The Daily – Feb. 25

*Prayer Stations – I had a ton of conversations today, they were really good.  We went to the park on Commercial Drive.  First I spoke with a Christian woman who had given up hope for her son to ever find Jesus.  We were able to pray encouragement for her as well as her son.  We also prayed for a man who wanted us to tell him the winning lottery numbers.  We were able to pray over him and assure him that God provides.  A sociology professor was talking to us about what prayer actually does for people’s spirits and lives.  He was an atheist who really just wanted to know how we believed in prayer.  It was tough, but it was also really good to see people wanting to see evidence that God exists.

*Prayer Stations – After a while we felt led to go back to Waterfront.  We spoke to a woman from Quebec.  She was struggling with grasping who God is, and the idea of prayer.  She wanted to see the evidence that prayer works, not just hearing that it does.

*Prayer Stations – I feel like people in this city really just want to see God is real, to see Him work.  They don’t just want to hear about it.

*Prayer Stations – We had a sign that said “do you believe prayer changes things?”, just to get people to interact with us and stop to talk.  One guy came up and said “No I don’t”.  He said it just doesn’t match up.  He knows too many people who pray all the time but who are miserable.  I prayed that God would show him prayer was real.

*Prayer Stations – Part of our group was in the park praying walking.  I was sitting on one of the the benches.  A lady and her little boy came, and she sat down and started talking about why I was there in the city,etc.  She started sharing that she was 36 when she had her son.  She said that life in Vancouver was so hopeless.  That it’s a tough place to live, she didn’t think that she and her husband were going to ever be able to live in a house, always be in an apartment.  She said she was wondering about bringing a child into this city, whether it had been a good decision.

*Prayer Stations – The Lord allowed me to just sit there and listen to this man talk.  He said he was an atheist, but that he could tell I was a Christian because of my attitude.  I told Him I thought it was because I had hope.  He said that it was strange that he could talk to me, because he couldn’t normally talk to Christians.  He asked us to pray for world peace, and we did.  Why not? God was there.  Today four of us were prayer walking.

*Prayer Stations – We encountered an 84 year old woman named was Edith.  She wanted us to pray for her.  Another woman really wanted prayer, because she’s starting a new job and wanting to relocate because of expenses.  I felt like they just wanted people to give them hope.

Three people from a local church (Church of God of Prophecy) came to the Daily yesterday with intentions of doing Prayer Stations for the evening.  Krista explained the outreach to them to give them some context.  They were really eager to get out there so they put on their aprons and walked out the door.  They were going to head downtown but stopped at Belgian Fries for some food, only 3 blocks away.  While the guy went to get food, the two ladies were already being asked to pray for people!  People said they recognized the aprons and one guy said that an angel told him to go across the street and ask these people to pray for him.  They spent some time praying for people there at Belgian Fries before they finally made it downtown where they noticed it was a lot more difficult to engage with people.  Commercial Drive is where the ground has been broken!

*Warming Stations – We had a girl come up and ask us for prayer, even though we were just doing warming stations. She recognized the Salvation Army jackets, and she had seen people being prayed for by others wearing them.

*We got the picture of these scouts of angels coming into the city and setting up camp, like, they were scouting out the city, breaking the ground, finding the dark places.  Then eventually another group of angels came in.  They were families, and they were coming to live in the city.  God is invading this city, he is sending his spirit in.