How Inspiring!!!

Let me just start off by saying this…

When I was in Middle School, High School and the first year and a half of College, I was no good. I drank a lot and smoked pot on a regular basis. I was a slave to sexual sin and hated myself and everything about the terrible life that I had. The world was out to get me and I was un-happy. NOw don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t suicidal or anything like that but my life was going down hill fast. Always looking for the newest cool drug to try and the coolest bars to go to and which guys phone number I could get. Obviously by Gods grace I am no longer a slave to those things.

Today I received a message through facebook from a girl that I was friends with in High School. I have only seen her about 1 time since we graduated. She left me a message that said this: ” Hey Janet!
How are you!? What has been happening since Parkville?
I haven’t seen you since that day you came into my salon!
That was a LONG Time ago!
You totally inspired me! when you told me how you had quit drinking and partying and stuff!
Hope you are doing Awesome!”.

WOW!! I went to her facebook page and I saw comments from her friends asking her about her bible study and a link on her page to “Bible Verses of the Day”. Now I haven’t gotten a response back from her yet, but let me tell you how encourage I was to have read that. You can’t believe how perfect of timing this is.

Every-time I feel as though I am failing as a Christian something like this happens. I have a good conversation with someone at work  about God, or my Dad asks me to pray for him (he’s an atheist..or was an atheist =)) or other exciting things like this that really just remind me that GOD IS AT WORK!!!!

This comment that she sent me has just totally inspired me. I don’t really have a hard time sharing my faith with my friends but I would say evangelism is an area I have no intention of growing in (ha-ha). What I shared with her about my life and my testimony reached and touched her. For some reason God used that little innocent conversation we had that I don’t even remember to do something HUGE in her life and hopefully, by Gods grace, she is no longer a slave to her sinful past either.  WOOHOO GOD IS COO