High School Mission Trip: Lives Changed by Listening to God

How Lives Were Changed on a High School Mission Trip by Listening to God

Since listening prayer
is a core value of our ministry, we place a strong emphasis on discerning what God is saying  before we attempt
to meet a need. Because this group of students took time to do just that, lives were changed.

Coincidence? I don’t think so!
Until training camp, I had never heard of “ATLs.” ATL stands for “Ask
The Lord,” and it means [that you] ask the Lord and wait for an answer.
I don’t know about you, but I was a little skeptical about this.

 

I went into ATL day, praying that God would help me hear Him and
that I would be positive.
After listening to some ATL “pointers”, our team prayed for about 30
minutes and wrote down anything we thought God said. We had everything
from “tires” to “pizza” to a “Trident.”

 

After praying for guidance, we set off to figure out what God
had planned for us. I think we were all a little excited and really
nervous. We found many of the things on our list (including a man to
pray for near a tire pile and a group of kids to share Trident brand gum
with while witnessing!) and prayed for lots of people. However, I
still kind of felt that these were coincidences.

 

But then, two little boys came up to us and asked us to buy them pizza.

 

This was crazy, because, while praying I had “seen” pizza. We
had just laughed it off and said it was my stomach talking. Obviously
not! So we ordered a pizza and spent the time it took to cook sharing
Christ with the little boys, one of whom turned out to be a believer.
It was so fun!

 

I believed in talking and listening to God before, but now I
believe that He really does talk to us every day. We just have to want
to hear and listen!