Ever pray that God would give you the opportunity to share your faith or show His love? I have quite a bit. I pray that I can show and tell someone about the Love of God in both action and word.
I think that God must want to reach down and smack me in the back of the head sometimes. Looking back on recent days, weeks, months, years, my life... How many times has God presented me the opportunity to say a word about him or to invite someone to church or ask someone how I can pray for them. How many times have I walked away from a situation blissfully ignorant and in my own world never even realizing that God had placed me right there... right then... so I could praise him.
My wife is the best at this. She is my hero! She was driving back from working with a church and stopped for gas. The lady at the register was obviously having a bad day. My wife told her "I have a long drive to the airport and I really like to pray while I drive... how can I pray for you?" This opened a dialog, changed the cashiers attitude (probably changed her day) as she shared with my lovely wife the things that weighed on her heart. My wife prayed for her right there, thanked the lady and left. She then followed up in action by actually praying for her while she drove.
How many times have I been presented with the opportunity to show Gods love in such a simple way and missed it? How many opportunities have I wasted?
Lord God please don't just present me with the opportunity to show Your love but also let me see with Your eyes so I can recognize it and instill me with Your courage and boldness to act according to Your will!
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