As You Are Going...

When Jesus told us to go, He meant “as you are going” – going a bout your daily business, at work, in school, at the park, at the shopping center, before and after church, in the restaurant, at the health club, at prayer meetings, at coffee or lunch breaks or wherever your daily life takes you. We should be fulfilling the Great Commission on a continual daily basis.

Walk, run or fly with us through a few of the lifestyle events of our normal daily walk with Jesus!

Flying to a meeting one day, the man sitting next to us stood up. We noticed a special back pillow in his seat.

To us that was a signal for a miracle. When he returned, we questioned him about his back.

He was a salesman who traveled overseas as well as in the United States. He said the pain was so excruciating that he didn’t believe he would be able to make it to Korea the next week.

As we were getting off the plane in the next city, we asked him, “Would you like to go to the lobby and let us pray for your back to be healed?” When you’re hurting badly enough, you will never resist such an offer. We told him he had nothing to lose.

He was in such severe pain as he hobbled to the lobby that he was almost in tears. He didn’t want to sit down in public, so we put him behind the ticket counter wall.

His back was so out of line, we discovered, that one leg was two inches shorter than the other. When it grew out, he jumped up, bent over, twisted his back and then heard, “Final boarding call!” He ran down the ramp as fast as he could, yelling, “I have no more pain!”

Another healing occurred on a recent trip when we stopped at “the only open at that hour of the night” restaurant on this trip. After seating us at a dirty, oil-cloth- covered table, the waitress gave us the menus. Charles noticed something. He said to the waitress: “My wife has a wonderful ministry for pregnant women. Would you like for her to pray for you?”

The young woman burst into laughter and said, “Pray?” and continued laughing.

I immediately sensed a wonderful “as we were going” opportunity. So, grabbing her left hand, I laid my hand on her tummy and said, “Father, I thank You for this beautiful baby. Thank You that we don’t believe in abortion.” Before I said another word, she burst into tears. I knew she had considered abortion. I asked her whether she was married because there was no ring on her finger. She stumbled for words and finally came out with a very weak, “Yes.”

I said, “You need Jesus, honey. Pray this prayer after me.”

She prayed, and when we finished, I asked her, “Where is Jesus right now?”

She said, “In my heart!” The girl we left behind was not the same girl we met when we came in. She was a new creature!

Date: 2015-02-16; view: 726