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The Awesome Joy of
Sharing the Gospel Often as I ministered and
had to drive to some town to preach, I would get a
preacher boy to go with me and drive for me. Coming back to school, I was in
the back seat asleep. At one a.m. Chris woke me up and said, "I hate to wake
you up but we are about out of gas and I have been looking for a station for
an hour." We were in the middle of nowhere. The gauge was below the E
line. I said, "We are to watch and pray. Chris you watch and I will
pray." Like Peter, I cried, "Lord help us find a station, in Jesus name,
amen." Just then coming around a big curve there was a one horse service
station with two pumps, no name and one little light bulb.
Chris pulled in, filled the tank and I went in to pay. As always, I
graciously hand the man a gospel tract when I paid. He blurted out, "Where
in the world have you been I have been trying to get saved for three weeks.
Tell me what to do." God had him so ready. Anyone could have led him to
Christ. I told him how God loved him and sent His Son, the Lord Jesus, to
suffer and die for his sins, paid the debt in full, rose again and was seen
alive by hundreds of people." It was awesome. He said, "I
never heard it like that before." He gladly prayed with me to receive
the Lord Jesus as his personal Savior and God gave him assurance he was now
saved.
When I asked if he could tell Chris what he had just done. He gladly
consented.
Without hesitation he said, "I just got saved." Chris hugged him and we were
all rejoicing when another car pulled up. He said, "Wait just a minute" and
stepped over to the other car. The man in the car said, "Bill what are you
doing out here." Bill said, "Oh, I don't work here. Joe just asked if I
could fill in for him tonight is why I am here." Chris and I almost burst
into tears as we realized how God had orchestrated the whole evening for
just one man to get saved. God did it. That is the awesome joy of sharing
the gospel. We can change the world, one soul at a time.
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