Friday, March 04, 2005

Act of God or not?

I haven't been in a relationship with anyone for about two years. But last night I met this guy who's a regular at Juice it up. Juice it up is a smoothie store that is owned by people in my church and practically everyone that works there goes to my church. I happened to be at Juice it up last night at the same time with this regular. Later I found out that neither of us had any real reason to be there because neither of us bought anything, we just hanged out and talked to the people working, one of them being my best friend from church. The two of us started to talk and I asked if he wanted to come to this youth function that was going on that night. I had no reason to ask him to come except that he interested me and I didn't want to stop talking to him. He agreed to come only because he had nothing else to do. I took him and he didn't really seem to be into the worship and he didn't really seem into the message, but at the end he went up to get prayer. Normally we don't have youth group on Thursdays but people from a sister church came to minister to us. When the praying was over we were about to leave without any exchange of numbers or anything when someone stopped him and said she had a word that God gave her for him. On a last note she asked him if she could gather other people from her church to pray over him and he said sure. I joined them. While they were only praying for him God started working on me. He told me that I had a gift that I had forgotten, a gift of evangelism. Evangelism is witnessing to people and bringing them to church. This guy was a Christian, but oddly I think he was going through the same thing I've been going through, which is nothing. I haven't been into church lately, I hadn't even been to youth group for months, my faith was in this gray area. So back to what God was saying: I basically broke down at that, I started to cry because I realized that I was worth something to God and he showed me by bringing this guy along. While I was crying people then started to pray for me also while this guy was sitting right by me having God work through him too. By the time all the praying stopped we both had a set very red eyes. The first thing that the people that prayed for us asked was if we were boyfriend and girlfriend, they had a hard time believing we had just met two hours before. I had this weird bonding experience with a complete stranger and I found it so refreshing. When we started to leave the second time I gave him my phone number and we agreed we'd have to get together. It took just one guy that God put into my path that made do a turn around with my faith. Life can be great with God in it. If your wondering what the guys name was, it was Eric. Strange.

3 Comments:

At 9:48 PM, Blogger Trissa + Joel said...

That sounds like a really cool experience. He sounds like an interesting guy. Hopefully you'll get to see more of him. Love,Tris

 
At 10:58 PM, Blogger Kat said...

Act of God...not a doubt in my mind.

The way that you laid the evening out...I could sense the fluid movements of grace...

You were a vessel for what God is doing, was doing...will continue to do.

I think for you...your evangelism is something that is birthed out of who you natural are. Go with that...be honest in that...but also be open to listening for His still small voice as you go out into the world.

I think is really beautiful how simple acts of conversation and listening can lead people to the Father. The daily acts leading to the Divine...

Michelle you are breathtaking...

Oh yeah...keep writing. You have a clarity in your writing...it is refreshing.

 
At 11:57 PM, Blogger Michelle said...

If anyone one wants to know nothing happend with Eric and I. I hung out with him the next night and found out he's not my type. He's a year older than me, but I felt as though I was older than him by a couple of years. One of the reasons why I don't date, I can't stand guys my age.

 

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