It started out from watching a Darren Wilson movie that shared about a woman named Heidi Baker who evangelizes in Mozambique, Africa. She travels from village to village calling the people there to bring forth their sick and blind. She then invites children to pray with her, and God answers. Now I’m not saying to get healed you must get prayed over by African orphans, but it stood out to me that if you open your kids up to experience God at such an early age it sets them up for an even greater awareness of Him. When I think about my own children, I know I want that for them.
This world has been dark ever since the Fall, but Jesus came to be THE Light. The Bible says some pretty amazing things about what we get to be a part of as children of Light: Spiritual Gifts, healings, resurrections, demonic deliverances, and other signs and wonders. Every generation thinks it’s living in the last days, and with the constant barrage of violent and tragic events all over the globe, it’s not hard to see why. But along with the people in Darren Wilson’s movies, I want more of Him in midst of the chaos. I don’t want to sit and try to find meaning in how we are doing it all wrong or try to find creative ways to kick a dead horse, but I want to be a part of what He’s doing now.
I want to be so familiar with His presence that when people look at me they see Him. I want for my wife to be blessed with the opportunity to help others gain His Beauty that she has more than any other woman I have ever known. I want for my children to have the opportunity to be a part of something more than simply going to church on Sundays and playing video games the rest of the week. So as I walk this path with my amazing family, we began to go out and “Share the Fire”- the “outreach” version of our Spirit Fire times.
We go out, grab a few $5 gift cards and hit a shopping store. We have our kids pick the person we are going to bless and off we go. Betsy is the lead talker and after we give them the card, she asks if there is something we can pray for them about. Responses have been pretty wild from tears of thankfulness to smiles of joy. It gives my kids the opportunity to see His power at work through them for others. To the people who say, “No thank you,” they are free to keep the gift card. We still pray for them as they leave.