Texas Trip

My trip has been daily conversations that have been soaked with the presence of the Lord.
One of my friends in Dallas that was with me during my drug years has been hanging out with me and asking tons of questions. I have been blown away how the Lord is opening doors to minister to him.

Another friend of mine that is going through a real tough time in a custody battle of his 4yo little girl (she is an angel), has opened up and I have been able to pray over him and the Lord is taking him deeper in the word. We were driving down the road the other day after dropping his daughter off to her irresponsible mother and my friend was filled with fear and anxiety. I told him that the Lord did not want him to fill that way and I steeped out on a limb and just started praying. As he was driving and I was praying he looked at me and said "I want to pay you to pray for me anytime I need help". That opened the door for me to help him with his own prayer life.

On Saturday my oldest sister graduated with her masters degree. I have been the only male in her life until a few years ago. When we got home from her ceremony I hugged her and told her how proud I am of her and that I know that she had made great sacrifices with her family and friends in order to go back to school. She smiled with tears in her eyes and told me how much she appreciates me and how thankful she is that I made it home to be with her on her special day.

I rode home from her graduation with my cousin that is very agnostic. He is a very intelligent young man and has had a very messed up life. The conversation turned to what I have been doing over the past 5 months. I began to tell him about real Christianity as opposed to many people he has encountered that fly the Christian flag. By the end of the one hour drive, he was interested in reading the bible and checking out the christian faith. So cool!

Yesterday, when I arrived in Houston my dad and step mom were sitting in the airport to greet me when I got off the plane. The ride back to my dad's shop was great. We all talked and laughed together, I was very encouraged to say the least.

After picking up one of my dad's trucks to drive around this week, I went and visited some guys that I did business in the past. One of the men I spoke to is a brother in the faith and a competitor of my dads company. He is in the process of moving to a new building and he is getting out of the used equipment business do to the increasing market for new surplus equipment. During our 3 hr visit he tells me that he is going to palletize his used overstock and arrange a semi to bring it to me in KC. He is going to consign the equipment at 1/5th of the wholesale price and allow me to send him a check monthly until I have sold all of the equipment. This is an unbelievable blessing. This will allow me to have inventory to get going without investing all of my capital at the start. I was almost in tears. He also gave me great advice about how to set things up and he spoke some much blessing over me. He told me how proud and encourage his is in regards to the maturity that the Lord is bringing about in my life. I was so amazed.

I have 3 -4 people to see everyday for the rest of this week I need your prayers:
1. time with the Lord
2. sensitivity to The Spirit
3. words of encouragement on my lips
4. energy to keep up with this schedule