Today, after the Thursday night Encounter at GPH we went to McDonalds as usual as a group. Today God apparently had plans for me to step out in faith, and had plans for bringing another woman into His kingdom.
Today I met Cindy. We were waiting in line at McDonalds, which was painfully slow, for about 15 minutes with two orders taken. A woman came in and asked me if we had ordered yet, I told her no and offered to let her go in front of us because our group was so large. She accepted, but in the long wait we got to talking and she told me a bit about her life, she asked where we were all coming from. I started telling her about our prayer meeting and the Global Prayer House. She got called up to the register and I thought our conversation was over. Then the most surprising thing happened, she turned around and told me to come back because she wanted to talk to me.
She then told me her name was Cindy, and told me about her family and some of her troubles with her family and her turbulent past. Her son, who she has not seen in 9 years, is in a mental institution and she has had drinking and drug problems for a long time and was looking for something more. She said she had been looking for a church to go to and had been looking for God for two years. I asked her if she had ever accepted Jesus into her life, she had but lost sight of it. Then I asked if she would like to ask Him back into her life again right then. She said yes, so we stepped aside in the middle of McDonalds and she repeated the prayer after me and accepted Jesus back into her life right then and there! So exciting! Now Cindy has Jesus on her side and a Bible to read. She was so ecstatic to start a new life and walk a new path, and with the Lord in her life she can do it! So inspiring!
Jesus is ready for you to come to him anytime anywhere, even in Medicine Hat at a tiny McDonalds. I prayed a dangerous "Do Whatever You Have To" prayer this week, and God answered fast. Cindy said that God brought me to her to night, but it went both ways. She was brought back to Jesus, and God was testing my boldness. God puts us is situations to bless each other, Cindy you are such a wonderful woman and I am so excited for you in your new life!
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