🙌 Lord, thank You for one of the best "open doors" of my life when my housie asked, "May I ask you a question? Certainly, I replied... Are you afraid of death?" And sitting myself down in a chair, I began to explain Jesus to him, Acts 8:34-35.
The Lord gave wisdom to explain the victory over death, where death is something now of a better hope, Phil 1:21-22, 23, and not to not only not fear death, but victory over sin, found only by believing in The Name of Jesus alone, Eph 2:8-9, resulting in a New Birth, John 3:7, Tit 3:5, 1 Pet 1:23, supplying grace to turn from sin, Acts 3:19.
🙌 God gave frequent illustrations for the necessities of the gospel: Sin, Faith, Repentance -- using movie references, Hugo's "Les Miserables" Candlestick Redemption Scene, which happened to be one of his favorites...
🤺 Father, I ask you protect him, water the seeds and give him more hunger, 1 Pet 2:2. Bless him more and more, Eph 1:3. Increase his faith, let him rest in Jesus alone, with a fear of God and hatred for sin, Prov 8:13, 2 Cor 7:10-11. Keep him (and us) from temptation and evil, Matt 6:13, evil people and the evil one, 2 Thes 3:2-3, Jn 17:15. Water seeds, give growth 1 Cor 3:6-7...
🙇🏻 I ask for more open doors, Rev 3:7-8, for wisdom to order my life to be most effective for the remainder of it, even as Wesley had a life well spent, documenting his time, Ps 90:12, and left with a harvest of abiding fruit that remains, Jn 15:16, Rom 1:13. I trust the seed fell in good soil and he will himself produce a crop, thirty, sixty or an hundredfold, Mark 4:20. Thank You in Jesus' Name, John 17:15, 17. Amen, 2 Cor 1:20.