It’s a good night when DUDS is trumped by the Holy Spirit. God obviously had the plan all along. While we were praying for youth in the afternoon yesterday it was really pressed on my heart that he needed to have his own way and we needed to let him do what he needs to do. 

We assumed that the worship would be about an hour long and that things would round up about 8:30 and we would go straight into the game. I’m very glad God changed things. It was at least 9:30 probably more closer to 10:00 when everything was finally finished in the worship and we were able to get out of there. It was a good night of hangout and praise together though I thought.There seemed to be a consistent message by God last night in that he was calling all of us back, pharisees and Gentiles. Over and over God seemed to be speaking about both is justice and compassion, and really his judgement. There were two groups last night, those that had been in the church for so long and grown up in it and knew what needed to be done and how they were asked to live/ how they wanted to live with God and just never had done anything about it. (Pharisees) The religious that did things only because it was religion not because Jesus was walking it with them. Then there were those that had never heard, whether they had actually heard or not. But last night God seemed to really speak to people’s hearts. There was even one guy who almost never comes to youth but he came last night and when all his friends were outside and didn’t really want anything to do with the service he came back into the worship and stayed for almost the entire time we were there. Something was happening in the hearts of the people last night. My hope and prayer is that those that had God knocking on their hearts and didn’t respond would not run away but would remain and allow God to continue to knock on their hearts. And all those that did answer, that they would not fall back into the loneliness that surrounded them but instead that they would push on into the joy of the LORD!When DUDS is cancelled for the Holy Spirit… It’s a Good Night!