My Calling

After my last post, I've been wanting to share what happened in my life that confirmed what the Lord has called me to do. A missionary came to our church and something amazing happened I'd like to share with you. This is an email I wrote to that missionary.

Dear Cosmo,

This is Steven Harris from Forest Avenue where you visited about three weeks ago. I just wanted to tell you Thank you for visiting. I wanted to tell you about something awesome that happened after we left the church for lunch.

First, I need to start with what you were talking about during part of the service. Remember when you were talking about the old Jewish man who got saved? His name was Murray. You said he had a healing ministry. I felt that that was something the Lord wants me to do, in the future, to minister to the Jewish people and have a healing ministry. I felt the Heat of the Holy Spirit. At first, I thought it was just me. Then you told us about the part where he was angry that no one had told him sooner. You said he wished someone would have told him when he was 20, so he could have raised his kids to know Jesus as Messiah. Ok, I had to tell you that part to get to the lunch thing. We’ve been eating at Golden Corral and they seat me at a table so I don’t have to wait in line. This was only the second time they did that. I was kind of just sitting there not expecting anything. Just waiting for my parents to come. Kind of impatiently. I can only turn my head to the left. I noticed someone on the right kept coming up near my wheelchair. This person finally sat down. It was a young man who looked about 20 to me. I could tell he was really nervous and I was kind of nervous too. He asked me what were my thoughts about being in a wheelchair. I told him at first I was ok about it, when I was younger. Then I told him about how by the time I got to 8th grade, I was getting bitter about life and everything. Then I told him about how I found Jesus and He gave me strength and joy. I told him about the miracle of how the Lord kept me alive even though I should be dead. He agreed and said it was a miracle from God. I’m sorry I can’t recall everything we said. Here’s the kicker. He was about ready to leave and I noticed he was wearing a gold Star of David so I spoke up and asked him what he believed and where he went to church. He said, "I’m Jewish." So in my mind I was flabbergasted. I told him about how I believe that Jesus was the Messiah and asked him what he thought about it. He gave a hippy response like “Whatever you believe man is fine.” It was almost word for word how you described some Jewish people's attitudes and behaviors toward the Lord. I told him he should read some scriptures from the New Testament and compare it to the Old Testament and see what he thinks. He was pretty sharp. He cut me off and said, “I’ve already read the Bible.”

That was pretty much all the conversation before my parents got to the table. It was pretty neat. We were taking my grandmother to dinner and my aunt was there, also. I was able to tell them as soon as they sat down.

So during the service, it was definitely the Heat of the Spirit telling me what my future ministry is going to be. Talk about a burning bush. The Lord sent one to my table. Then, after he left, I was worried I hadn’t witnessed to him as much as I should. So I asked the Lord to give me wisdom in what to do. There happened to be one of your packets in my back pack. I was able to give him one of those and my tract and asked him what his name was. His name was Dan. It was definitely something the Lord planned to happen. I know the Lord is going to get me out o this wheelchair and didn’t know what He was going to have me do after that. Now I know what He’s going to have me do in the future, whether it’s near or far away.

I’m going to send an attachment of prophetic dreams that have happened. I’ve written about them.

God bless you.

Your brother in Christ,

Steve.

About those prophetic dreams, I'll be posting them very soon.