Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Expanding the Kingdom

Tonight was my first night leading the men's discipleship group. I got everything together for our meeting the night before and was looking forward to it all day and just prayed that God would show up tonight and he did. It was a much smaller group, only four of us. We got into great and deep conversation about what it means to follow God in our lives and making decisions for doing our relationships with others the way he made us to. At the end, I asked one of the guys if he had ever made a decision to follow God because it came up that he had never been baptized. Once we found out that he had not, we just came around him and loved on him and told him that today is the day of salvation if he wants it and is ready to make that commitment. We asked him some questions and informed him about some of the costs and benefits of following God. He made a decision and we led him through a prayer for Jesus to cover over his sins and to commit to following God. We gave him the schedule of when we are meeting for college group and church. It was such a great experience. I definitely feel like I was not ready for what God was doing tonight. I felt inadequate to lead this man to Christ, but really it was just a lie. God can do impossible things as long as we obey him. So God thank you for not letting my limited view of the possible to hinder others from going forward in you and finding your salvation. I pray that everything that I said that was false would be forgotten and that your truth would remain. Teach me to speak only what you have given to say. And Father, I love that you rejoice over the one lost sheep that is found because I know that I was once that person and you still sing your song over me. Help me to faithfully administer the grace you have given me to others. All praise, glory and honor is yours forever.
Thank you Jesus!

2 comments:

  1. Hey David,

    I was just catching up on your blog and saw this post. Praise God for the work he's doing through you! Learning about a new member in the kingdom always makes me want to jump! :-)

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  2. Glad it could add to your joy as it did mine!

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