byron bay is filled with so many amazing people. one of these amazing people is roma. roma came into my life last friday at the park. ywam hosts a bbq every friday evening at rails park. many people come and they are from all over the world. roma came to the park and was dancing around the fields. he started crawling on the ground and bumped into me and thats when we became friends. i started asking him about his tats and showing him mine and thats how we started talking. he had a friend with him and he decided to leave with his friend. so we said bye and that was that. about 30 minutes or so later he came back to the park. i was sitting there with john and brook. i asked him why he came back and he told me that he felt in his heart that he needed to come back to the park. we all started talking with him about why he felt that way and he told us that he has always felt that god was in him.
he told us that he felt too dirty for god to accept him and thats when john started speaking with him. i was in awe in the way that john spoke with roma. it was amazing. he just spoke from the heart and of course john being john would not take a bit of credit for it, saying it was nothing but the holy spirit moving in him. which that was just beautiful. how i strive to have the knowledge and the confidence that john has in me. i can sure learn heaps from him. i feel i will get there because god really wants me too. someday. i could tell roma really felt that and really wanted a change. he started crying and i could tell it was real and he was real with his actions and his words. john asked if we could pray with him and he wanted that so bad. john prayed for him and roma accepted christ that night. it was amazing and it made me really happy. he said right away he felt different and he felt more at peace.
that night some of us made our way to the beach and found an awesome drum circle. it was so cool! so of course i started dancing and i look up and guess who i see, roma. it was so cool and weird all at the same time. ever since roma left the park i could not get him off my heart or mind. i knew i needed to talk with him some more. i was so blessed to have another opportunity to talk with him. i asked him how he felt from earlier and he said he felt like he was free and that he had peace. and of course i told him that was god working in him to change him. i told him to just keep talking with god and asking him for help. you see roma has an addiction and it is hard for him to break that and find friends who will help him. i told him to just keep asking god for help and that i was someone he could turn to. i also told him that christ never leaves us and when we fall he is there with us at all times. that he knows we are not perfect and that is why he came down and died for us. i think this really helped him understand that its okay and you cant live a perfect life. no one can. and that is why we have jesus and that is what jesus did for us, so we can have that perfect life he had. i think he just needs encourgement. and i am so willing to give that to him. after we talked a while he left to go to his friends house.
on monday we started our 24 hour prayer and worship session on the beach and that afternoon i saw him walking and of course i had to hug him hello. it was so good to see him and i made sure he knew that too. i basically just asked him how he was doing since the last time we talked. he said he was doing good and that he kept talking with god. he felt that god was in him and he still felt at peace and he still felt freedom. hes just such a special person. we talked for like an hour about how he can focus on god and ask him for anything. i told him a little about my life and my struggles i have faced in the past and the struggles i still face everyday. i think that gave him such encourgement to know that i am not perfect, nor will i ever be but that it is okay because i believe that jesus died for me and my sins. we talked a little about the future plans he has and that he might move back to melbourne. i just gave him encourgement to find someone and/or a church he can go to, so he can continue his walk with god.
i still think about him and pray every night for him and his salvation and i am asking you to do the same. i feel so much for him and know that he has so much to offer. i just hope one day he will realize this and it will really make a change in his life. amazing
