Little Divine Encounter, Changed Life

You know how sometimes God brings people into your path that change your life...? Sometimes they are small changes over time, and other times those angels effect life altering changes in just a few moments.

Monday morning, one hour with Randy changed my life.

I want to give a little background first...

Two years ago I went to a conference at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. It was a 12 period of intense prayer and fasting together with thousands of believers. I had never experienced anything like it. I was awakened in a new way to the power of the Spirit that day.

Randy was there that day, but he was just a side note in my story. Many college students from FountainGate Fellowship had told me about how Randy had changed there lives when he had pastored the youth in Abilene, and then finally I saw him there on the field of the Cotton Bowl among the thousands of us. But I wasn't so sure about this Randy. In fact, I was judgmental of his Christian walk.

As we prayed and cried out before God, this guy was dancing, hollering, and... speaking in tongues!!! My rational mind began to evaluate, "Can he do this? Nobody is interpreting? Is this scriptural?" Needless to say, I was challenged. I didn't meet Randy that day, but I observed. That same day God's Spirit moved in me, and my life was changed.

Monday I met with Randy at Java City for a cup of milk, and we shared our stories for an hour. Halfway through our conversation, he shared with me the statement that changed the way I see my existence in this world. Randy said that as we had been talking, he had already been in touch with the Spirit numerous times asking for divine guidance that God might give him words to touch my life. He was communing with the Spirit of God as we talked! I didn't know why that conversation was transforming me, sparking a new thirst for communion with my Creator, but that was revealed to me. The eyes of my heart and spirit were opened!!

Since that conversation, I haven't had a perfect cake-walk of uninterrupted, ethereal walking with God, but I have been different. I am beginning to cry out more. I am beginning to pray was I converse with others. I am beginning to desire the things of God more at each moment because someone took a little time to show my how. Randy, thank you. Your little time investment will have eternal results.

"God, thank You for divine appointments like the one you made for Randy and me Monday morning. Draw us near to You each moment. Spirit, fill our hearts, our conversations, our moments of solitude. Open our eyes to the divine appointments You are making for us at each step of the day. Show us how to live in You.

"We want You. We love You! Like our father Moses, we refuse to march forward without You. That would be futility. Lord Jesus, come. Holy Spirit, come. Replinish our dry soul with Your streams of living water!"