I've got to crash soon before church in the morning. Patti, one of the missionaries here, asked me to sing with her while she leads worship as the usual person is out. I've never sung before other people like on stage. Please keep it in prayer.
Thursday I had a wonderful day with Jenny Tait, a friend come over from Glasgow. Twice in the day I felt called, mid-sentence talking with Jenny, to talk to a few girls. The first time I totally biffed it. Hesitated way too long to a point where I would have had to awkwardly chase her down.
I wish I had.
3 days I didn't feel led to talk to anyone whilst walking around, and when I finally did, I froze.
The other girl was on the bus. Decked out in black everything. Chloe, if you're reading this: I knew right away I was just supposed to give her your CD with the Gospel poem on it. I tried. But the girl practically curled herself in the corner and refused to take it or converse with me. My heart majorly hurt for her. She had these blood shot (from tears?) yet soft, Russian eyes.
The Underbelly evangelism got canceled because the leaders were out of town. So I've been at Carrubbers the last two nights at the Room 65 Cafe. 600+ people have walked in those doors and received the gospel!
Please pray for the following gals I talked with at Room 65:
Deepti & Sneha - two hindu/Indian girls from London. Pray they understand that worshipping all gods, like Jesus and Allah, and Hindu gods, doesn't mean they're saved and have their bases covered. Sneha was resonating, Deepti was acting self-righteous.
Alba & Martha - two girls from Spain. Hi? Can I please disciple you?! Please?
My heart was so wanting to take in Alba and just hang out with her and edify her in her faith. They're both Catholics, recently moved here, and still looking for a church. A really cool convo about needing to know Jesus Christ and not church tradition. Alba really understood. They didn't have Bibles, so I sent them home with a few and dogearred the Gospel of Mark, to learn about Jesus, and Phillipians, to learn about the fruit we bear in Jesus. They both said they wanted to come to the midweek Bible study.
Jessica - a gal who is traveling on her own. She knows the LORD! Please pray for her to fall more in love with Him on this trip.
Please pray for the following folks my new friend Christina and I talked with on the streets:
Keith - such a awesome convo. He said he really needed a Savior. He was getting really scared at how much his sin was piling up. He even played a song on his guitar for us about wanting God to find him, and unbeknownst to him, there was some scripture in it! Grew up Catholic. He said he kept getting stuck in dedicating himself to God because he knew he'd backslide and couldn't keep up righteousness. We told him that he must come to God as he is, trusting God will do the work to cleanse him and sustain him. We shared Romans 7:13-25, that even Paul struggled with doing what he didn't want to do and not doing what he did want to do as a Christian, but in Philippians 3:12-14, Paul resolved that "I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
I love how Keith was seriously considering his committment to follow Christ before making the decision; please pray though that he understands Christ's grace and power to affect change in his heart.
Hippie girl and post-modern girl - sorry, can't remember names. This was a crazy convo, but really good. And we totally experienced a miracle. Hippie girl was nuts. Like all over the place, not letting us talk and twisting everything we were saying. And then it was like magic (well no, the Holy Spirit, duh) and she totally calmed down, listened, and followed along! Pray she understands that the Jesus she follows isn't the real Jesus, and that she desires to know the real one. Pray also that she understands she is a sinner, and that God will judge all sinners one day. Post modern girl was quiet the whole time and then out of nowhere asked a brilliant question: Why did God bother to make humans if we're such screw ups? And if He made us to worship Him, God seems arrogant.
I had asked this same exact question about 6 months before I had gotten saved :) It was actually one of the major reasons I'd dug my heals in to not going to church when invited.
Please pray for her faith to return to her, and that it would be grounded in Jesus, and not man or church. She was burned by a church that fell apart because of corruption.
On a last note, it's crazy how God has opened up friendship with Emma (from Carrubbers Church) and Christina (from CC Edinburgh). We just have such similar testimonies, and all of us are the only believers in our families, and came to him as such unlikely candidates. Sharing the Gospel with Christina today was like walking around with a prophetess. She has such a gift of knowing and proclaiming the Word of God.
Anyways, it's 1 in the morning. Good night and thanks for praying!
Shruti
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