Edward
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So there is an long time friend of mine that I have known for many years since I was about 18 or 19, named Derald. He even moved him and his family out to Colorado for a few years when I was living out there. Then he moved back to Ohio for some reason and we kind of fell out of touch with each other for awhile. Now that I live here again I happened to be thinking about him about a couple months or so ago and wondered where is he lately. It was not real hard to track him down on Facebook and there he was. So I reached out to him and sent him off a message that I am here in Ohio again and let's get together.
And he responded. He was glad to hear from me and emailed me his number and we talked on the phone. We talked for quite awhile and of course I invited him to come visit me and so forth. He was excited about this and said that he would. Now the big thing that changed for me since we've seen each other last was that, I have become a Christian again and the Lord has done many good things for me in the past years, and you know me, I just love sharing my many testimonies with whoever I can and I shared a couple of them with him and we hung up with the idea of getting together sometime soon.
So after a few days or a week I emailed him again and asked him hey when are you coming up? And I shared another testimony with him in email and figured I'd hear back from him pretty soon. I didn't hear back from him right away so gave it a short while and emailed him again...shared another testimony with him. Again, no response. Well he must be busy lately or something I thought So every few days or a week, I follow up in email with him. Invite him, talk BBQ, visiting and testimony, lol. And over the past couple months, it has become apparent to me that...he is not responding to me on purpose. He must have changed his mind about being in contact and stuff and this is baffling to me because we've always been pretty good friends and there has never been any strife between us at all. Nothing. I could not figure it out at first but I think I have now.
It has to be that I turned Jesus freak on him. That has to be it because we have never even had an argument between us. Pondering this I realize that, I don't recollect ever having heard him talk about God even one time, so...that has to be it. He is around, I have seen his recent posts on Facebook but he wont respond to me at all now. He is an ok guy, I wouldn't want to see him go to hell or anything. I have continued to email him, refreshing my invitation to come visit and that it is apparent that I must have offended him and the only thing it could possibly be is that, I talk about God quite a bit. So I apologized and told him that, that's his business and between him and God if he wants to believe or not and I promised to stop talking about God to him so as not to be offensive to him...No response.
This guy needs prayers. I have no clue what he may have against God but I have never really got this kind of (no) response from anyone before. I guess I came on too strong about God to him. I will have to consider this in the future because I don't want to turn people away from our Lord by being over zealous about Him. I feel bad about that.
But I can pray for Derald. And if some of you Brothers and Sisters come into agreement with me and send up some more prayers for him, for the Lord to touch this mans heart, he can still be saved.
Thank you, Brothers and Sisters. Sorry so long but I needed to give some background and explain the situation.
And he responded. He was glad to hear from me and emailed me his number and we talked on the phone. We talked for quite awhile and of course I invited him to come visit me and so forth. He was excited about this and said that he would. Now the big thing that changed for me since we've seen each other last was that, I have become a Christian again and the Lord has done many good things for me in the past years, and you know me, I just love sharing my many testimonies with whoever I can and I shared a couple of them with him and we hung up with the idea of getting together sometime soon.
So after a few days or a week I emailed him again and asked him hey when are you coming up? And I shared another testimony with him in email and figured I'd hear back from him pretty soon. I didn't hear back from him right away so gave it a short while and emailed him again...shared another testimony with him. Again, no response. Well he must be busy lately or something I thought So every few days or a week, I follow up in email with him. Invite him, talk BBQ, visiting and testimony, lol. And over the past couple months, it has become apparent to me that...he is not responding to me on purpose. He must have changed his mind about being in contact and stuff and this is baffling to me because we've always been pretty good friends and there has never been any strife between us at all. Nothing. I could not figure it out at first but I think I have now.
It has to be that I turned Jesus freak on him. That has to be it because we have never even had an argument between us. Pondering this I realize that, I don't recollect ever having heard him talk about God even one time, so...that has to be it. He is around, I have seen his recent posts on Facebook but he wont respond to me at all now. He is an ok guy, I wouldn't want to see him go to hell or anything. I have continued to email him, refreshing my invitation to come visit and that it is apparent that I must have offended him and the only thing it could possibly be is that, I talk about God quite a bit. So I apologized and told him that, that's his business and between him and God if he wants to believe or not and I promised to stop talking about God to him so as not to be offensive to him...No response.
This guy needs prayers. I have no clue what he may have against God but I have never really got this kind of (no) response from anyone before. I guess I came on too strong about God to him. I will have to consider this in the future because I don't want to turn people away from our Lord by being over zealous about Him. I feel bad about that.
But I can pray for Derald. And if some of you Brothers and Sisters come into agreement with me and send up some more prayers for him, for the Lord to touch this mans heart, he can still be saved.
Thank you, Brothers and Sisters. Sorry so long but I needed to give some background and explain the situation.