The City of Change

So as many of you know I went to LA for WOW JAM. It was an experience of a life time. I can not really express what it has done for my life. I must say it was one of the most important things I have ever done, I am writing the whole thing down in my journal and will post it online when it is completed but ever since I returned I have felt the need to write about the feeling attatched to the experience.
It was like falling in love. But the most intense and breaking love I have ever experienced. I kneeled before God and wept and poured out everything before we did a single wow jam. It was not an emotional service that did this to me. I do not recall what that first session speaker said. All I knew is that I was at the front letting everything go. My whole life go, everything to the Lord. If I could choose a theme for the time spent in LA it would be that "Everything to the Lord"
The growth in me is huge. I learned what prayer should be. I learned that I am no less of a man to cry. The tears flow much easier now since that sencond night in LA. I learned how intense love can be, how frantic.
I prayed for people out loud. Strangers! I prayed with the authority of Jesus Christ. I prayed with belief. I prayed for healing, I prayed for protection. I prayed for lives broken. I prayed in silence for me team. I prayed with tears in my eyes. I have always prayed silently for people, for friends and family, but never with the intensity I do now. My team said they can see a difference in my look when I am praying for them, though they did not I was in prayer they said I gave them weird looks. I was not aware of it, but it makes sense for at times I was almost at tears with the intesity of my silent prayers. Since wow jam I have prayed for perfect strangers, I have prayed for my co-workers. I pray almost all day. I take a bible with me to work and read it and cry. People look at me and wonder and smile. They see a man reading a small bible and crying and it warms their hearts. I am a true bible thumper now. And I don't care and people know me at work and see the change in me.
Wow Jam jas given me more boldness in my faith.
I feel a great need to go out and tell people about Jesus. A deep love for people. An intense yearning to go out with nothing more than a Bible and a backpack and tell others about Jesus. On my way home I had a stop over in Vancouver. All I had was a backpack and a pillow. I stepped out of the air port ready to to just walk away from everything in my life and just hitchhike around telling people about God. I stopped half a block away and returned to the air port and prayed knees down for half an hour until my flight arrived.
I love more fully! I love my friends and family with a insane about of affection. If they allowed me I would be hugging them every ten minutes and giving the kisses on the cheeks. Though they don't (so barely let me hug them) In LA I hugged children with no shoes, shook hands with men with warts copering there hands. Hugged people who smell like urine. After skid row my hands smelt like a toilet. But I was smiling, they knew Christ because I of the love I showed. So if I am a bit intense with my hugs and words of affirmation forgive me, because it will most likely get worse. I have lost to many people to not give a proper hug goodbye and I want the people I love to know they are loved.
In LA I saw a thousand some people come to Christ, I saw a dozen or so people healed. A man cured of cancer, a women walking after years in a wheel chair. I cried with hundreds of people hearing about a young boy who lost his mother to cancer the day before he came to wow jam and excepted Christ. I held hands, I hugged and I prayed for the people of LA. I gained and love and passion I never felt before. I have an urgency that never leaves me.
I am still very much broken, I still have huge personal problems to overcome. WOW JAM did not kill my insecurities or problems but it awoke something in me. I may not be here much longer but I want to spend these last days the way I spent my days in LA. Loving people the way Christ loved us.
I love you all. And I hope to hear your voices and see your faces soon.
Raise your Hand! And repeat after me
I-AM- SPECIAL- BECAUSE- GOD - MADE - ME!
Stay Gold
Byron Frank