Drug addictions and Weeping in Walmart
I was talking to a friend of mine online earlier this evening and right before I had to leave she tells me this story.
If your reading this, thank you for telling me this story. It has encouraged me incredibly.
Her relative has been on drugs for a good while, as I understand it. She told me that she felt it was almost impossible to get through to this person. She hadn’t had the greatest relationship with this person and because of that she felt it was not possible to talk with said person about Christ. So she is in Walmart doing some shopping and she gets a phone call. She pulls out her cell and notices that this person is calling. This person says that they had just heard God speak audibly to them and then shortly after someone began to speak prophetically over them. They had recieved Christ into their heart the night before.
Needless to say, she fell to the floor with tears of joy streaming down her cheeks. God is SO good.
I am telling you this story because not 10 minutes before this, I had been reading a book by David Pierce called Into the Lion’s Den. Its sort of an autobiography about his life and the ways that God has used him. He tells about ministering in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, battling demons and seeing people instantanously transformed by God. As I read, I got that feeling that alot of people get when they read something like that. “That’s cool. But it will never happen to me. God will never use me like that.” I’m here to say that that is a lie from the pit of hell. This story is a PRIME example of God transforming His children into tools to heal the sick and save the lost.
This is why I do what I do. This is why I am doing this DTS. This is why I want to be involved in youth ministry for the rest of my life. I want to see youth radically transformed and healed. I want to see youth being the tool God uses to bring radical transformation and healing to other youth.
God, use me like You have used David Pierce. I know realize that all that takes is listening to You and then acting when You need me to, to do that thing I don’t want to.
Amen
i dont really believe in the bible i like the fact that alot of good people believe, but i believe in nature, the 4 seasons r what support my family other than that my anger sometimes says fuck the world and everybody in it, why am i twisted or just in need of help it makes me wonder if im here part time or get it over with my kids are strong and healthy teach me something i dont allready know cause im tired of being a addict
I’m not sure what to say man. There is only so much I can say. What I can say is that saying screw it is definately not the answer. I can tell you that the Bible was written over the span of 1400 years and that it never contradicts itself or history. I can tell you that I know for a fact that Christ died for the world, and that there is historical evidence (Roman records confirm the death of a man named Jesus). I can tell you that Christ has transformed my life and brought me out of some serious depression. I can tell you that I know a guy that works with drug users in England that told me the people who accept Jesus as their Savior are something like 3 times as likely to kick drug habits…
All I can say I pray you find a church, find Jesus and see him transform your life.