You know that feeling when you wake up and it's as if God was jumping up and down on your bed to wake u?
That "this is the day that the Lord has made" feeling? And you just know it's going to be a good and productive day?
I think I kinda get what Jesus was saying when He said, I’ll be with you wherever you go, even to the very ends of the earth. For months I had been crying out, not just to God but the people around me because I'd been looking at my witness-life and realised that I didn't have one at all. Last time I’d ever tried evangelising was o-week!
Anyways, so I was just going on about how I need to hang out with someone whose witness-life is working out, so that it would hopefully rub off on me. About a month ago, at grow evening, we were talking about evangelising, and people were giving testimonies about how God had been showing up whenever they went reaching out, and I just thought, "Okay, enough crying Lord, we have to get started on this thing".
I tried with the team that did it on Thursdays by the matrix. At first there was fear, which I was hiding behind the "I wanna see a vision of a red T-shirt first". After a while though, we just decided to go for whoever and trust that God would give us the word or vision while we're busy talking to the person, and He did!
A few weeks ago, when the whole reaching out thing was starting out in my walk, we were at the matrix, and we saw these two guys, just chilling by those tables at the plasma screens. We walked up to them and just started chatting about whatever. The general idea was to make new friends with the aim of reaching them with the gospel. So we spoke and just hoped God would somehow come up in the conversation, but still being intentional about directing the conversation. Saw I asked them "what do you guys think about God?” One said he believed in Him, but still just needed some more light on His ways. The other dude was a bit shy to answer the question. It was as though it's been on his mind for some time, and he'd been trying to avoid it, and now he was cornered. He said he didn't know, so we spoke a little more about it. I then asked, "Is there anything right now stopping you from giving your life to Christ?" (That cliché never fails!!!). He said there was nothing, so I offered to lead him in praying the prayer of salvation, and he prayed it. We exchanged contacts and invited them to join the weekly lunch cell meetings. Hopefully they follow and grow in their walk.
From this, and many other similar encounters during outreach, I've learnt that people are waiting to hear the gospel. God has been preparing a lot of people's hearts to receive Him in their lives, and all that is needed is a mutual friend to introduce these two people who are both dying to meet each other (one of them literally).
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