An Oil Change and a Change of Heart!

The Lord afforded Richard and me an opportunity to witness on Saturday morning. We took our car to Wal-Mart to have the oil changed. While there, we spoke to the young man who came out and signed in our car for the oil-change. We were outside with him and there were no other customers waiting on him so I just casually told him that we were headed to the restaurant next door and asked if there was anything we could pray about for him when we were there and ready to ask the blessing. He didn't miss a beat and immediately told us that he has a new baby boy ~~ one week old ~~ and that his name is Japheth and to please pray for him. I said, "Oh, your baby boy has a Bible name. You must be a Christian." He shook his head and said, "No, not really. But my father-in-law has talked to me about that." I told him that he would be a even better husband and daddy is he would give his heart to the Lord and become a Christian, and then I asked if I could show him how. He said that I could. I had a tract in my hand (that I had planned to use at the restaurant) and went through the A-B-C's of salvation explaining each step. At the conclusion, I asked him if he would like to pray for forgiveness of his sin and to ask Jesus to come into his life as His Savior, and that young man said he would like to pray the sinner's prayer. And he did!!! And then he thanked us!! Richard and I urged him to start reading the Bible every day, to pray, and to please go to church with his family and father-in-law on Sunday. He said he would. We told him "good-bye" and went on our way.

We went on to the restaurant and received prayer requests from three people who waited on us in there. This is the most exciting thing I have ever experienced since becoming a Christian!!!

We got our Wal-Mart shopping done and saw lots of friends from church so got to fellowship a bit and enjoyed that. It surely is GREAT to be a Christian! I'm so glad I'm a part of the family of God!