Rejoice with me!!
PostPosted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 5:45 pm
This is a testimony that I've shared many months ago in my previous blog, which I've close it down due to lack of time to manage it. I hope that you will be bless reading it. Knowing that whatever we sow we will surely read. Delay is not denial! Trust in God, for it pleases Him. So here goes:
I have a very close friend whom I have known for over 12 years. To respect this person, I will not say the name of my friend. I have known him since primary school. He is my closest friend that I ever have. But there is one problem. He doesn’t believe in God. When I got saved 5 years ago. I tried to persuade him that accepting Christ is the only solution to obtain salvation. But somehow He was much closed up to me; he even quoted some examples of people who went bazaar after accepting Christ. He also wanted me to give Him evidence which prove the existence of God! I was very discouraged, it just seems like all my close friends and family member are not able to accept Christ.
Still, I never give up praying for him. I tried praying and fasting for him till a point when I realize that he is not going to open up to me. So I decided to give up on him and move on.
So life carries on as usual, while I am attending Church, he carries on with His life. Only recently, after I have created my blog for sometimes, I have decided to take up faith to invite my family members and this friend of mine who have been very close up to the Gospel, to visit my blog. I was hoping to touch their hearts with my testimonies that I have posted up.
Thankfully, none of them have any objections to that, yet there are also no breakthroughs within my family members, even though they have visited my site. After the week that I have invited them to visit my blog, this close friend of mine contacted me. His tone was unusual. He told me that he has visited my blog and he feels that I have done a great job designing it. The he request to meet up with me to discuss about the FAITH! I was quite shock to hear that knowing that he wasn't open to Jesus at all! So you must understand that how happy I was to hear that.
Eventually we do meet up. We went to my home, sit down and began to talk. I realize that all these years; he has a friend who is a Christian in his platoon. This Christian friend was very strong in the faith. What amazes me was the fact that he uses the book of Job to evangelize to my friend! Something which I have thought that it is not possible, since the book of Job is talking about sufferings, and who wants to hear about sufferings? But that change my thinking. My friend was eventually able to open up his heart to Jesus because of the words in that later part of Job, whereby God ask Job whether was he able to know when the animals give birth, whether could a creation created by the Creator and ask Him why does He create him the way he is. And more of this my friend read and was convicted that indeed he was in no position to question God.
My friend’s faith was further increase when he begin to have a habit of praying to God whenever he experience some difficulties and problems in the army. One such experience was when he was having a route march. It come to a point when he thought that he is going to faint, because he really have no more energy to carry on anymore, so he decided to pray, lo and behold, the Lord take away his anxiety and give Him strength to walk the entire journey to the end with out experiencing any tiredness. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Amen.
I have a very close friend whom I have known for over 12 years. To respect this person, I will not say the name of my friend. I have known him since primary school. He is my closest friend that I ever have. But there is one problem. He doesn’t believe in God. When I got saved 5 years ago. I tried to persuade him that accepting Christ is the only solution to obtain salvation. But somehow He was much closed up to me; he even quoted some examples of people who went bazaar after accepting Christ. He also wanted me to give Him evidence which prove the existence of God! I was very discouraged, it just seems like all my close friends and family member are not able to accept Christ.
Still, I never give up praying for him. I tried praying and fasting for him till a point when I realize that he is not going to open up to me. So I decided to give up on him and move on.
So life carries on as usual, while I am attending Church, he carries on with His life. Only recently, after I have created my blog for sometimes, I have decided to take up faith to invite my family members and this friend of mine who have been very close up to the Gospel, to visit my blog. I was hoping to touch their hearts with my testimonies that I have posted up.
Thankfully, none of them have any objections to that, yet there are also no breakthroughs within my family members, even though they have visited my site. After the week that I have invited them to visit my blog, this close friend of mine contacted me. His tone was unusual. He told me that he has visited my blog and he feels that I have done a great job designing it. The he request to meet up with me to discuss about the FAITH! I was quite shock to hear that knowing that he wasn't open to Jesus at all! So you must understand that how happy I was to hear that.
Eventually we do meet up. We went to my home, sit down and began to talk. I realize that all these years; he has a friend who is a Christian in his platoon. This Christian friend was very strong in the faith. What amazes me was the fact that he uses the book of Job to evangelize to my friend! Something which I have thought that it is not possible, since the book of Job is talking about sufferings, and who wants to hear about sufferings? But that change my thinking. My friend was eventually able to open up his heart to Jesus because of the words in that later part of Job, whereby God ask Job whether was he able to know when the animals give birth, whether could a creation created by the Creator and ask Him why does He create him the way he is. And more of this my friend read and was convicted that indeed he was in no position to question God.
My friend’s faith was further increase when he begin to have a habit of praying to God whenever he experience some difficulties and problems in the army. One such experience was when he was having a route march. It come to a point when he thought that he is going to faint, because he really have no more energy to carry on anymore, so he decided to pray, lo and behold, the Lord take away his anxiety and give Him strength to walk the entire journey to the end with out experiencing any tiredness. Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
Amen.