Day 12, 6/8/08

God at Work #1 - Two of the walkers stayed behind to pray outside the church where the walk began today. They had several opportunities to encourage the pastors.

God at Work #2 - The walkers came to a trailer park and prayed with a Spanish-speaking family. We explained our vision of unity among God's people and how it relates to William Penn's Holy Spirit. Also, we got to share the prophetic word from Cindy Jacobs, that God is going to start a great move in the Spanish speaking people. They were excited to receive a prayer of blessing over them. We felt unity and a bond with these people, despite that we couldn't communicate without a translator.

God at Work #3 - After walking, we returned to the bar we visited on Day 10 to participate in karaoke. Two college students were led to go along and sing the song "I can only Imagine". The patrons were touched and the atmosphere in the bar changed! From then on, people reached out to talk to our group.

God at Work #4 - One of the walkers asked permission to sing 'Amazing Grace' acappella and the lady in charge said 'no' to acappella. Later, when the group decided to sing a karaoke Christian song, one of the men said "I don't sing well, but I want to pray a blessing over this bar instead'. After praying, the lady put the CD in a brand new karaoke machine only to find it didn't work. She put it in a 2nd brand-new machine and that one didn't work either. She said, "This never happened before". A patron from the bar came up and asked the lady if she would play karaoke "Amazing Grace" WITHOUT KNOWING WE HAD JUST REQUESTED THAT SAME SONG earlier. God answered our prayers to sing this song. We teamed up with the man and all sang it together. The bar was QUIET and all the patrons were watching as they mouthed the words. We had a chance to mingle with them afterwards. One of the patrons said "the church people never come in here" and kept hugging us. Upon reflecting, we realized the Lord shut down the noises of the bar and TWO karaoke machines so that it was quiet for singing 'Amazing Grace' acappella. The bar tender was beaming and the patrons welcomed us back.

God at Work #5 - One of the walkers could not participate in the karaoke due to a baptism at her church. They sang AMAZING GRACE acapella at the end of the service!
Another walker who also was unable to participate in Karaoke was at home and felt that God impressed on him that our group should be singing 'AMAZING GRACE'. God is affirming us over and over that he is in this prayer walk.