Wednesday, Stories from the streets

Dear Blog Readers/Prayer Warriors,

This is a story about my journey prayer walking yesterday. We came across two men - one was Muslim, the other completely lost and hurting. The first man's name was Hassaid. Hassaid was waiting outside the church for a friend who had gone to the drop off center, where they feed the homeless and help them clean up. Hassaid told us that he was having to go to jail in a few hours for a fight he had been in. We asked him about what he believed would save him from his sins, and he said he believed in a "God by a different name," and said he was Muslim. As we talked to him, Danielle told him that no sins were too great to be forgiven. She told him the story of the Woman Who Washes Jesus's Feet. He was very moved by the story. He said thinking about religion hurt his head though and that he was afraid he'd choose the wrong religion. By the end of the conversation, Hassaid promised he would start praying to a higher power to show him the true religion, which we told him was Christ.

The second man's name was Julius. Danielle actually saw his dog before she saw Julius and tried to play with the dog. When she was playing with him, the owner, Julius, came up and started talking to her. Julius was drinking as he talked to her, and he admitted to being a heroin addict. He said he had been in and out of jail and rehab all of his life. I asked what he thought would be able to cure him and he said the only option he knew of was suicide. I told him that he had a lot to live for like his dog Oscar and his girlfriend that he had told me about. He said he really missed his mum who had died two years ago, and I told him that if she was a believer (which she was) that the only way to see her again was to believe in Christ and have a good relationship with Him. When Danielle and Liz started praying for Julius in front of him, he began weeping and told us to stop praying because the pain was too much. We didn't stop praying for him though and by the end of the prayer, especially when we said we wanted Jesus to wipe away his sins and make Julius clean, Julius said "Amen." We promised we would continue praying for him that he would get sober and that he would find comfort in his pain through the love of Christ.

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