The store was slow, very slow, but it seemed like a day didn't go by without the Lord doing something.
There was the time when a man walked in looking upwards more that at the products. He just kind of looked around and around. So I greeted him and he started telling me about how he had come over from Europe and things had not gone good in his life. He had woken up that morning crying out to God, but what God? He was asking himself. He didn't know where his son was, or any of his family. His job was cheating him, and everything was wrong with his life. So, he wanted to know who God is. Was God the Muslim god, the Christian God, Budda, or who? Then that man stumbled across the store and felt that God had brought him into the store. So, it gave me an opportunity to minister to this man.
Another time a couple came in looking to the Lord because the man had gotten shot in a gang situation, but the bullet had just hit him and fell off him, as if God had stopped the bullet before he died. I was able to confirm that the Lord does miracles, and get them started with an easy to read Bible and talk about how we can talk back and forth with the Lord via His Holy Spirit.
Then there was the time when we had several Christians together in the store and a man came wildly driving his truck across the parking lot and parking is sideways. He came in either on drugs of alcohol and want help with his problem. So, we all prayed and ministered to him.
Then there was the time when I had closed the store, and went to a weekly intercessor time of prayer I had with a couple of other men. Neither one of them showed up but about six others did we didn't expect. I didn't have the keys to the church so I took the group back to the store to pray because it was close. So we prayed there, but I forgot to close the store and a homeless man came in. We asked him to join us and the Holy Spirit came on him. He started weeping, actually creating a rather large puddle of tears on the floor. We asked him if he knew the Lord, which he did, so we asked him if he would like to and had him accept the Lord into his life.
I have lots of little testimonies about how the Lord used the store day after day after day. It was a very slow store, but things happened everyday.
There was the time when a man walked in looking upwards more that at the products. He just kind of looked around and around. So I greeted him and he started telling me about how he had come over from Europe and things had not gone good in his life. He had woken up that morning crying out to God, but what God? He was asking himself. He didn't know where his son was, or any of his family. His job was cheating him, and everything was wrong with his life. So, he wanted to know who God is. Was God the Muslim god, the Christian God, Budda, or who? Then that man stumbled across the store and felt that God had brought him into the store. So, it gave me an opportunity to minister to this man.
Another time a couple came in looking to the Lord because the man had gotten shot in a gang situation, but the bullet had just hit him and fell off him, as if God had stopped the bullet before he died. I was able to confirm that the Lord does miracles, and get them started with an easy to read Bible and talk about how we can talk back and forth with the Lord via His Holy Spirit.
Then there was the time when we had several Christians together in the store and a man came wildly driving his truck across the parking lot and parking is sideways. He came in either on drugs of alcohol and want help with his problem. So, we all prayed and ministered to him.
Then there was the time when I had closed the store, and went to a weekly intercessor time of prayer I had with a couple of other men. Neither one of them showed up but about six others did we didn't expect. I didn't have the keys to the church so I took the group back to the store to pray because it was close. So we prayed there, but I forgot to close the store and a homeless man came in. We asked him to join us and the Holy Spirit came on him. He started weeping, actually creating a rather large puddle of tears on the floor. We asked him if he knew the Lord, which he did, so we asked him if he would like to and had him accept the Lord into his life.
I have lots of little testimonies about how the Lord used the store day after day after day. It was a very slow store, but things happened everyday.