Faithfulness to Opportunity (by Steve Faber)

Faithfulness to Opportunity (by Steve Faber)

by | May 8, 2015 | Testimonies

I received a call last week, from a brother in CHRIST who was driving to a burn center in Ft. Worth to visit a young man and his mother. The boy had recently suffered third degree burns over 80% of his body in a tragic incident. Howard, who had been a Tuesday morning regular at a “Ministry in the Marketplace” study I led for a couple of years, had seen the story of this young man on the local news the previous evening and felt GOD urging him to meet him. When I asked him if he knew the boy, he said he did not. When I asked him if the young fellow was a believer, he said he didn’t know. He didn’t even know if he would be allowed into the burn unit to see the mother, much less the boy. All he knew was that GOD was urging him to go meet the boy and his mother and that he was to minister “E²” to them. Howard went on to relate that he had won a trip to a ReMax conference in San Antonio, a couple weeks prior. He had taken his wife, who is his business partner in a ReMax office. Together they had listened to a motivational speaker at the meeting, a CHRISTian man who had been badly burned over most of his body. As Howard listened, he appreciated the guy’s unflappable attitude and his encouraging story, but wondered to himself, why he had taken the time out of a very busy schedule, to make the drive down south. Watching the news a couple of...