Todd's Blog

Saturday, March 13, 2010

I am home again. I need to apologize for the timing of the last note you received. It was supposed to be sent last week but it got stuck in a computer somewhere. It is times like this that I hope you pray in the Spirit, for the Spirit can intercede when we don’t know what to pray. I guess I know now why the weekend was such an intense battle, I didn’t have you all along with me. Even still, our God is still "mighty to save"

This last weekend was an opportunity for me to regain a wreckless trust in our Father. When I showed up in Houston I could hardly lift my own bag and was coughing like a 90 year old chain smoker. The host family took me to there home and gave me some medicine and put me to bed. Although I had enough drugs in me to sedate a horse, I continued to cough throughout the night and got very little sleep. Saturday morning I drug my sorry carcass out of bed and fell on my face on the floor and re-presented myself to our Father. We enjoyed breakfast and headed to the church where I was expecting to find everything in order and ready for me to mingle with the townspeople and do the horse training demonstration. What I found was a forty foot square pen instead of a round pen, an I-pod instead of a worship band, and a six year old horse to train instead of a two year old. The men were gracious enough to reshape the arena, find a worship leader, but unable to make the horse four years younger. I was still in bad enough shape that I couldn’t even throw my saddle on the fence and I could hardly say a sentence without having a coughing attack. As we should come to expect by now, our Father overcame all the obstacles. The demonstration went without a coughing fit and I forgot about my back all together. As a result of what our Father did, we got to see several people make decisions to Follow Jesus. That night I sat around the house in a semi-comma state. Sunday morning I taught the youth group and then spoke at the host church's main meeting. During that service is when I got to see the fruit of the previous days event. That morning there was no less than a dozen new decisions' and a many complacent Christians coming forward to reclaim their offensive position in the Kingdom. When they put me on the plane that afternoon I sat in awe of what had just happened. I was still horribly sick and lame but the fact that our Father was more committed to changing lives than anyone else involved, was evident.

With all this happening I have to tell you about one couple that is seared in my heart. I had seen them the day of the horse training demo. But Sunday morning when I saw them I immediately felt moved to pay close attention to what our Father was about to do in them. At the close of service the preacher gave an invitation for people to come forward to begin a new walk with the Lord. I watched as many went forward, but this young couple remained standing by their chairs. As the music played and counselors met with those who came forward, I walked up behind the young man and put my hand on his shoulder. He never even turned to look at me. He just hung his head and began to cry. Then his girl friend began to weep. I prayed over the two of them and walked away. Our God is mighty to save. They surrendered all. This is why we now live. Serving the King, Todd

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