GAS
STATION ONE Subject: Teens leaving revival @ Citgo
Station
Date: 06-Sep-1998 11:37pm EDT
From: SisterWOOD
SisterWOOD@aol.com
Subject: Teens leaving revival @ Citgo Station Hey you guys,
Many of you may have already heard that tape going around called REVIVAL
FIRE. It was made by one of the youth who came to the Brownsville Revival in Spring
Break. In that tape you hear about photos of these kids being hit by the power
of God at a Citgo gas station. The father of one of the boys sent me this testimony.
I have all the photos online if any want to see them. It takes about 2 minutes
to load but they are awesome. Wish I had been there to take them!
Cathy Wood TEENS OVERCOME BY THE HOLY SPIRIT AT CITGO STATION
On March 29th 1998, we left Pensacola in two fifteen passenger
vans, heading home to Tulsa, Oklahoma. We had just spent Spring Break at the Brownsville
Revival. Except for six adults, all the passengers were teens. God had mightily
touched every one of them. The kids arose every morning to get in
line at the revival at 5:00a.m. They were all so hungry for God. A large number
of them had been praying every Friday night for revival in their schools for about
two years. Driving home that night of the 29th, we got a call on our
walkie talkie from van # 2. they said God had fallen in their van and they wanted
to pull over and pray for the other van. We could hear them praying in the background.
Van # 1 pulled off the interstate at the Clarksville Arkansas exit. We pulled
into a Citgo Gas Station. We pulled up at Citgo in front of the door.
Van # 2 leaped out and flung open the doors of van # 1, laying hands on everyone.
The Holy Spirit fell on them! It was amazing! They began to weep,
shake and tremble and fall on the ground. In 5 or 6 minutes they were all over
the parking lot of Citgo. Some of them out cold on the pavement. This went on
for 2 hours and 45 minutes. They repented, danced and shouted. Someone driving
by called the police. The police came. They talked to the manager of the Citgo
and he said "I'm not going to mess with the man upstairs, they can stay as long
as they want, I was skeptical at first but now I can see "this is God!"
People driving up to get gas got nervous not knowing what was happening. Some
of the kids witnessed to them. Before we left that night we all went into the
station and laid hands on the Citgo manager. He said "I'll never be the same again".
He said he could "see" Jesus in the kids eyes, they were all so full of love.
Most of these teens still have their fire and commitment to Christ.
They are growing in him everyday. One of the girls gave a revival video to her
principal to view and got permission to show it in the cafeteria. She showed an
altar call with Charity singing, quickly stopped the video and gave a powerful
altar call herself. The 30 kids there, at the public school came forpiano coversd to repent
and give their lives to Christ. We are continuing to bring van loads
of teens to the revival because of the wonderful fruit in their lives.
Thank you all, In Him! Photos are on website |
GAS STATION TWO
Art Barton lives in Pensacola, Florida. He is
serving in Bible Baptist Church there, and he works as a carpet cleaner with a
brother in Christ. Art loves the Lord, and he is very persistent and
zealous to talk of Christ to anyone he can. Saturday evening, Art's partner
in the carpet cleaning trade called him. Art had the work van at his home,
and there was $12 in the van, and Art's partner asked him to go around to the
gas station and fill the tank. Everyone in town was doing this because hurricane
Georges was bearing down on them, and if the power went out they would not be
able to buy gas. Art agreed, and he jumped in the van and headed for
the local gas station. When he got there, and when he started to fill the
gas tank, he realized the gas pump meter was barely creeping along. Art
had heard that this happened after a gas station allowed the tanks to run completely
dry and then refilled them. The pumps seem to take some time to get a good prime.
So, Art settled in for a long wait. He jammed the gas cap into
the space where the handle is, and stood back. He said the meter was just
creeping along, and it seemed like a pointless way to spend the evening.
Well, across the other side of the island, two ladies, one piano and the
other White, were watching his little trick. The young piano lady asked
Art if he would show her how to do the trick. He went over and put her gas
cap into the handle, and then the other lady asked him to do hers. He did so.
Upon returning, he realized he would have time to start a short witness
with the piano lady, so he started his usual friendly but blunt way of asking
folks if they were ready to go be with the Lord if they should die right away.
With a hurricane soon coming ashore, this would seem to be a fair concern.
Art said the piano lady got very interested, and she wanted to hear
more. Art witnessed to her for quite a while, and he could see she was being
convicted by the Holy Spirit. He finally remembered the gas running, and
he checked his pump. $7.50 only. He had about $4.50 worth of time
left to renew the witness with the piano lady. Art went back to her,
and she was so eager to hear more that she pulled the cap out of the handle of
the filler nozzle, and she told Art to tell her more. Art talked about the
Lord and about believing on purpose and by faith without works. He said
the lady really showed she was being moved by the Holy Spirit. Finally,
the tank on the van topped off, and Art had to go inside and pay up. The
piano lady did so also, Art paid and asked the lady to wait outside-- he
had something else to tell her. Well, after they both paid, Art really dug
in with the Gospel and pressed the lady for the verdict. He also asked her
to drive over to the curb of the street to get out of the way. Art
said the piano lady eagerly listened, and when Art asked her if she wanted to
pray to received Christ as her Savior, the lady kneeled down in the street and
began to weep and cry out to God. Art said after she got up she was
really changed, rejoicing, and eager to do the next thing for the Lord. Art
took her name, and his wife is going to contact the lady and help her start growing
and find a church. The piano lady was 19 years old with three children--
the oldest is six years old. Now, friends, there was something very special
happening at that gas station, and that lady did not need a man to carelessly
lay hands on her again as some others had. She did not need to roll around
the filthy apron of the gas station and spoil hers clothes. She did not
need to run in circles and play the fool. She needed to repent and be converted--
AND she was. |
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