Obeying the Holy Spirit

This may be the most exciting witnessing experience I have ever heard of in my whole life. I had it told to me this past week and must tell about it now.

A young couple moved to another town several years ago. Across the street was a 65-year-old man and his 87-year-old mother. For several years the wife of this couple felt burdened to witness to this man and his mother, but fear held her back.

This wife took the Evangelism Explosion training for soul-winning. The burden for sharing the gospel with her neighbors grew stronger and stronger, but still she put it off. Finally, ten years after moving in she determined she was going to give them the gospel. She called a couple of friends and had them pray for her as she went.

When she got over there fear gripped her heart and she hardly knew what to say. She told them about taking the training and needed to practice making the presentation and asked if they would let her "practice" on them. They consented and she began the presentation. She said she made a mess of it and mixed it all up and forgot part of it. When she finished she felt terrible and just knew they were not interested. She asked if it made sense to them and they both said it did. It shocked her! Then she asked if they would like to pray and receive the Lord Jesus and to her utter amazement they both said they would.

When they finished praying they both said they were now saved, but showed absolutely no emotion. She left them with doubt as to whether they were really saved and felt almost depressed and that she had failed. She asked the dear Lord to somehow let her know if it was real or not.

Several weeks later she had a knock at her door. A man asked if this was where the "preacher lady" lived. She said there was no preacher living there. Then he asked for her by name and she acknowledged that was she. He then said he was the son of the man across the street and that he himself was a preacher. He said he had been praying for his dad, to be saved for years. Every time he tried to talk to his dad, he would leave the room and not listen to his preacher son. But now, his dad had called him and told him about the lady across the street who had come over and both he and his mother had been saved. The preacher was so thrilled he had to come over and thank her and rejoice that his father and grandmother had been saved! They wept together and the angels of heaven rejoiced together for the great victory that had been won.

She felt she had fumbled and failed, but God takes the weak things and does mighty things. As I heard this I wondered how many reading this may have missed being the answer to someone's prayers by not obeying the urging of the Holy Spirit to share the gospel no matter how inadequate they may feel. Obey God. Get in on it!