Saturday, April 25, 2009

Pink Polka-Dot Puppy

This story is too amazing not to share...
Upon occasion, we will go out on what we call "TREASURE HUNTS".
It isn't your typical treasure hunt, but much more exciting!
The whole idea behind these Treasure Hunts is that we are actually "Hunting" God's Treasures.
What are His treasure??? PEOPLE! You are! I am!

So we have a treasure map with categories like, Names, locations, description of clothing, specific ailments, and random words. We say a quick prayer asking God to give us clues, then we start filling out our treasure map, writing down the first thing that comes to our minds.

It looks something like this: (Sue, coffee shop, purple sweater, back pain, etc.)

Next, we hit the streets and start looking for any of the clues on our map. Once, for example, I had "cane" on my map along with "baggy denim jeans" and "back pain". I spotted 2 men walking and one of them had a cane along with baggy denim jeans. So I along with my two teammates went after them, explained what we were doing and asked the man with a cane if he had back pain by any chance.
He said, "Yes, actually, I have a spinal cord problem. I need surgery."
We asked him if we could pray for his back, he was so desperate the guy dropped his cane, leaned against the nearest building pressing his hands against the brick.

We laid our hands on his back and prayed for his healing. The guy was totally touched and changed! The man who was with him, we were also able to tell him God loved him, and he just opened up telling us he was having marriage problems. So right there we prayed for him as well. It was amazing!!! Right in the East Village!

Well the same night, we took Sydney treasure hunting with us. Faith was helping her at first to fill out the treasure map. Faith prayed with her, then asked Sydney what she saw. Sydney immediately said, "A dog with Pink Polka-Dots!!!" Faith laughed and hesitated to write that, but did anyway.
They filled out a few more clues and went out to treasure hunt.

In the park, GUESS WHAT THEY SPOTTED?!?!?
Oh yes, A DOG WITH PINK POLKA DOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not just a sweater or a polka-dotted collar, but actual painted on PINK POLKA-DOTS!
Faith and Sydney approached the couple walking the dog. It turns out the woman was a believer and had been praying for her husband. Faith and Sydney explained that God brought them to pray for him today and it really showed the man that God is REAL!!!

If you've never been treasure hunting, I recommend it!!! It is fun to see God move.



3 comments:

Pink Little Cake said...

How wonderful!! Cara, please put my daugther in your prayers, she has been very ill for 3 weeks, many trips to the emergency room and to the doctor and I don't see her improving.
Thank you.

Anonymous said...

OH MY!!! I love treasure hunts. My 5 year old godchild and I have them all the time. I can't wait to introduce him to this style. God is SO FUNNY! Pink Polka Dots!! God loves details and us having faith like a child!

FemmeMode said...

LOVE LOVE LOVE!!
This is soooo GOD....It love seeing Syd's vision in "real life!"