WHEN IN OBEDIENCE...

It was only yesterday when i shared this story about my friend, and how God has totally opened the door to share so much truth with him, and to be there to help guide him into the freedom and life that God has for him. It was only yesterday when i knew that i had to be obedient to "ONE HEART AT A TIME", the words from God we heard about how he wanted us to go about this ministry. After i came back from the coffee shop, i found a message from him, where he shared about how fed up he was with the life he has been living, and that after talking to me he made the decision to put an end to his lies. An end to trying to protect a life that is empty, a life that has given him more hurts and wounds than anything else. I told him, "why are you trying so hard to cover up, to protect and to defend a life that is empty anyways?". Why are you trying so hard to defend and protect a life that has given you nothing but thorns, that has inflicted wounds on your soul and that is full of fake stuff, masquerades and emptiness that you can't bear anymore"? And that is exactly what he told me in his email afterward. He was encouraged, excited and ready to give that life up, to let it die, to let God kill his old self, no matter what the shame, or rejection or fear of being alone would be. He is already feeling alone, ashamed and guilty. So, he has nothing to lose but his old, yucky life.
So, i was so proud of him.
Today satan was not lazy, and he got to work right away. This evening i get a phone call from Juan, and his parents had a fight, and they told him to leave the house. He calls me crying, hopeless and confused. God, what are you doing? SO, God gave me the words to say to him, to encourage him, to uplift him, and to make him see that just as he is broken and in need of healing, and how his past has played a huge part in the sins he has walked in lately, so is his dad in a huge need of healing, and his mom, and the whole family. And just as he has been given grace, he needs to realize that even though what his parents are walking in is sin, they're also desperate for healing. Then Ricky got to talk to him cause they were at the coffee shop, and he said they had a good talk.
God is definitely doing something here, and it is one heart at a time. Thanks for listening...