So the whole prophecy thing is real?! God is good and faithful ladies and gentlemen

Oh my goodness guys, I am bursting with joy right now. We just got back from a night on Bangla Road and do I have news for you. What news? GOD IS FAITHFUL!
One week ago (last Tuesday actually), God gave me such a vivid image. My mind felt numb, which was probably a good thing because my brain is always running. My stomach felt weird. I felt light and heavy. AND GOD TOLD ME some very specific things.

God gave me a name, for privacy sake, lets say it was Arethia. Now, please understand, most of the girls names here are one syllable names…very simple names at that. So the four syllable, uncommon name that I got seemed a bit of a stretch. God gave me that it was at Lion. He told me that this woman had children and He told me to tell my story to her. He told me EXACTLY what to say to her. Not only that, but He gave me the image of the bar and He showed me that the bar would have aisles on both sides.

When He gave me this, I started to doubt that it was Him. I actually got really angry at God because He had told me to rest and stay back from ministry that night, yet now I felt like I needed to find this girl. I felt like God was confusing…like He was saying to go, yet stay. 

Through that, I became a mess of a person. All I wanted to do was follow God, yet I didn’t know what He wanted.
Katie, my trusty leader, told me to stay back…that God had told her that I should stay in that night and I ended up getting to process through a lot, but I still felt like I was carrying this burden (that wasn’t mine to carry) that I was supposed to find Arethia.

Tonight we went out and Sarah Sullivan- who isn’t usually in our group- wanted to come with us. She felt like she should go to Lion Bar so she could talk to a friend that she has made. While we were there, I felt like God was telling me to look around for Arethia (who I must admit, I had almost given up on).
I stared into the bars. We were behind Lion Bar…one of the few Lion named bars, with aisles on both sides of the bar. It seemed to be the image! God told me to ask this one girl if Arethia worked there. I approached hesitantly and asked her. It was so loud in that bar that I could barely function, yet the lady replied with a “Yes! She’s upstairs. She’ll be downstairs in a few minutes.” I couldn’t believe it. Arethia came downstairs, yet responded to a different name too, so I was unsure if it was right. But Sarah said that it was her… and when I asked/screamed for Arethia, it felt like the entire bar was pointing at her. I dragged this precious girl out of the bar. She looked so confused.
I was alone with her. I asked her if she had kids. She didn’t understand. I asked again, “do you have children?!” She responded, “yes.”
It was time to tell her the words that God had given me. I said to her,
           
“Your kids miss you, they don’t care about money! My dad makes lots of money and I don’t care. I miss HIM..and your kids don’t care about money either, they just miss you. And GOD doesn’t care about money. He just wants you!”

I told her that God told me to find her! That God told me about her and to tell her that.
She was obviously overwhelmed and started gasping. I will NEVER forget the look on her face…as if she was almost crying, almost laughing.

I asked her, “Do you understand!?” and she did! She asked when God told me about her, and I told her that it was a whole week ago!

I ended up giving her the card that she can use in order to learn about how to work in a hotel or work for the organization we are with. I gave her my information and I told her that she should leave.

HOW AMAZING IS THAT?! God WAS faithful and He IS faithful! He knew all along what was best. If Sarah hadn’t been in our group, we may have not gone to Lion Bar, especially not to the exact position that we were in. Whats REALLY REALLY cool is that my resting last week was used by God!
Because I was staying back last Tuesday, I wrote this all down in two notes. I gave one letter to each group going out to Bangla Road just in case they found Arethia. That way, they could give her the letter and it would be just as if I were there.
I know that I probably wouldn’t have told others about all of it if I had gone out to do ministry that night because I thought I sounded crazy.
So, when I said what happened tonight, the whole group knew that it was truth! And that it was God’s power! God’s power was shown because I shared the prophecy… and I only shared the prophecy in such detail because I rested, (which He told me to do!)
 
So I guess all I have to say is um…PRAISE THE LORD! His voice is real! He is faithful! He has a plan and He is pursuing these girls! If God didn’t seem real to you before, I hope you know He is crazy alive and active now!