Today was pretty awesome. If you're alive in Christ, every day is pretty awesome if you reflect and meditate. But even in the context of awesome days, this Sunday stands out. Today was a divine appointment in which reflecting on it is almost overwhelming. So much happened that I almost don't feel like typing it all out. But you must know that the Kingdom is being advanced.
Three weeks ago Pastor Howard Williams invited On Our Hearts to present the gospel at Victorious Life Christian Center in Tamarack Circle, Columbus, Ohio.
Dave and I didn't know what to expect. We had never met the people of this church and only I had the privilege of meeting Pastor Howard previously. Last night we spent nearly three hours practicing, praying, and touching on the implications of scripture we so desperately felt needed to be heard. It was so cool to see how God was organizing our thoughts and guiding us despite our imperfect but hungry vessels.
It didn't matter what we were expecting. God was in control. We stayed focused to share what was on our hearts. We chose Ephesians 2:1-10 as our focus for the message. We really felt like we needed to share about our spiritual death from which we have been so graciously awakened from. Read that scripture. It is beautiful and sums up the gospel so elegantly in just 10 verses.
We were blown away by the intercessory prayer before the service. It was thick and drenching. It lasted for about an hour. The meeting started promptly with worship at 10:30 and we dug in right away with prophetic words and beautiful music. We played Come, Now, Better is One Day/Shout to God, Oceans from the Rain, and Damaged (original) before splitting the message up with a cover of Pieces by Red. God certainly knew what he was doing placing those songs in our lives.
God lead us to share and it touched someone. The Word spoke so strongly this day that 4 people committed their lives to Jesus including a Father and son, a former thug, and another gentlemen who left his information on a card!!!!! Hallelujah!
I shouted, sang, preached, prayed, and cried out and it was glorious. Lives are being changed and I am so glad to be used by God, for God. Even though we believed we were sharing a blessing we received one as well being humbled and given a clear vision for the work God wants us to do. Thank you Victorious Life Church for letting us in your home, we love you.
-Matt Stacy
Dave here. First, I just want to thank God for the calling that he has placed upon all whom he calls his own in Christ!
Today, Matt and I were walking in blind and we soon came to realize that our God is true to his word when he says that he goes before us. Today, he prepared hearts who knew that something was missing, they knew that we had something different and they wanted it!
My view of today is that of confirmation. Confirmation that I am indeed a child of God and that he loves me!!! When it comes to speaking to people about Jesus, the enemy has all of these negative thoughts that he drills into my head. Sometimes, I believe the lies, but not today. When we walk in the reality that God views us as his children and carriers of his promise that a Comforter will be with us for ever --- he blesses it!
There is no amount of money that I could pay to see a father take his son by the hand and boldly approach the altar of grace and forgiveness and for both of them to accept Jesus!!! When a man shows up by divine appointment (long story) and renounces his thug, money, cars, drugs and women life in exchange for Christ's clean, holy, redeemed and incomparable life, you know that God is using you. Another man, as Matt mentioned filled out a card letting the leadership team know that he had given his life to Jesus as well!
Matt and I were confirmed in what is ON OUR HEARTS today. I look forward to many more lives being changed. I look forward to the great work of the expansion of the Kingdom of God. I look forward to sharing this hope with you all, and maybe the Holy Spirit will speak to you too, letting you know that you can do it too! We are called to be Jesus to a dead and decaying world. We are called to lift each other up! We are a team! We are ON OUR HEARTS!
One Love, One Truth, One Destiny!!!
Dave
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