Today people all over the island are out sharing the Gospel. Thirty nine churches have joined in a massive Maui movement to share the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus. This has been going on for three days now and just from the combined groups from upcountry churches alone, there have been more than 200 individuals who have said yes to Jesus. As I write this, there is a class of new believers meeting in the sanctuary of the church getting ready to go out together to pray for the sick, preach the Gospel, do good, and heal the oppressed. Gone are the days of endless discipleship classes before people feel worthy or equipped to let their light shine.

The most amazing testimony this week came from a lady named Robbie who went to the mall in Kahului and walked up to a man in a wheelchair to talk to him about Jesus. She begins by introducing herself and asking him if he had ever heard that God loves him and has a plan for his life. The man looked at her totally surprised and answered back. They had a good conversation which resulted in him praying with her to accept Jesus. The whole time this man looked so startled and shocked and she couldn't figure it out. The man's daughter then came out of the store and asked Robbie what she was doing. She said, "I'm just visiting with your father." The daughter said, "My father's deaf." But he wasn't anymore. When Robbie had started telling him about Jesus, his ears opened.

This is the kind of world we live in today. Where God is alive and active in His people. A powerful point to this testimony is that Robbie was just a regluar middle aged woman who decided to put her faith into action and share it. The Gospel of the Kingdom was never intended to produce superstars. We'll always have leaders, generals if you will, who proclaim follow me as I follow Christ and there's no apology for that. It's just the way the Lord works. But it was never meant that one person have such a unique anointing that they would be the resource for everyone else. It's seems to be that God elevates a person in anointing and power so that as we gather to them they would encourage and equip us (much like Peter did) so that the high point of their experience would become the new norm for the body of Christ. What would happen if every person you prayed for got healed? Within thirty days your name would be household. Every news agency would be knocking at your door and going through your trash looking for a crack in your character because the world is just that way. Those with large sums of money and great need would use every dollar at their disposal to exploit your gift or at least attempt to get you to give them your increasingly valuable time. Let's say you couldn't be bought. You've still got a problem because everytime you say yes to one you say no to a thousand others, after all, you're only one person. The pressure put on one person in that situation would be unbelievable. You would stand out so much that you would become an icon. There's a weighiness to that kind of pressure that would crush the best of us.

Yet Jesus gave us a mandate to go after this as a lifestyle and to cry out for that kind of anointing to be released through us. The pressure doesn't stop me from going after it, because Jesus' desire is that the Kingdom would come. But I pray for it sober minded. it's not a casual prayer. What's the answer? To ignore it? No. It's to have the whole body go after it together. What would it be like for an entire church body to have breakthrough and come into a greater level of anointing than we've known before? It would be the answer to the prayer spoken from the heart of our Savior. Think of it. You are the answer to the prayer of Jesus.