wanna hear a cool story?

Since I have been here, there have been numerous times where God has done some stinking crazy stuff just to bring more glory to His name, and draw more people to Himself. I thought for this week's update, I would share one of those stories with you. As some of you may know, one of my good friends from home, who is on staff with YWAM in China, is visiting here in Perth for a week. He told me this story and it blew my mind.

Every Thursday night we have evangelism, where our whole, 300 person base goes out into the city to minister. Zack (my friend) and his partner had candy canes that they were supposed to hand out that night. Before they went out, they prayed over what to write on the little note cards that went with the candy. Zack, felt that he should write, "Jesus loves you and it's time to step into a relationship with Him." on one of the note cards. When Zack and his partner got to the city they began walking around asking the Lord who they were to talk to. They passed a group of teenagers and kept walking but Zack felt like the Lord was leading them to talk to the teens. He told his partner, but when they turned around the group was already gone. They started looking around the area for the group of teenagers, but after half an hour they were nowhere to be found. Zack assumed they had left the mall and asked the Lord, "Was that you really you asking us to speak to them? Should we keep looking?" God answered back loud and clear, "Keep looking. This is how I search for you. I keep looking until I find you." The Lord also gave him the name "Travis" and told him that the candy cane he had written the note on was for him. Zack was confused about what the name meant and asked his partner to pray and see if the Lord gave her the same name. She prayed but recieved no name. Zack said,"OK, Lord, I think this is you but you're going to have to show me." So they kept walking until they spotted a group of teens hanging out near the food court. Zack wasn't even sure if it was them anymore, but figured he might as well go for it. So they walked up to the group and asked if anyone wanted a candy cane. Most of the kids were too cool to accept a candy cane from a stranger, but one boy timidly said, "I'll have one" and grabbed a candy cane out of Zack's hand. Immediately Zack realized, shoot! that one was for Travis. So he looked around the group and said, "There isn't anyone here by the name of Travis is there?". The kid who had grabbed the candy cane looked at Zack, confused and was like, "Yea, my name is Travis." haha! Zack looked at him dumbstruck, and said, "Oh man! We have been looking for you for the past 45 minutes. The Lord gave me your name and told me to look for you."...and he explained the whole story and got to share with him about a God who seeks people out and wants to be intimate with them. What an amazing testimony of how God pursues us. I love it.