Pastor Josh & Amanda Hendricks - City Alive Church
"We are so honored to link arms with the other pastors in the area and welcome Chris Overstreet and his team Compassion to America. I'm telling you, it was off the chain tonight! The presence was so evident! I felt so grateful for the effort put into this, so something awesome happened.
So many people had gotten totally touched by giving their lives to Jesus, got baptized, and touched by the Holy Ghost, but as we were getting ready to leave, this woman was just standing there and I just felt the Lord nudge me to talk with her. And as I did, she just started weeping. She said that she lives a block away, and as she was lying in bed, she could hear what was being said. So she said, “I just knew that I had to get up, get dressed and come down here!” So she came down here, and she walked right up to me. I knew that the Lord was drawing her and wooing her by His presence and by His Spirit. I just began to pray for her and the Lord just started giving me word after word after word about her life and she is weeping in the Presence of God that she began shaking and she just said, “Everything you’re saying is describing my life! It's my life. I've never experienced God like I am right here!”
That’s what's happening in Oroville. People are hungry and desperate for the real thing. They're hungry and desperate for an encounter with the living God. They just don't know. So an event like this is like calling in of the people and it's also a catalyst of fire for the leaders in this area. To realize that God is setting us on the ground. He's giving us marching orders for the people out there want what we have. They want what's on the inside of us! They want the joy. They want the peace. They want the real, genuine love and presence and anointing and change that God brings. And so I don't know about anybody else, but I know for me, I'm so fired up and just ready to see Oroville shaken.
I knew in my spirit before this started that Chris and his team coming were gonna be like a spark. It was gonna be like a fire starter for what God's gonna do in this city. So I'm just excited. And this encounter that I had with this lady I know it's just to be like that, boom, boom, block just one person after another. If we just are obedient and stepping out and hitting the streets and praying with people and leading people to Jesus and saying what the Holy Spirit says to say, because we don't have a reputation as leaders in Oroville. We don't have a reputation to uphold anymore. The only reputation we have to uphold is Jesus. And so let's just do it. Let's just see Jesus shaken. Amen."
Person: Pastor Josh & Amanda Hendricks
