Today, Saturday, we took the team into the Plaza San Blas (the touristy/artsy side of downtown) to do some Treasure Hunting/Prophetic Prayer Outreach. Eric and Jen Smith from Spirit Led Expeditions joined us for a good time. After worshiping and hearing from the Lord, we left for the Plaza. Common words/pictures that people received were: “people on the stairs of the church”, “by the fountain”, “praying over The Meeting Place (a cafe) and “various people sitting in the plaza.” One team member, Jun (the same guy who had inflamed his knee while hiking last week and has been on crutches all week) received a dream last night (and then saw it again in worship of him standing on a stage/dancing). His art form is breakdancing.  He thought that it was crazy saying, “I can’t even walk this week; how am I supposed to dance?” He felt like he should bring his computer to outreach, but was worried about how he would perform and the lack of speakers. We prayed for speakers to be already in the plaza. When we got there, the Saturday craft market was in full swing and (praise God!) there was a stereo attached to speakers blasting Andean whiny music. We split up into groups of 2-3 and got a chance to pray with and talk to lots of people. Christian was able to walk around with his video camera to capture the events unfolding and people were being encouraged left and right.

About 30 minutes before packing it up to leave, Jen Smith catches up to me and says, “Get ready for a show. Jun is going to dance!” So we gather the team, round up some Peruvians that we had just made friends with and go over to the stage area in front of the fountain. We prayed for Jun’s knee one last time that God would bring full healing and amazing dancing ability, 100%. Jun gets up there, we played his song over the speakers and a Peruvian man graciously offered his USB cable to the computer and he nails this awesome breakdancing routine. THEN as a crowd had gathered, he (and Jen Smith) translate his testimony and how he is using his dancing ability for God. The straight-up Gospel and how Jesus loves them. How everyone has a talent for God to use, whether it’s dancing or something else and that he loves using ordinary people. WOW. Way to go Jun! YAY GOD!

The crowd was insistant for another dance, so he did! And his knee, as far as we are concerned is healed. Not only can he walk on it (where he couldn’t for a week put any weight on it) to breakdancing–twice. You could see such joy radiating in this guy, who was super down-in-the-dumps a few weeks ago (especially after the hike) to triumphantly proclaiming what God has done in his life and the joy of being able to dance again.

So what’s your talent? How can you glorify God with your gifts this week?