This past week was full of various shenanigans. One such shenanigan happened last Tuesday. After prayer and worship at the soon-to-be “Ace of Cups” (Cairo’s own fine coffee shop), five of us ladies headed off on a Treasure Hunt.
Treasure hunting is a unique, and fun, outreach strategy, and I’m pretty sure God dreamed it up.
So the gist of treasure hunting it this… Find a group of Jesus lovers. Sit and listen to the Lord and ask Him for clues to find a treasure and begin to write down any words, pictures, thoughts that come to mind. Compile your list and begin to look over it together. This list, is your treasure map. Looking at your “clues”, you pray about where to go to find God’s treasure – a person in need of the love of God that day.
So, Tuesday morning we had our treasure map. It included various colors, some random names, a couple of ailments, a place, and several other random objects or descriptions. One item our our list was the “Fill-Up Mart” a closed down gas station down the block from our house. So we started there. Within about 10 mins. the Lord had put us in the path of a man who was hanging out behind the gas station. We told him we were on a Treasure Hunt, looking for who God wanted to love on in a special way today, and handed him our treasure map and asked him to look over it and see if any of those words made since to him. A few of them did, and we asked him if he thought he might be our treasure. With an aire of encouragement, he said, “I think so.” We talked to him a bit asking him what he wanted for God to do for him today. He was very discouraged, had great pain in his back, and honestly just wanted to get out of Cairo. He hadn’t been able to work because of his injury to his back. We asked him if we could pray for him, and he welcomed it. We prayed for his back, spoke blessing over him, spoke destiny over his life, and the love of Jesus. After we had finished praying, the pain in his back was completely gone…even he was shocked! Praise God. He looked full of hope and just kept saying, “I really needed this today!” We gave him a hug and just felt the Father’s love all over him. We asked him if he knew Jesus and he said yes. We keep him in our prayers, this little treasure! How fun it was to find him that day!
I have since seen him around town, and he always has a big smile on his face. Thank you, Father.
Treasure Hunting is pretty fabulous if you’re willing to trust the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you, even if you don’t understand a thing. I guess, for me, I loved how it took something I desire to do (evangelism), combined it with the playful heart of God and made it all about His LOVE and HIS abilities. I’m looking forward to finding more treasures in the days ahead!
