The past several days have been so amazing! At every college we went to we had really significant spiritual conversations. God has really blessed our time every day...throughout the summer each person has had at least one deep spiritual conversation every day...thats a lot of conversations!
I just want to share with you something that happened on Wednesday. Please be mindful that I don't share this to bring myself glory because I am so insignificant in this...it is all because of Jesus and glory belongs to God! I share this because what happened has really blessed my life and is just one of the examples of how God is so faithful to obedience, even if you have to wait a really long time...not to mention how he orchestrates EVERYTHING so perfectly!
So God had really been laying it on my heart to fast...he would not let me get it off of my mind...so after a lot of praying I decided to start Wednesday after breakfast and end Thursday at 3. during this time I specifically wanted to remember the students at Kingsborough because my heart has really been burdened for them and just re-focus spiritually. So yeah we get to Kingsborough Wednesday and I got paired up with a girl named Dani(she is part of the Boston summer project, they came to visit us) and we tried to talk to like three different people but got shot down pretty fast :( but God had far bigger plans. So I see the lifeguards out on the kingsborough beach, and I was like oooo lifeguards, I love lifeguards, lets go talk to them (cuz there was no one in the water of course and they were chillin like professional lifeguards). So we did, one dude and two dudets. We did Soularium with them, and it was an ok conversation, but I could tell it wasn't going to go where we wanted it too...as soon as I thought that out of no where this guy comes up to us. He came to say hello to the lifeguards but ended up joining our conversation and soon he and I were engaged in a deep spiritual conversation. We talked for at least an hour. Chris had a Catholic background and kept saying he knew a lot about what I was saying, he said he prayed and went to church. I went through the KGP booklet with him and he was so into it...I could tell he had never heard the gospel before (grown up in church and never heard the whole gospel, ugh). I got to talk with him about what he thought God's standard was for letting us into heaven and of course his answer was "be good, try the best you can, pray, and go to church", I then shared with him that since we are human we are not good no matter how hard we try and we will always fall short...and we have to ask Jesus to come in our heart and become our savior, and have a personal relationship with him. He agreed with all of this but still kept going back to the whole works mindset...we talked about it for a long time until he finally said, well I want what you are talking about...and right there on the beach Chris prayed to receive Christ. I can't believe Jesus let me be apart of something like this and I am so thankful and encouraged by that. Chris is coming with our group to a baseball game on Coney Island today. I am hoping to introduce him to my guy friends...and hopefully we will have the opportunity to talk with him more, and try to help him understand more about his new faith. I think something most people struggle with when someone comes to Christ is if that decision was really legit...only them and God truly know but we are responsible to follow up and love on that person. So yeah I am so excited for that!
I say all this to express how stinking awesome Jesus Christ is...not like we didn't already know that but seriously! This experience reminded me of how perfect his ways are! He orchestrated everything so perfectly! I had recently been so discouraged because out of all the years that I have shared my faith, I have never seen anyone come to Christ...it has reminded me that its all on His time, not mine! I find it crazy that the day I decide to go on a fast...God brings another child into his family by using an insignificant person like me! It reminds me that if we can just empty ourselves of OURSELVES than there is more room for God to use us! And if God is telling you to do something, DO IT! Then just sit back and watch because you are going to be amazed!
"If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4:11
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