blind eyes open
-1 Corinthians 6:19~20-

God once again opened up the heavens right above PC!
So after snake head we went to PC and set up the amps and all. Anyhow, Eddie started to ask everyone there over the mic, "What is love? Come and share what your definition of love is." Not many people came forward besides some bashing people(that guy Kyle once again came up and said all these curse words and all....bless him). So really not many people have courage to come up and share what their definitions of love! Anyhow, we started to worship and I had to leave for my computer science class, which was pretty dry(to confess, I fell asleep during class lol). But praise the Lord I scored 100% on my quiz!!
So I went back to PC. Eddie was once again asking all those who were there their definitions of love. Some people started to shout out questions of attack, yet we responded them with love and blessings.
At 2pm, we had to shut down the amplification and we started to worship the Lord unplugged. It was great and I shared that I knew that God's protecting us, setting angels all around us! By then, Eddie was with John Bracht(the debater) and Speach talking with Jonathan(the humanist debater) and two of his friends on the side. I feel that God's stirred those people's hearts up already. Eddie shared with us:
A girl came up and told the group the miracles she's seen God doing, and then Jonathan looked at his scars/rashes on both of his arms over and over. When Eddie shared that with us, we all went crazy because the Lord has done something inside of Jonathan's heart! I guess he was thinking "What if God really heals me?"

XD.....God's awesome!

And right now, those evolutionists/humanists are not being pushy or bashing at all! They are genuine about the questions they ask because they know that we have answers! Come on! God's stirring up the hearts, and what we do is to ask Him to speak through us and the words would pierce through their hearts! Lord You are simply amazing. How You touch people are so incredible! Jesus I ask that You would give them dreams, and Jonathan's scars would disappear and disove in the name of Jesus!

I still had this urge to hold up that CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU sign, so I did. After worshiping for a while, I picked up that sign and started to walk around Price Center.

"Can you pray for me?" A girl asked suddenly.
"Totally. How can I pray for you?"
"I have a gallstone, and I cannot eat many things because my stomach would ache tremendously."
(Young adults should not have gallstone, especially the chances for a person to have a gallstone is 1/600,000(or something like that, a very small chance)
Guess what? She's not a Christian! Yet she asked me to pray for her. Sitting next to her was her good friend who is a believer but not going to church or any fellowship. Lord I ask that You would stirr her heart up that she would walk with You and pick up the cross and follow You wholeheartedly!
So after praying for Emily, the girl who has gallstone, I started to share with her about Jesus and all. She said she's heard all those already, yet she does not agree with creation, since she's an evolutionist herself, and she does not believe the existence of Jesus. I couldn't tell her much or argue, I simply told her my story and many healing testimonies. She's really open and believes that there is a God. And Jesus I know that You've been stirring her up yet she does not know who You are. Would You reveal Yourself to her and tell her that You love her and You died for her so that You can be with her for eternity! Thank You Lord for Emily. Would You let her encounter many more believers who would share their stories to her!

And after they left, I keep on circling around and saw this man, around 40/50 yr old, sitting there. So I asked him, "Can I pray for you?" He seemed like a nice person, and he simply said, "please, have a seat. I have some questions about Christianity." So we had a really long talk over the creation of the universe(he believes that there's a God who is a Creator, and he also believes that there are spirits in the world.)--he wants to know WHEN God created heaven and earth. "I don't know," that's my answer. But I believe that He created heaven and earth, and that's the gist. And then he does not believe that how Jesus claimed Himself as Son of God. We then had another talk about that. I told him about miracles yet he did not believe in miracles. For a long time we've been just sharing with each other. I can feel His hunger for the Truth. He just came to San Diego three months ago from China! He does not believe in any religion; however, his mother is a Christian(and right now I strongly believe that it's the prayers of his mother that he's been having questions and desires to know more about this one true God!). So I called Speach over and he shared with Warren(that man's name) his conversion testimony--how he encountered God. Anyhow, Speach said to him, "Just pray to God and ask Him to show You that He is real. I've done it and He revealed many things to me that's written in the Bible! If You want to know how long ago He created the universe, just ask Him!" Yeah it's so true. Speach you rock the house right there, I can feel Warren's heart stirred up. So Speach prayed for him and I gave him a book of New Testament and encouraged him to start reading what Jesus says who He truly is, for he hasn't read much of the Bible.
Here comes the crazy part which I found very awesome: Warren told me that his mother is a Christian. Immediately I knew WHY his heart is so stirred up by the Lord--the prayers of his mother. Year and year, day after day, his mother is not giving up and not letting go the promise of the Lord. She wants her family to be blessed, especially her very own children. Hear me out: if Warren is close to 50 years old, then her mother would be like 70 years old! Not even to mention that they live in China! This is totally awesome!!!! Thank You Jesus! I love it when You connect all the dots together to let us see the bigger picture =)

During my talk with Warren, Maritha was in the middle of PC, belling out with her voice, full of authority, "GOD LOVES YOU FOR WHO YOU ARE!! HE LOVES THE HOMOSEXUALS! HE LOVES THE SICK, THE BLIND, THE LAME, THE POOR!!!!" And then another guy went up and started to say how real God is to him! I believe once again God's been rumbling this land with prayers and preaching and worship! Come on! Heaven was opened up right then and everyone was doing what's in their hearts: praying for people, sharing with people, preaching on the top of their lungs, or simply playing the guitar and singing. So many things are happenning at once--and we did not plan that at all! The Lord was there moving our hearts!

After we packed up, I started to share with Maritha and Grace about these two people I prayed for, and then a girl came to us, said, "Are you really praying for people?" And we were so overjoyed and shouted, "Yeah!" With her were two guys--they came all the way from Louisiana Tech on a mission trip to San Diego. There are 40 of them total in different areas serving this city and 13 of them are assigned to come to UCSD! We all prayed and took pictures *flash*. I was so encouraged to see these amazing sons and daughters traveling around the country and the world just to get the Word out! Thank You Lord, bless them and protect them with Your Holy Spirit that wherever they go they are filled with the power of Your Spirit!

