Let me start this report off by praising God for His great mercy in the fact that somewhere between 5,000 to 10,000 precious souls walked from darkness into light and made a public confession of Faith and asked the Lord Jesus Christ to tabernacle in their hearts. Thats the BIG NEWS.I had some thoughts and reflections I want to share with the saints in this cyber community.I learned a lot of things last night and I want to share; My dear friend Pastor Ted, hired a bus so the saints and sinners could pray and fellowship on the way to the Rose Bowl. My nine year old son decided to come with to be with a few of his buddies. I said in the rear of the bus and right before we left, three young college lasses,foreign exchange students whom I've never seen before boarded the bus, two of them sat with me, Laila, a French girl of Algerian descent, and Barbara, a Dutch girl. I asked them if they were believers and they smiled sheepishly. I told them the Lord was gonna change that. I didnt want to do a full press witness, so I let it go at that. The Algerian girl told me her parents were Muslim, and I proceded to act out a next day phone call home .....(lol) to wit.Laila:(in French) Mom...Dad....I got something to tell you..........no, no...I'm okay......everythings okay.....ummmmm.....I went to the Billy Graham crusade last night..............Billy Graham, the noted American evangelist..........Christian......yes, he's a Christian evangelist.......well, anyway......ummmmmm.........I asked Jesus into my life last night..............Mom? Dad?....are you there?.......I started to laugh, and she laughed with me.....the night was young.We arrived there, many many people, the hungry humble sheep of the Lord were there to listen eagerily!The protestors were there too......I vowed that once we seated as a church, I was going to come back and query them. They had signs indicating that "Graham leads to Hell!" So many people were there Friday.....maybe 60,000.I went back out the gates clutching my Zondervan NIV Study Bible with its black bonded leather cover and walked up to one of the men holding a sign, and asked , "so why do you say Pastor Graham is leading these to hell"?To make a long boring turgid story short, their complaint is according to them, Pastor Graham says that those who worship within the roman church can still be saved, and still be faithful to Jesus. This man basically said that anyone WITHIN a denomination is hell bound. I said nothing, just listened. I looked over and saw their leader talking to another person....behind this leader was his family, a middle -aged wife sitting in a folding lawn chair, and three thin teenage girls with stringy brown hair......these girls looked........defeated and downcast, like they wanted to be anywhere but outside, yet another crusade. This group follows Billy Graham, Greg Laurie...any noted public evangelist and just DOGS their witness. These girls looked, (I'm searching for the word...) they looked wounded.This was my impression of this group, something in my spirit told me that this family was entirely dysfunctional, hurt and living a hellish existence. I later shared this impression with Pastor Ted, and we agreed that when a witness of a group is weird or heretical or cultish......all you have to do is to look deeper at the family unit , and you will uncover some dark sin issues lurking.Anyway, I began to interrogate this man on his groups stand on capital punishment and this dreadful sin soaked war in Iraq, he indicated he was "for both", and at that point I knew no further fruitful dialogue was possible. So, I bought the boys some pretzels and churros, and went back in....just in time to hear dear Dr. Graham speak........Oh, I really love that man. I had never heard him speak before.In Fact I must confess that I mistakenly put him in with a group of preachers, that in my opinion are not slaves of Jesus, but harlots of the republican party.....I was wrong ....Pastor Graham's preaching was simple loving and adorned with the sweet love of the Holy Spirit. He was just like a beloved grandfather asking you to recieve all the good that God has in store for you. His gaze out into the audience was unflinching and stoic. He gave the altar call, and people began to come down....then he had the choir sing a verse or two more....and he told the people , that they may never have this chance again, and to please take it........The exchange students were sitting about 20 rows down from us, and I had been praying for them.......please Lord open their eyes, soften their hearts, save them, have mercy on them........the dutch girl Barbara had straw colored blond hair, and all of a sudden I saw her stand, then Laila, then the other girl and they walked onto the field, and got gloriously saved. I started silently weeping with joy. I had been praying for them the moment I met them, and tonight it was a clean sweep for God. Oh bless Jesus.As I sat there, my prayers were reflected to those outside the Rose Bowl, the protestors, so hideously bound by the devil, so hideously bound by their hate and confusion. As I type this now I pray for them. Last night during the altar call, one of their group, started screaming at Pastor Graham. At first, we, way up in the stands thought it was someone with a word, or a prophetic utterance...but then the cops came in and removed this poor confused soul. Pastor Graham didnt even flinch, he indicated that this has happened before, that God is sovereign and is working something out in this person's life.......I discovered how the enemy works, as we left a stadium where 10,000 embraced God,...outside this stadium were a MULTITUDE of folks handing out fliers for every apostate anti-christ group or "church" you could ever shake a stick at......its was truly unbelievable! But Jesus says He will not let one out of His hand!! HalleLuYah!!God had the victory at the Pasadena Rose Bowl on Friday night!! please pray that the glory continue........Please pray for revival.
