At Renton Transit Today

[Joel J.]

  So we headed to Renton. As soon as I got there it seemed I was engulfed in good encounters..it went like that all day.

Again as I share I am deeply effected in my emotions and it transfers from witness to witness. This is when I like what I do the best. One of the first kids I talked to I shared my testimony, he was atheist but actually more agnostic. I shared how I was like him and then was given hope that there was a God when I was delivered of alcohol..I said it was such a miracle that I was jump up and down excited to know there was a God and I knew there was a God because of getting delivered. That one act convinced me there was a God. I went on to shared how God has healed me , delivered me supernaturally etc. I told him I did not expect to convert him but to inspire him that God does exist.
I remember once I knew God existed I was totally open to him even though I was still a sinner, I prayed and saw God in everything.

I was able to bring a 20 year old the whole gospel and I offered to pray with him, I said he would have prayed with me when I was his age but who wants to pray with an old man...he laughed..I expressed he need to make a decision while God was still on him to do so and he understood. He went away realizing he need to give himself over to God to go to heaven something he did not realize before. That is what we mainly are trying to get kids to understand. I am not worried about then do it..I am concerned they know they need to and how to. It has to be life changing.

I shared with a couple kids that they need to get BHS, it is a commandment and as the disciples were commanded to wait..we are also commanded to..I share the importance of being BHS.

I took a long time sharing with a sweet Baptist Xian kid about God being more concerned with a relationship with him rather than God being concerned with his sins. I shared as a father what I desire from my boys and how that is how God is. This is the "nature of God" that I enjoy sharing...I love getting into God's nature and His goodness and His desire for relationship with us...man. This is the nature of God kids need to hear.

A gal who was also down in Renton witnessing and I prayed for a Xian Mongolian gal for a job.(She asked us to) I have never met a Mongolian person, she looked just like my Norwegian mom and the Norwegians as Vikings took many Mongolians home if my history is correct. I told the gal I am probably part Mongolian and she laughed.

I talked to a Muslim Somalian kid 30. He had been here 8 years. He has learned English and can read it and read the bible all the way through. He said he has talked to Xians in Bellevue about God in general. He quoted me much bible..he was not "open" but was very kindly. I kept laughing in faith letting him he has blow it, that he can not be reading the bible as he is or he will end up converted. I kept say this and saying this and saying this...like someone who knows what happens to people who read God's word...He had to run to his bus. (People do not read like he read unless they are called!) We had a great time I just show people like this love and keep grabbing their arm and patting them..I know the feel something. I just grease the skids with love, not saying a whole lot.

So I was weeping a lot today as I shared and feeling what I believe to be God's heart for youth and expressing that to many..probably talked to 40 to 60 kids..I jump as fast as I can from one to another. My mouth gets super dry and I usually buy a grape juice after drinking a bottled water..a lot of talking going on.

Ok a quick nap and on to basketball..

Thanks for the ear.