Treasure Hunt 6-24-11

OK so it’s been awhile since I recorded anything about treasure hunts, etc. I’m thinking I need to re-start writing down testimonies and sharing them again...

So today I just decided to do a quick Treasure Hunt after lunch. Took my list to “WalMart,” the location I had written on my treasure map. Walked in the door, got to about the third checkout aisle, and found the first treasure on my list.

First Clue: “couple with stroller—25-30y.o., man has a black shirt, girl has a white shirt.”

I also had the clue “Giants” in my unusual category, and the guy’s black shirt happened to be—yep, the SF Giants and said “Giants” really big on the front. I asked his name and he said it was Richard—I had “Rick” as the name on my list. This guy was tripping out! Anyway, neither of them had any need for healing, or anything else they could think of, so I just told them how much God loved them and how He wants to bless them, and really has His eyes on them and cares about every detail of their lives.

Next, I walked down about 5 checkout aisles and found my second treasure.

Clue: “girl with straight, shoulder length brown hair, black shirt, blue jeans, and black, low-top Vans.” Her name was Tara, and she said that she had been found as a treasure once before! Nice! So she was stoked and open. She was only in her early twenties, but has Diabetes, with an insulin administering thing attached to her body as we spoke. So she asked for prayer for that, and of course I ministered to her. Couldn’t check anything about diabetes on the spot, so just blessed her and continued on…

Then I walked to the back of the food section and found my next treasure.

Clue: “Guy with dark blue T-shirt with large white block letters on the front.”

His dark blue T-shirt said “AIR FORCE” across the front in white block letters. I talked to him a minute and when it came time to see what he needed prayer for, he said he had lower back pain—a 7 out of 10 on the pain scale—from a pinched nerve. I prayed and commanded healing to come. Saw no immediate breakthrough when he tested it out; and he was kind of in a hurry, so I didn’t want to keep pressing at the moment. Believing for God’s power to continue working in his body.

Praise God. 30 minutes and God showered His love on 3 people while I bought my Ziploc sandwich bags! Thank you Jesus.

Treasure Hunt 6-5-2009

Did a Treasure Hunt tonight with two other students from Bethel, Joy and Micha. We each took a few minutes with the Lord and wrote out our Treasure Maps separately. All three of us had “Target” and “Winco” (a local grocery store) as our locations, so we decided to go to both of them… Target first. Joy had “black baseball cap” on her list, and a man outside the front door had on a black baseball cap, so we approached him, explained what we were doing, and noticed he had a “dog” (also on Joy’s list) on the front of his shirt. It said “Big Dog” and Micha had “Big (something)” on her map. We prayed for him for diabetes and finances then he talked with us for about half an hour about his life and was moved to tears more than once that God had sent us to him. Afterward, he mentioned that his wife Tami also had high blood pressure. He was a Christian, so I reminded him of the Scripture in Mark 16 that says, “These signs will follow them that believe… they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.” I placed my hands on his hands and they got instantly hot. I asked him if he felt the heat and he said yes. I told him to go to his wife, put his hands on her and command her body to be healed in the Name of Jesus—He looked at his hands and said OK. We parted ways and went inside the store as he left to pray for his wife.

Did a loop halfway around the store and on my treasure map was, “girl, 20s, black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, long brown hair” We found her with her fiancé, registering for wedding gifts next to the “dog” food. I was a bit slow to approach, but also on my map I wrote “S.F.” (San Francisco); and on second look I noticed that it said “San Francisco” on the front of her sweatshirt. Their names were Ross and Heather. We told her what we were doing, and as I told her how God had sent us to her, showed her the list, and how much God loved her, she got all teary-eyed and very touched. We were able to pray for their marriage and future family, and they were very blessed and encouraged.

We left and went to Winco grocery store. We walked through the store and found a man with a “black baseball cap” and… a “Big Dog” T-shirt!!! Amazing! He and his wife were already saved, and had been to Bethel and knew about Treasure Hunts, so it was easy. They said everything was well, but of course enjoyed God pouring out His love on them afresh, and the prayers and blessing on their marriage and son.

Joy had the odd word “deodorant” on her map, so we decided to go to the deodorant aisle and see what happened. We got there and there, AGAIN, was a “girl, 20s, black hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, long brown hair”!!! This was crazy!! We told her what we were doing and asked what she needed prayer for and she said she was on a “spiritual search” and wanted to know the right path, or something along those lines. She said that she was a Christian, but had been approached by some Mormons a couple of days ago, they gave her a book of Mormon. She said she’d read it and they said they’d be back in a few days to check up. I told her a few unbiblical beliefs that the Mormons had and we prayed for her to have wisdom and strength, etc. She thought is was pretty amazing that God had met her like this just when she was asking for His direction. What a “coincidence”, eh?

This Treasure Hunt was really interesting, in that that God gave all three of us the same two locations to go, and then we essentially found TWO PAIRS of basically identical people that matched our clues exactly… I’ve never seen that happen before, it was pretty amazing… I mean really, what are the odds?!"! God you are AWESOME! Seal the work that you are doing in each of their lives, and let the seeds that were planted or watered grow into much fruit in their lives, to Your glory!