18/08/2023
Evangelism- as Google search will tell you. The spreading of the Christian gospel by public preaching or personal witness.
I don’t share every time I witness to people as I just don’t have the time or have lots going on. But I do feel this one was important and significant. They all are but this guy NEEDS prayer. Your prayer, if you feel to.
I just popped down the road to get some milk. I didn’t have to, I could of gone without but I felt a strong yes.
As I pulled into the car park I noticed a guy walk right in front of where I parked. He was wearing the blue Glory Garments with gold cross. I got out of my car and had a strong urge to “pray” for this man. I didn’t know him. I tend to know almost all the people I sell the very shirt he was wearing. I was wearing the white glory with black cross.
“Nice shirt bro!” I exclaimed as he looked me up and down he said thanks and how it was popcorn or something. He was jittery and aloof in his expression.
I said “Do you know what the shirt means?” He said “yeah!”
Can I pray for you I asked and proceeded to pray a prayer for him that was personal. He exclaimed that was a great prayer. He said his name (Mark) and shared about the shirt and how he received it. People I knew and I said tell them I say hi.
I continued on in woolies and went about getting milk.
He comes back and continues.
“You don’t know who I am. I have so much problems. I used to be somebody. Now I am nobody. I used to have a record. The fastest person to climb tibrogargan” by this stage he was getting upset and agitated. I stood my ground and stepped in closer.
He proceeded to, in a round about way, reveal his drug addiction and pain in his heart about relationships and being wrongfully accused and prison time. It seemed he had a past growing up that was community involvement with children and now is unable to.
I reassured him that he is loved by God and how I could sense there was a assignment against him to take him out. I invited him to our church and he said his friends had encouraged him to come.
In all this I am blown away by how I could witness with the very shirt on my back the story of how it keeps me from falling. That his story is for our redemption. His blood. The cross. Resurrection power. Praise the Lord he sent this one to me and I to him. I pray he gets clean, and comes to know the saviour Jesus Christ. That his body and heart become healed from captivity and he experiences freedom he has dreamed of since he was a young boy.
