Power and Love Conference (July '10): While I had ... - Echo of Infinity

eing able to show God's love especially through the gifts of the Spirit (1 Corinth. 12:4-11;1 Corinth. 14:1,5), it made sense that part of what Bob taught was that God still speaks todayand that we can hear God's voice (John 10:27, though it's partly a growing process). He had usdo listening exercises that personally went well for me. The first person I was with, everything Isaid to him was true, including that he had a sister, a dog, and that he was interested in dirtbikes. Everything he said to me was true as well, including mentioning that I was interested inworking on my relationship with my brother, that I liked to make people happy (in a good, nondoormatkind of way), and that I had a relative with nervous tics (which I just had found out in avery noticeable way like a week before). Bob ended being my favorite speaker of the conference.I liked him because he was the most relate-able to me, he didn't seem to preach the same phraseover and over again, and he had messages that weren't necessarily old news for me.Again, after the morning and afternoon sessions were over, people got into groups ofroughly 3 and went out to show God's love to people. I believe in the morning I went to a parkwith a mom and her son who was in a wheelchair. While we didn't find a good opportunity tohelp other people, we did get to socialize with each other a bit, so it wasn't a total loss. And Ibelieve in the evening I went out with two slightly younger people, where we were able to buylemonade from a little girl's lemonade stand, I was able treat one of the people with me to somefood, and we were able to socialize with and help some local businesses a little (by buying stuff).I attempted to ask God for specific things he wanted to say to people, but both times the people'sresponse let me know that I wasn't hearing correctly. When we got back, I believe this was whenwe found out that one of the speakers of the conference had an instance in a restaurant where awaitress' leg grew out to the same length of her other leg, another waitress had a skin conditionthat was regularly itchy but the itch went away after she was prayed for, and someone who heardabout the leg growing out came up and asked the speaker to pray for her boyfriend who had beenaddicted to something.On Friday, Todd White was the main speaker for the day. Todd's specialty is the area ofhealing, and he has seen many instantaneous healings take place. He said initially he prayedfor roughly 500 people before he saw a healing happen, but that perhaps a year or two after thatthe healings became too numerous per week for him to have the spare time to write down ajournal entry on each one (even 10 a week would be more than most people with full-time jobscould do a detailed write-up on). Todd spoke on Christians knowing who they are in Christ, abouthow Christians need to stop thinking about themselves as nothing but unworthy sinners, andabout how Christians need to not allow themselves to fall into guilt trips over sins in their past.He also gave his personal testimony of how he got saved and a bit of his life after that. A lot ofthe stuff he said were old lessons for me, so I didn't get much out of it.After Friday's morning and afternoon sessions, we went out again to bless people. In themorning, four other people and I went down to Burger King, Walmart, and Home Depot. Whileat Walmart, one of our female team members went up to someone and talked to them for like a