Listening to God

This post is dedicated to my son, Joshua Paul. This is his team on the field praying last Friday night after the game.

My son came home from weight training at school day before yesterday and the first thing out of his mouth was "Mom, we need to be praying for a girl named Kelsey". I agreed and asked him what we were praying for. He told me the following: when he got to school that day for weight training and entered the gym, this young lady was sitting in the corner, clearly distraught. Joshua heard the Lord say "witness to her". So he went over to talk to her and told her his name and asked her if she was okay. She told him "no, I'd be better off dead" and ran out of the gym.

Weight training was beginning but he said the opportunity was not lost because the Lord had told him where she would be tomorrow and what he was to do. I said "oh yea, wanna share". I was not being flip, I'm used to this with my son. He told me and then he went to get a Bible for her and mark specific verses the Lord instructed him to tell her.

The next day he came home from weight training and was so happy. He said he walked right into the coaches office (which is where the Lord told him she would be) and she was sitting right there with the coach. She took notice of the Bible and asked him what he had and he said "Actually, it's for you". She grabbed it from him and asked what it was and he pulled up a chair and began to witness to her as he explained to her that it was a Bible.

He told her that God loved her very much and she was definitely NOT better off dead. He told her that God wanted her to begin reading the book of John, the gospels, and then Ecclesiastes. He explained that Ecclesiastes was written by Solomon who was the wisest and richest man to ever live and he wrote the book summing up life to be meaningless without God.

He said she was very receptive and thanked him and then the bell rang and she left. However, after weight training, when he was leaving for his car she came running after him and told him that she had opened the Bible just to see what the first thing she would see would be and she read "keep away from evil". **She had told Joshua what had her feeling so desperate and it was a young man who was doing/saying horrible things about her and she liked him very much. So she told Joshua, "I'm going to stay away from that boy".

Joshua told her that God loved her and that boy but He had a great plan for her life and she should stay away from those things that God would not approve of. She said "that Bible is already making me feel better about myself"!

In a world, where we, as adults don't always take the time to listen to the Lord, let alone be obedient...my son did and I have seen this consistently in his life. His response "one more person knows now, Mom". Humble.


These are the crosses they earn for going above and beyond making plays on the field. You see his #82 and the cross above it. I asked him about the coach seeing him witness to this girl and did he think he would get a cross. His response "it's not about that, Mom, God told me to do it...it doesn't matter who saw it". Humble. I like it...made me feel two inches tall, but I am always amazed that God gave me this young man to be his Mama.

Luke 15:10 "There is joy in the presence of the angels of God when one sinner changes his heart and life" Amen!

Blessings to you today!