Provision

I was at work after the shop had shut, just tidying up and stuff, as you do, when a God conversation suddenly broke out!

To say that I'm rusty in this area (of evangelism) is an understatement. It's quite sad actually. Lately however, I've been really inspired by God to go after the lost but in my head this takes the form of street and youth orientated evangelism. He did teach me (or re teach me) a valuable lesson about sharing the truth with others yesterday though.

What happened was, I was on the till and I had been making insinuations to my manager that she should come to church, having been inspired by another younger guy that works with me who invited her and told her it would change her life. This led to a full blown conversation with the usual spiritually blind questions and comments. "do you read the Bible every day then?", "do you pray every day as well?", "why does bad stuff happen to good people then? cos I'm a good person" and so on and so forth.
In all honesty I didn't have instant amazing answers for them, although I've been through all of this stuff before however I did manage to convey some understanding to them by God's grace lol.

You see the Lord dropped it into my spirit that there is a ripe harvest of lost and broken people who need Christ all around me and that evangelism need not begin with strangers on the street. I need not be intimidated by my own massive vision (if that makes any sense at all?) but must grow in Him and be faithful with little before I am faithful with much. I'm just really encouraged though, cos God kinda made the opportunity for me and now I'm gonna zone in an go back to work ready! Girded loins and all!(that's ready for action for those who are less fluent in Bible speak).

But there's more! When I was at home, Sarah contacted me and told me that a note I posted on Facebook ages ago, about the validity of the Bible, had been used in her Bible study to encourage and equip the bretheren. Material like that note being the very same stuff that I need to bring to the guys at work. God's provision is too nuts. Man said (hood term), what I needed was already on my own Facebook, plagiarised by my own hands! God's provision is too nuts and I'm amped at the prospect of people's broken, dreary, sad lives being transformed, renewed and filled with contentment!

Jehovah Jireh for real, and that's not just when the mortgage needs paying!

(Jehovah Jireh means the Lord who provides or the Lord our provider)