To be honest with you, social media is not one of my favorite things. But, recently I'm beginning to warm-up to a social media network called twitter. Twitter allows users to post statements, quotes, and really anything in 140 characters or less onto the internet and the public can read what random information the users are willing to share.
To keep a long story from getting too long I am going to share with you a recent victory for the Kingdom of God through a simple post onto twitter (also known as a tweet).
About a month ago from today a woman posted onto twitter about a family in need of help moving furniture into a house. One of my fellow missionaries Stephen Glasser was informed about the tweet and felt the need to respond to this tweeting distress call for muscles to move furniture.
The day after the tweet occurred I found myself with two college students and two other missionaries moving furniture into a house. It was a fun and different opportunity to bless someone we did not know previously. The initial "God Thing" of this whole furniture moving experience is that we were moving furniture for a woman that attended the church we go to, First Assembly of God in Fargo. The woman's name I will not share to protect her privacy. She was moved by this random gesture of young people coming to help her, especially people that she had never met! She thanked us multiple times and was moved to tears multiple times as we carried in beds, a couch and chairs.
It was a blessing to get to help this woman but the story does not end here.
Two days ago this woman and her two youngest sons came to church. Unknown to myself this woman had gone forward during an altar call at the end of the service. Fellow missionary Stephen Glasser was up at the altar ready to pray with people and to his surprise the youngest boy came up to him. Stephen simply asked how he was liking the house since he moved in. The boy replied, "Ever since I've lived there I've wanted to accept Jesus into my life but I haven't yet." Stephen was moved with joy and prayed with the young boy to accept Jesus into his life for the first time.
God is always at work in our lives. He constructs and orchestrates every relationship we have and every connection we make. We need to be ready to act when opportunities arise to share the love of Jesus Christ, even through twitter. God uses everything to His glory at the times of His choosing.
"Be blessed, be a blessing to others"
-Mark Erickson
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