Trusting in Him

  I'm back from the faith journey! And let me tell you, it was amazing. It stretched my faith on God so much. Just how he provided so much and helped us out with everything. Sometimes we take for granted the little things God does for us, but when you're depending on Him for everything, your perspective changes. I am so much more thankful now. There were times were He was just too good. Like this one super hot day around noon, I was really thirsty and I saw a smoothie stand. I said, "God, can I please have a free smoothie?". Nothing happened. Later that night we got invited to a church and they happened to invite us to dinner. They also happened to give us free smoothies.... No big deal right?... Ask and you shall recieve!!
  It's the small things like that make you appreciate everything much more. And that's not the only cool thing that happened!

  So thursday night, me and my outreach team are all hanging out at the bus station talking to some people. We're getting ready to leave, and I'm at the back of the group, when this guy comes up to me and asks me if I have any cigarettes. This is how the conversation went:

Him- Yo you got any cigarettes brah?
Me- Nah dude I don't smoke.
Him- What about them? (*he points at the rest of my team which was way ahead by now) They got any cigarettes?
Me- No none of us smoke.
Him- Yo don't lie to me, I'll knock you out..
Me- Dude I'm serious we don't smoke.
Him- Yo man dont f--- with me! I'll knock you out!
Me- You know what dude? Jesus loves you

  And his attitude changed in an instant. I was shocked at how fast he went from wanting to fight somebody, to teary eyed and apologizing. Now, normally I would've gotten angry at a threat like that and responded in a bad way, but for some reason, I was so filled with peace throughout the whole conversation, and I didn't even think about saying "Jesus loves you", it just kinda came out. He just stared at me for a second, then started apologizing a lot and stretched out his hand, we shook hands and hugged and I started telling him how God has good plans for his life. He was all high on marijuana so I hope he still remembers.

  Here's another cool one. One of the objectives on the list of things we had to do, was to ask the Holy Spirit who to give money to pay for gas with the money our school gave us for the faith journey. So we went to this gas station and started asking the Holy Spirit to show us who to give the money to. One of the guys on our team felt like God said blue Honda CR-V, and another one got the picture of a hawaiian momma, not a mom, but a momma. Literally 20 seconds after this happened, a blue Honda CR-V with a hawaiian lady drives up to pump gas... Coincidence?... Seriously, it takes more faith to believe it was just a coincidence than to believe that it was God speaking. So the 2 guys that heard from the Lord went over and asked her if they could pay for her gas, she said yes, they started talking, prayed for her, all that good stuff. God knows why we were to pay for her gas and pray for her. Think of what kind of a world this would be if we all just opened up to what the Holy Spirit has to say and helped each other out like that. What can you do to share God's love with someone?

 Another of the tasks was to go to a local radio station and to get to be on the air. One of the teams got to be on the air for 2 hours preaching, prophesying over specific people and over the city. It was pretty cool.

  These are just a couple of the ton of testimonies there were. God is faithful! My faith increased so much in this journey, I wish all of you would do that some time, come out of your boxes and go out to show people how much God loves them!! Preach the Gospel! Whatever! Doesn't it make you feel kinda guilty that some people might be going to hell when you could've done something about it?..

  Also, just a little update on my financial situation, our outreach leader says that an approximate of my outreach fees would be $5500. Right now I need $2500 for plane tickets and such... If you want to support what I'm doing or feel led to donate, click here. If not, then please just keep me in your prayers.

Jesus loves you

He can't wait to hang out with you

-Julio-

P.S.

Aloha au iā 'oe
(I love you)