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This was a morning at West Ridge that I will not soon forget.

• Today was our highest attended Sunday since last Easter. I really don’t know what to attribute it to, it was just packed today.

• We are in week two of our Stolen series. I spoke this morning on the importance of knowing who you are in Christ. It’s one of favorite topics to speak on.

• In the first service I truly feel like I had the flu. It was craziest feeling. I think I’m still trying to get over the weariness of 11 days in Africa. I had a lady pray over me at the end of service and I felt a whole lot better after she was done.

• Ready for this? In the second service, right after I talked about how Satan does not want anyone to know the information that I was about to share, the fire alarm went off in the building. We had to evacuate the entire building, babies and all. It was insane!

• Our Children’s ministry area got a new fog machine this past week. Apparently the smoke detectors in that area of the building are a little sensitive to fog.

• Hats off to our preschool and children’s ministry area for the job they did in evacuating all of our kids. They did a superb job of getting all those kids out of the building without incident.

• I’m really proud of the fact that hardly anyone left to go home during the evacuation. People stood out in the cold for about 10-15 minutes. When everyone came back in the building they knew that Satan was up to something, but it was apparent that God was in the house.

• Once we got everyone back in the building, it was on! I was fired up! I can’t remember a morning where the spiritual warfare was so clear and so intense. We had a great response at the end of both services, especially the second service.

• Our band and singers brought their A game this morning. It was great to have Scott Laughridge back on stage at WRC. He did a great job with the song “Undone” at the end of the service. I love his voice!

• During the offering we showed a video of our prayer encounter with the little girl with malaria in the village of Fing, in Burkina Faso. I had mentioned this encounter last week on my blog, but I didn’t’ tell how things had turned out. This little girl’s sister had died two weeks ago with malaria. After we prayed in the name of Jesus over this little girl and then sent her to the hospital, she was completely healed. This is the kind of thing that opens the door for entire villages to come to the Lord!

• Pray for our Preschool Director, Senga Veale. She and her family are in South Carolina this week for her father’s funeral. Senga’s dad had been sick for a long time. I don’t care how old you are, it’s hard to lose a parent.

• Next week is going to be one of the most memorable services we have ever done at West Ridge. I can’t wait to see how it shakes out. It’s going to powerful! You won’t want to miss it!