The power of my God.

As I write this I'm sitting in the car coming back from Kings fest. Now I could lie to you and tell you I was in a great mood but I wasn't. I was angry and irritated by some people. I did not want to leave early due to the rain. I did not want to miss the newsboys. I did not want to miss Chris Tomlin,I did not want to leave kingsfest. My group was whining because they didn't get starbucks, they were hungry, etc, etc. Then, we got off the Ashland exit. We went to Wendys. Everyone didn't want wendys. We wanted the McDonalds down the street. But we went in. I got in line. We were talking and then some random guy started talking to me. "You guys just come from Kingsfest?" He asked as he smilled at the group of grouchy roudy children I have surrounded myself with. "Yeah, but we had to leave early because of the crazy rain." He looked at me and smiled "that's crazy, were actually on our way to kings fest. Were playing there tomorrow." Now I did a double take. "Playing?" I did a double take... who were these dudes that I randomly began joking with in line? And why were they so chill with my banchee charges that assaulted them with lame jokes? I mean these 13 year old teens were telling the lamest jokes ever and, incorperated a pickup line... lol. Then, we learned their band name was Samestate. They were currently driving from event to event living in their white van until they made the big time. "Basically whoevers awake enough to drive and not kill anyone is the person behind the wheel." Said the man I would soon discover to be the lead vocalist. As we waited in line ( for over an hour I might add) everyone was talking about the disappointment of not getting to see the big name bands we missed. Samestate looked at each other and then, since they were ahead of me and had gotten their food. I didn't think anything more of it.

After scarfing down chicken nuggets and a baked potato and listening to more negativity I stared over to the guys from the bands table. They were coming over and talking to us randomly. And then something amazing happened.

I zoned out for the next 5 minutes and then, as I looked at the door I saw the guy I had been cutting up with carrying his guitar case. Followed by the drummer carrying a box to drum on, the steel guitar player with his homemade steel, two other guys with acoustics as well. Suddenly it hit me. They were a blessing sent from God.

That's right. They played a concert for us. In Wendys. While it poured down rain outside. The wendys that we didn't want to eat in. The teens that didn't want to leave the park.

To top it all the first song they sang was about trusting Jesus in the storm.

So after their concert I bought their c.d. and I happened to asked what their plans were in Virginia. The band manager goes "well were going to some small backwoods town to crash at a buddy of mines house" I asked where it was they were going just to be nosey. I nearly fell over as his next words came out...

"Some town called Waynesboro, were playing at his church on Sunday too." The crazy thing? The church they're playing at? My church. I am not lying. I couldn't make this up. They are this Sundays special music.

Then, the lead vocalist tells me how they ended up on Wendys and just about caused me to keel over.

The only reason they ate at Wendys that night was because his grandmother had given every member of the band a $25 gift card to Wendys. I was speechless.

In the mean time, I had placed my cell phone on the car charger. Hadn't played with it or anything and when I came back my phone background had been changed to the album cover of the cd I bought. You know, the one I bought? And the crazy thing we were the first to get that album. No one else had it, it was no where on the internet or I could not have accesed it in any way. As my nephew said "God hacked your phone, and I believe he works in hacking peoples technology." And my sister said "god works in mysterious ways.

After tonight there is zero doubts. God put us at the Ashland Wendys. He put Samestate at the Ashland Wendys. He saved us from our bad attitudes, our change of plans, ourselves. It was amazing. There are too many coincidences here to say God did not use his power in a mighty and impacting ways tonight.

"And if our God is for us then who can rise against us?"

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