If you are like me, you want everyone to know and
believe in Jesus Christ as Savior. If you are like me, you may feel responsible
for your family and friends and making sure they get into heaven. I want to set
your hearts and minds at rest. Jesus hears your prayer. Yesterday we looked at
a verse to remind us. Sometimes we plant a seed, someone else waters it and
God, through His Holy Spirit, makes it happen.
Many of
us had given up on my brother Jim ever believing. He had been depressed off and
on throughout his life. He called himself an atheist and couldn’t imagine a
loving God in this dark world. It would only be during the end of his life that
God started to bring the right people around him. Because of a neurological
disease that began in his toes and worked its way upward over years until he
couldn’t speak or swallow very well, he lived in a nursing home.
He
connected with a motorcycle-riding chaplain. A friend he hadn’t seen in
decades, also in a wheelchair, happened to see him on a metro-mobility bus and
would come to the nursing home with a Bible in her hand. They hymns they sang
on Sunday morning melted his heart and he shed the tears he had been holding in
his whole life. And one beautiful fall day, on his wife's birthday, as she and I walked into the nursing home. He said, "I am born again. I have met Jesus!"
Jesus
knows the day and the hour a heart will open. He will send the right
people at the right time. Plant those seeds, pray with confidence and watch for
God to work. Praise Him! Believe He is working even before we see results.
“For
I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord. "Plans to prosper you and
not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
Father,
We trust you with our loved ones. Open their hearts
and minds to accept You. We pray for the right words and for the right people
to come into their lives at just the right time. We trust You. We want to share
You with them.
In Jesus name,
Amen
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