The things that are impossible for people to accomplish are always possible with God...
And it never ceases to amaze me at all the ways God utilizes His servants.
This morning, a prisoner who's only in his early 20s asked me to help his gang member sister come to faith in the Lord. He said that she wanted to be saved and to have her sins forgiven. He is a new Christian, and he said that he did not know what to say. So I wrote this young woman a typewritten letter along with a selection of Scripture verses. I also wrote a personal prayer for her to say, just as if it was coming from her heart. As far as this man knows, his sister never prayed in her life.
Tomorrow he is going to mail my message and prayer to her. I hope that when she reads everything carefully, she then asks Christ into her heart. All she has to do is follow the plan of salvation I provided for her as a guide. And from what her brother has shared with me, I can tell she is hungry for God. She wants to know her Creator and have a long talk with Him.
In the course of our lengthy conversation, this prisoner told me many things about his sister. She's a dedicated gang member, but this is going to change. I also looked at a handful of photos of this young lady posing in her gang clothing, her face with an artificial smile looking into a camera. She was proudly flashing various hand signs to denote membership. Yet her face told me a lot more, too.
Behind the facade of a smile, I saw desperation. I saw loneliness. I looked into a pair of hungry eyes, and I saw a longing soul wanting acceptance from a world she's really afraid of. It's a world that has given her far more pain than peace.
In my letter to this young woman, I said that God knows how disappointed she's been with life. I know she has tried all kinds of things and hung out with all kinds of people in her search for meaning, purpose and happiness. But these have always eluded her like an endless series of mirages in a dry, barren desert. Drugs were a big letdown. And no one she has ever met, nor has any man she's ever had sex with, been able to fill her soul with genuine and lasting joy.
I told her, too, how much Jesus loves her and how He longs to see her turn from her sins. He wants to forgive her and make His home in her heart. I said that Christ wants to be the friend and companion she's always wanted, but never knew where to find Him. Yet Jesus was there all the time, patiently knocking on the door of her heart. Since yesterday, I have been praying for this precious lady. Salvation, I believe, is soon to come her way.
D.B.
This morning, a prisoner who's only in his early 20s asked me to help his gang member sister come to faith in the Lord. He said that she wanted to be saved and to have her sins forgiven. He is a new Christian, and he said that he did not know what to say. So I wrote this young woman a typewritten letter along with a selection of Scripture verses. I also wrote a personal prayer for her to say, just as if it was coming from her heart. As far as this man knows, his sister never prayed in her life.
Tomorrow he is going to mail my message and prayer to her. I hope that when she reads everything carefully, she then asks Christ into her heart. All she has to do is follow the plan of salvation I provided for her as a guide. And from what her brother has shared with me, I can tell she is hungry for God. She wants to know her Creator and have a long talk with Him.
In the course of our lengthy conversation, this prisoner told me many things about his sister. She's a dedicated gang member, but this is going to change. I also looked at a handful of photos of this young lady posing in her gang clothing, her face with an artificial smile looking into a camera. She was proudly flashing various hand signs to denote membership. Yet her face told me a lot more, too.
Behind the facade of a smile, I saw desperation. I saw loneliness. I looked into a pair of hungry eyes, and I saw a longing soul wanting acceptance from a world she's really afraid of. It's a world that has given her far more pain than peace.
In my letter to this young woman, I said that God knows how disappointed she's been with life. I know she has tried all kinds of things and hung out with all kinds of people in her search for meaning, purpose and happiness. But these have always eluded her like an endless series of mirages in a dry, barren desert. Drugs were a big letdown. And no one she has ever met, nor has any man she's ever had sex with, been able to fill her soul with genuine and lasting joy.
I told her, too, how much Jesus loves her and how He longs to see her turn from her sins. He wants to forgive her and make His home in her heart. I said that Christ wants to be the friend and companion she's always wanted, but never knew where to find Him. Yet Jesus was there all the time, patiently knocking on the door of her heart. Since yesterday, I have been praying for this precious lady. Salvation, I believe, is soon to come her way.
D.B.
