God gave us great liberty to preach, though, and blessed us with warm sunshine even though temps were in the teens.While there was plenty of the hardness described above, we still had the opportunity to speak with several folks. There is one gentleman in particular I would ask you to pray for. His name is Jim. He stood and intently watched and listened to Dave preach for about 10 minutes. I afterward approached him with a tract, after which a conversation ensued. He told me he was searching for God. After dealing with some basic questions, he noticed his bus had arrived. He expressed his disappointment that our conversation was cut short, but we were able to give him a Bible before he boarded his bus. He seemed to be sincerely searching--and it was the PREACHING that stopped him!
If you wonder what to pray for about this ministry, one thing in particular is that God would soften and open the hearts of the people on the streets of Hartford. "And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which
saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye
shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them." (Matthew 13:14-15)Tweet
I know exactly how you feel
ReplyDeleteI would encourage you to just continue to do what you feel the Lord is leading you to do, and leave the rest to God. My friend and myself were called by the Lord over twenty five years ago to 'go out into the highways and the byways' given songs and poems to put together in leaflets, even taken into a 'lifers' wing in a prison, and have just been led by the Holy Spirit. It is God who actually does the work through us, and it is a case of 'one plants, one waters and God adds the increase. The timing is left to God, for no man can come to Christ except he is drawn by God.
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