Prayer Letter
February 2010
Dear Praying Friends,
As I read my Bible, I gradually became aware of the man leaning
closer and closer. I glanced up at this stranger in the seat next to
me and he asked incredulously, "Are you reading the Bible?" When I
answered in the affirmative he asked, "Why?" His surprise and
disbelief was clearly evident on his face.
Due to bad weather
and cancelled flights, I had been in transit for 38 hours and had
ended up in an airport I wasn't even supposed to be in. Exhausted and
smelling like road kill, I was not in any mood to be mocked by some
stranger. Needless to say, I was not at my witnessing best.
In
spite of the foul tempered, foul smelling missionary, God got his
message across to this young unbeliever. He had never been to church
of any kind and had never read a Bible. He listened politely as I took
him through the Romans Road and accepted the tract I offered. As my
flight was called, he said, "There is a Baptist church right down the
road from my home, maybe I will go there this Sunday..." Still
exhausted and smelling like a locker room, I boarded my next flight
thankful for the unscheduled journey to give the gospel to a young man
who had never heard!
Thanking God for cancelled flights,
Mark Hale
"Praying
always ... for all
saints and for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my
mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Gospel."
Ephesians 6:18-19
