We got chatting to a guy in Brighton recently about who God
is and what he has done in our lives. He was so interested, and wanted to know
what God wanted to say to him that we invited him back to the Church we were
working with to share food and talk more.
He ended up spending the whole evening with us, even joining
us for a time of worship after the meal. During the evening I got to spend time
praying for him and shared with him what I felt God was saying. It was during
this time of prayer that the things God had been saying to me made sense a bout
where he was at and the question he had. This was the main reason he stayed to
be apart of our worship time.
I found out at the end of the evening that he had made a
commitment to follow Jesus about 10 years before this, but had slowly drifted
away from his faith, and did not know that God is active and speaks. When he
came to me at the end of the evening to tell me this, he also told me that he
was expecting me to tell him specific direction about where he should go and
what he should be doing, but that during worship he had heard God speak to him
for the first time, and now he did not need me to tell him these things because
he knows God will tell him at the right time.
It is amazing how when we come to God and spend time with
him he is faithful to meet us where we are at and speak to us. It really moved
me how much that time changed this man, and he certainly walk out of that
building with a new purpose in his step, full of hope.
