When you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts. - Hebrews 4:7

Last night we took some of the Rock Island kids who are 15 and older to a pre-screening of a new movie called, "Miss HIV" It was very interesting. Much of the movie was about the AIDS epidemic in Uganda. This caught my attention, considering I fly out for Uganda in less than 24 hours. After the movie we took all the kids to dinner. It's always special when we can eat a meal together.

After we got back to Rock Island I ended up giving one of our youth girls a ride home. We'll call her "Ava". Ava came into our office on Wedesday night in tears over several issues. One was family issues at home, one was being picked on by other girls (it's a jealousy thing, Ava is very beautiful) and the last was that she is desperately seeking the Lord and all her friends are dragging her down. She is trying to find a way to get away from all the negative influences around her. After giving her some female advice, Ron and I laid hands on her and prayed for her. One of the things I prayed for her was that she would come to really KNOW God, not just about Him.

Okay, back to the ride home. So last night (Thursday) I'm taking her home and she asks if she tells me something weird, will I think she's crazy. I tell her of course not, everyone thinks I'm crazy anyways. So she goes on to tell me that the night before (Wednesday) she woke up in the middle of the night from a dream where God had told her to read Psalms 27:1. The interesting thing is that because of her lack of biblical background she didn't even know how to say Psalms, it was just spelled out in her dream so she spelled it for me and asked how to say it. She said she got out of bed, found her bible and read the scripture and then prayed. It's really hard to explain to kids about the voice of God but that was definitely it with "Ava". I just encouraged her not to ever feel weird and to listen when she thinks the Lord is speaking to her. I am excited about this knew breakthrough with "Ava" and I pray that she will have more intimate experiences with the Lord. I also pray for these experiences for all our kids. I don't want the bible to just be this book that has big words and confuses them, I want it to be ALIVE.


"The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?" Psalm 27:1