Then I went to find Lacky, my suitemate from Fresno who works at this Japanese food place where they serve all kinds of teriyaki and all....ewww. The food there is SO GOOD that you wouldn't want to eat it again, ever! Anyhow, that was around 4:30 I went to say hi to Lacky and decided to wait for him since he got out from work @ 5. I spent the 30 minutes blogging the first two people I prayed for. During dinner with Lacky, I once again remembered that he is actually a Christian! So I shared my heart with him--some testimonies and how I want to see all the hidden ones start to shine again like the sun because they realize who they truly are: sons and daughters of the Living King. Lacky has been a Christian for his entire life--his granparents are Christians too(dudeeee that's crazyyyy)! The culture of Mong(an Asian ethnic group, mainly the Miao Zu in China, yet Lacky's parents are from Laos) has always been Shamanism, yet his family is following Jesus Christ! Come on! This totally encouraged me! Born a Christian, Lacky's been going to church back home yet hasn't gone to any fellowship here on campus and, frankly, being a bit shy about this all Jesus deal. So I started to encourage him and speak life into him(thank You Holy Spirit for Your Words of wisdom and knowledge!), and he told me that he's been going to church simply because his family go there and church is really fun. I challenged him to start building a relationship with this God that he's been hearing for the past 18 years of his life, and he, being as genuine as he always is, really has a heart that is stirred up during this conversation. Something sparked on the inside. The preview of fire. Thank You Lord! Starting next quarter he wants to go check out IV and I really encourage him to do so since IV is all about knowing this God more! I also shared with him how I feel about our suite--how there are actually 4 Christians: Me, my roommate Sal, Lacky and his roommate Alex. Please keep them in your prayers. I believe that God's gonna use them, and I told Lacky this: I see you wanting to know God more, and He will definitely show you more of what he has in store for you and how you can go and get it. I see you strong in faith when you are a senior, and many lives are saved because of you, Lacky. Thank You Lord for being there at our convo. More to come!

24/7 prayer room was different today. Jeff came with me and there were 8 of us tonight. We started to have those awkward silences for we didn't have much direction. Then someone suggested that we pray for one another. So all of us prayed for Brian Park, awesome djembe player, for like 30 minutes! I had a vision for him: In front of him are many many doors, and each door leads to more doors. He has to choose. All door looks the same, yet eventually they all lead to the same goal. I saw the vision as a Black & White vision....and suddenly when God opened the blinded eyes, there are actually colors on a door--the door chosen by the Lord.No matter which door he chooses, God's eternal plan for him will not change--it just depends on how fast he will get to where God wants him to reach. That's actually for all of us. Don't think your little decision is going to affect your entire life--that's called being doubtful about God to an extent that we think our decision is SO IMPORTANT that we put ourselves before the Lord. His promise is right there, and we either choose the door that God's suggesting, or we can choose other doors. That was my vision for Brian. Lord I pray that You would protect him from attacks and temptations, and remove those frustration and worries about school work. Amen. Guess what? Hatty also saw a vision of doors before I started sharing! Confirmation!!! Woohoo!!

Then we all prayed for Grace. She's totally a weeper before the Lord. I started to tell her how God's going to use her to restore the Tent of David--tent of praise--tent of prayer. I shared with her Isaiah 54 & Amos 9 about God's promise to His beloved ones and how He'll restore the tent of David! Weeping and praying for another 30 minutes. Lord You were right there in the room with us when we were completely lost and did not know what to do but pray for one another. I love it when You just make us emotional and teary!

Jeff and I, after 24/7, went to eat some great Mexican food with Maritha, Grace, and Brian Cheung. Jeff shared with Maritha and Grace about his conversion testimony, and he also shared his story about how he saw an angel just a week ago while taking a midterm!! We all shared and laughed. Angels were there, totally. We all love the Lord, no matter how long we've known Jesus. We are adorable and lovely to Him all the same!!

Brian, who can simply go wacked-out for the Lord by simply listening to a testimony, said to me how he really sees me as a prophetic evangelist in Ephesians 4:11~13, and Grace sees me as a person who has all five positions that work at different times: apostle, prophet, evanglist, pastor, and teacher. And Grace said that some prophets prophesied how this generation of Joshua would have many these all-around members and also specific-skilled members to work with each other to build up faith and church on the rock.

It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
-Ephesians 4:11~13-

I encourage you to start DOING something on your campus.
Don't wait until the harvest.
We have to prepare for the harvest.
Do you want to know what God wants you to become?
Start doing things for Him.
He will put inside You a burden which might be Your calling!
And yes, you are reading my longest post so far.

Today was historical.
Another long chapter with lots of stories!
Love You Lord!!

Johnny

ps. Here's what I posted on Impact's forum A YEAR AGO on Jan. 26, 2007 regarding to my post two days ago, check it out!
Just want to share this and also ask for a prayer request. So today our school had an all-school event about segregation/racism because last week we had a speaker talking about racism. What happened this afternoon was the entire school gathered at the gym and formed a big big big circle against the wall. And a person in the middle running the program started to ask certain types/groups of people to come to the middle and form a smaller circle. They started with "male" and "female" and "freshmen" "senior" "faculty". And then they went to "black" "white" "hispanic" "asian". And then later on about "gay" "lesbian" "bisexual" "question about your own sexual identity", there were many other stuff like "social status" "how rich" "how poor". And then came the religion part. The person asked whoever consider themselves as "Christian or Catholic" please come to the center. As I was walking toward the middle, many others were walking to the middle too. And then I stopped. I wanted to know exactly how many people considered themselves as Christians/Catholics. I couldn't believe my eyes, there in the middle stood more than half of the school body. I didn't know what to say or to think. The only thing that I said to myself is, "hmm that was interesting." I glanced over those who were in the middle, and I didn't know what to feel. I didn't know how I should feel. Should I feel glad because people say that they are Christian? Or should I feel discouraged because about 3/4 of them are really NOT? Even our dean, who is a LESBIAN, was there, saying she is a Christian. I started to pray, and I asked for the presence of the Holy Spirit. Tears were in my eyes. I didn't know why there were tears. Was it because I was sad? Was it because I did not know what I was seeing? Was it unbelievable? Maybe. Maybe not. A huge rock was now on my back. I felt heavy. Why are there 300 people in the center of the gym while there are only 60 people in Breakaway and half of those are not even “Christians”? Obviously 3/4 of those 300 did not know Jesus, did not feel Jesus, did not LOVE Jesus, yet they consider themselves as Christians. God, please love them. It’s hard for me to love each one of them. It was very hard for me to decide my thinking toward these 300……come to rescue me from this heavy burden oh Lord. It was quite a meeting. It was really bad in a sense of “supporting gay/lesbian” community, yet through this experience God let me see that He can do what I can not—to bring the 300 back. I don’t know whether they are the real Gideon 300, but I will keep on praying for them, I will lend my tears to my God because He is faithful, and I live for and love Him alone. Dear Heavenly Father, as this school is on the move toward Your Kingdom, may the evil spirits within be gone by Your power. To the faithful prayer soldiers in this community, You will hear and answer their prayers and show Your glory in an incredible, indescribable way, and let ALL see that You are God.
In the name of Jesus Christ, our Savior, Amen.

I think every believer should be a
King David wannabe.

Who wouldn't want to be:

1) Good Looking (super good looking)
2) Riff on the G-Tar real mmmmmad
(That means plays many musical instruments)
3) Writes poems and songs every day
4) Beats down a frigging GIANT when he was very young!
(that's totally awesome)
5) Become the King of Israel
6) A true warrior that NEVER loses
7) The man after God's own heart

Um. For real. This is the man I want to become besides Jesus. I don't want to be an astronaut when I grow up, I want to be a giant killer! I want to be the second man after God's own heart. I want to be just like this dude King David (not the sinning part, of course lol)! I mean, David sinned yet he turned back to God and repented for what he's done. And then he started to flee from his son who was trying to kill him for the throne--and that's when all the intense song-writing came about.

Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength;
we will sing and praise Your might.
-Psalm 21:13-

I can feel like Jesus was praying to God with Psalm 22
when He was in Gethsemane.
It's a big & loud cry from David to the Lord.

I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
-Psalm 22:14-
This connected with Jeremiah 20:9, which I wrote yesterday. Bones are out of joint & heart has turned to wax--fire is out of the bones, going out.

For dominion belongs to the Lord
and He rules over the nations.
-Psalm 22:28-
This is from the mouth of a king!
Overall, Psalm 22 is one great cry!

Here's the most mentioned Psalm of history:
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
He leads me beside quiet waters,
He restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for His name's sake.
Even though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil, for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love(mercy) will follow me
all the days of my life, and I will
dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
-Psalm 23-

David, can you teach me how to write these awesome psalms? Holy Spirit would You come and be involved in my song-writing process just like You did with King David over 2,000 years ago! I want to restore the tent of David!

In that day I will restore David's fallen tent,
I will repair its broken places,
restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be...
-Amos 9:11-

Jesus I love You. Lead us not into temptations.
Restore David's tent on college campuses!

Johnny

ps. math midterm didn't go as well as I thought. it was soooooooo hard! Lord have mercy!

Thank You Jesus.

I was reading an article on LA Times last night--"A 2007 survey found that Americans still overwhelmingly identify with the major Christian religious groupings." And guess what? I read Joy's blog and her new post is all about this article!!! XD....Lord You sure do put this issue in many's hearts.

75.2% of all Americans.
That's 3 out of every 4 people.

Are you as confused? Cuz as I am.
Let's do a little calculation, shall we?

So 75% of the entire US population(303 million people) identify themselves as Christians!
That's 303,000,000 x 75.2% = 227,856,000!

This survey really bothers me even though I don't think it is a biased article at all. The researchers are just doing their jobs--doing surveys. Yet the result is appalling, to me at least. If this survey is pretty right-on about the percentage of "Christians" in the US, then something is radically wrong.

Here's what I wrote on Impact's forum(I don't think it still exist now...I was trying very hard to find it) about an all school meeting back in my high school about this thing called "stepping in" or something like that. It was a big deal on campus. Basically when the category "Christian" came, I started to walk toward the middle. As I was walking, I saw almost half of the school moving toward the center. So I stopped walking. I was very confused. So I stood half way between the outside circle and the inside cluster, observing. Almost half of the school body was in that inner group! That's about 300 people! I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I can still feel that piercing pain through my heart. My heart couldn't stop aching for a couple days.

So this article totally brought the memory back, and a bit of the heartache too. Those who call themselves Christians yet have never taking up their crosses and follow Him are held accountable for what they said/wrote in the survey. It's not my place to judge; Him alone is the only One who judges. However, I feel God's heart breaking for those lost sheep & prodigal sons/daughters.

75.2%.....GOD!!!!! Even just half of them would not hide their true identities, a massive revival would totally arrive to this nation! Do you call yourself a Christian? If yes, then are you having an intimate relationship with God first? Are you willing to leave everything behind just to follow the Son? Are you compromised with the world right now or are you craving for the Truth to be revealed and Light to be shone in the darkness?

I don't know what to say, really, but to cry out.
To cry out day and night. GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you feel what I'm feeling, feel free to leave a comment.

My Lord, let those 75.2% proclaim this:
His word is in my heart like a fire,
a fire shut up in my bones.
I am weary of holding it in;
indeed, I cannot.
-Jeremiah 20:9-

Jesus, I plead Your blood
over my sins and the sins of my nation.

Johnny

ps. Worshipped with YOPP in front of the library today. It was awesome. Heaven opened up as we yelled out, "HE IS LOVE....HE IS LOVE....DO YOU HAVE LOVE?....HE IS LOVE!" I then shared Jeremiah 20:9 and Eddie started to sing the verse. Man was it awesome. So I took out my Mac and we recorded our worship for 21 minutes. Pretty sweet. I love worshiping and singing freely with Eddie, Speach, Maritha, Grace, and Jon. These are crazy lovers of Jesus with bones on fire! Anyhow, Tess(one of the people I prayed for last Thursday) passed by and said hi to me and said she like our open-air worship! Too bad she had to go somewhere, oh well. God is GOOD! Come on!

pps. Tonight during YOPP everyone wrote on the board names of the professors and faculty and we all prayed for their salvation and divine encounter with the Lord, especially our chancellor Maryn Anne Fox and this physics prof Fred Driscoll(I mentioned him a couple times). Lord I ask You to give them dreams and reveal Yourself to them so that their lives will never be the same once they encounter You! Thank You Jesus! We love You! YOPP was firey tonight. We were all crying out once again to God that He would shake the foundation of Humanism on this campus and destroy the Tower of Babel(Men trying to become God or think that they are, in fact, gods) right here on this campus!!

Thank You Lord. I come before You and ask for Your mercy and grace over me again as I haven't been focusing much on You today. Yet now I come before You with my heart opened up and ask You to break it and shake it. It's really hard to stay focused on studying...Lord I need You now. At least I've done some part of my group project, we're going to finish(most of it) tomorrow.
Still need to study for my math midterm Wed night!

Hung out with Jeff for like an hour, he shared with me how his friend Aaron called him today and showed interest in coming to Impact this Sunday out of a blue! Jeff was really surprised and all he could do is to praise God =)....God You work amazing things when we pray and believe that You do all thing well! And Vicky, his friend from Occidental College, told him that she really enjoyed Impact this past Sunday and she love to worship God! Jeff, keep on pressing in and don't give up, dude.

I feel like God's been attracting many newcomers during this past month! Thank You Lord and I pray that each one of them would be changed when they have a incredible encounter with You and want to take up that cross and follow You! Lord I pray that wherever those people will be, they would have yearning hearts to know more and start building kingdoms for Your coming! These are the next leaders and we (the leaders right now) gotta follow our vision and start going after the ENCOUNTER - DISCIPLE - SEND actions! Enpowering the next generation is such an important thing to do and we gotta start right now (I think I've said something like this already, but it's so important!)! And I'm just starting to go after that vision, gotta admit. But since the beginning of this year I've understood more and more about our vision and WHY we CAN'T WAIT any longer to do what we're called to do as bodies of Christ!

-Verses & Thoughts-

Jacob's Ladder -Genesis 28:10~22-:
One of the famous stories of Jacob and of the old Testament. It goes something like this: God gave Jacob a dream. In the dream he saw a stiarway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. And God made the same covenant that He made with Jacob's father Abraham & Issac.

