“Lord, I Believe in You!”

Last Friday night as I was going to Mountain State University in Beckley, West Virginia, a couple of my buddies were with me and we saw one young man come around the corner sounding like he was rapping or something. I figured he would like someone to talk to (since he was talking to himself). As I approached him I introduced myself and asked him if anyone had ever taken a Bible and shown him how he could know for sure that he was going to heaven. He thought for a minute and said “no”, to which I replied “may I”. As I began going through the Gospel with him he did not know really who Jesus was so I walked him through scripture to allow God to reveal His Son to him. The next surprise was that Jesus rose from the dead. He didn’t know that and had never heard that before. Here I am in the middle of the Bible Belt and this guy didn’t know Jesus rose from the grave. After walking him through I Corinthians 15 we discussed the terms “according to Scripture” and explained the importance of the resurrection. He asked me how can I be saved, so I showed him how God said he had to be saved. He took his hat off and looked up to the sky and said, “Lord I believe in you,” and then looked at me and said is that it? I explained the difference between believing and trusting gave him an illustration regarding saving faith and he trusted Christ alone as his personal Savior. He immediately shouted and said “I’m saved” (it actually startled me). As my buddies came over and I introduced them to him, he said to them “Justin just shared the gift of eternal life with me” and my buddy replied - “Yes, and what does that mean?” He said to him “I’m saved”. We welcomed him to the family and talked to him about growing in Christ and living a thank you life. He hugged me and my friends and left there knowing true forgiveness for the first time. It’s an awesome thing to watch the Lord snatch a lost sinner out of that horrible pit and place their feet on solid ground. The amazing part of the whole thing is that He allows us the privilege to be apart of it all! His name is Lee, if you think of him please pray for him. Thank you again for your prayers!

Justin