So today was a pretty sick day. It was happy day for me (I don't get many of those cuz I'm always getting attacked) but today God gave me a break and allowed me to be blessed. I was talking to a friend about what God has been doing in my life recently and as I was talking, this completely random guy comes up to us and says:
"Hey can I listen?"
"Um sure"
He hung onto every single word I had to say about God. (The Spirit was working on his heart like crazy)
So when I was done sharing I asked him
"are you a follower of Jesus Christ?"
"I think so I don't know this guy was talking to me about it other day but he went to Columbia"
"Do you believe in God?"
"Yes I mean people after generation all do the same things it doesn't make sense there has to be" (paraphrased but he said some pretty wise things)
"Do you believe that Jesus Christ died for your sins?"
"Yes but I don't know if he was God or just a man because I was talking to a Muslim who said he was just a prophet. I guess it doesn't matter either way He died for our sins"
(going through verses in my bible trying to show him)
"No you need to believe that Jesus Christ was both God and man and was perfect no one else can pay the price"
"But theres so many religions I'm scared of going to heaven and telling God I believe but God saying but you didn't believe the right thing and then I heard a story about a man who was waiting for God @ the 11th hour and died at 10:30"
"Do you believe your a sinner?"
"Yes I'm a sinner I need to be saved" (this guy was so convicted it blew me away)
"What do all other religions believe they need to do to be saved?"
"Well I was reading about the law of Moses"
"Yes God gave us the law of Moses so we would understand that we could not fulfill it, that is why we needed Jesus to die for us because he was the only one who could fulfill the whole law" (at this point I wish I had memorized the book of Romans better XD sigh* but still this guy knew about the law of of Moses and wasn't even a Christian or Jew)
"Yes I read that if you even look at woman lustfully you sin"
"Then believe and be saved"
"I don't know I want to look at things from a wider angle first I'm still not sure. I don't want to be wrong"
"You can't you need to have faith in order to have the truth revealed to you. You need to go in and see for yourself. I sense a lot of doubt in your heart still"
"Yes I don't know"
"Just have faith and believe He'll change your life"
"I want to where is the faith store?"
"God loves you he brought you here right now so you could accept Him. He's been putting all these random people in your life so you can believe. Can you feel His Spirit tugging at your heart right now?"
"I think so"
At this point I felt that he wasn't there yet but HE WAS SO CLOSE so I prayed over him, gave him my contact information and told him to EMAIL me when he believed.
Isn't that crazy? its like God put this random guy in my life at that exact time to give him the exact words that I gave.
It blew me away how this guy could be brought so far and deep into the truth and not be blinded by the world. He told me that he was Catholic before but honestly this guy was so innocent and so sincere just wow. I used to think that it was almost impossible to bring someone to God who was so lost but I dunno I guess God showed me that He works without the help of anyone.
I think another thing that I learned was that this guy was so close, he knew all the right things. Its like God brought him right to the doorstep of salvation and yet he didn't have the faith. It reminds of the story in Mark 5:21-43 where Jesus says "Don't be afraid; just believe."
and then the guys response to me brought the story in Mark 9:14-30 to mind where the man says "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"
anyways pray for this guy his name is Hosea
I really want to get an email saying "I BELIEVE!"
