Barry Amundsen (15 July 2009)
"Mercer "Who did I tell about Jesus today""


I like your idea and would like to share a couple:
 
Linda and I have a friend and fellow musician named Dennis that we have witnessed to and especially Linda has prayed for over many years. He has a new age sort of background and would not listen to the gospel. He recently broke up with his girlfriend (she broke up with him) partly because she is a Christian and she wanted him to be too, as well as other issues with his insecurities that made him dishonest toward her and out of fear of losing her, he acted in ways that were manipulative and she finally set him free. Well, this is exactly what God needed to get him to his knees and since then, he has been more open to listening to us and even praying with us and he finally asked Jesus to be his Lord and Savior and now refers to himself as a baby Christian. Not only that but the biggest issue with him was that being a self employed musician, he had some income tax issues that were in the way of his girlfriend and he marrying until this was resolved and out of fear, he was unwilling to even go to anyone for help. Fear was running his life big time. But since he split with his girlfriend, he has learned to call out to God and cast his cares onto Jesus and wait on Him for strength and direction and now for the first time in years he is seeing hope in his life. We have been so blessed by his progress and we know that had Jesus come back sooner rather than later, Dennis would not have had a chance. When Dennis gets into anything, he does so all the way. We have always said he would make such a great Christian! Now we are seeing it and are so grateful. Please pray that God would establish Dennis and accomplish His perfect will in his life and be glorified.
 
Then there's Andi, my brothers new wife. She had a tremendous problem with anger toward Dave's (my brother, her husband) young adult daughter and we counseled her to wait on the Lord for how to deal with this. Like Dennis, God is using this issue to reach to her and teach her to go to Him. also Dave has been learning to wait on God. At the point when they were ready to give up thinking it was hopeless, God did a miracle and reconciled step mom and step daughter in a way that only He could. More than seeing results in specific areas it is our goal that they learn to have a daily relationship with Jesus and these trials are means to that end. As bad as I want to be raptured, I can see the mercy of God in delaying as long as people like these examples (and there are others as well in our life) are coming to know God personally.
 
Thank you for listening,
 
Barry Amundsen