I went to bed at 2 (so this is well late into the night when the enemy is most comfortable), and fifteen minutes after lying down, my roommate who sleeps in the bunk above me starts groaning. She usually has bad dreams, but she never moans so I got up to ask if she was okay. But her groaning got louder as I approached her. It scared me and I jumped off screaming because it was THAT scary! My other roommate (we live in a triple) screamed too--and she's not the screaming type. I was trembling for a good five minutes. My roommate, she wanted to go to back to sleep, but instead, was convicted to pray and had us pray with her.
In her dream, she was on a website inviting (hehe) her to go to God, but as she was climbing to God, we (me and my other roommate) pushed her down. She was so frightened. And as we prayed with her, she revealed to us a sin she committed and confessed not feeling guilty about the sin. She felt she was drifting away from God and was too ashamed to go to God anymore. We prayed for God to deliver her from Satan's hand and we prayed for her to truly surrender her life to God. In her prayer, she kept saying sorry to God. As she kept saying sorry and asking God to take her back, she very naturally bowed down. After the prayer, she told us that she was completely at rest and not only that, she kept saying over and over and over again, "Thank You, God." Neither one, two, three, four, five, or six thank yous was enough to convey accurately how grateful she was, to convey how utterly underserving of His redemption she was. And afterwards she kept saying, "can you guys believe it, God invited me!" And after some more prayer she repeated, "God is so real and so good! I got to tell everyone what happened."
Through this crazy night, God showed us (me and my other roommate) what TRUE repentance looks like, what TRUE humility, TRUE peace, TRUE confidence in the power of Jesus' blood to wash away sins, TRUE assurance in being His child, TRUE excitement for the commission He's given us looks like. Gosh, witness God doing so much work in so little time, and seeing God's harvest being sown is such an incredible sight.
Point: satan is real, God is real, God > enemy is truth, and God's saving grace is real.
Connection to this song: After the incident, we turned on pandora and this song played. It was very relevant. I think it expresses very well the kind of attitude we should have when God's touched us with the Gospel.
Anyways, may you be blessed with this blessing God's given us.
1 comment:
This is such an incredibly encouraging story =] thanks so much for sharing it! I confess I didn't read it thoroughly until now, but I'm so blessed it was here even for me to read so long after it was posted. Thank you again Annie, keep megaphone-ing God's stories =D
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