Anaheim 07

There were five or six buses that went to World Vision for Tourformation on Monday and my youth group teamed up with a group from Texas. When we got there each group was assigned a different job. The group I was with was asked to go on a prayer walk around the neighborhood. We were to pass our flyers about World Vision and tracts. We were to ask people if they had a prayer request and to pray over each house.

The lady leading our group told us that a lot of people might not come to the door because there are a lot of Jehovah Witnesses in the area who always go door-to-door and people were tired of it. She was right. Most people either weren’t home or chose not toe answer the door. We did get to talk to and pray for a few people but not many.

Towards the end of our walk there was a guy outside doing some construction work on his house. We talked to him and told him about World Vision. He was polite but it seemed like he kind of just wanted us to leave. One of the leaders in our group asked if he needed payer about anything and he immediately opened up to us.

He told us that he had moved to California from Alaska and that he was really struggling. He was having some personal struggles that were really overwhelming him. He said is a Christian and shared with us a little bit of his testimony. When he was done sharing, the whole group joined hands and had a time of prayer. It’s amazing that God put us there right when that guy needed us. It was an encouragement to him and it was a huge encouragement to us.

I was completely out of my comfort zone and even scared all through our prayer walk. Something about going up to total strangers to talk just scares me. I know I wasn’t trusting God through the whole thing, and I prayed hard about that.

Being on a prayer walk also made me realize something else. While I may not have the gift of evangelism or something similar, God always lays it on my heart to pray hard. I prayed for the group as they went up to each door. I prayed for the people in the house and whenever I get done with something like this, God always lays it on my heart to pray for the specific people we met.

So maybe that’s my part of this whole thing. Prayer is so important and I think too often we underestimate the power of prayer. So I kept praying and I will keep praying, trusting that God will honor those prayers.