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The faithful to the cause of God,
LISTENS!
God Still hears and answers prayer and God still
has his faithful servants!
A young
man had been to Wednesday night Bible Study. The Pastor had shared
about listening to God and
obeying
the Lord's voice. The young man
couldn't
help but wonder, "Does God
still
speak to people?"
After the service he went out with some friends for
coffee
and pie and they
discussed the message. Several
different
ones talked about how God had led them
in different ways. It was
about
ten o'clock when the young man started driving home.
Sitting in his car, he
just
began to pray, "God, If you still speak to
people, speak to me. I will listen. I will do my best to
obey."
As he drove down the main street of his town, he
had
the strangest thought
to stop and buy a gallon of milk.
He
shook
his head and said out loud, "God is that
you?" He didn't get a reply and
started on toward home. But again,
the
thought,
buy a gallon of milk. The
young man
thought about Samuel and how
he
didn't
recognize the voice of God, and how
little
Samuel ran to Eli when the Spirit of the Lord spoke to little Samuel. The young
man said, "Okay, God, in case
that is you, I will buy the
milk."
It didn't seem like too hard a test of obedience.
He could always use the milk. He
stopped
and purchased the gallon of milk and
started off toward home.
As he passed Seventh Street, he again felt the
urge,
"Turn down that
street." This is crazy he thought and drove on
past
the intersection. Again, he
felt that he
should turn down Seventh
Street.
At the next intersection, he
turned
back and headed down Seventh street. Half
jokingly,
he said out loud, "Okay, God, I will".
He drove several blocks,
when suddenly, he felt
like he should stop. He
pulled
over to the curb and looked around. He was in
semi-commercial area of town. It wasn't the best
but it wasn't the worst of neighborhoods either.
The businesses were closed and most of the houses
looked
dark like the people were already in bed.
Again, he sensed
something,
"Go and give the milk to the people in
the house across the street." The young
man looked at the house. It was dark and it looked like
the people were either gone or they were
already
asleep. He started to open the door
and
then sat back in the car seat. "Lord, this is insane. Those people are
asleep
and if I wake them up, they are going to be mad and I
will look stupid." Again, he felt like he should go and give the milk.
Finally, he opened
the
door,
"Okay God, if this is you, I will go to the door
and I will give them
the milk. If you want me to look like a crazy
person,
okay. I want to be obedient. I guess that will count for something,
but
if they don't answer right away, I am
out of here." He walked across
the street and rang the bell. He
could hear some noise inside. A man's
voice yelled out, "Who
is it? What do you want?" Then the door opened before the
young
man could get away.
The man was standing there in his jeans and
T-shirt.
He looked like he had
just got out of bed. He had a strange
look
on his face and he didn't seem too happy to
have some stranger standing
on
his doorstep. "What is
it?"
The
young man thrust out the gallon of milk, "Here,
I
brought this to you." The man took the milk and
rushed down a hallway speaking loudly in Spanish. Then from
down
the hall came a woman carrying the milk toward the
kitchen.
The man was following her holding a baby. The
baby was crying. The man had tears streaming down
his
face.
The
man began speaking and half crying,
"We
were just praying. We
had
some big bills this month and we ran out of money. We
didn't have any milk for our baby. I was just praying and asking God to show
me how to get some milk." His wife in the kitchen
yelled out, "I ask him to send an
Angel
with some milk. Are you an
Angel?"
The
young man reached into his wallet and pulled out all the money he had on
him
and put it in the man's hand. He turned and walked back
toward his car and the tears were streaming down his
face.
He knew that God still
answers
prayers.
If tears are streaming down your face right now then God can still use you.....
Thank God that He wants to use man and not Angels to get the Gospel to a lost
world.
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Christ and let Him change your heart. Please click on the link below.
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