Saved on a Saturday night!
This weekend our worship team went to Halkidiki for a retreat. We worshiped and prayed together. Katie taught about the danger of letting selfish ambition bring disorder and jealousy in a worship team. Really good stuff to think about. We then prayed and shared words from the Lord for each one of us until 3 o’ clock in the morning. It brought us closer and I felt we got a new love for one another.
Saturday night I was suppose to give a Bible study about the book of Ester in a woman’s home. Her name is Jota and her sister, an air hostess, was visiting her. I had not slept enough and was exhausted. I almost canceled, but then Peggy said she felt I should go. So I asked the other guys to pray for me and the evening, and went there with Stavroula and Vasilis.
I talked about how God has a plan for each one of us. How He offers us to play a part in His salvation plan for the world, just like He used Ester, an orphan and immigrant, to save a whole people. After finishing the Bible study I felt the Spirit whisper that it was time to bring her in for landing. I figured it meant that Jotas sister, the air hostess, was ready to accept Jesus as her Saviour. So I asked her if she was willing to, and she said “Yes!”
She had already understood God was searching for her heart on a recent flight to one of USA’s bigger cities (don’t remember which one). Walking with her colleges in the street there was a big neon light sign in front of them saying something like “God bless this country, In God we trust” She looked away and then back again. For a second she saw the sign had changed into big, neon letters in the night sky saying; “I Love You!”. A second later it was gone and the old message was back again. No one else had seen it. She understood it was God giving her a message of love.
So I spelled out a simple salvation prayer and she repeated. It was a beautiful moment. She cried and we all prayed for a good while for her, giving her words from her Heavenly Father of how He loved her and the wonderful future He had for her.
What I didn’t know was that Peggy, Jota and the other guys in the Alpha Group had been praying for the air hostess weeks before.
Praise God who is always chasing after us and never giving up on us!
