Thursday, January 08, 2009

!!update!!praise & pray for Rich (Tw)

thanks for praying, brothers & sisters :)
had a great day out with Rich yesterday, although i didn't get to share with him all i wanted to, but i'm trusting Father is over all things & is able to do whatever it takes to draw Rich to himself. :D

found out that his desire to be baptised was more because of his contact with a mormon church see www.carm.org/mormon.html in Taiwan, rather than a genuine desire to follow Jesus.

he thinks he's got to be baptised to become a child of God & he's unsure if he qualifies :|
anyway spent the whole day accompanying him as he tried to finish doing all he wanted to do in his short holiday here - in the afternoon when he went to visit his former home stay family & said he'd call me maybe after 1.5 hrs - time rolled on ... no call, i thought perhaps he might have dinner with them & maybe i could get home.
gave him a call [despite my ridiculous call rates!] but he was busy & said he'd call me .. i wasn't sure how long i'd have to wait .. was feeling a little tired & i felt like going home. yet i felt Father telling me to just hang on ... just like me to always want to take the easy way out and just call it a day, thankfully He's been answering my prayers to be more sensitive to His Spirit & to follow His leading instead of just going my own way ;)
ended up going to dinner with him & his friends, after which we were deciding what to do .. we concluded it best to just go home, but one sister wanted to have a talk with him about baptism & Jesus.
although she admitted to not having talked so openly bout Jesus with nonchristians before, she did a totally great job!

... just to encourage any of you who also may not openly bout Jesus with nonchristians, put yourself in Fathers' hand & see what He can do in & through you -- it's amazing :)
please do keep praying for Rich, his wife Sunny & their soon-coming chid .. & their families.
* may Christ reveal Himself as INFINITELY PRECIOUS to them, granting them repentance unto life & a faith in Jesus that even death can't destroy!
* may we love those around us enough to speak the truth to them while there's still time
& stop taking the easy way out!

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