I don't know whether this is from the Holy Spirit to me, but I see this image like this:
Jacob's Ladder represents the Cross. Jacob's Ladder connects heaven & earth together and connects the two--that men connect with the angels. Same thing for the cross--a bridge for men to enter eternity once again, to get connected with heaven through the blood shed on the cross.
Angels ascending and descending represent Jesus Christ. If the angels "descend" first and the "ascend", I would've put this as Jesus came as a baby and then risen from the dead 3 days after the crucifixtion. But NO. Ascending comes before descending. I see this in the context of end-time. That means Jesus has "ascended" to heaven, and then He will "descend" AGAIN. Phew. I don't know whether this is from the Spirit, but if it stirs your heart, feel free to make a comment and check out the story.

Here's God's promise to Jacob:
I am with you and will watch over you
wherever you go, and I will
bring you back to this land(where Jacob dreamed).
I will not leave you until I have done
what I have promised you.
-Genesis 28:15-
I like God's promise very much because basically He's saying that He's always with us in another way. His promises are still yet to be fulfilled! And those promises are unfailing! Because He hasn't finished doing what He's promised us (live with Him for eternity), He's not leaving us. Not even one step. That's the last thing He would do--leave us. Thank You for Your Holy Spirit =)

Jacob's Well - Genesis 29
I don't think this is the Jacob's Well mentioned in John 4. However Jacob did use the well! I have a question about verse 3. Is there a symbolic meaning to that verse in some way? Cuz I'm not really familiar with watering sheeps (obviously), don't even mention about getting water from a well! Please if someone who has some explanation to this, do share!

Another question(verse 11): Why did Jacob weep? Am I missing something? Or was Jacob just trying to get Rachel's attention and sympathy because he found his true love? Our of a blue, "Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud." Give me a break. I don't think anyone would start crying like a baby after his first kiss!...lol...weirdo.

Genesis 30 - 11 Tribes of Israel
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali,
Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph
The 12th - Benjamin (Genesis 35)

Genesis 31
Question: Why did Rachel steal the gods from her father's home before she left with Jacob? Because that's her past and she cannot let go? What happened to Rachel in the end? Did she get cursed or anything? Or she wanted the most valuable thing from her father's home?
-verse 19, 30~35-

Thank You Lord.
I want to love You and worship You.
I pray that You would help me to stay focus on school work for the entire day tomorrow and Wednesday! I Want to do well in all my classes!
Lord I also pray that You would guard my heart!
I want to be in constant worship/prayer mode!

Johnny

ps. Praise the Lord! He has mercy and blessings over my hard work of 13 hours last Thursday/Friday paper chaos! My TA told me that I did a great job on my paper and she actually showed it to other TAs! Woah. Lord I praise You and give the glory to You =)...I thought my paper was okay, yet nothing, NOTHING can stop Your favor!

pps. I was playing this VERY addicting game called Portal. Um...I don't recommend you to play it(cuz it's really addictive) but it's cool to give it a try. You gotta use your brain quite a lot. I finished all 40 levels today....hmm....it gets really hard in the end.

Not really truck-loaded, but quite a bit...
I've got to start this group project tomorrow due Wed
and study for my math midterm on Wednesday night.

So that's about my life before me besides encountering God!

I really don't wanna share much today. Giving myself a little break and give all the faithful readers a break too from all my yapping and yopping(got the pun?...YOPPing)....

Got prophesied over by Pastor Liu(right? is that his last name?). He is such a man of prayer that he actually saw Jesus!! Just imagine how much time he's been spending on prayers!

Anyhow he said these things over me:
1. A wall of bamboo has been cut down by God--many worries and troubles are dealted with by the Lord in my life (aka driver's licence...etc.)
2. Playing video game before God like a kid (Try to do less the useless things aka hanging out with Jeff...lol j/k...aka surfing online mindlessly, I think. I've been doing that quite a bit eh...thank You Lord for Your reminder!).
3. God would bless me in my school work and help me through studying (this is a complete AMEN. Lord I reall do need Your help and guidance!).
4. Potential. God will take me to a place where I can ever imagine and put me in a position that's beyond my imagination.
5. A positive influence & a model for those around me (that's my prayer too, thank You Lord).

Pastor David was on the dot with his kingdom-building message:
.com / .gov / .edu
Three areas that Jesus' gonna reign and rule and take control over when He comes. And we gonna start building the kingdom on the rock so that when He comes, He can take what we've built and perfect them during the 1,000 years when the heavens meet earth.

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It was more than a joy to hang out with our beloved Mark and Debbie Hendrickson yet again. They are still rolling and rocking all over the nation and the globe! I love them! They came to San Diego to visit some friends and will be leaving Tuesday for KC. So Jack, Annie, and I went to downtown San Diego and hang out with them over dinner. Hanging out with them is like....man.....it's too hard to describe in words, for real. I feel really peaceful and calm and filled by the Spirit when I hang out with these two amazing, AMAZING, anointed servants of the Lord. It's like when I hang out with them, the storms within me are suddenly calmed. I'm just so blessed to have known them. Thanks Annie for your connection with Luke! Mark shared yet again so many heart-felt stories & testimonies that totally stirred our hearts up, and I was so encouraged simply by sharing with them a little of my life and hearing from them some more stories! During dinner I was just thinking how I should write about our meeting tonight on my blog, and this is my answer: I don't know how.

I simply cannot put the meeting tonight in words. Sometime you just have this amazing meeting yet you can't put it in words? Ya, that's one of those. Being with them, I can feel the presence of the Lord right there. And before we parted, Mark prayed blessings over us, and I started to tear up without no reason but to feel the peace in Mark's voice.

****IMPORTANT****
This is from Mark to those who went to summer camp: Do you still remember about the on-ramps?
Since the end of August, what are some of your personal on-ramps onto the highway of the Lord? Please be ready to share during that weekend about the on-ramps that you've used to bring comfort, peace, joy. What are the things that tenderize your heart and bring tears to your eyes? Be prepared to share!!
****MUST READ****

So Mark & Debbie(and hopefully the rest of the family--Luke, John, and Lydia) will be here during the first weekend of April! I am super excited to have them come back and share, encourage, and impart some of those oil anointing to us! Lord I really want the walk with an aura of Your Holy Spirit around me!

I'm still overwhelmed. God You're amazing.
Impact's so blessed to know the Hendricksons!

Jesus I love You.
Thank You for showing up today,
and thank Your for Mark & Debbie!

