I got to share with a co-worker!

I got to share with a co-worker at Fredmeyers yesterday! His name is Emmanuel. Emmanuel is from Puerto Rico, and has been living here for around four years. I prayed yesterday morning that God would use me and fill me with the Holy Spirit even though I wasn't feeling particularly spiritual and I was pretty mentally worn out at work. God answered my prayer and gave me an opportunity, as well as helping to lead into and get through sharing the gospel, by his grace. I think maybe he gave me more of an opportunity because I was completely dependent on his strength to help me be intentional that day. Any who I sat down next to Emmanuel at lunch, and we talked for a little while about where he was from, his background, etc. Another girl who is on project was eating there also, reading her Bible. Emmuel asked me if it was a Bible she was reading, and I told him it was, after which he asked me if we did a lot of Bible Study. (probably meaning our"crusader" group) I told him we did, and then asked if he did. He said he was not very religious, and began to talk about his doubts with the church and God working in the world and other thoughts. I was then able to tell him what we believed, (that the only way to know God or go to heaven was to daily confess sins to God and depend on the forgiveness given through Jesus Christ and let God work through you) how Jesus told us to love one another and disagreements in the church were our failure, how God gave us the choice to sin because he loved us, and how our sin is what causes bad things in the world. Since I had hit most of the points in the knowing God personally booklet but in a kind of un-organized way, I started to read it to him, but did not get past the first page before he had to go back because his lunch break ended. He had been to church before, and talked about going to mass with his wife. I think I am going to ask him what he thinks about what he said, if I can finish going through the booklet with him, and if maybe some time he would like to bring his family to the church that I go to and then tell me what he thought. PLEASE PRAY for Emmanuel; that he would keep thinking about what I said, that God would cause him to want to know more, and that he would one day have a relationship with God. I was extremely encouraged by the opportunity. I feel like it was definately something brought about by God, which strengthened my faith a lot. God is good! maybe one day Emmanuel can experience that too.