My King had me go to the ghetto King Sooper store today. When I arrived at the parking lot God said, “Sonny, you need to walk to the back of the store.” There is an alley on the backside of the store. When I reached the back I noticed a family holding those plastic King Soopers bags. They were empty but they had them open. The families consisted of two boys, three girls and their parents. All of them had their eyes closed and they were praying.
The husbands prayed first and said, “Lord, you know that we don’t have any groceries. We are here at a grocery store. You said that when two or more are gathered and are praying in your midst that you would be there. You know that we are hungry. Would you do a miracle? We need something.”
The little girl Jasmine said, “You know that I love cereal and you know I love cookies. I just want cereal, milk and cookies. Please, I have been craving cookies really bad.” After she prayed this each one of the kids started praying. One of them said, “I want a baloney sandwich.” One of the boys said, “I love salads.”( I thought that was unusual to hear that from a boy.) Another one said, “I am getting tired of eating toast and peanut butter. But thank you that we at least have that.”
I continued to listen to them pray. I did not want to interrupt them at all because they are praying to God. They sure were pouring their hearts out to Him. They were crying as they prayed. After they finished praying they said, “We are thankful for what You are going to do.”
They looked over and they saw me standing there with my Bible. They then asked me how long I had been standing there?
I said, “I heard all your prayers. They were beautiful. They are special especially when they come directly from your heart. God knows you and He knows your heart’s desires.” I paused for a moment and then said, “Number one: my King has given a ministry to a guy who we call Blue Mustang. He gives me money to bless people like you so you can buy groceries.” As I continue to explain about Blue Mustang and Terry Bird praying for the ministry, I had to explain to the kids that Blue Mustang was not really a car, but I always let them think that Terry Bird is Big Birds little brother.
They then asked, “God brought you here just for us?”
I replied, “Blue Mustang gives $140 to each family to go buy groceries.” At this moment I could hear a door squeaking. The new manager was beginning to walk out and began listening to what I had to say. I then handed them the money and said, “Let’s go inside the store and get what you need but not what you want.” The manager then spoke up and said, “You know what; why don’t you guys also get what you want. I will take care of the bill.”
You see God has already multiplied the money for the family. A girl that worked there also came out. This is a blessed store because they believe in serving people.
We went in side the store and began shopping. The manager confirmed again that he wanted them to also get what they want and not just what they needed. After the families got all their groceries and came to the checkout line, the manager paid for everything. He then said, “Use the money that Blue Mustang gave you to buy gas or other things.”
We then went outside after the manager paid for the groceries. As we walked towards my pickup the families began to anoint my pickup from front to back including all four tires. They also prayed that no bullets would hit it, nobody would harm it and that God would protect me wherever He takes me.
Jasmine then said, “Mom, I need to give this anointing oil to Blue Mustang.” Jasmine then handed me the jar of anointing oil. Jasmine then said, “Give this to Blue Mustang so he can anoint his truck too.”
Both of the sisters carry jars of anointing oil. These jars looked like they could’ve come from jelly containers. It looks like they made their own jam and use them to store oil in them afterwards. So these jars have a story behind them.
I put my tailgate down to sit while I was talking to them about Jesus and started handing some water out. Three homeless guys then walked up and noticed one of the dad’s. One of the homeless guys said, “Jerome, I see that you got groceries today.”
Jerome then said, “Yes we did. Are you guys hungry?”
The homeless guys replied, “Yes, we are. We haven’t eaten in a couple of days.”
Jasmine said, “You want some bologna sandwiches?” The homeless guys smiled while nodding their heads. So the families started making bologna sandwiches on the back of my tailgate. The families laid out the works. They put out mustard, mayonnaise, pickles, onions, lettuce, bread and the baloney so these guys could make an awesome sandwich. They even had Fritos and Cheetos to go with their sandwiches.
Jasmine then whispered something to her sister and her sister agreed. Jasmine then asked, “Can we use that other jar of anointing oil? We want to pray over these guys.”
The sisters then said, “Sonny could you lead us in prayer over them?” I prayed for these guys and for their salvation.
Jasmine then asked, “Do you guys want your names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life?”
The guys replied, “You know, nothing else is working out. Maybe we should do that.” As soon as they were anointed and prayed over they began crying out of control.
One of the little boys whose name was Isaiah has not said a word all the time while I was here, but now he spoke up and said, “Jesus loves you. What you see here is temporary, but Jesus Christ is eternal.”
I was flabbergasted at what came out of this small boy’s mouth. I never expected to hear something so powerful from somebody so small. All of the children came around these homeless guys and began hugging them and began showing them love. The moms continued making more sandwiches for them. Soon all the baloney and the bread was gone. This did not matter even though these families had nothing. They shared their blessing that they had received with these homeless guys. They gave what they had. I began crying as all of this was happening. I came up to these homeless guys and prayed over them again.
While I was doing this two of the girls who worked at the store came out with two more loaves of bread, four packages of cheese and four packages of baloney to replace what they used up. They were watching everything that the families were doing for these homeless guys. It is always amazing that when we demonstrate love to other people by giving, others see this. In turn those people want to do the same thing, turning a small blessing into a large one. If you do not do what God asks of you, it can affect the destiny of many people. The ghetto has a special place in my heart for these people and I anxiously await to be able to come back here again.