Johnny

ps. I lost my green highlighter.
Did someone pick it up at church today?

pps. I just found out that I have another draft due March 5, a week from Wednesday. I don't know why but I've never seen such a prompt in my entire life.....what can I say....oh well....I really need to get some reading done and stuff.....please pray for my studying!

ppps. I love how Jesus deal with our troubles:
Two blind men were yelling and crying out, "Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!" I mean, Jesus stopped (which was awesome). Yet this is what He said to them:
"What do you want me to do for you?"--in other words...
"eeeeehhhhh,....mmm...what's up, doc? (carrot cracks)"
Jesus has done this so many times--to ask those who are desperate to be sure of what they need EXACTLY. He's not trying to make fun of those two blind men or play deaf with them. He's testing the level of their faith by asking them "What can I do for you? You asked me to have mercy on you but what is it that you would like me to do?"
That's what Jesus would ask you when you cry out for help.
"Lord, we want our sight," they answered
-Matthew 20:29~34-
What exactly do you want from Him?

If you believe, you will receive
WHATEVER you ask for in prayer.
-Matthew 21:22-
Hold on to His unfailing promise and believe that miracles and divine encounters WILL happen around you!

For many are invited, but few are chosen.
-Matthew 22:14-
Go read the parable.

Have you not read what God said to you,
"I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"?
He is not the God of the dead but of the living.
-Matthew 22:32-
Just thought this is very true and interesting.
We are going to live forever!

The law that is superior than the 10 commandments-
-Matthew 22:37~40-
You all know this. But I'm really trying to hold on to this as the basis of EVERYTHING I do. Lord help me to walk in Love!

I'm going to let my friend Ryan Holly share this testimony, that I would never forget, happened just a month ago. I have tears in my eyes. Joyful tears from the Lord. By the way, I met Ryan at Love Tent and he's right now studying at a film school in LA. I sent him a email to say hi and here's what he wrote me back. It's powerful and beautiful. Lord I love Your timing and Your love.
******Here's his story******
here is a humble testimony for you: my dad died on February third and below is the testimony the Holy Spirit wrote through me about my dad...before this letter my dad was not a professing Christian...

January 28, 2008
hey i hope and pray that you are having a revolutionary evening!

i just wanted to thank you for praying for my dad...Through God's abundant provision of grace (Romans 5:17) i was able to return to oklahoma last weekend. my dad slept through most of the weekend so i shifted from running errands for my mom to praying at my dad's feet, earnestly hoping that God would reveal himself to my dad in a dream.

my flight was scheduled to depart at 6:30 on monday night. my mom was away for most of the day, visiting family that had flown in from Pennsylvania. my brother was at school. i set up camp in the living room to make sure i was near my dad in case he needed anything. while he was sleeping i wrote the "reflective metaphor" below. in our "Theology in Hollywood" course our professor assigned this so that we could explore our current state in life through utilization of the metaphor. i chose to relate myself to a flame first only to a three legged donkey with cataracts and no teeth due to my pathetic and clumsy nature. i share this humble work with you because of the supernatural hand of God in it. it has nothing to do with me. if you scan through it, you will notice my dream through melted wax of my dad seeing the light of our Lord. immediately after scribbling these words through my flawed hands, my dad awoke and sat up on his bed. my dad woke up thirty minutes before i needed to depart for the airport.

my dad's bed briefly became my own as i planted my wretched flesh on it. we were sitting side by side; we were both seeking life amidst the plaguing death of cancer. i asked my dad if he needed anything and then he weakly pointed to the water and succinctly replied "i have water." my next question: "what have you been thinking about lately?" he miserably shook his head and responded with a broken voice: "i, i, i don't know." i paused and resorted to prayer in search for the words to say to illuminate the healing truths of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ into my dad's heart. so then a nearly two minute monologue flowed through my mouth that i didn't have much control over - i shared with my dad how much i love him, how much God loves him and how his memory will always exist in our hearts. i mentioned the fact that he was baptized in his twenties but now we all need to achieve the peace and confidence of knowing for sure that he will unite with us in heaven. i asked him to pray with me. and he did! this is the prayer that he repeated after me:

Dear Father God, Thank you for this life. Thank you for the peace of eternal life. i have sinned but am justified by your grace. i believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and i confess that you raised Him from the dead.
Amen.

Instantly after the prayer, my dad's eyes welled up with tears of joy, peace and hope. we hugged and then i exited his bedroom to share this extraordinary rebirth with my mom and brother. my mom and dad have been married for 26 years and throughout these years they have had a spiritual division between them because of my dad's avoidance of spirituality. tears of relief, peace and joy also flooded from my mom's eyes when she heard of God's amazing grace being iridescently manifest in my dad's heart.

The dream evolved into reality, i took off monday night for LA and my soul was finally vindicated from the chains of my dad's spiritual uncertainty.

sorry this is so long. i just passionately hope that you are inspired by God's amazing grace. we sing the hymn but rarely search for it in our fallen world. He is the match that lights each candle and despite the suffocating darkness there is always an illuminating fire beyond the shadow of death. thanks again for your prayers. Let us sincerely come together in the name of our Lord so that through our humble peititions His presence may pierce through the dark and crippling oppression of this world. (Matthew 18:19-20)...

i love you and hope that you continue to seek the light regardless of how dark this world gets...let us humble ourselves as we become "joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer." (Romans 12:12) it may take 2 years for God to definitively answer our prayers or it may take 26 - the time in between answered prayers is not important. what is important is our faith during these periods so that others may be encouraged by witnessing us living by faith instead of by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7)...

may God's grace and peace overflow through you...
in Love & Sincerity,
ryan s. holly
John 3:21

*****And here's Ryan's essay*****
Ryan S. Holly
January 28, 2008
Theology in Hollywood

Reflective Metaphor

A restless flame flickers atop a candlestick. The flame is extraordinary not because of itself but because of the One who inspired its ignition. The flame dances incessantly in the jungle of darkness. This jungle of darkness is a “shadow of death” (Psalm 23:4) that encompasses the flame in an oppressive onslaught of oblivion.

The radiant flame reflects the incandescent luminosity of its Creator because of its passion to honor its divine role of being “the light of this world.” (Matthew 5:14) The flame continues to journey along the narrow wick of the candlestick as a tight-rope walker vigilantly creeps from chasm to chasm. “Narrow is the road that leads to life” (Matthew 7:14) and the flame travels along the wick not only for the sake of its own life but more importantly for the sake of others who may be vindicated from the darkness of death. The flame does not fear death because the “Resurrection and the Life” (John 11:25) has already conquered the darkness of this world. (John 16:33) Just as the Resurrection and the Life tore down the dividing wall of hostility that separated humankind from God, the humble flame fervently yearns to burn through the cold door that divides humans from the illuminating Holy Spirit.

The flame cannot coerce others to knock on the cold door. This door is always unlocked and is always accessible by way of a knob. People fear to turn the knob or even to knock on the door because they cannot see past the door. The flame continues to burn in hope that more people will be able to see light flood through the cracks of the door.

The flame dreams in melted wax. A vision appears through the melted wax: it is of a man entering through the cold door. He is glowingly followed by the permeation of light. His spirit is healed by the warmth that was sparked by the Resurrection and the life and is flowing freely through the flame. The man falls in blissful silence only to ascend in the form of an iridescent phoenix.

