And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. Acts 2.42
My Tingly moment yesterday was still stinging my neurons when all of a sudden José came up to me and out of the blue said, “Pastor, I want to accept Christ!”
Talk about a jaw dropping moment! I had just experienced the Miracle of Music and here was a teen staring me in the face talking about wanting to make an eternal decision. It caught me by surprise and I said, “What? You want to accept Christ?” He shook his head and stared me straight in the eyes with a very serious look on his face.
We went to sit down and found a place on the edge of the platform. I sat between Jefferson and Mateus. José sat beside Jefferson and Mateus was on my left. It was kind of a weird arrangement but there we sat.
I said, “Is there a problem if we sit here?” Both Mateus and Jeff said that there wasn’t. I said to Jefferson, “You’ve already accepted Christ right?” He nodded that he had. I look at Mateus and said, “You’ve accepted Christ right?” He said “No. But I want to!” That was my surprise.
God had placed me next to another teen whom He had been working on for a few weeks. Mateus was ready to make an important decision too. While I talked with José and Mateus, seven year old Camille came up and said (guess what) “I want to accept Christ!” surprise number three!
I explained the Gospel and all three of them bowed their heads and prayed one by one to ask Jesus to be their Savior. They were all back today for church. That is a good sign. Isn’t God wonderful. He works in marvelous ways to bring people to Himself.
Just last night a friend of mine wrote, “... I have to believe we are experiencing 'last day' events. I believe Jesus is coming soon, maybe not in our lifetime, but it would not surprise me if He does. I am oh, so ready, to hear the trumpet blow!!!!!”
I am ready for that same trumpet but after seeing these precious kid make such an important decision I realize, as I know that my friend does too, that there is work to do until that final Trumpet sounds.
One last precious moment. Today in my Junior’s class Paulo showed me his note book. “Just one year ago today I accepted Christ as my Savior” he told with a beaming smile. In his book it read, “I made a big decision, today October 3, 2009. I accepted Jesus as my Savior. My life has really changed and I am so happy.”
Isn’t that neat. Jesus’ words came to mind, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
My Tingly moment yesterday was still stinging my neurons when all of a sudden José came up to me and out of the blue said, “Pastor, I want to accept Christ!”
Talk about a jaw dropping moment! I had just experienced the Miracle of Music and here was a teen staring me in the face talking about wanting to make an eternal decision. It caught me by surprise and I said, “What? You want to accept Christ?” He shook his head and stared me straight in the eyes with a very serious look on his face.
We went to sit down and found a place on the edge of the platform. I sat between Jefferson and Mateus. José sat beside Jefferson and Mateus was on my left. It was kind of a weird arrangement but there we sat.
I said, “Is there a problem if we sit here?” Both Mateus and Jeff said that there wasn’t. I said to Jefferson, “You’ve already accepted Christ right?” He nodded that he had. I look at Mateus and said, “You’ve accepted Christ right?” He said “No. But I want to!” That was my surprise.
God had placed me next to another teen whom He had been working on for a few weeks. Mateus was ready to make an important decision too. While I talked with José and Mateus, seven year old Camille came up and said (guess what) “I want to accept Christ!” surprise number three!
I explained the Gospel and all three of them bowed their heads and prayed one by one to ask Jesus to be their Savior. They were all back today for church. That is a good sign. Isn’t God wonderful. He works in marvelous ways to bring people to Himself.
Just last night a friend of mine wrote, “... I have to believe we are experiencing 'last day' events. I believe Jesus is coming soon, maybe not in our lifetime, but it would not surprise me if He does. I am oh, so ready, to hear the trumpet blow!!!!!”
I am ready for that same trumpet but after seeing these precious kid make such an important decision I realize, as I know that my friend does too, that there is work to do until that final Trumpet sounds.
One last precious moment. Today in my Junior’s class Paulo showed me his note book. “Just one year ago today I accepted Christ as my Savior” he told with a beaming smile. In his book it read, “I made a big decision, today October 3, 2009. I accepted Jesus as my Savior. My life has really changed and I am so happy.”
Isn’t that neat. Jesus’ words came to mind, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?
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