Hearing God on a Tractor

My friend’s Dad shared this story with me:

After being saved at revival meetings in our little country church in Central Nebraska, back in 1960, I knew that I had been forgiven of my sins.  I was thrilled with my new found relationship with the Lord Jesus.  The Word opened up to me and I was really wondering what had happened to my wife and I.  Then shortly after our encounter with the Lord, I was reading the Word and ran across                2 Corinthians 5:17:

"If any man be in Christ he is new creation, old things are passed away and all things are become new."  

I knew then that was what had happened to me.  

My wife and I started memorizing verses.  I had my memory card stuck in the little power steering plate on the tractor steering wheel while plowing one morning.

Matthew 6:33 "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you"

was the verse I was working on, when the Lord spoke to me. He impressed on my heart to go and tell Bill, my wife's brother, what had happened to us.  I began to argue with the Lord, saying we didn't know enough to tell anybody yet, but the Lord just kept impressing my heart.

When I went in for dinner I told Edna, my wife, that we had to go over to her brother Bill's and give him the gospel.  Bill was well known in our farming community as a wild man and his marriage was not doing well either. We began to pray that the Lord would help us, and help us He did!  

We got invited over for supper one evening.  We went in fear and trembling wondering how the Lord was going to work this out.  We had not been Christians very long and weren’t sure what we were going to say. As we sat around the table that evening, Bill asked me to pray and thank God for the food.  

Then he said, "What has happened to you two anyway?"

The Lord was so faithful.  

After supper we began to show Bill and his wife Joyce from the Word what had happened to us.  God began to guide us in bringing scriptures to mind.  We fumbled in our bibles looking for verses that would answer Bill's questions but the Lord guided us in every way.  We were able to give the "gospel which is the power of God unto salvation" to them.

As we were walking out to the car, at two in the morning, getting our three kids situated in the car, Bill said,

"I want to become a Christian, but first I have to get my life cleaned up."  

I replied, "Forget it!"  

"What do you mean, forget it?" he said.  

"If you are going to clean up your life then forget it!" I told him.  

Then the verse I had just memorized, Matthew 6:33 popped right into my head and I said "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you."

With that we left for home, and the next time we saw Bill, he was a born again Christian. He became an outspoken, unashamed follower of Jesus and won many souls before the Lord took him home at age 60.  

God is faithful and is not willing that any should perish, and the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. - Jim

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                 God is faithful! He gives us the right words at the right time when telling others about Jesus.

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Have you ever been afraid to share your faith, and then God gave you the courage and the words to do so? Please share in the comments below.

 

This is day 23 of the write31days.com writing challenge. To read the others in this series click the topics below.

Day 1: Take Off Your Sandals
Day 2:  God in the Grocery Store
Day 3:  God in the Grocery Store - Part2
Day 4:  Peeking During Prayer
Day 5:  How Do We Know God's Voice?
Day 6:  A Young Mom, Toddler Toys and Hearing God
Day 7:  Hearing God When Making Decisions
Day 8:  Lining Up Those Ducks
Day 9:   Hearing God for Our Kids
Day 10: God or Genie in a Bottle?
Day 11: The Perfect Day to Hear God
Day 12: Hearing God in a Crisis
Day 13:  7 Ways to Test an Impression
Day 14:  Remote Assignment
Day 15:  God's Silence
Day 16:  Hearing God While Dating
Day 17:  Hearing God Bible Verses
Day 18:  What Others Say About Hearing God
Day 19:  Hearing God Through Distractions
Day 20:  Hearing God as a Child
Day 21:  Hearing God in Confusion
Day 22:  Hearing God's Encouraging Voice
Day 23:
Day 24:  An Email Confirmation
Day 25:  Do You Really Want to Hear From God?
Day 26:  Why Hear God?
Day 27:  Are You Texting God?
Day 28:
Day 29:
Day 30: Desperate to Hear God
Day 31: Desperate to Hear God (Part 2)l