Who Said Teenagers Were Hard

My neighbor's son, who is 14, asked me to come help cut his grass.  Understand, I seek the Lord on everything, there are blessings in what He tells us to do.   The Lord told me to help him, so I went.  As I am cutting the grass I noticed his cousin, who also is 14, jumping my 6 foot privacy fence to get something out of my back yard.  Well I asked the Lord what to do and he said, "Go tell him he cannot do that without your permission."  I finished an area and then shut the mower off and walked over to my house to tell him, and I said to him, "Without my permission, your are not allowed to come into my back yard, but, if you ask me, I will let you get whatever is back there."  He said, "My knife is in your back yard."  I said again, "If you ask my permission, I will let you go get it."  He said, "Will you go get my knife?"  Before I got in the flesh, the Lord checked me and told me to get it for him and I obeyed with joy. 

Ten minutes later I was working around the house and the Word of the Lord came unto me and said, "Go tell that boy, you forgive and forget what he did."  I said, "Yes sir." and went.  When I told him, he said, "OK" as if he had though no more about it.

The next morning, I went to Jimmy Cantrell's market, to get a juice and biscuit.  If I use my debit card in their maching and spend less than $5.00 you have to pay extra, so I decided to pull $20.00 out of the ATM machine and while I was doing that the Lord spoke to me and said, "Get $40.00"  So, I did and for about 10 seconds thought about why the Lord wanted me to get the money and then I just obeyed His word again and casted that care (1 Peter 5:7 AMP) and then headed to work.

I got home from work and my wife told me to go look in the street.  Someone had spray painted a man's private parts with black spray paint in the street right in from of my driveway, pointed at my house.  Well, I could have guessed who did it, but without any witnesses, I was not going to judge it.  Around 7:00pm that night, one of the neighbors called and told me that the neighbor across the street saw this boy spray paint this design in the street earlier that day.  I asked the Lord what to do and he said, "Go confront him."  I said, "I'll do it, but you've gotta speak for me, Lord."

When I got to his house, he was not there.  I talked to some of his family members and told them when he got home to tell him to come see me.  On my way home, he was coming up the street on his bicycle and I waited for him.  When he got to me I said, "Son, did you know that I am a true disciple of the Lord Jesus?"  He said, "Yes"  I said, "Did you know that I do everything he tells me?"  He said, "No, I didn't know that."  I said, "Well I do, and I tell you I forgive you and forget it."  He said, "OK" and I said, "Now, what are you going to do about it." (Talking about the design in front of my house)  He said, "Nothing"  I said, "Praise the Lord" and then just came on home.  As I was sitting there telling the Lord on this boy, he spoke to me and said, "Do you remember me telling you to get $40.00 out of your account this morning?  Take the extra $20.00 and go bless him with it."  Man, I ran to his house with that blessing.  I went over there, handed him the money and told him the Lord told me to bless him with it.  Jesus love never fails.  (1 Corinthians 13:8)

By 9:30 that evening, he had gone and gotten some more spray paint and painted over it.  There was not longer private parts, buy a much better looking solid rectangle, and then he came to my house and apologized.  The Lord kept me in His love throughout the whole thing and the boy never got condemed.  The next day the Lord had me pray with him and bless him for repenting and turning for what he had done.  I hear people say that it is hard to love like Jesus, if you say that, it is because you have never experienced His love for yourself.  This is true, you cannot give what you do not have and if you really have His love in your heart and know what he has done for you, you will give it to everyone that will receive it.  I am not saying to love their darkness, you can hate that, but love them.  Jesus loved me to get rid of my darkness, so I could walk in the light of His love.  (Acts 26:18)