So last weekend me and a crew of friends/family from crihop went to check out Kevin Dedmon and the Firestarters team at Dayspring in Springfield. Kevin wrote “The Ultimate Treasure Hunt“, which I read awhile back and found it pretty good and a good practical guide to getting someone started in and comfortable with supernatural evangelism, which maybe comfortable isn’t the word maybe confident would be where we want to stay. Now, some people try to follow treasure hunts like a law and don’t allow themselves to really see it’s freedom, which in turn miss all the other opportunities because it wasn’t on their list. Just don’t get trapped and turn it into another religious “how to”. Actually…that goes for everything.

With all that I would recommend the book.

Anyways, Friday was the first night and it was pretty goooood. I enjoy the message of identity Kevin speaks. Michael and I actually had a convo with one of the girls on the way there about healing and identity and everything Kevin said that night was pretty much word for word of what we talk to her about. Though his was more organized, ha. It was some good fun. At one point (or more) Kevin and the team would through out a words and people just started getting healed in the crowd and Jesus was receiving praise. The real fun, for me anyway, came at after the meeting as people were leaving. Me and Michael went out in to the foyer looking to grow some legs out, when I saw this older gentleman (Lee) with a walker come up beside us. I asked him what was wrong and he responded almost with a “I know the drill” type face saying “I had an aneurysm…” and started naming off some of his pain. He really seemed like there was no hope he would be healed and didn’t expect anything. So I asked if we could pray for him and he agreed. I asked him where the most pain was and he said his hip. So we began commanding the pain to leave. I asked how it was and he said “pains still there”. We prayed again and asked how it was. He said still pain….but there’s a little heat on the back of my knee. Honestly I didn’t think much about it…cuz I mean we weren’t praying for his knee, right? ha Jesus, You are beautiful. Anywho, we then moved on to his back. He said that he had surgery where they put a hole in his spine to drain his brain…intense. So prayed for it and his ribs…pretty much the rest of the things he listed previously. I then asked him how he felt and he said his leg was on fire (the one we prayed for)…saying “what you do!”  HA! I asked how the pain was and he said it was none! HAHA! Michael and I got wacked after that. Consciencely joy was all I could feel like a literal explosion inside went off when he said it was on fire. Pure fun. Shouldn’t it be that way since we live in the kingdom…or the kingdom lives in us?

Now that we ourselves were on fire, we went back out to the sanctuary to find more peeps to love. I asked another one of the girls with us to pick out a person with back pain. She picked out a guy toward the middle, so we headed over there. The guy was talking to another guy and I didn’t want to interrupt. So, I pick the closest guy to us. I asked him if he had pain in his back and you could see it on his face. “Ya, all the time”, he said. I asked if he could feel it now and he said he did. So we sat him down, leg grew out, stood him up to test it out (I rhyme), had him try to touch his toes and it still hurt. We then laid hands and had him test it again and the pain was gone, but he didn’t want to touch his toes. Still awesome though, pain was gone! Come on! (I rhyme again…muahaha) I then told Michael “Right shoulder!”, I was calling it out. I then looked over to Patrick and he was talking to a guy he knew from the ‘church’. So, hollered at them and asked the guy if he had right shoulder issues. They walked over and he told us that he couldn’t sleep on his right side because of a rotator cuff injury some time back. I had him show me what he couldn’t do, which he couldn’t raise his arm up all the way. We laid hands and asked how it was, which it still hurt but not as bad. So, hit it again and boooooom! He lend over and said it was gone. Full rotation and everything! JESUS!!!

Joe, a guy passing by, had some feet and ankle pain so we laid hands and saw some relief, we then chalked it up to a Kevin term, “H.I.P’, Healing In Progress. Now for some of you ‘hardcore healers’ that may seem like a cop out, but seriously I have the Holy Spirit inside me. When I touch people God touches people. So I don’t always have to force it cuz I should know it…’s done. Back to Joe, he had some pretty good progress, so praise Papa! He is always, always good. (The next day Joe said he felt good.)

We then started to leave and on the way out I saw this group of 4 older ladies and they had all just bought the treasure hunt book and were grouped together chatting about it. I notice they were signed, ha. I approached the group and told them it was a good book, you know a little chit chat. I then asked if one of them had knee pain and one of the ladies lit up and raised her hand. (So much fun) I asked if they hurt now and she said kinda and proceeded to tell us that Kevin had called out right knee but both of her knees hurt so she receive it or stand up as suggested by Kevin. Not 100% sure on how that works, I thinks it’s like Mark 2:11 thing, but I know God still wanted to heal her so we went the laying of hands route. We had her test them out and she could squat about 150° before she starting feeling pain. So I laid hands on both knees and command wholeness. The others were also laying hands and prophecy. Tisha saw her dancing with Jesus and that she loved dancing. We prayed about 4x’s and she was dancing at the end. She came out into the aisle and start hopping up and down and dancing around with no pain. Awesomeness! We then prayed for her eyes, which I, personally, haven’t seen healed before, and they got better but not 100% while we were there.

Saturday @ 1 we had a treasure hunt. Funny thing, Me and Joe (from our group) decided to split from our main crew and go out with other groups. Kevin asked if there was a guy that could drive so I raised my hand and then he said it was for a group of 4 girls. I quickly drop my arm and laughed with the guys saying that would be awkward especially telling my wife later. Then I headed down to find a group and met a lady that we prayed for the night before. (Robin, btw I didn’t tell you that story) She asked me to join her group, which was composed of her daughter, Rachelle, and 3 other girls from Shawnee, OK, Devon, Reimi, ?, and just so happens mom had to go to another group. So, here I am left with driving 4 girls. Believe me I was lol’ing inside. …  I was thankful tho that they were eager Jesus lovers and didn’t mind cleaning out my car, ha… my trunk is still full. Anyways we had a pretty good group of lists, but since none of us knew the area we just headed to Wal-Mart, which as you may know is “Disneyland for the sick” -CB. I did find myself sticking to the list and passing up some injured people and actually that has been frequent lately, which I’m not happy with it. (honesty) The Lord will never give up tho and wants me to understand Love and to know Him more and more. So pray for understanding of revelation and for wisdom to walk it out…love that is. Back to the journey. At Wal-Mart we encounter several of our clues and were able pray and prophecy over a few families and individuals. It was fun meeting new people, making connections, listening to hearts and stories, and being light.

We got back and the service was at 6 that night and it was again fun. I learn about joy and am still pondering it. Like before several were healed by the team. God is good! All in all the weekend was very encouraging and much needed. I’m glad to be updating you guys too. Like I was saying before, I felt like I’ve been in a funk lately with praying for the sick and acting like I am, but like I also said He won’t give up is pursuit for me and He is so eager for me to mature like Him. So in turn I will love people for Him. Holy Spirit is SO GOOD! His Love is incredible and I don’t even know that much about it, ha!

You guys are blessed!