship has been greatly growing.  He has been having radical experiences with God and it has been the greatest pleasure of my life to express what my everlasting Father has done in my heart.  in all this time, Sean has been salivating over the words the Spirit chooses to speak through my mouth.

Last night was our first time as Epic Life Church that we got to baptize a 29 year old seattleite friend who accepted Christ into her life earlier this last week as a family down in the puget sound.  It was incredible!  pretty much our entire family was there!  Keith spoke directly into this girls life.  this girl gave an AMAZING testimony.  After being dunked in the water and 40+ people (including random beach people!!) witnessed a new life transformed…Sean came up to me, and very blatenly said, “i understand what is going on”.  He told me that he accepts everything that keith says through the bible, that he accepts the words that that girl spoke, and he grabbed my hand and looked me in the eyes and said that he wants to become a christian now.  He told me he was scared and he knows that there is much he has to learn, but he asked me if sometime soon he and i could go into the water like keith and that girl did and he asked if i would dunk him to show his friends his new life…

so, after i was able to speak to Sean because of awe and…well…just that supernatural moment, i said yes…..

please pray as Sean, maurice (my keyboardist who “ironically” speaks korean as well)  and i come together to develop a deeper understanding and bring greater clarity to Sean’s heart about what the next steps are to look like and that he would understand them.  please pray that his friends who are not believers would come to his baptism when we have it and that the Lord would begin to use Sean as a tool at that very moment for his friends.  please pray for the strength of the Lord to be strong in him during this season of his life and that the enemy would be silenced as Sean begins to take in the words of TRUTH from the mouth of TRUTH HIMSELF, Jesus Christ.

Jesus…be glorified.