Camp 1.0 (Abe)

At the teen camp, at Camp Berachah, that our youth ministry has been attending each summer we have some other churches that partner with us. We've got this baptist church that has been coming the past several years and God has been really moving in their youth ministry. They almost seem more pentocostal than we do. Well one of their volunteer youth leaders, Abe, a very cool man of God, is part of a pentocostal movement called Christ Gospel . I'm not very familiar with the movement, other than my intercation with Abe. Abe is a man of integrity, who is solid in doctrine and one of the most in love with Jesus people that I have ever met. I have experienced the burden of the Lord a few different times in prayer where I began to groan with intensity as I prayed from the heart of God. But for Abe, groaning, shaking, jerking, is all a normal part of prayer and a Christian walk. Some people were like, "woa, what's going on with that guy," as the Spirit of God would move on him. Well, my favorite moment with Abe is when he goes to pray for a kid (we'll call Billy) one night at camp. Abe approaches Billy and asks, "Brother, do you want to go deeper with God?" Little Billy responds, "I'm already as deep as I can go." And with passion Abe begins to declare, "Babythere's no bottom with God, you can always go deeper and deeper and deeper. Don't ever think that you are as deep as you can go, there is always more."
Being aroud Abe made me hungry to go deeper and deeper for Jesus. I want all that He as for me. I think too often we've cared about the package that God moves in and it doesn't really matter what we like or don't like. It's about what Jesus likes and how He chooses to move. And quite contrary to the opion of some, God doesn't care if it bothers us.