| | I had a very interesting conversation with a Pastor at work today. Pastor's are wonderful story tellers- they will either preach at you or they will tell you a story. They can't help it. Its in them somewhere deep and it pours out like a river. It's part of their gift and calling.
Anyway, this one has been ministering in prisons for many years. Big bear size man with a tender, deep voice that you could easily listen to for hours and never tier of hearing. He began telling me about his work and a conversation he had with a man on death row. He told me that his job is to snatch souls back from the pit of hell before they fall in. He yanks them out the devil's grasp. And I can believe it.
He told me that he listens to the Lord's voice and he shares with them until the Lord says to stop. He says that these people can only handle so much at a time. This one that he was telling me out, he had been telling him that there was life for him and inmate said, "You don't get it. I'm on death row- there is no life for me. I'm just waiting around to die!" The pastor took a moment or so to pray before he spoke. Then he looked at the man and said,"We are all in death row. Every one of us is just waiting around to die. It's not until we let Jesus in that we find life." The inmate said, "I have so many things I don't understand and I'm running out of time- they come to get me in the morning." The pastor asked "Do you have any visitor's planed between now and then?"
The mad said no. The Pastor smiled, "And for the 1st time in a long time - neither do I. This is a divine appointment. See how the Lord has opened a path for you? Now, you just lay all those questions down and will work through each one - we got all night!"
He said with that the man broken down and cried and he took the Lord into his soul and all the scripture that Pastor was able to read to him before the morning came. He said, you can tell when its real and when its not- that one was real and it made a sleepless night worth it.
I was glad that we were not busy and that I could listen to him tell me of his work. He shared a couple more of those, like that and where the Lord had done amazing things for these "lowest of the low" to try and bring them into the kingdom before it was too late.
I told the Pastor that I didn't realize that there were that many on death row. He said that in Mansfield alone there is around 200 on any given day and its increasing all the time but there are more people going into the ministry all the time.
This Pastor has an amazing ministry and walks so close to the Lord you can see it some how when he walks by. And I had the blessing of helping purchase a book to help him in his work. Its one of the reasons why I love my job so much. If anyone wonders what the Lord is doing- just ask!
I can tell you! He is working with all my pastoral customers and family or friend customers. He is working through many people to reach so many others! And to watch how He does it in so many different ways with such deep loving passion in each one, is nothing short of awesome!
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