Hitting the Streets...Again

Several weeks ago my home church, Lawrenceville Church of God, had a week long revival hosted by Tommie Zito Ministries. This revival was different than most that I have attended through all my years in church. The main differences were that it lasted the entire week, most revivals only last two or three days during the week but no this one, the second thing that was different about it was the fact they had services during the day and during the night. The night services were regular church services, but the day services were very different they consisted of coming to the church, taking a class about how to witness to people and then going out to the streets of the town of Lawrenceville and witnessing to the people. So as the revival dates approached i committed to God that i would go to every service day and night, so i requested off work and my very generous boss gave me the week off, and i was so excited. We had the Sunday night service and it was incredible and the spirit of the Lord was in the church that night and the same thing happened on Monday night, Then came Tuesday morning.  Different story I was so nervous about witnessing to people on the streets. We got to church, went through the class and learned the do's and do not's of street ministering, then we were on our way. I was so nervous until i approached the first person at the Gwinnett Place Mall and they were very receptive and actually let me lead them in the salvation prayer. I went back every day for the rest of the week and was able to lead many people to Christ. Then the week was over and we did not have any radical, on-fire men and women of God pushing me to talk to everyone about the Lord, I began to question myself and wonder if i would ever do it again.

That was until about a week and a half ago. After me and several of my friends got out of a prayer meeting, we were walking to our cars, a homeless woman came up to us and told us she was very hungry and wanted some money for food. We told her we would walk with her to a restaurant and by her some lunch. We got to the restaurant, got her a meal and before she left she asked me to pray for her. As i prayed i felt the Lord telling me to lead her in the prayer of salvation that moment I stopped praying and looked at her and said "If you dies today, do you know that you would go to heaven" she looked at me and said she would not go to heaven and i proceeded to lead her to salvation. I left the restaurant and went back to my car and just thought about the entire day and how amazing it was that God used me again to lead someone to the Lord. It made me realize once again how incredible my God is and how much he loves each and everyone of us. So much that he plans our day that we can come in contact with the right people. My prayer for everyone who reads this is that next time you feel that "itch" to witness to someone, do it, you never know how bad they really need it.

God Bless

Ross Jeffords