Burnt ashes are all that the flame can see now. The flame has persevered to the end of the wick and the destination of life supersedes the journey through death. The flame is home – in eternal light.An incandescent flame,Burning to glorify God’s name.

Darkness surrounds me,
The shadow of death is what I see.

The knob turns, the dividing wall cracks, light permeates.
A healed spirit my Lord creates.

I travel the narrow wick to meet my architect,
From melted wax and burnt ashes I shall resurrect

The flame is my soul
The candlestick is my flesh
The One who inspired the flame is the Lord God
The wick is the will of God: the narrow road
The darkness is the satanic influences
of selfishness, pride and greed on this world
The man is my dad

may God's grace and peace overflow through you...
in Love & Sincerity,
ryan s holly
John 3:21
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Lord I pray for Ryan right now that you would use him and his faith as huge as a mustard seed to bring positive, life-changing impact to his film school! Send your army forth! Open up the gates and let Your glory cover the earth as the waters cover the sea!

And I love the Lord's timing!
Jesus, how You love each one of us!

Johnny

ps. Some awesome verses:
Let no debt remain outstanding,
except the continuing debt to love one another,
for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.
-Roman 13:8-
You can't get simpler than that even though it's the hardest and the only law from the Lord! We can definitely love with the Love of God when we ask for His heart not our own!

If we live, we live to the Lord;
and if we die, we die to the Lord.
So, whether we live or die,
we belong to the Lord.
For this very reason,
Christ died and returned to life
so that He might be the Lord of
both dead and the living.
-Romans 14:8~9-
Isn't that true, interesting, and awesome?

...everything that does not come from faith is sin.
-Romans 14:23-
A heavy one and keeps me thinking how many times my faith has been shaken and tested and how I reacted to the tests. When were the times when I did not walk in faith? Lord I do not remember that clearly but please forgive my disbelief in You. I want to trust in You at all times! Thank You Lord.

Someone once asked this preacher, full of doubt,
“If Jesus says that He’s coming again,
then why hasn’t He come yet?”
By then, the preacher was simply balling,
with tears all over, and she cried out,
“It's by God’s mercy that He hasn’t come yet!!”
Then silence came. There was no reply. The words were straight from above. The Truth is revealed once again to this world refused to believe.

Wake up, world!!!!
God is love and God is justice.
We need to grasp this idea that when Jesus comes, there will be war, and then peace will come. You know, I remembered that yesterday I asked a girl, “Can I offer you a prayer?” And she said, “You can pray for world peace,” and walked on.

There’s only one Way to have world peace.
That is—after the Lord shakes what can be shaken and breaks what can be broken—to destroy sand castles, humanism, and fake ideologies of this world that cannot stand firm. When the snake’s head is crushed and the New Jerusalem is established, true peace will come(Revelation 21).

To those with fear,
“Be strong, do not fear;
Your God will come,
He will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution
He will come to save you.”
Then will the eyes of the blind opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer
and the mute tongue shout for joy.
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
-Isaiah 35:5~6-

A highway will be there;
It will be called the Way of Holiness.
-Isaiah 35:8-

I like stories of the kings, and Hezekiah is definitely one of my favorite kings of history. He’s in Isaiah 36~39, and 2 Kings 18~20. He’s definitely a king who is in constant prayer for his land. He wept and wept and wept. God gave him another 15 years to live because of his fervent prayer! That’s crrrazy. Hezekiah is definitely one of the epitomes of weepers of the Lord.

This is what the Lord, the God of your father David, says:
I have heard your prayer and seen your tears.
I will heal you.
-2 Kings 20:5 / Isaiah 38:5-

Prayers + Tears = Healing <--God's formula.
Thank You Lord for bringing Jeff and me back to Arcadia safely! We love You so much!!
What else can I say besides I love You?
It's by Your grace that we are saved.
And it's by Your mercy that we are not yet destroyed.

Johnny

ATTENTION: THIS IS THE LONGEST POST(so far)

So far I feel quite well! Thank You Lord.
Haven't slept cuz I started working on my paper at 12 last night until just now I turned my paper in and had some food(finally!) I had 2 Starbucks' doubleshot espresso @ 4am & 7am. They work pretty well eh! And I was like a water-chugging champion over the night: I bottomed the big Arrowhead water jug(there were about 4 liters and I just kept on chugging). I think water is the most important thing if you ever want to pull an all-nighter and still feel energetic(I mean you definitely would need some caffeine too)! So that's the past 15 hours: working on my paper! Oh Lord, I pray that I can get a better grade on this paper than my last one!

Here's what happened BEFORE I started my paper:

Snake Head
Again, awesome. Grace sent a long message to 24/7 prayer soldiers about what's on her heart and her burdens. I was reading that the night before and again this morning, and my heart was stirred up.
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Here's what she wrote, and I believe that this is the core thing to start going after, dear college goers:
This is weighing heavily on my heart:
CONTEND FOR THE TODAY ENCOUNTER.
Refuse to settle for the encounters of yesterday, the experiences, the mountaintops of yesterday. CONTEND that today you would encounter the living God. I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

WAIT FOR THE LORD.
BE STRONG AND TAKE HEART
AND WAIT FOR THE LORD.

Seek him today with zeal. today, today, today.
we're alive today,
seek him and contend for the today encounter.
HUNGER is the currency of Heaven.
I exhort you, push away the things that satisfy us and allow the painful hunger for the things of God come forth inside of you. Heaven looks for hunger. Heaven seeks after hunger, and pours into those who hunger and thirst.

Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
-Isaiah 55:2-

Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
-Luke 6:21-

Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
-Matthew 5:6-

He's looking for the hungry.
Hunger is our meal ticket,
the thing that will buy us the things of God.
It's not just a day.
It's today that we will encounter the living God.
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Someone posted a question for me:
give us some pointers for campus revival.
i feel like we really need to step up our game,
but we're not doing anything.
any suggestions on how to start?

My answer for you:
There, Grace said it all.
We can't give what we haven't received.
And I urge all of you on campus to have a heart that longs for blessings and anointing to a point that you even want to "steal" other people's anointing. This happened to Esau, whose blessings were completely stolen by his brother Jacob(later Israel) because Jacob CONTENDED for the 1)Birthright and 2)Generation blessing. I wrote about this here a couple days ago.
Are you CONTENDING for every chance to encounter God on campus? How hungry are you? If you're not hungry, then why should you be filled up? And if you are hungry, WHAT are you hungry for, then? Start seeking what it is that He wants you to do for your campuses.
If you want to start going out and praying for people, GO DO IT! If you want to start a cell group on campus, GO DO IT! If you want to preach His kingdom in public, GO DO IT!
The more you do, the more you will received because of your contending heart for revival to come upon your campuses. Don't forget the greatest commandment: LOVE the Lord & LOVE your neightbors--this ALWAYS comes first. I guess what I'm going to share next might answer some of these qustions.
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If you read my blog yesterday, you would see, in orange, that YOPP's putting up those crazy big signs CAN WE PRAY FOR YOU? FREE SPIRITUAL READING & DREAM INTERPRETATION. So there we were, on the library walk. From 12~3:30 we were right there, amp'ed up with guitar & mic for open-air worship, and I was holding up the Can We Pray For You? God Answers Prayer! sign right there while William(aka Speech) was holding up the dream interpretation sign(he has the gift of interpreting dreams!). I was so excited to do this, and I expected so much of His presence there; moreover we've got live worship there to invite His throne down right there in the middle of Library walk.

