Hurah!
A late post because I’m so excited!! We had our little house group as usual tonight. (We are a small group of 4 young people.) One of the lads brought an ex-work collegue along. She said in a very straight forward manner that she was searching for Jesus and couldn’t reach him. "How can I have a relationship with Jesus?" she asked. Wow!! What a question! You can imagine our reply, and if you can’t, we said, "You can’t reach Jesus because the wrong things you have done and will do, the bad things you think and say, separate you from his presence. But if you recognise this, ask him to forgive you and help you to change, he will! Jesus died on the cross to pay the punishment for the wrong things you have done so that you don’t have to. All you have to do is believe this sincerely, turn away from the wrong choices you have made and turn towards Jesus and allow him to work in your life. From the moment you say this to him he comes, by his spirit, to live in you and bring you into a fantastic loving relationship with your creator." Wow! I’m so glad we have a GOOD NEWS to share. (I think it should maybe be called ‘the amazingly, unimaginably fantastic news.)
THEN…
One of our little group tripped in late becuase she had a phone called just as she was leaving. Patrick was a man who started the Alpha course (an introduction to Christianity) last September but never followed it through because he found the message offensive. Anyway, Patrick rang her at 7.30pm this evening to say that he has been battling and fighting with himself and with God but in the end he is exhausted and he knows that she has a peace that he hasn’t, and he accepts that it comes from her relationship with Jesus. Can we talk?’ Wow x2!
Please pray for Patrick and Mavis…and that God would bring us more people like them, thirsty for the peace and the presence of a loving God.
