Well, I have no time to blog right now, so this is kinda a copy-paste from something I typed earlier. xP. But it's so exciting I don't care if someone reads it twice. xP
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet up with a new International friend of mine whom I had met a couple weeks ago at church during our missions conference weekend. We had a luncheon and invited International students, then H+JL shared about stress and JL gave his testimony in Mandarin. I only knew enough to pick up that he had talked about God and sin and love, so I just prayed during that time.
I had got my friend's contact info and was trying to keep in touch, but he was a bit bad at replying to texts.
The other day I was at work and he text me asking if there was anything happening at church this weekend. I told him about Sunday School and Service, which he didn't know much about and said he would come with me this weekend. But I wanted to meet up and talk more before going; ask about what JL had said and explain why people go to church.
I set up for us to meet yesterday at 2:45 and a guy in my DG was coming with me. I thought my friend was pretty open considering I knew he had heard the gospel from JL and that he was curious about church, so we prayed and as we were still praying he showed up.
We talked a bit about the weather and school and stuff. I asked about JL's testimony and he had shared about the 'benefits of knowing God and that we should all give it a try'. I asked what he knew about church, what he knew about Jesus. He did not know much, so I asked if he would like to know some more. He did, so I took out the bilingual 4 Spiritual Laws booklet and we started to go through it.
He was pretty concerned when we told him sin prevented us from connecting with God, but then Jesus was the bridge, the only way for us to have that connection. When we got to point 4, receiving Christ he was jumping ahead asking how he could. When we said it was by praying he asked how he could pray. Then we got to the page with the two circles. He wanted Jesus in his life.
We got to the prayer and I asked if he understood what everything meant in it and he said yes. I still went through sentence by sentence anyways to make sure and asked if he really wanted to pray this. I asked if he knew what the meaning of praying it was and said he didn't have to if he didn't want to. It doesn't matter what words you say, but what you really mean in your heart, my DGer had said. He still wanted Christ.
And so we prayed together for Jesus to come into his life! =D
And right after he asked about feelings. XP
He said he didn't know how to describe what he was feeling, but "I know something amazing has just happened. Wow."
I told him about our relationship as children of God and that we were brothers now.
He had class, but he was really excited. XP. My DGer had a pocket-sized gospel of John, so we gave him both that and the 4 Laws booklet. He was really excited about having both of them.
On Sunday we will be going to OCBC together and going to the Sunday school class that is bilingual. This week the topic is about father/child relationships in the Bible. Pray for DL to continue to grow as God establishes his faith.
Praise the Lord! =D
God did all of this not me. I actually didn't even plan on going to the international luncheon. I met DL through a friend of a friend. My texts had gone without timely reply, but then he text me. God had been working in Him the whole time between that weekend and now.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet up with a new International friend of mine whom I had met a couple weeks ago at church during our missions conference weekend. We had a luncheon and invited International students, then H+JL shared about stress and JL gave his testimony in Mandarin. I only knew enough to pick up that he had talked about God and sin and love, so I just prayed during that time.
I had got my friend's contact info and was trying to keep in touch, but he was a bit bad at replying to texts.
The other day I was at work and he text me asking if there was anything happening at church this weekend. I told him about Sunday School and Service, which he didn't know much about and said he would come with me this weekend. But I wanted to meet up and talk more before going; ask about what JL had said and explain why people go to church.
I set up for us to meet yesterday at 2:45 and a guy in my DG was coming with me. I thought my friend was pretty open considering I knew he had heard the gospel from JL and that he was curious about church, so we prayed and as we were still praying he showed up.
We talked a bit about the weather and school and stuff. I asked about JL's testimony and he had shared about the 'benefits of knowing God and that we should all give it a try'. I asked what he knew about church, what he knew about Jesus. He did not know much, so I asked if he would like to know some more. He did, so I took out the bilingual 4 Spiritual Laws booklet and we started to go through it.
He was pretty concerned when we told him sin prevented us from connecting with God, but then Jesus was the bridge, the only way for us to have that connection. When we got to point 4, receiving Christ he was jumping ahead asking how he could. When we said it was by praying he asked how he could pray. Then we got to the page with the two circles. He wanted Jesus in his life.
We got to the prayer and I asked if he understood what everything meant in it and he said yes. I still went through sentence by sentence anyways to make sure and asked if he really wanted to pray this. I asked if he knew what the meaning of praying it was and said he didn't have to if he didn't want to. It doesn't matter what words you say, but what you really mean in your heart, my DGer had said. He still wanted Christ.
And so we prayed together for Jesus to come into his life! =D
And right after he asked about feelings. XP
He said he didn't know how to describe what he was feeling, but "I know something amazing has just happened. Wow."
I told him about our relationship as children of God and that we were brothers now.
He had class, but he was really excited. XP. My DGer had a pocket-sized gospel of John, so we gave him both that and the 4 Laws booklet. He was really excited about having both of them.
On Sunday we will be going to OCBC together and going to the Sunday school class that is bilingual. This week the topic is about father/child relationships in the Bible. Pray for DL to continue to grow as God establishes his faith.
Praise the Lord! =D
God did all of this not me. I actually didn't even plan on going to the international luncheon. I met DL through a friend of a friend. My texts had gone without timely reply, but then he text me. God had been working in Him the whole time between that weekend and now.
Ttyl.
D.Fa
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