I basically did this:
1) Held the sign up
2) SMILE BIG!
(This is the most important part)
3) "Can I offer you a prayer?"
No - "Bless you!"
Yes - "How can I pray for you?"

That big sign is from the Lord. He draws people to His presence. He makes people to pay attention to these 8, 9 people offering prayers to the entire campus. I was so encouraged to see how many people actually smiled back! When people started to read the sign, they would just see me smiling, and most of them smiled back! And then I would take the next step when they looked at me.

For 3.5 hours on library walk with that sign on, guess how many people I prayed for?
I didn't keep count, but I think I prayed for definitely more than 15, if not 20 people in that 3.5 hours! God just kept on preparing people who are hungry for prayers. This girl at first said, "it's okay, thank you," and then suddenly said, "actually yeah I have a request." The next thing I knew, she was balling over her roommate who is facing a relationship and emotional struggle. She loves her roommate very much and what she wants the most is to see her roommate's life be completely transformed by the power of God! So I asked Grace to give that girl a hug even though they don't know each other. God's presence was right there on the campus as we were singing out loud praising the Lord shouting out "He loves us, oh how he loves us, oh how he loves us!!!"

I've never felt something as crazy as this:
Praying for people became more addictive as I kept on pressing in and believe that there MUST BE someone who's hungry for God!

Here are some of the people I prayed for:
Steven & Kevin(school work & midterm)
Jomo(traveling to North Cal)
Tess(guidance from the Lord--she's a freshman!!praise the Lord!!God draw more and more freshmen who are completely hungry for You and contending for revival!)
Daniel(finance/family/school)
Tiffany(left knee-skateboard...I was excited to pray for her because my left knee has been healing!)
Brad(the first person I prayed for. I saw him while we were setting up so I immediately walked over and had a talk with him and prayed for his ankle. he's a believer and super cool. he was heading to class or I would've talked to him more!)
Fionna(relationship restoration)
Kathy(relationship issue)
Two girls from Korean Campus Crusade(they were actually witnessing around campus so Gordon and I prayed for them!)
Asian guy(forgot his name!-fractured collar bone)
And many more whose names I did not record down. Lord I pray that you will bring comfort, healing, love, and fire to all those I smiled at and prayed for.

Guess what? I said hi to my math prof and my english prof as they passed by, and they were like...."uh....hi." I mean I shook hand with them and their faces were kinda AWKWARD XD....Lord I ask that You would stir up my professors' hearts with that handshake.
Moreover, I saw the girl I prayed for on Dec. 15!! Go read the post that day if you wanna know what happened! Anyhow she's walking perfectly right now and she's still a really cool person with a positive attitude, and again I pray, Lord, that You would draw her close to You! I'm so encouraged!
And, of course, we've got 3 speakers set up right there with live worship. And tell me that God's not gonna come when we bring the Love Tent inside out! Come on!
It's Love Tent without the Tent. It's LOVE.

God I just can't get enough of You!
I'll totally share some of it this Sunday!
Lord it's so good to be Your witness!

This is the verse of the day:
Be on your guard;
stand firm in the faith;
be men of courage; be strong.
Do everything in love.
You know that the household of Stephanas...
have addicted themselves
to the ministry of the saints.
I urge you, brothers, to submit to such as these
and to everyone who joins in the work,
and labors at it.
-1 Corinthians 16:13~16-
(NIV, italic/bold in KJV)

So I got back and took a good nap and woke up at 8, went to 24/7 prayer meeting. There were 14 people there(including the Holy Spirit!). Jon played the guitar again(he played so many Misty's new songs!), and I loved it cause I could just feel the room filled with His presence! We prayed for students, professors, and even classes that bashes God and Christ--how we want to see the true Word of God being taught during English class as the Truth, not as myths. We again prayed for signs and wonders to happen everywhere on campus, and I read Matthew 10:8--this is the first things that Jesus told the 12 disciples to do when He first sent them out in pairs!

Preach His Kingdom, Heal the sick.
Freely receive, freely give.
-Matthew 10:7~8 / Luke 9:1~2 / Mark 6:7-

I felt unity during that prayer meeting, and it is when we speak the same language and have the same vision that nothing is impossible for us to accomplish, then what would happen is we also have the power of the Lord with us? Kaboom indeed.
After the prayer meeting walked with Brian to his bike and met up with Jeff(he went to Gospel choir) at the same time, and a crazy testimony was yet to explode:
Guess what? Brian actually prayed for Jeff way back in November and Jeff actually shared it with me on Dec 4, our first meeting! So basically God used Brian to pray for Jeff, and let me meet Brian, and then let me meet Jeff and led him to Christ. It's all a crazy puzzle that God's done(of course it's not a puzzle to him!). Lord You are so awesome. And tonight we three are together--tonight's the first time that Brian and Jeff met since November! Isn't that crazy??? Anyhow I bet Jeff's got that in his blog. But that's what's going on last night after 24/7. God' still moving and stirring our hearts up....crazyyyyy =)
So I encouraged Jeff, who prayed for two people on library walk, that his prayers would not be in vain but be in those people's heart and one day they have a huge encounter with the Lord, they would remember that some guy prayed for them on library walk that day! Just like what he did to Brian! Come on! Lord thank You for this small yet awesome world. I totally forgot Jeff telling me that a guy named Brian prayed for him. I remembered very clearly that I told Jeff, "I know which Brian you're talking about! I know him!"
However, God let me forget about it and set up this amazing meeting =) Brian was completely encouraged and actually sent this testimony to all his friends XD So twas a super amazing night.

Oh God, I feel like I've only had a tiny glimpse of Your Kingdom! I desire more! I'm addicted to praying for people! I just want to set a time apart and take up that cross and that sign to follow You and serve my campus!
Love You Lord.
Come be the fire inside of me.

