Insane "Treasure Hunt"

On Monday evening we got together as usual at the party house and 3 of us were ready to hit the streets or malls or wherever God calls us. We started to pray that God would show us a sign of where to go. So here is the list of things that came up during prayer (Very random, since normally we just get an idea of a single place, maybe 2 and we go):

• Doringkloof shopping centre
• Family house
• Top of a shopping area
• Hospital Sign
• L
• Cross
• Apple
• Water running down / falling water

We decided that we would not ignore these things in case it was really the Holy Spirit speaking to us showing us all these things. So we headed off to Doringkloof to start off, completely baffled by the random things. We started to walk around the place trying to find things that would match the list of clues that we got. After not finding much, we sat down and prayed again. This is the list of things that we got during the next prayer:

• Waitress
• Black shirt
• Name tag
• Veronica
• Jennifer
• Bird
• Green plank / sign
• Motorbike
• Toys

This just added to the confusion and now we were more lost than before. With a few giggles we kept looking for these signs, which seemed to not at all be related. We thought of going to parrots in Centurion, but realised then to rather head off to Menlyn because we felt like it and there were more people, more grace to make mistakes. We felt good about Parrots because the Bird was a confirmation. On the way to Menlyn we saw a Hospital sign, confirming our first clue. Woohoo! So we walked to parrots and saw the water feature in Parrots, with a Toy store right across it and the Apple store next to it. Very excited for all the confirmations that got we asked the people at Parrots if a waitress with the name of Veronica or Jennifer works there. There was however no one with that name. Heading off to the apple shop, we saw the Clicks pharmacy, up one level and it was the cross and it was green. So we headed up and stood around there for a bit calling out "Jennifer!?", "Veronica!?". No one however seemed to respond at these names. Realising that the confirmations we were following were all in a definite path, we had the idea that the L meant to go left (since we didn't see any other things on the list). We went left and ahead saw a picture of an Apple computer in the distance. As we got there, House of Coffees was on the Top floor, which was a confirmation for top of shopping area and for the house clue. We then saw that the waiters and waitresses were wearing black shirts and had name tags (another 3 clues, OH YEAH!!!). So we asked the one waiter whether he knew of someone there with the name of "Veronica" and he says, yeah, but she's gone home. Excited by the fact that we were lead on a definite path with all the clues and even getting the name spot on, we asked if they knew anyone with the name "Jennifer". Jennifer turned out to be the person who takes over the shift of Veronica but was not there because it was her day off. Our faith was stirred and the waitresses and waiters at House of Coffees also seemed to have gotten a faith booster by the fact that we are asking for their colleagues by name.

So out of ALL (17) clues we got, there was only one that didn’t make sense, Motorbike!?. By the end of this, we were so filled with Faith. We gave them our number and said that we'd like to come back sometime to pray for both of them. Although we did not do much evangelising, I really believe God wanted to stir our faith.