Camp WOW: Experience 1

Okay, so as I said in the previous post, a lot happened at camp WOW! I've decided to seperate all of it into 3 posts, with 3 different experiences. This, as the title says, is the first one. It happened the second night and was just really cool!


Okay, so we're in worship, and talking about praying and connecting with God while people break away and go write things on the prayer wall. A lot of people were crying, but for some reason I was just sitting there. When I tried to worship, for the first time God told me that I needed to go pray over someone. At first this weirded me out and I just ignored Him and kept worshiping. But, there was a huge block in my worship, and He was just saying NO, GO PRAY OVER SOMEONE EVEN BEFORE YOU WORSHIP ME. So, I finally gave in.


My first question to God was, "alright, WHO do you want me to pray over?" After about 10 minutes, two names came to my mind. Those were my friend Jordan, and my cousin Elie. I still had no idea why I needed to though. So during worship still, I look around and see neither. After a while I just realize that isn't the right time snd I need to wait. Here's where it gets crazy.


After service, walking out to our small groups, someone is walking in front of me. As she turns around, I realize its Jordan! And, she was crying and tells me we need to talk and I'm like YES WE DO! So after small groups, we walk around the camp and just discuss the service and we both prayed over each other. While we were walking, that verse that says "For where two or more gather, I am there" came to mind. So I said it, and there was one of the camp dogs following us next to Jordan. I made a joke about the dog and how He represented God and we laughed.


We keep walking around, and it keep followings us (the dog). After a while though it walks off and we keep talking. Well, when we finally stop to pray over each other, I can see the dog about 4 yards away laying down just looking at us. I think it's kind of ironic that He was watching us, but still ignore it. We continue and start praying and when we open our eyes the dog is sitting right next to us looking up (at us). This dog just gave me an overwhelming comfort for some reason, kind of seeing that God really was there.


Another cool part of this story, is that while Jordan and I were walking around talking, I had just told her about how I also needed to pray over Elie. She kind of just went with it, but we were really struck about a minute later. We passed Elie and 3 of her friends, and she was bawling. She runs up to me and says "ALEC! WHERE WERE YOU? I NEEDED YOU SO BAD IN THE SERVICE AND NOONE COULD UNDERSTAND!" So I'm like I KNEW YOU DID! And we talked more later and it all worked out well. It was just cool to be that reassured both ways from God that I really was supposed to pray over them :].


Expect more in the following days.