Johnny

Because my laptop is acting like a retard...whatever I type would appear 10 seconds later. Anyhow, today was quite amazing cuz I really expected something to happen tonight at that house church meeting. I went to that meeting with Brian and John Bracht(the debater dude who's totally awesome). That meeting was totally Spirit-filled. And the people there were extremely nice and friendly--all the brothers and sisters in Christ, ya know =) It's a place where the Spirit flows free and everyone was worshiping in different styles--even flags! The house is owned by Jean and Peter, an art professor and an engineer for a water company. They are in their late 40s and have been loving the Lord for years! Jean does prophetic arts(and she is a Chinese from the Philippines, so she writes some Chinese calligraphy on her artworks too. Most amazing thing is that she speaks Taiwanese(actually from Ming-Nan in Fu-Chien providence)!) The guest speakers Carol & Bill Dew have been doing healing/signs & wonders ministries for over 15 years mainly in California and they were basically sharing all these crazy stories of healing! I was totally excited and filled up by the Spirit once again when I hear more testimonies--I want to experience something like what Bill was saying: pray for a person and have the person's arm grow or something like that! Lord I ask for crazy miracles to come upon UCSD as tomorrow we are going to Library Walk and put up a "Free Prayer, dream interpretation, and spiritual reading" sign. Lord as long as we've got You, we're all set to rock and shake this school in Your power! Thank You Lord I love You.
So tonight everyone there at the house church was praying for anyone who's been having pain of any sort. So some people laid their hands on my left knee and prayed for healing. For the entire time I felt the Holy Spirit in this room working, and my knee actually wasn't hurting when I tried to move it! However the pain came back when I left the house XD....totally crazy. There's healing in God's presence ya? Lord I believe that You will use Your own amazing timing to heal this knee. I don't know when and how, but I'm still gonna keep on praying for a miracle for my knee!
Anyhow, I met this guy Braden who used to do music recording & production for a living so I got to asking some questions about recording and all that good stuff. This is his website if you wanna go check it out. Thank You Lord that You called me to this meeting to meet so many new people, especially adults!

[The sun] rises at one end of the heavens
and makes its circuit to the other;
nothing is hidden from its heat.
-Psalm 19:6-

Thank You Jesus.
Thank You Holy Spirit for tonight.
Love You!

Johnny

So there. I did it. From 10:30am to 10:30pm I didn't talk(besides 4 times which I slipped...uh..). It was crazily hard, so I decided to put over my mouth a red tape with the word LOVE written on it. It's amazing how everyone started to stare at me as if I'm some kind of weirdo(I mean I was lol). I was basically walking around campus with a red tape over my mouth, and it felt quite alright. And that really prevented me from talking since I was determined to do this challenge. People were asking me why I wasn't talking and had a tape over my mouth. At first I did not know why, but after putting that LOVE tape on, I realized why: to pray for the love of God to come upon this campus. I actually enjoyed the 12 hours of not talking; quite interesting and I might just do it again sometime in the future!
Today YOPP was at Price Center again with amplification at around 1, and Eddie started to read some scripture and preach at about 1:55, and then we were told to shut down the amp at 2. So at 2 Eddie gathered us and said, "let's pray." All gathered yet only Eddie was praying, after that he started to share with us with heart opened how he didn't feel us together and he couldn't do out and fight alone. We then all shared why we didn't really pray out loud or be in agreement with Eddie and backing him up with prayers as he was preaching the Word. We all felt the same burden at the same time, and we again asked God to intervene and stir our hearts up as one. Then Victor stepped out and started to preach unplugged. Man I just felt the Spirit of the Lord right there and I was just praying inside in agreement with what Victor's telling those people eating, chilling, and doing homework--What are you building your life on? Anyhow, today was something different yet unforgettable.
If one person's dropping out, the entire crew is being effected. That's how much our actions affect the spiritual realm.
Hung out with Jeff at the library and I totally fell asleep for more than an hour. Anyhow, tonight Jeff went to YOPP with me and he stayed for about 20 minutes and left for his midterm. After wotship Eddie wanted to pray for all the worshippers here at YOPP(Jeff Wong, Grace, this other girl whose name I don't know, and myself). He said something about struggling with worship or something like that when he was praying over us, and tears started to well up in my eyes. As you know, I've been wanting for a breakthrough in my personal worship with the Lord and also in my worship leading for over a month now. Moreover Eddie then prayed for me especially and how he sees me worshiping on campus. I mean, this might be the next step of God's plan for me here at UCSD, who knows? Lord I ask You to give me confirmations about whether it's Your plan for me to start worship in public. If it is, I believe that You would provide me with a keyboard--a sign from you, then I'm walking on this path. Harp & Bowl. You've called me to pray. And I've been praying for this school. Is worship what You want me to do next alongside with prayer now? I mean they are never separated, yet I've been focusing on prayer more than worship since the beginning of the school year. Lord once again I ask for confirmation regarding to leading worship and open-air worship on campus.

So when Eddie was praying for me, I couldn't stop crying. I didn't really expect to cry, yet it happened. Lord I want to go to another level in worship with You! I don't know how but I'm willing to learn--not only the "man-made" rules about worship but also the flow of Your Holy Spirit. I love You Lord. I really do. I'd rather die for You than anything else.

Judges 7 - The REAL 300
The Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands..."
-Judges 7:7-

The 300 spartans died, yet the 300 of Gideon's army defeated their enemy. This is yet another famous Old Testament story. If you have a heart to fight for God and be in the "elite" army of 300, you gotta be alert and stay poised at all time, because you never know when and where the enemy's gonna pop out in your life to mess with you.
Two things to do:
1) Put on those armors (Galatians 5)
2) Stay alert & be ready for anything (Judges 7:6)

Just like what Eddie was talking about tonight--how he just want the best of the 300, the best who are constantly burning with desire for more of Him and not the rest 31,700 soldiers who are just chilling. That's how God pick His soldiers. He can use 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish to feed the five thousand; he surely can use just 10 faithful servants to start a revolution on a college campus because they want to go in depth and swim against the current!

That's that.
I'm really in need of sleep.
Thank You Lord.

Go check out Ezekiel 3:17~18 & 33:7~8--
If we do not tell the world of the coming wrath, the blood is on our hands. We need to be one voice, and if we are silent, we are guilty.
Jesus is the coming wrath: Matthew 3:7
Ezekiel 4: we need to start laying on our side and asking God for creative ways to prophesy over this campus. We need the wisdom of God to teach us new ways. We gotta tie ourselves with the burden of humanism and abortion. And we need to ask God to reveal His plan for this campus so that we can CLEARLY prophesy AGAINST humanism.

This is the verse of YOPP:
Our Father, who are in heaven,
hollow be Your name.
Your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.
We won't stop praying this verse until we really see the fulness of His justice and righteousness to fall upon this land because we're here not just for the school, but for the nation.

And we want these 4 things to happen on this campus NORMALLY and CONSTANTLY:
Salvation - Baptism - Holy Spirit - Supernatural
It can take 5 years or just 5 minutes for a person to have a supernatural encouner! And that's what we desire to see on this campus. We gotta go and do it in the book of Acts.

Lord, I love You.
Come and shake what can be shaken in me!

Johnny

ps. I'm going to the meeting tomorrow night for Eddie has been talking about walking in the supernatural for the entire day. I expect something crazy to happen at that meeting tomorrow! It's gonna be something crazy!