Outreach yesterday and this morning was exciting. Yesterday we took a dozen young people out to do good and heal the oppressed and that's exactly what they did. I have never known a more tender yet bold group of students. I will truly miss them when they go to Borneo for missions next month. We were able to pray for many to be healed of various sicknesses from staff infection to arthritis in the knees to a man who said he needed joy. Everyone who allowed us to pray for them was touched by God in some way. One lady we met in front of the Buddhist temple had turned from Catholicism to Buddhism two months earlier because her son had died in a car accident and she was carrying offense toward God. We were able to minister to her and felt like God gave us a divine appointment to speak His heart to her and let her know that He is good and that He did not take her son. It was quite a moment. This morning the Pastors of upcountry met for breakfast where we spend our time recounting the testimony of what God is doing. By the end of that time you're ready to go take back some ground and punch holes in the darkness. So we took a couple of guitars and Pastor Dale Kreps from the Nazarene Church, Pastor Shannon Carrier, and I sat out in front of the library across from the Buddhist center in Makawao and sang worship songs to God as loud as our voices would allow. We had some great response from people driving by. We had the opportunity afterward to pray with a young man named Ben. It was just a great morning of giving God room to do His will. (Let that theology soak in for awhile.)

When Jesus said for us to pray, Thy will be done, He was talking about Himself. The instruction is an invitation to partner with Him to see that what is on His heart becomes what we are all about. Why would Jesus encourage us to pray for what He has already intended to do? Why would He ask us to join in an act of participation if our involvment meant nothing? It is His desire that you be the vessel through which His Spirit is poured out on all flesh. I cannot give Him a place to move in you but I can certainly give Him a place to move in me. If I give Him my flesh as an outlet, presenting my body as a living sacrifice, I then offer another person the opportunity to make room for Him as well. The promise in scripture is that the earth would be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord like the waters cover the sea. In keeping with the H20 analogy, surfs up!