July 13

The last few days have been amazing. Friday we went to first Christian Church, a congregation of 17,000…and just prayed that God would use them and convict them of any sloth-ness or hypocrisy. I felt a little mean praying there...We were not really praying against it, but for it. I have a bad taste in my mouth about mega- churches, but God definitely can and does use them, it just seems like it’s harder to connect in a congregation that big. That night we went out to talk to our community, Tricia and I ran into some pretty cool people. Allot of small conversation, a couple of people that were interested in donating to us. We knocked on one lady’s door who was 90. Her daughter and grandson walked in a few minutes later. We told her about YWAM and we talked about church, they were a church going family, which was cool. Then we got a knock at the door and it was some girls that Tricia had met the day before, they wanted to talk but we were busy, they just hung out in the doorway, so I decided to share the gospel with them, I whipped out the evangecube and told them about Jesus, and of course, they wanted to try so I let them, I ended up giving it to them under the conditions that they would share it, I’m not sure if that was a good idea, because they seemed to fight allot; and probably will get some bloody noses because of it. Then Tricia had a long in depth conversation with a 10 year old girl. She was asking questions about demons, she said that she had bad dreams, so we prayed for her, she asked about what demons and angels were and all these crazy questions for a 10 year old to ask...Crazy. Then Saturday we woke up at 4:00 and went to red rock to intercede and watch the sunrise. We prayed for our community and the city. I just thanked God for His nature and being able to connect with Him in His nature. We were talking about how sad it was that most people in our community probably have never been out to red rocks and seen the beauty around their city. They are so distracted by their own situation, that they don’t realize that there is beauty in nature right around them. Then I later took the kids to church and stayed for church, Pastor Jonathan gave a long gospel message from John 19; pretty good. Then went over to Josh and Stacy’s for a little UFC action, where we watched Brock Lesner bashed some dude’s head in…man that was hard to watch, he just wailed on the dude’s ear. Then Sunday we went to the Crossing for church, my first time... I really liked the sermon, we all agreed that the sermon was a little too much with the rock star in a preppy green shirt; it seemed like a concert, where the congregation claps after every song. But the sermon was from @ kings, about Naamun who had a blemish on his skin and out of humility had to ask the king of Israel to help him with it. He told him to wash in the nasty Jordan River, at first he didn’t want to, but then decided to and got healed. The pastor said that’s us…we have gross things on us that we have to rely on God to talk them away, we have to give up all control and let God cleanse us. Then Tricia and I and Andrew had a dance party, made my heart happy, then me and Andrea. Jamie and Tricia watched the corny Brendan Frasier movie that I rented, Ink heart. Today we had intercession at the Bellagio area. I and Jamie went to the Miracle Mile for some tea and prayer…good combo. We sat on a window sill of a store facing the “sin city brewing company” and prayed against materialism of Las Vegas and just our generation in general and against sinful marriages. There is a kinda storm thing that goes off every once and a while, lights and fog and stuff, as it was going off, God inspired me to read out the passage form Matthew that talks about how Jesus was walking on water and called Peter out during the storm to walk on water but got scared of the waves, so he sank, but then Jesus rebuked him and pulled him out. I prayed that we do that. Some people here were once following Jesus in faith, they got out of the boat in the storm, but then got scared of the waves that we began to sunk, the more we rely on ourselves, the deeper we will sink. Good praying time and me and Jamie got to talk about politics and Lost…