This is just a short tid-bit of what’s been going on at our homeless ministry. We are helping to give clothes to the homeless around Dublin as well as giving them a meal 3 days a week along with a short devotional. The place we worked at was right beside a methadone clinic so the clientele got a little interesting sometimes. One night I saw a man that looked like he was strung out on heroin and who knows what else and something was just telling me to go talk to him. Nathan and I walked over and started a conversation and he was so strung out we couldn’t really talk about anything because he was jumping from subject to subject. I felt God really compelling me to just tell the man that God loved him, so for once despite how ridiculous it might look I told him that I felt God wanted to tell him that He loved him. As soon as the words came out of my mouth the man started crying and got somewhat angry and told me to stop saying that. After I said it again you could just feel something break off and the three of us ended up having a partially productive convo. Afterwards he allowed the both of us to pray for him and you could just feel God wanting to break the chains off this man’s heart. So we hugged and he left and I just knew that when he woke up the next day something would be different.
Fast forward 2 weeks…we went to a family camp and were unable to be at the homeless ministry for a while but then came the night that this man (who has a name but trying to be good about this whole confidentiality thing) came back. He was completely different, he seemed sober, he was laughing, and he was just so happy to see me and talk some more. He ended up telling me that his life had really turned around and headed in the right direction. It was such a crazy experience and I still don’t know how to really explain it except to say that I know I am nothing without God but with a little bit of faith and allowing Him to use us as vessels BIG THINGS CAN HAPPEN!
PS- Let’s change the world…
