Today a VTC got messed up at work and a few of us had to wait while the IT guy got it back online.
Afterwards we continued our conversation for a while in our work area.
We were talking about a coworker who had a crash that shut down the James River Bridge at 5:30 AM on Monday (he was part of the conversation).
He had been traveling 55 in the right lane when someone came up behind him at about 90mph, trying to pass on the right because a slower car was in the left lane. The guy clipped our coworker and sent his car back and forth on the road. Trying to regain control, our coworker flipped the car. He ended up upside down, undoing his seatbelt to fall onto his ceiling. Aside from a slight whiplash to his neck, he is completely fine. So is the other guy.
So he knows I have been praying for him since then. He made the statement before everybody that he has not been in church for a while but he and his wife are taking their family back to church! Yea!
Another coworker said that he always heard the universe nudges us to do right. I said, "We Christians call that "once you belong to God, you always belong to Him. It is a done deal. If you truly belong to God, He will get you back." " The second coworker said his parents were both pastors and always said that, although he himself is currently an atheist.
I went straight past the part about the female pastor and said, "Your parents are right." I repeated once we truly belong to God, we are always His.
The second coworker proceeded to tell us about being such a confirmed alcoholic overseas that he could drink two bottles of whisky at one sitting. He has since stopped completely. As others asked him how he did not die doing that, I smiled and said, "It seems God may have left you alive to reclaim you, too." There were smiles all around then we went back to work.
So we plant seeds. If those two men go back to church, I trust the Holy Spirit, who started the process, to guide them to one that completes the truth I began telling them. They may already be saved; they may not. I know Jesus loves them and I will pray for them.
You are definitely having an inroad with your co workers, Mary. It is God who opens the heart. Let’s pray to that end! 😄
These times are, as we learned while taking The Exchange course together, divine encounters God arranges. We just have to go through the door when He does.