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Friday, March 23, 2012

Did You Ask The Lord To Set Up Opportunities For You, He Does You Just Need To Ask

Recently, I had to travel and Holy Spirit showed me in advance what to take as a witnessing tool to other's that would come across my path while away. This is what He showed me to take with me. In the past I would take witnessing tracts with me and leave them with a monetary tip tucked inside the tract for the housekeeping person in thanks for taking care of your room. This time it shifted a little bit. Instead of tract's I bought 2 encouragement cards at a Christian bookstore. Not greeting cards, they resembled a business card with words of encouragement with a nice background picture. Be very sensitive to Holy Spirit direction when travelling for He already knows the people that you will touch their lives. He knows where they are at and the circumstances in their very life. Sometimes the enemy will set things up to cause you to stray from where God has placed you on that journey.
Here's an example of that attempt by the enemy...In my room the sink stopper did not work after being there a few days so they sent in a repair person to try and fix it. It could not be fixed and they had to replace it the next day. I came into my room and saw there was a message waiting for me. I called the front desk to retrieve the message and sure enough, they are offering to me to switch rooms if I wanted to due to the sink not having a stopper in it. I declined since I already cleaned the room. You may wonder what I mean by that comment , already cleaned the room. When I travel I do like to bring disinfectant wipes to clean things like door handles, telephones, light switches, faucets, etc. I just like to know that I cleaned prior stuff that may have been on the points of contact, germs and things like that. I was in a very comfortable room and it was quiet at night why would I want to change rooms at this point I was already settled in. I also prayed over my room in advance of this trip that the angels would go ahead of me and clean it out of spiritual junk before I ever arrive there. You never know what goes on in a room that has been occupied by others prior to your arrival. When you have wisdom and do not use it then you are the only one that suffers the consequences of not operating in the wisdom you gained. Does that make sense? Holy Spirit already knew who would be taking care of my room in advance and the cards that would be used on the very days that they were used with a tip attached to it.
Let me recollect now how they were used. First one was just to leave a note with a few dollars letting them know to please leave the radio on in my room after they cleaned. I came back into the room and the radio was turned off and the note/money was taken. The next day I inquired of why the radio was not kept on and the housekeeping supervisor noted to keep the radio on if it is on when they clean the room. You may say to yourself why would she care if the radio was on or off. There is a purpose to this. Remember I already prayed that angels would go ahead of me to clear the room of past junk that may have settled in that particular room right? Well, you are now connected with other rooms on that floor and even down the hall from you on that very floor you will be staying. One of the first things I checked, is there a Christian television station(s) I could watch while staying there. To my surprise there was not even one station that was Christian available to the guests. I confirmed that with the front desk also, no station at all. I then checked to make sure The Gideon Bible was offered to guests that stay in that room, I was happy to find one, thank God for that. So, when you cannot watch Christian channels like TBN, Daystar or a local Christian channel the next best route is to play a Christian radio station to clear the room of other junk that may be going on around you. From that point forward I would leave the radio station playing during the day and while I was gone from the room also. It really did clear the air so to speak and I rested peaceful at night.
Remember, I still have 2 encouragement cards yet to use. This is how they were used. I reserved a time slot on the shuttle bus to take me to a destiny and I was there and the shuttle bus never showed up and after several attempts to reach them from the front desk no response. They then offered to call a cab for me and they would pay the fare to get me to that destination and the shuttle bus would pick me up when I called the hotel. Sure enough, the cab was right there no waiting time at all and it happened to be a person that had an accent when they spoke. I was detecting maybe from Russia, I asked and they were from Lithuania. That was the first nudge of Holy Spirit I pulled out the first card and tucked it inside the tip I gave to the driver. Then there was another day I left the 2nd encouragement card with a note stating "For Housekeeping" with a tip included with it. I was now out of encouragement cards so this is what Holy Spirit showed me to do on check out day, print a note thanking them for keeping my room clean and orderly and write a scripture verse down for them. I wrote the scripture verse down and then I noted that it was a scripture verse from the bible. We cannot assume that everyone is familiar with scripture and that scripture comes from the bible right? Sometimes you have to keep it simple and at other times you can share more with others depending on where they are with their walk with the Lord, keep that in mind.
This is by far the most interesting witness tool used by Holy Spirit at the beginning of this trip. I had dinner with a few people and we got on the subject of God. There was a person that believed there may be a God; one that listened; and I sensed that the other person may have had knowledge of God. That was my take on this. It was a bit of a challenge to try to convince the one that I know for sure that if something happened to me that night I would be in heaven for sure and I explained it the best I could. We touched on the topic of being "born again." When I left that dinner I began to question my trained knowledge of evangelism and thought I need to get back into doing that more. God had a plan all along...look what He did through that simple conversation. When you let people speak you can hear a story they have. The one that was not sure of God  stated that they saw their angel once. I now have knowledge on how to pray for that one. We were gathered together the very next day and sure enough the subject of "born again" is mentioned by a stranger. The one person tells me what are the odds that we had the conversation the one evening and then the next day it it brought up again by someone else. Don't tell me that God does not know what is going on, I saw that He was now using that simple conversation to cause the one to start thinking about it. So you see I was then able to pray for the one that had doubts now. Angels are there to minister to the heirs of salvation and that is what I prayed that if this person saw their angel then put them in the position to receive salvation. God is awesome is He not? Do you see His hand in all of this? We have a part to play also, go prepared when He sends you somewhere for He already knows the lives of those that will be touched just by you being there where you are suppose to be. Ask Him to give you an opportunity to share Jesus with someone today then be prepared to follow through when He nudges you that this is the person to share with. Living with Jesus is an exciting life to live it really is. Let Him shine through you and let the world see Jesus today, yes, this very day. I challenge you to try it. Once you experience this you will always be asking Him to give you opportunities.

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