Summer Camp-Camp Elkanah

7/17/08

Tonight, the Lord spoke to our speaker to pray for specific healings. Before he even spoke we had a young lady be prayed for that had knee problems. She couldn't do simple knee bends without being in pain. Mark our speaker asked her to come up to the stage after she was prayed for and have her do something that she wasn't able to do before. She proceeded to do knee bend after knee bend. A young lady from one of the college PR teams was praying for a teenager and she felt her own back pain go away. This was a huge break through for all the teenagers.

Our speaker started his message about how God has made us the way he meant too and that the devil is throwing out lies so that we do not use the gifts that God has given us. More specifically, that we would give up on our dreams. He passed out two cards from a deck of cards to each person. He used the small numbered card that each person had as an example of the lies that Satan as put into their heads. Thoughts in which caused them to give up their dreams. He then used the higher number card as an example of the talents and potential that God has created them to be. One by one teenagers came to the altar to throw down their low number card and proceeded to hold their high number card as a symbol of giving God everything and letting God take the lead in their lives. Tonight teenager after teenager had their dreams restored into their lives as they were dancing on their low cards that had been delt into their lives.

For me, this was a reminder of why seven project is so important. You see our school assemblies is just what took place tonight that is encouraging young people to dream big dreams and that no matter what happens in their lives they need to make good choices so that they can see their dreams come true.

That night it hit home for me as I realize that there might be a young person in one of our school assembly that has given up on their dream however maybe somthing that is said gets them back on the right track to see their dream come true. What if their dream was to find the cure for cancer or maybe ms. What if the healing my wife will recieve someday is through a treatment that was discovered by a doctor who grew up in Oregon and almost gave up on their dream. What if that dream was brought back to life because of a school assembly called the seven project. What if...