Monday, February 7, 2011

I went around with Kathryn on Monday, mostly underground.
It is so encouraging when people ask for prayer. The first guy sitting at Love Park, Mike, had fallen on ice a while ago and went to the ER. He had a black eye but a positive hopeful spirit. He asked for prayer that he could get his finances in order so that he could get his health in check, too.

However, the person that stuck out to me the most was a guy named Calvin (I believe). He was sitting underground with 2 other guys.

He started to go off about how the government took away the people who gave out better food and replaced them with religious people, who give out worse food. In his argument, he would magnify seemingly small details as major faults of government and religion. For example, he saw ignorance in the use of pork products due to the number of black Muslims who were homeless. No matter how much we emphasized that we were not here on accord of the government, he didn't want to hear what we were saying.

I guess the loudest message I was hearing was how much Satan lies. He will take the smallest mistakes or occurrences and use them to make people believe that they are being wronged, that good efforts are evil injustices, that God's love is not real and nonexistent. It's so important to act with discernment AND pray against these attacks of the Enemy. It just reminds me that I need to be careful not to believe the devil's lies in my own life.