We have learned to expect the unexpected whenever we are out and about. The harvest is everywhere around us!….

We learned about a new “late night” bakery cafe that just opened up, and we felt moved to check it out. While there, Don saw a guy wearing a Christian-related t-shirt, so he approached him to start a conversation. The rest of us joined in soon afterward and found out that he is actually Spiritfilled but has been discouraged from speaking in tongues, yet his wife’s parents are both Spirit filled and actively pray in the Holy Spirit (tongues).

We spent a long while with them both, encouraging them from the Word, and we also prayed over them. At the very end of the conversation, he shared that he was preparing a message for his congregation for the very next day and was due to finish it that night. The message was on “faith,'“ so we emphasized that it was no surprise that God was connecting us with him so that he could refine his talk according to the truth of the gospel that began in the Book of Acts!

Then, on the weekend we were out at a few stores, trying to find a few things to finish off the house renovations. At a lighting store, Don came across another young-ish man wearing a God-related t-shirt. He was also with his wife. We all chatted to them for quite a while right in the middle of the store. They received things really well and were keen to go away and compare what we had said with the Word of God. We encouraged them that that was the most perfect thing to do - for them to read for themselves and discover scriptures that had probably never been pointed out to them before in their man-made church experiences. We always encourage people to go direct to God in prayer and to study His Word with an open mind and heart, and to not rely on what has been told to them by others.

Finally, we were on our way home yet spontaneousluy called into one more furniture store, just to take a quick look. It ended up in a wonderful blessing. While we were there browsing, the store manager (from Argentina) commented about our family and Don replied that it was because of the power of the Holy Spirit within us. This turned into Don and the man (in his late-ish twenties) sitting at one of the tables and chatting for a very long time.

The man’s heart was so zealous and humble toward God that he wanted us to pray with him right then and there, but we couldn’t because of other customers who came into the store (and he was the only staff member on duty to serve them). So, we offered to come back when the store closed, which we did. Although he had a Catholic background, he had recently felt moved to get properly water baptized (by full immersion unto Jesus Christ), and now here we were, coming to Him with a message from God of how to receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit.

We had some prayer initially in the store, and then he had to close up properly, so we invited him back to our place for dinner and some more prayer and scriptural teaching. It’s so wonderful to have a place to minister to people for as long as they need, any time during the week or weekend, and to have a space to invite people to join us in person for our weekly prayer groups. Thank you, Lord!